If you love Ethel Cain, start with Chelsea Wolfe, Nicole Dollanganger, Emma Ruth Rundle, Weyes Blood and King Woman. Those artists capture different parts of her sound. Some specialise in dark, atmospheric music. Others combine…
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Tame Impala’s “Dracula” is about feeling most alive after dark. Kevin Parker uses the vampire idea as a metaphor for somebody whose confidence, creativity and identity seem to appear at night — then disappear when…
Bobby “Boris” Pickett. The American singer and comedian recorded “Monster Mash” in 1962 with a group credited as the Crypt-Kickers. The famous voice is not Boris Karloff. Pickett is impersonating him. And the entire song…
That voice belongs to Vincent Price. The legendary horror actor provides the spoken narration and famous laugh near the end of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. And he recorded the performance in just two takes. Even better,…
For younger children, start with “Knock Knock, Trick or Treat?”, “The Skeleton Dance” and “Five Little Pumpkins”. For a family dance party, add “Monster Mash”, “Ghostbusters” and Andrew Gold’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons”. The best Halloween…
