Shawn C. Baker

Recently, I was back in Chicago for my good friend and Horor Vision cohost Professor John Trafton's Moving Histories Panel at the Societ...

As an addendum to Bowie Week, I discovered this Danny Lohner remix of Bring Me the Disco King last night and wanted to post it here. I'...

  From sElf's 1999 masterpiece Breakfast with Girls , which has been in regular rotation at our house of late. Driving back from Chicago...

  I drove into Chicago over the weekend and saw The Raveonettes play the Bottom Lounge on Monday night. The video above is from George Dever...

  Yesterday marked the 22nd anniversary of Type O Negative's World Coming Down . I can still remember driving to Threshold Music in Tinl...

As the Ghosts Collect, the Corpses Rest by PLAGUE BRINGER   Fell back into Chicago's super underrated industrial grindcore masters Plagu...

A couple of night ago in the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago, some dear friends hosted a party in mine and K's honor. During this event, ...

Friday, December 14th: Deer Valley Lodge, Wisconsin. Woke up at roughly 8:00 AM and was moved to put this song on. I've posted Synch...

After a conversation with a friend, I'm really re-assessing this year's return of the band Daughters. Here's some live footage...

I'm doing Thursday's post on Wednesday night because I'm up and off to LAX early in the morning to fly to Chicago! Yay! A coup...

How do you get me to be excited about Sabrina, the Teenage Witch? One word: SATAN!!! Defying ALL fucking logic, I absolutely loved the...

One of the best songs of the 90s, hands down. I unexpectedly realized I still had one more 33 1/3 that Brown lent me to finish before my t...

Haunted by this song the last two days. It feels amazing to have something like this happen in the age of Apple Music, everything available ...

My friend Lee is in this movie. I haven't seen it yet, just heard about it tonight. Watched the trailer. It freaked me out. That...

Just started!

From my friend Chuck. Man, this makes me homesick times twenty.

I've been meaning to post this for a couple weeks now. MAN! When you're a musician there's nothing like the love and joy that ...

image courtesy of the band's Facebook WORLD TIMES for La Volt Live Stream but if you don't catch it, it will be archived!  LIV...

Heading out to LA's Echoplex to see Author & Punisher, Corrections House and Wrekmeister Harmonies in a little while. I had ne...

Ahhh Jucifer... I discovered them when I heard the track Amplifier on Chicago's St Xavier University radio station (that's 88.3 if...