Playlist for March 2013

This is a list of all the full-length releases I listened to in the month of March 2013. I have broken a years-long tradition this month and put my notes beforehand because I feel like this list just needs some explaining. At the end is a listing of the live performances I went to this last month.

NOTES:
- I'll be the first to point out the obvious: This playlist is pretty wack. It's way shorter than my normal playlists and its all super-mainstream shit or my own musical endeavors. The excuse I'm gonna give you is that I've been struggling through the random piles of CDs I take from the Heath house (all this shit are like the purchased versions not CD-Rs or anything...right down to N Sync) but like I said, that's an excuse not a legitimate reason. Also my Fleetwood Mac obsession has not subsided whatsoever; if anything it's amped itself up to startling, clearly unhealthy levels. I listened to the song "Caroline" by Concrete Blonde on repeat for like a whole day and realized that I really like the Goo Goo Dolls. So yeah it's been a pretty bleak period of time overall.
- At 4 songs I thought that Xpulsion release was an EP but its almost a half an hour of pure riffage I'm calling it an album
- Blondie is absolutely stellar
- Man Linkin Park and Puddle Of Mudd are just as absolutely weak as I thought they were gonna be...if I don't like a single one of a band's hit singles I need to stop giving their full-length albums a chance it just hasn't been working out lately.
- I thought Duffy was gonna sound like Robyn or something like that but not so much it reminded me kind of Cat Power
- Multiple Elton John albums? John motherfucking Mellencamp? Really?
- That live 311 album is terrible I gave myself a haircut while I listened to it to take my mind off of it

3/1/13
The Gravitys - May 2011 Demo


3/2/13
Puddle Of Mudd - "Coming Clean"
Concrete Blonde - "Bloodletting"
The Maxies - "Greenland is Melting"

3/3/13
The Babys - "Anthology"
Elton John - "Love Songs"
Xpulsion - "War is Imminent"

3/4/13
Depeche Mode - "The Singles '86-'98" Disc 1

3/10/13
Low Places - S/T
Blondie - "Parallel Lines"

3/11/13
Melting Corpse - "Ramirez" demo

3/15/13
The Gravitys - "Unplugged in Murrieta" EP

3/16/13
Still Alive - 2-song 2011 demo
Stone Temple Pilots - "Purple"
imarobot - S/T

3/17/13
Wings - "Greatest"
The Carpenters - "Singles (1969-1981)"
Linkin Park - "Meteora"
Bright Eyes - "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn"
Bright Eyes - "Drunk Kid Catholic" EP
Goo Goo Dolls - "A Boy Named Goo"

3/18/13
Duran Duran - "Rio"
The Gravitys - February 2011 Demo

3/20/13
The Nuclear Family - "Sick Sad World" EP

3/21/13
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Depeche Mode - "The Singles 1986-1998" Disc 2
Duffy - "Rockferry"
Great White - "Hooked"
Elton John - "The One"

3/22/13
Van Halen - "OU812"

3/23/13
Crisis Arm - "Junk Drawer" EP

3/24/13
The Great Sabatini - "The Royal We" EP
Lamb Of God - "Sacrament"
Elliot Smith - S/T
311 - "Live"
Portraits Of Past - "Discography" CD
Eucharist - S/T EP
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Uh Huh"
Rick James - "Throwin' Down"
Skid Row - "Slave to the Grind"
N Sync - S/T
Stevie Nicks - "Timespace: The Best Of"

3/25/13
Annie Lennox - "Bare"

3/27/13
The Woolen Men - "Dog Years"
The Frights - "Dead Beach" EP
Kendrick Lamar - "good kid, m.A.A.d. city"
Schoolboy Q - "Setbacks"

LIVE PERFORMANCES:
3/8 - Light Light/Them Savages/The Coltranes/(The Gravitys)/Crisis Arm/Bronson Caves/Dogs @ The Dial / Kevin's Birthday Burger Fest
3/17 - Limerent Dance Machine/Crisis Arm/Oranges @ The Dial
3/19 - Whirr/Nothing/Mouthful Of Snow/Crisis Arm/northamericans @ The Dial
3/20 - Crisis Arm/Teenage Sweater/Light Light/The Gift Machine/Washing Machines @ The Dial
3/22 - Vices/Media Blitz/Plagues/Flex @ The Dial