This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of August 2015, followed by lists of the stuff I watched, read, and saw live; my notes regarding all follow each list. Enjoy.
MUSIC
8/1/15
Coalesce - "Salt & Passage" EP
Damnear Divine - 3-song demo CD
Meshuggah - "I" CD
Black Stone Cherry - "Hits, Rarities, and Live"
Alpha & Omega - "No Rest No Peace"
8/2/15
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Savatage - "Hall Of The Mountain King"
The Cure/Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven" split 7"
Gary Clark Jr. - "Black & Blu"
Smut Peddlers - "Freedom"
8/3/15
The Avener - "Wanderings Of The Avener"
The Sonics - "This Is The Sonics"
Nails - "Among the Arches of Intolerance" b/w "In Pain" 7"
The Polish Ambassador - "Pushing Through The Pavement"
Babes In Toyland - "Fontanelle"
Gold Panda - "Lucky Shiner"
P.O.D. - "SoCal Sessions"
Death Cab For Cutie - "Kintsugi"
Flogging Molly - "Drunken Lullabies"
The Teen Idles - "Minor Disturbance" EP
Youth Brigade - "Possible" EP
Hypocrisy - S/T
Regurgitate - "Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood"
8/4/15
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Nosaj Thing - "Fated"
Blacklisted - "When People Grow, People Go"
TV On The Radio - "Seeds"
Down To Nothing - "The Most"
La Sera - "Hour of the Dawn"
8/5/15
Larry & His Flask - "Gutted"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Arade Fire - "Reflektor"
The Chemical Brothers - "Electronic Battle Weapon 11" digital single
The Stooges - "Fun House"
The Black Box Revelation - "High on a Wire" digital single
Tidemouth - "Velvet & Stone"
3Lau & Nom De Strip ft. Estelle - "The Night" digital single
Crime In Stereo - "The Troubled Stateside"
The Movielife - "Forty Hour Train Back To Penn"
The Get-Up Kids - "Something To Write Home About"
8/6/15
Bad Religion - "The Empire Strikes First"
Coalesce - "Ox"
Morbosidad - "Muerte de Cristo en Golgota"
Bring Me The Horizon - "Throne"/"Happy Song" digital single
Bastille - "Oblivion" 7"
Power Trip - "Armageddon Blues" EP
Grimes ft. Blood Diamonds - "Go" digital single
Girl Talk - "All Day"
Girl Talk - "Night Ripper"
8/7/15
Markus Schulz - "Toronto '09" Disc 1
Tomahawk - "Mit Gas"
Craic Haus - "Who's Yer Paddy Now?"
July Talk - "Summer Dress" EP
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique - "Set Me Free" digital single
Systematic Abuse - "Murder for Hire" 7"
Reflection Eternal - "Train Of Thought"
Surf Curse - "Sad Boys" EP
8/8/15
Bloody Death Skull - "Space Age Sock Hop" EP
The Empire Shall Fall - "Awaken"
Refused - "Freedom"
Chelsea Wolfe - "Abyss"
The Wonder Years - "The Greatest Generation"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
The F.U.'s - "Kill For Christ" EP
Saosin - S/T
Wretched Philiproy - Demo
8/9/15
Fortunate Youth - "Don't Think Twice"
Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"
Larry & His Flask - S/T EP
George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass" Disc 2
RL Grime - "Void"
Diat - "Everyday" b/w "Hinge and Bracket" 7"
From A Second Story Window - "Delenda"
8/10/15
Crisis - "No Town Hall" EP
Sever - "Fuck'em All, Kill Everything" demo
Clinic - "Walking With Thee"
Cold Cave - "Doom Doom Doom" digital single
Dwight Yoakam - "Second Hand Heart"
HVOB - "Trialog"
Dirty Filthy Mugs - "Drinks on Me" b/w "Crazy Phil" 7"
King Nine - Demo 2011
K-Os - "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco"
The Warriors - "Genuine Sense of Outrage"
8/11/15
The Acid - "Liminal"
The Weakerthans - "Fallow"
Deep Creep - "Hold Tight" b/w "Bees in the Basement" 7"
Kill The Noise & Tommy Trash - "Louder (ft. Rock City)" digital single
Beartooth - "Disgusting"
The Warriors - "War Is Hell"
