Katy Perry, Gwen Stefani and More Featured on Halloween & Chill

Music fans can dip into a mixed bag of digital treats from haunting to otherworldly to playful as this year’s eeriest night takes on a new life. Premiering today, the Halloween & Chill playlist is a genre-spanning concoction for an enchanting season of pumpkin carving and dress-up, whether for an intimate at-home get-together or a Zooming party to connect with other pirates, princesses, super heroes and vampires. Also this month, spellbinding CD and LP releases, plus new videos, make the frightful truly delightful. Halloween & Chill begins by clicking here.

Available now and a partial rundown below, the Halloween & Chill playlist brings together a diverse tracklist of beats, energy, inspiration and swing. Lighting a few candles and turning up the music is one way to enhance October 31 planning. Cream’s “Strange Brew,” Dusty Springfield’s sultry “Spooky” and Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft” are among the more than 50 tracks featured.

Halloween & Chill videos available today include “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” by Concrete Blonde – watch here. Remastered in high-definition, the video captures the foreboding goth-blues riffing, necromantic lyrics and gang-vocal chorus from the opening track on the band’s Bloodletting album. A brightly colored, animated video for Sheb Wooley’s “Purple People Eater” also makes its official video debut here today.

Last spring, The Cranberries “Zombie” video hit 1 billion views on YouTube, making them the first Irish band in history to achieve this milestone. Befitting the Halloween & Chill vibe, the track is included on the playlist and a new lyric video featuring remastered audio from the forthcoming No Need to Argue reissue premieres on Halloween & Chill YouTube playlist later this month.

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