Crappy Anniversary! Forty Years of The Clash's Swan Song

Today may be just another day to the entire human race but it's a very special day around these parts. Why? Well, because it's the 40th anniversary of the final Clash album, the much-reviled Cut the Crap.

An Introduction to Horror Punk

I covered some of this history on the Goth livestream, but this gives you a more detailed overview of a strange and influential period of Punk. 

Dig in... but just don't watch it alone.

  

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Halloween Horror Rock: Alice Cooper and KISS

Led by a minister’s son born Vincent Damon Furnier, the Alice Cooper Group’s first two albums for Frank Zappa's Straight Records -- Pretties for You and Easy Action -- earned them nothing but scorn. 

KISS's Ace Returns to Space

 

Ace Frehley, lead guitarist for the classic lineup of KISS, was a tormented soul whose travails have now ended and whose burdens are now lifted. And I have a bit of an inside view here...

An Occulted History of Goth

Courtesy of your friends at the Secret Sun Institute of Advanced Synchromysticism...

And when you're done, celebrate October the proper way...

Alternative's Most Disturbing Music Videos, Part One

It's Halloween season and you know what that means: yes, disturbing music videos. And who better to kick off the creep-fest than Tool? Any one of their early videos will creep even the most desensitized soul out.