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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art has developed a healthy reputation for itself as a viable platform for music not normally heard anywhere else— its annual Noise Festival is proof of that. Now ...

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 ...

PLANS for a pagan music festival - dubbed a 'mini-Glastonbury' - have been lashed by residents who fear it will wreck the countryside and encourage drug use. Organisers of the three-day Shamania ...