Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.

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.

Benevolent Laser (How About Rabbits Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Out Of Season (Sanctuary). Review by Ben Varkentine.

Portishead’s sultry, chain-smoking singer hit London for an intimate outdoor gig. Dan Stapleton was there to wave/offer his lighter…

Do you feel alienated from the buy-everything teen demographic of MTV? Guest writer Jane Cora returns with a solution we would have all laughed at 20 years ago.

Smiling & Waving (Virgin). Review by Stein Haukland.