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The Lure of the Dark

Included in this post is a very concise and highly personal list of definitive landmark albums of the Wave Gothic sound (with accompanying YouTube videos).

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Striking Lebanese songstress to perform in Leipzig, May 21

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Yasmine Hamdan is a woman that gave blood to many a vampire-enthusiast’s heart with her cameo appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive. She’s quite an impressive woman, that Yasmine. It’s the self-assured (and very gorgeous) appearance in Jarmusch’s ode to darkness that lets her take center stage just when she starts to sing.

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Leipzig Events: Strassenfest goes West

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It's Straßenfest season here, it seems! After the Leipzig quarters of Reudnitz (east) and Südvorstadt (south) had their street festivals over the past few weekends, it's now the west side's turn. Georg-Schwarz-Straßenfest will take place along the street of the same name, which cuts from Leutzsch to the Lindenau area, all day Saturday, May 9.

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April 13: “Chicks on Swing” – KrystallPalast Variete #Leipzig

Auf Deutsch: “Lassen Sie sich von dem Alltag entführen und erleben Sie einen berauschenden Abend mit den Chicks on Swing! Sie sind echte Ladies und begeistern durch Charme, Witz und Leichtigkeit. Getrieben von der Sehnsucht, aus ihrem alltäglichen Leben etwas Außergewöhnliches zu machen, fanden drei faszinierende Frauen aus drei Nationen zueinander. Zusammen suchten sie nach

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Want to discover a new band?

If you want to be ahead of the crowd, you can go and check out Die DAMÄN before they become the next big thing. Because they could. Their sound, with Slavic, classical, Burlesque and rock influences, could very well catch on in artistically open-minded Leipzig.

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Mark your Leipzig arts calendar: Sofa Stories with singer, author, teacher (March 15)

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The life story of Naomi Susan Isaacs sounds a bit like a music biopic, except she has done lots of other things besides singing and playing music throughout her life, and didn’t end up in Motown. Naomi was born in post-World War II London, the daughter of a pianist and ballet dancer with strict rules about musical consumption (classical

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