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Cruel World Festival ft. Duran Duran Interpol, Blondie, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Ministry, Jesus and Mary Chain, Gary Numan, and More Announces Their Set Times

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Post-Punk and New Wave festival Cruel World Fest has announced its full stage times for the returning festival in the Los Angeles area next weekend. Taking place on May 11, 2024 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the festival featured Duran Duran and will also feature Interpol, Blondie, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Ministry performing songs from their classic albums With Sympathy and Twitch, The Jesus and Mary Chain (recently seen at Roadburn Festival), Gary Numan performing The Pleasure Principle, Dreamcar, The Faint, The Stranglers, the highly anticipated reunion of Tones on Tail (Bauhaus), Dreamcar, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Heaven 17, Mission UK, The Stranglers, English Beat offshoot General Public, Model/Actriz, TR/ST, The Faint, ADULT., Lol Tolhurst X Budgie, The Alarm, The Faint, The Mission UK, Zanias, Nuovo Testamento, Patriarchy, Leathers, Hearsh Symmetry, Body Of Light, French Police,  Balvanera and more! Tickets and information can be found at the links below.  Continue reading →


Big Special Share Single and Video for “Butcher’s Bin” from Upcoming New Album

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Punk two-piece, Big Special, have dropped their new track “Butcher’s Bin,” and its accompanying video, directed by Isaac Watson. It follows lead single “Dust Off / Start Again,” from their new album, Postindustrial Hometown Blues, slated for release on May 10th via SO Recordings. They band are currently on tour in South America supporting Placebo, and will also be on the road in the coming months in the UK and Europe. Check out the new video, live listings, and more from Big Special in the article below.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Darkplace – About the End of the World 

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There are a few artists in history whose identity is shrouded in secrecy – The Residents, Buckethead, the majority of Goat and Darkplace. In an age where social media is so prevalent and where privacy is seemingly such a dirty word, it’s refreshing that Darkplace has chosen to keep himself/herself(?) anonymous so as to let the music do the talking. Based in Sweden About the End of the World (Icons Creating Evil Art) marks the mysterious entity’s debut full-length.

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