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Month: October 2014 (Page 2 of 5)

Update On The Jasons

jasons cdIt’s a big week for The Jasons, the band of merry horror punksters who star in the latest RFC MINI SHOW (seen above). Not only did they release their own extraordinarily cool music video (see it below) they also announced a pre-order for their new EP CD. If you hurry, you might still be able to order a special package that includes STALK AND SLASH SUMMER plus 2 buttons, a poster and a set of personalized postcards signed by each member of the band by visiting HERE. Soon you’ll just be able to get the CD.

This is The Jasons second CD release, and is the first recording session with the 4-member line-up. STALK AND SLASH SUMMER was recorded in a blitzkrieg 20 hour session at the Fox’s Burrows studio and mixed/mastered in 2 days. It features eight new studio tracks plus one unreleased bonus track, and runs a little over 18 min.

The fun is not over for The Jasons. Next week they pop back up with two more songs on The Radio Free Charleston Halloween special.

Motorhead of the Class

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A couple of weeks ago I told you about local filmmaker Holly Siders and her entry in a contest to make a video for the legendary Metal band, Motorhead. Voting for the contest happens over at Ultimate Classic Rock and you can vote once every hour until the contest ends on October 31. The winner gets a ton of Motorhead merch and their video becomes the offical video for the song.

Holly is an extremely talented creator, which we knew way back in 2007 when we brought you her very first music video, for the band Voices of Anatole, on episode 22 of Radio Free Charleston. We remastered this show last summer and you can see it HERE.

For the contest Holly had to create a video for the Motorhead song, “Killed By Death,” and it was chosen as one of ten finalists in the contest. Currently she’s a strong second in the voting. Even though I normally frown on creative competitions like this, I’m making an exception because Holly does such amazing work, and it’d be really cool for an RFC contributor and PopCult discovery to have an official Motorhead video among their credits. You can vote HERE, and see Holly’s video below…

The PopCult Toybox: Batman Bender

DC-3921_1__00832.1405342021.1280.1280Last year I wrote about a set of Justice League of America bendy figures from NJ Croce. For that review, which includes a background of just exactly what a bendy figure is, go HERE. This week in the PopCult Toybox we’re going to look at the follow-up, Batman Classic TV Series bendies.

These are based on the 1966 Batman TV series, which is due out soon on DVD and Blu Ray, and it sports the same uniform package art and color scheme that Mattel used on their impressive Batmobile back in the summer of 2013 (and if you’re still interested in that Batmobile, both of our local Toys R Us stores finally got them–more than a year after they were initially released). I think the artwork on this round of packaging is by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, working in a simpler style than usual.

The boxed set of five Batman Classic TV Bendies

The boxed set of five Batman Classic TV Bendies

As with last year’s batch of DC Comics figures, this is a pretty nifty set. The sculpting is pretty close to the actor’s likenesses and the details are pretty good, given the limitations of the bendy format. Continue reading

The RFC MINI SHOW with The Jasons

Image702This week The RFC MINI SHOW brings you The Jasons, recorded live at ShockaCon, just last month. The Jasons just marked their first year of performing and this horror-punk outfit from Crystal Lake, New Jersey (by way of the Mountain State) are hotter than ever. With a sound not unlike their fierce rivals, The Renfields, The Jasons slash their way through three chords and a quick beat, leaving few survivors.

The rivalry with The Renfields is so intense that The Jasons’ frontman, Jason V refuses to be seen in the same room as Vincent Renfield.

The RFC MINI SHOW captures The Jasons performing one original tune and one cover of song by a legendary punk band. We also get to witness some of the witty stage banter between the members of the band. You never really get to see the humorous side of Jason Vorhees in the Friday the 13th movies, but on stage, his comedy just kills.

This episode of The RFC MINI SHOW is a preview of sorts for this year’s epic Radio Free Charleston Halloween Special, featuring more music by The Jasons as well as songs from HarraH, Radio Cult and The Possum Kingdom Ramblers. You can see the Radio Free Charleston Halloween Special next week.

Monday Morning Art: CSI Whitechapel

Img_1871Last night saw another stellar edition of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show at Uncork and Create, and the theme was Jack The Ripper. Appropriate for the Halloween season, and timely thanks to the “Now we got him. Now we don’t” DNA tango currently being danced in the UK, this session presented Luna L’Enfant and Ruby Rouge as two of the most unfortunate ladies of the Whitechapel District’s evening, while Chase Henderson, the guru of Dr. Sketchy’s himself, took on the role of Saucy Jack, London’s most famous anonymous cut-up.

