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Interview: Peter Yanowitz of Princess Goes
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5 Can’t-Miss Summer 2026 Classic Rock and Metal Tours
A rundown of the summer’s essential rock and metal tours—big reunions, louder-than-life legends, and the shows you’ll regret missing when fall hits.
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Review BOYS FROM HEAVEN “The Wanderer”
The Boys from Heaven were founded in 2017 and hail from Copenhagen, Denmark. They premiered in 2020 with an album called “The Great Discovery”, followed by a second studio album entitled “The Descendant”. A few weeks ago, the band released their latest album, “The Wanderer”, featuring ten new songs. Boys From Heaven are fully committed… Continue Reading → -
“It’s the silliest, most oddball song in our entire catalogue, but it truly hit a nerve.” How Toto used a synthesised flute riff and a drum loop to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon
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Midnight Steel drop new unplugged single “Forever Wild”
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Ready To Strike announce new bassist Ethan Greene
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Portland Duo Puerta Negra Share Video for Scathing EBM Track “Complejo de Victima” (Victim Mentality)
Puerta Negra’s latest single Complejo de Victima (Victim Mentality), comes on as a scathing indictment delivered with immaculate control. It’s strict, stylish, and wired for confrontation. Here, the Portland duo of María Aguirre and Mark Arciaga treat body music as a blunt instrument with a brain attached to it, and this lead single from their Metafísica EP sharpens the blade without polishing away any vitriol. Sung entirely in Spanish, the track places Aguirre’s voice at the center of the damage, cool and cutting, while the beat lurches forward with the mechanical confidence of a machine trained on human spite.
Musically, Complejo de Victima works from a lean EBM chassis and lets the parts rattle. Industrial funk pressure runs through the track, but it never loosens into party decoration. The electronics have a mutant bite, closer to a feverish factory floor than a club fantasy, while the broken rhythms keep shoving the body forward at odd angles. Oráculo references Cabaret Voltaire, new-beat mutations, and the contemporary EBM revival, showcasing themselves as a band pushing their musical heritage through clenched teeth.
Directed by Zach Flanary, the official video keeps its world deliberately stripped down: black-and-white, high contrast, bodies under pressure, faces treated less as glamour objects than as evidence. Aguirre and Arciaga perform as if trapped inside the song’s own nervous system, caught between command and collapse. The mirror shots give the video its mean little genius. They bend the performance into something fractured without dragging it into cheap psychodrama. A face splits, a figure doubles, the eye gets tricked into watching the watcher, and the victim complex named in the title starts to feel less like a diagnosis than a room full of bad faith. There is no need for plot when the premise is already poisoned: accusation, self-pity, control, and the private theater people build around their own wounds.
Watch the video for Complejo de Victima below:
Metafísica is billed as the third chapter in Puerta Negra’s vision, following 2022’s Costo Humano and 2023’s Playa Sola, and Complejo de Victima feels like a hard pivot toward austerity, attack, and psychic compression. Severity can be seductive when handled with nerve.
Listen to Complejo de Victima below and pre-order the vinyl (out June 12th from Oráculo Records) here.
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Glaswork Blends Ambient Electronics, EBM, and Contemporary Classical Elements on Debut Release “Anthology”
In Anthology, the debut EP by Glaswork, Joshua Elijah makes a departure from the sharper angles of his previous work with Inertia Her, entering a more severe, spacious register. The Paris-based artist, producer, mixing engineer, and photographer has carried over a certain discipline from his earlier work, but the gesture here is one of subtraction rather than expansion. Across five tracks, Glaswork strips song form down to pressure, pulse, and pallor, allowing ambient electronics, contemporary classical texture, and EBM-derived movement to meet in a place where precision becomes emotional.
The record has the feel of architecture abandoned before occupancy: corridors of tone, low mechanical thuds, rooms implied by resonance rather than filled with ornament. Elijah’s use of analogue and digital processes gives the music a tactile instability, as if each sound were being handled while still warm from the machine. There are traces of Tim Hecker’s engulfing grain and CoH’s sleek austerity, but Glaswork’s instincts are more private, less grandly apocalyptic. He works in measured gestures, allowing a bass figure or a softened industrial pulse to appear, recede, and leave behind a kind of charged absence.
