Steampunk

Steampunk is a genre of fiction, art, design, and music which tends to draw from Victoriana and steam-based tech and industrialism with some gothic influences. Some bands, and solo artists like to attribute its aesthetics to their music, either through visual, musical, lyrical, or thematic influences. Edit this Artist photo: Abney Park

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Feb 5 Friday 5 February 2010
Wonderland: A Tim Burton Ball at DNA lounge Abney Park, Vagabondage	DNA lounge San Francisco CA, United States 37.770984 -122.412736	1 person attending Add shout
Feb 6 Saturday 6 February 2010
The Tiny Tin Hearts & Two Star Symphony in Houston at Rudyard's The Tiny Tin Hearts, Two Star Symphony	Rudyard's Houston, Tx, Houston, United States 29.749886 -95.396551	3 people attending Add shout
May 28 Friday 28 May 2010
World Steam Expo at Hyatt Regency Dearborn Abney Park, The Extraordinary Contraptions, Tartanic	Hyatt Regency… Dearborn, MI, United States	2 people attending Add shout

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saturninedream wrote:
Thursday morning

Nobody or nothing said or implied that. Now would you please stop being a gaudy know-it-all?

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Alby_ wrote:
29 days ago

goth? Steampunk got nuffin to do with that... Steampunk is Steampunk!

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VernianProcess wrote:
November 2009

Our album Behold the Machine is finally finished. You can hear it and d-load tracks here: http://www.last.fm/music/Vernian+Process/Behold+The+Machine+LP/Behold+the+Machine

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loco_loki wrote:
October 2009

Hi there ;) check it out http://www.lastfm.pl/group/Wolsung Wolsung: Magic of the Steampunk Age, first polish steampunk RPG.

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leapetra wrote:
October 2009

Just like goth you are going to get bands that are on completely opposite ends of the spectrum, but still labeled goth. Such as Type o Negative and Bauhaus are both labeled goth but sound nothing alike. Same with steampunk. You can't say Dr. Steel is what Steampunk should sound like, then ignore the rest of the bands. Steampunk is defined more than by what you hear. It's the whole package,

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wickedthoughtzz wrote:
October 2009

http://www.tsdf.net/news/news2008.htm

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NewVictorians wrote:
October 2009

I like my Steampunk with a smidgen of Dark Cabaret and two lumps of Victorian era soundtrack style Dark Ambient. I find it helps to set the mood and keep from all sounding the same.

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Chromanin wrote:
September 2009

@cogsturning: Flaming posts about personal taste are very productive indeed.

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VernianProcess wrote:
August 2009

Steampunk is so last year. It's all about the Steamwave now baby... oh yeah! :P

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Dreadful_Hours wrote:
August 2009

@dman762000, Goth Rock started out solely as a musical genre from post-punk, with bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie, The Cure, etc... It was later, when taking various aesthetic and culturar influences "Goth" became the movement we know nowadays.

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cinnamonghoul wrote:
July 2009

Why is there no splatter punk?

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cogsturning wrote:
July 2009

@theclockworkdol - ive listened to at least 50 artists who either call themselves steampunk or are called it by others and i still think its mostly crap. for whatever reason, too much of it is just bad industrial/darkwave with some steampunkish lyrics. the only artists that i think succeed are the old timey style ones, and the ones that go with non-electronic elements. its the goth crossover element that i think hurts this subgenre heavily, it stands much better without help from that lot.

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VernianProcess wrote:
July 2009

Actually EMO started out with bands like Rites of Spring in the mid-80's. Even early Fugazi would fall into that classification. It wasn't until the late 90's where anything that came out with whiny vocals and a "post-hardcore" sound got labelled as EMO. Steampunk on the other hand did not originate in music, unlike EMO.

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DatenshiUmbra wrote:
June 2009

If you cannot classify music as steampunk then you can't classify it as emo either. I don't think emo originated as a music genre but look how widely that's used.

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Wulfric666 wrote:
June 2009

Steampunk makes me very, very happy.

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theclockworkdol wrote:
June 2009

I believe that folks who are putting this new umbrella term for all of our unique and eccentric styles down have not given the bands who choose to use this term to describe their music a chance. Before you pass judgment I highly encourage you to listen to more than one band and savor the variety of styles that are out there, this is not a genre in a conventional sense.

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Keltenfee wrote:
June 2009

It´s so great!!!

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cogsturning wrote:
May 2009

its a shame that almost all the artists that overdue this aesthetic suck.

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LaLunaLupe wrote:
May 2009

Steampunk amazes me.

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VernianProcess wrote:
April 2009

So "JonnyPoker" I take it you didn't read the description of the tag? Because it says right there that Steampunk is NOT a genre of music. It is an artistic aesthetic that can be applied to many things from Literature, Art, Film, Games, and yes even Music.

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