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...

  I have to say, while holding Dreamkid's retro 80s synthwave sound at arm's length for well over a year, I think I've finally s...

  The final track on the band's 1985 album The Head On the Door . Such a great outro to an album that goes through all kinds of emotiona...

Maladies by EROSION CYCLE While you listen to the wonderful opening track from Erosion Cycle's 2015 Maladies - available on...

  Yeah, I'm a little hung up on Heroes lately. Love this track; there's something about it that nods toward Scary Monsters (and Supe...

  Being that David Bowie was not only born but also took his exit from our Planet on this week, I'm doing another edition of David Bowie...

  Flew into Chicago Midway this past Friday. Always amazing to be in Chicago, more  so now that I live so close. I flew back out three days ...

  I completely forgot the new Carpenter Brut dropped earlier this month! Thankfully, a message from my good friend Jacob reminded me, and, a...

  I'm not going to be able to really celebrate until Saturday, but in the meantime, there's Pogues and Guinness. Watch: ...

New video from Dance with the Dead, and it's really cool! I love the floating first-person perspective used to zoom along deserted, di...

A little Bowie to start things off today, because I'm missing his presence in the world a great deal at the moment. Watch:...

Man, this could not come at a better time! I cannot wait for weekly event viewing with Mr. Briggs. ** I've been on a reading tear....

As usual, Brooklyn Vegan has been killing it on curation and content during these trying times. THIS article, posted Wednesday, 3/18, run...

Last night Bohren and Der Club of Gore released a music video - really a short film - for "Deine Kusine," the fifth track off th...