Playlist for May 2014

This is a list of all the full-length albums, EPs, demos, singles etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of May 2014. Afterwards are lists of the movies I watched, shows I went to, zines I read, and my notes regarding all.

5/1/14
Clitorati - "At Least We're Not Arby's"
The Two Tone Boners - 2013 Live Demo
Such A Mess - "Times Like These" EP
Second Guess - "The Greatest Hits" EP
Go Deep - "Counseling" EP
VYGR/At Our Heels/Griever - 3-way spli
Desperate Living - Demo 2012
Bone Sickness - Demo
Skinfather - "Succession/Possession" EP
Nails - "Obscene Humanity" EP
ele - "Noir" EP
Dirt Squad - Demo 2013
La Bella - "Recomposition" EP

5/2/14
Man Vs Man - "MvM" EP
Griever - "Inferior" EP
Circle Takes The Square - "Decompositions: Volume Number One"
The Speaking Tongues - S/T
Pretty Little Demons - "Unknown Species"

5/3/14
Peg - "Unwinding of a Vein" digital single
Hydro Thunder Hurricane - 2014 Demo
Burn Infinite - "En Fury" EP
Caveman Movies - "Presents..." EP

5/4/14
Endeavor/Servants - split
The Gravitys - "Unplugged at The Dial" EP
AvLMKR - "Thugged Out" mixtape
My Iron Lung - "No Such Thing" EP
Gates - "You Are All You Have Left To Fear"
Frameworks - "Small Victories" EP
Tiny Moving Parts - "Old Maid"/"Coffee With Tom" 7"
Malditas Drogas - Demo 12
Kybele - "Slipped Out" digital single
Lost Years - "Traditions"

5/5/14
WCKR SPGT - "Shitty Lou"
Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - "Early Days, Volume 1"

5/6/14
Holy Shit! - S/T
Simon Joyner - "Ghosts" 2XLP
Roxy Music - "Avalon"
Japanese Game Show - "Live at Lucky's 1.11.13"

5/7/14
KRAMPVS - "Hangman's Noose" EP
Rodents Of Unusual Size - Demo
Them Jeans - "Balloons" EP
Gardens & Villa - S/T EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
Little Bear "I'd Let You Winn" digital single
Half Goon - "Thee Men's Warehouse Session" EP
Ground Up - March 2008 Demo
Supertramp - "Breakfast in America"

5/8/14
Whip Hand - "Carnal Sect" EP
New Gods - "Sex & Destroy" EP
Serengeti - "Brett and Vance" digital single
Yoni Wolf - "Old Dope" mixtape

5/9/14
Downward Spiral - "Fall" EP
New Gods - Demo 2013
Haruka - S/T EP
Prince - "3121"
Faith No More - "The Real Thing"

5/10/14
Holy Shit! - "Jazz Phase" EP
Prettiest Eyes - "PEEP" EP
Fury - 6-song demo
Strike Fast - "Time's Up" digital single
New Brigade - Demo
No Truce - "My Life. My Struggle" EP
Vanna - "The Search Party Never Came" EP

5/14/14
Melting Corpse - "Ramirez" demo
Adolescents - S/T

5/15/14
Lobster Party - "Party of One" digital single
Ed Ghost Tucker - "Sofia" digital single
Inspired And The Sleep - "Fly Low" digital single
Pharmakon - "Abandon"

5/16/14
Birote The Musical - "Things Could Be Way Worse...I Forget What I Was About To Say"
DK Slider/File Island/Suzy's Dead - 3-way split
Dogs - "Inquire Within" digital single
Robber's Roost - "Live @ The Filling Station"
CityCop/Les Doux - "Family Ties"/"Labors of Love" split EP
So Much Light - "Supine/Spellbound"

