Neil Gaiman

We rounded up the NYCC music-related happenings. The very popular comic convention also covers the worlds of genre television, movies, gaming, anime, and comedy.

”Surrounded by so many of our friends and loved ones and so many artists and creative hearts. PEACE IN OUR KINGDOM – let it rain sunshine and rain on all people and fish forever and ever”

The 36th annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade brought thousands to the streets and boardwalk of Coney Island, Brooklyn to celebrate summer, nautical mythology, creativity, and letting ones freak flag fly.

John Cameron Mitchell directed and co-wrote the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story, and you can listen to a song from its soundtrack featuring Mitksi and Xiu Xiu now.

The 36th edition of the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade happens on June 16, 2018.

”Only in hindsight could I trace back the doors and windows that Blume propped open and permanently unshuttered in the fragile house of my mind that I was constructing. She was the silent architect of my pre-adolescent belief system, breaking the ground and quietly influencing the unshakeable infrastructure onto which all of those impressively cool Cure and Nick Cave posters would later be thumbtacked and Scotch-taped.”

”All Nerve sounds like a Breeders album: it’s not retro, it’s not 90’s, it just is what it is: smart rock music with a Breeders sound and an oblique Breeders point of view,” Neil writes.

Shirley Manson of Garbage, Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Mark Lanegan all feature on the official soundtrack of American Gods, Bryan Fuller’s ambitious, phantasmagoric television adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel…

“On the Door” features Sarah Silverman, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, Ben Folds, Craig Ferguson, Neil Gaiman, Mike Posner and more.

Jarvis will release them as a four-song EP this month.