The Birthday Massacre releases their new music video In the Dark off their forthcoming album Pins and Needles, due 17th of September with a slight touch of The Ringu and The Cure’s Lullaby. Enjoyable and Chibi & Co. has grown only better with their bittersweet violet-striped-and-polkadotted fairy goth pop.

Hello. I am The Damage and this is already September, autumn time, Earth. I am six coffees into the day and the creative process has decided to whore itself out on the streets, stoning ideas to death in the cold and bringing them to me, de-furring them, then placing them raw on my plate for idea sushi time. I am obviously threatened by forces of authority to keep deadines sacred and idea sushi time doesn’t look like it’s gonna come soon. The creative process is giving blowjobs somewhere in Latvia, according to the Google Latitude I use in these dreary times. Until it comes back, I am playing albums I didn’t realize I will ever need, but such is life. It is a time of weird interference when I mix one of the greatest modern Irish stand-up comedians, Dylan Moran and one of the most perfect martial industrial/dark ambient album I’ve ever heard, Absinthe: La Folie Verte by Blood Axis & Les Joyaux de la Princesse. The original video is below but I dare you to click this link to get to the weird YouTube Doubler. It has irony, sadness and lots of eggs.

Zola Jesus is Nika Roza Danilova, an opera-trained caterwauler from Madison, Wisconsin who makes noise music that scrapes and glistens in equal measure. She loves Ian Curtis and Lydia Lunch, and their uncompromising tendencies can be heard throughout her bruising, beautiful recent album, The Spoils. (…) (She’s also a member of Former Ghosts, the latest project from This Song Is a Mess But So Am I’s Freddy Ruppert, which also involves Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart.) (zola jesus myspace, via pitchfork, image via hplusson)

Australian cyberpunk in the spotlight again! A PDF zine with two free issues to download, MACHETE GIRL is a good up-and-coming project with a good eye for urban girl eyecandy and fashion and all the first/second generation cyberpunk themes – this second issue (above) is taking a dive into transhumanism, for example – and even if they barely scratch the surface, they surely offer articles that will make interested readers dig deeper. Being a zine editor myself, I can only congratulate them for the stuff they do – making a countercultural zine is always very fun and very hard at the same time. But the effort is there. Appreciate the effort and download Machete Girl. Did I mention they have nice dailykawaii ladies? (machetegirl.com)

Look what the kat dragged in: our newest find in the shop, [big dose] energy drink, colorharmonizing with the latest cover. And by the way, buy our latest issue for 4 euros and get lots of hints about Parisian (and French) alternative and counterculture, all in gonzo. (www.thedosemag.com)