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Siouxsie & The Banshees in Denver, 1986 2026 intro and 1986 article by Duane Davis Siouxsie Sioux's voice during her peak in the 1980s was an immediate presence, cold, hard, supple: coil upon coil, a predatory embrace, not so much malign as indifferent–a gun going off in a distant room. The Siouxsie and the Banshees... Continue Reading →
New Album Review: Diamanda Galas: You Must Be Certain of the Devil LP (Restless/US/1988) This is the final installment in Diamanda Galas's "Masque of the Red Death Plague," a trilogy dealing, at least partly, with her brother's death from AIDS. I say partly because Galas's extraordinary handling of this material does what all great art... Continue Reading →