If It's Too Loud...

If you've been here for a while, you know that I'm all about Halloween and tend to overdo it with our annual Halloween playlist. 2023 is no exception. I've been assembling it since right after the 2022 playlist came out, and this is another beast of a playlist coming in at over five and a half hours! You get songs from long time favorites (The Prefab Messiahs, Florence + The Machine, Anthrax, Lou Reed, etc.), new favorites (Puppy Angst, Miranda and the Beat, Fever Ray, Buck Meek, Twin Temple, etc.), local favorites (Wyn Doran, Eldridge Rodriguez, The Jacklights, The Freqs, etc), and many, many more! Plus, we're putting it out a full eight days before Halloween, so you have plenty of time to enjoy it and it will be available for any weekend festivities! Let us know what you think, and feel free to suggest songs for 2024!

If you've been here for a while you know that Halloween is my favorite holiday. The costumes, the candy, the scary movies, being able to walk around a cemetery without people thinking you're a weirdo, etc. Our 2022 Halloween playlist is ninety-seven songs and five and a half hours long! I started putting it together way back on October 26 of last year, and it features a wide range of artists and genres like classic punk, gothic country, indie rock, folk, hip hop, noise rock, country, grunge, New Wave, etc. I decided to put it out a week early to make sure it was available for all of your spooky happenings this week. Enjoy!

For the 2021 If It's Too Loud... Halloween playlist, I did what I've been doing the past few years: As soon as the 2020 playlist was posted, I created a new one and started adding to it. Every time I stumbled onto a song deemed appropriate, I added it. After a year, the playlist ballooned to eighty nine songs and five and a half hours! There's a ton of new stuff released in the past year (The Exbats, Viagra Boys, Nervous Dater, Hard Nips, The Jacklights) there are also plenty of classics (Sonic Youth, L7, Neil Young, The Cramps, Pulp) in here. It covers a wide variety of musical genres, and it's long enough to cover any of your Halloween plans! Plus, since Halloween isn't until Sunday, we get a whole week to listen. Enjoy!

If you've been reading If It's Too Loud... for a while, you know that Halloween is my favorite holiday, and that I tend to go overboard with the Halloween playlist every year. Since this is pretty much all we have for Halloween this year, it's a monster (o pun intended) seventy one song, nearly four hour playlist! I've been making it since literally last November, adding songs as I stumbled across them. There are songs from longtime blog favorites (Speedy Ortiz, Wussy, Melvins, The Gravel Pit, Against Me!), newly discovered favorites (Heather Valley, Comet Pond, Tysk Tysk Task, Gino & The Goons), some classics (Bruce Springsteen, Jello Biafra, Dusty Springfield, Alice Cooper, Siouxsie and the Banshees), and more! Whatever you're doing Saturday night (or this entire week) to celebrate, you're gonna to find some spookiness to love here!