A selection of spooky halloween themed videos with some mp3s to get you in the mood for All Hallow’s Eve.


Fantômas - Spider Baby

Goblin Cock "Stumped"




Rocket From The Crypt - Born In '69


Sonic Youth - Death Vally 69

Aesop Rock - Coffee ft. John Darnielle


bobby 'boris' pickett & the cryptkickers - monster mash


Liars - Broken Witch

David Bowie & Frank Black - Scary Monsters & Super Creeps


Pinback - Boo

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer


UR - Personnae: Halloween

Indian Thriller


Warlords of Pez - Monster Voice!

Dario Argento's Tenebre re-cut with Justice's take on the original theme music by Goblin.

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One of the beautiful things about having so damn much music out there in the world is the fact that some gems will inevitably pass you by.

You know the ones- artists that are by all accounts excellent but for one reason or another you haven't quite gotten around to digesting them yet. There's nothing better than finally getting around to discovering these humdingers, even if some of them have been staring you in the face for eons.

Such a track was brought to my attention last night while watching the excellent 'Lars & The Real Girl' (rent it, it's great). A particularly poignant scene was soundtracked by a beautiful, kinda 80's sounding, cool love song. I went on a hunt for it's identity, and it turned out to be Talking Heads with This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).

Now, I am of course familiar with Talking Heads, but only on a very superficial level (the extent of my knowledge would be Psycho Killer & Once In A Lifetime). Following this latest discovery I can't justifiably put off further investigation, so their back catalogue will have to be thoroughly examined.

All choruses of 'I told you so' will be entertained.

For those like me as yet uninitiated, here's the excellent song in question:




Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

And for interest's sake, here's David Byrne performing the track at the Hollywood Bowl being backed up by Arcade Fire:



I wonder what the next 'you really should have known' gem will be... Anyone care to admit to any oversights on their own musical radar?

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This weekend your in for a real treat as Somadrome has picked this weekend hangover mixtape. Somadrone is Neill O'Conor (member of Dublin's The Redneck Manifesto and The Connect Four Orchestra) mixing the sounds of To Rococo Rot, Stereolab and Spacemen 3 type electronic blankets of melody and intricate gliches and noise using laptop, vibraphone and pounding live drums.
(tracklisting and download link for the rather excellent mixtape in the read more)


tracklisting
1. Devo - Beautiful World
2. Yo La Tengo - Everyday
3. Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
4. Serge Gainsbourg and Bridgette Bardot - Bonnie and Cylde
5. Sun Ra - Space is the Place
6. Brian Eno - The Big Ship
7. My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
8. David Bowie - Look back in Anger
9. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
10. Sonic Youth - Expressway to ur Skull

Click here to go to download page

Somadrome as a list of up coming gigs they are as follows
8 Aug 2008 20:00 Roisin Dubh Galway
15 Aug 2008 20:00 Cleares - Kilkenny Arts Festival Kilkenny, Kilkenny
16 Aug 2008 20:00 Plugged Records Cork
30 Aug 2008 20:00 Electric Picnic Stradbally, Laois
25 Oct 2008 20:00 Cyprus Ave Cork
8 Nov 2008 20:00 Model Niland - New Spaces for Music Sligo
12 Dec 2008 20:00 Stress - De Burgo’s Galway

also his albums can be bought thru paypal on his myspace page

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Another mixtape of music to get messed up to. (first one can be found here)

tracklisting and download link in the read more


1.Seventeen Years - Ratatat
2.Mr Milk - Errors
3.On Board - Friendly Fires
4.Big Big Big Big Big - Dan Deacon
5.Gum - Cornelius
6.Sex Raptor - HORSE the Band
7.How U Feelin? (feat. Doseone) -Peeping Tom
8.Trick For Treat Ft. Spank Rock And Sean Tillman -Neon Neon
9.A.M. 180 - Grandaddy
10.Lamb And The Lion - The Mae Shi
11.Girl U Want - Devo
12.Hurly / Burly - Man Man
13.Life During Wartime (Live) -Talking Heads
14.The Mercury Craze - Subtle
15.When Doves Cry - Prince & The Revolution
16.Why Bother? - Weezer
17.Snook Adis - Boom Bip
18.There's Always Room on the Broom - Liars
19.2A. Glory In Itself 2B. Egyptian - Gang Gang Dance

download here

so any suggestions for the next mixtape ? so set up a poll (below) a heavy mixtape, a hip hop mixtape , up coming gigs mixtape or just a random mix ?????

the choice is yours!!!!!

and come back this weekend for an extra mega amazing special guest hangover mixtape

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Oh how happy I was to track down this song.

I have a weird fascination with cover versions, a fascination that's fueled further by the involvement of bands I love.

So in this instance we have double the fun... here's The Faint covering Psycho Killer by Talking Heads:





Click for mp3

Not gonna change the world, but pretty cool nonetheless.

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Nine Inch Snails


Kermit sings"Once In A Lifetime"

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