If you lived through the electro-industrial revolution of the late ’80s and early ’90s — or even if you just happen to like music that’s rasping, mechanical and oddly hypnotic — mark your calendars.

Listening to the pioneering 1980s industrial rock band KMFDM today, it sounds like the electronic equivalent of roots rock. The band used then-new technology to create straightforward blasts of sounds ...

Debby Friday kicks off the title track that opens her debut album, Good Luck (Sub Pop), with a fiery declaration: “Get it while it’s hot!” The Nigerian-born, Toronto-based artist sounds commanding ...

Industrial music is such a vague, broad term. But in general, one might imagine a typical sound attached to it. Yet there are countless subgenres of Industrial, and the lines between these types of ...

Both solo and as a member of bands like Pigface and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Austin’s Curse Mackey is a notable modern figure in industrial music. But what Orlando should remember about him ...

Front Line Assembly is part of what is arguably the greatest electronic industrial music tour in years. Alongside Skinny Puppy, Haujobb and Youth Code, FLA will take the stage this Friday, December 12 ...

Electronic music returns to its ancestral home on November 15, when Brattleboro welcomes Circuits in the Woods.

There are few greater touchstones of industrial music than Ministry. Even after 40 years, Al Jourgensen and company are still a creative locomotive, arriving this time fresh on the fire of a brand-new ...

Josie Pace performs at Small’s Bar on Friday, which she considers her “home base.” Credit: Courtesy photo Mohawked musician Josie Pace stays busy. So far this year she dropped a debut record IV0X10V5 ...

If you’re a rock band, here’s a review of your music that you never want to read: “Canadian electro-industrial music genre pioneers, Skinny Puppy, recently found out their music was used to torture ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...