The classic two albums format of the I Die: You Die podcast yields discussion of the first Dead When I Found Her LP and a distinctly European "Moonraker" compilation. How has Michael Arthur Holloway negotiated his debt to Skinny Puppy while developing his own style? How do European taxonomies of "wave" translate to a couple of North American listeners? The Senior Staff dog into these topics while getting accidentally swervy on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.        

The millenial (and curiously continental) stylings of US electro act cut.rate.box are discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. We also have a healthy helping of our mailbag to work through, and loads of live news. Tell your friends in the Stonecutters: this is a real royal sampler of an episode of the IDieYouDie.com podcast!

Mailbag time! Yep, we're crowdsourcing this week's episode of We Have A Technical, having asked folks to fire in queries both glib and philosophical dealing with the past and future of Our Thing. Which bands are being overlooked? Which side projects do we miss? And which pro wrestlers are fake goths? All that plus Cold Waves news on the new episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

Two classic 90s records on deck in this week's episode of the official podcast, in the form of Cubanate's "Cyberia" and Clan Of Xymox's "Hidden Faces". State of the art rage and finely crafted darkwave from a few decades on as we look backward on  each act and where the albums fit into their legacy. 

For the first We Have a Commentary of 2020, we're digging in on a genre classic that is both representative and wildly divergent from its parent discography; namely Fad Gadget's "Gag"! Thrill to the Senior Staff discussing themes and ideas in Frank Tovey's work, how his final FG LP cinches his status as an all-timer and lots of talk about what a smart producer and performer he was. 

Industrial music is often tagged as being angry or aggressive, but what does that actually mean? How does aggression manifest in different sub-genres? How do dancing, gender, and lyrics factor in? All these big questions plus some discussion of the ongoing Ministry debacle on this week's episode of We Have A Technical  

A rare Vancouver snow storm has the Senior Staff separated in meatspace, but that doesn't stop the podcastin'. Records turning twenty this year are on the table, with In Strict Confidence's Love Kills! and The Echoing Green's Supernova. There's also plenty of talk about the major North American tour announcements from both Ministry and Einsturzende Neubauten on this week's episode of the Internet's longest running vegan Canadian wrestling-friendly industrial music podcast.

Back in action in 2020 and back to Thursdays, it's the first We Have A Technical of the year! The Senior Staff are each picking five things they're looking forward to in the year ahead. Live events, release trends, new records: find out what's (likely) on the road ahead!  

Your boys Alex and Bruce find themselves at the end of a long grind of Year End coverage plus a slew of pre-recorded podcasts to last over the break...and are keen to talk about pretty much anything OTHER than darker alternatives. Yep, it's the annual Off Topic podcast here at We Have A Commentary, featuring all of the banter about comics, movies, life, books, whisky, watches, and pro wrestling which is always at the periphery of regular episodes. It's sloppy, it's indulgent, it's therapeutic (at least for us).

Hot on the heels of our traditional Year End Top 25, the Senior Staff chops up their choices, talks some honourable mentions and ruminates on the year that was 2019. Insights into our review process, whether our mode of thinking about what constitutes an eligible release is still valid and various statistics from the last nine years of the exercise are discussed, dissected and eventually discarded. Also we get mildly tipsy. 

On the last standard issue podcast of the year, we're picking two 90s goth records by female fronted acts...who couldn't really be further apart other than those characteristics. The first record from Faithful Dawn lays down the template for the oft-forgotten electrogoth subgenre, and Miranda Sex Garden's most well-recognized LP points to intersections with broader 90s alt music as well as experimental composition. All that plus discussion of recent sets by She Past Away and Lingua Ignota on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

We've got an autobiographical-cum-historical Pick Five for you folks this week. What records took a while to reveal their charms to us? Which LPs were we either too provincial or too snobby to enjoy in their own time? We'll fill you in on that plus a recent show from Hide on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

This month's WHaC is a brief but absolutely frantic run through the roller coaster of emotions, impossibly catchy hooks, and grandiose symphonic ambitions of Kite's 2011 release, "IV". The Swedish duo have transcended synthpop both in terms of sound and reach, and their fourth EP acts nexus of all their sounds and moods, and is also an ideal jumping on point. Whether you're as much in thrall of their work as the Senior Staff, or are only passingly familiar with it, join us on this month's Patreon-supoorted bonus podcast.

