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The new album from trio Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and Diva Dompe as Poptone, appropriately titled Poptone LP is being released on Cleopatra Records on June 8 of this year! You definitely don’t want to miss the band’s new tour promoting the former Bauhaus members’ latest release. You can pre-order

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In 1587, a book was published anonymously that retold the tales of great storied wizards such as Merlin and Albert Magnus, and attributed them to a man named Faust and his demon sidekick Mephistopheles. These stories were narrated humorously at Faust’s expense, but Mephistopheles was described in a more fiendish