Playlist for May 2013

This is a bit out of order chronologically because my notebooks had some pages ripped out at some point recently and one of them had most of this playlist. Luckily, upon cleaning up my room I realized I had found the missing page so here is the list of all the albums/EPs/demos/etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of May 2013. Afterwards are my notes and a list of the live performances I saw during that time period.

5/1/13
Godsmack - "Awake"

5/2/13
Inverse - S/T EP
Communist Kayte - "I'm Not Even Trying, Are You Impressed? I Just Want To Impress You" EP

5/3/13
Amy Winehouse - "Back to Black"
Benny The Jet Rodriguez - 4-song demo
Tiny Tim - "Tiptoe Through the Tulips/Resurrection"

5/4/13
Dennis DeYoung - "The Music of Styx: Live With Symphony Orchestra" Disc 1
Simple Minds - "Glittering Prize: 81-92"
Dennis DeYoung - "The Music of Styx: Live With Symphony Orchestra" Disc 2

5/5/13
Green Day - "Kerplunk!"
Lama - "Totuus Loytyy Kaurapuurosta" EP
Zao - S/T
Beastie Boys - "Paul's Boutique"
Amebix - "No Sanctuary"
Wolfgang Gartner - "Hot for Teacher" EP
Dissent - "Boy Eats Own Head" EP
Wolfgang Gartner - "Killer"/"Flam Mode" single
Janky - "Low Life" EP
Wolfgang Gartner - "Bounce"/"Get It" single

5/6/13
Wolfgang Gartner - "Hook Shot" single
V/A - "Non-Stop Dance Party"
The Okies - "Fokies" EP
Territory - "Sic Semper Tyrannis" EP
Rancid - "...And Out Come The Wolves"

5/7/13
V/A - "Tibetan Freedom Concert" Disc 3
Creatures - 6-song demo CD
V/A - Victory Records Spring 2010 New Music Sampler/Bamboozle Promo
Heart To Heart - "Impressions" EP

5/8/13
V/A - "Carnival of Sounds" Century Media label sampler
Teenage Depression - "Skank or Die" EP
Bone Dance - S/T
S.A.S. - "Suave and Sophisticated" EP

5/10/13
Fleas & Lice/Assrash - "Up the Punx" split EP
G-Spot - "Radical Shout" EP
Creatures - "Vesuvius"
Moses Campbell - "She Has a Heart" digital single
Moses Campbell - "Deathbomb Are Singles" EP

5/11/13
Palm Reader - S/T EP

5/12/13
La Dispute - "Here, Hear III" EP
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
The Weakerthans - "Reconstruction Site"
Colombian Necktie - "Visiting Hours" EP
Bombanfall - "Asiktsfrihet" EP
We The Kings - S/T
Jethro Tull - "This Was"

5/13/13
Ice-T - "The Classic Collection"
Finntroll - "Jaktens Tid"
Flower Leopards - "Has Hate Been Kind Enough?" EP
Four Minute Mile - "Bridges/Streetlights" EP
Buddy Guy - "Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of"

5/14/13
Squeeze - "Singles: 45's and Under"
Midway - "Burdens Lost" EP
Headway - "If The Weather" EP
Obsolete Sun - "Lonesome" EP
V/A - "Saturday Night Fever" OST
V/A - "NOW! That's What I Call Music! 30"
Talking Heads - "Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites" Disc 1

5/15/13
V/A - "Magical Holidays Vol. III"
Backstreet Boys - "The Hits: Chapter One"

5/18/13
Authority Zero - "Andiamo" promo CD

5/20/13
V/A - "Roundtrip Nation 2009" OST
Yo La Tengo - "Fakebook"

5/21/13
Sunn 0))) - "Black"
Kalmah - "They Will Return"

5/22/13
Foo Fighters - "In Your Honor" Disc 2
V/A - Fearless Records Summer Sampler 07
Rexx - "My New Punk Rock Life!"
V/A - "Anti-Floyd: The Terrier State" Fat Wreck Chords sampler CD

5/25/13
The Fartz - "Because This Fucking World Stinks" EP
The Word Alive - "Empires" EP
The Fartz - "World Full Of Hate"
The Audacity - "Power Drowning"
Fluffy - "Luvs You"

5/26/13
Widespread Panic - "Earth To America"
Ratatat - "LP4"
Fall Out Boy - "From Under The Cork Tree"

5/27/13
Talking Heads - "Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites" Disc 2
Coldplay - "X & Y"
Dona Nicha - "Tila" EP
Aftergloam - "Anatomy of an Elegy"
The Aquadolls - "We Are Free" EP

5/31/13
The Faraday Trippers - "The Legend of Martense's Lane"
The Fartz - "You, We See You Crawling"
The Prodigy - "The Fat of the Land"
Ancient Animals - "Ruins" EP
The Shills - "Ganymede"
Apathean - "Eve"

NOTES:
- Why the fuck did I think listening to Godsmack was gonna be a fruitful decision in any way?
- I forgot how bad Inverse sucked
- Tibetan Freedom Concert LOL
- I kinda forgot about Creatures after those demo days but goddamn is their full-length "Vesuvius" a step up, that shit is HEAVY
- The Palm Reader than I listened to is a post-hardcore band from the UK but the Palm Reader that I saw live was a hipster indie band from LA. I was disappointed.
- La Dispute is really not my thing. Neither is Sunn.
- Ice-T fucking sucks he's just terrible
- Obsolete Sun's cover of "Ne'erdowell" is the coolest thing of this month. Thanks JJ.
- Yeah thats just Chapter One of the Backstreet Boys hits. So many more to come.
- I <3 "Fakebook"
- "From Under The Cork Tree" is a guilty pleasure of mine. Judge me.
- Goddamn the Faraday Trippers really are a TRIP. "The Devil's Joy At Breaking The Sabbath."
- Kinda like the Palm Reader misunderstanding, I listened to The Shills when it was The Shrills who were gonna be playing at the show. I didn't end up seeing them anyway.


