Just in time for Halloween, the original punk-rockers of The Misfits will appear at New York City's legendary Madison Square Garden.

Most of Charles Atlas’ movies cover the world of dance, but in the late 1980s he put together a diverting documentary about the New York sound of the moment, with special focus on two budding stars from that scene, John Zorn and Sonic Youth. The movie is called Put Blood in the Music; the title derives from a comment made by Glenn Branca. Atlas’ playful methods involve some minor video trickery—his illustrious list of talking heads, about which more later, are always superimposed over…