By: Chris Stead

There is a new sound emerging in the music world and it sounds like a little piece of vintage goth/punk heaven. This sound is being produced by a group called The Horrors. A little bit punk, a little bit electro, dressed in black and made up to look like the children of the 60’s british invasion and the 80’s new wave, The Horrors are making noise like something that hasn’t passed through the scene since the early eighties.

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By: Chris Stead

Jessika is a model out of North Carolina. This set of photos represents a body of work that she did for a group called Madams. She is currently looking for work as a model with great people to further her career. She got started with modeling while taking courses on communications in college. She says she loves being in front of the camera.

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By: Chris Stead and Rebecca Davis

Okey dokey folks, Rebecca come up with yet another fun and fairly easy project this go-round. If you have a bunch of stuff laying around that you would really like to have framed and hanging on your wall, then this is the project for you. Being that I spent several years working as a professional framer, hopefully I will be able to shed a little light on how to best accomplish some of the trickier parts of construction. No, we are not going to tell you how to frame anything and everything. There isn’t enough space in this single article for that. This one is specifically for producing a shadowbox, or a deep-framed piece to display 3-D objects. Let us know if you want to know more, though, let us know in the comments section and we will come up with a new, spiffy framing project to do.

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By: Chris Stead

Synchonicity is the best way to describe the chain of events that occurred to make Goth Help Us San Diego happen as it did. A negative act with positive repercussions. Goth Help Us as a whole is still a new organization and at the precise time that was necessary to get everything moving in the right direction, a wrong was done. Jim Howard, the current president of Goth Help Us San Diego, and a small group of friends and family were accosted on the street by a number of drunk, belligerent people. As Jim was assaulted it was made clear that he and his group was chosen due to their subculture affiliation. This can be otherwise known as a “hate crime.” The courts will not recognize this attack as a hate crime at this time.

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By: Auntie Pan Pan

Greetings fans and freaks! Auntie Pan Pan here! I have arrived to bring some shiny darkness in your bleak little paths to foretell and see the future…or at least try…you Scorpios always amaze me…especially what you can do with whipped cream and a chainsaw…BUT I DIGRESS! Behold your astrological forecast for the next few weeks! Enjoy and run amok in the night!!!

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By: The Gothling

So it’s happened. You finally landed that job that will pay for everything you need, and most of what you want. The only problem is, it’s a corporate job, complete with corporate dress code. What’s a Goth girl (or guy) to do?

Luckily, most corporate clothing is already black, which makes searching for clothes in your closet easier. The problem is, most of the skirts we like to wear are too short or have too many details, like D-rings, corseting, and patterning (think plaid schoolgirl skirts). If you have any pencil skirts with smaller, less noticeable corseting, you could probably get away with them at the office. Full Story »

By: Chris Stead

Asherra, having just started a new job, has been a little swamped lately so I’ll be your guide again through another column on the third generation. Let’s consider movies for just a moment. Visual media is such a heavy influence on culture today that it seems only reasonable that it would influence the goth culture. Though on network television it has become painfully obvious that the Goth culture is having a bigger impact on the popular world that vice versa, but this is not so with regard to movies.

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By: Chris Stead

Emilie Autumn
Laced/Unlaced
2007

Being that this is Laced and Unlaced (i.e. Her corset) then it would only make sense that the Laced CD is much more of her classical roots. It is in spades. If you are looking for some well-produced and well-played classical music, this is the CD for you. I can’t think of many people that can argue with Bach, Corelli and the like. If, however you were much more enamored with her previous effort, Opheliac, then Unlaced is for you. Emilie describes her music as Violindustrial. I think that some of the songs a little more Violinwave, but all the same, very enjoyable. Definitely a unique take on a wonderful instrument from a talented artist.

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By: Chris Stead

Starting as the brainchild of Jon Siren and Natasha Cox at LA’s Musician’s Institute, Mankind is Obsolete is clearly a synergistic project that reaches beyond any formal training than any Yngwie Malmsteen seminar could provide. All of their formal training was simply a stepping stone for their true vision which is a beautifully executed, emotionally charged aural experience.

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By: Chris Stead

Youth and talent are always a great boon to art. The youth provides vitality to the art while talent offers the means to produce moving and inspiring pieces. Jeanine Thiele has both of these and her work is proof. Working mainly in Germany, Jeanine combines her career and something that she loves to create an environment where she can truly live. Her photography tells a story all its own and it can only be appreciated if you see it. Jeanine lives the life of a creative professional with the heart of a true artist.

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By: David Phillips

I have been doing some soul searching, or rather, soul identifying of late. Like an immigrant witnessing his borough melting under the heat of assimilation I see my community, the only community I am proud to count myself amongst, suffused with normality. Confronting me is the question, “What is Goth to me?”

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By: Vittoria Minyaliel Berger-Hoff

Fog swirling,
reliving my lost dreams.
In the lake a fish is seen,
it swims, lost, through the endless dark.
Eerie

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By: Chris Stead

From the dark streets of San Diego at night comes Noir Project. A project started by William Wall in 2006, the sound and vision of the band has gone through some growing pains and a few revisions. Now William has set his sights more clearly on the target and is working to match reality with his vision. Dressed in a suit and tie, William is encouraging a classy look in what can be a dirty landscape known as modern goth-influenced electronic music. So, suit pressed and freshly re-wired electronics in hand he heads off to meet the world head-on.

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By: Chris Stead

Ostia, an ethereal group out of the late nineties, produced and released a masterful ethereal album, “From the Aether” in 1997. Onced released, the group returned to that self-same “Aether.” Moving to different parts of Australia, Ostia lost the ability to persue anything more together for 10 years. For most groups, this kind of setback early on would be a major blow and would spell certain demise for the group. Magically, this did not happen with Ostia.

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By: Stephanie

Its not felt, only seen,
by those who long for its touch,
and what was delt was obscene,
i never cared that much,
it was nothing but the end,
of a world that turned to wrong
and now paying for our sins,
we belong here.

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