In the southern gothic drama Beasts of the Southern Wild a storm approaches a southern Louisiana bayou community called the “Bathtub” (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee), [ … ]
Deliverance (1970) – Hillbilly Gothic
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state’s most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a [ … ]
Murder By Death Tour – Influential Southern Gothic Band
This winter Murder By Death will be touring to celebrate 20 years since their first show. This is a great anniversary for a very influential southern gothic band. On this [ … ]
Heathen Apostles – New Dirty Blues EP
Born By Lightning, the follow-up to the fifth Heathen Apostles album Dust to Dust, contains 5 new songs that explore yet another facet of Gothic Americana: dirty blues. Available digitally [ … ]
Rachel Brooke – Dark Southern Music
Incendiary young country singer and songwriter Rachel Brooke channels the bleakest nights of dark Southern music, pulling forth influences from raw, early country singing to Chicago blues greats, vintage New [ … ]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds New Album
The Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds new album Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album by the Australian rock band. It was released on 4 October 2019 on Ghosteen Ltd and is due to be released [ … ]
Weird Wild West: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic (2019)
The Weird Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar [ … ]
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Southern Gothic Roots
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (originally formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado) has been referenced as an American experimental rock band. But on closer inspection, the band imagery and sound is [ … ]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Gothic American Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, [ … ]
Gunner Foxx – Southern Gothic Hats
“Gunner Foxx is one of the last remaining few ‘true’ Traditional Hatters left in existence by use of the early 19th Century felting methods and Hat Making techniques, handed down in name and [ … ]