Kursse returns to Unmixable with a dark mix inspired by Satan. No one is safe.

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As a kid, my parents worried a lot about my immortal soul. I really don’t understand why. I was a straight-A student. I never had any disciplinary problems. I stayed in most weekend nights while the rest of my peers socialized and had fun. I never drank, let alone did drugs, and didn’t have a serious girlfriend until after I graduated high school. But I listened to a lot of heavy metal, and, admittedly, not all of it good. (more…)

If there’s one thing you can say about the folks from Unwinnable is that we’re not easy to pin down. When we called for votes for best album of 2011, we got 77 nominees. PJ Harvey just barely edged out Fucked Up for Unwinnable’s album of the year – and that was with a mere three votes. So don’t look at this list as a highly-ordered, precisely calculated chart of the objectively best music of the year. It’s more like a bunch of stuff that a bunch of dudes liked. And it’s pretty good stuff. Listen and believe. (more…)

It’s that time of year again. There is a chill in the air, houses are wrapped in their cocoon of blinking lights and traffic is a whole new level of intense as people scramble to shop for presents. And at the Unwinnable offices, Old Man Horvath has dusted off his top hat and is stalking around doing his best Scrooge impersonation. It must be Christmas.

But it can’t be Christmas without Christmas music. Unwinnable Christmas Music, that is… (more…)

Reposted from New York Theater Review

There are two kinds of monsters that need slaying in Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters, currently enjoying its world premiere at the Flea Theater under the wings of resident company The Bats. We’re not talking about flesh-eating slime and bugbears, though both make an appearance, along with succubi and a creature called the Beholder whose joke I won’t reveal here (and a great piece of work by puppet designer David Valentine).

Another kind of monster entirely – more destructive by far than the mythic beings of Dungeons & Dragons, from whence the coterie of literal monsters comes – is regret, in this case over a teenage sister gone before her self-involved older sibling, preoccupied with boys and makeup and college, ever got to know her. (more…)

If there is any holiday wholeheartedly embraced by Team Unwinnable, it has to be Halloween. Halloween is the only holiday that celebrates fun. You don’t need a date, you don’t have to buy gifts, you don’t have to cook all day and you can wear a costume or just wander about as yourself. Halloween also is the only holiday to celebrate all things spooky and scary – and we love a good fright. So, in honor of our favorite time of the year, we bring you, Dear Reader, our Halloween Mix Tape. (more…)

We here at Team Unwinnable like to be awed. We like to be amazed. And while you may think we’re just a bunch of videogame addicts, from time to time we do like to class it up with artsy stuff. (more…)