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

The Pursuit of Happiness - Love Junk is 25!

So The Pursuit of Happiness's Love Junk recently passed its 25th birthday. Wow.

Those large glasses. That impossibly-straight hair. The points in the show where Moe Berg let Kris Abbott drive all of the guitar so he can point at the crowd, gesture wildly, and stomp around the stage. Above all, those songs. A modern take on power pop in a year when Cheap Trick was trumpeting a power ballad, before people widely-used terms like indie or alternative, Love Junk boasted loud guitars without veering into bad metal. Sweet harmonies without getting syrupy (sorry Cheap Trick, you went too far) - who carried around back-up singers in those days? Just TPOH. Berg's lyrics could straddle that teen confusion/burgeoning awareness line, hit the college kids in the wordy brain part, or just sound right even when you're not sure what he's talking about - like many perfect rock 'n' roll lyrics.

Produced by Todd Rundgren, Love Junk managed not to fall into the traps of many '80s records like overusing heavily-processed drum sounds or extra-cheesy vocal effects. It doesn't sound like a Rundgren album, doesn't necessarily sound like a made-in-Canada album - just a near-perfect record.

Hard to Laugh


Ten Fingers
I'm An Adult Now


She's So Young


Consciousness Raising As a Social Tool


Walking in the Woods


Beautiful White


When the Sky Comes Falling Down


Looking for Girls

Man's Best Friend


Tree of Knowledge


Killed by Love


Down on Him

The Bonaduces - New Tune Armadillo Has a Hard Shell, But is Candy Inside

The Bonaduces have released new music for the first time in 15 years, one song to pique your interest in a new album coming...sometime in the next year. You can purchase Armadillo by naming your price at the band's Bandcamp page. Crunchy guitars, punchy drums, munchy bass, and sweet harmonies - sounds like The Bonaduces to me. Here's a new article with some info on The Bonaduces, and the always-stellar Music Ruined My Life can give you some great background on the band.



Older stuff:

Sara's Black Pyjamas


Really Powerful Telescope


Megan is a Fruitloop