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Ian Joseph 🦇 Vamp Daddy
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🦇Spooky Nerd 👻👽🎃
🦇Writer/blogger 📝☠️🚀
🦇DJ 👻🎵
🦇Bass Player The Waning Moon 🎸🎼🎵

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Ian Joseph 🦇 Vamp Daddy @djvampdaddy.bsky.social · Jun 27
The Twilight Tone is now officially launched. Two posts up:

🦇 Welcome to the Twilight Tone
🦇 Growing Up Goth in a Small Town

If you like dark music, weird essays, haunted space stations, eyeliner in fluorescent hallways... you'll feel at home.

Tap the link in my bio. Come join the transmission.
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Clout chasing is loud. Cool is quiet.

New on The Twilight Tone: on geek fandom, goth, and why authenticity still matters.

💀 Cool Without Clout
thetwilighttone.com/2025/10/16/c...

Be the signal, not the noise.
Cool Without Clout: Why Authenticity Beats Algorithms
The text critiques clout chasing in contemporary subcultures, highlighting the tension between authenticity and performance. It discusses how both goth and geek scenes face gatekeeping and superfic…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Wednesday Season 2, Part II is a gothic feast that forgot its recipe — stunning to look at, uneven to taste.

Full review up now on The Twilight Tone.

🦇 Read: thetwilighttone.com/2025/10/05/w...
💭 Thoughts: Has Wednesday’s world lost its bite or just its focus?
Wednesday Season 2, Part II: A Fever Dream That Lost Its Way
Wednesday Season 2, Part II offers visually captivating imagery but struggles with a convoluted narrative and pacing issues. While standout performances from Gwendoline Christie and Evie Templeton …
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October 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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🕯️⚰️ CRYPT: Live at ManRay 🕯️⚰️

Recorded September 3rd in Cambridge, MA — a night of goth, post-punk, darkwave & industrial.

Now streaming on Mixcloud → www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/www/

Thanks again to ManRay and DJ Arcanus for opening the crypt once again. 🖤
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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She Past Away under blood-red lights. We suffered gladly. 🦇
Forever Grey and @pilgrimsband.bsky.social set the stage — perfect night at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA.
September 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Goth isn’t neutral, and never has been. From Bauhaus to Alien Sex Fiend to today’s festivals, politics are woven into the subculture’s sound.
New on The Twilight Tone: Is Goth Political? Why the Subculture Has Never Been Neutral
🔗 thetwilighttone.com/is-goth-poli...
Is Goth Political? Why the Subculture Has Never Been Neutral
Online debates may argue otherwise, but in the clubs and at festivals, goth still gathers as it always has — loud, visible, and alive. It has never been neutral, and it never will be.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Late night post turned into a Saturday morning read: my review of Wednesday Season 2, Part 1.
Gothic vibes? Spot on. The writing? Less so.

Full review 👉 thetwilighttone.com/2025/08/16/w...
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Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 Review: Goth Atmosphere, Netflix Bloat
Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 dazzles with Tim Burton’s gothic aesthetic but falters in narrative focus, becoming cluttered with side quests. Jenna Ortega’s performance stands out, yet rem…
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August 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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🦇 Tonight — Dead Beats Broadcast from the Crypt
Darkwave • Goth • Post-Punk
🎧 9 PM EST
📡 twitch.tv/vampdaddy

See you in the fog.
August 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Ghost Signal Pt. II – Blood in the Reverb

New mix now streaming: heavy goth rock, death rock, and post-punk.

🎧 Full mix + tracklist: www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/pop/

#TheTwilightTone #GothRock #deathrock #DeadBeats #GothDJ #PostPunk
The Twilight Tone: Ghost Signal Pt. II – A Reawakening in Fog & Static
The pulse intensifies. Ghost Signal Pt. II is the second transmission in The Twilight Tone: Broadcast series—recorded live on Dead Beats and now resurrected through Mixcloud. This chapter leans harde...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Goth isn’t a look. It’s a sound.

Wrote about what still connects this subculture across time and continents—bands, basslines, and the beat that haunts the club floor.

Curious? thetwilighttone.com/2025/08/02/g...

What’s in your headphones lately?

