Teen Gothic

The Limelight was a legendary nightclub in the 80's and 90's. It was an old stone church attached to a former parsonage. It was High Unholiness. The movie Party Monster (a must see) was about the Disco 2000 mad scene in the 90's. Disco 2000 was Wednesday nights.

Stigmata was goth and industrial night maybe Tuesday nights? I know I saw the Cranes and Belly on a Tuesday night. I was just a baby bat then and I would love to hear more about your experiences there.

Not a serious discussion thread or anything, I'm just excited about practicing and eventually being able to give back to my local scene and participate in the subculture in a more significant way. Is anyone else planning on doing the same? I love goth music and tons of music in general and I'm so excited to be able to share the weird stuff I find with people 🙂

I’m fairly new to goth music in general and really enjoy the deep, sultry, sexy side this genera has. Anyone have any recommendations? If not than any artists similar to Elita, Boy Harsher, Glads Spell, or even She Wants Revenge?

I remember randomly stumbling across this blog in my teens and I remember reading it all of the time. The blog has been dead for years now but does anyone else remember this blog and reading it?

suspect it may be mick mercer?

Just curious :*)

This is just a general warning, not a political post!

Just saw an invite to r/gothconservative. Boy, did they reach out to the wrong person. I checked the username and it was just created yesterday so I’m thinking it’s a bot.

Either way, I looked at the sub and it looks like a haven for right wing ideology. Saw a post speaking against wokeness, etc. I’m not sure if this is normal for Reddit on U.S. federal election years or what, so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Again, not trying to make waves, just wanted to keep people informed.

Please correct me if I am wrong about this and I am fully open to criticism:

For a while now I have seen a rise in berating others, especially baby bats, for interpreting a band or song as goth that another person disagrees with it/makes fun of them for thinking it is goth. I have seen legitimate harassment level messages such as death threats due to someone interpreting something as goth that another person deems incorrect. Music genres, especially this one with so many genres and subgenres, get incredibly blurry in some areas with other music (such as new wave and non-goth postpunk) and it feels wrong to say that there is an exact hard line everyone has to agree on between what is and isn’t be considered goth. Obviously not saying that BTS or Arianna Grande are goth due to interpretation as that would be straight up wrong, but for example the debates on Molchat Doma and similar seem to go wayyyy further than should. Why can’t we just “I interpret this song/band as goth” “I interpret this song differently and not as goth” “that is okay”?. The subculture is very important to me so I know that keeping the genres meanings are important, but the recent rise has kind of concerned me and a lot of the “protecting the meaning” has gone way off the rail. Has anyone noticed a similar trend? Is this a common sentiment and I’m just late to the party? How can we better approach this issue and help prevent toxicity?

Thank you!