Aesop Rock Zombie Video
Sean sent us this cool Aesop Rock music video above. It’s cool as heck! Thanks Sean for sending that our way!
Sean sent us this cool Aesop Rock music video above. It’s cool as heck! Thanks Sean for sending that our way!
Wow…we really need something like this in our area. Movies, music and zombies - three of our favorite things. If you are in the Atlanta area, check out the Atlanta Horror Fest on October 4th-7th, including Zombie Walk Atlanta on the 6th.Â
Being a ZRC reporter means a life full of fame, fortune, and adventure (or not). But the adventure of researching foreign zombie films and battling server outages is nothing compared to the adventure our friend Count Smokula emailed us about. He writes:
Dear Mr. Erik Zempel,
I so enjoyed finding your vundaful veb site the Zombie Reporting Center.
It is because of my intimate knowledge of zombies in Haiti that I vas enabled to write several popular songs about our undead zomboid friends.
Vhen The Great Psychic, Mama July. took me from the sunny shores of Santo Domingo to the rugged psychic terrain of Port-au-Prince and beyond, I vas poysanally introduced to zombies as the undead of a Haitian Vitch Doctor. Because of my constant use of the ancient camera (pre-digital age, you understand!), the zombies threatened to do me in if I didn’t fork over a
thousand U.S. dollars immediately. Seeing that my pockets vere kvite empty, I didn’t see that as much of a possibility, so I began to fidget a bit noivously, putting on and removing my Ray-Ban sunglasses vit a greater rapidity than normal. As they vatched me play vit my Ray-Bans, they began to laugh hysterically, and then I knew I had these zombies in the palm of my hand. They vere not all that hard to please, only most people didn’t know about this Ray-Ban
trick.
As ve left the compound unscathed, yet vit pounding hearts from a bit of trepidation, the zombies continued to laugh vildly as they cracked the bullvhips in honor of our departure.
And so I wrote this epic masterpiece “Zombie” vit the great American blues-singer Mr. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in mind, Vhen I played it for Mr. Hawkins he said “I get the same feeling from “Zombie” that I got from “I Put a Spell on You”. Now give me five-hundred dollars and I’ll record it. Mr. Hawkins vas kvite the businessman. Then Mr. Hawkins kept Mr. Hilly Michaels and me captive for several hours in a Greenwich Village duplex apartment on Hudson Street, until he extracted $5 from us (our last $5 by the vay) so that he could make his vay back through a tunnel to New Jersey.
But I could never pin Mr. Hawkins and $500 down at the same time so he never got to record “Zombie”, for he died, and perhaps is a zombie somevhere himself. So I recorded the song vit the able backing of some of The Radioactive Chickenheads, and it is on the compilation album “Mr. Snail’s Halloween Party”Â. There is more to the story but I shortened it. So here is the song and the lyrics. Perheps you could promote and post it on your vundaful vebsite so that it could soive as a cautionary tale for any of your readers who might by unfortunate happenstance encounter an ectual flesh-eating zombie.
Thank You Too Much!
Count Smokula
The Hollyvood of the California
Listen to the MP3 of the song Zombie
Check out Count Smokula on MySpace
Zombie Bazooka Patrol is a band hailing from Nashville. They dress like zombies, their songs are about zombies, and their sound is something like folk-punk with a bit of rockabilly influence. I’m actually quite digging the music!
Unlike the band in Hard Rock Zombies, Zombie Bazooka Patrol is going places! They were recently flown out to Las Vegas to be on the upcoming television show The Search for the Next Great American Band (by the same people who produce the American Idol show).
Nellie McKay, a musicain who is very hard to nail down to a style, has a new song from her upcoming album Obligatory Villagers, titled Zombie, that you can listen to here (not sure how long this link will work, so listen soon). The zombie moaning in the background is classic.
My favorite podcast, All Go No Slow!, has their zombie themed show up now.  Here’s the setlist:Â
Tankard – Zombie Attack
Misfits – Night of the Living Dead
The Accused – Fast Zombies Rule
Rabies – Zombies Ate My Neighbors
A.N.S. – Skate Zombies Must Shred
No Mercy – War Machine
Destruction’s End – Zombie Attack
Screeching Weasel – Zombie
Warfare – Zombie Rock
Possessed – Restless Dead
Heimatlos – Zombie Attack
Slayer – Live Undead
Deadfall - Zombies/Horror Movie Channel
Mecht Mensch – Zombie
Voorhees – Dawn of the Dead
Bones Brigade – Zombie Attack
Repulsion – Eaten Alive
Terrorizer – Dead Shall Rise
Go check it out here. BBBRRRAAAIIINNNSSS!!!
Here’s a zombie goodie of mine. I met Ken Foree at a Motor City Comic Con I was exhibiting at a few years ago and got him to sign a then recent purchase of mine, a re-issue of the Goblin soundtrack to the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead on LP. I normally do not get things signed, but this was the world’s greatest zombie killer! I still listen to this record at least a few times a week. One of the best records ever.
I was listening to my favorite punk podcast tonight, All Go No Slow!, when it’s host Mike announced that next week will be one of his theme shows. The theme…ZOMBIES! Sweet. Check it out. On a sidenote, congratulations to Mike and All Go No Slow! for reaching it’s 100th show last week.
Like we told you before…Troma’s Poultrygeist is coming! Here is a ton of Poultrygeist related news, just for you! The film has been set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, but until then, read the Poultrygeist comic!
The soundtrack (with bonus DVD including exclusive preview footage) is out now! Sample some songs here. The bands include:
The Dwarves
The Obscene
Zombina and the Skeletones
Scatterbox
Baxendale
Covered in Bees
Impaler
Potshot
The Peacocks
Dan Potthast
Dingleberry Dynasty
Purple Pam
Count Smokula
The Nihilistics
Calamari Safari (the theme song)
There’s a cover the theme song competition going now. The DEADLINE is May 15th. A date for DVD release has not been set yet, but we’ll let you know when it’s announced.
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