#goth #darkwave
Goth Is a Feeling: Why It’s the Sound, Not the Look, That Defines the Subculture
Goth is a subculture with a reputation. It’s the black eyeliner, the cemetery photo shoots, the dramatic fashion. It’s the Halloween memes, the TikToks, the endless “goth aesthetic” Pinterest board…
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August 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Black Mirror didn’t invent dystopia, it inherited it.
New post up now on The Twilight Tone exploring how anthology TV went from Twilight Zone to tech terror.

🖤 Read it here: thetwilighttone.com/black-mirror...

#BlackMirror #TwilightZone #DigitalDread
Through the Screen, Darkly: Black Mirror and the Anthology Tradition
From The Twilight Zone to Tales from the Crypt, TV anthologies have explored cultural fears. Black Mirror carries that torch into our digital age—offering not just allegory, but autopsy.
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July 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The signal pulses again.

Ghost Signal Pt. I is now up on The Twilight Tone with 45 minutes of darkwave and goth rock, archived from a live Twitch set.

🎧 Listen + explore: thetwilighttone.com/soundtrack-t...

#TheTwilightTone #VampDaddy #GhostSignal #DeadBeats #Darkwave
Soundtrack the Void.
The Twilight Tone’s audio arm offers curated mixes and soundtracks catering to shadow dwellers, cosmic romantics, and nocturnal ravers. Handcrafted by Vamp Daddy, these audio experiences range from…
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July 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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After you read about Black Mirror, come soundtrack your own tech-fueled dystopia—I'm spinning goth/darkwave/post-punk on Twitch tonight.
🦇 9 PM ET. Dead Beats begins.
📺 twitch.tv/vampdaddy
July 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"Edward Scissorhands" hit different when you were the weird kid in a pastel suburb.

Wrote about how that movie mirrored my teen years and shaped goth culture.

Scars, softness, and scissors:
www.thetwilighttone.com/edward

#EdwardScissorhands #GothCulture #TimBurton #AltCinema
How Edward Scissorhands Defines the Outsider Experience
Edward Scissorhands wasn’t just a movie I loved as a teenager—it was a mirror. A strange, gothic reflection of everything I felt but couldn’t say. In this personal essay, I explore how Tim Burton’s…
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July 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Dead Beats
Goth. Post Punk. Darkwave. New Wave.
Streaming live on Twitch at 8PM EST.
Dress code: virtual mesh, eyeliner, and bad intentions.
📡 twitch.tv/djvampdaddy

#NowPlaying #GothOnTheNet #VampDaddyLive
July 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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New post on The Twilight Tone:

10 Goth Albums That Could Totally Score a Sci-Fi Film

From haunted synths to post-punk atmospheres.
For sad robots and lost transmissions.

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#goth #scifi #musicblog #darkwave
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Strange stories. Dark sounds. One tone.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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The Twilight Tone is now officially launched. Two posts up:

🦇 Welcome to the Twilight Tone
🦇 Growing Up Goth in a Small Town

If you like dark music, weird essays, haunted space stations, eyeliner in fluorescent hallways... you'll feel at home.

Tap the link in my bio. Come join the transmission.
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Had a wonderful time spinning for the Bestial Mouths show hosted by @darkspringboston.bsky.social . Here's what I played between bands.
March 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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In like 75 years, ghosts are gonna be insane. Your kid running in your room at 2am screaming that a man in a red baseball cap zoomed through his room drinking a beer on a riding scooter and disappeared through the wall.
March 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I've studied history & I've kept up with current global affairs. Never in my life did I think I would see a display on the world stage like today's meeting between Zelensky & Trump. Board room negotiating does NOT work in geo-political scenarios.
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Elon Wormtongue
February 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Spinning in Providence, RI last week was a great temprorary escape from everything happening in the world. Here's what I spun at Procession.
February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Picking up more new follows and friends. Hope you're ready for my weirdness.
January 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Absolutely loved Star Wars "Skeleton Crew" up until the ending. Like, what was that?
a picture of a skeleton crew character with the words like what below him
ALT: a picture of a skeleton crew character with the words like what below him
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January 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Watching the new DCU's "Creature Commandos" over breakfast has been giving me the same joy and giddiness as watching "The Superfriends" back when I was 8 years old.
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM