For Halloween

In just a few days most of the Christian world will overlook the irony in their celebration of what originated as a pagan holiday.  Most people would look at this as an opportunity to make a playlist full of Christian Death or Bauhaus to shore up their goth cred or go for ironic covers to show their knowledge of the obscure.  Instead, we'll offer a list of songs that either captures the dark feel of the holiday directly through their subject matter or indirectly through the mood they cast.

Pop Infection Halloween Mix:
Moon Duo - "Horror Tour"
White Suns - "Skin Deep"
His Electro Blue Voice - "Duuug" 
Lightning Bolt - "Halloween III" (live)
Iceage - "Rotting Heights" 
The Men - "Night Landing"
Tombs - "Angel of Destruction"
Balaclavas - "Snake People" 
Necktarium - "The Dreamless Sun"
Psychic Ills - "I'll Follow You Through the Floor"

Your Weekend Jam(s)

Drive Soundtrack (2011)

Drive is a movie that toys with traditional ideas of male masculinity.  You have a stoic hero, macho underworld figures, and the damsel in distress, yes; but, most of these characters are shown to be ineffectual wrecks, probably because of their attempts to fit into a world they don't understand.  The underworld types are men so consumed by self-image that they constantly sabotage their own success by trying to reach for unobtainable status symbols.  Our hero is the stoic loner channeling Marlon Brando and James Dean at their most reckless as a rebel on the outside looking in at a system he very much conforms to but would like to escape.  We're later shown this is because he's a man incapable of understanding his own emotions.  He deals in extremes.  He's either a silent loner drifting through endless city streets or an uncoiled snaked striking at anything that moves.

One of the more unique aspects of the movie, and one of the many things that pulls it out of the realm of traditional action shlock, is the soundtrack.  Utilizing artists associated with France's Valerie Collective, the soundtrack falls somewhere between a detached cool and retro new wave camp.

Kavinsky (ft. Lovefoxx) "Nightcall"

Desire "Under Your Spell"

College (ft. Electric Youth) "A Real Hero"