Playlist for November 2013

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in their entirety during this last month of November, along with a list of what I watched and read and saw live and my notes regarding all.

MUSIC:
11/1/13
Apathean - "Eve"
Bad American - "American Dream"
V/A - "Fat Music For Fat People"
Fleetwood Mac - S/T

11/2/13
Secret Fun Club - "Skull With Antlers"
Apathean - "Eve"
The Blessed - "Deep Frenzy" 7"
Tea For One - "Excelsior Lights" EP
The Manx - "Blood Chronicles" EP
Go For Gold - "Mixed Feelings" EP
Early Graves - "Goner"

11/3/13
Narrowed - "Thick Skull" EP
The Rebound -"It Never Rains In San Diego" EP
Tera Melos - "X'ed Out"
Narrows - "New Distances"
Sculpins - November 2012 Demo
Subhumans - "Time Flies...But Aeroplanes Crash" EP
The Rebound - "It Never Rains In San Diego" EP
The Reign Of Kindo - "Rhythm, Chord, and Melody"

11/4/13
Scale The Summit - "The Migration"
Grey Ghost - "Space Ambassador" digital single
Shake Before Us - S/T
Jurassic Shark - "The Beginning" demo
Hikes/GoldSpine - split EP
The Littlest Viking - "Labor & Love"
The Woggles - "Get Tough!"
Welcome To Now - "Know Who You Are" EP
Farabee - "Welcome to the Underground"

11/5/13
The Zermatts - "Audio Recordings"
Basement - "Songs About Weather" EP
Rexx - S/T EP
No Bueno - "PC Violence" EP
Unstrung - "Sucking Fun in the Fucking Sun" EP
Charlie Siren - "This Is Home"

11/6/13
PSO - "Into the Maze" 7"
V/A - Wire Hanger Records Sampler June 2013
Chango Rey y El Moreno - S/T
Stab City - "Tall Can" 7"
The Growlers - "Gay Thoughts"/"Feelin' Good" 7"

11/7/13
Slapshot - "Old Tyme Hardcore"
Between The Buried And Me - "The Silent Circus"
Walls That Talk - "St. Andrews" EP
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat" EP

11/8/13
Oceans - Winter 2010 demo
Soft Salad - "Parkway Periphery" EP
The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

11/9/13
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
end of the summer - "Second" EP

11/10/13
Flowers Taped To Pens/Nevasca/American Memories/DayCare - 4-way split
KRAMPVS - "Hangman's Noose" EP
Orphans/Swells - split EP
Desperate Living - "I Think I'm Losing Touch" EP
Erleen Nada - S/T
Goldroom - "Embrace"
White Murder - "Arteries Are Flexible"/"Shutter Speed" 7"
Death Hymn Number 9 - "Smokestack Frightening" EP
Freedom Club - "Starting a War" EP
Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - "The Audacity Of Hype"
Autistic Youth - "Landmine Beach"
Neighborhood Brats - "No Sun, No Tan" EP
Power Trip - "Manifest Decimation"
Nicky Venus - "Little Runner" EP

11/11/13
Idyll Wild - "Mouth Amuser" 7"
The Deer Tracks - "Eggegrund" EP
Nimzo Indians - "Summer Blood" EP
Author & Punisher - "Ursus Americanus"
Joint Chiefs Of Math - "Word Alive" EP
The Body - "5 Songs" EP
The Moms - "Viva!" EP
Underpass - "Civilian Applications" EP
Dogs - "Heroin & Flu Shots" EP

11/12/13
Weed - "Deserve"
Gypsy Mamba - "I Keel You Owl" mixtape
Deaf Ears - 3-song demo

11/13/13
Dimlite - "Abscission"
Melt-Banana - "Cactuses Come In Flocks" EP
Zorch - "ZZORRCCHH"

11/14/13
Tera Melos - "Zoo Weather" EP

11/15/13
Silo The Avatar - "Test-Tube Nation" mixtape
S.N.O.T. - "Slaughterhouse" EP
The 4th International - "Nichijou Se No Hakai Wa Wareware No Gensou" EP
KDC - "Naive to the Bone" EP
Smashing Pumpkins - "Pisces Iscariot"
AFI - "Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes" 

