At Home With Rob Zombie: The Playlist

“I like to get up when it's still dark,” Rob Zombie tells Apple Music about how he starts his morning routine from his Connecticut home during lockdown. “After the fog clears with a cup of coffee, that's when the ideas come. The first couple hours of just sitting by yourself in the dark working, you could really crank out some shit fast.” In his wide-ranging conversation with Zane Lowe, the singer-songwriter and filmmaker discusses how he first formed a friendship with the Ramones' Johnny Ramone over their collecting hobbies, why metal bands hated his former band White Zombie when they started out, and the meaning of his latest album's title The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. Zombie also talks about the '80s New York City music scene and local hardcore punk pioneers Agnostic Front, represented here in this exclusive Apple Music playlist with their biting track “Blind Justice,” alongside other artists like War, Françoise Hardy, and The Allman Brothers Band. “I always associate Agnostic Front with that time, and a couple of bands like Sonic Youth and Cro-Mags,” he says. “But they just seem the most New York of the New Yorkers.”