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 ...

Take a listen to the title track of The Center Won't Hold, their ninth LP and our recent feature album. It begins with low distorted bass and clanking metallic percussion. It’s sparse and ominous ...

Thirty-five years in the making, a documentary film exploring the birth, rise, fall and moderate rebirth of American industrial music is nearing completion. Called "The History Of Industrial Music," ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Listening to the pioneering 1980s industrial rock band KMFDM today, it sounds like the electronic equivalent of roots rock. The ...

Halber Mensch (1985), the third album from seminal German experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten, blended their trademark early sound of harsh industrial noise, often created using instruments made ...

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 ...

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 ...