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Jackson Five - Get It Together / Elemental Music (2024)

The Jackson Five – Get It Together (Limited Edition Red Vinyl Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

Before the popularized term of Boy Band, there was The Jackson Five. A group of five brothers out of Gary, Indiana, The Jackson Five (originally consisting of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael Jackson) were overflowing with talent. Signing on with Motown, they were the ... Read More

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin – Fear: The Ultimate Anthology (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

The soundtrack is a vital part of a film that sets the mood, creates anticipation, and in the world of Horror, accelerates fear. Seen explicitly with John Carpenter’s 1978 score to his film Halloween, other shining examples would have to include the haunting, reverberant notes ... Read More

The Supremes - A Bit of Liverpool / Elemental Music (2024)

The Supremes – A Bit of Liverpool (Limited Edition Mono Vinyl Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

While Duwop and American artists like The Four Seasons, Del Shannon, The Everly Brothers, and R&B groups like The Shirelles and The Drifters owned popular music charts in the earlier part of the ‘60s, by 1964 massive changes were coming with the arrival of what ... Read More

Everclear - Sparkle & Fade / So Much for the Afterglow / Intervention Records

Everclear – Sparkle & Fade and So Much for the Afterglow (Remastered Vinyl Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

The last couple of years have been pretty exciting for Alternative Rock leaders Everclear. To start with, in 2023 they put out Live at the Whisky a Go Go. A great set captured for their first-ever live album, the release also featured a brand new ... Read More

Mickey Thomas - A Classic Christmas (2024)

Mickey Thomas – A Classic Christmas (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

Famously recognized as the voice of Starship, Mickey Thomas was arguably one of the best vocalists in Rock-n-Roll during the ‘80s era. Also the voice behind the memorable Elvis Bishop 1976 track “Fooled Around And Fell In Love,” Thomas initially joined Jefferson Starship in 1979, ... Read More

The Foreshadowing - New Wave Order / Lifeforce Records (2024)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 14, 2024

Since forming nearly twenty years ago, The Foreshadowing has sustained itself as a leading force in the Gothic Doom Metal world. Out of Italy, the band was a surprise newcomer back in 2007 with the release of the debut album Days of Nothing. From here ... Read More

Album Review

The Jackson Five – Get It Together (Limited Edition Red Vinyl Review)

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin – Fear: The Ultimate Anthology (Album Review)

The Supremes – A Bit of Liverpool (Limited Edition Mono Vinyl Review)

Everclear – Sparkle & Fade and So Much for the Afterglow (Remastered Vinyl Review)

Mickey Thomas – A Classic Christmas (Album Review)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

The Jackson Five – Get It Together (Limited Edition Red Vinyl Review)

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin – Fear: The Ultimate Anthology (Album Review)

The Supremes – A Bit of Liverpool (Limited Edition Mono Vinyl Review)

Everclear – Sparkle & Fade and So Much for the Afterglow (Remastered Vinyl Review)

Mickey Thomas – A Classic Christmas (Album Review)

The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Album Review)

This Week In Horror – Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

This Week in Horror Movie History – The Horror Show (1989)

This Week In Horror Movie History – Gothic (1987)

Developing Artist Showcase – Black Hibiscus

Developing Artist Showcase – Return to Dust

Developing Artist Showcase – Niina Soleil

Interview – Madeleine McGraw & Violet McGraw

Interview – Maria Canals-Barrera

Interview – Aaron Stainthorpe of High Parasite & My Dying Bride

Poppy – Negative Spaces (Album Review)

Doro – Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas Party (EP Review)

Empire of the Ants (Blu-ray Review)