5/17/14
Astronaut Samurais - "I'm Gonna Stay The Night" EP
Caveman Movies - "The Digital Tracks"
enjoiSka - "Dirty Love Songs" EP
Blood Orphans - S/T EP
The Telephone Projects - "Sigil." EP
Be Still Cody/bulldog eyes - split EP
Plastic City Pariah - "A Rambling of Somewhat & Some Sort"
Hot Hot Heat - "Elevator"
bulldog eyes - "Shame"
Exiled Force - "The Dirty Dog" demo
Blood Orphans - "blanket ghost" EP
The Crucifucks - S/T
Active Kissers - S/T EP

5/18/24
Igor Amokian - "Beat Expo Sampler" digital single
cleaninglady - "Friday 01/02/13" digital single
Pigs Of Exile - "Hey Girl" digital single
Golly Gee Whiz - "Pony Should Mashup Pony (Nonsexually)" digital single
Dogs Of Ire - "Sterile Thoughts From A First World"
Media Jeweler - "No Exit" digital single
Canyons - "Human Pyramid" digital single
flowergirl - "My Therapist is a Rapist and I Want to Die" digital single
Wide Streets - "Little Babies" EP
Holy Shit! - "What The Fuck?" EP
Arjuna Genome - "The Universe is Blinking"
Singled Out - West Coast Tour March 2014 Promo CD
Heathers - "Fear" 7"
Post Life - "23" digital single
Dash Jacket - "Ten Thousand Things"
The Crucifucks - "Wisconsin"
Surprise Vacation - S/T digital single
The Freeze - "Freak Show"
Neighborhood Brats - "Total Dementia" EP
Holy Shit! - "Jesus Fucking Christ!" cassette
Zero Boys - "Pro-Dirt" EP
Goldfinger - S/T
Pod Blotz/Mark Lord - split
Witch Prayer - "The High Priestess Reigns Again" EP
Dissension - "Why Work For Death?"
Fejhed - S/T
The Freeze - "Crawling Blind"
Jay Levy - "Classy Enough for a Cardigan, Punk Enough for Jameson"
Dharma - "Sea Nothing" EP

5/19/14
Struckout - "You're Not Very Good At This" EP
Band Aparte - 4-song demo CD
French Exit - "statecheck" digital single
Hard Girls - "Isn't It Worse?"
The Acetates - "Self Portrait (alt. mix)" digital single
Summer Vacation - "Condition"
Skate Death - "You Break It You Buy It"
The Crazy Brave - "Television Television" digital single
Pg. 99 - "document #8"
Filter - "Short Bus"
Calculator - "New Forms" EP
Imaginary Pants - "Kites at Night" EP
The Teen Idles - "Minor Disturbance" EP
Pig DNA - "LIVENOTLIVEFUCKER" digital single
Bogsey & The Argonauts - "Skinned Knees"

5/20/14
What Life Is - "Ill Intentions" EP
Embrace - S/T

5/21/14
Courtaud & Bobtail - "I Can't Get My Shoes On" single/EP

5/22/14
Integrity - "In Contrast of Sin" EP
Go Deep - "Counseling" EP
What Life Is - "Ill Intentions" EP
The Gravitys - "Nutrition (rough mixes)"

5/23/14
Leechbath - "Insight" digital single
Ridgeway - "Sleep" EP
Head Creeps - 2014 Demo
Vices - "The Out Crowd Blues" EP
7 Seconds - "New Wind" demo
Innards - "I've Lost Everything"
Cursed Graves - S/T EP
V/A - "Metal For The Masses Vol. 666" Century Media Records sampler CD

5/24/14
Wiccans - "Field II"
Encyclopedia Of American Traitors - "Discography"
Steel Cranes - "Ouroboros"
V/A - "The Hard & The Heavy" Disc 1
Tzadikim Nistarim - S/T 7"
Maladjusted - "Death is the Only Relief" EP
SOA - "No Policy" EP
Gas Up Yr Hearse/Coma Regalia - split 7"
Cottontail/Moon Bandits - split 7"
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Suicide Machines - "Destruction By Definition"

