Playlist for April 2012

These are all the full-length albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in the month of April 2012. At the end are my notes and a list of the live performances I saw as well.

4/1/12

Trek Life – “Wouldn’t Change Nothing”

Cannibal Corpse – “Eaten Back To Life”

The Maccabees – “Given To The Wild”

Mac Lethal – “11:11”

Faith No More – “Angel Dust”

Minutemen – “Double Nickels on the Dime”

4/2/12

Smashing Pumpkins – “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” 2CD

LA Symphony – “Unleashed” mixtape

Crooked I – “Block Obama II” EP

Waco Fuck – 10-song demo CD

Wu Tang Clan – “Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers”

Dying Fetus – “Purification Through  Violence

Rage Against The Machine – “Evil Empire”

4/3/12

Doomtree – “FH:XV” EP

From First To Last – “Aesthetic” EP
RA The Rugged Man – “American Low Life”

Deicide – “Once Upon The Cross”

V/A – “Mello Music Group presents Self Sacrifice”

Adolescents – “Welcome to Reality” EP

4/4/12

Self Scientific – “Trials of the Blackhearted”

Bayside – “Sirens and Condolences”

Los Rakas – “P.B.T. 2: La Tanda Del Bus”

The Smiths – “The Queen Is Dead”

CunninLynguists – “Southernunderground”

Boot Camp Clik – “Basic Training: Greatest Hits”

4/5/12

Ras Kass – “Van Gogh”

4/6/12

Mac Miller – “K.I.D.S.” mixtape

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “The VS Redux”

The Diplomats – “Diplomatic Immunity” Disc 1

Lecrae – “Rehab”

4/7/12

Living Legends – “The Gathering” EP

Hieroglyphics – “Full Circle”

4/8/12

Phobia – “Return to Desolation” EP

Hordes – “Abarognosis” EP

Azma – 3-song demo CD

Alcest – “Les Voyages De L’Ame”

Jethro Tull – “Stormwatch”

Slayer – “Reign In Blood”

Mad Sin – “A Ticket To the Underworld”

Ruptures – “Deadbloom” EP

Faith No More – “We Care A Lot”

ACxDC – “Second Coming” EP

Faith No More – “Angel Dust”

4/9/12

Faith No More – “The Real Thing”

Unsane – “Total Destruction”

Cold War Kids – “Robbers and Cowards”

K’Naan – “More Beautiful Than Silence” EP

The Melvins – “Gluey Porch Treatments”

The Diplomats – “Diplomatic Immunity” Disc 2

The Makeout Boys – “Teenage Thrills”

Crippled Black Phoenix – “(Mankind) The Crafty Ape” Disc 1

The Melvins – “The Bulls & The Bees” EP

The Reverend Horton Heat – “Smoke’em If You Got’em”
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – “Out Of Frequency”

Children Of Nova – “The Complexity Of Light” EP

Band Of Horses – “Everything All The Time”

Leonard Cohen – “Old Ideas”

4/10/12

Boats – “Inetrcontinental Champion”

Faith No More – “King For A Day…Fool For A Lifetime”

Trash Talk – 05 demo

Young Guns – “Bones”
Living With Lions – “Holy Shit!”
Honor Role – “It Bled Like A Stuck Pig” EP

Dirty Three – “Towards the Low Sun”

Such Gold – “Pedestals” EP

Overkill – “Fuck You!” EP

The Wooden Sky – “Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Son”

Close Your Eyes – “We Will Overcome”

Kaskade – “In The Moment”

Lewd Acts – “Black Eyed Blues”

4/11/12

Faith No More – “Angel Dust”

A Perfect Circle – “Mer De Noms”

Veil Of Maya – “Eclipse”

Fight Like Apes – “…And The  Mystery Of The Golden Medallion”

Comeback Kid – “Wake The Dead”

4/12/12

Fudd Rukus – “Tell Your Friends”

Faith No More – “Album Of The Year”

Plants And Animals – “The End Of That”

The End – “Elementary”

4/14/12

Memoryhouse – “The Slideshow Effect”

4/17/12

Autechre – “Incunabala”

Crippled Black Phoenix – “(Mankind) The Crafty Ape” Disc 2

Religious Girls – “Open Your Heart To Fantasy”

4/18/12

Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire – “The Swimming Hour”

Venom – “Black Metal”

Chiddy Bang – “Breakfast”

Arkona – “Goi, Rode, Goi!”

