THE CREEPSHOW TO MAKE YOU RUN FOR YOUR LIFE THIS FALL
Punkabilly Creepers Sign To Hellcat Records With Plans To Release New Album In October
August 26, 2009 – Los Angeles, CA. – Hellcat Records is proud to announce the signing of Canada’s loudest psychobilly punkrock band The Creepshow, and plans to release the band’s second album Run For Your Life, for the first time ever in the US, on October 27.
Lock your doors, turn out the lights and say your prayers because The Creepshow is back with a fiendishly fresh new joint that’ll leave you trembling and begging for more. A follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, Sell Your Soul, Run for Your Life delivers 10 country-tinged punk rock shockers straight from the underworld. From mournful rock n’ rollers to scream-along boot stompers to raging punk fueled anthems, this record will cure what ails you. The infamous Steve Rizun (Protest The Hero, The Flatliners, Ill Scarlett) returns to the producer’s chair to capture the intensity and energy that has made The Creepshow a worldwide cult sensation, offering it all up in an ear-scorching orgy of sonic bliss.
Gasp in terror as the seductive Sarah SIN lures you into her web of heartbreak, betrayal and revenge with her sultry and entrancing vocals. Dance to the primal rhythms of the nefarious Sick Boy on upright beater -bass and the devilish Matt Pomade on his demonic skins. Kneel at the altar of the Reverend McGinty as he converts the masses with his hypnotic and dastardly hellspawned keys.
Formed in 2005, The Creepshow have already shared the stage with now-labelmates Tiger Army, Rancid and The Unseen, and by teaming up the world’s premiere pyschobilly/punk label, Hellcat Records, their ghoulish potential is limitless.
Tracklisting & Tour Dates after the jump….
That’s right ladies and gents! The Denmark-reared, L.A. based HorrorPops
are taking to the road, with a Spring tour and boy are they ready to bring it on! Always a great live show with fist pumping rockabilly surf punk anthems, check out HorrorPops as they Go-Go their way to a town near you!
April 23: House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
April 24: Avalon – Salt Lake City, UT
April 25: The Bluebird – Denver, CO
April 26: The Black Sheep – Colorado Springs, CO
April 28: Fubar – St. Louis, MO
April 29: Metro – Chicago, IL
April 30: Diesel – Pittsburgh, PA
May 1: Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
May 2: BAMBOOZLE – East Rutherford, NJ
May 3: Canal Club – Richmond, VA
May 5: Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
May 6: The Social – Orlando, FL
May 7: State Theatre – St. Petersburg, FL
May 8: Jack Rabbits – Jacksonville, FL
May 9: Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
May 11: Vino’s – Little Rock, AR
May 12: The Conservatory – Oklahoma City, OK
May 14: Navajo Nation Museum Amp. – Window Rock, AZ
May 15: Club Congress – Tucson, AZ
July 4: The Hootenanny – Irvine, CA
Poe at 200 — Eerie After All These Years
By JOHN J. MILLER
On a snowy night toward the end of his life, Edgar Allan Poe delivered a lecture on the origins of the universe. It was an unusual topic — Poe was always more interested in death than birth — and the reviews were mixed. Frustrated by the response, Poe announced that 2,000 years would pass before his work was properly admired.
His remarks were soon published as “Eureka: A Prose Poem.” The book sold a few hundred copies and then slipped into obscurity, forgotten except for the fact that its author went on to become a giant of American literature in something less than two millennia.
It remains to be seen whether anyone will read Poe in the distant future. As we approach the bicentennial of his birth on Jan. 19, however, it’s obvious that Poe is far from “nameless here for evermore.”
Hardly anyone escapes from high-school English without bumping into at least a little Poe. “The Raven” remains one of the world’s most popular poems as well as the inspiration for the name of Baltimore’s professional football team. “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” and a number of other short stories are among the most anthologized tales ever written.
An awful lot of Poe looms on the horizon. On Jan. 16, the Postal Service will issue a stamp in his honor. Historic sites in Baltimore, the Bronx, Philadelphia and Richmond, Va., are kicking off year-long celebrations. Publishers plan to take advantage of the bicentennial, too. In October, Doubleday put out “Poe’s Children,” a collection of horror stories by the likes of Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. The Mystery Writers of America has just released two additional volumes: “In the Shadow of the Master” includes 16 of Poe’s greatest hits, plus commentaries by best-selling novelists such as Michael Connelly and Joseph Wambaugh; “On a Raven’s Wing” features original tales by Mary Higgins Clark and others, each inspired by Poe.
Praise for Poe is by no means universal. The reviews always have been mixed, even on large questions about his legacy. “Enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection,” sniffed Henry James.
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