“Anthology is the result of mixing analogue and digital processes and letting experimentation lead the way,” says Elijah. “…five tracks built from dark electronic textures, ambient space, and restrained rhythmic ideas, focused more on mood and atmosphere than structure.” The statement points to the EP’s central temperament. These pieces do not hurry toward resolution. They collect and disperse, gathering weight through proximity. A rhythm may suggest the body, but it rarely gives itself over to club logic; a synth line may gesture toward melody, then dissolve into a colder field of tone.
Elijah seems uninterested in spectacle, choosing instead to let small details carry the burden of feeling: the grain at the edge of a drone, the blunt knock of a beat, the way a suspended note can seem to alter the scale of the room around it. The EP’s emotional force lies in that refusal of excess. Glaswork begins here as a project of concentration, one concerned with the drama of reduction, where darkness is measured, space is active, and silence becomes another instrument in the arrangement.
Listen to Anthology below and pre-order the album here.
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Re:Mission Entertainment Signs Synthpop Project somemagicalshit — Watch Video for “Я ненавижу себя” (I Hate Myself)
Re:Mission Entertainment has signed somemagicalshit, the bilingual synthpop and dark electronic project of Houston’s Courtnii Veronica Rose, with a debut full-length album set for release this fall. The announcement gives a proper label frame to a project already wired for bruised nerves, bad glamour, private panic, and the kind of synth damage that makes a bedroom feel like a pirate radio broadcast tower.
Rose started somemagicalshit in 2022 as a solo operation: computer, synths, sequencers, and a skull full of voltage. By 2023, the project had grown into a full live band, which makes sense, because this is the kind of music that wants bodies dancing in front of it. It has Le Tigre’s art-damaged bite, TR/ST’s bruised electronic glamour, ADULT.’s stern machine-body snap, Pussy Riot’s bilingual agit-pop provocation, and the frostbitten drama of Kælan Mikla, all dragged through Rose’s own Houston heat and private hell. She writes, records, mixes, and directs the entire affair herself, building songs that feel glossy, unstable, wounded, and ready to throw a drink at the mirror.
Я ненавижу себя moves between Russian and English as Rose calls herself ugly, rejects advice, declares therapy useless, reaches for alcohol as medicine, and circles the same brutal thought until it becomes a chorus: “Ya Nenavizyu Sebya.” The title translates to “I Hate Myself,” and the track treats that phrase with the blunt force of a diary entry written hard enough to tear the page. There’s face paint, jealousy, body disgust, and the desperate wish to love herself again, all carried by stacked synthesizers and vocals that cut through the arrangement with theatrical ache.
The Russian lyrics give somemagicalshit a serrated emotional edge, bending the song’s pain into something harsher, stranger, and more intimate than plain English confession could manage alone. Rose’s voice moves from sneer to exposed nerve without getting coy about the damage, while the music keeps enough pop instinct to make the misery stick in your teeth.
“The goal from the beginning was to create something atmospheric and emotionally intense while incorporating the beauty and emotion of the Russian language into alternative electronic music,” says Rose. “That mission hasn’t changed. It’s only getting louder.”
The video for Я ненавижу себя, directed by Jorge Delgado, turns self-loathing into a public spectacle with a weird grin taped to its face. Rose performs with live-wire force while an audience watches from behind paper bag masks, reflecting the song’s shame. The clip has the charge of a basement show, a breakdown, and a prank pulled on the bad voice in your head all at once.
“This is a song about suffering with self-hatred, making this video was a dream come true for me and I hope that you all enjoy it! It is slightly humorous as well as serious,” says Rose.
Watch below:
Houston’s alternative scene has already been getting the message, with short tours, out-of-town dates, and new material pushing the project beyond its original bedroom-bunker beginnings. With Re:Mission now behind it, somemagicalshit’s forthcoming full-length looks set to deliver a very stylish nervous breakdown with teeth.
Catch somemagicalshit on the road in the America South this summer!
- June 5, 2026 The Crypt, New Orleans, LA w/ Blood Lovely, Phoenix Phantasma
- July 10, 2026 The Mix, San Antonio, TX w/ Shelly Webster + more TBA
- August 28, 2026 Crow Bar (Raven Room), Houston, TX w/ In The Shadows, Andrako, DJ Whisperwish
Discover more from Re:Mission Entertainment here, and check out their official Bandcamp page here.
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