When it comes to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, most of these sort of playlists begin and end with “Time Warp”, and that nearly makes me puke my guts out. Let me back that up a bit… Going to see midnight screenings of RHPS during your teens and twenties, every Saturday night for God knows…
I can’t run without my tunes. No way, no how. So for the 2013 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon, I thought I’d put together a Spotify playlist that combines uptempo hard rock/metal with a spooky Halloween theme (much akin to my list of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs; they do overlap). Not all of the songs are…
I try not to go to crazy with the platitudes here, but I mean we’re talking Halloween and I haven’t even gotten to Alice Cooper yet. What the eff… not coincidentally, Boots and I just saw AC last night at the Seminole Hard Rock Live, and it was a seriously amazing show. My first time…
Who are you? My card, pretty lady. Devil May Care Music Production, Beelzebub Scratch, President. I like your style, too bad you’re not a singer. Oh, but I am, I am a singer! Hmm, no fooling. No, no listen… Fantastic, different. I want to be a star, of please! You’ve talked me into it. Contract! …
Gripping the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire. The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45. True death: 400 horsepower of maximum performance piercing the night… This is Black Sunshine. Iggy Pop delivers the spoken-word intro to White Zombie’s classic 1992 tune Black Sunshine, a song ostensibly…
Well, duhr… Frankenstein is one of those quintessentially overplayed classic rock songs in that so many people know the riff and so few know the actual name of the song (let alone the artist performing it). And it really is one lumbering monster of a track, featuring Edgar Winter on about 8 zillion instruments (organ,…
Well this one is a HUGE surprise, huh? I’ve made no attempt at obfuscating my love of Maiden. They’ve been my all-time favorite metal band since 1983, when I bought Piece of Mind on cassette and wore that sucker completely out. That’s all I needed. My brother had The Number of the Beast on vinyl…
When I think of Halloween, I immediately conjure up images of dystopian futures in which sadistic android overlords called Machmen torture remaining humans by forcing them to compete in a survival games against rape and murder robots in an arena called “The Park”, while the Machmen sneer and enjoy the carnage from Zom-Zoms, a nearby…
An old cowpoke went ridin’ out one dark and windy day… I think it’s practically impossible to have grown up in post-World War II America and not have heard some iteration of Stan Jones’s 1948 cowboy classic Ghost Riders In The Sky in some capacity. It’s been covered by dozens of big name artists, from…
Mojo Nixon is singing about UFOs, big rigs, and barbecue. Do I really need to sell this any more? Mojo freakin’ Nixon + alien encounters + 12 wheels of interstellar transport + smoked meat = ESSENTIAL Halloween tuneage. I first heard UFOs, Big Rigs, and BBQ waaaaaay back when, while playing the first-person shooter ‘Redneck…