Frequency Rotation: Kate Bush, “Deeper Understanding”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a science fiction or fantasy theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.The fact that Kate Bush is a kind of a geek—albeit an impossibly cool and sexy geek—is c...
Frequency Rotation: The Downliners Sect, “Lord of the Rings”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a science fiction or fantasy theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.Untold dozens of rock ’n’ roll bands have written songs about The Lord of the Rings. Led...
Frequency Rotation: Jeffrey Lewis, “If You Shoot the Head You Kill the Ghoul”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a science fiction or fantasy theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.How do you kill something that’s already dead? One singer-songwriter is doing his best to remind u...
I Rocked with a Zombie: An Undead Playlist
You’re working at the lab, late one night, when you realize you were supposed to make a mixtape for that cute ghoul who’s taking you on a date when you get off in an hour. Uh oh.[Time to assemble a zombie playlist]
Frequency Rotation: Fleetwood Mac, “Rhiannon”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a science fiction or fantasy theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.When I was 6, I didn’t know who Stevie Nicks was. I didn’t even know the name of the song &l...
Frequency Rotation: Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men, “Flyin’ Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a science fiction or fantasy theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
Earlier this year I wrote a feature for Clarkesworld called “Moonage Daydream: Th...
Frequency Rotation: The Locust, “Flash’s Theme”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
To a certain generation of science-fiction fans (myself quite zealously included), the 1980s b...
Frequency Rotation: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, “21st Century Boy”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
Some science-fiction-themed songs take a few paragraphs of background info and analysis to be ...
Frequency Rotation: Isis, “Hall of the Dead”
Coheed and Cambria, one of the biggest neo-progressive-rock bands around, gets a lot of credit for linking its entire oeuvre (five albums and counting) into one, long, science-fiction narrative—one that’s spilled over into a novel a...
Frequency Rotation: Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip, “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
Ask any actor: Getting typecast sucks. But even the bitterest Star Trek cast member has to adm...
Frequency Rotation: Neil Young, “Sample and Hold”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
When you think of cyberpunk, who’s the first musician that springs to mind? Billy Idol? ...
Frequency Rotation: Rasputina, “Holocaust of Giants”
Each week, Frequency Rotation probes a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
From a musical standpoint, steampunk is a funny thing. The suffix “-punk,” as we a...
