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Cover art by Arik Roper<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Bebergal\u2019s Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll <\/a><\/em>was published this week. Articles about rock music’s occult preoccupations have been a recurrent feature of music magazines, especially around Halloween, but Bebergal’s book is the first attempt at a wide-ranging, full-length study. Despite the subtitle, the scope goes beyond the familiar\u2014David Bowie’s Golden Dawn references, Jimmy Page’s Aleister Crowley obsession\u2014to take in the pagan nature of the blues, pre-Beatles rock’n’roll, and the byways of electronic music. My old employers, Hawkwind, provide a title (Space Ritual<\/em>) for one section, and I was pleased to see the Krautrock scene receiving some attention: years ago you couldn’t have counted on this from an American music study. As Bebergal notes, Can’s Aumgn<\/em><\/a> on Tago Mago<\/em> (1971) isn’t the hippy Aum\/Om but originates in a mantra<\/a> defined in Crowley’s Magick in Theory and Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “We don\u2019t just have skeletons in our cupboard, we have an ossuary.” Another week, another Alan Moore interview, but Tim Martin<\/a>‘s piece is as much a portrait of the man as a conversation about the usual subjects: art, science, magic, etc.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Europe\u2019s history of penis worship was cast aside when the Catholic Church realized Jesus\u2019s foreskin was too potent to control.” Stassa Edwards<\/a> on venerated members.<\/p>\n

Gays and horror actually have\u00a0 somewhat of a lost history. FW Murnau, the director of Nosferatu<\/em>, was openly gay. Frankenstein\u2019s real creator, James Whale, was also out. Given the talent involved, and the illicit nature of the genre, amateur and professional critics have been divining queer themes from horror films for decades.<\/p>\n

Patrick Rosenquist<\/a> on Gory, Gay & Loving It: Why Homosexuals Heart Horror<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “I thought that fine art was fairly dishonest as an industry. It pretends to be about culture but it\u2019s really about money.” Andy Butler interviews designer Neville Brody<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Snapping, Humming, Buzzing, Banging: Richard B. Woodward<\/a> on the creative partnership between David Lynch and sound-design genius Alan Splet.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Also published this week: Discovering Scarfolk<\/em><\/a>, Richard Littler’s guide to the occult-obsessed, rabies-infested English town.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More rock music: When Art Rocked: San Francisco Music Posters, 1966\u20131971 by Ben Marks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The trailer for 808<\/em><\/a>, a documentary about Roland’s celebrated drum machine.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At The Millions: Devin Kelly<\/a> on the collaborative art of words and images.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More Crowley: Strange Flowers<\/a> goes looking for Aleister Crowley’s Berlin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 130 by G\u00e1bor L\u00e1z\u00e1r<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yello’s Boris Blank<\/a> on his 10 favourite electronic records.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Richard Hirst<\/a>‘s Top 5 Robert Aickman Stories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I Put A Spell On You<\/em><\/a> (1968) by Arthur Brown | I Put A Spell On You<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Diamanda Gal\u00e1s | I Put A Spell On You<\/em><\/a> (2004) by Queen Latifah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover art by Arik Roper. Peter Bebergal\u2019s Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll was published this week. Articles about rock music’s occult preoccupations have been a recurrent feature of music magazines, especially around Halloween, but Bebergal’s book is the first attempt at a wide-ranging, full-length study. Despite the subtitle, the … Continue reading “Weekend links 230”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,51,4,29,7,5,22,3,16,17,31],"tags":[103,1907,391,6574,338,6580,6188,6578,2271,1301,265,6576,1392,5269,6577,222,1693,550,692,149,6573,1018,6581,6575,6579,4661,2947,6572,2419,6571,3412],"class_list":["post-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-psychedelia","category-religion","tag-alan-moore","tag-alan-splet","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-andy-butler","tag-arik-roper","tag-arthur-brown","tag-ben-marks","tag-boris-blank","tag-can-group","tag-david-bowie","tag-david-lynch","tag-devin-kelly","tag-diamanda-galas","tag-fw-murnau","tag-gabor-lazar","tag-hawkwind","tag-james-whale","tag-jimmy-page","tag-krautrock","tag-neville-brody","tag-patrick-rosenquist","tag-peter-bebergal","tag-queen-latifah","tag-richard-b-woodward","tag-richard-hirst","tag-richard-littler","tag-robert-aickman","tag-stassa-edwards","tag-strange-flowers","tag-tim-martin","tag-yello-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-483","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}