LIVE PERFORMANCES:
5/4/13: Eons/Desperate Living/Strike Fast/Obsolete Sun @ The Dial
5/10/13: Uncle Ben's Children/Obsolete Sun/(end of the summer)/Zach Navis @ The Dial Open Mic
5/12/13: Moses Campbell/Palm Reader/Inspired and the Sleep @ The Dial
5/15/13: Four Minute Mile/Carlos The Dwarf/(The Gravitys) @ The Dial
5/22/13: David Zafra/Brandon Watkins/Kyle Napalan/Jeffrey Berner/(Ian C.) @ The Dial Night Of Words

Playlist for June 2013

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of June 2013. At the end are my notes and a list of the live music I saw as well.

6/6/13
V/A - "A Refreshing Glass of Music for a Summer Afternoon" Militia Group sampler CD
V/A - "Flicker Is Warped" Flicker Records sampler CD
Starving For Gravity - 3-song promo CD
Full Of Hell/Calm The Fire - split 7"
ACxDC - "TBFH Live Session"

 6/7/13
NASA Space Universe - "Beyond Ice" EP
Creative Adult - "Dead Air" EP
Thee Commons - "Sunburn at Midnight" EP

6/9/13
G.A.S. - "No More Hiroshima" EP
The Nothing - "Scream n Cry"/"Uniformz" 7"
Spacemen 3 - "The Perfect Prescription"
The Spores - "Meat Biproduct" EP
The Spores - "Narc in My Pants" EP
Larry and His Flask - "Loud and Crowded"
Sixx: A.M. - "The Heroin Diaries"
G.A.S. - "The Day After" EP

6/10/13
Machine Head - "The Blackening"
Fang - "Destroy the Handicapped" EP
Remainder - "Set Aside Your Fears" EP
Mass Suicide - S/T EP

6/11/13
The Pocket Rockets - "Golden Gloves 1902" EP

6/12/13
999 - "Separates"
California Bleeding - "Ghosts Lying on the Airwaves"
Switchfoot - "The Beautiful Letdown"

6/13/13
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
Catch-22 - "Keasby Nights"
Skeltonwitch - "At One With The Shadows"
Motley Crue - "Too Fast For Love"

6/14/13
Yellowcard - "Ocean's Avenue"

6/15/13
V/A - Glory Kid Records Winter 2009 Sampler CD
Beisbol - "Real Diamond"

6/16/13
Goo Goo Dolls - "A Boy Named Goo"
The Unseen - "So This is Freedom?"
Jethro Tull - "Stand Up"
Sick Of It All - "Death To The Tyrants"
No Omega - "Shame"
Joey Molinaro - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
A.M.O. - "Att Morda en Overordnad" EP
State Children - "Bombshelter for Moneymaking" EP
Motionless In White - "Infamous"
Rob Zombie - "Hellbilly Deluxe"
V/A - "Punk Rock Strike Vol. 2"

6/17/13
Donnybrook!/Piece By Piece - "There Goes The Neighborhood" split EP
Bosnian Rainbows - S/T

6/18/13
Funeral Oration - "Discography" Disc 2
Samael - "Eternal"

6/19/13
The Life We Live - demo

6/20/13
Owen Hart - 4-song demo
Wretched Philiproy - demo

6/21/13
Amon Amarth - "Surtur Rising"

6/23/13
Fortunate Youth - "Uplifted" EP
Erin Leanne - "itsthewaythatyouwalk"

6/29/13
Smashing Pumpkins - "Vieuphoria" DVD

NOTES:
- My laptop has been a virused bastard all month and I'm running out of space to load new music, so all of these CDs are in a pile on my desk waiting to be loaded. Its kind of ridiculous.
- The Nothing kicked so much ass
- That Spacemen 3 CD is scratched to shit
- Who would have guessed that Nikki Sixx's solo band would suck so goddamn hard? Probably everybody.
- How did it take me this long to realize how fucking badass 999 is?? I mean I've known "Homicide" since I was a kid but my goodness their entire singles collection is Grade-A
- I forgot about Katatonia
- God I love Funeral Oration so much


LIVE PERFORMANCES:
6/1/13: Ancient Animals/Aftergloam/Cat King/Dona Nicha/Crisis Arm/The Gardeners @ Three-Dee Fest at the LA Art Share
6/7/13: Full Of Hell/The Coltranes/NASA Space Universe/Creative Adult @ The Dial
6/15/13: Hello Penelope/The Pocket Rockets/Crisis Arm/(The Gravitys)/Beanvian Stalks Guava @ the dA Center for The Arts
6/22/13: Just Nick/(end of the summer) @ George's house
6/28/13: The Coltranes/(The Gravitys) @ the Heath Haus
6/29/13: Hello Penelope/First To Burst/Beanvian Stalks Guava/Liquid @ Alaythia Music
6/30/13: Light Light/51D/Apathean/Crisis Arm/(end of the summer)/LRDS/Typical Apache/Point Atlantic @ Friendfest/Apathean Record Release at the dA Center for The Arts