Atmosphere - "The Lake Nokomis" maxi single
Kongos - "Lunatic"
Rush - "Fly By Night"
Clarity - "Stepping Stone (ft. Thomas Acosta from Barbarian)" digital single
Tokyo Police Club - "Forcefield"
Clarity - Demo 2011
Husker Du - "Zen Arcade"
8/12/15
Annie Mac - "Presents 2014" DJ Mix
Charles Bradley - "I Hope You Find The Good Life" b/w "Electric Victim" 12"
Alesso - "Forever"
Happy In Hemet - S/T EP
The F.U.'s - "My America"
Funeral Oration - "Say No To Life"
8/13/15
Failure - "The Heart Is A Monster"
Finch - "Back To Oblivion"
H2O - "FTTW"
Cannabis Corpse/Ghoul - "Splatterhash" split EP
Clinic - "Visitations"
Bouncing Souls - "Maniacal Laughter"
Tank - "This Means War"
8/14/15
Crisis - "White Youth" EP
Clutch/Lionize - "Run, John Barleycorn, Run"/"Ether Madness" split 7"
All Time Low - "Future Hearts"
Boston Strangler - "Fire"
Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - "Instant Crush" digital single
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - "Tyranny"
Joey Bada$$ - "Born Day" digital single
The Mahones - "The Hunger and the Fight (Pt. 1)"
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - "Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious"
Carousel Kings - "Unity"
Magrudergrind - "OWNED!" 7"
8/15/15
Hail The Sun - "POW! Right In The Kisser"
Shiner - "Starless"
Placebo - "Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996-2004"
Hum - "Downward Is Heavenward"
8/16/15
The Sword - "Age Of Winters"
Ill Bill - "Black Metal" mixtape
Casual Friday - S/T cassette
8/17/15
The War On Drugs - "Slave Ambient"
7 Seconds - "The Crew"
The Toasters - "The Best Of"
The First Step - "What We Know"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Bane - "Don't Wait Up"
Die Antwoord - "Donker Mag"
8/18/15
Avenged Sevenfold - "Nightmare"
8/19/15
The F.U.'s - "Do We Really Want To Hurt You?"
Soulfly - "Archangel"
Rush - "2112"
The Silent Comedy - "Common Faults"
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "Don't You Fake It"
No Warning - "Ill Blood"
The Crown - "Crowned In Terror"
Ben UFO - "Untitled" cassette
A.C. Slater - Demo CD
8/20/15
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
George Ezra - "Wanted On Voyage"
andhim - "Spayce" b/w "Domplatte" 12"
Battalion Of Saints - "The Second Coming"
Ibeyi - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Wages Of Sin"
8/21/15
Elle King - "Catch Us If You Can" digital single
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Twenty Dozen"
8/22/15
Art Of Dying - S/T
Gwar - "Scumdogs of the Universe"
Thievery Corporation - "The Richest Man In Babylon"
Iration - "Automatic"
ACxDC - "Antichrist Demoncore"
8/23/15
Pixies - "At The BBC"
St. Lucia - "When The Night"
Gorgon City - "Sirens (Remixes)"
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Magrudergrind - "Religious Baffle" MCD
Jean-Michel Jarre & Armin Van Buuren - "Stardust" digital single
Adair - "The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New"
NOFX - "Backstage Passport" soundtrack
Crisis - "Alienation" b/w "Bruckwood Hospital" 7"
Xibalba - "Hasta la Muerte"
8/24/15
Trivium - "Shogun"
Panic! At The Disco - "Pretty Odd"
Bright Eyes - "Every Day & Every Night" EP
No Tolerance - "Discography" LP
Camera Obscura - "4AD Sessions" EP
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - "Deceptacon" b/w "Don't Take My Man To Idaho" 7"
7 Seconds - "Walk Together, Rock Together"
Young Dubliners - "Saints and Sinners"
Pouya - "Baby Bone" EP
The Glory - demo CD
8/25/15
August Burns Red - "Constellations"
Catch-22 - "Keasbey Nights"
STS9 - "When The Dust Settles" EP
Dan Deacon - "Gliss Riffer"
Finntroll - "Nattfodd"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
Dennis Most & The Instigators - "Instigate Me!"
