Playlist for October 2014

This is the list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of October 2014. Afterwards are lists of the movies I watched and zines I read as well as my notes regarding all. It's weird how I only went to like one show all month too what the fuck.

10/2/14
Lana Del Rey - "Ultraviolence"
inthebackground - "Letters to the Bay" digital single
Bokanovsky/Lakme - split 7"
7 Seconds - "The Crew"

10/3/14
Danzig - "III: How The Gods Kill"
Actress - "Ghettoville"
Acid Phyx - "Desolate Grave" demo
Bokanovsky - Demo MMXII
Strike Twelve - "Born Naked, Die Naked" EP
Fear Factory - "Transgression" Deluxe Exclusive Download Edition

10/4/14
Ryan Adams - S/T
Braineater - December 2013 Demo
Daydream - S/T EP
Defiant Trespass - "Struggle To Survive"
In This Moment - "Blood"
Jack White - "Lazaretto"

10/5/14
The Salad - "Suck You" EP
Osawatomie - Demo 2012
Ministry - "The Land Of Rape And Honey"
Testament - "Dark Roots Of Earth"
St. Vincent - S/T
The Depaysement - "IPOH horg fung"
Boysetsfire - First Demo
Boysetsfire - "Premonition, Change, Revolt" demo
Dropkick Murphys - "Do Or Die"
Slipknot - "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses"

10/6/14
Bogsey & The Argonauts - "Skinned Knees"
end of the summer - "Second" EP

10/7/14
The Beatles - "Love" remix album
Uncle Dave Macon - "Travelin' Down The Road"
The Hotelier - "Home, Like No Place Is There"

10/8/14
Relaxer - "Lasers"
Lord Snow/Afterlife Kids - split EP
Immolation - "Close to a World Below"
Wide Streets - "Little Babies" EP
Deadmau5 - "For Lack Of A Better Name"
Ground Up - First Instrumental Demo CD
A Life Once Lost - "Iron Gag"

10/9/14
2Pac - "Greatest Hits" Disc 2
Milt Jackson - "Goodbye"

10/10/14
Rosanne Cash - "The River & The Thread"
Randy Wolf - "Fainting Spells" EP
Abest - "Asylum"

10/11/14
Sublime - "Stand By Your Van" live album
The Faceless - "Planetary Duality"
Remainder - "The Frozen World Thawed"
Gesalffelstein - "Aleph"

10/12/14
U2 - "Rattle and Hum"
Carl Schuricht & Arthur Nikisch - "Historic Recordings: Beethoven - Complete Recordings Vol. 20" Disc 1

10/13/14
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
Fugazi - "Steady Diet Of Nothing"

10/15/14
Swans - "To Be Kind"

10/18/14
The Bennies - "Rainbows In Space"
Calculator/Innards/Capacities/Itto - "The Sound Of Young America" 4-way split
The Nerve Agents - "Days Of The White Owl"
California Bleeding - 2011 Tour EP
One OK Rock - "Jinsei x Boku ="
The Gaslamp Killer - "Breakthrough"

10/19/14
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji - "Gemini"
Last Exit - "Koln"
Sun Kil Moon - "Benji"
The Frights/Death Lens - "DeathFrights" split EP
Captive Bolt/Gary Francione - split 7"
Bad Brains - S/T
Man With A Mission - "Database" single
Imaginary Pants - "Kites At Night" EP
Jamie Jones - "Moan & Groan" single
Seven Lions - "Worlds Apart" EP

10/20/14
Pendulum - "Greatest Hits" Disc 1
Jelly Rolly Morton - "1926-1930" Disc 1
The Afghan Whigs - "Do to the Beast"
Tidemouth - "What I Meant To Say" EP
Cease Upon The Capitol - "The End Of History" EP

10/21/14
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - S/T

10/22/14
Hatebreed - "The Rise Of Brutality"
Dash Jacket - "Ten Thousand Things"
AlunaGeorge - "Body Music"
7 Seconds - "New Wind"

10/23/14
Dr. Feelgood - "Singles: The UA Years"
The Coltranes - "Man With The Hat" EP

10/24/14
FKA twigs - "LP1"

10/25/14
Atomic Psychopath - "The Album"
Lil Wayne - "Rebirth"
Odesza - "My Friends Never Die" EP
Orchestra Of Vienna Volksoper - "Johann Strauss II: Waltzes & Polkas"
Caveman Movies - "Evil Makes The World Spin"

10/26/14
Deez Nuts - "Rep Your Hood" EP
CDC - "The Split" EP

10/27/14
Laeirs - "Emotional Blackmail" EP
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - "Peaceblaster"

10/28/14
Danny Daze - "Your Everything" b/w "Fall Away From Love" 12"
Layne Redmond - "Roots of Awakening: Chanting the Chakras"
Fit For Rivals - "Steady Damage"

10/29/14
Fifteen - "The Choice of a New Generation"
end of the summer - "Three" EP
end of the summer - "Second" EP

10/30/14
Frank Wess, Freddie Green, Joe Newman, & Kenny Burrell - "Jazz For Playboys"

10/31/14
Samhain - "November Coming Fire"
Samhain - "Unholy Passion" EP
Samhain - "Final Descent"

