Cult of Youth - NYC postpunk/neo-folk - this Thursday August 4 at 31st St Pub

[Manny Theiner]

If you are still part of the Pittsburgh goth-industrial scene after all 
this time, then you know where the 31st Street Pub is.

It's the venue that the remainder of the scene has coalesced around, 
thanks to Jim Semonik's amazing streak of great goth/industrial shows.
His herculean efforts will continue there unabated.

Now all you need to do is find out who Cult of Youth is, so you can 
come and see them this Thursday there.

Here's the raw info:

Sacred Bones / Dais Records recording artists
CULT OF YOUTH
http://www.myspace.com/cultofyouthband
with special guests Zeitgeist and Presidio
Thu Aug 4  10 pm   $7   21+
31st Street Pub, 3101 Penn Avenue

Who are Cult of Youth? Strictly put, they are a New York City band who 
are part of the newer scene of "dark music" in that city.
They incorporate equal elements of postpunk (Joy Division, earlier 
Death in June) with dark neo-folk (later Death in June, etc)
and throw in some other influences such as Turkish psych. If you check 
out their Myspace, you will see that they've already played shows
with industrial legends such as Non (Boyd Rice).

The frontman of the group was the leader of former K Records band Love 
as Laughter. But don't let that throw you, because their current 
associations are
more important. Firstly, their debut record was released by Dais 
Records, an American label that can be seen as the US equivalent of a 
World Serpent or a Tesco.
Dais is known primarly for two things: putting out the first 7-inch by 
famed NYC dark synth-rockers Cold Cave (who since signed to Matador, 
and played the Brillobox to a packed crowd several months ago), and 
putting out an album by Coum Transmissions - the pre-Throbbing Gristle 
performance art group which involved Genesis P-Orridge.

Then, Cult of Youth's full album came out on Sacred Bones Records. 
Sacred Bones, with its easily recognizable logo of the Ouroboros around 
a black triangle,  is considered a very hip new label that issues 
mostly new postpunk and garage lo-fi bands. It's part of a klatch of 
very personal boutique labels all run by associates
of the Brooklyn-based Academy Records store - the other labels are 
Minimal Wave, Dark Entries, and Wierd Records. All of these labels do 
new and reissued
releases of coldwave, synthwave and dark rock/postpunk bands. You won't 
find information about these labels in goth-industrial stores because, 
frankly, the G/I scene isn't clued-in enough to know about them, and 
most of the records come out on vinyl only. Instead you will find these 
fantastic releases at knowledgeable indie stores such as Polish Hill's 
own Mind Cure Records (which is where I bought my Bleasure Grave and 
Martial Canterel records, among others).

So, anyway, Cult of Youth is great postpunk/neo-folk, so if you like 
stuff like Joy Division and Death in June you will be in for a treat. 
And they are way cool
by association. Win win. Hope to see you on Thursday at the Pub!

-mt
412-361-2262