Returning to the routine of pumping out a new Monday Magick post every week over the last month has been rewarding. And I’m especially happy I was able to do it during the month of October. It took afew weeks of getting back into the swing of things, but as[…]
Speaking of weird, sorta depressing pseudo R&B slow-jam shit, “Will He”, a piano and 808 kick drum driven slapper from joji, a.k.a. George Miller, the Japanese-Australian YouTube personality behind Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, is kinda ruling my sad boy ass right now. The video, which features buckets of blood[…]
A couple of weeks ago I posted on Facebook and Twitter that ‘Mourn’, the new album from Minnesota based R&B crooner Corbin, was “the Gothest thing out right now”. I still stand by that assessment. And the first video from the album, “Hunker Down”, with it’s allusions to loneliness, alienation,[…]
I love writing Monday Magick posts and have really missed putting them together these months I’ve been away. Admittedly it can sometimes be a challenge to pull a cogent occult analysis out of some of these often deceptively titled tunes, and I enjoy challenging myself. But I also get a[…]
I like hearing a new song and getting obsessed with it. One of my latest obsessions is a smoothed out Future Soul jam called “Drink I’m Sippin On” from twentysomething DJ, producer, and vocalist Yaeji. The bass-heavy beat, seductively breathy vocal style, and English/Korean lyrics are ear-grabbing enough. But her[…]
I’m not the biggest fan of Philly rapper Lil Uzi Vert or his music. Despite that fact I have watched some of his videos and thought “Huh, this kid is kind of a weirdo” and then wondered why his music wasn’t as weird as his visuals and persona seemed to[…]
Podcasting live from an undisclosed location, El Keter and special guests A.C. Lucius and local comic book creator Sabrina Zeremba bring you another episode of the CLANDESTINE TRANSMISSION, and it’s both long and deep! As usual for an episode with A.C. Lucius the music leans towards the dark and Goth-y,[…]
After taking a short break from recording, Psychedelic Pop band MGMT is back. And they’ve apparently traded their new age Psychtronica sound and hipster-cum-hippie image in for dark Electro-Funk grooves and Goth style on their new single “Little Dark Age”. The video sports some creepy, seemingly Giallo and Hammer Horror[…]
One of my favorite songs of the year, a slice of soulful Soft-Rock called “Show You the Way” by experimental Jazz bassist Thundercat featuring vocals from Yacht-Rock legends Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, finally has a video! In the clip the bedreaded double amputee samurai who appeared in the video[…]
Swedish troubadour Jens Lekman drops science — and a little metaphysics — to explain how and why he met his significant other in epic fashion on the discoriffic single “How We Met, The Long Version”. And that’s the story of how we met The long version And you can call[…]
In the years I’ve been publishing Monday Magick I’ve featured a lot of songs that contain very overt occult symbolism. I’ve featured a lot more that seem pretty innocent at first but upon deeper inspection can be interpreted using magickal thinking to have a deeper occult significance. And I’ve featured[…]
If you’re a longtime reader of this column you know very well how much we love our spooky-themed instrumental compositions here on Monday Magick. You probably also know that these instrumental tracks are often quite extremely lengthy. And while today’s entry, “Energy Fools the Magician” from avant-garde Pop musician, composer, and[…]
