It's time to dig into the mailbag on the latest episode of We Have A Techincal! Idieyoudie.com's readers and listeners have sent questions which range from the curatorial to the ethical to the decidedly personal. The Senior Staff are taking up each of these questions plus discussing the recent Drew McDowall show on this week's episode of the podcast that Considers Darker Alternatives.

It's another doozy of a Pick Five episode on We Have A Technical! This week, Bruce and Alex are picking "secret weapons" from their DJ arsenals. From swooning chill-outs to ferocious EBM bangers, the Senior Staff are highlighting left field tunes which never miss on the dancefloor. There's also some discussion on the forthcoming Drew MacDowell show, plus an upcoming mailbag episode!

The first LP in the storied and long-standing collaboration between cEvin Key and Edward Ka-Spel gets the blow by blow treatment on this month's episode of We Have A Commentary! Yes, we're talking about The Tear Garden's "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning", and all of the psychedelic ephemera which accompanies it. How did Skinny Puppy's famed brap ethos manifest in Mushroom Studios? Who was wandering in and out of the sessions? What narrative forms does Edward keep returning to and why? All these questions and more are taken up in the latest edition of our Patreon supported commentary podcast series!

The classic We Have A Technical format gets a nostalgic twist, as Bruce and Alex are each picking gateway records which helped usher them into darker music...even if Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" and The Tea Party's "Splendor Solis" had more in common with metal and blues-rock. How do these tentative first steps into industrial and goth rock hold up more than two decades on? Find out, plus get the latest on live show announcements and plenty more on this week's episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

The broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival of it in the early aughts, up to the present groundswell in underground post-punk, the Senior Staff are hailing the best and jeering the worst of a nebulous, but often sombre style.

The Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italodisco confectionary of Syrian's "Death Of A Sun". Also, on a more sombre note, they discuss remembrances of Jeremy Inkel of Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly after his tragic and all too early passing.

On this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance we were super interested to hear about what went into his terrific new album "American Carrion". We talk politics, anger, Caustic's place in industrial and a little about hot new beat project Klack, along with news about Mechanismus Festival and the dissolution of Tactical Sekt, all this week on We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast!

On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-up of the band is instructive, in that it threads the origins of the group in the wave scene with distinctly industrial aesthetics. We discuss both how it foreshadows The Klinik's later work, and what is specifically unique about them at this early juncture. All this month on We Have a Commentary, an I Die: You Die bonus podcast.

We talk post-2000 Kirlian Camera on the second 2018 episode of We Have a Technical! Yes, Bruce and Alex chew over what exactly Elena brought to the table and how it changed KC, along with Angelo's enduring lyrical themes and how regal and magesterial the band has become over their last four albums. Where else are you gonna find that kind of discussion?

Back in action, the Senior Staff return from the holidays refreshed and ready to talk about the releases which lie just ahead in the early months of 2018, plus some family friendly faves they like to spin around the holidays. It's 2018, and I Die: You Die's champing at the bit!