Austin's Annual Halloween Spook-tacular!

Darkness Descends! (Featuring songs about darkness and the night to kick off our annual Halloween Spook-tacular, already in progress!  Orignally Podcast on 2 October 2012, and again in 2015.)  Playlist & Footnotes: Every year about this time, I feel a slight chill enter my bones, a feeling that sinks into my very thought processes and … Continue reading Darkness Descends!

Episode 186: Darkness Descends! (Featuring songs about darkness and the night to kick off our annual Halloween Spook-tacular, already in progress!)  Every year about this time, I feel a slight chill enter my bones, a feeling that sinks into my very thought processes and stays with me well into the winter months.  The days are … Continue reading Episode 186: Darkness Descends!

Closet Radio Episode 003: The Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 2 (Originally Broadcast: 31 October 2011.) Wrapping up the Halloween creeps, I present you with part two of the Rikki Horror Picture Show! More morbid mayhem this week along with our very special (and hopefully recurring) guest, Claudiu, new DJ Chris popped in for a … Continue reading The Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 2

Episode 138: The Potters of Firsk (A Halloween Spook-tacular!) The Potters of Firsk * Dimension X * NBC * 28 July 1950 Part I 01.) Yellow * Ken Nordine * RE/Search: Incredibly Strange Music Vol II 02.) Speedy Car * Stereolab * Aluminum Tunes 03.) New New * DNA * Dna 04.) Exotic Two (Excerpt) * Sun … Continue reading Episode 138: The Potters of Firsk

The Potters of Firsk (Featuring an episode of X-Minus 1, remixed, originally broadcast on KPSU on 29 October 2011, and again in 2015.) Playlist & Footnotes: In this two-hour Halloween finale from the end of the 2011 season of our show was unusual for the Halloween shows I did at the time, being not only … Continue reading The Potters of Firsk

Closet Radio Episode 002: Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 1 (Originally Broadcast: 24 October 2011 on KPSU.) We’re upon the witching season. Get into it with some good old fashioned songs about monsters, murders, mayhem, morbid meanderings and more! Next week’s episode (Saturday @ 5pm PST) will fill you up with the ghastly spirit of evil … Continue reading Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 1

Mad Monster Party?!  Mad Monster Party? on Wikipedia https://ia601501.us.archive.org/15/items/Episode137_201810/Episode137.mp3   Mad Monster Party?! 01.) Mad Monster Party Part I 02.) What Kind Of Ghoul Am I (Mashed Potato) * Frankie Stein And His Ghouls * Ghoul Music * Power Records 03.) Mad Monster Party Part II 04.) Wolfman * The Shindigs 05.) Mad Monster Party … Continue reading Mad...

Episode 136: The Cask of Amontillado w/ Miss Rikki! (A Halloween Spook-tacular!) (Featuring a special Halloween Spook-tacular airing of a How’s It Named? rendition of Basil Rathbone’s reading of the Edgar Allen Poe classic!) How’s It Named? dates back to my appearance on What’s This Called? in 2008, when I guested on his show and came up with … Continue reading Episod...

The Cask of Amontillado w/ Miss Rikki! (Featuring a special Halloween Spook-tacular airing of a How’s It Named? rendition of Basil Rathbone’s reading of the Edgar Allen Poe classic!  Originally broadcast on KPSU on 22 October 2011, and re-aired in 2015.) Playlist & Footnotes: How’s It Named? dates back to my appearance on What’s This Called? in 2008, … Continue re...

A Spike Jones Spooktacular (In Screaming Stereo Sound!) (Featuring Halloween Novelties, Monster Records, and Plenty of Spooktacular fun!  Originally broadcast on KPSU 15 October 2011 and in 2015 as “#21.2”..) Pulling material from two classic Halloween Novelty records (namely the Spike Jones album in question, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Music To Be Murdered By), this show … Con...

Episode 135: A Spike Jones Spooktacular (In Screaming Stereo Sound!) (Featuring Halloween Novelties, Monster Records, and Plenty of Spooktacular fun!) Pulling material from two classic Halloween Novelty records (namely the Spike Jones album in question, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Music To Be Murdered By), this show focuses records and musical oddities that are on the fringes … Continue rea...

The Ghoulardi Show! (Originally broadcast on 8 October 2011 on KPSU, re-aired in 2015, and as “#19.2” in 2016.) I have to admit, I am not cool enough to have known about Ghoulardi until only a few years ago.  As a Cramps fan, this may seem unusual, but with so much on my radar when I … Continue reading The Ghoulardi Show!

