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Tassel @tassel_music @maywinterhalt @ashbarrettl did an amazing set at Boardners @boardners on 4.14.2023 Thank you Rubycon Records @rubycon_records and DJ Malvada @djaymalvada for organizing this portion of the show. ⛓️⚡️🖤⚡️⚒️ 🔲 🔳 🔲 #Tassel #TasselBand #TasselMusic #Industrial #ElectronicMusic #PostPunk #EBM #DarkWave #Goth (at Boardner's By La Belle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHyYgOrGCG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Throwback Thursday to when Colin and Lee of Terminal A @terminal_a did another powerful performance at Footsies Bar @footsiesbar on 7.28.2022 ⚔️⚡️🖤 🔲 🔳 🔲 #TerminalA #SynthPunk #PostPunk #DarkPunk #ThrowbackThursday (at Footsie's Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTVYOzJZUm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In the early 80s, I briefly stayed with Judith Frankland @judithfrankland in London, a fantastic designer who made outfits for Steve Strange and appeared in David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes” video alongside Bowie himself with other “Blitz Kids” and fashion luminaries, Steve Strange, Darla Jane Gilroy and Elise Brazier. She told me tales of the Blitz Club and of her days of designing for Steve Strange and using him as her model. The Blitz Club was in Covent Garden, London from 1979 - 80 and was home to the “Blitz Kids” who were nightclubbers there on Tuesday nights. The club was located between two art colleges (St. Martins and Central School). As a result of its proximity to the art colleges, it attracted many students who were aspiring fashion designers there. The hosts were Steve Strange and Rusty Egan @rustyegan of Visage and the club was responsible for launching the New Romantic movement in London. Many notable fashionistas and dandies who later became big stars, were regulars there. A dress code of the “the weird and wonderful” was strictly enforced at the door, a policy that was put in place by Steve Strange. This was not an elitist system like Studio 54 in NYC, but rather for the protection of the nightclubbing guests against homophobic thugs. The hosts had previously done “Roxy Music and David Bowie nights” on Tuesdays at Billy’s club in Soho and later took over at the Blitz wine bar which gained much better success as an iconic club. David Bowie, gender-bending, cutting edge fashion and a desire to express it with rebellious fervor, were the common themes and passions of the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics. Some other noteworthy attendees aside from the aforementioned included Boy George, Marilyn, Siobhan Fahey, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Midge Ure, Philip Sallon, Stephen Linard, Stephen Jones, Princess Julia, Martin Degville, Scarlet Cannon, i-D magazine co-editor Perry Haines, and many others. Derek Ridgers @derekridgers, Andrew Holligan and Terry Smith were responsible for most of the photos… 📷 1/10: Sheila Rock @sheila_rock_photographer 👨🏻‍🎤⚡️🖤⚜️👩🏻‍🎤 🔲 🔳 🔲 #BlitzClub #BlitzKids #NewRomantic #NewRomantics #SteveStrange #RustyEgan #PostPunk (at Covent Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoEZGFgukl5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

R.I.P. Tom Verlaine, seminal Punk and Post-Punk singer, songwriter and guitarist from the Proto-Punk Neon Boys in 1972 with Richard Hell and the following year morphing into the iconic band Television @television_band. An incredibly unique and influential musician. His passing is a great loss for Punk and Post-Punk music and other related genres that he impacted, namely New Wave and NYC No Wave. Marquee Moon is perhaps one of the most celebrated albums that every noteworthy artist of that era soaked up through their pores for a proper refinement of cutting edge music at the time of its release in 1977. It has its imprint on so many artists that were contemporaneous and current… 💔🥀🖤 🔳 🔲 🔳 #TomVerlaine #Punk #PostPunk #CBGB #CBGBOMFUG #NeonBoys #TelevisionBand #MarqueeMoon #Icon (at CBGB & OMFUG) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn_LCstuT0c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

R.I.P. Dame Vivienne Westwood @viviennewestwood a legendary fashion icon and activist who was a style revolutionary for the punk rock movement and beyond... 💔🧷🥀⛓️🖤 #VivienneWestwood #VivienneIsabelSwire #PunkFashionIcon https://www.instagram.com/p/CmxhMoypxMb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Spike Hellis @spike.hellis at The El Rey Theatre @elreytheatre on 12.5.2022 🎹⚡️🖤 🔲 🔳 🔲 #SpikeHellis #PostPunk #Industrial #EBM (at El Rey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9ahu2PVUw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Twin Tribes @twin_tribes at The El Rey Theatre @elreytheatre on 12.5.2022 🖤⚡️🦇 🔳 🔲 🔳 #TwinTribes #PostPunk #DarkWave (at El Rey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9AxISJUoU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Soft Moon @the_soft_moon did an amazing performance with their unique post-punk brand of earthshaking percussive and tribal industrial sounds at The Regent @regenttheaterla on 11.25.2022 🖤⚡️⛓️ 🔳 🔲 🔳 #TheSoftMoon #LuisVasquez #PostPunk #Industrial #DarkWave (at The Regent) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clcs-GeLIfB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

