“Screamin' Jay's the shit,” proclaims Eszter Balint as she lugs a boom box blaring Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 recording of “I Put a Spell on You” down a New Jersey street in a key sequence from Jim ...

For all the wrong reasons, legendary zombie blues howler Screamin’ Jay Hawkins hated my guts. Our relationship was pretty much doomed from the start. I just couldn’t do anything right in his eyes. He ...

Don't see this video? Click here. In our new series on the art of sampling, hip-hop producers demonstrate how they find inspiration in classics, hidden gems, found sounds and other raw musical ...

It was Alan Freed, the radio DJ/promoter, who put the coffin in Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ act. This was the late 1950s, when the preachers and the PTA said rock ‘n’ roll was threatening to turn the white ...

From the "black metal version of hip hop", to original shock rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sepultura and the Mr. Bungle track that "gets him horny" these are Yeti Bones' all-time favourites ...