Diamanda Galas

Diamanda Galas has just announced she’ll be playing two nights at Brooklyn’s Co-Cathedral of St Joseph on October 29 & 31.

One is an album of covers; the second is a live album recorded at last year’s Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem run.

A collection of our best photos from 2016.

Goth icon, avant-garde diva and autre legend Diamanda Galás played her first of three “Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes” shows at the Former St. Thomas The Apostle Church in Harlem on Tuesday night (5/10). Part of this year’s Red Bull Music Academy, the shows mark the U.S. debut of new material from Galás…

Diamanda Galas and Jon Stewart who rarely turn in up in the same sentence, actually crossed paths back in 1994, when Diamanda gave a great, intense performance of “Skótoseme” from her collaborative album with Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones on Stewart’s old talk show. Many years later these two very different, very unique performers have returned to the public […]

Avant-garde diva Diamanda Galàs, whose otherworldly caterwaul has been haunting folks for over 30 years, will perform her show “Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes” as part of the Red Bull Music Academy this month at Former St. Thomas the Apostle Church. The original two shows (May 10 & 12) sold out and they’ve […]

Its hard to imagine a better locale for people watching than a metal festival. Any single metal show is sure to packed full of weirdos, but festivals have the added benefit of bringing together a wide array of different types of weirdos. Every variety of metalhead that you can imagine is on display on Roadburn’s main avenue: Crust punks covered in patches, retro thrashers with high top Reeboks, old heads with comically long grey beards, goths in intricate lace dresses, recovering hardcore kids who dress like low budget hypebeasts (that’d be me), and short hairs in tight jeans that would fit right in at Chicago’s Empty Bottle if they weren’t speaking fluent Dutch. My personal favorite absurd fashion choice was the guy wearing a Game Of Thrones t-shirt with a leather trench coat draped over his shoulders like a cape…

The Red Bull Music Academy will be back in New York City for a fourth year, running April 22 – May 22. As always it’s a wide mix of concerts and events, and this year’s highlights include…

We already mentioned that Drive Like Jehu were playing and curating curating the second weekend of a two-weekend, Wales-set edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties 2…