Out From The Shadows Festival

Collide covers Sam Smith and Kim Petras hit in support of LGBTQ youth   Statik and kaRIN have long been revered by fans as much for their expressive and creative cover renditions as for the plethora of original material they’ve released as Collide. Now, the electro/industrial and darkwave duo has unveiled a new single presenting their version of the 2022 hit “Unh...

DARKSWOON EVER CRASHING - 2022's Best Darkwave Releases from Victor Montes and Dave Cantrell (PLUS 2022's Single of the Year!) - Stereo Embers Magazine Yes, here we are, at that time of the year again, the time for that sort of select reckoning that every critic, writer, or listener greets with a curious mix of love and dread. Love because of the joy in reliving still another thrilling ride around the dizzying darkwave merry-go-round that this sudd...

So, lessee...one intensive review (Darkswoon's "Bloom Decay"), two midweek premieres (Chris Connelly's "Ripcord, Ripcord" and ex-PRIESTS etc project Ecstatic International album preview) and now the Friday cap-off, an exclusive video premiere of Kramer's "Bukowski on the Beach" from his new ambient (!) album "Music for Films Edited by Moths." Ahhh, retirement, restful and relaxing 🤣

STEREO EMBERS VIDEO PREMIERE - Kramer's "Bukowski on the Beach" from His New Ambient Album 'Music For Films Edited By Moths' - Stereo Embers Magazine The question must ultimately arise: Is there a modern musical niche in which the shape of Kramer’s talent – not to mention his psyche – doesn’t find a way to adapt, and in fact thrive? While making his name 30+ years ago via the fractured pop/disturbed rock’n’roll of the original Shimmy ...

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Live in Portland? Into aMAZING darkwave? Love seeing bands from overseas you don't have to travel 6k miles to see? Then do we have the show for you!! Monday night (yes, a bloody Monday night MAKE AN EXCEPTION!!), August 22nd at The Coffin Club, Stockholm's Then Comes Silence play a show with The Bellwether Syndicate, starring none other than William Faith among a clutch of others and, AND, Vueltas is opening. This very well might be THE show of the year. Do not, DO NOT miss this show. I sure as fk ain't...

Datura “Disappointer” @ the Coffin Club, March 25, 2022 (Portland, OR) Datura live at the Coffin Club in Portland, Oregon. Opening for the Out From the Shadows Festival.

Added to the OFTS 2022 lineup, Portland's transfixing Trance to the Moon!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvBGsQH9UU

Trance To The Moon "Fire Within Glass" Official Video Visit trancetothemoon.bandcamp.com"Fire Within Glass" by Trance To The Moon, from the Below Sea Level Recordings 2xEP "Lavendar Skies". Featuring: Monet Alar...

Well, yes, indeed, we DID just add Xibling to the OFTS VI / VII lineup. WOOOOOOO!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ot9RceGgms

Xibling - Maladjusted - Music Video The first single/title track for our Maladjusted EP (available March 5th 2021)https://xibling.bandcamp.comVideo directed by Julian ThiemeArt direction by Mor...

A teaser flyer. More info to come...(including the addition of legendary Bay Area musicians V.E.X./Moira Scar!!)

A warm ecstatic HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ania Tarnowska, AKA I Ya Toyah, who, as it happens, is appearing at the next OFTS!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-_EvpHb70

I Ya Toyah - Vast Spaces Song and lyrics available at https://iyatoyah.bandcamp.com/track/v...Stream at https://biglink.to/vastspacesFilmed, directed and edited by:Ralph Klisiewicz a...

Happy Halloween Floorboarders! Enjoy all the candy corn and black licorice!! 👻💀🎃

Couple of weeks after our last major announcement, seems time for another one. Returning to the OFTS stage, none other (and no other like) LIGHT ASYLUM!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xdM7e8UAA

Light Asylum - Hour Fortress Light Asylum Album 2012

OK, you didn't ask but I'm doing it anyway. I mean, it's been five years so it's overdue, I'd say. So here we go:

EVERYONE THAT BECOMES A MEMBER OF XRAY FM AT THE $10/ MONTH (or higher) LEVEL WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF FIVE MIXTAPES COMPILED, SIGNED & HAND- NUMBERED BY YOUR DEDICATED DJ similar to this one from 2016 (which wasn't numbered or signed). This time, however, instead of providing the cover art myself I'll cajole a local artist to bring their dark eye to the project. Just be sure you mention SFUTF when filling out the form. Don't miss out, it'll not only be a unique collectible but I'll make sure it's a banger as well! Link in the comments, and see you on the radio tomorrow night!!

OK, well, time to rev up this page as the process that rolls inexorably toward OFTS VI & VII has most certainly started picking up momentum lately. With that in mind, how about the newest booking to the festival stage. We are fcking BEYOND proud to welcome to the OFTS stage the ever-amazing...SUZI SABOTAGE!!!

The Saints Prehistoric Sounds promo shot clockwise from top Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper, Algy Ward, Ivor Hay . London early 1978. [tagging Ed Kuepper/The Aints, Laughing Clowns ]

CREUX LIES - MISUNDERSTANDING Description to come...

Coming to an OFTS stage near you next spring!

Ashes Fallen livestream (full set) - Luna Negra - July 17, 2021 A three-song live performance recorded for a livestream presented by Luna Negra on July 17, 2021Set List:1. Stand Your Ground2. We Belong Nowhere3. Thy Will ...

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OUT FROM THE SHADOWS FESTIVAL VI Out From The Shadows Festival is a 3-day darkwave, post-punk, and goth music festival in Portland, Oregon.

HUGE NEWS!! Given the mania that immediately began surfacing once the pandemic began to ease, securing OFTS VI & VII's venues became something of a fraught prospect. But today, thanks to Ste Cassandra 🖤, we have our dates locked down (no pun intended 😎)!! Note that this meant shifting what had been the intended weekends but that is but a trifle. Darklings, prepare thyselves:

March 24th, 25th, & 26th, 2022 at the Star Theater

March 31st, April 1st, & 2nd, 2022 at Dante's

Now the REAL work begins but for you? Just glide toward next year knowing you've already got some amazing plans on the books...

Speaking of HALLOWS (and SLIGHTER, and Jason Priest)...

http://stereoembersmagazine.com/triptych-into-darkness-slighter-v-o-i-d-hallows-all-that-is-true-jason-priest-jason-priest-is-missing/?fbclid=IwAR3uUQD4KfW0DzMOuQJNM_zDIWsMGyaqDFIlPRQSVljSXx8day7fcD61g3k

TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS - Slighter "V O I D" / HALLOWS "All That is True" / Jason Priest "Jason Priest is Missing" - Stereo Embers Magazine SLIGHTER – V O I D (Confusion Inc) We’ve been here before in the pages of SEM, discussing how even if you’re not familiar with Slighter you almost certainly are without knowing it, given the prominence of the artist’s music in a number of television shows et al as delineated in that link abo...

Hallows explore turmoil on new album, All That Is True Seattle duo Hallows has a new album out today called All That Is True that is deeply informed by the brutality and unrest of 2020.