Reply #71: Well, I live in Denver-Metro, home of the No-scene scene... [View All]

Actually, I live in Boulder County, Colorado, home of a hundred thousand hippy-dippy crystal licking baby twisters, so the EBM/Industrial scene is slightly moribund, if that's not a gross redundancy. Most of the clubs in the area are still doing the disco-retro or top 40 hip-hop, both of which make my ears bleed. (I had enough of both in the actual 70s and 80s, thankyouverymuch and I don't need the flashbacks to my mother in a red and white gingham bell-bottom jumpsuit with 4 inch platforms.) ( Bad attitude? Me? How'd you guess? ) The few clubs that are doing EBM/Industrial are doing so on Sunday nights, when working stiffs (another pun!) like me have to get up and get to the office at ohmigod it's early thirty. So thank Steve Jobs for iTunes Music, or we'd still be listening to Bauhaus and slitting our wrists with sharpened spoons. (There are good reasons to live in Boulder County, mostly excellent public services, a low crime rate, minimal government intrusiveness and a nicely liberal air, but cool it isn't.) I've also noticed that the tour schedule is pretty slim these last couple of years; I'll guess the thriving economy and you guess the incompetent in the White House and we'll be speaking the same language.

I've just crossed paths with a couple of new (to me anyway) groups: L'ame Immortelle (French Goth), The Parallel Project and Saints of Eden; all three are worth the effort of seeking out, at least in recording. Also, there's a magnificient collaboration between Apoptygma Berzerk, Bruderschaft, Covenant, Icon Of Coil & VNV Nation that is definitely on my "give to everyone I know in original, paid format" list. The collaboration, by the way, benefits cancer research, and the website for the album explains the history. http://www.razorburn.net/bruderschaft/ I am a huge VNV fan, and I highly recommend their work. The Last Dance, Cruxshadows and Girls Under Glass are also in my heavy rotation right now. And there's always Rasputina, the only people besides Les Claypool who can make the larger bow-stringed instruments take on the guise of percussion instruments and make it work.

And, if it was a reference to Dork Tower, it was a completely unconscious one, but thanks to you, I now have ANOTHER comic in my morning wakey-wakey file! Damn you! And thanks!