11/16/13
First Benders - 3-song demo
Shipwrecks - "From Dusk to Dawn" digital single
Ocean Man - "iphone recordings" demo
Go For Fold - "This Life is Now, Not Never" EP
The Atolls - "Hair Machine" EP
This World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - "Whenever, If Ever"
The Great Electric Quest - "Chapter II" EP
65daysofstatic - "How I Fucked Off All My Friends" EP
Caspian - "Hymn for the Greatest Generation"
Follies & Vices - "Trash Can Full of Treasure is Still a Trash Can" EP
Olivias - S/T EP
Zissou - "The Quilted Room" EP
Left Astray - "Confines" EP
Colossal Wrecks - Fall 2012 demos
Coma Regalia/Marital Roles - split cassette
The Anniversary - "Designing for a Nervous Breakdown"
I.E. - "Most Importantly" EP
Bulletins - 2-song digital demo
BLOK - "Lair of the White Worm" digital single
The Foreign Resort - "Scattered and Buried"

11/17/13
clipping - "midcity"
The Gunshy - "Silent Songs"
Andrew Jackson Jihad - "Live at the Crescent Ballroom"
Here Comes The Kraken - "The Omen" EP
Ever Ending Kicks - "Weird Priorities"
Rioux - "Spirit Calling"/"Miniatures" digital single
Vildhjarta - "Omnislash"
AshTreJinkins - "The Worst" EP
end of the summer - "Second" EP

11/18/13
Northlane - "Singularity"
The-Drum - "Sense Not" EP
Plastic City Pariah - "PxCxPx" demo
James Rabbit - "Coloratura"
iji - "Unltd. Cool Drinks"

11/19/13
Joe Bucks - "Go Buck Yourself"
end of the summer - "Second" EP

11/20/13
Daedelus/Teebs - "Los Angeles 6" split EP
Little Bear - "I'd Let You Win" digital single
Structures - "Divided By"

11/21/13
Neighbors To The North - "Starfishes" EP
Bedlam Of Cacophony - "Neuroleptic"
The Mormons - "Forge Ahead" EP
The Black Rose Phantoms - "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
Noel Jordan & The Slow Mutants - "No Stars At Night" digital single
Natives - S/T EP
Tropical Popsicle - "Ghost Beacons" EP
Octa#Grape - "Red UFO"

11/22/13
Rachel Birke - "When I Get Old, I Hope I'm Glad" EP
Reflex From Pain - "Black & White" EP
Neon Cough - S/T

11/24/13
Protest The Hero - "Volition"
Today I Caught The Plague - "Lore"

11/25/13
Architects - "Daybreaker"
Among Savages - "Start at the Beginning" EP
Shotty - 2012 EP
Bellhaunts - "Deathless" EP
Z-Berg - June 2013 demo
Tiny Hearts - "Stay" EP

11/26/13
We Are Sirens - "Every, Body, Panic."
The Shallow End - June 2011 demo
Kid Koala - "Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs"
Ned Flounders - "Songs To Give Birth To" EP
Laura Gravelle - "In Winter"

11/27/13
Yung Satan - "Out" digital single
Roddy Radiation & The Skabilly Rebels - "Live in Germany"
Kid Armor - "Better Days" EP
Reunion - 3-song demo
Safe And Sound - Rain Fest promo tape
Clear Plastic - "Tethered Body" digital single
Sainthood Reps/Weatherbox - split 7"
House Shoes - "Presents an Experimentation in Instrumentation"
Ancestral Awakening - September 2013 demo
Jeans Wilder - "Totally"
Ed Ghost Tucker - February 2013 demo
KYNG - "California Dreamin'" EP
Tiger Milk Imports - January 2013 demos
Reunion - 2012 demo
 
