Halloween Playlist 2010

Featuring the Cramps

1. Queens of the Stone Age - "Burn the Witch"
2. TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
3. The Dandy Warhols - "Hell's Bells" (AC/DC cover)
4. The Cramps - "TV Set"
5. The Cramps - "I Was A Teenage Werewolf"
6. Robert Johnson - "If I Had Possession Over Judgment"
7. Abner Jay - "St. James Infirmary Blues"
8. Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth"
9. Japanther - "The Gravy"
10. Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition"
11. The Gun Club - "For the Love of Ivy"
12. The Gun Club - "Cool Drink of Water"
13. The White Stripes - "The Union Forever"
14. The Dead Weather - "Old Mary"
15. Beat Happening - "Black Candy"
16. Beat Happening - "Knock on Any Door"
17. Beat Happening - "Nancy Sin"
18. Beat Happening - "Zombie Limbo Time"

Halloween Playlist 2011

Featuring Messer Chups

Just click the song-titles to play:

1. Acid Witch - "Witchtanic Hellucinations"
2. The Flesh Eaters - "See You in the Boneyard"
3. Karen Elson - "The Ghost Who Walks"
4. The Fembots - "Theme from A Radio Play"
5. Aluminium - "The Hardest Button To Button"
6. The Deadly Snakes - "I Can't Sleep at Night"
7. The Deadly Snakes - "There Goes Your Corpse Again"
8. Xander Harris - "I Want More Than Just Blood"
9. KUKL - "Anna"
10. Wanda Jackson feat. Jack White - "Funnel of Love"
11. The Kills - "Ticket Man"
12. Joy Division - "The Eternal"
13. The Cramps - "Zombie Dance"
14. Gary Numan - "Metal"; Nine Inch Nails - "Metal"
15. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Dead Flag Blues"
16. The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
17. Beat Happening - "Black Candy"
18. Messer Chups - "Vincent Price Bible"
19. Messer Chups - "Tremolo from the Crypt"

Yes.

It cost me a hefty lot, but after much debating, I decided I had to see DFA before I died. And who knows when they'll come around again or what the band's status will be after this tour? Sure, I could wait and find out, and if fans are lucky, DFA will record another album and tour again, but I'd rather see them now, because there's hardly a tour hotter than on a reunion tour. Now, I just hope I can get my closing shift for that night switched ...

P.S: How is this video of DFA on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, featuring Conan's then-band-leader-and-sidekick Max Weinberg on drums, still not on Youtube?:

Gary Numan - "Metal"; Nine Inch Nails - "Metal"

Today's Halloween song is "Metal" by Gary Numan, from his 1979 third album The Pleasure Principle:



I'm also re-posting Nine Inch Nails' cover of "Metal" because it is honest to God one of the best covers I've ever heard:

New Black Keys Song: "Lonely Boy"

Can the Black Keys ever do wrong? "Lonely Boy" is the first single from their upcoming new album El Camino, due Dec. 6 on Nonesuch Records:

Jack White Covers U2

How did I miss Jack White's cover of U2's "Love Is Blindness"? It's been streaming for sixteen days. I never even knew the man was a fan, although it kind of makes sense, considering Jack's and the Edge's involvement in the 2009 guitar-doc It Might Get Loud. As you will see by following the link to Jack's version of the song, this post also concerns Nine Inch Nails, Killers and Patti Smith fans.

The Kills - "Ticket Man"