Mario Bava's Hatchet For The Honeymoon screens at Revue Cinema, Friday

In a special tribute to the late Stephen Forsyth, the Revue Cinema is screening Hatchet For The Honeymoon tonight at 6:45 pm.

Stompbox presents Mario Bava's Hatchet For The Honeymoon 

A tribute to T.O. born star Stephen Forsyth

Stompbox is presenting a special tribute to HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON star Stephen Forsyth (1938-2025) with rare, never-seen, original film and music memorabilia from Forsyth’s own personal archives of his time in the 1960s & 1970s Italian film industry, courtesy of The Candy Bar!

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian giallo genre, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening gems: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia). Canada’s own Stephen Forsyth stars as John Harrington, the head of an affluent fashion house, who harbors an uncontrollable bloodlust for women in bridal veils. Only by murdering a succession of them, can he delve deeper into his subconscious and bring to light the primal scene that spawned his very specific homicidal fetish. With its director doubling as cinematographer, HATCHET is one of Bava's most visually sumptuous films. (Kino Lorber)

Toronto-born HATCHET star Stephen Forsyth, who passed away on September 12, 2025, was a beloved fixture of the Kensington Market neighbourhood. But also had a successful run as a marquee actor in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s, including westerns BLOOD CALLS TO BLOOD and IN A COLT’S SHADOW, and climaxing in his final and best remembered film role, as the disturbed lead of HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON, before leaving Italy to focus on music composition, photography and an array of artistic interests up until his passing.

Close friend of Mr. Forsyth, Paola Giavedoni, owner of The Candy Bar – College Street’s beloved candy and confectionary institution and longtime sponsor of the Revue Cinema’s Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party - will be bringing a collection of posters, photos, and memorabilia from the personal archives of Mr. Forsyth, documenting his time at the nerve centre of Italian film history and his work with the incomparable Mario Bava. 

Get tickets for the Stompbox screening of Hatchet For The Honeymoon right here. Watch the trailer below. 

Remembering saxophone great Dexter Gordon on his birthday

Celebrating the birthday of tenor titan Dexter Gordon with Don McGlynn's documentary "More Than You Know," and much more.  

Col. Tom's Swinging Door with special guest Tally Ferraro @ The Cameron House, Sunday

Singer/guitarist Tally Ferraro – whose family owns the Cameron House – sits in with Col. Tom and crew from 6pm to 8pm.  

One For The Weekend: Louis Myers & The Aces

Here's the rockin' blues instro "Just Whaling" by Louis Myers (on harp) with the Aces on Eli Toscano's ABCO label from 1956. 

Terry Allen announces his new family band project Blood Sucking Maniacs

Terry Allen's multi-generational family band, Blood Sucking Maniacs release their self-titled debut April 24th. You've been warned!

Here's the scoop...

BEWARE 💀: Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, along with their children and grandchildren, are pleased to announce the self-titled debut (and double) album by their new project, BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, a multi-generational family band, out on April 24th. You can pre-order the album (the first release of all-new Terry Allen recordings since 2020’s “Just Like Moby Dick”) via Bandcamp right here here. Check out the first single, the eponymous theme song, “Blood Sucking Maniacs” below. Buy tickets to the May 21st album release show at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, dubbed "A Night With Blood Sucking Maniacs right here.

Blood Sucking Maniacs, the Allen family band, helmed by Terry  and Jo Harvey Allen, spans five generations and 121 years, including (among others) their sons Bukka Allen and Bale Creek Allen; grandsons Kru, Sled Allen, and Calder Allen; Panhandle Mystery Band mainstays Charlie Sexton, Lloyd Maines, and Richard Bowden, and frequent collaborator Will Sexton. The wild and wide-ranging songs collected on their eponymous album are miscellaneous and multiplex, comprising heartrending ballads and arch in-jokes on a spectrum from sublime to unabashedly sentimental. The unifying principle here is not so much blood harmony as blood entropy.

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Get sucked ... 

The Allens will also perform two nights, in different configurations, at the fabulous Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, with the Truckload of Art Road Show (an intimate book reading/signing, concert, and discussion/Q&A) on March 26th and with the full Panhandle Mystery Band on March 27th. For more info on the Big Ears Festival, visit their site right here. See y’all there.

For more information about Terry Allen, his music and artwork, visit his site right here. Listen to "Blood Sucking Maniacs" below.

New Griot Galaxy Live on WUOM 1979 double LP out now

Two Rooms Records release of a 1979 performance by Detroit's legendary Griot Galaxy is something to cheer about.  

Here's the scoop from Tani Tabbal...

"Great to hear this live recording and that it’s available on vinyl and cd from Two Rooms Records. Jaribu Shahid is now at the helm of Griot Galaxy, along with myself, and including Anthony Holland, Dave MacMurray, and Cassius Richmond."

Griot Galaxy – Live on WUOM 1979 

Two Rooms Records is excited to announce its tenth and most significant release yet, “Live on WUOM 1979” by Griot Galaxy. Nearly lost to history, this double-length release captures an extended radio performance by the seminal Afro-futurist jazz group, aka “The Sci-Fi Band,” featuring stunning versions of their classic repertoire circa 1979, in a compact, quartet setting.

Known for mixing complex polyrhythms, polytonality and non-western scales with grooves and minimalist elements from popular music, Griot Galaxy was founded in Detroit by saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey in 1972. The best known iteration coalesced in the late ‘70s as a quintet with bassist Jaribu Shahid and percussionist Tani Tabbal — both veterans of the Sun Ra Arkestra — and wind players Anthony Holland and David McMurray. All the members collaborated with their contemporaries in creative Black music, including Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille and many others. McMurray, absent on this recording, also stayed busy playing behind The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

Wildly popular in Detroit and amongst their peers, Griot Galaxy only released two full-length records during the band’s lifetime. Their activity effectively ended in 1986 when Bey was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that required nearly a decade of recovery, making this release an important expansion of the Griot Galaxy universe. 

Griot Galaxy: Faruq Z. Bey - Alto, Soprano, and Tenor Saxophones, Bass Clarinet; Anthony Holland - Alto, Soprano, and Tenor Saxophones, Bass Clarinet; Jaribu Shahid - Double Bass; Tani Tabbal - Drums, Percussion. 

Recorded at WUOM Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1979

Mastered by Warren DeFever, Third Man Mastering, Detroit

Produced By Two Rooms Records, Detroit. 

Get a copy of Griot Galaxy's Live on WUOM 1979 via Bandcamp right here. Watch a performance of "Androgeny" and some performance footage from 1978 below. 

Watch the trailer for way overdue streaming series "They Called Us Outlaws"

"They Called Us Outlaws" – reassessing the legacy of Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, etc – premieres at SXSW '26.