Influential musician and producer Monte Cazazza has died at age 68. Cazazza was most famous for creating the term “industrial” when describing aggressive electronic rock: “industrial music for ...

Not that the impressive effort is sufficient to justify the endeavor. If all underground movements have two origins — one for its participants, the other for everyone else when the underground reaches ...

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 ...

As with many of the genres we've so far spotlighted for our long-running “Don't Know Shit” series, were we sub-genre snobs and ever so slightly insane, we could take “industrial” music and chop it up ...

I was saddened to read last Sunday in the Times of the death of Genesis P-Orridge, who was seventy and died from leukemia, in h/er apartment, on the Lower East Side. I never met P-Orridge, but I spent ...

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Listening to the pioneering 1980s industrial rock band KMFDM today, it sounds like the electronic equivalent of roots rock. The band used then-new technology to create straightforward blasts of sounds ...

Many machines make music as a side effect, as anyone who owns a 3D printer can confirm. [工場音楽レーベルINDUSTRIAL JP] is working on a project to meld music and machinery in new ways. They are building a ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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 ...