The man behind Playgroup lends his curatorial ear to music from the stiffer, meaner, moodier, fuglier world of 1980s industrial and its various offshoots, from the club-ready to the floor-clearing.

Chicago's premier industrial/EBM festival, Cold Waves, which started initially as a memorial and fundraiser for suicide-prevention charities, has been a staple of the genre since its inception in 2012 ...

The Goth and industrial bands from Denver enjoyed a kind of heyday in the ’90s in Denver, with several active bands playing live. There was even a high-profile festival for a handful of years: the ...

The title track from Parquet Courts’ new album Human Performance, is one of the most affecting tracks the band have ever done, with singer Andrew Savage letting some raw emotions through their often ...

Perhaps no artist is more synonymous with industrial music than Al Jourgensen. The fearless leader of Ministry has not only carved out an iconic career with his main band, but has also blessed us with ...

In October 1976, the performance arts collective Coum Transmissions debuted Prostitution, an exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts. The opening night boasted a strip show in lieu of ...

Purists would argue that industrial is as much an ideology as it is a musical style. From vaguely similar 1970s roots as synthpop and punk, a cohort of avant-garde artists explored a very different ...

What we think of as ‘industrial music’ has been around since at least the 1970s, but by the end of the 1980s and into the 90s its influence was felt everywhere - the pioneering work of bands like ...

I was nine years old in 1993, putting me firmly in the “Elder Millennial” category. The big screen version of Super Mario Bros. was one of my most anticipated of that year, right behind Jurassic Park ...

Industrial music had its brief moment in the sun in the alt-rock Nineties, when a band as confrontational as Nine Inch Nails could get mainstream radio play and have its S&M-inflected videos in ...

Dance hard to Covenant, Seabound, Nitzer Ebb, And One, Spetsnaz, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Skinny Puppy, Apoptygma Berserk, Front 242, DAF, Bigod 20, DAF, Haujobb ...