8/1/12
Desaparecidos – “Read
Music/Speak Spanish”
Looking Up – S/T
Adebisi Shank – “This
Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank”
Sharon Van Etten –
“Tramp”
American Nightmare –
S/T
Duck Duck Goose – “Off
Yourself” EP
Fang Island – “Day of
the Great Leap”
John K. Samson –
“Provincial”
Hot Snakes – “Suicide
Invoice”
Outrage – “Broken”
TS & The Past
Haunts – “Gone & Goner”
Fiona Apple – “The
Idler Wheel is Wiser Than The Drive of The Screw & Whipping Cords Will
Serve You Better Than Ropes Will Ever Do”
Paul Banks – “Julian
Plenti Lives…” EP
8/2/12
Marilyn Manson –
“Smells Like Children”
Owen – “The Seaside” EP
Beach House – “Bloom”
Black Mountain –
“Wilderness Heart”
The Hoax – “Fight to be
Free”
Braid – “The Age Of
Octeen”
Odd Future – “The OF
Tape Vol. 2”
8/3/12
American Lies –
“Listen, That’s Disco!” EP
Mikal Cronin/King Khan & The Shrines – split 7”
Mikal Cronin/King Khan & The Shrines – split 7”
Bruce Springsteen –
“Wrecking Ball”
M83 – “Saturdays =
Youth”
Crucial Unit – “Premium
Iced Tea” EP
Titlwheel – “Teach Your
Children Hell” 7”
Lana Del Rey – “Born To
Die”
King Khan & The
Shrines – “What Is?”
Los Crudos – “La Rabia Nubla Nuestros Ojos” EP
Los Crudos – “La Rabia Nubla Nuestros Ojos” EP
The Doors – “LA Woman”
Here We Go Magic – “A
Different Ship”
8/4/12
Ground Up – 2008 demo
Melting Corpse –
“Ramirez” demo
Future Islands – “On
The Water”
Zeke – “’Til The Living
End”
Bullet Boys – S/T
El-P – “Cancer For
Cure”
end of the summer –
demo 07
Tycho – “Dive”
Day Dreams – “With Our
Heads In The Clouds” demo
Great White – “Greatest
Hits”
Killer Mike – “R.A.P.
Music”
The Atlas Sound –
“Parallax”
Crucial Unit –
“Moshzilla” EP
8/5/12
Rich Robinson –
“Through A Crooked Sun”
Actress – “R.I.P.”
Givers – “In Light”
8/6/12
Robby Krieger –
“Singularity”
Japandroids –
“Celebration Rock”
Two Gallants – S/T
8/7/12
Morbid Angel – “Blessed
Are The Sick”
James Ingram – “Always
You”
Ab-Soul – “Control
System”
Redd Kross –
“Phaseshifter”
The Clash –
“Sandinista!” Disc 2
Devil’s Beatdown –
“Sessions of Aggression” EP
Dead Sara – S/T
The Walkmen – “Heaven”
The Field – “Looping
State Of Mind"
8/8/12
Sodom – “Persecution
Mania” (not 3)
The Offspring – “Days
Go By”
Of Monsters And Men –
“My Head Is An Animal”
A.A. Bondy – “American
Hearts”
A Life Once Lost – “The
4th Plague…Flies” EP
The Mowgli’s – “Sound
The Drum”
Mark Lanegan Band –
“Blues Funeral”
DJ Harvey – “Sonic
Disco #3”
Discharge – “Never
Again”
Steve Aoki –
“Wonderland”
B.o.B. – “Strange Clouds”
Randy Travis – “The
Very Best Of”
Dam Funk –
“Toeachizown” 2CD
8/9/12
The Swankys – “This is
My Lifestyle” EP
The Burning Of Rome – “Death-Pop”
The Burning Of Rome – “Death-Pop”
First Aid Kit – “The
Lion’s Roar”
A.A. Bondy – “When The
Devil’s Loose”
Wild Nothing –
“Nocturne”
Toy Dolls – “Ten Years
Of Toys”
Bones – “Dim Mak
Studios 2012 Mix”
Tennis – “Young &
Old”
The Soft Pack – S/T
Los Crudos – “Las
