Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses: Perils
The doomy, neo-classical, Eastern European folk of Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses leads our list this week as the group’s debut album gets reissued on vinyl. Our picks also include the eclectic post-rock of God is an Astronaut, the stoner metal of Baroness, and the dark organ works of composer Peteris Vasks. (more…)
Fantômas
Fantômas plays The Director’s Cut in its entirety, Jon Brion posts an instrumental tune, Tim Fite releases a free Halloween EP, MySpace posts the Ben Folds Five performance of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, and much more…
Other than spending All Hallows Eve at the campy blood fest of a GWAR show, seeing London’s Chrome Hoof on October 31 has to be the ultimate in Halloween plans. Whether the group’s members are burning a 12-foot ram in effigy or donning silver, sparkling, hooded robes in uniform, their stage show is just as riveting as their weird sonic stew.
