:Concert Review: Dope Stars, Inc.

  By Justine | May 22, 2013 - 10:30 am | Concert, Review
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Dope Stars Inc., The Rabid Whole, and Sinsect
May 1, 2013
Dallas, TX @ Trees

Review by: Grant V. Ziegler

dope stars tour  With four albums and a couple of EPs in their musical arsenal it’s about time Dope Stars Inc. (DSI) made it to the United States. They began their tour April 26 in San Francisco, even though some of the band members had to stay behind due to visa-related issues. On May 1, frontman and guitarist Victor Love, bassist Darin Yevonde and drummer Mark Madhoney played 75 minutes worth of their cyberpunk, ultra-wired Industrial music at Trees in Deep Ellum, the heart of Dallas’s music scene. Accompanying them was Toronto-based The Rabid Whole and local experimental group Sinsect. (more…)

:Music Review: Skinner Box – Life is Chemistry (EP)

  By Justine | May 20, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Skinner Box – Life Is Chemistry (EP)
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Label: afmusic
Website: http://skinnerbox.webs.com

Review by: Mitchell Doucette

skinner box  While searching the great World Wide Web for information on the band Skinner Box, I learned what a skinner box actually is. It is a device used in behavioral psychology to record the actions of an animal within. Why am I saying this? Why should you care? Well, you should care because the concept of psychology and our screwed-up human minds is a big part of the lyrical content on Skinner Box’s new EP, Life is Chemistry. The album is short but what else would you expect from an EP? Is it worth twenty minutes of your time? Yes. (more…)

:Podcast: The Oontzcast – Episode 122

  By j. ward | May 20, 2013 - 10:00 am | Podcast, The Oontzcast
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It’s that time of year again. Festival season and this is our dedication to one of the best in North America, Kinetik Festival. This year may be scaled back a bit but it still brings the awesome and so we are obligated to bring it to you. Check out this (almost) all Kinetik episode!

And don’t forget to grab the album of the month for May, GoFight’s Music For Military Torture! Grab it here.

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Psy’Aviah reveals details of new “Future Past” EP

  By j. ward | May 17, 2013 - 1:23 pm | Community Submitted News
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Psy’Aviah “Future Past” EP

Psy’Aviah reveals some new details around their upcoming “Future Past” EP. It builds on PSY’AVIAH’s previous album ”Introspection/Extrospection”, and takes it one step further. Having tasted electro-pop, dubstep and electro-house… they decided again to make it their own: resulting in a blend of ambient-dubstep on “Circles”, ballad like electro-pop on “Letting Go”, pure EBM vs Electro-House with acid elements on “Look Beyond”, and some dubstep-electro influences VS ambient textures on “Paused” and “Our Common Future”.

The EP will remind us through the lyrical themes how we all keep struggling with past trauma:  “… time and time again making the same mistakes… I guess it’s true when they say that people never change” (taken from the track “Circles”, below is a preview video of the track).

In true PSY’AVIAH tradition, this EP is again crowned by another prestigious collaboration: with miss Kyoko Baertsoen (former HOOVERPHONIC artist & co-founder of LUNASCAPE). Her unique voice & timbre perfectly fits the very emotional song “Our Common Future”.  Next to that it will include a batch of fresh sounding remixes form artist all around the globe & outside of the regular electro-industrial scene, ready to explore new sounds!

:Music Review: Skinny Puppy – Weapon

  By William | May 17, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Skinny Puppy – Weapon
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Label: Metropolis Records
Website: skinnypuppy.com

Review by: William Dashiell Hammett

510RbJelPQL._SY300_Skinny Puppy.

There, done.