11/28/13
Safe And Sound - "Won't Turn Our Backs" EP
Western Settings - S/T EP
John Tejada - "Cleaning Sounds is a Filthy Business"
The Echo & The Sound - S/T EP
Espectro - "The Rapture"
Play Fight - "The Grasshopper and The Goose" EP
The Saline Solutions - "Soledad" EP
Death By Snoo Snoo - "Tasta Saat!"
Tulips - April 2013 demo
The Inspector Cluzo - "The French Bastards"
Blood Dancer - S/T
okay okay - January 2012 demos

11/29/13
Island Boy - S/T EP
Diamond Youth - "Orange" EP
Jackson Price - "Jackson"
Joshua Bitter - "Cult Folk" EP
The Frights - S/T
Struckout - "I'd Hate Me Too"
Texas In July - S/T
Melinda Mae - "A Brief Glimpse of a Moonless Sky" demo
File Island - "4 Covers" EP
The Ghost Inside - "Get What You Give"
The Phantoms - "Crazy Like A Wasp" EP
Citizen - "Young States" EP
The Beautiful View - "The Horseman" digital single
The Gravitys - "Unplugged at The Dial" EP
The Gravitys - May 2011 demo

11/30/13
Hail, Adventurer - S/T
Francie Moon - "Morning Red"EP
Matt Pless - "Short Tales and Tall Stories"
Suspect - S/T EP
Somali Pirates - "The Gold Collection"
Modern Life Is War - "Midnight in America"
Planet Vegeta - "2-Person Game" EP
MPG - 2013 Demo
Luum - March 2013 Demo
Subjection - "Shade" EP
Alexander The Grape - "Planet of the Grapes"

NOTES:
- I'm finally almost done with my Apathean review, 6 months after the initial request. Look for it next summer.
- "Fat Music For Fat People" is a damn classic
- Starting with that Tea For One EP I began doing cursory reviews of each and every thing I listened to on my alternate music-posting blog Smorgascore.Check it out.
- Some dude at Mark's birthday party told me about The Rebound like 4 times, increasingly drunk and each time completely forgetting that he had already told me about them; apparently there's a member of Griever in the band although they are more like NFG-style pop punk...The guy's name was Phil
- Damn the new Tera Melos is so good, I shouldn't have slept on it for so long
- I didn't think there was Subhumans music I hadn't heard back in middle school but I was wrong
- New Scale The Summit! New Protest The Hero! Both awesome!
- Worst of the month: Grey Ghost (wack); Chango Rey y el Moreno (fucking annoying); First Benders (weak); Follies & Vices (lame); Plastic City Pariah (stupid); Among Savages (completely forgettable); Shotty (also lame); We Are Sirens ("party rock"); Yung Satan (terrible); Jackson Price (insufferably lame); File Island (thin)
- GoldSpine is better live than on album
- Welcome To Now and Farabee are both well-intentioned and have good local followings and everything but they are just so shittily off-key and generic
- All the bands on Wire Hanger basically sound exactly the same and basically have the same members so they might as well just be like one band called the Wire Hangers or something; either way its solid stuff
- For years I foolishly thought Slapshot was a 90s band
- "The Silent Circus" is still as dope now as it was when I first heard it. Conversely, "Sgt Pepper's" has grown on me more and more over the years; When I was a kid I didn't like it much when compared with The White Album but now I'm not so sure
- Favorite new discoveries this month: Soft Salad, Author & Punisher, This World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Caspian, Colossal Wrecks, clipping, Vildhjarta, Northlane, The-Drum, Structures, Bedlam Of Cacophony, Octa#Grape, Z Berg, Laura Gravelle, Death By Snoo Snoo, Struckout, Hail Adventurer
- The new Desperate Living EP rips, as does the new Left Astray EP
- Author & Punisher is some evil shit
- The Underpass that I listened to is not the same Underpass that I played with a few days later
- Weed is tight. Weed is tight.
- "La Dolly Vita" was never one of my favorites before but it has been stuck in my head for like 2 weeks now...'cool as I scream'
- I listened to alot of music on the 16th I must have done absolutely nothing else but sit in front of that tablet changing Bandcamps
- clipping is the future of hip hop
- Alot of my friends are really into Andrew Jackson Jihad, and I like them okay, but I just don't get how people get sooo damn into them. I just don't get it.
- "Go Buck Yourself" is at once the stupidest album title and the only possible album title a man named Joe Bucks could ever have
- Holy shit Bedlam Of Cacophony is fucking AWESOME
- I probably would have been way into The Black Rose Phantoms back in my AFI/Tiger Army days but not so much currently
- Octa#Grape is like Coltranes/NSU weird-punk but with organs or something...Cool stuff
- Today I Caught The Plague is called The Kindred now and IMO both names suck
- How in the world did I sleep on Kid Koala for so long
- Between Rachel Birke, Z Berg, Laura Gravelle, and okay okay I have acquired several new music-chick crushes this month
- I typed this up at my telemarketing job and when I was typing "John Tejada" I got a call in my headset for a Tejada household...Spooky
- Speaking of which, between Grey Ghost, Erleen Nada, Goldroom, Author & Punisher, The Body, Gypsy Mamba, Dimlite, Daedelus, Teebs, 65daysofstatic, BLOK, clipping, Rioux, The-Drum, Kid Koala, House Shoes, John Tejada, and Subjection I listened to way more electronic music of various types this month than probably any other month this year
- That sucks that Kid Armor had to drop off the show they were gonna play at The Dial because they're dope; also, that was the show that Kevin Crisis asked me to tape Reunion's performance during but I flaked out and didn't even go -- I'm sorry Kevin
- Despite their stupid-ass "Futurama"-related name, Death By Snoo Snoo is one of the coolest damn punk rock bands I have heard in a long long time...Absolutely killer. That singer lady waaaaiils.
- Why some wacky quasi-lounge-rock band called The Inspector Cluzo would be opening up for Suicidal Tendencies, Terror, and Trash Talk is inexplicable
- Every single song The Frights play sounds the same but dammit if they aren't cool little ditties
- Struckout = quality 90's-style screamo
- Melinda Mae is actually the misleading moniker for an acoustic dude named Ian who does mainly short instrumental stuff...Enjoyable
- I don't remember listening to that Beautiful View song whatsoever but I wouldn't have written it down if I hadn't
- Jackson from Hail Adventurer can really play guitar very well
- Somehow that was the first time I ever listened to Modern Life Is War. For shame.
- Every band wants to be Lightning Bolt these days

