It's the 5th Annual Random Signal Halloween Music Show!!!

It's also been Halloween Week over at my Indie Squid Kid blog, so check it out if you want to experience the holiday from the cephalopod's perspective.

Here's the play list for today's show:

Song 1: Halloween - Artichoke (from Evaporation)
[Emuisc] [MySpace] [iTunes] [CD Baby]

Song 2: Diggin' Graves - Thee Gravemen
[Emusic] [MySpace] [iTunes] [Music Alley]

Song 3: Mosquitos - The Creeping Cruds (from Tennessee Bloodbath)
[Emuisc] [MySpace] [iTunes] [CD Baby]

Song 4: The Girls of Monster Island - Jerk Alert
[MySpace] [Music Alley]

Song 5: Vampires In My Neighborhood - Mors Ontologcia (from Used Kids Sessions and the WFMU Creative Commons Halloween Mix)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [CD Baby]

Song 6: Graveyard - Trailer Bride (from Smelling Salts and the WFMU Creative Commons Halloween Mix)
[Emusic] [MySpace] [iTunes]

Song 7: The Hangman's Song - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (from The Executioner's Last Songs: Volume One and the WFMU Creative Commons Halloween Mix)
[Emusic] [MySapce] [iTunes]

Song 8: Vampire Strippers - The Astronauts (from the Astronauts EP)
[Emusic] [MySpace] [iTunes] [Music Alley]

Song 9: Zombie Manifesto - Zombies! Organize!! (from Before It's Too Late)
[MySpace] [iTunes] [CD Baby]



But wait! As a reward for coming to the site, here is a bonus music video. I couldn't include "Fresh Blood" by Eels in the podcast, but it did make it into this year's Halloween mix CD, and it's probably my favorite monster song of the past year!

We are pleased to finally announce that Paul Fischer, of the Balticon Podcast, is winner of the Great Random Signal Name Our Roomba^TM Contest! His winning submission is...*drumroll*...3-Sweepio! Paul's prize is a plush robot by Futuregirl (Leah Riley). Thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions.

This episode is not only the first official Father's Day episode, but it also marks the podcast's fourth anniversary!

Song 1: When I Was Your Age - Beatnik Turtle featuring George Hrab (from The Song of the Day podcast, March 30, 2009)

• Ryn and I discuss our thoughts on being new parents: drool, boogers, and chewed food.
• Code Name: Commander Awesome!
• surprise tangent:  Frasier

Song 2: Mr. Fancy Pants - Jonathan Coulton (from Thing A Week Four)

• mint julep: the official drink of hot summer days (in the South, anyway)
• J. J. Abrams' Star Trek
• Vasquez Rocks
• Transformers ("robots from a planet made out of robots"): movie sequel is imminent and the first season of the classic animated series is out on DVD!
• Yes, CD Baby is still around (and still awesome)!

Song 3: Elephant - Artichoke (from 26 Animals)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [CD Baby]

Random Signal crawls it's way out of the grave once more, proving that it is the Podcast That Wouldn't Die!!!

News In Brief: It's a boy!

And now, the music...

Song 1: I Kicked Dracula's Ass - The Creeping Cruds (from Tennessee Bloodbath)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes]

Song 2: Cool Coffin Kids - Dark Torch Anthem (from The Preamble)
[MySpace] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 3: Re: Vos Cerveaux - Jonathan Coulton
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 4: Trioxin - Zombies! Organize!! (from Before It's Too Late)
[MySpace]



Song 5: Ghostified - Persian Claws
[MySpace] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 6: The Livin' Dead - Troy Sinister & The Cemetery Men (from The Legend of Gordy Sawdust & The Spiders from Moncton)
[MySpace] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 7: Return of the Mantis - The Hydes (from The Hydes' First Experimental EP)
[MySpace] [Podsafe Music Network]

Song 8: Zombie Werewolf Alien Vampire Monsters - The Volume Brothers
[MySpace] [Podsafe Music Network]

It's the last day of 2008! It is also, somehow, the first day of 2009...weird. I never will get used to all this "time shifting." Ryn and I cover all manner of interesting topics, and play some songs by my favorite bands of 2008. Enjoy!

Song 1: All Night - Countdown Quartet (from Party With! The Countdown Quartet)
[MySpace] [Emuisc] [iTunes]

• Toxoplasmosis/Giant Microbes
• Trader Joe's 2008 Vintage Ale
• That shit is pajamas!
• We don't think our baby will be a Xenomorph!
• Clockwork Ball and Lemming Malloy

Song 2: Don't Act Like Prey - Lemming Malloy (from Avalauncer EP)
[MySpace] [Emuisc] [iTunes]

• Rocky IV, the best Cold War/Christmas movie of all time?
• Which movies will you always watch the rest of?
• Which is worse: Rocky V or Star Trek V? Discuss.
• Fringe VS Eleventh Hour (here's a hint, one sorta sucks and one does not)
• CANCELED: Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money
• MOVING: Scrubs
• DISAPPOINTING: Heroes
• We explain that we are old and don't want to watch TV on our computers.
• Dexter and the problem with High-Def

Song 3: Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Los Campesinos! (from Hold On Now, Youngster)
[MySpace] [Emusic] [iTunes] [Podsafe Music Network]

• Goodreads.com
• Asimov and his short-sighted far future
• Sookie Stackhouse novels and True Blood
• Ryn's bizzare vampire-phobia seems to have passed.
• Read! Darwinia
• Reading! More Information Than You Require
• About To Read! Corrupted Sciene/Discarded Science
• Why Ryn doesn't like comics anymore.
• DC Comics Encyclopedia and On the Origin of Species: Illustrated Edition
• Star Wars prequels revisited
• Name our robot...LAST CALL!
• I Like Turtles

Song 4: I Like Turtles - Zombies! Organize!! (from Before It's Too Late)