Injusticias Caen Como Pesadillas” EP
Weed – “Gun Control”
Vicci Martinez – “Sleep
To Dream”
Blondes – S/T
8/10/12
Joyce Manor – “Of All
Things I Will Soon Grow Tired”
Crucial Unit – “These
Colors Get The Runs”
Zechs Marquise –
“Getting Paid”
Jack White –
“Blunderbuss”
White Fence – “Is
Growing Faith”
Patience Price –
“Adrenaline and Vodka” EP
Zac Brown Band –
“Uncaged”
John Maus – “We Must Become the Pitiless Censors
of Ourselves”
8/11/12
Crucial Unit/Municipal
Waste – Split LP
Heart Like War – “The
Battle Begins” EP
Alabama Shakes – “Boys
and Girls”
FIDLAR – “DIYDUI” EP
Simon & Garfunkle –
“The Best Of” Disc 2
Au Revoir – “In the Key
of Night”
8/13/12
The Future Of The Left
– “The Plot Against Common Sense”
Sandro Perri –
“Impossible Spaces”
8/14/12
Sinatra – “Lost In
Hyrule”
The Untouchables – “Decade
of Dance” live album
8/15/12
M. Ward – “A Wasteland
Companion”
Doldrums – “Empire
Sound” EP
V/A – Never Lost
Records Summer Compilation 2012
Horse Head – “Jewelry”
EP
Icky Blossoms – S/T
Icky Blossoms – S/T
The Suicide Of Western
Culture – S/T
Frenzal Rhomb –
“Mongrel” live album
WL – “Impermanent” 7”
Anais Mitchell – “Young
Man In America”
Daughn Gibson – “All
Hell”
Integrity – “In
Contrast Of Tomorrow”
The American
Scene/Daybreaker – split EP
8/17/12
Santigold – “Master Of
My Make Believe”
King Tuff – “Wild
Desire” 7”
Radiohead – “Amnesiac”
45 Grave – “Sleep In
Safety”
8/18/12
Heems/Himanshu – “Nehru
Jacket”
Glass Candy –
“B/E/A/T/B/O/X”
Suicidal Tendencies – “Join the Army”
Suicidal Tendencies – “Join the Army”
Geoff Barrow & Ben
Salisbury – “Drokk: Music Inspired By Mega-City One”
ACxDC – “Jack Trippin’”
04 demo
Papa – “A Good Woman Is
Hard To Find” EP
Killing Children –
“Certain Death” EP
The Vim Dicta – S/T
live EP
Cannibal Corpse –
“Torture”
Lovely Bad Things –
“New Ghosts/Old Waves” EP
Los Crudos/Spitboy –
“Viviendo Esperamente/Rough Living” split LP
Family Of The Year –
“Through The Trees” EP
Spiritualized – “Sweet Heart Sweet Light”
Spiritualized – “Sweet Heart Sweet Light”
8/19/12
The Faint – “Wet From
Birth”
Finch – “What It Is To
Burn”
Mix Master Mike – “Spin
Pyscle”
Shadows Fall – “Fire
From The Sky”
Devin – “Romancing”
Wavves – S/T
Nas – “Life Is Good”
Errors – “Have Some
Faith In Magic”
Refused – “This Just
Might Be…The Truth”
8/20/12
Code 13 – “Discography
1994-2000” CD
Trap Her Keep Her –
“Fake Record” EP
Lisa Marie Presley –
“Storm & Grace”
M83 – “Dead Cities, Red
Seas, and Lost Ghouls”
The Nerve Agents – S/T
Always Try –
“Earthbound” EP
Dead Weight –
“Backstabber”
Frankie Rose –
“Interstellar”
James Blake – “Enough
Thunder” EP
The Coltranes –
“Visions of Terror and Bliss” EP
One Choice/Saving Grace
– “Now This War Has Two Sides” split EP
Laurel Halo –
“Quarantine”
8/21/12
Quicksand – “Slip”
Los Crudos – “Canciones
Para Liberar Nuestras Fronteras”
Grim Luck! – “Alexandra
Vol. 2: The Dread”
Rufus Wainwright – “Out
Of The Game”
