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Gruesome ghouls and grisly ghosts, wretched souls and cursed hosts...   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE PRE-HALLOWEEN WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST! This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch), though you can also see Bobby "Boris" Pickett perform it live at Little Steven's Halloween a Go-Go 2005. The covers by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

THE SHAGGS: It's Halloween!

JIM CARROLL (deceased) sings about "People Who Died."

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is the all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

THE AQUARIUM SRUNKARDS HOW: The Halloween Edition, Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery . . .

52 HORROR RELEASES from the Free Music Archive.

HALLOWEEN A/V: The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," Echo & the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon,"  Santana's "Black Magic Woman", The Ramones' "Pet Sematary," Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare," Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Halloween," The Eagles' "Witchy Woman," Tegan & Sara's "Walking With a Ghost," Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand," AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck," Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell)," Tom Waits' "Cemetery Polka," The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein," and Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party."  And, of course... Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

THE ROLLING STONES' "Sympathy For The Devil" from the David Frost Show just plain amuses me. Monty Python makes much more sense when you know most of them once wrote for Frost.

WARREN ZEVON: A live trifecta of "Werewolves of London," "Excitable Boy" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

THOMAS DOLBY: How about the mad vibe of "She Blinded Me With Science"?

HENRI MANCINI: "Experiment in Terror." A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching "Creature Features" on WGN before it went superstation.

THE TIME WARP: Let's do it again.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Hunter Killer, which is currently scoring 31 percent; and Indivisible, which was not screened for critics.

AND NOW: A Sophisticated Man About Town. Super-duper.

GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS, from the Haunted Mansion.

"THRILLER": The original 13-minute Jacko classic, plus the filipino prisoners.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN is viewable online. The WaPo has 7 Things You Don't Know about the perennial Peanuts classic. Vox thinks it's a Christmas special. And master troll Andrew Stiles finds the whole thing very problematic.

15 FACTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN: I counted more than that.  AND FIVE THINGS you may not know about Halloween.

THE TOP 10 SCI-FI HORROR FLICKS, according to Forbes.

THE 25 SCARIEST OPENING SCENES in horror-movie history, according to The A/V Club.

WE THE PEOPLE, against the zombies.

DOCUMENTING MADNESS: The Making of The Shining. Directed by Vivian Kubrick.

IS FROZEN Disney's version of The Shining?

THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Ten minutes of unimaginable terror.

13 MUSICIANS recount paranormal experiences.

WAR of the WORLDS: All these decades years later, you can stream the infamous Orson Welles broadcast from the Internet Archive.

THE WILHELM SCREAM: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

31 CLASSIC HALLOWEEN TV EPISODES AND SPECIALS, according to Zap2It.

HOW TO CARVE YOUR PUMPKIN Using Power Tools.

HALLOWEEN: A Foodie History.

THE WEEKLY SUBSTANDARD Halloween Candy Draft is tremendous.  (NSFW content included)

THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN CANDY POWER RANKING, according to FiveThirtyEight.

DIED IN HOUSE: They're Heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeee...

THE 17 BEST HORROR FLICKS STREAMING NOW, according to Wired.

THE 100 BEST HORROR FILMS, compiled by TimeOut with assistance from filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker and Roger Corman to actors, academics and fans of scary movies including Simon Pegg, Kim Newman and Alice Cooper.

THE 100 GREATEST HORROR FILMS, according to IndieWire.

THE 25 BEST HORROR FILMS SINCE 2000, according to The A.V. Club.

THE BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE PAST 20 YEARS, according to Variety.

THE TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, according to the UAB Kaleidescope.

THE 15 SCARIEST FILMS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN, according to Variety, though I've seen Alice Sweet Alice.

10 SUPERNATURAL FILMS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED, according to Flavorwire.

THE 20 ESSENTIAL VAMPIRE MOVIES, according to Flavorwire.

23 UNUSUAL VAMPIRE VARIATIONS, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

THE 25 MOST RIDICULOUS Movies "Of The Dead."

14 MUSICIANS' ODD HALLOWEEN COSTUMES from 2014.

THE MOST MIND-BOGGLING "SEXY" COSTUMES of 2017.

END CAT: Jake receives transmissions from the future.

TIPS FOR FEAR-FREE PETS on Halloween.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME ADVICE for pets.

THE MOST POPULAR HOWLOWEEN COSTUMES for pets.

