Artist To Watch: John Carpenter
It's fitting the Jersey-born New York-to-Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist John Carpenter shares a name with the man behind the Halloween franchise: There's something autumnal and spooky about his...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleJohn 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:...
View ArticleJohn 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,...
View ArticleStream John Carpenter Lost Themes
One of the many reasons 2015 is an amazing time to be alive: John Carpenter is about to drop an album on Sacred Bones. Carpenter is one of the great horror and sci-fi directors of all-time, and thanks...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleAlbum 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleJohn 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,...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleHudson 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleStream 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...
View Article8 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...
View Article9 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,...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article15 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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