Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of WUSC This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query. If no results were found please broaden your search. Last year, one of our DJs got the chance to sit down with Mike Kinsella of American Football and talk about their first new album in 17 years. Listen to the interview here! From gothic to metal to punk there are albums to fit all moods of the season. WUSC has gone through and compiled just a few of our favorites over this last week for you all.
To get into the season, we should always turn to the eternal daddy of all goth and horror, Nick Cave sorry Peter Murphy. And yet blade runner Ryan Gosling and director Zach Shield's duo "Dead Man's Bones" self titled release is the best Halloween album of the 21st century.
With synths that put the 80s to shame and a children's choir that would make a private school jealous, the instruments are entirely played by the duo, and they toured with the help of local children's choirs in each city they visited. The brief history of this band is as weird as it is incredible, and it's surprising the star power of these two didn't make the album blow up more.
Even so, with loving zombies and werewolf hearts, there's nothing more lovably spooky to play this season. Without her iconic style and theatrics goth wouldn't be what it was. Maybe Juju is an easy choice given that the track Halloween is the best thing since The Monster Mash, but there's nothing wrong with being a little cheesy this time of year. Juju was a milestone in the creation of gothic as a genre, and it helped establish the inseparable link with post-punk.
It marked a turning point for the group as they turned towards darker themes, with everything from Sioux's songwriting to McGough's guitar. Juju is a piece of gothic history, and an essential for the season.
