Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Playlist for August 2012

These are all the albums, EPs, singles, etc that I listened to in the month of 2012. Afterwards are my notes and a list of all the live performances I saw last month.


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”
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
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”
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
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”
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”

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”
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 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.

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