Get haunted with a 2016 Halloween mix (and some old ones)

King Diamond, master of all unholy ceremonies, at the Orpheum last year

As Halloween rolls around again, I find myself nostalgic for my college radio days of curating spooky seasonal DJ sets. I co-hosted a late-night show on WRBB for four years, and our Halloween editions were always among my favorites. I don’t even have any regrets about the year I annoyed everyone in the studio with a soundboard of werewolf noises and cawing ravens. 

With the spirit of those shows in mind, I decided to cobble together a new mix of the ghoulish, eerie and unnerving for this year. Check it out below:

Just for the hell of it, I also migrated each of my old Halloween radio mixes to Spotify for your listening pleasure. 2011 was a collaborative set with my esteemed co-host, but we split the shows henceforth and the subsequent years are my halves. These aren’t precise recreations (Superchunk’s Record Store Day 7″ cover of “Horror Business” isn’t available to stream, and you’ll have to settle for Divine Fits’ cover of “Shivers” rather than the Boys Next Door original), but they’re pretty close. Enjoy!