This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles that I listened to in their entirety, as well as a list of things I watched, things I read, and things I saw live. Notes regarding all are included afterwards.
MUSIC
4/1/15
Childish Gambino - "STN MTN" mixtape
Hillary Chillton - "Bourbon Breath" EP
4/2/15
Rodrigo y Gabriela - "9 Dead Alive"
Killswitch Engage - "As Daylight Dies"
4/3/15
Slightly Stoopid - "Everything You Need"
Elton John - "Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits"
Dead Moon - "In The Graveyard"
Settling - "For Now" demo
Dropkick Murphys - "The Warrior's Code"
4/4/15
The Used - "Imaginary Enemy"
Jethro Tull - "This Was"
Swimmers - "Swimmer's Year" EP
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Wale - "The Album About Nothing"
Carcass - "Heartwork"
PUP - S/T
4/5/15
Odesza - "In Return"
The Record Company - "Feels So Good" 12" EP
4/6/15
Drake - "If You're Reading This, It's Too Late" mixtape
4/7/15
Loom - October 2014 Live Demos
Danny Howells - "Global Underground: Miami #027" DJ Mix Disc 1
4/8/15
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" unmastered demo
Premonitions Of War - "The True Face Of Panic"
One Life Crew - "Crime-Ridden Society"
4/9/15
The Unseen - "Lower Class Crucifixion"
Brandi Carlile - "The Firewatcher's Daughter"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Crime In Stereo - "Explosives and the Will to Use Them"
4/10/15
John Lennon - "The Collection"
4/11/15
Jurassic Shark - "Miracle" EP
Girl Talk & Freeway - "Broken Ankles" EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Happiness is a Smile" digital single
Cypress Hill - "The Essential"
4/12/15
Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
Jock Club - "Jock Luv" EP
Kendrick Lamar - "To Pimp A Butterfly"
Widespread Panic - "Panic in the Streets" live album
4/13/14
Hell In The Cell - Demo
Slayer - "Implode" digital single
The Illustrative Violet - "Different Space" EP
Dropkick Murphys - "Boys on the Docks" EP
Architects - "Lost Forever//Lost Together"
Tyler, The Creator - "Cherry Bomb"
4/14/15
Attila - "Guilty Pleasure"
4/15/15
Steely Dan - "Can't Buy A Thrill"
4/16/15
Chromeo - "White Women"
JJ Grey & Mofro - "Everything is a Song" digital single
4/18/15
Florence + The Machine - "You've Got The Love" 7"
Tumbleweed Dealer - S/T
Voidlines - Demos
Zion I - "The Masters Of Ceremony" EP
Flying Lotus - "You're Dead!"
Melted - "ZIPTRIPPER" EP
OK Go - "Hungry Ghosts"
Convent - "Vicious Moments Of Clarity"
The Astro Zombies - "Mutilate, Torture, and Kill"
4/19/15
G. Love and Special Sauce - "Sugar"
St. Vincent - S/T
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Total Control - "Typical System"
4/20/15
Of Monsters And Men - "My Head Is An Animal"
Knife Party - "Abandon Ship"
Dress Code - S/T EP
King Diamond - "Dreams of Horror" compilation - Disc 1
4/21/15
Hypocrisy - "Osculum Obscenum"
Hellyeah - S/T
Jamestown Revival - "UTAH: A Collection of Recorded Moments from the Wasatch Mountains"
4/22/15
The Gift Machine - "Hard Facts Are Still Uncertain"
Rancid - S/T (1993)
Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney - "FourFiveSeconds" digital single
Ensiferum - Demo II
Yelawolf - "Love Story"
4/23/15
Being As An Ocean - "How We Both Wondrously Perish"
Casual Friday - Demo 2014
Classixx - "Hanging Gardens"
Ambrosia - "Anthology"
4/24/15
Marina & The Diamonds - "FROOT"
Crypt Trip - "Devil's Bills" digital single
Fur Coat - "U Turn" EP
Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes"
Lucero - "Texas & Tennessee" EP
Jackson Sloan & The Rhythmtones - "Jukebox Swing" b/w "I Want All That You Got" 7"
Pity Party - "Party Stops" digital single
4/25/15
Soundgarden - "Superunknown"
Dead Kennedys - "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
Nahko and Medicine for the People - "Dark As Night"
4/26/15
Mastodon - "Remission"
Arsonists Get All The Girls - "Portals"
4/27/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Poison Idea - "Kings of Punk"
Kendrick Lamar - "good kid, m.A.A.d. city"
4/28/15
Cut Hands - "Nine-Night" digital single
Hot Chip - "Huarache Lights" digital single
Umphrey's McGee - "The London Session"
4/29/15
Modern Pain - "Self Deconstruction" EP
Hellyeah - "Blood For Blood"
The Drowning Men - "All of the Unknown"
August Burns Red - "Messengers"
4/30/15
Hit By A Bus - "Detonator" EP
Wilco - "What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014" Disc 1
Ariana Grande & The Weeknd - "Love Me Harder" digital single
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" demo
You Me At Six - "Cavalier Youth"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite 'new finds' of the month: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Steely Dan, Total Control, Jackson Sloan & The Rhythmtones
- Both Elton John and Steely Dan have way more sardonic, aggressive, badass lyrics than I had ever given them credit for...Maybe its one of those things you pick up on more with age, IDK
- I will never understand how The Used have amassed so many fans after having sucking so consistently for so long
- I feel kinda guilty even thinking this, but people talk way too much shit on Drake. He's not THAT bad.
