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John Carpenter –“Slowly To The Shadows”
Music already has one John Carpenter: The great sci-fi horror director who made classics like Escape From New York and The Thing and who often scored his own movies, even writing the creepily indelible...
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John Carpenter –“Vortex”
If you are a particular type of movie fan, John Carpenter is one of your spirit guides. He's the man responsible for directing some of the greatest and most iconic B-movies of the past 40 years:...
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John Carpenter –“Night”
John Carpenter is one of the greatest genre filmmakers who has ever lived. And as someone who's written many of his own scores, he's also a deeply influential musical figure. His tense, blaring,...
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John Carpenter –“Fallen (Blanck Mass Remix)”
Tomorrow, the great horror/sci-fi/action movie director John Carpenter will release Lost Themes, his first-ever non-film-music album. This isn't a moonlighting-celebrity situation; Carpenter, who's...
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Album Of The Week: John Carpenter Lost Themes
There are plenty of reasons the horror and sci-fi and action movies of the late-'70s and '80s have aged so well. There was the self-conscious and shameless cheapness of it all: These were movies...
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John Carpenter –“Night” Video
John Carpenter is one of the great B-movie directors of all time, so it's weird to see anyone other than Carpenter himself directing a John Carpenter music video. Nevertheless, it's happened. Carpenter...
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John Carpenter –“Purgatory (Prurient Remix)”
The great B-movie director John Carpenter, who composed the eerie synth scores for most of his own movies, came out of semi-retirement earlier this year to release Lost Themes, an LP of tingly keyboard...
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John Carpenter To Make Live Performance Debut At ATP Iceland
Legendary horror film director and composer, John Carpenter, will make his live performance debut at next year's ATP Iceland festival. Carpenter is known for his work on a variety of revered films,...
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John Carpenter –“Night (Zola Jesus And Dean Hurley Remix)”
John Carpenter is an iconic B-movie director and film composer best-known for scoring creepy, cinematic horror movies of the '70s and '80s. Carpenter is now in his late sixties, but that didn't stop...
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Hudson Mohawke –“Escape” (John Carpenter Cover)
UK G.O.O.D. Music in-house producer Hudson Mohawke stepped out from behind the scenes this past summer with Lantern, his first solo LP in six years. But HudMo isn't one to idle. He usually has...
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John Carpenter –“Distant Dream”
John Carpenter, the great horror/sci-fi/action movie director, used to do the bleak electronic scores for many of his own movies, and that music has been nearly influential, in its way, as the movies...
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John Carpenter –“Angel’s Asylum”
John Carpenter directed Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York, and that alone means he's one of the best movie directors of the past half-century. But he's also a musical visionary, and his...
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Stream John Carpenter Lost Themes II
John Carpenter was one of the great filmmakers of the '70s and '80s; we have him to thank for pure gold like The Thing and The Live and Big Trouble In Little China. He also composed the chilly...
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8 Great Small-Font Alternatives At Primavera Sound 2016
This year, as we've come to expect, Barcelona's annual Primavera Sound boasts arguably the finest music festival lineup in the world. For its fifteenth installment, which begins with scattered...
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9 Memorable Moments From Primavera Sound 2016 Thursday
The first thing you need to know about Primavera Sound, besides its incredible lineup and the many schedule conflicts that produces, is that it goes all night. As opposed to most American festivals,...
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John Carpenter –“Utopian Façade” Video
Famed director and composer John Carpenter shared his latest album Lost Themes II this past spring. It's a dense, lush, ambient adventure that feels like a score just begging for some cinematic visuals...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
Drake released a long-form music video this week. He shouldn't do that! It was very bad! Honestly, if someone would've just taken the "One Dance" bit and made that its own video, it probably would've...
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15 Halloween Songs Rated By Spookiness
In a world beset by attacks on human rights, disease, death, and social media, the one thing everyone can agree is the scariest thing is, indeed, the night of Halloween. Oh, yes. Hallowe'en....