4/19/12

Edgar Allen Floe – “The Streetwise”

Sick Of It All – “Built To Last”

Corrosion Of Conformity – S/T

Ex Deo – “Romulus”

AFX – “Chosen Lands”

Parts And Labor – “Receivers”

4/20/12

Batfoot – “Brain Dead”

Kevin Greenspon – “Rose Window” EP

Helium – “The Dirt Of Luck”

Yngwie Malmsteen – “The Collection”

4/21/12

Wretched –“Son Of Perdition”

Katrina Stoneheart/Vehicle Blues – split cassette

Heltah Skeltah – “D.I.R.T.”

4/22/12

Butthole Surfers – “Locust Abortion Technician”

4/23/12

Justin Townes Earle – “Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now”

4/24/12

Trial – “Are These Our Lives?”

Junior Reid – “One Blood”

Sublime – “Robbin’ the Hood”

The Mars Volta – “Noctourniquet”

All Teeth – “I Am Losing”

Autoclave – S/T

Emmure – “Goodbye To The Gallows”

Before Their Eyes – “Redemption”

Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine – “The Audacity of Hype”

4/25/12

Ani DiFranco – “Which Side Are You On?”

Zao – “Where Fire And Blood Bring Rest”

From Autumn To Ashes – “Too Bad You’re Beautiful”

The Used – “Vulnerable”

4/26/12

Prong – “Force Fed”

Oiltanker – “The Shadow of Greed” EP

Screeching Weasel – “How To Make Enemies And Irritate People”

Jay Brannan – “Rob Me Blind”

4/24/12

Witchburn – “This Is How We Slay Our Demons”

The Pursuit Of Happiness – “The Wonderful World Of…”

Velveteen – “Home Waters”

4/28/12

Panic! At The Disco – “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”

Shinedown – “Amaryllis”

Throw The Goat – “Demo Primero”

Blanks 77 – “Killer Blanks”

Death – “Human”

Joel Plaskett Emergency – “Scrappy Happiness”

Tragedy – “Vengeance”

Death Cab For Cutie – “Narrow Stairs”

4/29/12

Emalkay – “Eclipse”

OutKast – “ATLiens”

The Cure – “Seventeen Seconds”

Overkill – “The Electric Age”

Marcy Playground – S/T

Skin Like Iron/Nails – split EP

Million Dead – “Harmony No Harmony”

Waterdown – “Never Kill A Boy On The First Date”

Funeral For A Friend – “Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation”

Mastodon/Feist – “Feistodon” split 7”

Judas Priest – “British Steel”

The All-American Rejects – “Kids in the Street”

Duke Ellington – “The Eternal Ellington”

4/30/12

Death Crisis –S/T 7”

Modern Jazz Quartet – “Pyramid”

Underdog – “Matchless” discography CD

Gregory Lemarchal – “Je Deviens Moi”

Thrice – “Vheissu”

Johnny Horton – “Mean Mean Son of A Gun”

Axel Rudi Pell – “Circle Of The Oath”

Nazareth – “The Very Best Of”

Otro/The Maurupials – split 7”

Willie Nelson – “Red Headed Stranger”

I Blame Coco – “The Constant”

Muddy Waters – “The Real Folk Blues”

NOTES

-         - This is the first month of the 2012 so far where a Cannibal Corpse album wasn’t the first album I listened to. This month it was the second album.

-          - My obsession with the “Angel Dust” album carried over into this month, and it led me to rediscover the rest of FNM’s catalog as well.

-       -    Hordes, Ruptures, ACxDC, Nails, Oiltanker…there are a lot of thrashy powerviolence-influenced hardcore bands out there right now

-        -  The new K’Naan and Shinedown albums are in competition with the new K.Flay and Lacuna Coil albums for the title of “Worst Album of 2012”…let’s see how much more bullshit I can put myself through before December ends

-         - In contrast, the new Mars Volta, Corrosion Of Conformity, and Alcest albums are my favorite releases of the year so far...great stuff from all three

-         - The Diplomats suck

-        -  2 Melvins albums in one day? Madness.

-         - Leonard Cohen’s new album is my first exposure to his work…I’m a noob

-         - Autoclave is like my new favorite band I can’t believe it took me this long to discover them

-        -  “the Audacity of Hype” sounds like the Dead Kennedys never broke up its amazing

-        -  “Where Fire And Blood Bring Rest” still heavy after all these years

-        -  I am among those who downloaded Velveteen songs when “Narrow Stairs” came out and was fooled for years into thinking they were Death Cab songs…literally just a few days ago I discovered the mix-up and finally listened to the real DCFC album…But Velveteen is dope!

I also saw Swimteam, LA Symphony, Wu-Tang Clan, RA The Rugged Man, CunninLynguists, People Under The Stairs, Hieroglyphics, Living Legends, Dilated Peoples, Brother Ali, The Coltranes, Green Screen Door, Merchandise, and NASA Space Universe perform live this month.