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Contributor Sammy Key Reports On Vans Warped Tour For EIY

Published

13 years ago

July 23, 2011

Contributor Sammy Key has been giving us BD Music readers some great articles, from her ratings of the Saw Soundtracks to her interview with Anthony Raneri to her 5 Greatest Rock N’ Roll Frontwomen. She has definitely shown her passion for horror and music. Sammy recently was chosen to be a press correspondant for Earn It Yourself at the Vans Warped Tour in Hartford, CT. Below is an excerpt and a link to the full review.

Ah, the Vans Warped Tour. I, like many other kids my age, have been making this yearly summer pilgrimage to the altars of dusty parking lots, one-day-only stages and the God-like musicians who grace them since the ripe young age of thirteen. And I think that’s how many of the tour’s attendees think of the festival that is a huge cornerstone to summer – as a vaguely spirtual experience. On the drive up to Hartford, one of my best friends, Steph, and I joked about our date of the tour being held on a Sunday. “It’s like we’re on our way to church!” I said to Steph as we navigated our way to Hartford. She turned to me and said, “Well…we sort of are!”

Read the rest of her review here.

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…