Happy Halloween

My favorite Halloween song.

Hell Yeah New Mogwai!!!

No, not from Hoyt Axton for an early Christmas present, but from the awesome Scottish band! Via Brooklyn Vegan who has the new album's full track list and other essentials right HERE!

George A. Romero's Season of the Witch

Whoah! The previous post turned my train of thought to other 70's, witchy movie-related tunes and of course Donovon's Season of the Witch and its use in George A. Romero's largely unknown classic of the same name sprang to mind. When I popped over to the youtubes to look for said song imagine my surprise when I noticed that the entire freakin' movie was on there! Now, I don't own the rights and as usual I implore you to buy this is if you dig it, but it's up there and a lot of folks don't know about it and it's almost Halloween, so when you get a minute, sit down and thrill to the domestic witchery of a lost Romero gem!!!

Dead Man's Bones - In The Room Where You Sleep

This is a pretty freakin' creepy song as it is, even without my now associating it with James Wan's The Conjuring.

A friend turned me onto these guys briefly several years ago but they never made it into my rotation. Going to have to change that I think.

RIP Lou Reed

What more do you need to say about Lou Reed after listening to Metal Machine Music?

Nothing. Rest in Peace sir, rest in peace.

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing

My friends Chris and Tori are geniuses at unearthing good metal. It's not their only interests, but there's just a rare knack for curation that has brought me hours and hours of enjoyment. Case in point - about six months ago they burned me a spindle of CD's that I am still making my way through. Today, fresh from a week in Chicago where I hung with them for several days, I popped on another disc from that seemingly endless spindle (a good thing). Black Breath - Heavy Breathing grabbed me from the opening bellow and did not let go. Here's that opener, Black Sin (Spit on the Cross) followed by another track I really dug, Children of the Horn. As per my creed, what I dig I try to buy, so I'm planning ordering both Heavy Breathing (2010) and it's 2012 follow-up Sentenced to Life, both on the always fantastic Southern Lord Records.



Also I can't help but remark that I was not surprised to find that Black Breath are from Washington state. As I fall further and further down my current Laird Barron spiral a lot of disparate elements seem to be aligning across some kind of giant, Washington-flavored pentacle.

image courtesy of thestranger.com

Vintage Trouble

How the hell is this not the biggest band in the world? Seriously, I had never heard of these guys until my good friend Anthony (of Bittersweet & The B-Sides) told me about them yesterday. Said I'd fall in love the second I watched this clip.

He called that one.