http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog Skulls, Bones and Unicorns Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:39:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quite some time ago the makers of Dr. Pepper soda, who are apparently enormous fans of Guns N Roses, made the promise that if Chinese Democracy was ever actually released they would impart a free bottle of Dr. Pepper to anyone who wanted one. Guess what, kids. Drinks are on 'ol ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/wouldnt-you-like-to-be-a/ I can't tell you much about them as there is a dearth of quality information about them online (at least in English) but you should look into the band Pilori. They fall in line with the Neoclassical/Neofolk style but have a kind of mystical, Goth/Pagan feel to their music that ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/dawn-of-a-new-day/ So the release date for Combichrist's new album, Today We Are All Demons, has been set for January 20th. You can preorder a copy on the Metropolis website. Hopefully it will be far better than The Frost EP, which was released this past summer. "Kickstart The Fight" features vocals from ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/combichrist-gets-demonic/ I've been rather interested in a Los Angeles act called Catalog lately. While they have yet to release a full length CD they were featured in the documentary Synthnation, for which they wrote the title track. This little film deals with the Industrial/Electro/Goth scene in Los Angeles and includes appearances ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/catalog/ If you have spare time to laugh, check out: http://www.deadact.com. It's a blog dedicated to documenting electronic musicians mimicking playing live. Now in EBM, it has seemingly become the new standard -- to mimic playing live. It's always fun to see pictures of bands playing live, and to notice that ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/your-dead-act/ As of lately, Metropolis Records hasn’t really been doing that well. The label seems to be going in a different direction, catering more to a hipster electro/post-punkish sound. There’s still an occasional good release here and there, but they’re not doing the same job they use to be doing, back ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/schilling-for-the-new-cop-intl-releases/ My wife sent me an email a couple months back containing a link to a video where a guy was discussing how "back in the day" there used to be anticipation for upcoming releases and the hype would build up while you revisited the classic material, champing at the bit ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/pre-release-excitement/ Minimalism, post-minimalism, folk, neo folk, new wave, no wave, cold wave, punk, post punk, funk punk, crunk, gothic, grunge, garage, grime, glitch, industrial, steam, rivet, techno, house, trance, soul, solo, slow jam, jam band, jug band, modern, post modern, post-post modern, happy hardcore, dirge rock, dirrty south, hip hop, rap, rap ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/in-case-you-didnt-feel-like-making-music/ So the new Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy, is about to finally drop after a near decade-and-a-half build-up. Most commentators are offering up the idea that it would have been smarter to just keep people on the hook with this endeavor because there's no way the album could ever ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/the-sister-of-mercyless-morose/ So while we were busy kicking you in the head with REPO! A Genetic Opera Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson, was busy kicking his girlfriend's brother out into the street. Hence, Manson lost his Wood. Rachel Evan Wood, that is. The God Of Fuck's current fuckee was allegedly allowing her ... http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2008/11/no-more-wood-for-manson/