Sandrider - Godhead

Last week Invisible Oranges debuted "Gorgon", a new song by Seattle band Sandrider. I missed this, caught it with the Brooklyn Vegan re-post this morning when I woke up hung over and needing something get the sludgified blood of three days of Chicago food - beef sandwiches and pizza and hot dogs and Goose Island beer - moving first thing on a Tuesday. Not only did Gorgon do the trick before I'd even had any coffee, I moved around and found some other tracks that tell me A) this is an album that needs to be purchased IMMEDIATELY for my constant listening pleasure and B) this is going to be big.

Above is Sandrider playing a full set compliments of Seattle's KEXP - a fantastic radio station that has some great streaming available. However, I strongly recommend hitting either that IO or BV link above and hearing the studio version of Gorgon, along with all other pertinent information about Godhead, due 11/19 on Good to Die Records. Kinda feeling about Sandrider the way I felt about High on Fire and Trailer Hitch the first time I heard them back in the day...

Tomorrow...

The Conjuring on DVD

Evolution of a post - Tower of Silence

This began with me hitting up my favorite music blog Heavenisanincubator - something I haven't had the time to do in what feels like forever. Anyway, posted up top on the site was a link to Jezzebeam - a gloomy, experimental group I totally loved. This got me thinking of something I'd heard about recently from someone - I opened another window while Jezzebeam played and went to my second favorite music site, Brooklyn Vegan. I'm sitting in Chicago, drinking cup after cup of a really great Earl Grey tea, getting overly caffeinated and dealing with some personal stuff.

Anyway...

BV has a link up to info about the new album coming from Kauan - who like Jezzebeam I know absolutely nothing about. The album artwork grabbed me right away - case in point:

image courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan & Invisible Oranges.com

See? So I open another window and look Kauan up and find next to no additional information save for the original Invisible Oranges that the BV article references. Then what follows catches my eye and I'm both chilled and blown away. Perhaps it's all the Laird Barron I've been reading - his newest collection of short stories, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All is seriously the best short Horror fiction I've ever read - but while this report borders on the areas of human darkness I usually cannot traffic this is actually making my creativity really come on line. Good thing - about to attempt to pick-up some footage that should help me finish the second video by my long-distance music project The Forest Children. And it's some dark stuff, so this is the raw material to fan those flames.

Oderus Urungus Reads Goodnight Moon

Via Loud Wire. This is fantastic. Thank you to my friend John for throwing this up on his fb page.

Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr + Linnea Quigley

Night of the Demons. The original. Best line, "I've never done it in a coffin before." This movie rules but it has seemed very had to come by the last few years. The one copy Netflix has is scratched and doesn't play (I've gotten it twice I think, both times unable to finish it). There's a remake that is - of course - unnecessary. This is the pure 80's horror sweet spot - written to be both funny and horrific. Makes a very nice companion piece to Return of the Living Dead, another film featuring arguably the greatest B-movie scream queen, Linnea Quigely. And of course, this is one of the most awesome songs ever recorded.

Goblin!!!

Claudio Simonetti and the Goblin crew are responsible for some of the greatest horror soundtracks of all time. Goblin surprised everyone by touring this year - first ever North American dates. And available at those gigs? A limited edition vinyl EP wherein they have re-recorded four classic pieces: Profondo Rosso (Deep Red), Roller (Non-ST track), Suspiria and Tenebre. I was unable to obtain tickets to the LA show but my good friends Chris and Tori attended the Chicago show (with Secret Chiefs opening!!!) and grabbed me a copy of the record! So psyched. Thanks guys.

Interview w/ the Creators of Indie comic RUIN

My interview with the creators of the RUIN comic, Darkersho and Ruben Rojas in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup.