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Alabama soul group that adapted the main theme of Bill Withers "No Sunshine"  into something that mixes gospel, psych rock, doo wop, and Jamaican dub How Great Thou Art By The Sensational Saints

Young and easily frightened Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Happy Birthday To Me) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly make this vacation spot a “dead-and-breakfast.” This one I had previously only seen on really murky VHS transfers, so while not jaw dropping, this blu ray is essential for the clean print alone. This was made before slasher tropes were set in stone, so it is better watched as a slow burn mystery with a pretty clever twist. The Audio Commentary with Film Historians Jason Pichonsky and Paul Corupe provide a wealth of background on this Canadian shot flick. Not a classic, but worth seeing especially in this cleaned up version.

Hardcore Rewind:  TREE - A Lot to Fear Boston may not be the hub of the universe, but it was the hub of one of the first wheels of hardcore punk. Over the decades that followed, it has consistently been a breeding ground for many, many great and highly influential punk rock and hardcore bands. If this is your type of music, you’re undoubtedly a fan of at least a few of them. You may think you know all of them, and maybe you do. Then again, there may be some you’ve been sleeping on all these years. Let’s take it back to 1993: I was 8 years old, and still a good few years away from discovering punk/hardcore. While I was either getting on my 3rd grade teacher’s nerves at the Curtis Guild Elementary School or watching Beavis and Butt-head (I was definitely doing one or the other), some dude named Menino was doing whatever it was that he did, and a band called TREE were taking the hardcore scene of my very own city by storm. That was the year they dropped their debut album, A Lot to Fea...

Four adaptations of English Major Works, all on youtube, Midsummer is the 1968 royal Shakespeare company version, perfect  Pyscho-Satyr flicks of Volumous Literary KIcks.

The city of Nashua, in Southern New Hampshire, gets its name from the river, and in antiquated times the people were also called Nashua.  “Nashua” comes from the Abenaki dialect, and roughly translated is a commentary on the way the sun hits the rocks beneath the river. Also in Abenaki is the word “Skadegamutc” which directly translates to “witch ghost”. An Abenaki sorcerer cheats death by becoming a Skadegamutc roaming the forest, and feeding upon unfortunate passers by. A few miles Northwest of exit 5 off of 293 is the Gilson Cemetery. During the late seventeenth century this was the site of a massacre. This was also where a Nashua sorcerer practiced his dark arts. People would ask him to make them more powerful. He would do so by filling his clients with dark spirits. That’s why we became friends.  It's not a secret in Nashua that the Gilson Cemetery is haunted. I noticed signs of necromancy upon my first visit; pillar candles that would have illuminated a weath...

I was never that huge about black metal that was being shoved down my throat in highschool, but as a Man approaching middle age,I encountered a record that made me a fan of black metal. happened upon it in my YouTube feed The record I am covering is titled Al Azif, and it's by the band the great old ones. For those who don't already know, Al Azif is the original title of the necronomicon, as penned by The mad poet Abdul Alhazred at about 730AD.  This is according to the mythos created by HP Lovecraft, but many lunatics, such as myself would argue that Lovecraft was a prophet, perhaps The reincarnation of Alhzared himself.  I believe this album to be a method of communication with some of the beings Lovecraft spoke of. I gained more of A connection to Alhazred via the twisted soundscapes than any attempt to recreate the necronomicon that I have ever read. It's not your typical black metal album The projection is crisp enough to express the sound textures and at...