Every year since 2017, We Own This Town: Music has published a special Halloween-centric episode of themed local music particularly perfect for the season. Here in 2024, it’s our eighth edition of the Halloween special and it’s our longest yet; clocking in at two and a half hours. Special guest host Michael Bleeds takes the reigns and serves up an excellent descent into a hellscape of tunes. It gets pretty intense!
Here’s the full archive of past Halloween specific episodes. It is highly recommended that you listen to each playlist and discover the multitude of artists within each one. It’s an absurd amount of great local talent. Absurd!
Outside of the WOTT Music podcasts and the artists on each offering, there is still a massive amount of Halloween music made by Nashville area folks. Below are some additional treats that you may find appealing but, again, you’re going to have to explore a bit on your own to find all the gems. There’s just so much of it out there. Enjoy!
Outside of the WOTT Music podcasts and the artists on each offering, there is still a massive amount of Halloween music made by Nashville area folks. Below are some additional treats that you may find appealing but, again, you’re going to have to explore a bit on your own to find all the gems. There’s just so much of it out there. Enjoy!
- ULTIMATE SPOOKY JAM
Bunny the Archmage – whom you may know from the Dizzy Spell podcast and Far Out Nashville has truly compiled the ultimate playlist – clocking in at well over 24 hours of music. Put it on random and see how long you can go before it starts repeating itself (spoiler: it won’t). - Halloween Jukebox
Fun fact, the other Dizzy Spell host also has a Halloween playlist and it’s very different from the Spooky Jam but also very good. - Makeup & Vanity Set: Zytel Systems I – Horror
Back in 2017, Makeup and Vanity Set released a new track every day in October; each inspired by and themed for a particular horror movie. He compiled all of those into this album, oh boy, it is very good. - BoJo’s “Mix From the 13th Floor” 2024 Spooky Mix Tape
The legality of posting other people’s music on Bandcamp as a Free Download is a questionable venture but copyright inquiries aside, this is a fantastic listen – especially if you’re into Vintage Halloween. - Titus Jones – NIGHTMASH, Volume 4
We have mentioned Titus Jones in years past but a new mix dropped for 2024, so it bears repeating. If you like spooky mashups and high energy dancefloor jams, dig in stat.
- We’d be remiss not to also mention the incomparable To-Go Records Halloween Compilation, the Troubled Spirits album The Culling, the Miss Shelby and Leeann – Halloween Safety Song from Hott Minute, Vista Blue’s pop-punk offerings and Joe Kenkel’s song “(All Wrapped Up in the) Cool Claws of Love” (which has an ominous something to it despite being a delightful bop).
- WOTT #Halloween Archives
Not to toot our own horn but we’ve been covering Halloween music from Nashville since roughly 2008! Browse our own articles to unearth a new surprise or two. - Bandcamp “#Nashville #Halloween” Releases
If all that somehow still has not satisfied your cravings, it’s always a fun endeavor to look into music on Bandcamp that is tagged with both #Nashville and #Halloween. Be sure to sort it by latest releases and not just popularity!