It’s not like I really need to write anything else is it? If you’re reading this article and don’t know who Skinny Puppy is then you probably clicked the wrong link somewhere (in which case, be afraid, be very afraid). However, since you’re here I’ll assume you want to read something about the seminal Canadian electro-industrial progenitors and I guess it is sort of my job to provide that to justify my continued employment. (more…)

:Music Review: Depeche Mode – Delta Machine

  By Justine | May 16, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Depeche Mode – Delta Machine
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Label: Columbia
Website: www.depechemode.com

Review by: Zander Buel

DepecheModeDeltaMachine Artwork  It can’t be easy being Dave Gahan or Martin Gore. Even if you can ignore the history of drug use, the stigma of electronic music from the 80’s, or the general animosity Depeche Mode faces in both the U.S. and the U.K., you still have to deal with the fact that every album since 1993 has inevitably been placed under the same microscope that once examined the 1990 leviathan Violator, that landmark of dark alternative Euro-Dance Pop which featured classics such as “Enjoy the Silence” and “Personal Jesus.” Add to that the rabid bemoaning after Alan Wilder’s departure from the band in the mid-90’s, and it might seem from the outside looking in that any and all future endeavors are doomed. (more…)

:Music Review: Panic Lift – Is This Goodbye?

  By Justine | May 14, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Panic Lift – Is This Goodbye?
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Label: Metropolis Records
Website: paniclift.tumblr.com

Review by: Jaymie Burzette

Panic-Lift-Is-This-Goodbye-2012  Panic Lift, founded in 2006, is an Industrial band from Newark, New Jersey. Is This Goodbye? is their fourth release, and it is very different from what you would expect to hear from them. The vocals are no longer heavily distorted and their sound has changed from Harsh EBM/Electro-Industrial to Synthpop/EBM with elements of Industrial Metal and Trip-Hop. At first I was rather taken aback by this new sound and it took me about a week of listening to this album to warm up to it. After listening to the album multiple times, I began to appreciate the new sound and I found little details that I quite enjoyed, but there are still a few aspects of this album that bother me. (more…)

:Music News: WTII Records Release FREE Sampler and 2013 Release Schedule

  By William | May 14, 2013 - 7:53 am | News
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wtii089_lgFree label sampler showcasing WTII Records current roster of artists and upcoming release schedule. The sampler includes exclusive tracks and remixes from Klutae, Die Sektor, Stromkern, Blume, Mechanical Cabaret, Deviant UK, Method Cell, Trigger 10d, The Gothsicles, Prometheus Burning, The Qualia, The Thought Criminals, Dead on TV, Stiff Valentine, SMP, Lowe, Am.Psych and Rein[Forced].

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:Podcast: Digital Glitch #77

  By Todd | May 11, 2013 - 7:00 pm | Digital Glitch, Podcast
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Digital Glitch #77

So this month has taken my sinuses and made me sound like the late night DJ man. All this pollen and shit needs to get the hell out of here! But, no pollen, nor rain no bad technical difficulties will stop Digital Glitch from getting to the masses in loud frequencies and massive quantities! So this week I have a great set of electro mixed in with some synth and as always the harsh beats of the aggrotech. So crank up the volume with some brand new tracks from Inertia, Cyberpunkers, Extize, Suicide Inside, Vanity Police and the brand new Glitch Pick of the Month with Suicide Commando! GlitchMode is definitely saying this is one to get with some massive bass appeal and some tracks that are sure to be some favorites of the summer! So download it, share it, and play it loud! Digital Glitch #77 is out there now go get it and let all the haters know what real good music is out there!

Have a request for next weeks show?

Email: digitalglitch[at]coma-online.com

Let me know what you guys are liking and what I need to do more of? Requests made to me, make sure to give me your name and where you are from and I will totally pimp you out! I want to know where my listeners are from and what you like so hit me up!

 

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:Podcast: Heavy Rotation – Episode 10

  By j. ward | May 11, 2013 - 11:00 am | Heavy Rotation, Podcast
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Heavy Rotation LogoContrasts of old and new, infusing Dark Electro with EBM and Futurepop, brace yourself for the twists and turns as DJ Electroslut delivers 2 hours of blended blocks filled with deliciously dark tunes!