It's November of 2019, and even if we're not in Los Angeles you'd better believe we're not missing the opportunity to discuss Blade Runner, arguably the film with the most influence on industrial music and culture. Which samples work and which don't? How does Chew's Eye Shop relate to William Burroughs' control machines? We have all the Blade Runner-themed industrial pontificating you never knew you wanted on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

We got a classic two album podcast for you this week, with the Senior Staff discussing the baroque technoid elegance of Architect's "Consume Adapt Create" and the chill genre pastiche of Snow In China's "Electromensch". Also: Brazilian drag queen covers of Front 242? We have you covered on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

Navel gazing ahoy! Our recent forays into both digital and physical releases, as well as recent discussion of high-level physical reissues, has us considering the distinctions between physical and digital releases in Our Thing. Nostalgia, economics, collecting and archiving are all taken up, along with some discussion of recent sets from Physical Wash and Statiqbloom on the lastest episode of We Have A Technical!

You couldn't find records much further apart from one another in terms of mood than Aghast View's "Carcinopest" and Displacer's "Cage Fighter's Lullaby", but that's what we're working with on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Deep genre electro-indistrial and fluidlly warming downtempo? We have you covered, along with some talk about recent Legendary Pink Dots shows and FLA reissues.

The Senior Staff have seen a hell of a lot of scene bands in their time, but even they still have their bucket list bands. This week, they're picking five acts they'd still love to see live, as well as introducing not one, but two new musical releases coming soon from the ID:UD camp. Exciting times lie ahead! Fins out all about then on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

2003's "Damaged" by Razed In Black is the subject of this month's Patreon backed and Patreon selected We Have A Commentary. A real "call Is coming from inside the house" record, RiB's unabashed blend of goth and industrial is very much both a product of its time and the vision of one writer and producer, Romell Regulacion. As it turns out, the Senior Staff have quite varied experiences with and opinions of the record, so gear up and be ready to head back to the futurepop-shocked club floors of the early aughts.

How does A Split Second's "...From The Inside" buck that band's reputation, and is The Legendary Pink Dots' "Nemesis Online" the perfect capper to their 90s period? We have opinions, to no one's shock, in a classic two albums episode of We Have A Technical. All that plus some discussion of the just announced Dead Can Dance tour and Throbbing Gristle reissues this week!

The Senior Staff break down the anatomy of a club night on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. From format to venue to promotions to DJs to audience, what makes a club night work or fail? Plenty of discussion on that, Pharmakon, deeply obscure US EBM, and the spotted legacy of Thee Temple of Psychick Youth on the latest episode of the IDieYouDie.com podcast.

Coming at you a day earlier than usual (and for the rest of the year), We Have A Technical is discussing a pair of record at opposite historical ends of goth rock, which may have some less than obvious connections to Our Thing: lié's Consent and Lene Lovich's Flex. Where do deathrock and riot grrrl blur together? How did camp theatricality influence pre-formalized goth? We have opinions about all these things and more, including some discussion of the new KMFDM record, on the latest episode of the I Die: You Die podcast.

On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we take on one of the best Vancouver albums of the last decade, synth-punky darkwave modern classic The Killing Scene by Animal Bodies. Personal reminiscences and observations about what makes the record special mix as we examine what has brought Bruce and Alex back to this obscure local classic time and again over the last 5 years! 

One half of the Senior Staff took in the four days of rivethead festivities in the Windy City this past weekend, Cold Waves Chicago! We have a full report on all the goings on from both the main stage and the after parties, and best of all we have interviews with the likes of Bootblacks, Chemlab, Twin Tribes, Andi Harriman, and Sean Payne. Whether you're looking to catch up on what you missed out on or are looking to relive all the Wax Traxy fun, this week's episode of We Have A Technical has you covered.