The Gravitys – “Bring
You Down”
Fear Before The March Of
Flames – “The Always Open Mouth”
Simian Mobile Disco –
“Temporary Pleasure”
The Nerve Agents –
“Days of the White Owl”
Bomb The Music Industry
– “To Leave and Die in Long Island”
Kenny Garrett – “Seeds
From The Underground”
Beirut – “The Rip Tide”
Converge – “Unloved and
Weeded Out” EP
Seizures – “Antipathy”
8/22/12
Django Django – S/T
Rush – “The Spirit Of
Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987”
The Faint – “Fasciination”
Chimaira – “Pass Out Of
Existence”
northAmericans – “Not
Punk Session #1” live EP
Hot Sugar – “Moon Money”
Yeasayer – “Fragment
World”
Echo & The Bunnymen
– “Songs to Learn and Sing”
8/23/12
Propagandhi – “How To
Clean Everything”
8/24/12
Spring Break ’95 – S/T
EP
Big Bang – “Still Alive”
mini-album
Nicolas Jaar – “Time
for Us”/”Mi Mujer” single
Converge – “Petitioning
the Empty Sky”
Streetlight Fire – “Architects”
Cold Sweat – “Blinded”
The Tallest Man On
Earth – “There’s No Leaving Now”
8/26/12
Desaparecidos – “MariKKKopa”/”Backsell”
single
Dag Nasty – “Wig Out At
Denko’s” 2002 reissue
Gay Kiss – “Dumpster
Rules” EP
Andrew Bird – “Break It
Yourself”
American Nightmare – “Background
Music”
M.O.P. – “Warriorz”
Urban Struggles – “Hardcore
Rules, Life Sucks” EP
The Hives – “Lex Hives”
Hot Snakes – “Automatic
Midnight”
Deicide – “Serpents of
the Light”
Hordes – 2010 demo
Smashing Pumpkins – “MACHINA/The
Machines Of God”
8/27/12
Civil Twilight – “Holy
Weather”
Warpaint – “The Fool”
Nine Inch Nails – “Ghosts
III” EP
Babysitter/Korean Gut – split 7”
Babysitter/Korean Gut – split 7”
Elle Varner – “Perfectly
Imperfect”
Black Mountain – “In
the Future”
Bury Your Dead – “The
Beauty and the Breakdown”
Weed – “With Drug”/”Eighty”
single
8/28/12
Fun. – “Some Nights”
Samhain – “November
Coming Fire”
The Growlers – “Hot
Tropics”
C.D. Truth – “1990-2005:
Season Three”
Poetik Prophets – “Back
to the Bongload”
John Mayer – “Born and
Raised”
8/29/12
Fucked Up – “Epics in
Minutes”
Voodoo Glow Skulls – “Who
Is, This Is?”
Coheed & Cambria – “Good
Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV | Vol. 1: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness”
8/30/12
Darasuum – “Bite Back”
EP
Garbage – “Not Your
Kind Of People”
Dinosaur Jr. – “I Bet
On Sky”
The Verve – “Urban Hymns”
The Verve – “Urban Hymns”
The Great Commission – “And
Every Knee Shall Bow”
Death Grips – “The
Money Store”
Against Me! – “White
Crosses”
Nine Inch Nails – “Ghosts
IV” EP
The Aquabats – “Vs. The
Floating Eye Of Death”
Lionel Richie – “Tuskegee”
Weed – “Gun Control” 7”
NOTES:
-
This new Fiona Apple album is the first full
release of hers that I’ve ever listened to
-
“Smells Like Children” is a really shitty CD, if
I had paid money for that I’d be pissed off
-
Odd Future deserves neither the derision nor the
praise that they receive. Like, they’re alright. Same goes for Lana Del Rey.