5/25/14
end of the summer - "Three" EP
The Gravitys - "Nutrition (rough mixes)"
Charlie Moon - "Little" EP
V/A - "The Hard & The Heavy" Disc 2
Enta/Anodes - split EP
Minor Threat - S/T EP
Government Issue - "Legless Bull" EP
Minor Threat - "In My Eyes" EP
Youth Brigade - "Possible" EP

5/26/14
VERSEatyle - "The Reel" mixtape
Thrash Kitten - "Are You Kitten Me?" EP
The Art Of Noise - "The Best Of"
EmptySev - "Seven Empty"
Norma Jean - "Bless The Martyr and Kiss the Child"
George Michael - "Patience"
Real J. Wallace - "HashOilBluntFullOfKeef" digital single
Sea Of Trees - S/T
P.O.D. - "Satellite"
The Effigies - "Reside"
External Menace - "The Process of Elimination"
B.Watt ft. Nevonte Sparks - "JFK (Head Shot)" digital single
Foxmoulder/Coma Regalia - split 5"
My Former Self - 4-song promo CD
Bam Circa 86 - "Soufca Rising" digital single
Ten Grand/Meth and Goats - split 7"
Mr. Bungle - S/T

5/27/14
Youth Code - S/T
Secret Smoker - "Part Time Retail" digital single
Whirr - "Pipe Dreams"
External Menace - "Seize The Day" EP
Bastro - "Sing The Troubled Beast"
Nothing - "Guilty Of Everything"
The Coltranes - "I've Got Heaven In My Smile"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition (rough mixes)"

5/28/14
Rudimentary Peni - "Echoes of Anguish"
Joos - "Don't Smile" digital single
The Insect Surfers - "Infra Green" LP Version
Suzy's Dead - S/T EP
Michael Jackson - "Xscape"
Shad - "The Old Prince"

5/29/14
Helmet - "Unsung: The Best Of Helmet (1991-1997)"

5/30/14
Nayru - "Recollections"
Flowers Taped To Pens - "Nice To Meet You, I Hate You"

5/31/14
The Saddest Landscape - "Exit Wounded" EP
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
60 Cycle Hum - "Don't Cast Your Spell On Me" EP
Adaje - "Yore Veils"
Ghost Noise - "This is the Next Part of Your Dream"
At The Drive-In - "Acrobatic Tenement"
Suis La Lune - "Riala"
Bur Gur - "Alligator Cheesecake"
Jurassic Shark - "Miracle" EP
Saves The Day - "Stay What You Are"

