Wait…what? It’s ‘MANDY’, the second film from Panos Cosmatos, the director of ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’. It’s about a cult and a “phantasmagoric journey” of “bloody vengeance”. It stars Nic Cage and Bill motherfucking Duke. And it’s in theatres September 14th from RJLE Films. It doesn’t have a fucking website.
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[…]
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[…]
It’s been eight long months since Monday Magick graced this space with its wondrous presence. A combination of factors, including lack of time & energy, changes to my work schedule, big upheavals at home, and a fluctuation in passions, contributed to the hiatus. There have been moments along the way[…]
If you only see two American indie features co-starring Satan this year… One should obviously be ‘The VVitch’. The other almost certainly will turn out to be ‘The Alchemist Cookbook’. Seriously, this looks absolutely in-fucking-credible! The Joel Potrykus directed film starring Ty Hickson is out this week via Oscilloscope Laboratories.[…]
Teepublic, one of several purveyors of a multitude of screen-print ephemera is having a big Back to School sale right now so I took the opportunity to load up on relatively cheap t-shirts. I copped Yo Cult by obinsun, Wu-Tang Cthulhu by Melonseta, Ritual by JacobCharlesDietz, Stranger Kids by erobriant,[…]
Khum Princess is an all new spoken-word/poetry project from Art-Rap high-priestess Bunny Michael, formerly known as Bunny Rabbit. The first track she’s dropped under the new moniker is the stream of conscience psychedelic occult-erotica poem “Ur D is Made of Solid Gold”. It’s delivered in a mutedly breathy but straightforward[…]
It’s not every week that I get to profile a song that is a touchstone for nearly all of my peculiar occult interests, but this week’s Monday Magick will allow me to do just that! See, I am pretty obsessed with the goat-headed hermaphrodite demon-god of transformations known as Baphomet.[…]
Imageyenation dandies, Athens, Georgia Indie-Pop outfit of Montreal, make their second Monday Magick appearance this week with “Enemy Gene”. Taken from their tenth studio album, 2010’s ‘False Priest’, the tune features guest vocals from Alternative Soul/Pop singer Janelle Monáe. The impetus for my posting “Enemy Gene”, an uptempo, dreamy number[…]
We’re keeping the vibes mellow yet mysterious again for this week’s Monday Magick entry. “In the Morning of the Magicians” comes from one of the best Pop/Rock albums of our modern era, The Flaming Lips’ 2002 sci-fi-themed electro-psychedelic opus ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. The lyrics leave a lot of[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry comes from one of the biggest influences upon my own journey into the so-called “occult”, Brooklyn, New York Hip-Hop collective XCLAN. The group was founded in the late ’80s by Lumumba “Professor X, The Overseer” Carson (son of notable political activist Sonny Carson and a[…]
It doesn’t really get more blatantly occult than this week’s Monday Magick entry, “Devil’s Son”, courtesy of Harlem native and Diggin’ In The Crates crew ambassador Lamont “Big L” Coleman. The tune was originally intended to be featured on the emcee’s 1995 debut ‘Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous’ and[…]
