Tricks or Treats

Tricks or Treats: “’97 Bonnie and Clyde”

By on October 31st, 2009

It’s Halloween. Nothing scarier than an Eminem cover… by Tori Amos.

Tricks or Treats: “Liar”

By on October 30th, 2009

Imagine if Trent Reznor at his angriest and Radiohead at their strangest combined into a single entity. Imagine this entity was asked to write a 1800s haunted house soundtrack. Now imagine that this person is a psychotic female who’s the definition of “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” That person would be Emilie Autumn. Scared yet?

Break Yo’ TV (Tricks or Treats Edition): “Anything Can Happen on Halloween”

By on October 21st, 2009

This delicious dose of bad taste comes courtesy of spook royalty, the illustrious Mister Tim Curry.

Break Yo’ TV (Tricks or Treats Edition): “The Hunger”

By on October 14th, 2009

A Tricks or Treats and Break Yo’ TV Collaboration: So hilarious… it’s frightening!

Tricks or Treats: “We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own”

By on October 8th, 2009

Yes, it’s that time of the year again!

Tricks or Treats: “Slush”

By on October 31st, 2008

Out of all the acts birthed from the ’60s, hardly anyone ever recognizes the talent and tense instrumentation of rockers turned jazz rockers turned comedy rockers turned psychedelic rockers, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. If that lil’ ditty of a sentence didn’t turn your head, then perhaps this bit of information might: this London act is [...]

Tricks or Treats: “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)”

By on October 29th, 2008

Everyone can breathe easy now that David Bowie makes an appearance on Tricks or Treats. Clearly one of the more playful and theatrical acts of all time, Bowie was never afraid of scaring people with his music and is known to some purely on his costumes and clothing. “Scary Monsters(and Super Creeps)”, off the album [...]

Tricks or Treats: “Lullaby”

By on October 28th, 2008

As the voice and face of The Cure, Robert Smith has always given off the vibe of a somewhat deranged person with his black frazzled hair and thick, dark makeup. Starting as early as the late 1970’s, The Cure has always been recognized for its increasingly dark and tormented music which helped later form the [...]

Tricks or Treats: “House of Horrors”

By on October 27th, 2008

Get your fucking Faygo out, bitches. But seriously, this installment of Tricks or Treats is a bodyslam from the past with “House of Horrors” by everyone’s favorite clown rap-metal fusion artists/professional wrestlers, ICP (Insane Clown Posse). A brief period of time back in the late 90s, Insane Clown Posse ruled the white rap game out [...]

Tricks or Treats: “The Order of Death”

By on October 25th, 2008

Oh, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) you are so awesomely frightening. Here is how scary John Lydon is, he gets sick when he’s a kid and loses part of his memory, to which he bears permanent crazy eyes. That is kind of cool already, but add in that he’s the lead singer of the Sex [...]