Katy Perry
Pretty much every successful musician has a “dark” period, which often results in some of their best music.
For a certain segment of pop starlets, however, their dark periods are more often characterized not by dark music, but by dark clothes.
This phenomenon of pop-ettes “going goth” isn’t a new one and Sarah collected some examples of this game of gloomy dress-up for AOL Music Blog.
Click here to read all about Madonna, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera‘s “goth” phases.
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Florence of the Machine and Katie Stelmanis of Austra
It’s World Goth Day.
Because we enjoy darkness we enlisted Encyclopedia Gothica author Liisa Ladouceur to answer the question “How goth is X?” about a bunch of bands.
Among them: Paramore, Skrillex, Austra, Florence And The Machine and Crystal Castles.
To read the article head over to Spinner by clicking here.
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Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy’s a big deal. He was the lead singer for Bauhaus, he had that song “Cuts You Up” that basically ran the alternative nation back in the day, and Trent Reznor thinks he’s so The Man that the NINster covered The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” with Murphy.
So Aaron was pretty psyched when he got to interview the dark musical legend last week. The result of the conversation, which features lots of Bauhaus bits, some catty Sisters Of Mercy jabs, talk of his cameo in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and a Stephenie Meyer zing, can be read over at Spinner by clicking here.
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