MUSIC NOTES
- It's odd to me how people could either love or hate Lana Del Rey because she is just so nondescript and boring...I mean, she's attractive, and some of the songs are cool I guess, but what gives with all the hype in both directions?
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Bokanovsky, Ryan Adams, Relaxer, Afterlife Kids, Milt Jackson, Abest, Last Exit, Seven Lions, Cease Upon The Capitol, Dr. Feelgood, Odesza, Laeirs
- Worst of the month: Acid Phyx, The Salad
- Is anyone actually a fan of Fear Factory? How did they ever gain relevance or stature within the music community? I've never met a single person who has ever been stoked on Fear Factory and they've been around the entire time I've followed music
- I always thought Ryan Adams was like, the same person as John Mayer, and I fucking hate John Mayer, so I never gave Ryan Adams a chance, but the new Ryan Adams CD is pretty damn good. I never thought I'd say such a thing.
- Defiant Trespass is so much shittier than I had remembered, and I had remembered them as being pretty shitty to begin with
- In This Moment just gets more and more ridiculous with each release
- Jack White is hella overrated; I only liked 3 songs off his entire new full-length album
- Are The Salad consciously mocking or consciously mimicking The Garden? Or do they think they're doing something wildly new? Either way it's not a good look
- I haven't listened to every Testament album ever but I'm willing to bet that "Dark Roots Of Earth" is definitely amongst their worst
- I feel similarly to St. Vincent how I did about Lana Del Rey but St. Vincent is objectively better for sure
- The Depaysement is one of those bands you really, absolutely have to see live to appreciate because the recorded stuff doesn't do it justice whatsoever
- Holy shit I'm usually the strictest of Beatles purists, I hate covers or changes to their songs, but the "Love" remix album is fucking AMAZING...it makes you appreciate songs you've grown up your entire life loving in an entirely way...Paul McCartney is a BEAST at the bass guitar
- That was weird to listen back to the very first Ground Up CD we made, just for ourselves to review and change, because those original takes on songs that I myself wrote are so different from how they ended up at the end and there are some badass drum fills I wish we hadn't changed...Also there is a single track of me doing vocals to "Down With It" that's never been released or put on any of the demos I actually gave people so I might make a YouTube video for that soon
- "I was tweaking by myself one night, that's when I wrote this song..."
- For everything that people hate U2 about right now with the whole iPhone thing, I think it's fair to point out that we never should have stopped hating them for "Rattle & Hum"...That shit is awful
- "Complete Recordings Vol. 20" Disc 1 --- Damn Beethoven, you wrote way too much fucking music, choose your battles dude
- "Goddess Gagged"
- "To Be Kind" is a dense, dense listen and somewhat difficult to get through in one sitting but it is worth it.
- I used to listen to "The Days Of The White Owl" so damn much
- Despite the Red House Painters being pretty much my favorite band of the 90s after Smashing Pumpkins and maybe Fugazi, this was the first time I had ever listened to Sun Kil Moon...It's similar but it's also different and I don't like it nearly the same
- "I Love, I Jah"
- Apparently the guys who makes EDM as Seven Lions is a full-blown metalhead and bases his music on that more than any other electronic music he's surrounded by, and I can hear it
- Why do I like Pendulum so much more now than I did when I was into going to raves and shit?
- Grace Potter is fairly hot and she sings very well but goddamn her lyrics are fucking retarded
- "New Wind" is my favorite 7 Seconds album
- "She Does It Right" by Dr. Feelgood is definitely the riff of the month...so infectious
- Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" is even worse than you remember. Even worse.
- "Pour some liquor out for the ones we've lost."
- "end of the summer" : "The Choice Of A New Generation"
- I listened to way more old-school jazz this month than almost any month ever before
- "The devil sent me here to you and if'a you fear, you've reason to; Open up all seven seals; The beast has come to claim the youth. ARCHANGEL."

MOVIES:
10/1/14: "Funny People"
10/3/14: "Burn After Reading"
10/15/14: "The Truman Show"
10/18/14: "Workaholics" Season 4 Disc 1 DVD
10/20/14: "Inuyasha: Double Trouble" DVD
10/31/14: "Evil Bong 3: Wrath Of The Bong"
                "Zombieland"

MOVIE NOTES
- "Funny People" makes me cry like every time
- "The Truman Show" is like my favorite movie right now
- That was the first time I ever watched an anime. I don't understand the appeal.

ZINES
10/20/14: "Abre Tus Ojos" Direct Action Claremont zine
10/21/14 - 10/27/14: "Death + Taxes" Sept/Oct 09 issue 

SHOWS
10/25/14: (The Gravitys)/Liquid/Depictions Of Fear/Interracial Bookclub/Happy In Hemet/California Bleeding/Caveman Movies @  Happy Fest at Anthony Liquid's house

SHOW NOTES
- Even though I listed \_/ as having played at Happy Fest, we only played one song ("Eustress") with Anthony Liquid after Liquid's set was done. Depictions Of Fear was badass. Thanks for having us Tony.

MEMORY REVIEW: Static-X

When I was like 11 years old there was gonna be a block party for 4th of July in my culdesac and for some reason I was the person providing the stereo and they wanted to know how loud it went so I put on "I'm With Stupid" because it was what I thought was the loudest CD I had at the time and we put it on blast and I rode my bike down the street to see how far it would be heard from....By the time you reached Salinas you couldn't hear it anymore.

R.I.P. Wayne Static 1965-2014

Static-X - "I'm With Stupid"