Since we don’t want PopCult to be slashed out of the belly of The Charleston Gazette, we will avoid any of the gorier images from last night, but suffice to say, it took a lot of guts for the Wayward Girls to pose like that. We will bring you digital paintings of the knife behind the back, the ladies courting death and Jack, polishing his weapon. Click to enlarge the images.

Next month Dr. Sketchy’s will peek inside the dressing room of Jessica Rabbit.

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Sunday Evening Videos: The Big Bad

10658597_10152559088139261_8532332990244851300_oThis week we bring you The Big Bad, hot off an amazing Zombie Prom at the Boulevard Tavern last night The band premiered two videos this week off their new CD. Above you see “Lover’s Lane Murders.” Below you see ‘Out of The Morgue.”

Soon you will be able to order the CD HERE, or buy it from them in person at The Empty Glass’ Halloween Hootenanny on October 31, where they will be playing with The Renfields, Super Heavy Duty and Time And Distance. This is the sixteenth year that The Empty Glass has pulled out all the stops for an insane Halloween experience. Just check out the cool flyer, painted by Chris Woodall, who coincidentally is a member of Super Heavy Duty, in addition to being a great artist.

As a bonus, after the jump, we bring you last February’s RFC MINI SHOW starring The Big Bad.

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RFC Flashback: More Halloween Shows

Mandy Petry and Jeff Bukovinsky of the No Pants Players with Rudy in 2009

We continue our look back at Radio Free Charleston’s Halloween shows with our 2009 episode, considered by many to be our best episode with tons of guests ranging from The No Pants Players to Mark Wolfe, and music by Unknown Hinson and Flare Baroshi, among others.

In 2010 we brought you an extended preview of my still-unfinished Zombie-Noir epic, “Jazz From Hell.”

In 2011, we didn’t do a Halloween show, and for the life of me, I can’t remember why. However, we did post video of the second HallowEast Zombie Walk, so there’s that. We made up for it the next year with a bonus “Best of Halloween” show that we’re including here.

Next week we’ll get you all caught up, just in time for our 2014 Halloween show, which harkens back to our 2009 show.

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Major Stuff To Do

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October 17, 2014

It’s another weekend crammed with more stuff than one human could possibly attend here in Charleston.

So we’re going to try to provide you with the highlights so that you can realize what your missing while you’re going to other cool stuff.

Farenheit 451

Fahrenheit451BThe Science Fiction Movie Series continues at The Electric Sky Theater at The Clay Center this weekend, as they present Francois Truffaut’s 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s cautionary tale about a dystopian government in the future where books are banned and everybody is forced to watch FOX News.

Julie Christie and Oscar Werner star in this speculative fiction classic.You can see it Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM at The Electric Sky Theater at The Clay Center. Tickets are six dollars and for more information, you can call 304-561-3570, or visit the Clay Center’s website. Continue reading

A World of Wonderfully Weird Art

The PopCult Bookshelf

A Weird-Oh World: The Art of Bill Campbell
9780764346484by Mark Cantrell
Schiffer Publishing
ISBN13: 9780764346484
$39.99

This is not your conventional art book. Bill Campbell was a commercial artist in the classic sense. He began his career in the military during World War II. In fact, he was involved with The Manhatten project. After the war he found work with the Hawk Model Company, creating powerful box-top paintings that depicted the aircraft and other vehicles that kids could assemble from the kits contained within.

"Endsville Ediie" a Weird-Oh

“Endsville Ediie” a Weird-Oh

It was while doodling ideas on the side that he created the Weird-Ohs, grotesque trolls with vampire teeth, riding around in wild, cartoonish hot-rods. His creation of these iconic gross-out toys of the 60s predated Marx Toys’ Nutty Mads and Revell Models’ Big Daddy Roth Rat Fink kits. Weird-Ohs was the first, and Bill Campbell’s creations not only inspired competing toy and model kit lines, but also generations of kids who would grow up to create their own gross-out properties like Garbage Pail Kids, Mad Balls, Uglydolls and other things that delight kids and disgust parents.

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