Understood it may not always connect, but trusting it will connect.

The shortest of nods today, as tomorrow, I go "under the knife" for real, in the early a.m. ...

Standout selections from Basarabian Hills (the pastoral and the black) | Scorpion Violente (their new 12" EP a mix of Giallo-film and Suicide essence) | two songs from They Feed At Night (thanks to Bobias B. Borris for the recommendation!) | a classic Warsaw track | new Jute Gyte | new Blue Sabbath Black Cheer Witch Hunt 7" | Sick Llama | new music from The Gate | Fire-Toolz (!!!) | new Richard Pinhas ...

Listeners seem to appreciate the expanded, perhaps more-adventurous horrorcast™ playlists that have honestly just naturally occurred in more-recent months, that "Quiet side of the Castle" traditionally reserved for our last hour, and sometimes receiving the greatest accolades, I'm spreading out that material more intuitively, trying to roll forward with what I really want to hear in the precise moment, worrying less about genre blocks.

Hope you like our playlist-topper image this week, not a screen capture, but a b&w production still from The Loveless (1981)—one perfect little moment not actually in the final film. Katherine Bigelow's first feature is most often discussed as an homage to The Wild One; for me, I see nods everywhere to Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos and Scorpio Rising.

My Castle of Quiet returns in two weeks; thanks as always for lending your ears.

Sons of bitches want EVERYTHING!

Excited by the recent influx of great punk / death rock / hxcx vinyl into WFMU's new bin; new LPs by Life Stinks, Muerte, Manateees, and Condition are ruling the day. Also, still feeding off the great Tyrants of Hell (Wohrt) and Expander cassettes (Caligari), as well as the Helmsplitter / The Communion split CD. ...

Listener-comment / playlist nods went to selections from great albums by Absurd | Tarm

Keeping this one short; thanks as always for tuning in, and for your passive or active participation....

Click on our "devoted" young lady above, answering an old storyteller's dying wish (from the delightfully raunchy Japanese comedy / musical Wakeful Nights), to reach the archived audio, playlist and comments for last night's horrorcast™. Lots of great live music, and a new show logo, coming in 2016 on MCoQ.

Dr. Who shit just got real.

There are problems, and then there are problems. All in all, this guy had a good night, one of the more memorable of his life for sure. You'll have to see Cheap Thrills to find out more. ...

My 2015 list of films and music is coming, still making notes...Cheap Thrills will not be on it, but it had some strong competition. Look for that post here within the next week & 1/2; in the meantime, here are my music and film lists from 2014 and 2013...just to remind you that I don't half-ass these things, I write 'em "meaty," and it's never just a line item list, free of opinion or context or commentary, films being such a huge, daily part of my life that the yearly posts start to write themselves in my head, especially once I'm watching these works for the 2nd or 3rd time. My list-keeping may have been a little too good this year in terms of music, currently hovering at ~80 entries.

Last night's show was a blast. Sometimes it's useful to have a "metal-light" program, as we did when hosting COMPACTOR last week, and Horoscope a few weeks past, to strike a victorious return, coming back car-crash force the week following.

Listeners commented:  The Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme | Wende | Moonspawn | Leash | Overkill's "Space Truckin'" (Matt W. played the Deep Purple Live in Japan album-side-long version later) | The Leather Nun's "Prime Mover" single (quintessential death rock before that term existed) | new Viands LP on Midwich | ...new releases that rattled my air included:  Expander | Tyrants of Hell | Vetala LP | Life Stinks | Muerte | Virgin Flower cassette | Patrick Cowley archival CD

So click on the hapless-yet-victorious Craig, up top, to reach the playlist and audio archive for this week's horrorcast™...thanks for listening, back next week.

make me cry!

Paper towels, tear with ease at the perforation...or F E E L  M Y  W R A T H ! ! !

On occasion, My Castle of Quiet takes on spontaneous form, a swirlie of pre-planned and unplanned elements; such was last night's show, with engaging conversations forming a centerpiece, surrounded by mostly lovely, haunting music.

As I intentionally festooned the program around Rene Nunez' soulful and many-textured Horoscope performance, that lapsed into a chat, give or take as long as the set itself, rare for McoQ, but Rene and I fell in quite naturally, an extension of our off-air talk that preceded the program. The live set itself was rich with engaging and varied approaches to solo sound manipulation, using circular musical figures and compelling spoken extracts, and I'd imagine Horoscope's available and soon-to-be available recordings reflect that same singularity and heart.

A bracing chat ensued as well with music writer and Castle friend Mike Rowell, mostly about the SF Fabio Frizzi concert, some other brief music and film tangents as well. Mike's reports from the left-coast field will likely become a recurring segment.

Castleheads loved "Demon Loaf," from the new cassette and digital album Chuck by former McoQ live guests The Gate, as well as selections in our opening set by David Bowie (from Low), Vond, and the supreme new double LP by Kawabata Makoto on vhf.

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Next week, my singles, going steady (or at least liking you as a friend), live music from Mortífera the week after. Click on the gloppy, green mummy from Charles Band's Petrified, above, to reach the playlist and archived audio for this week's horrorcast™.