LIVE:
11/6/13 - Hikes/GoldSpine  @ The Dial
11/9/13 - Pilgrims/Unstrung/PSO @ The Dial
11/10/13 - Desperate Living/Swells/KRAMPVS/Deaf Ears/Flowers Taped To Pens @ The Dial
11/13/13 - The Coltranes/Weed/Crisis Arm/Underpass/Dogs/(The Gravitys) @ The Dial
11/30/13 - Matt Pless/Francie Moon/Nicholas Hull/Hail, Adventurer/Sarah Soltys/n8nothing @ The Dial

LIVE NOTES:
- Unstrung has a cool EP but they played for like 15 minutes and mobbed out when it was like, their damn show...Very lame
- The drummer for Deaf Ears is fucking nuts
- I didn't realize it until after their set but I used to know Alex from Underpass, who were on tour from Canada with Weed, when he lived in Temecula several years ago. Small world.
- That acoustic show at the end of the month was real fun; Matt and Francie are so sweet and they slept out in the warehouse while we celebrated Shauna's birthday in the lobby; nice times

MOVIES/DVDs:
11/1/13 - "Tales From The Crypt: The Complete Sixth Season" 3-Disc Set
11/12/13 - "The Lost Weekend"
11/14/13 - "Ted"
11/18/13 - "Tropic Thunder"

MOVIE/DVD NOTES:
- The Cryptkeeper is fucking hilarious
- Wow "The Lost Weekend" is a damn good film; I wish I didn't relate so closely
- How the fuck did Robert Downey Jr. get an Oscar nomination for "Tropic Thunder"

ZINES:
11/14/13 - "thistownsdrunk" #3
11/28/13 - Blood Orange Infoshop Manifesto

ZINE NOTES:
- "thistownsdrunk" is a bit too idealistic for my tastes