8/26/15
Pendulum - "Greatest Hits"
The Waterboys - "The Whole Of The Moon: The Music of Mike Scott & The Waterboys"
Tarantula Hawk - S/T
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos and Order"
Yes - "Fragile"
Underneath The Gun - "The Awakening"
I See Stars - "New Demons"
8/27/15
The Cure - "Seventeen Seconds"
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - "Not Sorry"
Magrudergrind - "Don't Support Humanitarian Aid Led By The Church" demo
The Sword - "High Country"
Peter Matthew Bauer - "Liberation!"
Violation - "Devoured"
Torche - S/T
Glass Animals - "Remixes" EP
Yung Lean - "Lavender" EP
Sage Emeralds - "DubCastles"
8/28/15
Courtaud & Bobtail - "My Love Who Never Was Will Never Be"
KiNK - "Fantasia" b/w "Fantasia (Truncate remix)" digital single
Garbage - "Version 2.0"
True Rivals - "The Revenant"
Retaliate - "We Are One"
Bright Eyes - "Drunk Kid Catholic" EP
Built To Spill - "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
Grace Love & The True Loves - "Fire" b/w "Say What You Gotta Say" 7"
Haywyre - "Insight" digital single
Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
7 Seconds - "New Wind"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Pennywise - "About Time"
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "Boys Of Rock: Greatest Hits"
8/29/15
The B-52's - "Cosmic Thing"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
Germ - "Dream" EP
Metric - "The Shade" EP
The Damned - "Go! -45" compilation LP
James Taylor - "The Best Of"
Tarantula Hawk - "Burrow"
Underneath The Gun - "Forfeit Misfortunes"
8/30/15
Fissure - S/T EP
Impact - "Punk Christmas" EP
Robert DeLong - "The Long Way Down" EP
V/A - "The Jacknife Tape Vol. 1"
Underworld Vs. Heller & Farley/Vs. The Misterons - "Baby Wants To Ride" digital single
Xpulsion - "Collective Evil" digital single
Bassnectar - "Into the Sun"
Greek Fire - "Deus Ex Machina"
Goldfinger - S/T
Ritual Necromancy - "Void Manifest" EP
Voivod/At The Gates - "We Are Connected"/"Language of the Dead" split 7"
8/31/15
Neck Deep - "Life's Not Out To Get You"
Give - "Sonic Bloom" EP
Warpaint - "No Way Out"/"I'll Start Believing" EP
Flatfoot 56 - "Toil"
I See Stars - "Digital Renegade"
Graveworm - "Engraved in Black"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: The Avener, Babes In Toyland, La Sera, Morbosidad, Boston Strangler, Shiner, St. Lucia, Peter Matthew Bauer, Crossface, Bad Times Crew, Vitality, Sawdust, Spinebreaker, Ritual Necromancy, Give
- New albums by Death Cab, TV On The Radio, The Arcade Fire, Refused, Chelsea Wolfe, Finch, Bassnectar are all solid
- Worst of the month: The Black Box Revelation, Bastille, July Talk, Sever, The Silent Comedy, Elle King, Art Of Dying, Greek Fire
- That new Bring Me The Horizon single is fucking terrible, I liked them better when they were lame-ass deathcore
- Reflection Eternal isn't very dope at all
- The Clarity from Washington is doper than the Clarity from Texas but not by a whole lot
- I like the remixed version of that Gorgon City album more than the normal version of the album
- I guess NOFX has like a web show and they did their own soundtrack for it, and a bunch of the songs make jokes about how they suck nowadays, but the joke isn't funny because NOFX legitimately sucks nowadays
- That second Panic! album is goddamn terrible
- Man Underneath The Gun was way worse than I remembered
- I don't like the direction The Sword has begun to take on this new album
MOVIES/SHOWS/DVDS
8/1/15: "Arnez J: Racially Motivated"
"The Warriors"
"Women Who Kill"
8/2/15: "Wet Hot American Summer"
"Jen Kirkman: I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)"
8/3/15: "An Honest Liar"
FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 3
8/4/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
8/5/15: "The Skeleton Twins"
8/6/15: "Staten Island Summer"
8/7/15: "Gary Gulman: In This Economy?"
