DHFF 2019: Classic Sundays with Edison Studios’ “Frankenstein”
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DHFF 2019: The Terrifying Multiplicity of “The World Over”
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DHFF 2019: “The Cat With Hands” Will Grab You
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DHFF 2019: Turn and Face the Strain,“Feral”
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DoT EP109: Sue Costello On Staying Positive, Sexism, CBS, and Simmah Down, Plus New Music From Rebecca Turner
Sue Costello is someone I saw early on in Boston, specifically playing a show organized by Jimmy Tingle that featured Costello, Patrice Oneal,...... Read More
DHFF 2019: Tuneful “Hateful Goo”
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DHFF 2019: “Okay Google,” Turn Me On
Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day...... Read More
DoT EP108: Dave Ross On Smart and Dumb Comedy, Punk, Masculinity, and Kale, Plus Newly-Released Early Dead Kennedys Music
Dave Ross has a fantastic new album out now called The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex. You can download it, but...... Read More
DoT EP107: Mike Watt on Jumpstarted Plowhards, The Minutemen, and Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing, Plus New Comedy from Dave Ross
Mike Watt is a bona fide punk rock legend. And he probably hates being described like that. His work with The Minutemen and...... Read More
DoT EP106: Author David Demchuk On Strangeness, Folklore, Queerness, and Monstrosity, Plus New Music from Jumpstarted Plowhards
David Demchuk’s first novel, The Bone Mother, came highly recommended to me at NECON this year by Matt Moore, whom I interviewed in...... Read More
DoT EP105: Steve Poltz On Songwriting, Goat Singing, Spirituality, Tom Cruise, and Much More, Plus New Music from Secret Shame
I have met my tangenting match. I went into this interview, backstage at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a slate...... Read More
DoT EP104: Author Matt Moore on Personal Apocalypse, Brevity, and Brain Chemistry, plus New Music from Steve Poltz
This is the third and final interview I recorded at NECON 2019, which I have previously described as a mashup of a horror...... Read More
DoT EP103: Horror Author and Editor Scott Goudsward on Zombies, Vampires, and Indie Publishing, plus New Music from Reverse
This is the second interview I recorded at this year’s NECON conference, which is part horror author’s conference and part summer camp. It...... Read More
DoT EP102: Writer Pornsak Pichetshote and Artist Aaron Campbell on Xenophobia and Horror in Infidel, plus New Music from Landroid
Pornsak Pichetshote edited other people’s books for DC for years before he attempted to write his own. He didn’t give himself an easy...... Read More
DoT EP101: Why Save MAD? with Michael Gerber and Ian Scott McGregor, plus New Music from Twin Peaks
In early July, rumors started to surface that MAD Magazine was going to cease publishing new material and just reprint old stuff with...... Read More
DoT EP100: J. Edwin Buja On His Debut Novel, King of the Wood, Plus New Music from TC&I (formerly of XTC)
This is episode 100 of the podcast, and I thought about doing some sort of compilation of previous interviews, as I’ve done a...... Read More
DoT EP99: Lucette On Her Americana and Pop Songwriting Influences and New Album Deluxe Hotel Room, plus New Music from Alaskalaska
This episode was originally planned to be a minicast, but when Lucette and I started diving into her songwriting and her new album,...... Read More
DoT EP98: Blood On Black Wax Authors Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas Talk Horror Movie Music, Plus New Music From Miss June
I had been thinking a lot about how sound – the score and incidental music – effect the mood and even the story...... Read More
DoT EP97: Lucy Isabel On Being a Jersey Girl in Nashville, Leaving Acting for Music, and Her Debut Album, Plus Live Tracks!
If things had worked out as Lucy Isabel had originally planned, she would be firmly planted in New York right now, using the...... Read More
DoT EP96: Lamont Price on Godzilla, P-Funk, Ringo, and Rambo with New Music From Lucy Isabel
If you want to make anything funnier, just add Lamont Price. It certainly made watching Godzilla a much more enjoyable experience, which is...... Read More
DoT EP95: The Beehive Queen Christine Ohlman Talks Rock and Roll, Singing for Saturday Night Live, and Songwriting, plus New Comedy from Erica Rhodes
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes in this job of talking to notable people, you get kind of a day off. You talk...... Read More
DoT EP94: Bernard Fowler On Singing Backup with the Rolling Stones and His New Album, plus New Spoken Word from Kate Tempest
Face it. Bernard Fowler has a better job than you. Not only does he release his own solo work, like his new album,...... Read More
Tuesday Movie Club: The Dead Don’t Die
It’s hard to make a good zombie film. You can have a talented auteur at the helm, a spectacular cast, and interesting approach...... Read More
DoT EP93: Horror Author Nathan Ballingrud On His Creepy Fun Collection “Wounds,” plus New Music from Bernard Fowler
Nathan Ballingrud has a wonderfully demented imagination. He has a way of reaching into your brain and finding all of those creepy little...... Read More
DoT EP92: Satirist Jimmy Tingle On Politics and Optimism, plus Audio Excerpts from Nathan Ballingrud’s Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Jimmy Tingle is one of the first people I interviewed in the Boston comedy scene years ago. He was hosting and producing a...... Read More
Richard X. Heyman On Crowdfunding, Caterwauling, and His New Album, Pop Circles
If you want to help Richard X. Heyman release his new album, Pop Circles, you’ve got roughly a week left to donate to...... Read More
DoT EP91: Comedian Erica Rhodes On Art, Discipline, and Her New Album Sad Lemon, plus New Music from Cate Le Bon
If you have not heard Erica Rhodes’s comedy, you have the perfect excuse to dive in on June 18, when her new album,...... Read More
DoT EP90: Funny Women of a Certain Age with Carole Montgomery, Andrea Henry, and Christine Hurley, Plus New Music from Lucette
Carole Montgomery is 61, and she won’t hesitate to mention her age onstage. That is somewhat unusual in an industry obsessed with youth....... Read More
DoT EP89 Indie Rock Oncologist Karen Haglof with New Music from The Woolly Bushmen
There is so much to explore in Karen Haglof’s career. She started out playing with a band called The Crackers in a Minneapolis...... Read More