-
Some of the tracks on that Zeke album are such
blatant Motorhead rip-offs that it makes me cringe
-
The new albums from Killer Mike, El-P, Ab-Soul, Aesop
Rock, Nas are all in contention for “best hip hop album of the year” in my
mind; I need to give them all more listens because they’re all good.
-
I’ve seen a bunch of music critics just tripping
on the new album by Actress but I didn’t really get into when I heard it; maybe
it’s another one that needs another spin, but for the opposite reason; I need
to give it another chance maybe.
-
That’s right, I listened gave both Randy Travis
and Zac Brown a chance. Don’t worry; it cemented the fact that I really do not
like radio country from now or from yesterday. It wasn’t just a knee-jerk
reaction, even with the best of intentions I can’t get into this shit. The
chance I gave to Lisa Marie Presley’s new album worked out a tad bit better but
again, Lilith Fair-esque AOR can only get you so far in my book. John Mayer’s a
douchebag who has 2 tolerable songs on his entire new album.
-
Dam Funk is one of the coolest artists I’ve
learned about in a good while.
-
“In Contrast Of Tomorrow” is still, after all
these years, one of my favorite hardcore listens
-
Shadows Fall is so tired
-
“This Just Might Be…The Truth” is another of my
favorite hardcore listens and I know this is controversial but it’s actually my
favorite Refused album…All the experimentation is what made Refused’s impact
last through the years, but this straight ahead raw shit is my favorite
-
Code 13
-
This is what Steve Aoki’s music sounds like?
LMFAO? So disappointing after all the hype I’ve heard
-
“Days of the White Owl” was underrated when it
came out and nothing has changed since then
-
The vocalist from Seizures told me that he was
sick as shit during the recording of “Antipathy”…I guess that’s why its so damn
brutal
-
I heard “Limelight” on the radio, realized I
didn’t have ANY Rush on my iPod, and freaked the fuck out
-
I always thought The Tallest Man On Earth was
gonna be emo acoustic stuff like Dashboard Confessional or something; man was I
way off on that one
-
The Hives have fallen a long way. And I was
never even really that into them. I can only imagine the disappointment of
somebody who they meant a bit more to. This new album is fucking lame.
-
“Machina” is a vastly underrated album.
-
This trendy new band fun. fucking sucks
-
Coheed & Cambria album titles are so
ridiculous
-
I feel kinda bad for Garbage
-
About the new Death Grips album: Holy shit. Just
holy shit.
-
Absolute worst listens of the month: the oddly
poppy nu-metal of Zebrahead, the well-itentioned but unforgivably out of key
local act Day Dreams, the contemporary-a-generation-ago gospel-R&B stylings
of James Ingram, the angeringly generic radio rock of Dead Sara, The
Offspring’s embarrassing new album, B.o.B.’s
built-for-MTV-commercial-break-intros new album, the
stale-before-it-was-released nu-metal-core that Chimaira plays, the Korean pop boy
band drivel of Big Bang, Elle Varner’s incredibly promising but
way-too-stylized and girly debut album, and of course Lionel Richie’s
self-flagellating new album of his own past hits covered by modern country
stars. Some ideas are better left ideas.
I also saw Plagues, Seizures
(twice), Motherboy (three times), Colony, Crisis Arm (three times), Adebisi Shank, Zechs
Marquise, Fang Island, A Push For Clarity, Sinatra, Au Revoir, Heart Like War,
The American Scene, Greg Bennick (spoken word), Xpulsion, Aukerman, The
Coltranes (twice), ACxDC, Always Try, Sleepwalkers, Treacherouskin, Breaking
Ground, One Choice, Burn Your Life Down, The Pocket Rockets, Shady Characters, northAmericans, Trey The Ruler, Streetlight Fire,
Spring Break ’95, Four Minute Mile, Gay Kiss, Urban Struggles, Hordes, Rapid
Youth, Babysitter, and Weed perform live.
