Hello Sourcers and spookiest of greetings to you.

That has me wondering what the spookiest way to greet someone might be. “Your presence has been foretold” has a certain ominous quality.

Ahem. What have we got for you today?

🛸 I Want to Believe

🦅 Say You Want a Revolution

🎶 (Welcome to the Pleasure Dome) EP

I’m going to assume that you have plans for Halloween night already. Maybe you’re chasing your kiddos around the neighborhood, or throwing toilet paper at a movie screen (Great Scott!), or sitting in a pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to rise.

All valid pursuits.

For this week, I wanted to share one more spooky option that a friend of mine recently alerted me to, and that is the X-Files Preservation Museum in Saratoga Springs!

Why there’s an X-Files museum in Saratoga Springs is, itself, a mystery worthy of Agents Scully and Mulder. But if you’re willing to make the trek, this collection includes dozens of props and costumes and other artifacts from the series.

I know The Twilight Zone is sort of the “official” sci fi show of our region, and that Doctor Who is arguably the official sci fi show of public TV in general.

But I just love this face, you guys.

Looking past the holiday, next month we’re starting sneak preview screenings of Ken Burns’s American Revolution. The first of our screenings will be at the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown on Saturday November 8th at 4pm. Refreshments from Brimstone Catering will be served, and the 50 minute preview will be followed by a talk from Fenimore Director of Exhibitions, Julia Madore. Admission is free and includes admission to the museum (currently home to an exhibit on the art of Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, along with their amazing standing collection of indigenous fiber arts), but we are asking that you please pre-register for the event.

Keeping it brief today, because I still have to get my costume together. Or get the concept of a costume together. If you’re dressing up as something clever, or have cute kiddo or pet costumes that you’d like to share, please send ‘em along and we’ll have a Locally Sourced Halloween photo gallery up on the WSKG Facebook page soon!

Happy Tricks ‘n Treats!

Bob Proehl

Locally Sourced Editor

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The first full length self-titled EP by Binghamton’s Pleasure Dome is a brooding album that incorporates surf, psychedelic, punk, and rock. The members on this album are Brandon Musa, Cydney Edwards, Matt Payton, Peter Ives and Jeff Howard, with additional instrumentation by Jimmy Booker, Adam Spektor and Jason Gerycz. It was released in September on Healthy Dose Records. 

The guitars across the album are awash with beautiful spring and slapback reverbs, bringing an ethereal element to the slower songs and a manic feeling to the faster punk tracks. Cyd’s vocals move through the album like oil in water, organically shimmering, melding with the instruments but standing out in all the right ways. The songs pull you in with washy, dreamy textures, paired with driving beats like in songs “Do The Specter” or “Hot Wheels.” Other songs have a sweaty, dirty atmosphere, like the main riff of “Swamp Thing” and the verses of “Water Blades,” reminding me of the atmosphere The Cramps captured in their songs.

The album combines elements often at opposite ends of the genre spectrum: dreamy ethereal textures and fast driving punk beats. But the song that caught my ear the most is the last track, “Spider.” The guitar that launches the song is distant but bites down hard, the pick scrape that slowly builds with the drums dropping into a dreamscape. The bass and drums pulse together while the vocals float above. The way the B section pulls back to a minimalist floor tom, bass and guitar groove tees the song up perfectly to move back into the main riff. Throughout the song you hear a subtly rattling tambourine, adding a sizzle to build tension. The first two-thirds of the song wade through what feels like an Ennio Morricone fever dream, but the last third slowly ramps up the tempo into a feeling of hopeful relief. The longest song on the album, its arc is certainly a strong way to end Pleasure Dome’s debut effort. 

Stream the album on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music etc. 

Follow the band on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e.dome/

Upcoming shows listed on their Bandcamp https://pleasuredomemusic.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-dome

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