3Teeth's new record, Metawar, comes at an interesting time not only in the industrial metal act's still rising career, but also in the overall trajectory of that genre. Sometimes celebrated, sometimes maligned, its connections to industrial music and culture on the whole have waxed and waned over the decades. In lieu of a traditional review of Metawar, Bruce and Alex are using it as a jumping off point for considering all these issues on this week's episode of the podcast, along with plenty of live news and reports.

On this week's podcast two very different bands at very different times for Our Thing are discussed as the Senior Staff chat about albums by Linea Aspera and MOEV. All the banter and mildly drunk banter you've come to expect from the internet's premiere podcast on industrial and related genres, plus some discussion of the recently announced Bauhaus reunion show and our experience seeing Chicago's Wingtips! 

Alex and Bruce might be talking across purposes this week, but that doesn't stop the We Have A Technical express. They're each picking five intros...though they might have differing ideas as to what that means. All that plus a whole heap of live show news and reports on this week's episode of We Have A Technical.

The 275th episode of We Have A Technical snuck up on us, but we're rising to the challenge by throwing another impromptu rager, featuring folks working within and around the fringes of Our Thing musically and academically! Guests like Bess Lovejoy, Raws from Plack Blague, and Mildred Strange are bringing insight, class, and hopefully some munchies.

Klack's blend of throwback new beat and self-aware Hi NRG sounds seemed to emerge fully formed with the 2017 "Do You Klack?" EP. That's perhaps no surprise given the resumes of Eric Oehler and Matt Fanale who, in addition to having broad ranging histories in electronic music, have never been accused of underthinking their own work. So we thought that sitting down with the mid-western duo to get their thoughts on new EP "Introducing The 1984 Renault LeCar" wouldn't just yield some insights into their own working dynamic or the intricacies of making dance music about dance music, but would also yield some pretty great anecdotes. And we were right! So here's a rare artist-assisted episode of We Have A Commentary.

It's an accidentally Swedish-heavy episode of WHaT this week, as the Senior Staff discuss "Buried Again" by Colony 5 and "III" by Kite. We're kicking from post-futurepop to synthpop this week, along with some discussion of Odonis Odonis' new festival venture in Toronto, and Al Jourgenson's dalliances with David Hasselhoff. Bork bork bork!

It's still Terminus catch-up season here at the HQ, as we offer interviews with Neuroticfish and Pictureplane garnered from our weekend in Calgary. There's plenty on the table from artists who might be working in different styles but are brought together by Industrial Summer Camp. All that, plus some talk about a recent trad goth bonanza here in Vancouver on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

Terminus is in the can and we've got the ingredients list...or some such other terrible metaphor. The Senior Staff is breaking down all of the highlights from this year's installment of Industrial Summer Camp, with more than a little help from various friends of the site along the way. Buckle up for an extra-sized edition of We Have A Technical!

Okay we're gonna level with you: we recorded this episode with our pals from Talking to Ghosts and The Blood of Others like three weeks ago and don't remember a god damn thing about it. We might have talked about podcast stuff, but also about Michael and Wes have feelings about gallery shows and other alternate ways to present their music? Yes, that sounds right. Also, some talk re: the Severed Heads. It was pretty good probably, why not listen to it now?

The new record from Drab Majesty makes brings some interesting new sounds and moods to the dreamy gloom which was so finely honed on "The Demonstation". And as it happens, the Senior Staff have some varying opinions as to what new LP "Modern Mirror" portends, and they're hashing it out on the latest episode of We Have A Technical. We've also got last minute Terminus talk and news regarding the release of material from the infamous Nurse With Wound list.

