This week, Christopher Long revisits the 1973 self-titled debut from Maria Muldaur — another of many vinyl treasures that he received recently from an old friend, for FREE!

Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.

Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground (Bar None Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Founding member of The Cure Lol Tolhurst takes readers on a very personal tour of the people, places, and events that made goth an enduring movement and vital subculture, in GOTH: A History. Bob Pomeroy reviews.

Episode 006 is a live review of new music by Aldous Harding, Suki Waterhouse, Destroyer, and Earth From The Moon. Catch it while it’s hot!

The St. Buryan Sessions (Shovel and a Spade Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

To make illuminati hotties for your gathering, splash melody and harsh noise into a tumbler, drop in some production trickery, and shake until you hear a dizzying howl emerge

Dita Von Teese. Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Hum (Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.

Sprinter (Partisan Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Night (Sony Classical). Review by James Mann.

A fascinating look at the melding of three seemingly disparate artists during a brief period of time that resulted in some of the most influential music to come out of the Seventies.

It’s easy to be jealous, but it’s probably better to follow Damon and Naomi’s example of growing up and growing awesome in a musical genre overcrowded with manchildren, the ins and outs of which can be glimpsed on the 1001 Nights DVD.

Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.

Matthew Moyer finds himself in the same concert hall as Leonard Cohen , holy clown, dour prophet, borscht belt crooner, and true legend – in Tampa, Florida, no less.

Wouldn’t you like to view a gallery of coroner’s photos, featuring the artistically dispatched Amanda Palmer? Matthew Moyer knows you do.

Bolshevik Disco (Manimal Vinyl). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Live in London (Sony). Review by Jessica Whittington.

Dark Smaland (Orange Twin). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Open Field (Rough Trade). Review by Omar de la rosa.