music and tales
Well THIS is interesting. Today we feature neo-cabaret artists Mister Joe Black, whose brand of dark, dolly-watching-you-while-you-sleep-and-grinning kind of cabaret is filled with personality, wit, and weirdness. “The neo-vaudevillian, the real life Disney villain, the gin-addled courtesan, the anti-christ of […]
Today we’re going to feature “neo cabaret” singer/songwriter Jilll Tracy. A sultry alto voice nevertheless evokes the ghost in your grandmother’s victrola. The music is alway elegant, yet always with a touch of sinister. This first song is Evil Night […]
The short novel ‘Goodbye To Berlin’ by Christopher Isherwood, usually published together with his other short novel ‘Mr. Norris Changes Trains’ as The Berlin Stories, is one of the most celebrated books written about the Weimar era, that classic explosion […]
One of the greatest explosions of creativity in the 20th century, and some would argue, ever, occured in Germany between the end of WWI and the rise of Hitler in 1933. It was called the Weimar era after the city […]
In the genre of Dark Cabaret, these guys are the one eyed, alcoholic, prostitute pimping, donkey show organizing Fathers of the genre. They’ve been around since 1989, before the 1990s neo burlesque scene and the post 2000 coinage of the […]
Just fyi, i finished the music for the first act last night. But since i won’t be posting anything on that today, let’s take a look at another awesome Dark Cabaret band. Birdeatsbaby is self described as alt-classical-prog-punks, the description […]
Vermillion Lies is a sister act made up of Zoe and Kim Boekbinder. They, to quote, “have spent their lives honing their craft at clown boot camp and the local dump, where they found their favorite instruments like toy piano, […]