Saturday, October 31, 2020
Happy Halloween!
Friday, October 30, 2020
1 More Day 'til Halloween
Chock this up to unexpected. I finished my movie last night and sat down at my computer, only to stumble into a premiere for the first single from the upcoming first Remix album from Deftones - Black Pony. This is for the 20th Anniversary of their seminal album White Pony, which will always be special to me because it's where I began following the band. I'm not really one for remix albums, but this version of Knife Party - done by Purity Ring no less, a group I was briefly obsessed with during the later half of the 00s - is pretty fantastic on headphones. I'll definitely be giving the entire Black Pony a spin when it drops.
31 Days of Halloween:
NCBD
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Meg Myers - SorryThursday, October 29, 2020
2 More Days 'til Halloween
LA band PLaNETS is doing a special Halloween show on Youtube this Friday at 9:00 LALA Land time and I'm going to try and 'be there.' I only know one of their records, 2012's The Dark Woods, but it's a favorite. They'd fallen off my radar for quite some time and it was only last week that I broke out the album and then went digging around online for updates on them - their name makes them kind of hard to find stuff about. At any rate, I found their youtube, subscribed, and it was totally fortuitous because now I have this awesome virtual gig to look forward to!
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Deftones - White PonyWednesday, October 28, 2020
3 Days 'til Halloween
New John Carpenter album? Yes please!
31 Days of Halloween:
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Meg Myers - SorryCard:
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
4 Days 'til Halloween
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Monday, October 26, 2020
5 Days 'til Halloween
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The Sisters of Mercy - FloodlandSunday, October 25, 2020
Sunday Bandcamp: Void Vision
Philadelphia's Void Vision is a perfect addition to the Halloween playlist I've been listening to and refining all month. The synths sound like spiderwebs, and Shair Vari's (see what they did?) voice doesn't so much inhabit the songs as it does haunt them. The drums have that vintage 80s electro sound that serves as the crimson icing on the proverbial black cake. You can support them and buy the album HERE.