It's the most wonderful time of the year! And since you've all been such good ghouls and boys, I'm handing out my biggest bag of treats yet. I've added to last year's Halloween mix, and it is now a lurching monster of 66 tracks. You can download the entire mix as a zip file at the bottom of the list. I will be attending my fair share of Halloweeny events this year (I already went to a book launch dressed as Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, but that's a surreal story for another time), including a Neil [...]
Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe 2: featuring "What?" Hellbillies rejoice, the Master of monster mayhem, Rob Zombie , is returning with exactly what you've been waiting for, HELLBILLY DELUXE 2 ! The follow up to the 1998 triple platinum smash Hellbilly Deluxe will be the latest masterpiece from Zombie which is set to hit stores November 17, 2009. The album, produced by Rob Zombie himself, features the first single "WHAT?" which has just been made [...]
1. It seems possible Captain Kirk could come out at any moment on a unicorn and do a breakdancing routine. 2. The beat boxing dude - does he think human thoughts?
We at FILTER were very saddened to hear about Michael Jackson's untimely death yesterday afternoon. Some of us wanted to share our thoughts. Please feel free to add what you think in the comment section below. Mike Bell I remember my mom allowing me to stay up past bedtime to catch the MTV premier of Thriller [...]
Howlin' Wolf was born on June 10, 1910 and he passed away on January 10, 1976. He was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player and band leader. His real name was Chester Arthur Burnett. He was inducted into the blues hall of fame in 1980. According to Wikipedia; With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation [...]
"A singer/songwriter in the subversive Greenwich Village folk scene of the late '60s and '70s, with several songs lent to the Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley maintained an infrequent solo career into the '90s but was more famed for his writing credits. Born on December 20, 1941, in Pennsylvania, he migrated to Greenwich Village by the early '60s and was ready to sign a major record deal when he contracted mononucleosis; after spending several years in the hospital, Hurley returned to music and released a Folkways album in 1964 titled First Songs. Though he was inactive through the rest of [...]
As the year winds down (or up, depending on half-full or half-empty glasses and whatnot), so does this blog. The Top Albums of 2008 countdown is over, and with this final installment, my weekly mix year-end round-up is now finished. This collection of mixes features themes on solo artists, travel, Scandinavia, autumn, 4AD, more synthpop, literature, more dance, more cover versions, Halloween, guilty pleasures, winter, celebrities, songs of 2008, and Christmas. Enjoy, and I hope I can fill 2009 with more quality mixes. It's not quite over yet because Tuesday will feature one last mix of the year for New [...]
I remember when I was a kid and I would get very excited during the opening credits to Barnaby Jones , especially when William Conrad's booming voice would tell me that I was about to witness a story titled, for instance, "Sing A Song of Murder". That kind of expressively weird television episode title was often more exciting than the show itself, because my mind would be sent careening into all sorts of implied narratives. In that spirit, a game I often play with my friends is "Television Titles", where we sit around with a [...]
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