Real name: The Moon-Rays

Effective period / Period of releases: 2002 - 2004

Members: Greg Griffiths, Scott Mensching

The Moon-Rays are "Americas Halloween band" having recorded four albums of delightfully ghoulish music for the SVI label and winning the JPF Indie award for best surf album in 2002! Their music has also appeared in five classic B Movies.
In 2001 the Moon-Rays recorded the theme from WGN's "CREATURE FEATURES" television show, which got them immediate attention across the country with people who grew up in the 60's and 70's in Chicago and remembered fondly sitting in front of the TV on Saturday nights watching the show
This recording gave them the opportunity to record their first CD for Sound Imp Records. "THRILLS AND CHILLS" came out in 2002 and was comprised of mainly cover songs of groups like the John Barry 7, Henry Mancini, some music from the television show the "MAN FROM UNCLE", as well as two original songs.
One of these songs "1313 MOCKINGBIRD LANE" (named after the address of the Munsters home) found it's way onto numerous Halloween broadcasts that year and was picked up for two movies, "DR HORRORS EROTIC HOUSE OF IDIOTS" and the upcomming documentary on the Horror Host history "AMERICAN SCARY".
93 WXRT radio in Chicago picked "THRILLS AND CHILLS" as best instrumental release for 2002, quite an accomplishment for a "spook" band.
In 2006 Thrills and Chills won best instrumental surf album at the JPF Music Awards in Santa Anna Ca.over 30,000 album submissions and 1313 MOCKINGBIRD LANE WAS PICKED AS BEST SURF SONG OVER 300,OOO SUBMISSIONS.
In 2004 they released their second CD for SVI titled the "GHOULS GO WEST". Unlike the previous CD this one was all original songs except for one and had much more of a "spooky" feel to it. The one thing it had in common with the previous CD is that several songs off of "GHOULS" also were picked up to be featured in films. Their unique blend of beatnik surf and jazz has set them apart from other so called "spook-surf" or Halloween bands, most of which rely on a darker heavy metal sound. We like to refer to our music as "Halloween Lounge" with a lot of humor.
"GHOULS" got widespread airplay on many college radio stations across the country as well as radio stations in Europe, Japan, and Australia.
2006 AND 2008 saw two releases from the band, "Sinister Surf" and "Swingin at the Seance" a concept album that was made up mostly of songs from the 1920's-1940's that had a Halloween theme to them.
The Moon-Rays have also kept busy contributing music to the film industry with songs in "American Scary"," Dr. Horrors Erotic House of Idiots", "Ghost in a Teeny Bikini","Monster Cruise" and writing the title track to "The Ghastly Love of Johnny X".