R.I.P. Keith Levene founding member of The Clash and Public Image Ltd 💔🥀🖤 Thank you for your contribution to Post-Punk music with such innovative style and sounds… #KeithLevene #JulianKeithLevene #TheClash #TheFlowersOfRomance #PiL #PublicImageLtd #PublicImageLimited #CowboysInternational #PostPunk https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck4TZy5PTlQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Flash Back Friday with Male Tears @maletearsmusic performing at Rubycon Records @rubycon_recordsla on 10.15.2022 🖤⚡️🦇 photo 2/3 featuring the curator and co-owner of the record store, the one and only Robert Lane @robert_lane1980 🔲 🔳 🔲 #MalesTears #DarkWave #DarkElectro #DarkSynth #Goth https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck2SbMCLRLZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

She Past Away @shepastaway_official at The Belasco @belascola on 10.30.2022 🖤⚡️🦇 🔳 🔲 🔳 #ShePastAway #TurkishPostPunk #PostPunk #DarkWave #Goth (at The Belasco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgUijBrvuL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Another photo dump of some of the bands who performed at the second night of the SUBSTANCE 2022 Festival @substance_la on Saturday 10.22.2022. I did unfortunately miss some of the earlier set times. All the bands I saw were great and these are just some of my favorite photos which are once again in the order of the scheduled set times… 1) KONTRAVOID @kontravoid 2) FRENCH POLICE @frenchpoliceband 3) SEXTILE @sextileband 4) Clock DVA @clockdva 5) Plack Blague @plackblague 6) Absolute Body Control 7) HARSH SYMMETRY @harsh.symmetry 8) Youth Code @youthcodeforever 9) SUBSTANCE 2022 Marquee 🖤⚡️🎹 🔲 🔳 🔲 #Substance2022 #SubstanceFestival #LADarkUndergroundFestival #PostPunk #RestlessNites (at Los Angeles Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkKJ2LkJlXA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Some highlights from Substance 2022 @substance_la on Friday 10.21.2022 at The Los Angeles Theatre @losangelestheatre.la included 21 bands. I wish I had great photos of every band but these were my favorite photo picks. Not necessarily in my favorite order. The order is based on scheduled set times… (or close enough) 🖤 1) Sacred Skin @_sacredskin_ 2) Ritual Veil @ritualveil 3) Spike Hellis @spike.hellis 4)The Chameleons @the_chameleons_band 5) Patriarchy @_patriarchy_ 6) Pixel Grip @_pixelgrip_ 7) The Jesus And Mary Chain @jesusandmarychain 8) Kaelan Mikla @kaelanmikla 9)The Los Angeles Theatre Marquee @losangelestheatre.la #Substance2022 #SubstanceFestival #DarkUnderground #DarkUndergroundFestival #PostPunk #RestlessNites (at Los Angeles Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkIJGyZOg-5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Belated 74th Birthday ♎️ to John Foxx, born Dennis Leigh on September 26, 1948 in Chorley, Lancashire, England. In my book he is one of the innovators of post punk electronic synthesizer music from his early days of experimenting while in the Royal College of Art in London on a scholarship till when he formed the glam rock band Tiger Lily as the singer in 1973 which later after a few name changes, settled on Ultravox! (earlier styled version of the name) in 1976. Although Ultravox had various styles fused into their formula, it was considered New Wave. He adopted the stage name John Foxx during this period with Ultravox. In 1979 he began recording his debut solo album Metamatic on Virgin Records and experimented even more with synthesizers. It is my favorite solo album by him which was released in January of 1980. 🖤🎹⚡️#JohnFoxx #DennisLeigh #TigerLily #Ultravox #ElectronicMusic #ElectronicPioneer #PostPunk #NewWave https://www.instagram.com/p/CjAVYcjO2fx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Soft Cell @softcellhq 🖤 @youtubetheater 8.24.2022 included Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret which was a milestone album during my youth. 🖤⚡️🎹 #SoftCell #MarcAlmond #NonStopEroticCabaret #Eighties #80s #SynthPop #NewWave (at YouTube Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChsxUvqv-0a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

VR SEX 🖤 @vrsexring for @lethalamounts @levitt.la 7.22.2022 @z_baron @gordonbenet_ramsey @fiercedad @daisrecords #VRSEX #PostPunk (at Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgkoEoYvg7s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Kraftwerk 3-D @kraftwerkofficial @shrinela 7.5.2022 🖤⚡️🎹 #Kraftwerk #ElectronicPioneers #Electronic #SynthPop (at Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfsW3cKrf1w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=