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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Post-Punk Explosion Part 5: Goth
Description: On April 10, 1815, a volcano erupted in the central part of the Indonesian archipelago…Mount Tambora blew up, ejecting nearly 200 cubic kilometres of debris into the atmosphere…all that dust circled the earth, blocking out a significant amount of sunlight…
That blockage was so severe that the average temperature dropped almost a full degree…the result was that 1816 has gone down in history as “the year without a summer”…
There were food shortages and famines and outbreaks of disease…and not only was it cold, but huge storms battered much of Europe…
That summer, four artsy types w...