It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

A New Form of Beauty, Heresie, … If I Die, I Die, The Moon Looked Down and Laughed and Over the Rainbow (Mute) Gavin Friday, leader of the long-defunct Virgin Prunes, is nothing if not a goth-punk ...

This is a very, very good day for heavy music. We've already posted the ass-stomping new albums from Sharptooth and Skeleton, and now the Las Vegas outfit SpiritWorld have come out with their ...

This time of year, the general pubic is often reminded of Halloween's pagan roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain. But there is also a thriving pagan community in the United States, both on the web ...

The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts of Madison officials will present the History of Holiday Songs at 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec.

Rewind the tape to 1913 Paris, when the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" changed classical music and dance forever. No less than Igor Stravinsky's dissonant score, Vaslav Nijinsky's iconoclastic ...

This debut EP from Chapel Hill quartet Pagan Hellcats mixes bluesy rockers and rootsy ballads, drawing primarily on the late ’60s rock of The Band, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. The singular exception ...