The Soft Moon

Bad news for Killing Joke fans: the group's upcoming North American tour, which included a NYC date in February, is not happening. From the band's Facebook:Dear Gatherers and friends...

If you're sick of seeing the same names atop every publication's year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different...

Goth/industrial legends Killing Joke will release their new album Pylon on October 23 via Spinefarm, the followup to 2012's MMXII. Now, as promised, they've announced a 2016 North American tour in support of that, with newer band The Soft Moon opening (a well-matched double...

When it rains it pours. Last year, Austin Psych Fest was a duststorm. This year (renamed Levitation), literal dark clouds hung over, threatening thunderstorms all three days even though it only ended up raining on Friday (5/8), and before bands started playing...

The Soft Moon have a new video for "Wasting" from their album Deeper which came out a couple weeks ago on Captured Tracks. Directed by Y2K, Soft Moon main man Luis Vasquez is the subject of some psycho-pharmacutical experiment in which he may or may not be a willing participant...

The 2015 Primavera Sound Festival goes down in Barcelona, Spain from May 28 - 30. We knew The Strokes and recently reunited shoegazers Ride were playing and now the line-up is being announced via the festival's mobile app, which is a not-so fun 8-bit game you have to play to reveal names...

The Soft Moon's new album, Deeper, is out at the end of March and if you haven't checked out first single, "Black," you can stream it below...

Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) The annual Austin Psych Fest, which they've renamed "Austin Psych Fest presents Levitation" (more on that below), happens this year from May 8-10 at the Carson Creek Ranch...

Luis Vasquez is back with his third album as The Soft Moon. Titled Deeper, Vasquez made the record in Italy with producer Maurizio Baggio and marks a bit of a course-correction from the driving, motoroik synthrock of The Soft Moon's first two LPs...

Pop. 1280 at Public Assembly in 2012 (more by Erez Avissar) NYC post-punks Pop. 1280 have announced that they will release the followup to 2012's The Horror with a new album, Imps of Perversion, on August 6 via Sacred Bo...