Gothic News

Editor's note: In this series, local author David Aaron Moore answers reader-submitted questions about unusual, noteworthy or historic people, places and things in Charlotte.

Mr. Gran Lusso loses his nerve and stops by a lake to collect his thoughts. Will this be the next 8-Series? Does it matter? Photo by BMW.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida plays home for one of the more intriguing metal factions you're likely to come across.

When the high energy musical Save the Last Dance for Me rocks up at Torquay's Princess Theatre next week it's going to be a very special homecoming for one of its key cast members.

Cure the post-BFD blues at San Pedro Square Market, this weekend , as Save Alternative Radio and Current Magazine continue their series of live music in downtown San Jose.

In celebration of World Goth Day, we suggest you pull on your darkest clothes, line your lids with plenty of black, and ogle at Peter Murphy, a.k.a. the lead vocalist behind Bauhaus, one of the most loved Goth bands.

World Goth Day is an annual worldwide event that celebrates goth music, fashion and art on May 22nd.

Poodle skirts, beehive hairdos, pompadours, and ducktails were back in style Saturday, May 18 as the Golden Oldies of the 1950s and early 1960s filled the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts.

William Randolph Hearst, newspaper and magazine publisher, movie producer and one of the most influential men in America prior to World War II, is shown in a scene from 'Citizen Hearst.' William Randolph Hearst has intrigued me ever since I learned that Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" was based partly on his life.

Dead Can Dance have been 'dancing' on and off now for over thirty years and over the past twelve months have played to more people in more places than ever before.

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the CDs in which the Vitamin String Quartet plays the songs of 30 Seconds to Mars is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives - and, this week, the dos and don'ts of covering other artists' music.

"There's a lot of black here tonight," Peter Murphy remarked, surveying the sold-out, packed-in, rainwater-on-the-leather-pants-stinky crowd at Lee's Palace.

The Religious Sisters of Mercy were recognized for their service in the community at The Luzerne Foundation's annual meeting and reception Wednesday.

Rock fans have spent years lamenting the relatively abysmal state of the genre, complete with obsequious bonding over novel acts that are often elevated from flavors of months to esteemed fortunes as years-long steadfast festival headliners.

All this week we're going to look back over albums from undeniable goth icons and talk about their failures.

Tell me that Richard Corben is doing a new Edgar Allen Poe adaptation, and I'm a happy guy.

Before the Haas Type Foundry released Helvetica in 1957, constructivist sans serif fonts were classified as Grotesk , a term that reflected the dismissive notion of typesetters in previous times.

Bodily waste is widely considered a topic not to be discussed in polite company; it's something to be flushed and forgotten.

As we proved in Monday's entry in the series, the mid-'90s wasn't an easy time for the pioneers of the goth genre.

A curious pattern emerges when studying the just-released hour-by-hour schedule for Lollapalooza 2013: female artists getting the shaft.