An ur-source for goth music and thematics, The Virgin Prunes' "...If I Die I Die" is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary. The secrecy, world-building, and religious/mythic imagery of the record have made it a classic for a reason, and the Senior Staff are here to discuss all that and more! Crack a Guiness or pour yourself an absinthe and traipse through the stranger lands of The Virgin Prunes.

It's a Pick Five episode of We Have a Technical this week, as the Senior Staff chooses bands emblematic of I Die: You Die we think you should know. But this ended up being a super roaming episode, touching upon everything from PC Music to Virginia Woolf to Senor Cardgage. Stick with us, and we hope you find some new bands to check out!  

Avi Roig from Harsh R dropped by the old ID:UD HQ this past weekend in anticipation of his set at Vancouver's Body 2 Body Cascadian EBM showcase. We chatted with him about his roots in hardcore, the importance of minimalism, and just how freaking much Babyland rules. We've also got a breakdown of all of the sets from the aforementioned Body 2 Body, along with news about a far-reaching dark music event just announced for November in LA. It's this week's We Have A Technical: come on in, the water's fine!

I Die: You Die turned eight years old this past weekend, and in light of that we're using this week's episode to compare the sort of music the site covered in its infancy with what's on the table today. Bands, labels, club play: how does 2011 stack up to 2019? All that plus the latest on our patron saint Gary Numan and an upcoming Cascadian EBM showcase on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

In the same vein as last year's "Ain't It Dead Yet?" episode, this month's We Have A Commentary is a Rifftrax-style accompaniment to MInistry's 1990 tour video "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up". Cue the video up, crack a beer, and join the Senior Staff on the couch as they discuss how Ministry fit into the alternative boom of the early 90s, how the differing eras of Ministry's sound have (and have not) lent themselves to live performance, and the all-star cast of industrialists wrangled onstage. As always, this episode of We Have A Commentary is made possible with the generous supporters of our backers at Patreon.com.

Looping bass riffs are just about the only thing the two records we're talking about on this week's podcast have in common. Revolting Cocks' "Linger Fickin' Good" and Iron Curtain's "Desertion" are on the docket, along with the dissolution of Terminal Gods and some last minute additions to Terminus Festival. All the rivet news that's fit to blab about: that's our guarantee to you on We Have A Technical.

The rivet internets were all abuzz this week over Pitchfork's best industrial album's list, and we're certainly not afraid of tossing in our two cents on the subject. In addition to discussing the pros and cons of the list and the perspectives underlying it, we're talking about the broader attitudes and bblindspots often endemic to mainstream coverage of industrial music.

We're putting a new spin on a classic format with this episode of the podcast. Rather that LPs, we're picking two compilations to discuss - comps by Subconscious and X-IMG, to be precise. What happens when the Puppy clique goes dub? How many different paths to techno-body music are there? We have all that, plus some previews of forthcoming LPs by Numb and Hide on We Have A Technical!

Hooky Canadian new wave and dubious German EBM are taken up in in this two album episode of We Have A Technical. Cygnets' "Isolator" and Bigod 20's "Supercute" are discussed, along with some talk about The Cure's recent "Disintegration" shows...and somehow Canadian sci-fi author Spider Robinson as well? Not sure how that happened, but the latest episode of We Have A Technical is coming at you regardless!

What makes an artist name an album after a song, or vice versa? Does this one track manage to sum up all of the musical and thematic energy they've been mustering for over a year...or does it just look like a cool phrase on a tour poster? Either way, the Senior Staff are each picking five title tracks from releases in Our Thing this week. Factor in some talk about Rammstein's new provocative videos and you've got everything you could ask for from a new episode of We Have A Technical!      

An ahead of its time, genre-busting classic is the subject of this month's Patreon supported We Have A Commentary podcast! Haujobb's 1996 LP "Solutions For A Small Planet" was a landmark release not only for the German duo but for all of post-industrial music. How can we read the record's engagement with then still nascent net culture? How do its forays into electronic genres well beyond industrial hold up? There's so much to discuss with a record this rich and beloved, so join us, won't you?