
Haven't caught much of the Halloween spirit, this year - perhaps due to the recent stretch of warm weather, or Glee 's attempt to turn Rocky Horror into an afterschool special, or because the whole "witch house" thing makes the world seem neither fun nor spooky, or because Al Qaeda's out there trying to make our fax machines go splody. Some combination of all that. Effect being that I haven't been scouring comps for weird East European surf and psychobilly material to grind into the Annual Awesome Halloween Mix TM. BUT! [...]
Tonight at Off Broadway , come and see the Honkeys -- playing its first show in about a year and a half, say those in-the-know -- The Coffin Daggers , described via email as "a great surf/instro band out of NYC," and local trash-surf-garage combo The Mad Titans , who have a song called "Cock Blockin' Zombie." Awesome. $8, 18-plus. Show is at 9ish.

It's Halloween! I'm going out as someone who makes fun of people who dress up as Amy Winehouse . What are you going out as? Rhetorical. I don't care. The important thing is that, for one night only, unhip shit like surfa-gotha-rockabilly and b-movie dialogue turns cool. It's holiday magic, and I mean to honor it with a second annual low-watt low-bit Locobilly Geekout de Internationale. Spain, Denmark, Italy, The Czech Republic and Secaucus are represented below; half the fun's trying to figure out what the guy from [...]