Grave Babies

Seattle's Grave Babies continue their dark sonic journey with new album "Holographic Violence," a collection of warped and shredding goth jams to brood or bash around an 80's industrial club to.  Awesome stuff.  Get the record from Hardly Art and listen to "Eternal (On and On)" below.

RIP Wes Craven

This one stings.  RIP Wes Craven.  Along with other creative and twisted folks like John Carpenter and Sam Raimi, and Stephen King and Clive Barker, the writer/director/horror icon was one of the main sources that molded me into the little horror fan/freak that i am today.  May he forever haunt our dreams.

Protomartyr

Hey!  There's a new Protomartyr record coming out in October on Hardly Art, and that's pretty cool.  Listen to the post-punk ruckus of "Why Does It Shake?" below and get "The Agent Intellect" LP on October 9th.

Nicole Dollanganger

Apparently Grimes started a music label called Eerie Organization.  Good for her.  The first release is a debut album, "Natural Born Losers," a collection of broken, warped, and floaty alt-folk pop hymns from Nicole Dollanganger.  First taste "You're So Cool" sounds pretty nice.  Take a listen below.

Le Matos

I had never even heard of it until yesterday, but the film "Turbo Kid" looks absolutely bonkers, and it features music from Montreal synth pop band Le Matos.  "No Tomorrow" featuring PAWWS sounds like the kind of saccharine pop anthem that would have accompanied any and all manner of fantasy or children's adventure movies in the 80's, the score to an epic ride upon Falcor.  Listen to the track below, buy it digitally here, or grab the 7" from Mondo/Deathwaltz.

The Witch

I may have only seen the trailer, but i'm going to go ahead a call Robert Eggers' upcoming film "The Witch," the best horror movie of the year.  It looks equal parts terrifying and unnerving.  I cannot wait.  Watch the trailer below.

Fear of Ghosts

At home today with Ash.  He's sleeping right now.  I wish i was.  So, here's some soothing, lulling, almost playful ambient music from LA's Fear of Ghosts.  Listen to "No. 5" below and get the self-titled album download or cassette here.

Fantastic Negrito

Hailing from Oakland, Fantastic Negrito is the soulful blues stomp project of Xavier Dphrepaulezz, a guitar-slinging, head-bobbing, spiritual narrator of the funky arts.  His latest deluxe edition self-titled EP is currently available from Blackball Universe, and totally worth of your attention.  Listen to "She Don't Cry No More" below, a throwback, blues rager that demands to be blared at an outdoor tent revival somewhere, a crowd of swaying listeners with their hands in the air, just waiting to testify their own pain and/or gratitude.  This dude jams.

Mark of the Devil

UK soundtrack label One Way Static's next release is the amazing and beautiful Michael Holm scores for the 1970's films "Mark of the Devil" and "Mark of the Devil II."  As per usual with these horror score reissues, i'm stoked.  Take a listen to "Liebesthema" below.  You may also recognize it from its use in "Hobo with a Shotgun."

Luminance/Psyche

Belgian darkwave kids Luminance just teamed up with dark synth-pop elder statesmen Psyche for a collaborative 7" on Storming the Base.  It sounds like it could have come out yesterday or thirty years ago, an icy cold warehouse pulse.  Listen to B-side "Passenger Seat" below and get it here.