Richard Kelly is as divisive a director as they come. Stylish, moody, and dabbed with dark humor, allusions to morality, and unusually relatable situations, his three feature films to date (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The […]
Category: Mixtapes
MIXTAPE: GRUMPY ’91
1991: the year hair metal got sheared, the year we all took a big ol’ whiff of teen spirit, the year college radio really started paying attention to Athens, the year that defined alternative rap […]
MIXTAPE: JINGLE BELL GRUMP
Sometimes for Christmas you just have to go with the classics. For this week’s playlist, we’ve got a selection of some of the cheeriest holiday hits to ever grace a jukebox, courtesy of America’s favorite […]
AUDIO FANFICTION: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’
Audio Fanfiction reimagines a film’s soundtrack to exhibit the emotions that film invokes and inspires: excitement, vehemence, sorrow, despondence, warmth, passion, pride–anything goes here. Think of it as a personal spiritual manifestation of the film, […]
MIXTAPE: DISCO DRACULA
As a special Halloween treat, we are pleased to present this unique and hilarious DJ mix made up of the best (worst?) in Dracula-themed disco created by our crate-digging friend Robert Skvarla of the Evil […]
MIXTAPE: HIP-HOP HALLOWEEN
Tired of the same old “Rocktober” Halloween playlists? We are, too! So for this week’s extra special, extra spooky mix, we asked Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire and the Zebras in America podcast to curate […]
MIXTAPE: A VERY CHAKI HALLOWEEN
This week’s mix is brought to you by our very special guest curator, Chaki! We wanted a mix that was sure to bring the spooky funk as well as the spooky fun, so naturally we […]
MIXTAPE: COCONUT PETE’S PLEASURE ISLAND
For this week’s mixtape, we’re getting a little loose. Inspired by the conversation we had with Broken Lizard about their hilarious slasher parody, Club Dread, we thought we’d down a couple of pina coladas and […]
MIXTAPE: BILL & TED’S MOST EXCELLENT MIX
For years, decades, centuries, millennia, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan have been lauded as the most premium examples of stoner metalheads in modern cinema. We here at Grumpire, however, think the boys […]
MIXTAPE: OUR RESIDENT CANADIAN RECOMMENDS NYC PUNK
Punk rock means a lot of different things to different people and that’s okay (unless you’re the likely-now-dead guy who wrote that infamous episode of Quincy M.E., decrying the “dangers” of punk). Punk is diverse, […]
MIXTAPE: GOING BACK TO CALI 1975
California has always been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. Yeah, I was born on the East Coast, but my heart and dreams lay on the west coast. So, […]
MIXTAPE: WE BE DIPPIN’
For eight years I ran a small, historical ice cream and hamburger stand located on the west side of Nashville called Bobbie’s Dairy Dip. It’s a famous place in Nashville; built in 1951, the colorful […]
MIXTAPE: SUMMERTIME HIP-HOP (NO, NOT THAT FRESH PRINCE SONG)
By mid-June we’re all reasonably starting to feel the heat of the summer sun. Undoubtedly it’s time for chilling in the shade with our besties, enjoying some (very) cold drinks, and cranking up the volume […]
MAKEOUT INFERNO, VOL. 1
As restaurants and bars begin to open back up across the nation in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, it seems as if dating may be on its way back to “normal.” Resident casanova Mike […]
MIXTAPE: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN – KISS
If KISS had broken up three albums in—before the release of Destroyer—they’d be remembered as a top-notch glam rock act existing on the fringes of the New York City punk rock movement: an all but […]