Artists featured include Agonoize, Centhron, Reaxion Guerrilla, Suicide Commando, Poupee Fabrikk, Autodafeh, Glis, Mindless Faith, Surgyn, Head-Less, Skinny Puppy, Method Cell and Torul. It’s time for
Heavy Rotation #10!

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:Music Review: Army of the Universe – The Hipster Sacrifice

  By William | May 10, 2013 - 10:41 am | CD, Review
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Army of the Universe – The Hipster Sacrifice
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Label: Metropolis Records
Website: armyoftheuniverse.com

Review by: William Dashiell Hammett

tumblr_mjk331ksRl1rqvp5lo1_500I first encountered Army of the Universe in 2010 when their debut full-length album, Mother Ignorance, hit my in box. Of course I looked them up on the repository of all human knowledge-the internet-and found the video for their single Lovedead. To say I instantly fell in love would be a bit of an overstatement; however, I was decidedly intrigued. Enough so that I was gave their debut a good listen and was greatly impressed. Originally a trio composed of Trebla (a.k.a. DJ Albert Candiani), vocalist Lord K, and guitarist Davide Tavecchia, the Italian industrial rock group scored a coup with getting Chris Vrenna to produce their debut. Vrenna is now considered a full time member with their release of the group’s second album The Hipster Sacrifice. (more…)

:Music Review: Bella Lune – Secrets

  By Justine | May 9, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Bella Lune – Secrets
Release date: April 6, 2013
Label: Aetheria Music
Website: www.bellalune.net

Review by: Zander Buel

bella lune secrets  It would be easy to recycle the same old adjectives that fill the various coverage of Bella Lune—Phoenix’s renowned dreamy Darkwave act—over the years. With two albums full of synth-laced Goth and Darkwave, glittering with vocalist Fuchsia Angel’s airy falsettos and an electronic ambiance that echoes back to Clan of Xymox and Depeche Mode, waxing lyrical about their sound seems like it should be an easy accomplishment. (more…)

:Music Review: Mindless Self Indulgence – How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence

  By Justine | May 7, 2013 - 10:00 am | CD, Review
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Mindless Self Indulgence – How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Label: Uppity Cracker
Website: www.MindlessSelfIndulgence.com

Review by Grant V. Ziegler

MSI.HowILearned  The musically unclassifiable hellraisers known as Mindless Self Indulgence have returned with another amped-up, genre-bending and hilarious album: How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence. It has been a few years since their last release, but after a successful Kickstarter that raised the funds to release this new album, MSI embarked on a tour playing a slew of old and new material. Presently, the album is only available on tour or if you ordered it from the Kickstarter. But soon the public will be able to mindlessly indulge and stop giving a shit, too. (more…)

COMA Social merges with COMA Music Magazine

  By j. ward | May 7, 2013 - 2:00 am | News
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In the not too distant past we had the idea for a community oriented sister site for COMA. A site where you could post news yourself and interact with others. More recently we added a community updateable event calendar. Well, the site languished with very few posts or visits and  really, who needs another site for social interaction? So we recently decided it was time to retire it.

The problem was, a lot of work went into creating COMA Social and it did have some good features. So, instead of scrapping the entire project, we have brought the best parts over to COMA Music Magazine.

First off, we have decided to do away with the position of News Reporter. We have never been good at getting news posted on a regular basis and it really is a thankless job. So how will we get news for the site now? If you click the content menu and hover over news, you’ll see that you can now post it directly on the site. No more emailing something, waiting and hoping someone will take the time to post it. In addition, when you post news it also gets posted automatically to our twitter feed and facebook page (and it doesn’t get stuffed in the little ‘Posts By Others’ box either).

The other thing we have decided to bring over from COMA Social is the event page. The Event page is able to be filtered by Country, state (in the US), date range, name and event type (club night, concert or festival) making it ideal for those visiting a strange city and looking to get their oontz on.

So if you have some news the world at large needs to know about or an awesome event no one should miss, now’s your chance to get it out there. And you don’t even need another login, you can log in with your facebook, twitter, Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live or Open ID account. What could be easier?