World Goth Day is an annual worldwide event that celebrates goth music, fashion and art on May 22nd. It began in 2009 as Goth Day, started by two DJs from the BBC, the superbly named Martin OldGoth ...

Leah Lane has faith in the counterculture. “Things will work out,” the singer says. “I have a lot of faith in the goth scene. And a lot of faith in the post-punk scene, [and] in the darkwave scene.

Born from punk's flickering embers, goth has always been more than a soundtrack for the suntan-averse. In the late 70s and early 80s, as post-punk bands began slowing the tempo and deepening the mood, ...

Goth, or gothic rock as it is sometimes referred, was the coming together of different eras and genres of music. Most notably, much of the subculture originates from England, in the late 1970s, but ...

Black Sabbath might've flirted with the Christian iconography that would become so synonymous with gothic metal, but heavy metal's architects can only claim the barest hint of parentage over metal's ...

Despite the blue skies and relentless sunshine of the desert, the gloominess of goth-inspired music has a strong foothold in our fair state. Gothic rock first emerged from post-punk outfits in the ...

Not every goth essential out there is a full-stop gothic rock song. Many of the songs on this list could be considered gothic rock tunes, but some of them lean toward different genres. Nevertheless, ...

Deep into the night, heat from the 100-degree day radiates off the sidewalk outside of Elysium, Austin’s oldest goth bar.

Upon googling “gothic rock and the supernatural” I was utterly shocked — disgusted even — to find very little on the topic save a “The 20 Best Goth Songs of the Last 20 Years” listicle. I’m sorry, but ...

Dan Tyminski has long been loved for his rugged roots music. He's a former member of bluegrass outfit Lonesome River Band, a cohort of Alison Krauss, playing in her backing band Union Station, and, of ...

About five years ago, in the dark depths of the pandemic, TikTok users suddenly became enamored of a video of dancing bats. The bats weren’t really dancing, just hanging upside down, but the black-and ...

You know who gets a bad rap? Goth kids. Everyone picks on them because of the funny clothes and pale skin. But they’ve actually got great taste in music, y’all. That’s why today, we here at Crossfade ...