Teen Gothic

There is a local event in my community in a few weeks called Gothicon.

It is being billed as "A gathering of Goth & Comicon Enthusiasts"

It is a two day event with tons of vendors, a "Gothiqueen" contest and various entertainment planned.

The thing that is odd to me is that NONE of the musical acts that will be preforming are goth music.

The closest is an industrial group, which would fit in and makes sense to me, but the rest are straight up metal acts.

It seems REALLY odd to me that they have no goth or even darkwave acts there to preform.

I know that there are several bands who are local that would fit this event, so the choices they made are very strange to me.

To me, it would make more sense to book DJ's if they can't find appropriate musicians to preform, rather than just shoving random people on the bill to fill up the space.

For an event named" Gothicon", it certainly feels much more like a money grab than an event for the goth community.

Thoughts?

Post your links to new releases from 2000 or later, let's give some focus to new music. In the list below, you'll find some new releases from the past few weeks!

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Here's some great new releases:

• Opaque Shadows – "Dis-content" [Deathrock] [Single] (UT, USA) [Released June 14, 2024] (FFO: All Gone Dead, Bloody Dead and Sexy, Tragic Black, etc.)
• Utolsó Hullám – "Black Rose EP" [Post-Punk/Goth Rock] [EP] (Hungary) [Released June 11, 2024]
• H.Ä.L.T. – "Lost (version II)" [Goth Rock/Deathrock] [Single] (Canada) [Released June 12, 2024]

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I’ll start out by saying I’m super grateful to even have a goth club in my area, but that being said, I feel like every time I go, they play the same handful of 80’s post punk songs over and over again. I love The Cure, I love Siouxsie, but for the love of god, there’s so much other good goth music out there! I’ve been really into exploring newer bands and I’m glad there are musicians out there trying to keep the scene alive. Why aren’t clubs supporting them more? Does everyone else in attendance also just want to hear the same thing every time? Am I the problem?

What has your experience been like if you’re a regular at any goth clubs?

Hey everyone, my boyfriend and his family do these themed song brackets throughout the year. Basically, there’s a theme and everyone picks a certain amount of songs to fit the theme, and after they’re all compiled, you vote for the songs you like best, bracket-style.

As much as I love music, it’s not really my thing, but I’m included as family at this point and so of course I participate. This round of brackets is holiday songs—and any major holiday, not just the winter holidays. I always like to include my favorite genres (darkwave, goth, postpunk, industrial, etc.) in these brackets. Naturally, I just have Halloween/Halloween adjacent (mention of monsters, witches, vampires, skeletons, etc. was permissible for Halloween) so far (except the LAM song):

London After Midnight – The Christmas Song

Ministry – Every Day is Halloween

Empathy Test – Monsters

Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows – Dead Souls

45 Grave – Riboflavin

Switchblade Symphony – Witches

I’d like to venture out of the Halloween tunes and find some in these genres that are about other holidays, but I’m struggling. Any suggestions appreciated!

Funny little write up from a Lorries show in 86.

So Sisters of Mercy is coming to my area for a concert and I'm a fan of their music. I guess I have a few curiousity/worry questions about the whole thing by biggest being: Is it worth it? I'm 17 and my mom would be taking me. It's in St. Augustine, Florida. If I do go, I plan to get pit tickets so because of that, my other questions are:
– Is the crowd nice?
– How is the pit? Is it aggressive?
If its not obvious, I'm a baby bat and I've never been to a goth concert before but I have been to a rock concert and have been in a mosh pit so I can handle myself well I think, I guess I'm just nervous and want to have the most fun I can and not feel as if its a waste.

Thank you for your help!! 🙂

I feel like I don't hear folks mention the Dark Side Cowboys much. This song has such a fun feel to it, and lovely jangly guitar.

https://youtu.be/vzl0bMJ9VEc?si=INe7v6nSCUY3VEiB