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Skiffle Players, Shame, Matthew Dear, Bob Mould, Elephants   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD covers "People Get Ready."

THE SKIFFLE PLAYERS (incl Cass McCombs) streams Skiff.

SHAME visits Morning Becomes Electric.

MATTHEW DEAR stops by WNYC Soundcheck.

BOB MOULD shares "Sunshine Rock."

ROYAL TRUX returns after 18 years with “Every Day Swan” and “Get Used To This.”

TYLER, THE CREATOR (and Danny Elfman) rework "You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch."

WILLIAM SHATNER & IGGY POP sing "Silent Night."

 

THE MENZIGERS share a seasonal video for "The Freaks."

ELVIS COSTELLO stops by World Cafe to talk about Look Now.

SUFJAN STEVENS: All 293 songs, ranked.

BLOC PARTY, ranked by NME.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at The Monkees' psychedelic pop ballad "Daydream Believer."

 

JENNIFER GARNER is dating businessman John Miller.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS is  lucky to have survived a secret addiction to opiates that began in the late '80s.

ARIANDE GRANDE & PETE DAVIDSON: Their loved ones are relieved they broke up.

JOHN MAYER has explored around 500 wonderlands, if you know what I mean and I think that you do.

THE JOKER casts Alfred and young Bruce Wayne.

DAVID SCHWIMMER responds to reports that Blackpool Police are hunting for suspect who "looks like Ross from Friends."

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO & MARTIN SCORSESE are officially reteaming for the feature adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon.

ED CATMULL: The president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios will step down from his current roles at the end of this year and stay on as an adviser through July 2019.

THE WIZ, AT 40: No film has uniquely defined black culture and shaped the framework of a musical genre quite like it.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN may get a reboot from the writers behind Deadpool and Zombieland.

 

ELEPHANTS charge at hunters after they shoot and kill a member of the herd in Namibia.

A PUPPY is saved from a flood, but not bey the idjit photographing it.

A GOLD-DIGGING DOG pretends to be a stray to get hamburgers from McDonald's.

A TROOP OF MONKEYS that stoned a man to death in northern India have presented police with a conundrum, as the victim’s relatives seek criminal charges against the “culprits.”

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Mountain Man, Ketch Secor, The Berries, Courtney Barnett, Ducks   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE OHIO PLAYERS are on "Fire." Over nine minutes, and just gets wackier.

MOUNTAIN MAN covers Kacey Musgraves, Neil Young, and Fiona Apple in a Lagniappe Session.

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW's Ketch Secor stops by World Cafe.

THE BERRIES advance stream Start All Over Again.

CHEVAL SOMBRE & DEAN WAREHAM cover The Magnetic Fields' “Grand Canyon.”

RYLEY WALKER covers the Dave Matthews Band's "Diggin' A Ditch."

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN returns with "Merrie Land."

 

COURTNEY BARNETT plays “Crippling Self Doubt And A General Lack Of Self Confidence” for Seth Meyers.

BEASTIE BOYS: Two surviving members of the band talk to The Guardian about writing a new memoir, their rollercoaster career and coming to terms with the loss of Adam Yauch.

TWENTY INSANELY GREAT FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS, according to NME.

TEN YEARS LATER: Paste's 40 Best Albums of 2008.

THE NUMBER ONES at the Strawberry Alarm Clock's giddy psych-pop nugget "Incense And Peppermints."

 

WONDER WOMAN 1984 has been pushed back seven months.

AMY SCHUMER announced her pregnancy on a list of midterm political endorsements, because 2018.

SARAH SILVERMAN is already apologizing for her comments about Louis CK masturbating in front of her.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein and women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are working with insurance companies and the New York attorney general's office in an attempt to reach a sweeping settlement of all civil suits pending against the disgraced producer and his former film studio.

GEOFFREY RUSH was close to tears while testifying at the "King Leer" defamation trial.

ORLANDO BLOOM is ready to settle down with Katy Perry, reportedly.

CLIMB EV'RY MOUNTAIN:  Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who plays Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane on HBO’s Game of Thrones, wed fitness guru Kelsey Morgan Henson in Iceland over the weekend.

ROSIE O' DONNELL is engaged to Elizabeth Rooney.

QUENTIN TARANTINO takes Hollywood Blvd back to 1969 for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

A CANADIAN RAPPER died during a stunt on an airplane wing.

 

DUCKS, wearing raincoats at the market. More here.

IT WAS LIKE THIS WHEN I CAME IN, it looks like your pillows just exploded or something.