8/8/15: "Interview With The Vampire"
"John Mulaney: New In Town"
8/9/15: "The Master"
"Joe Rogan Live"
8/10/15: "Chronic-Con Episode 420: A New Dope"
8/11/15: "Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry"
"Welcome To Me"
8/12/15: FINISHED: "Orange Is The New Black" Season 2
"Donald Glover: Weirdo"
"Kill Me Three Times"
8/14/15: "Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
"Hercules"
8/15/15: "Demetri Martin Live"
8/18/15: "Good Will Hunting"
"Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional"
8/19/15: "Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story"
8/20/15: "Moshe Kasher: Live In Oakland"
8/21/15: FINISHED "Bob's Burgers" Season 2
"Jim Norton: American Degenerate"
"Antichrist"
8/22/15: "This Is 40"
"Todd Glass Stand-Up Special"
8/23/15: "Serpico"
"Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said"
8/24/15: "Chinatown"
"Bo Burnham: what."
8/25/15: "Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus"
"Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time"
8/26/15: "Star Trek: Into Darkness"
"Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth"
"Apocalypse Now"
8/28/15: FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 4
"Full Metal Jacket"
8/30/15: "Josh Blue: Sticky Change"
8/31/15: "Brian Posehn: The Fartist"
MOVIE NOTES
- That was the first time I had ever seen "The Warriors" and it was even cheesier than I had expected
- I cannot recommend "An Honest Liar" enough...it really made me think.
- "Staten Island Summer" was like the weakest ripoff of "Superbad" I can imagine, highly not recommended
- "Interview With The Vampire" was way doper AND way more homoerotic than I expected it to be
- Doug Benson is just so desperate, he makes me ashamed to be a pothead
- Chris Porter and Josh Blue are probably the worst stand-up comedians I've ever seen and they're both kinda similar...in that they fuckin suck
- That new "Hercules" movie with The Rock as Hercules is fucking HILARIOUS I don't think I've laughed so hard in a good minute...Fool bodyslams a fucking horse it's absolutely ridiculous
- "Chinatown" deserves its legacy as one of the all-time greats, especially the ending....just damn. Same thing goes for "Apocalypse Now" but in entirely different ways.
- "Crystal Fairy..." was like the most pointless movie I've ever seen, just awful
LIVE
8/15/15: Deap Valley/HOT TTP/Media Jeweler/The Maximizers/Wax Idols @ Echo Park Rising
LIVE NOTES
- Echo Park Rising was cool but me and Miller showed up way too late and Miller was fucking wasted. Sam from Media Jeweler gave me a shout-out during their set. "Kiss that horse. Pucker up. Just kiss that horse."
ZINES
8/19/15: Echo Park Rising 2015 guide/zine
THEATRE
8/29/15: "Urinetown" presented by the Barn Stage Company
THEATRE NOTES
- "Some people don't like to be told that their way of life is unsustainable."