Episode 134: The Ghoulardi Show! (A Halloween Spook-tacular!) I have to admit, I am not cool enough to have known about Ghoulardi until only a few years ago.  As a Cramps fan, this may seem unusual, but with so much on my radar when I first discovered The Cramps, it just wasn’t possible to keep abreast … Continue reading Episode 134: The Ghoulardi Show!

The Mad Daddy Rides Again! (Featuring two hours of the originator of Halloween Radio, The Mad Daddy Himself!  Originally broadcast on 1 October 2011 on KPSU, again in 2015, and again in 2016 as “#19.1.”) In the late ’50’s and early ’60’s, the citizens of Cleveland would tune in late at night to hear the … Continue reading The Mad Daddy Rides Again!

Episode 133: The Mad Daddy Rides Again! (A Halloween Spook-tacular!) (Featuring two hours of the originator of Halloween Radio, The Mad Daddy Himself!) In the late ’50’s and early ’60’s, the citizens of Cleveland would tune in late at night to hear the rhyming ravings of a real radio genius, The Mad Daddy!  Using sound effects … Continue reading Episode 133: The Mad D...

The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales (Featuring a four hour Halloween presentation of Diamanda Galás reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat!  Originally broadcast on 30 October 2010 on KPSU, and re-aired in 2015.) Playlist & Footnotes: Join me for a special extended edition of Blasphuphmus Radio, just in time for the Holidays!  That’s … Continue reading The Black Cat...

Episode 092: The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales (A Halloween Spook-tacular!) (Featuring a four hour Halloween presentation of Diamanda Galás reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat!) Join me for a special extended edition of Blasphuphmus Radio, just in time for the Holidays!  That’s right, tune in for a special re-telling of Edgar Allen Poe’s … Continue reading Epi...

What’s This Called?: 30 October 2010: Big City Orchestra, LIVE! Big City Orchestra Live in the Studio! Our Mausoleum Big Tom the Lithuanian single Devil Dogs Big City Orchestra Consumer CD Why Don’t We Eat Carrots? Big City Orchestra Cockamame Live Big City Orchestra on What’s This Called? Meow Mix Big City Orchestra Consumer CD

Episode 091: Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II w/ Moth Hunter (Featuring two hours of Halloween Goth & Industrial music for a perfect seasonal soundtrack.) Enjoy! Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II # Track * Artist * Album * Label 01.) * * Sounds To Make You Shiver 02.) The Durrow … Continue reading Episode 091: Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II

Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II w/ Moth Hunter (Featuring two hours of Halloween Goth & Industrial music for a perfect seasonal soundtrack. Originally broadcast on KPSU.) Enjoy! https://ia601503.us.archive.org/12/items/RockOutWithYourGothOutPtII/RockOutWithYourGothOutPtII.mp3 Rock Out With Your Goth Out Part II # Track * Artist * Album * Label 01.) * * Sounds To Make You Shiver … Con...

Episode 090: Lost In Space! (Featuring a journey through the stars, and on a rocket, with a little help from The Day The Earth Stood Still.) Enjoy! https://ia601508.us.archive.org/28/items/LostInSpace_201810/LostInSpace.mp3   Lost In Space! # Track * Artist * Album * Label 01.) * * Excerpts from The Day The Earth Stood Still (Throughout) 02.) Interstellar Overdrive … Continue reading Lo...

Episode 045: The How’s It Named? Halloween Spook-Tacular! (Featuring scary selections from the collections of Austin Rich & Ricardo Wang.) Pulling out all the stops for the last installment of our Spook-Tacular series this month, I joined forces with Ricardo Wang of What’s This Called? to bring you two hours of insanity to kick-start your … Continue reading Episode 045: The H...

The “How’s It Named?” Halloween Spook-Tacular! (Featuring scary selections from the collections of Austin Rich & Ricardo Wang. Originally broadcast on Halloween in 2009 on KPSU.) Pulling out all the stops for the last installment of our Spook-Tacular series this month, I joined forces with Ricardo Wang of What’s This Called? to bring you two … Continue reading The...

Episode 044: Fromage de l’Halloween (Featuring even more of the same, and then some, from a October 25th, 2006 show.) Corny music! And spook-tacular news concerning next week’s show! Can you believe all the exclamation points?!  During the original broadcast, I was training a new KPSU volunteer, who shares this show with me.  It’s a … Continue reading Episode 044: Fromage d...

Episode 043: Lost In The Punk-In Patch (18 October 2006 Retrocast) (Featuring all your favorite Halloween classics, from Dead Moon to The Dream Syndicate) With only a spare few weeks left until Halloween Proper, I continue my holiday-season retrocasts with a fantastic episode from 2006, featuring a wonderful assortment of Creepy Monster Punk Songs, guaranteed to put … Continue reading Episod...