Edgar Allan Poe

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "An Artist . . . Can Barely Deal with the World Most of the Time"

Like the volumes of Edgar Allan Poe and Allen Ginsberg that inspire Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's dark lyrical oeuvre, Robert Levon Been's music has often dealt directly with death. So it's only natural that the band's latest album, Specter at the Feast, fearlessly approaches the Dark Angel, but thi ... More >>

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Addresses the Specter at the Feast Head-On

The Thrill Is On

Way Back to the Future

Warped Tour's 2013 Line Up Has Been Posted-- And It's Just "Okay"

The Warped Tour lineup was released yesterday afternoon, and while we were (foolishly) hoping that Kevin Lyman would have a change of heart and model the long-running festival after something like Punk Rock Bowling or The Fest, the lineup, unsurprisingly, still caters to Hot Topic tweens. There ar ... More >>

Rhyme Schemes

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... See ... More >>

Mission Creeps Spent a Night in a Haunted Bisbee Hotel and Wrote a Record About It

Tucson's horror film and surf music-loving psychobilly outfit Mission Creeps don't shy away from the macabre-- which is why the group joined the Southern Arizona Ghost and Paranormal Society to spend the night at The Oliver House, where there have been 28 known deaths, making it one of the most haun ... More >>

Poe People

We Need To Talk About Kevin Star Ezra Miller Talks About Kevin, Celebrity, and Working with Tilda Swinton

​It is probably only a natural result of the historical arc of democratization that celebrity today requires little more than Tweeting racy photos and being combatively untalented.  In this new-media model of fame, Ezra Miller is decidedly out of place: a relic of the Old World hierarchies - ... More >>

Mesa's Evermore Nevermore to Close in December

​In 2009, Bob and Debbie Leeper brought their geeky sensibilities and steampunk addictions to Mesa and set up Evermore Nevermore at 127 W. Main Street on Halloween night. Two years later, they've decided to close up shop. "It is with gut-wrenching sadness and overwhelming regre ... More >>

Dark Matter

Cass McCombs: Wit's End

Cass McCombs - Wit's End​Well it's finally here -- the last and final Tuesday of April. We've seen many a solid new release throughout the month, and the prospect of a promising May and June await the collective fancies of new music fans. Today's focus falls on venerable singer/songwriter Cass McC ... More >>

Our Guide to Scaring Up a Good Time This Halloween

Nevermore

In memoriam of a dead and emo goth guy

Caffiend: Open Book Cafe's House Blend

E. Groves​The new Open Book Cafe at the Burton-Barr Central Library has a great atmosphere. Located just inside the library's west entrance, Open Book Cafe provides a decorative cove for readers to pore over their latest selections. The walls are a mix of metal panels and bright yellow, and furnit ... More >>

The Red Death at Palazzo

Benjamin LeathermanPalazzo's Belle Alvarez prepares to unleash the Red Death.​Consider yourself to be twihard or a twerd? Then there's absolutely no doubt you're gonna be haunting the local cineplexes this weekend watching the unfolding melodrama of Edward and Bella again and again this weekend. ... More >>

Scare City: What To Do and Where To Go on Halloween

Planet Poe Theatre

Move Over, Mormons! Mesa's Going Punk

When the Leeper family pitched the idea of opening a punk/goth clothing & collectibles store smack in the middle of conservative Mesa's Main Street, there were a few raised eyebrows. "They wanted to know if it would be another Nile," quips daughter Amanda Tucker, the seamstress behind a few of t ... More >>

Happy Birthday to the Pedo Poet

Where were you this past Sunday? Let me guess. Parked in front of the big-screen with a handful of friends, a few cases of beer and some chips and bean dip (or if you're really elite, a veggie tray). The hubby and I were busy hunting down a cheap-ass copy of Edgar Allen Poe's collected works, af ... More >>

Dread Poets Society

Anthology, Inc. salutes the master of the macabre

Planet Poe's "Bleak December"

Monsters Ball

Phoenix Symphony Orchestra

Fear and Fun in Phoenix

Andrew Jackson Jihad/Ghost Mice split CD

Self-Titled
(Plan-It-X Records)

A Series of Unfortunately Cool Events

Our 2006 guide to the crème of the creepy crop

Behind the Green Door

Kreme and Jett court madness, drunkenness and death runnin' after absinthe's La Fée Verte.

Poe Folks

Local poets quoth "The Raven" evermore

Sour Lemony

Dark fun with orphans

Personal Space

iTheatre lands on a Lonely Planet

In the Market

Native artists set up shop

Creep Show

Ghoulies get groovy at Alwun House

The Handsome Family

Singing Bones (Carrot Top)

Poe Lou

Lou Reed gets to interpret Edgar Allan Poe. He's excited.

Lou Reed

The Raven (Sire/Reprise)

Spirits of the Dead

At the TT Roadhouse, an ectoplasmic liquor pig refuses to give up the ghost

Ape Escape

Monkeybone, like a dream, is best when half-remembered

Indies Exposure

Saguaro Film Fest unspools again

The Cowering Inferno

Mute Point

Classics Illustrated, Poorly

Artist DeLoss McGraw's stick figures don't measure up to the literary subjects

The Fury of Kathy Acker

Ten Scariest Concept Albums of All Time

Dreck or treat

Pic Hits for the week

Killing Us Loudly

Pic Hits for the week

Pic Hits for the week

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