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WESTWORLD SEASON 2 OST – STARBURST Magazine
WESTWORLD SEASON 2 OST – STARBURST Magazine
WESTWORLD SEASON 2 OST – STARBURST Magazine
Ramin Djawadi’s score for the HBO series Westworld has become just as well known for the different interpretations of pop songs as it is for the composer’s original music. Season 2 is no different, but the ways in which Djawadi combines the influences of his score and the music he’s recreating have grown to new … Continued
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Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again
Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again
Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again
At the beginning of this year, my wife and I took a look a our viewing habits and decided the $50+ we were paying a month to the cable company could be better distributed elsewhere in our budget. So, we dropped cable, and went out to buy a digital converter box and HD antenna. We lost a few local ch
William Shatner talks the joy of the uncompromised moment ahead of his one-man show at Yardley Hall Saturday
William Shatner talks the joy of the uncompromised moment ahead of his one-man show at Yardley Hall Saturday
William Shatner talks the joy of the uncompromised moment ahead of his one-man show at Yardley Hall Saturday
At this point in his career, actor William Shatner needs no introduction. But one can nevertheless take pleasure in recapping: We are talking about the or…
Halloween Horror Marathon: American Horror Story: Freak Show
This week is really flying off the rails thematically, isn’t it? Only ONE Vnicent Price movie in a week devoted to him? Fuck me. However, in addition to a billion other things, we totally forgot American Horror Story started its new season this week, so we absolutely had to watch the premiere of Freak Show on demand last night.
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Poole’s “Vampira” an interesting biography of the horror host, but thin on details
Soft Skull Press always presents a unique twist with its biographies or memoirs. It’s never just a straightforward history of the titular individual, but rather an analysis of the environment which produced the subject. In the case of W. Scott Poole‘s Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror, the author uses the ’50s horror host as an entry point to discussing the era’s social mores and how the woman born Maila Nurmi challenged the status quo.
The author has a wealth of information on which to draw. Sadly, little of it is regarding Vampira herself. There’s minimal evidence of her television program, and what remains of her work is, essentially, bit parts in a few films. The thing for which she garnered her initial acclaim exists only anecdotally, leading to a great amount of speculation on Poole’s part.
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Death Waltz Records announces their Record Store Day releases
Some of you may have recently become acquainted with the UK’s Death Waltz Records via their profile in Spin. Well, the fine purveyors of horror and sci-fi vinyl announced their releases for Record Store Day 2013. They’re fucking choice. While the soundtracks to Horror Business and the short film Yellow will have a lot of the folks out there most excited, I’m pretty jazzed about the series of three split 7-inches of TV themes.
There’s Star Trek / Lost In Space on black and glitter vinyl, The Twilight Zone / The Outer Limits on clear and black vinyl, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents / The Munsters on white and black vinyl. They’re all in exlusive Death Waltz die cut retro disco bag sleeves (300gsm card with matte varnish and black paper inner sleeve), include a free 7 x 7 artprint, and are limited to a one-time pressing of 1000.
WANT. HARD. Somebody in the UK needs to figure out a way to get me one of each, please. Check the art below.
“TV Horror” more notable for what it omits than what it covers
Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott‘s new book from I.B. Tauris, TV Horror: Investigating the Darker Side of the Small Screen, is an excellent, scholarly look at how the horror genre is portrayed on television. The authors look both to Stephen King’s oft-quoted opinion that television limits the terror that can be portrayed, as well as examining the possibilities offered by the small screen.
It’s strange, though — the book mentions the likes of the X-Files, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the Twilight Zone, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and even the likes of Twin Peaks. However, the greatest number of pages are devoted not to those particular shows, but to Doctor Who.
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Forman’s history of music in the early days of TV alternately frustrating and brilliant
Murray Forman‘s new book, One Night On TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music On Early Television is an invaluable history, but one with a frustrating premise at its heart. The history, out now through Duke University Press, does an excellent job of setting up and proving the notion that “music television” didn’t start with MTV in the early ’80s.
In addition to the myriad shows that would feature music as part and parcel of their programming as the medium went forward, television used music from its very inception. Singers and musical combos were part of the first broadcast tests. It’s a natural progression from radio, from whose networks television would arise. It’s only logical that the earliest things to come across the airwaves into the sets would be a visual representation of the most predominant aspect of radio. Namely, music.
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Hibbs’ “Shows About Nothing” an interesting confluence of genres
Thomas S. Hibbs‘ Shows about Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture makes for an interesting confluence of genres. The examination of philosophy in pop culture is nothing new, of course – Open Court Books’ Popular Culture and Philosophy series covers any number of TV shows and movies, including The Simpsons and Star Wars.
However, Hibbs’ book weaves a discussion of nihilism with Cape Fear, Nip/Tuck, and a slew of diverse and seemingly unrelated films and programs. Granted, the subtitle is a trifle over-reaching. Hibbs sticks primarily to film and television, with a brief digression into Shakespeare in the early chapters. Music is left wholly untouched – a smart move, as it could easily be a series of books unto itself – but those hoping to see how video games tie into all of this will be left wanting.
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