This week’s Dark Nation Radio starts off with some relaxed electronica featuring Melllo, Sword Tongue, and Peter Murphy, before kicking into high gear with new material from Anders Manga, Makes My Blood Dance, and Eye New Dark. I hope you’ll give it a spin! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

This was totally the best part of The Odyssey. Plus when Odysseus killed all the suitors with a herring.

The first half of this week’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR focuses on JAPANESE rockabilly, psychobilly, and horror punk, and the second half does the same with SWEDEN! Because music knows neither borders nor boundaries. Give it a spin! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

If your thoughts already tend toward Halloween and Autumn, Astrid Perfume has you in mind! She's "resurrected" the Autumn & Halloween collection from 2021--one of her favorites! I hope you'll take a peek. www.astridperfume.com/collections/...

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Autumn & Halloween 2021* Perfumes are sold in Italian 8ml glass vials and are boxed. No samples are available for sale or by request.

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"Tribal industrial" is a musical subgenre that blends traditional, polyrhythmic drumming and percussion with the abrasive, mechanical sounds of industrial music. Dark Nation leads off this week with a new track from tribal industrial act This Morn' Omina. www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio is my weekly “dark music” broadcast. This week’s show can now be streamed and features new material from This Morn’ Omina, Endanger, Parissior, Dead Astronauts, and iamnoone. I hope you’ll give it a listen! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio 12 July 2026

DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio is my weekly “dark music” broadcast. I play a mix of goth, industrial, post punk, and intelligent electronica, with a focus on new and recent releases. This week’s show--...

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Society for the Study of the American Gothic members: have you taken a look at American Gothic Studies issue 2.1 yet? It features an interview with Grady Hendrix! Access content (or join!) from the members area of the SSAG website at americangothicsociety.com/american-got...

FREE ARTICLE. American Gothic Studies is pleased to make available for free the round table on the Gothic & Politics included in our most recent issue, 2.1.  It may be accessed at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....   I

The Gothic & Politics: Quick Takes

Artistic works are inevitably political, often doing their most powerful ideological work when they appear distant from political concerns. The Gothic, as a genre expressive of cultural anxieties, has...

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This week’s Dark Nation Radio is available for streaming and features new music from Nine Inch Noize, Gamma Vortex, Noir Addiction, Clubdrugs, Doublespeak (ft. Vince Clark and Neil Arthur), Memory Index, Neo Dimes, and Dead Lights. Thanks for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

REMINDER: CFP--The Society for the Study of the American Gothic session at the American Literature Association’s symposium on the American novel, Santa Fe Nov 5-7. 150-word proposals with CVs to Jeffrey Weinstock at Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu by Wednesday July 8th.

The American Gothic Studies "The Gothic & Politics" round table is publicly available both for online access and downloading in PDF form. The link is below. Please feel free to forward it. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art...

The Gothic & Politics: Quick Takes

Artistic works are inevitably political, often doing their most powerful ideological work when they appear distant from political concerns. The Gothic, as a genre expressive of cultural anxieties, has...

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This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast is ready for streaming and includes new tracks from Hunter as a Horse, Eye New Dark, Tangled Sheets, Shadows Hold, and iamimperfect, among others. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

Devils and cats take over the PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR for the latest edition. Included in the mix are The Reverend Horton Heat, Screamin’ Sins, The Stray Cats, The Creepshow, Kitty in a Casket, Devil Doll, and the Koffin Kats. Turn it up and let loose! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

Hello, Bsky friends. My wife runs her own small business, Astrid Perfume. And she's just released her summer line of unique perfume oils. I hope you'll take a look! www.astridperfume.com

This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast is ready for streaming. Among the new tracks featured are ones from The City Gates, Magic Wands, Vioflesh, Robots in Love, NØIR, Hallows, and pMad. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

Call for proposals: The Society for the Study of the American Gothic will sponsor a paper session at the American Literature Association’s symposium on the American novel, Santa Fe November 5th – 7th 2026. Inquiries to Jeffrey Weinstock at Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu. Deadline: Sunday July 5th.

Call for Papers: Geographies of Horror May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University) Info: geographyhorror@gmail.com.

American Gothic Studies is open for submissions! AGS is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic. Inquiries to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu. Website www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...

When people ask how to find new music, I hope you’ll point them toward DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio! In this week's show: Peter Murphy, The City Gates, KMFDM, Depeche Mode, IAMX, Voltaire. I hope you’ll give it a listen and thanks for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast is now available for streaming. Including new PIG, NITE, Sine, Octavian Winters, IAMIMPERFECT, Xenturion Prime, Mesh, and Requiem in White. I hope you’ll give it a spin and thank you for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

The annual Dark Nation Radio GOTHIC BEACH PARTY broadcast can now be streamed! Anything goes as long as its devilishly fun. The show pairs well with evil tiki drinks and cursed idols, so pass the moon-tan lotion and turn it! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

It's World Goth Day! To mark the occasion, I invite you to stream the WGD edition of my Dark Nation Radio broadcast. It leans heavily toward new material, but you "old schoolers" will certainly notice the Peter Murphy, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie, and so on! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

WORLD GOTH DAY is May 22nd, so put on your blackest black for the annual WGD edition of Dark Nation Radio! Three hours of new and classic goth, including London After Midnight, Depeche Mode, Corpus Delicti, Then Comes Silence, NPeter Murphy, and Siouxsie. www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

My annual World Goth Day edition of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio will be this Sunday, May 17th. This show will revisit some classics as well as highlight the current state of the scene. Join me for the "live" broadcast at 9 PM Eastern US time on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org.

The latest edition of DJ cypher’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is here to raise (your) spirits with psychobilly, rockabilly, gothabilly, and horror punk! In the mix for show #64 are brand new Social Distortion, Mad Sin, and Kitty in a Casket. Thanks! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

This week’s Dark Nation Radio includes new music from Dogtablet, Black Rose Burning, Ayria, Sleep of Mirrors, Bustié, Horror Vacui, Divider, Beyond Obsession, Love Ghost, and The Joy Thieves. I hope you’ll give it a spin and thank you for your support! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio this week features new ACTORS, Nine Inch Noize, Vampire Valentine, Huir, Darkside Cowboys, and I Ya Toyah. This is a fun one! Thanks for giving it a spin and, if you like what you hear, remember to support the bands. www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

If you teach composition or would like to include a style guide, examination copies of my Mad Scientist's Guide to Composition are available via Broadview Press's website using this link: broadviewpress.com/product/the-...

This week’s edition of DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio is ready for streaming and includes new Nine Inch Noize, Dogtablet, Black Rose Burning, Isabel Shrine, Mesh, Bustié, Prometheus Flame, Krimea, Madeline Goldstein, Replicant, and Blaklight. I hope you enjoy it! www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

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