Spooky Good Halloween Music? No. But There's Superchunk doing Misfits, Bowie Scary Vid, House of Frightenstein, David J, and Much More!

Happy Halloween.

No time to make a Halloween mix, go see Eric Alper if that's what you're looking for.

David Bowie - Love Is Lost” (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA)


Superchunk - Children in Heat (Misfits cover)


Another Misfits cover! Save the Day doing Skulls


Wax Fang does Misfits' Halloween


Return to Transylvania - A short doc about Billy Van

Return to Transylvania from Ben Kane on Vimeo.


Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 - Halloween


Skaters - Let the Heads Roll


Might as well have some real Misfits, right?


Black Sabbath - Lady Evil


Can't do Halloween without Forbidden Dimension. Here's My Family Curse.


Anthrax - Devil You Know


David J with Jill Tracy - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Undead is Forever)


Aaaaand here's the original by Bauhaus.


Kids interview bands interview one of the Nameless Ghouls from Ghost BC:


Crocodiles - All My Hate and My Hexes Are for you


Faith No More was always spooky. even the cover of Easy was somehow scary.




Dickies - She's a Hunchback


Haunter - Blood and Thunder


Drivin' 'n' Cryin' - Moonshot


Steel Panther - Death to all but Metal - NSFW!!!!


Hoodoo Gurus - Dig it Up


Caught a Ghost - Time Go


Josh Ritter - the Curse


Hilary Grist - Waltzing Matilda


The Fratellis - Halloween Blues


Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

Swissted: Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined

Gig poster art has been adored by some for years. DIY album art and concert announcements have been collected by some smarty-pants hoarders since punk exploded. But Swissted: Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined by Mike Joyce is the first book I have seen that lovingly remakes posters of punk, indie and alternative artist concert posters and turns them into something entirely different. Like covering a song and transforming it so that it is unrecognizable, Joyce turns gig posters into wholly new works of art. Instead of freaky or bizarre art designed to shock, confuse, or generally stop a viewer in his/her tracks, Joyce revisits posters using a Swiss modernist design. No black and white photocopies here, we're talkin' bright, primary colours, clean, lower-case band names, and clarity over colour. No artist pics, no album covers, no extraneous exhortations or slogans, just 200 perforated ready-to-frame posters featuring everyone from Alice in Chains to Bad Brains to Nirvana to Yo La Tengo to The Zeros. Wow.


Buy the book here.

Alice in Chains

 

Bad Religion

 

Breeders

 

Dickies

 

Dinosaur Jr

 

Gang of Four

 

Guided by Voices

 

Helmet

 

Husker Du

 

Lemonheads

 

Mudhoney

 

Rancid

 

Sonic Youth

 

Superchunk

 

Swans

Check out Mik Joyce's Swissted site here, buy the book here. Buy the book here.