To celebrate the release of a new album from Violet, we'd like to take a moment to look back on the development of an oft-neglected genre: Dark Wave.

An offshoot of the New Wave movement throughout Germany and the UK in the late '70s-'80s, Dark Wave involves macabre, fantastic, sorrowful, and generally "dark" themes, and as such is generally associated with traditional Gothic culture.

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BR549 aren't a country band, they're a country band. Allow me to explain. When you press play on a BR549 track, you're treating your ears to something they're never going to find on pop-influenced country radio. It's western swing, it's honky-tonk, it's rockabilly, it's neotraditional (a word I didn't even know existed until today).

With a career over a decade long and counting, BR549 have accumulated some phenomenal belt-notches. They've been featured in Rolling Stone, on the PBS show Austin City Limits, and have shared the stage with everyone from Bob Dylan to The Black Crowes to Brian Setzer.

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