Lots of goooood stuff in this thread.
These days, I get most of my music suggestions from the (currently on hiatus) podcast Cemetery Confessions, which is an awesome podcast in its own right: it’s put on by a really thoughtful and erudite goth called Dani Ashes, and they cover all kinds of topics relevant to the goth subculture, with particular focus on social issues. Very intelligent and very progressive stuff, with interesting interviews.
. . . I actually used to front a couple of goth bands. I met a songwriter in a club back in ‘03 and she recruited me to sing lead for a project she was starting, which was a darkwave/synthpop kinda thing. We cut a demo and played a bunch of gigs around LA, but the songwriter was legitimately mentally ill and volatile and also doing A LOT of drugs, so I broke off with the guitarist and we started our own band, with a keyboardist who also became my first fiancée. Heh. The new band was a lot more deathrock/horror-punk, and I was writing vocals, so there were like surf-punk songs about HP Lovecraft monsters and moody bad-relationship songs and even a bluesy number about getting getting drunk in New Orleans with maybe-a-vampire. This was a much cooler band and we had a lot of fun doing gigs and recording a much-more-professional demo, but nobody was gonna be able to make a living doing it, and I had gone back to acting school, and the band just kind of petered out. I am even ashamed to say that we had a bubblegum pop-punk pastiche number about necrophilia called “Victimless Crime”. Not cool, young Ace, not cool. But it was pretty damn witty.
I did all my gigs in the same pair of leather pants that I bought on clearance at Structure For Men. And full-face goth makeup. And an unbuttoned priest’s cassock. And an ankh. Hoo boy.
Anyway, yeah, Cemetery Confessions is great. I also enjoy a genre of podcast I like to call “bonded ladies talking about murder and supernatural stuff”, like Morbid and Two Girls, One Ghost. I also dig Odd Trails and Let’s Not Meet, which is basically guys with cool voices reading “weird encounter” stories from letters and Reddit posts and such. I mostly listen to podcasts when I’m out jogging or on a long drive to a rehearsal, so it’s mostly about spooky auditory junk food for me.