A MASSIVE DIAMONDBACK was spotted slithering across Mangrove Bay Golf Course in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A LIONESS killed the father of her cubs at the Indianapolis Zoo.

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Jon Pratt, Richard Thompson, Natalie Prass, KT Tunstall, Mongoose vs Lions   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman reprises "Train Wreck," from the band's alter ego, All The Fixins. 

RICHARD THOMPSON stops by World Cafe.

NATALIE PRASS plays the Mountain Stage.

KT TUNSTALL visits Morning Becomes Eclectic.

BEIRUT shares  "Galipoli," the band's next title track.

 

RANK AND FILE: The seminal country-punk band formed by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman -- and including Alejandro Escovedo -- checks in with "Amanda Ruth" and their title song for Twofer Tuesday.

IAN HUNTER: Rock's Great Underdog.

KURT VILE talks to Salon about the wide variety of influences and performers on his new solo album.

JULIA HOLTER is profiled by Rolling Stone.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Lulu's "To Sir With Love," the "Gangsta's Paradise" of its day.

 

SARAH SILVERMAN said comedian Louis C.K. used to masturbate in front of her with her permission.

EZRA MILLER thinks people should see the next Fantastic: Beasts before slamming it. That's crazy talk.

BILLY IDOL is getting sued for allegedly inviting a woman to his concert and a hotel rendezvous afterward, but instead just ditching her. He must've been dancing.

CATE BLANCHETT defends straight actors playing LGBT roles.

BOB BARKER is hospitalized in L.A. after paramedics responded to his Hollywood Hills home.

MENA SUVARI quietly married her boyfriend of two years, Michael Hope.

LIAM NEESON's son Micheál is remembering his late mother Natasha Richardson with a deeply personal gesture.

PINOCCHIO, but by Guillermo del Toro.

 

MONGOOSE vs LIONS: Who You Got?

BABY ELEPHANTS learn to ride with the herd at the San Diego Zoo

RUFF COMMUTE: A conductor stops a NJ Transit train to rescue a dog on the tracks.

THE CDC WARNS against dressing up pet chickens for Halloween.

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Candi Staton, Chromeo, The Cordovas, Delighted Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LENARD COHEN: "Suzanne" is perhaps his best, and it was posted online by...Jan Hammer?

CANDI STATON stops by the World Cafe.

CHROMEO brings a live band to their Tiny Desk Concert.

THE CORDOVAS played The Local for AmericanaFEST.

 

SONIC YOUTH's second restored video is for "Silver Rocket."

TURNING 20: Fatboy Slim's You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby and the Silver Jews' American Water.

LIZ PHAIR discusses her deserrt island books at Vulture.

DAVID BYRNE: "My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment."

LORETTA LYNN has reportedly been hospitalized for an unknown but "serious" health condition.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Box Tops' "The Letter," the out-of-nowhere smash that future Big Star frontman Alex Chilton sang when he was 16.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Halloween reboot-sequel easily tops the chart with 77.5MM, breaking various records and instantly becoming the biggest film in the long history of the franchise (before inflation, anyway). A Star is Born places again with 19.3MM on a leggy 32 percent drop and keeps a 200MM total within reach. Venom shows with 18.1MM on a 48 percent drop on its way to probably over 500MM worldwide. Goosebumps 2 holds onto the fourth slot with 9.7MM on a mere 38 percent drop, but it still lags far behind the original. First Man rounds out the Top Five with 8.6MM on a 47 percent drop; it's almost recouped its production budget worldwide, but has to be considered a disappointment, which likely hurts its chances in awards season.

JOHN CARPENTER tours the soundtrack of his life.

SELMA BLAIR has revealed that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

GAME OF THRONES: The cast -- inluding Sean Bean --  shot a reunion special with Conan O'Brien.

LUKE CAGE is canceled as Netflix further trims its Marvel roster.

STRAIGHT DOWN:  Paula Abdul took a tumble Saturday night during her show ... but she was a true trooper.

COURTNEY COX feels like she's already tied the knot with boyfriend Johnny McDaid.

JONESY: The cat from Alien is getting his own spin-off.

DANNY LEINER, the director of Dude, Where’s My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, is dead from cancer at 57.

 

A DELIGHTED DOG runs again after an auto accident.

CLUMSY PUP is clumsy.

CITIES Are Turning Snails Yellow?

DOGS are wearing tuxedos and chiffon as canine wedding guests become more common.

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