Daniel Davies

“Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” says John Carpenter. “We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album.”

Anthology II includes new recordings of classic themes from John Carpenter movies including The Thing, Escape From New York, Halloween II & III, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China and more

This is the first film John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have worked on outside of the Halloween franchise. The film’s out Friday, May 13.

This week’s playlist includes new music by The Specials, Anxious, Sturgill Simpson ft. Willie Nelson, Deafheaven, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and more.

You can listen to “Unkillable“ from the ‘Halloween Kills‘ score now and preorder the album on exclusive, limited edition orange and black vinyl in our shop.

Listen to new songs by Cold Cave, CHAI, Orphan Donor, Miranda Lambert, Honey (ex-Turning Point), HMLTD, Kali/Rico Nasty, Metronomy, Lawrence Rothman (ft. Son Little), and more.

Nathan’s picks include Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Coriky, Disheveled Cuss, Ways Away, and more…

”It was transforming,” says Carpenter of working on this new ’Halloween’. ”It was not a movie I directed, so I had a lot of freedom in creating the score and getting into the director’s head.” The movie and soundtrack are out October 19.

They went on around about 11 pm, and the crowd was noisy for them, singing along, shouting “louder!” and “Graveyard!” among other things…