NOTES:
- Clitorati and The Two Tone Boners are both just as stupid as their names would imply
- Go Deep had their van and all their possessions stolen, including nearly an entire album's worth of recordings, while in the middle of the country on tour a few weeks ago; help them out if you have anything to donate: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/go-deep-we-were-robbed-in-chicago
- Favorite 'new finds' for this month: Bone Sickness, ele, Gates, Half Goon, New Gods, Holy Shit!, Pharmakon, So Much Light, bulldog eyes, Media Jeweler, Hard Girls, Pg. 99, Encyclopedia Of American Traitors, EmptySev, Youth Code, Bastro, Suis La Lune
- Worst of the month: Malditas Drogas, enjoiSka, Active Kissers, Golly Gee Whiz, Jay Levy, Pig DNA, Tzadikim Nistarim
- New releases from Skinfather, Circle Takes The Square, Crisis Arm, Zero Boys, Vices, Whirr, and Nothing all kick major ass
- "Breakfast In America" is so classic...Some old fat guy who got hired at my call center says he did some minor engineering on it back in the 70s which is badass if true but I don't see why it wouldn't be because he introduced the subject without him knowing that "Casual Conversations" has become an obsession of mine come lately...He said the saxophone parts were recorded in a bathroom
- Goddamn Pharmakon is brutal
- I'm not much into folk punk because much of it seems so unauthentic but in terms of musicality in that realm Robber's Roost is pretty legit. Similarly most surf music all the sounds exactly the same to me but The Insect Surfers really fucking wail; very very good guitar work on that album.
- The Crucifucks have really grown on me over the years, especially the second album "Wisconsin"
- Every time I listen to that Dogs Of Ire CD its as good as it was when I first was blown away by it...One of my favorite hardcore albums of the last 10 years for sure
-I almost never listen to multiple releases by the same artist in the same day but that happened with both Blood Orphans, Holy Shit! and The Freeze this month, the latter 2 both occurring on the 18th together....Not mention listening to those EPs by Go Deep and What Life Is multiple times...At least with the others they're different releases
- Dissension and Skate Death were both highly underrated...I have albums from both on a collection CD called "Hit Squad For God 2" and I'm surprised I can't really learn anything about either band because the music itself is really good, especially the Skate Death album..."My Parents Are Disappointed"
- What the hell ever happened to What Life Is???
- I can't wait to unveil the new Gravitys album to the world because that shit fucking kicks ass
- Listening to "The Hard & The Heavy" compilation after all these years really cemented home how godforsakenly terrible most of the metal music coming out in the late 90s was
- My copy of "Start Today" is scratched to shit
- You read that right: I listened to full-length albums from both George Michael and P.O.D. in the same day...I can't say I'm proud of every decision I've ever made let's just leave it at that
- External Menace sucks
- It's weird how all these up-and-coming rappers are trying to charge like $5 for a digital single...Like what world are they living in? How much are they used to paying for a full album?
- I never thought I would ever hear Rudimentary Peni sound as tame and boring as they do on that "Echoes Of Anguish" album...Some bands just don't benefit from increased sound production and man o man are they one of them
- The new Michael Jackson album is actually pretty alright; what sucks is that the song with the best groove happens to be about child abuse and I'm just thinking, was this really the wisest subject choice for you MJ?
- "Wilma's rainbow of peaceful colors; The richest drug dealer."
- Man the screeching tire vocals on that Nayru album are just way too much for me to take
- "Another Wasted Night. I've lost another friend."
- I didn't realize til reading about the album as I re-listened to it but "Acrobatic Tenement" has a different lineup than any of the other ATDI albums and Omar is actually playing bass not guitar...Say Whaaaaat
- Last time I checked out Jurassic Shark I actually listened to the wrong band that was mainly girls so when we played with them in Pomona a few months back I was all confused but apparently there are 2 Jurassic Sharks and the other one is from the East Coast.

SHOWS:
5/8/14 - The Coltranes/New Gods/Whip Hand/Half Goon @ The Dial
5/28/14 - Alone/Bur Gur/(end of the summer)/Suzy's Dead @ DBA256 Wine Bar
5/30/14 - La Bella/Kilgore Trout/Flowers Taped To Pens/Leechbath @ The Dial
5/31/14 - Abideer/Ghost Noise/(end of the summer)/60 Cycle Hum/Jurassic Shark @ The Dial

SHOW NOTES:
- I got a 15-minute interview with all 3 of the members from Ghost Noise after their set on the 31st; Transcription coming in like 5 months.

MOVIES:
5/8/14 - "We're The Millers"
5/16/14 - "Top Gun"
5/25/14 - "What Lies Beneath"

MOVIE NOTES:
- That was the first time I had ever seen "Top Gun," despite it being Mark Gravity's favorite movie and it constantly being played at his house
- "What Lies Beneath" is an alright movie but wasn't what I was hoping it would be like and goddamn it was long...But theres no denying Michelle Pfieffer's hotness

ZINES:
5/19/14 - KYEO Speaks 6 - Winter 2012

ZINE NOTES
- I made a list of all the artists named in KYEO 6 and have been slowing chipping away at listening to everything...Hence all the "skramz"