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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
This week’s Monday Magick is gonna be one of my patented re-interpretations of a seemingly innocuous and unmagickal song utilizing magickal thinking. The song in question is Alt-Pop chestnut “Brass in Pocket (I’m Special)” by British Rock outfit The Pretenders featuring Ohio-born songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Chrissie Hynde. Released in[…]
This week we round out what could potentially be our last October’s worth of “Season of the Witch” covers here on Monday Magick with a rare take featuring a female vocal! Said vocal comes courtesy of Kay Garrett, and it graces a Bluesy, eight-plus-minute version of the cut by[…]
When I instituted the annual month-long celebration of “Season of Witch” here on Monday Magick a few years back it was intended to unearth radical re-imaginings of the Donovan tune. Covers that turn the classic on its head, or bring something new and different to the composition. And while some of the covers[…]
Another Monday in October means another Monday Magick and another cover of Donovan’s psuedo-occult Psych-Folk chestnut “Season of the Witch” by another largely forgotten band. This week the honor falls to an outstanding take recorded by ’60s “supergroup” The Masked Marauders for their self-titled Warner Brothers Records debut. I put[…]
If you’ve been reading Monday Magick for a while you know that every October, in honor of Halloween, I dedicate a month’s worth of posts to various cover versions of British Psych-Folk grandmaster Donovan’s classic composition “Season of the Witch”. The song has been covered quite a few times, in[…]
Witchcraft is just a way of concentrating energy. You can only work with what’s already there. I just use sex magic to make love magic. No, that’s not a quote from one of my Monday Magick posts, it’s a line from writer/director Anna Biller’s new film ‘The Love Witch’. Set[…]
When evil spreads, dread comes for all of us. I have been touched by Satan. We name things so they don’t frighten us. Satan. Evil. For too long I’ve been afraid. Now, I’m not frightened. Season three of period horror drama ‘Penny Dreadful’ begins Sunday, May 1st at 10PM ET/PT[…]
The long-awaited fright flick ‘The Witch’ is finally going to arrive in theatres nationwide on February 19th! This new trailer for writer/director David Egger’s “New England Folktale” plays heavy on the suspense, dread, and madness. It also features more of that badass black fucking goat, revealing his name as “Black[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry is one of my favorite songs from an artist I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with. The tune in question is the futuristic Funk jam “Twinkle” by Neo-Soul high-pristess Erykah Badu from her 2008 LP ‘New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War’. As[…]
