In 2017 Timbo Gruse, lead singer of Speedbuggy USA, suffered an unfortunate fire at his home in Los Angeles, Ca. When it came time to film a music video for [ … ]

The mournful tone of the 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is strikingly captured by the amazing score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. [ … ]

Shows for the Slim Cessna Auto Club European tour have been announced, be sure and check out this awesome band: WED 24 MAY Borger, Netherlands Van Slag THU 25 MAY [ … ]

Gothic Western playlist #2 has gone live on Spotify, it features songs Dark Country and Gothic Americana songs from Johnny Cash, The Earl Brothers and Charley Horse (among many others). [ … ]

Wovenhand is an alternative country band from Denver, Colorado led by former 16 Horsepower frontman David Eugene Edwards. Wovenhand’s Americana Goth music combines influences from Southern gothic, old-time music, folk music, gospel music, and rock and roll. Middle Eastern music is also [ … ]

Southern Gothic Gospel? Yes. Munly is a banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado. He has played a significant role in the development of the “Denver Sound”, music that mixes elements of country, gothic, folk and gospel. He is a [ … ]

In November 2003, two months after Johnny Cash’s death, producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label released Unearthed, a sprawling box set including mostly previously unreleased songs recorded during the last decade [ … ]

GothicWestern.com presents Gothic Western Playlist #1, featuring Gothic Americana, Dark Country, Bloodgrass and more from 16 Horsepower, Heathen Apostles, Murder By Death,  Munly and others. This playlist is first in a [ … ]

Since she was ransomed back from Mohave Indians in 1856 wearing a tribal chin tattoo, Olive Oatman has inspired a sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, two biographies, two novels, a play starring John Wilkes [ … ]