As with a full-fledged horror movie, a horror-based comedy doesn’t quite need to reinvent the wheel. It merely needs to appeal to horror nerds and comedy fans alike — a shockingly delicate balancing act to maintain. Look at perhaps the m…
First things first: I apologize deeply to the ten or so horror-starved souls out there who went unfulfilled yesterday. It won’t happen again, and today, we have a delightful Halloween twofer for you to make up for it. Zombies are fashionable. …
Against all odds, it seems as though modern-day French horror has a keen grip on what is truly frightening. It can be intense — Pascal Laugier’s eviscerating Martyrs taps into difficult notions of pain and existentialism, while Alexandre…
As I sit down to sell you on Kevin Tenney’s little-respected Night of the Demons, I find it important to reiterate once again that this series is not designed as a treatise on the best horror films of all time. There’s going to be some o…
Scottish hitmakers Mumford & Sons are back with another agreeable, hooky collection of stomping folk-rock. How does “Babel” stack up to “Sigh No More”?
For the second of Popblerd’s 31 Days of Halloween, we look at Charles Laughton’s “Night of the Hunter”, a Gothic, deep-south potboiler starring Robert Mitchum.
In the realm of swaying, stomping, harmonic pop-folk, The Avett Brothers stand only in the shadow of Mumford & Sons, a recent success story that, perhaps not-coincidentally, the long-running North Carolina brother-band is starting…
Ben Folds Five has released the first video from their new record, “The Sound of the Life of the Mind”, and “Do It Anyway” features Fraggles. FRAGGLES, PEOPLE.
After tackling Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Beatles records, Easy Star All-Stars give the King of Pop the reggae royalty treatment with Easy Star’s Thrillah. Read our review!
The title track from bespectacled, gruff underground rhymer Soul Khan’s Wellstone EP now has an accompanying video; Khan plays a downtrodden, put-upon vet, in an evocative visualization of the soulful, Grass Roots-sampling track. Watch the…
Brooklyn-based underground emcee, Brown Bag All-Star, and vaunted ex-battle rapper Soul Khan has released the latest in his deeply personal “Soulstice” series, “Soulstice 4″. Unspooling razor-sharp lyrical imagery over a mou…
