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Wednesday, Oct 31 2018, 2PM
Happy Halloween from The Afternoon Show!!
This spooooky local band will be playing at the Showbox on November 5th.
This album was the first with Steve Shelley on drums, replacing Bob Bert.
From the 1979 debut!
British artist. www.ghostpoet.co.uk
For all the Wolves out there....
Just released earlier this month. This is the bands 4th studio album. www.wolfparade.com
7th album from the Cincinnati, OH band. wussy.bandcamp.com
Halloween appropriate track from this German DJ.pamparecords.com
Check out our line up for our live broadcast from Iceland here: www.kexp.org
with Johnny Jewel guesting on this track.
British duo! www.psapp.net
Local artist !soundcloud.com
Also celebrating Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday celebrating loved ones that have passed. The celebration begins today and ends on November 2nd, All Souls Day.
Getting back to more of their punk roots on this 7th album released in 1983.
Did you know that Michael Myers mask in Halloween was a William Shatner mask reworked? Spoooky.....!
Are we freaking you out yet? This band is duo Jeff Rosenstock and Chris Farren. antarctigovespucci.bandcamp.com
Robert Pollard is a Halloween baby, that devil!
Check out John Grant's top 5 scary movie soundtracks here: www.kexp.org
Orange and black are the colors associated with Halloween because orange is the color of fall and black is the color associated with darkness and death.
Halloween was brought to North America by European immigrants who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire and share ghost stories.
Mississippi blues artist.
People became superstitious about black cats believing witches avoided detection by turning into them.
On this day in 1974, Led Zeppelin celebrated the UK launch of their Swan Song record label with a huge Halloween Party.
Members of the band SURVIVE also soundtrack the series Stranger Things.
Local artist!
Echo and the Bunnyman are playing at The Moore theater November 29th.
Coming to The Moore on December 15th.
Americans buy almost 600 million pounds of candy a year to hand out to trick or treaters!!
Very sad to hear of co founding member Hardy Fox's passing today at the age of 73 from cancer.
On the popularity of this song, The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith once said “The thing about the new sound, especially ‘C.R.E.E.P.,’ was that it kept us alive. Do or die.”
Happy Halloween birthday to Adam Horovitz, aka Ad Rock!!
The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween so they started wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.
Are you afraid of Halloween? You might be diagnosed with Samhainophobia if you are.
Bauhaus originally released this song as a single in January of 1980.
Portland, OR punk band fronted by the late Fred Cole.
Did you know the White House is said to be haunted? The ghost of Abe Lincoln has been seen by Eleanor Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill.
Owls became a symbol of Halloween because in Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches and an owls call meant someone was about to die.