Music

[WTF] The Residents Unveil $100,000 Ultimate Box Set

Published

11 years ago

December 8, 2012

Avant-garde music collective The Residents have unveiled an Ultimate Box Set in celebration of their 40th anniversary. The set includes 100 Residents related products, including each release, all DVDs, each of the CD-ROM projects, and a limited edition Top Hat/Eye mask. Oh, and everything is packed inside of a 28 cubic ft. refrigerator. The price tag is a cool $100,000 and only ten of these are being made. They go on sale Dec. 25th, 2012, so if you happen to have that kind of cash burning a hole in your pocket and you’re the biggest Residents fan this side of the Mississippi, go forth and conquer. Otherwise, look on in shock.

Oh, and one other thing: the band has announced that there will be a 1-of-a-kind box that will be sold as well. The contents are completely under wraps but there is a price tag attached: $5 million dollars. I don’t know what’s in there but unless it’s a contract giving the rights to the masters to the purchaser, I can’t see how it would be worth it.

You can watch a video for the Ultimate Box Set below.

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Music

“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…