- Everybody check out the new demo from Lost Cause, the new hardcore band featuring KP and Sam from The Gravitys www.lostcausehxc.bandcamp.com CH'YEAH
- "Space Oddity" is even much better than I remembered
- I've had that John Lennon compilation for like my whole life and it wasn't til now that realized how big of an omission it was for them to not have included "Isolation"
- That collaboration with Freeway is easily Girl Talk's weakest release that I've heard
- Kendrick Lamar is one of those few widely-lauded artists who completely deserves all his recognition and is not being over-hyped whatsoever. Real shit.
- Worst of the month: Attila, JJ Grey & Mofro, Marina & The Diamonds, Nahko and the Medicine for the People, The Drowning Men, You Me At Six
- How can anyone enjoy Attila? It's like I had thought Emmure was like the bottom of the barrel but apparently there is so, so much further down a band can sink
- "The things you find important I just can't understand."
- If you didn't like Chromeo before the new album won't do much to change that, but if you did, this is a big step up IMO
- I'm sure this isn't the kind of praise most metal bands would be seeking but Tumbleweed Dealer really helped me fall asleep nicely
- FlyLo is a fucking genius
- Why does OK Go make such mind-blowingly dope videos for such mediocre music? I mean they don't suck but they're nothing amazing, but jesus fucking christ their videos are out of this world...Seems like a case of misplaced priorities if you ask me
- Between Of Monsters And Men and The Drowning Men, I think I had more than my fair share of Mumford & Sons clones this month
- Damn, Pendulum fans fucking HATE on Knife Party
- Part of me thinks King Diamond is fucking ridiculous and lame as shit, and another part of me thinks he's the dopest motherfucker who ever lived
- Among 2 full-length albums I only liked one song by Hellyeah and even that was kinda a pity like...Lameness
- That first Rancid album is pretty damn weak
- That Paul McCartney/Kanye/Rihanna song is exactly as uninspired and boring as you would expect
- Being As An Ocean is alright I guess but jeez I hate that faux-spoken-word stuff bands like that do nowadays...Forced as shit
- I'm pretty certain that I've listened to that Classixx album before but this time around I enjoyed it wayyyy more
- After hearing Ambrosia for the first time I think I'm gonna stop defending 70's music so much. Some of it really sucked.
- Fuck the haters, I really like Lucero
- "She lived like a murder but she died just like suicide"
- "My Cup's Half Empty"
- I thought You Me At Six was gonna be like a metalcore band...boy o boy was I off on that one
MOVIES
4/1/15: FINISHED "30 Rock" Season 4
4/2/15: "Possessed: Live at the Whiskey 3/15/14"
4/3/15: FINISHED "30 Rock" Season 5
"Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back"
4/6/15: FINISHED "30 Rock" Season 6
4/10/15: FINISHED "30 Rock" Season 7
"Taylor Noah: African American"
4/11/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
"Iliza Shlesinger: War Paint"
4/12/15: "Iliza Shlesinger: Freezing Hot"
"Nymphomaniac" Parts I & II
4/13/15: "Russell Peters: Notorious"
4/14/15: "Jim Breuer: And Laughter For All"
4/15/15: "Louis C.K.: Live At The Beacon Theatre"
4/16/15: "Tom Segura: Completely Natural"
4/17/15: FINISHED "Arrested Development" Season 1
"Stir Of Echoes"
"Collateral"
4/18/15: "Arrested Development" Season 2
4/19/15: FINISHED "Arrested Development" Season 3
4/21/15: "The Punk Singer: A Film About Kathleen Hanna"
4/22/15: FINISHED "Arrested Development" Season 4
4/28/15: "Cannibal Corpse: Global Evisceration" 2xDVD
MOVIE NOTES
- The singer from Possessed kicks more ass in his wheelchair than like 90% of standing metal singers
- When I was a kid I thought "Jay And Silent Bob..." was fucking HILARIOUS...nowadays, eh
- Iliza Shlesinger has her moments but she does this goat-voice thing sometimes that just makes me cringe
- "Nymphomaniac" is pretty fucked up, but honestly not as fucked up as I was expecting
- Jim Breuer talking about being too old to go to Slayer shows anymore was fucking hilarious. Spot on.
- Kevin Bacon's accent in "Stir Of Echoes" is distractingly hilarious like the whole movie through
- That Kathleen Hanna documentary did nothing to ingratiate me to her or any of her bands, if anything it made me never want to check out Bikini Kill or Le Tigre because of her personality...Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist, she just lives to complain
- I really enjoyed "Arrested Development" EXCEPT for that last, Netflix-only season...Very disappointing
- As monotonous and unchanging as Cannibal Corpse can be, those motherfuckers got heart. Few other bands have gone to the lengths that they have to reach their fan-base all over the world. Ramones status.
BOOKS
4/20/15: The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
BOOK NOTES
- I don't even care that The Incredible Journey is a "children's book," that shit was an entertaining read
ZINES
4/21/15: FINISHED "UC Irvine Magazine" Spring 2015 Issue
ZINE NOTES
- I really, truly miss being in school more than almost anything else that's no longer part of my life. I gotta go back.
LIVE
4/25/15: Faith No More/Philm @ The Observatory
LIVE NOTES
- Although my friends separated from me right as they started so I watched the show alone, Faith No More fucking ruled. At one point somebody threw water on Mike Patton right as he was addressing the crowd with no music and he didn't respond at first but for the rest of the night he had this snarky attitude towards the people nearest the stage and eventually threw his own water on a group of people before throwing out a towel sarcastically and calling them a bunch of idiots. It was awesome.
