The new music video “Stupid in the Dark” from postpunk art rock artist Xiu Xiu off their new album Angel Guts: Red Classroom is as intense as their music and definitely not for the feint of heart.
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A first hand account from Auxiliary’s Hangedman of Skinny Puppy’s current Live Shapes for Arms tour.
Our Video of the Week “Mind_Off” comes from Taara Tati, the enigmatic visionary behind neopagan darkwave project Metal Mother.
Editor Dylan Madeley was in attendance at Assemblage 23’s and Glenn Love’s February 1st show in Toronto. Check out his insights and photos.
Editor Dylan Madeley was in attendance at Random Order’s and Amy’s Arms January 30th show in Toronto.
Yesterday drone folk singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe released a music video for “Feral Love” off her latest album Pain is Beauty and today it’s our featured music video of the week.
This week’s pick is the beautifully filmed video for “Last Time” by Moderat which originally available only on the deluxe album formats of their latest album II.
This week’s video “Hurt Me Now” is the fourth video from Austra’s latest album Olympia.
This week’s featured video is “anima” from ∆AIMON the dark electronic duo with a focus on dark and occult aesthetics with a new self-titled full-length on Artoffact Records.
Today’s music video “Wanderlust” comes from Wild Beasts’s new album Present Tense and is a promising track, presenting an intriguing blend of dark music and unnerving yet alluring vocals.
Auxiliary Magazine’s top 20 albums of 2013 and a playlist of the albums.
The Mission’s video for “Swan Song”, their second single from their recent album The Brightest Light, is our video of the week.
iVardensphere, the luminary band from Edmonton which has cut a swathe through the industrial masses with a unique tribal noise inspired sound took some time out to talk with resident Auxilanaut Hangedman about the band’s latest offering, The Methuselah Tree.
First new music from Combichrist’s upcoming album comes in the form of a lyric video for “From My Cold Dead Hands”.
Listen to our music editor Mike Kieffer’s selection of tracks from the features and the albums reviewed in the December/January 2013/2014 Issue and some others good songs we came across.
It’s hard to find holiday and Christmas music you’d actually want to listen to. Synthpop duo Erasure have a new holiday album Snow Globe if you want to get in the holiday spirit but need some music you can stomach.
Watch Alexander Skarsgard walk around in a robe with no shirt and run around in white briefs in Cut Copy’s “Free Your Mind” music video.
Dissatisfied with some of the present sounds of EBM and industrial, Sara Taylor and Ryan William George are staging a sonic revolution as Youth Code. They talked to Auxiliary about their first self titled album Youth Code, their first tour, the ups and downs of hype, and where they expect Youth Code to go in the future.
Nero Bellum of Psyclon Nine reveals how he sins.
Little red riding hood, the big bad wolf, and an all around fun music video from Aesthetic Perfection for “Big Bad Wolf” off their upcoming album ‘Til Death.
Listen to our music editor Mike Kieffer’s selection of tracks from the features and the albums reviewed in the October/November 2013 Issue!
It’s nothing new for Lovelorn Dolls, but their new music video’s dark fairy tale aesthetic fits nicely in with current pop culture trends.
Depeche Mode released “Blasphemous Rumours” as a single with “Somebody” on the B-side.
This was the little festival that could, small in scope but big in performance and quality. Codex serves the underground of EDM focusing on electronic sub genres such as rhythmic noise, drum and bass, atmospheric IDM, and minimal techno.
The punk rock pioneer would be 64 today if he wasn’t struck dead by a taxi while crossing the street in Paris in 1990.
Gary Numan has a new album out October 15th and he released a music video for “Love Hurt Bleed” where he rocks an Edwardian style ensemble and eyeliner with a set of creepy skull children.
Check out the haunting track and accompanying video “Breathe This Air” by Jon Hopkins featuring Megan James of Purity Ring.
The first US #1 hit for David Bowie was co-written by John Lennon.
Jennifer Parkin of Ayria reveals how she sins.
Beloved UK gothic rockers The Mission interviewed in our August/September 2013 Issue continue to rock and roll.
Music review of Valerie Gentile’s new EP Love is Luxury, four tracks of industrial goth shoegaze goodness.
Legend’s new music video “Amazon War” serves as an eerie introduction to their next chapter as hype will likely only escalate as their spot on the Kinetik Festival lineup in May 2014 approaches.
Cold Cave, the music of Wesley Eisold, interviewed in our August/September 2013 Issue has taken a strong foothold as part of the new sound of the goth/industrial scene.
