Christina Villanueva, or “Hot Goth Girlfriend” to baddies in the know, is a Berkeley-based DJ and promoter bringing together the Goth and queer scenes with a focus on women of color. How did she get ...

Pensacola’s gothic scene is flourishing. What started as periodic evenings of gothic music and dance has grown into monthly events at the iconic Handlebar, and a flourishing new business to support ...

A decade before Oasis’s Liam and Noel Gallagher made headlines with their brotherly feuds, gorgeous fey twins Michael and Jay Aston tore through the British goth-rock scene with their own legendary ...

It’s Friday night at the Corner downtown, and inside the bar, the air is thick and smells like incense. The lights are dim as usual, but on this night, they are sporting a moody green hue. Pink lights ...

Jacob Alvarez, also known as Loveghost, was DJ for the goth night La Phantasma at Curfew Bar in Fort Worth on April 29, 2024.(Christina Alvarez) Once a month, moody and atmospheric music has goth fans ...

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 ...

Colorado quartet Big Richard plays music that sounds at once traditional and fresh, ramming through decades of male-dominated songwriting with aggression and an urgency to smash the patriarchy. And ...

I got called demonic by someone online for the first time the other day,” says the alt musician Sofia Isella, who is not annoyed but in a blissful reverie. “There were other compliments within her ...

Under the Milky Way on a Friday night in downtown Salt Lake City, you might feel a shiver down your spine—the tell-tale sign of a Goth Night at the International Bar in full swing. Under the Milky Way ...

The scene outside of The Regent in downtown Los Angeles on a recent Saturday night, is wild. The venue, which holds a thousand people, is sold out and the gaggle of goths waiting to get inside is ...