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Sometimes in this life, we have to go back in order to find the right path forward. Roxi Drive, returning to the synthwave scene after her first release of Girl on the TV does EXACTLY that with her first full length LP. But there is something different this time out ...
Read more: More Than A Neon Paradise: Roxi Drive's Strangers Of The Night - Music Review

In the past week alone, the synthwave community has been inundated with quality releases hitting our ears just in time for the Halloween season. From Vampire Step-Dad’s EPIC Songs to a Haunt a House To to Gregorio Franco’s stunning Apocalypse Prime, the styles of the music might be ...
Read more: Silver Screen Stabbings: Cemetery Gates’ Welcome to Hell Part One - Music Review
“Darkest. Not much is known about his early life. In 1980, in the ruins of a deserted monastery, a nun's testimony was discovered. This anonymous scripture reveals that Darkest was a ritual composer of the Middle Ages who became a knight, then a crusader ...
Read more: Concerning Sound & Vision: The Brutal Beauty of Darkest’s Light

“I got a rock.” Dressed as the bride of Frankenstein, Cindy never expected that her friends would ditch her on Halloween night. She also never expected to be going through her trick or treat bag on the corner of the street. But that’s exactly what she was doing. She pulled ...
Read more: One Good Scare: Caspro’s Dark Digital Comes Knocking - Music Review

The traffic out of the city is bad. Seems everyone is happy going nowhere. The car windows are down. I keep the car pointed forward in spite of the traffic. A red light makes me pause. ...
Read more: Get Lost Like This: Electra Diamond’s Bayview Airlines - Music Review

In the immediate past, Hawaiians used the moon for navigation purposes. MacLane, wearing a loose fitting tropical shirt, only wants to use it to charm the pants off his date. Anything to take his mind off of Bianca. That girl is nothing but trouble ...
Read more: Hot Babes and Tremendous Moustaches: Nightshifter’s Sex, Drugs & Neon Lights

Welcome to the Daytona 500, the Superbowl of motor racing,” the announcer’s voice booms onto the track. “Pace Yourself,” Jon “Neon” Nox says as a reminder. He tightens his grip on the steering wheel and notices for the first time that afternoon ...
Read more: On the Run: Neon Nox’s Syndicate Shadow - Music Review

Another Time", is a story behind multiple situations that all people deal with daily, such as relationships, struggles in life and the need to be more then what we currently are. Within time we eventually find what we've all been looking for, to belong, to ...
Read more: Sewing the Seeds: Dream Shore's "Another Time" - Music Review

Tim Ashburg, curly-headed and face full of freckles, closes his eyes. It’s been a day. The first day back is always rough. But, as a sophomore, there’s something different. His high school sucks. And the homework is just ...
Read more: Strands of Better Days: Blaze of Gunfire’s Summernights - Music Review

Getting lost in the cemetery was not Haley’s idea of a good time. Damn it, Frank, she thought to herself as she untangled her tennis shoes from yet another thorny patch of weeds. A girl has her limits. And, out here on a moonless night on Friday the 13th ...
Read more: Because There Is No Escape: Stieglitz’s For the Love of the Living Dead