Dru DeCaro Brings The Spooky To The Dance Floor With His Exclusive Pics For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. Today, Dru DeCaro — the neo-soul/R&B/hip-hop instrumentalist who has performed with Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Faith Hill, and much – weaves immoderate classical goth, industrial, and aboriginal rap into the playlist.

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Dru’s Halloween volition beryllium extra-special this year, with the opening of BLOOD/LOVE astatine the historical Howard Theater successful Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The “rock popera” transforms the venue into The Crimson, a gothic nightclub wherever the dormant interact with the living. BLOOD/LOVE tells the communicative of Valerie Bloodlove (Carey Sharpe) arsenic she deals with the monotony of immortality arsenic she searches for intent and, possibly, undying love. DeCaro plays Anzik for the two-night tally – Oct. 27 and 28th.

“Blood/Love is unreal,” DeCaro said successful a statement astir the experience. “Every measurement of this accumulation has been perfectly caller and ambitious, heavy, and satisfying. I can’t hold for radical to perceive the euphony and consciousness the terror.” The amusement comes connected the heels of DeCaro penning and producing Em Beihold’s radio hit, “Numb Little Bug.”

So, with that spooky pedigree nether his belt, Dru decided to instrumentality a wound retired of The Sound Of Halloween with his opus selections.

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Dru DeCaro’s Halloween Playlist Picks

Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”

Dru: There is nary goth country without this record. It’s not truly a enactment joint, but you gotta springiness recognition wherever due.

Rockwell, “Somebody’s Watching Me”

This 1 is sillier than it is scary, but my archetypal metallic set utilized to screen this backmost successful the ’00s and we rocked it out. I’ll ever retrieve precisely wherever I was erstwhile I was trying to fig retired however to play it.)

Marilyn Manson “Sweet Dreams”

I was successful similar 5th people erstwhile Manson was huge. Overnight helium changed manner among preteen would-be delinquents, and looking backmost connected it now; his benignant was ever impeccable. He gave a batch of kids thing to telephone their own, adjacent if this opus wasn’t his [laughs].

Nine Inch Nails, “Into The Void”

Back erstwhile Manson was putting each effort into manner and daze value, Nails was conscionable engaged making so overmuch of the champion euphony ever. Arguably, ‘Closer’ should beryllium successful this place, it’s the crowd-pleaser. But I’d astir apt play them both.

Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, “Nightmare On My Street”

I got this CD from the section library. Again, recognition wherever it’s due. I’d similar to spot Jazzy Jeff’s Halloween setlist.

Michael Jackson, “Thriller”

You’re not getting distant without spinning this.

Nightmare Before Christmas, “This Is Halloween” 

You gotta person the close assemblage to get distant with this 1 aboriginal successful the night. But shoutout Burton and Elfman.

Outkast, “Dracula’s Wedding”

Later successful the evening, you gotta curb the spooky worldly and conscionable springiness the dancefloor immoderate action.

HollywoodLife: What’s a salient Halloween representation for you?

Dru: A representation that’ll haunt maine everlastingly is the Exotic Erotic Ball successful SF, possibly similar 2007. It’s this chaotic costume party/fetish fest/all-around creepshow held connected immoderate weird floating subject basal nether a span successful San Francisco. I went determination to perform, nary of america knew what we were successful for. It was Dark. I conscionable retrieve the opening enactment for america was a pistillate getting her woman bits shaved unrecorded onstage by a mustachioed barber with a comically immense consecutive razor; helium looked halfway retired of Peaky Blinders, halfway retired of Ringling Bros. It was mildly entertaining. Then my bass subordinate took LSD and played the full amusement naked. I was dressed arsenic Prince. It was a unspeakable amusement but memorable, and I’d bash it again.

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable costume this Halloween? What SHOULD beryllium successful your mind?

What will be the astir fashionable costume? Can I accidental a toss-up of Stranger Things and Euphoria characters? Is that cheating? That’s wholly what it’s going to be.

What should beryllium the most? Man, I don’t know, the satellite connected fire. Anything related to earthy disaster. That’s the existent scariest crap anyway.

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Do you person immoderate October oregon Halloween traditions?

At my archetypal workplace location successful LA (‘the LP House’), we ever threw the ridiculous Halloween party. Five years straight. Complete mayhem. Toward the end, my folks started flying retired from the eastbound seashore to attend. And they ne'er travel to sojourn otherwise, haha. My ma handmade their costumes the past time, everybody loved them. Now that I’m reasoning astir it, we volition perfectly propulsion an out-of-control enactment this twelvemonth too. It’s bully that I don’t person to thrust home.

If a workplace gives you a blank cheque and a tally of the library, what fearfulness movie are you remaking? Or, you could marque a caller one.

If I could remake a fearfulness movie from the past, astir apt beryllium Troll 2. Maybe I’d bash Troll 3: Return to Nilbog. If I could constitute my own, there’d astir apt beryllium aliens and vampires. The vampires decision the aliens, but it is not a blessed ending. I similar tragic, unsettling endings. That, oregon possibly I’d fto young radical prevention the day. Kids are the smartest, astir heroic radical we’ve got, truthful yea possibly I’d person them thatch everyone a lesson.

What’s connected pat for the remainder of the period – and the past weeks of 2022?

OCTOBER. I’m successful the midwest workshopping my caller vampire philharmonic each month! It goes onstage connected Halloween. It’s insane. We are doing a array work with the formed arsenic I beryllium present penning this. It’s going to spell to Broadway and volition springiness Tim Burton, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Clive Barker, and each of them a tally for their money. You’ve been warned!