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It's not too soon to put Tim Burton and Danny Elfman on the short list of the greatest director-composer collaborations in history, right up there with Hitchcock-Herrmann, Spielberg-Williams,... more

When Freddy Krueger of Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th butted heads (or lost their heads, heh heh) in the 2003 film Freddy Vs. Jason, the result wasn't just the most... more

Between movies and TV shows like The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, and 28 Days (and Years) Later, the 2000s have been something of a golden age for zombie horror. But for our money, every bit as... more

After years of visiting graveyards, combing through haunted houses, and pursuing (heh heh) dead ends, we finally tracked down the rights to the legendary Frankie Stein and His Ghouls series! Why did... more

There are zombies... and then there are brain-eating zombies! And Return of the Living Dead was the film where brain-eating zombies got their first lease on, er, life. Co-written by John Russo, who... more

A 1964 horror rock classic from the king of the genre, Gary Paxton! Gary was the producer behind the all-time Halloween hit "Monster Mash," and that song rears it's revivified head here (in a little... more

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life isn't just the most beloved holiday film of all time. It's also arguably the most quintessentially American movie ever made. It's populist message, everyman hero,... more

The third time was the charm for Cold, as album #3 went to #3 on the charts. Vocalist Scooter Ward was always (and still is) the band's biggest asset, so Year of the Spider's move in a more melodic... more

Do hearses and hot rods go together? Well, they sure do in the fevered mind of famed producer Gary Usher! Usher made his bones penning songs for the Beach Boys (he co-wrote "In My Room" with Brian... more

You ready to catch a monster grave? Surf on this 1964 classic from the venerable Vee-Jay label! While this album has been reissued before, this is the first time it's been cut all-analog straight... more

1000 Fires Traci Lords - The album remains her only full-length music release to date. Lords started working on the album in April 1994, and collaborated with producers Juno Reactor, Mike Edwards and... more

Rusted Root were part of the first wave of post-hippie jam bands and perhaps the most commercially successful of 'em all, as 1994's When I Woke, their second record and first major label release,... more

Come On Come On isn't just Mary Chapin Carpenter's most popular album, with sales of 3 million copies. It's also a contemporary country landmark. No less than seven of it's songs became country hits:... more

This 2003 record represented a real turning point for Static-X. Korn's Jonathan Davis had tapped Wayne Static to sing "Not Meant for Me" on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, and that... more

This 2002 album was the last of L.A. band Fear Factory's amazing run of albums for the Roadrunner Records, but it was actually the first. Huh? Let us explain-or better yet, you can read the two sets... more

The music's by Cyndi Lauper. The book's by Harvey Fierstein. It garnered 13 Tony Award nominations, and won 6 of them including Best Musical, Best Actor (for Billy Porter), and Best Score. The cast... more