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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Chairlift
Hipster Brooklyn band Chairlift don’t like the Thompson Twins.
We can’t really blame them. After all, TT defined all that was dorky about ’80s synth pop.
But maybe Chairlift doth protest too much. Because they sure sound like the ’80s.
Anyway, Sarah talked to them for Spinner. Click here to read the story.
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Damian Abraham from Fucked Up
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
In it Feist does a whole bunch of stuff, Plants And Animals do a bunch of interviews, and K’naan teams up with David Cronenberg.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
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Ian Curtis’ Grave
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This one’s an ugly reminder that Joy Division‘s Ian Curtis is dead. It sucks because Joy Division remain better than most bands. There’s also a similar bummer trip about Frank Sinatra and one that’s half-bummer about Tom Petty.
To find out more details of why these things and more made music history, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 