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John Carpenter Returns To Directing For His Own “Christine” Video
Horror genius John Carpenter will release a new album on Sacred Bones this fall. It's called Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998, and today, Carpenter debuted a self-directed video for the theme from...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
Radiohead's "Lift" video is apparently packed with Easter eggs for Radiohead superfans. That's cool, I guess. Good for that video. It's still a boring music video that doesn't get good until the twist...
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Q&A: John Carpenter Talks New Album Anthology & The Upcoming Halloween Sequel
John Carpenter, the director of such genre-defining shockers as Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, and Christine, permanently scarred our collective childhood with his knack for spooky storytelling. Now,...
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Hear Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Cover John Carpenter’s Halloween Theme
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have teamed up once again to serve up a spooky treat for this very special October Friday the 13th. (Boo!) They've covered John Carpenter's iconic Halloween theme music....
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John Carpenter –“The Shape Returns”
You could make a decent case that John Carpenter's original 1978 horror classic Halloween is one of the two or three most influential American movies of the last 50 years. It birthed the whole...
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John Carpenter –“Halloween Triumphant”
40 years ago, the genre-film legend John Carpenter directed Halloween, a Hitchcockian low-budget classic that essentially invented the slasher film and changed the face of horror cinema forever. He...
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Watch The Breeders & Melkbelly Cover John Carpenter’s Halloween Theme
The Breeders are cool people who do cool things. This was true way the hell back in the early '90s, and it remains true today. Case in point: Last night, the Breeders played the Stone Pony, the...
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31 Essential Horror Soundtrack Songs
It makes sense that we’re experiencing a horror renaissance. The genre took off during the Great Depression and has been there for us in difficult times to accentuate and provide some semblance of...
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Hear John Carpenter’s Theme Song For Horror Streaming Service Shudder
John Carpenter is one of the undisputed masters of horror, directing countless classic films and composing the spine-chilling music in their iconic scores. When we listed 31 essential horror soundtrack...
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John Carpenter –“Skeleton”&“Unclean Spirit”
Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter is releasing a two-song single today, his first piece of non-movie-related music since 2016's Lost Themes II. For these, he worked again with his son Cody Carpenter...
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John Carpenter –“Weeping Ghost”
With Halloween a few days away, it's worth remembering that horror legend John Carpenter made the best movie ever about the holiday and that he also composed that movie's eternally eerie score. For...
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John Carpenter –“Alive After Death”
In addition to being one of the greatest horror directors of all time, John Carpenter is also one of the greatest horror and synth music composers of all time. He composed the scores for most of his...
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Chvrches & John Carpenter Remix Each Other On New Single
The great director John Carpenter probably thought he was all done with churches after he wrapped filming on John Carpenter’s Vampires in 2001. Maybe he was! He was not, however, done with Chvrches....
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John Carpenter –“Unkillable”
John Carpenter returned to the horror franchise he created to do the soundtrack for 2018’s Halloween, both a continuation and reboot of his 1978 original. Halloween Kills — its sequel and the middle...
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John Carpenter –“Michael’s Legend”
The soundtrack for Halloween Kills is coming out in a couple of weeks, on the same day as the movie. It was composed by absolute legend (and Halloween originator) John Carpenter, alongside...
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Watch The Two Minutes To Late Night Metal Salute To John Carpenter
The New York comedian Jordan Olds is the man behind the video series Two Minutes To Late Night, and he plays the show’s corpse-painted host Gwarsenio Hall. During the pandemic, Olds has taken part in...
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John Carpenter –“Firestarter (End Titles)”
John Carpenter, alongside his now frequent collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, has been busy these past couple years scoring the new Halloween trilogy — the last one of those, Halloween...
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80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday
Every time the Beatles come up, there’s the inevitable danger of hyperbole. But at the same time, it’s sort of hard to be that hyperbolic considering the scope of the group’s impact. Pop music and pop...
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John Carpenter –“The Procession”
On October 14, there will be another Halloween installment called Halloween Ends. It’s the final film in David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, where Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) faces off against...
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