This interview was conducted during Resurrect Cali Fest in Berkeley as the band White Wards was setting up.
Ian: Alright, this is Ian, I'm here with Adam from Gag; Adam, you hurt yourself in the last couple days, what happened?
Adam: So, I was drunk as fuck and I fucking fell off a bridge and landed on my back
I: Where was this at?
A: In Olympia, just a couple hours before we had to leave to come here, where we are now. I was drunk as fuck and tried to jump onto the railing of a bridge and overcompensated and fell on my back 2 stories down.
I: But you're standing, I mean...
A: Yeah...
I: Have you been to a doctor?
A: Nah, nah, nah..But definitely I have like 2-3 cracked ribs
I: O my goodness...well tell me this, why did you want to jump onto the railing?
A: Uhhh...for fun
I: Alright, that says it all...What's your favorite breakfast food, just so I can end this out?
A: Eggs benedict. That's the one with the cream, right?
I: The hollandaise sauce
A: Yeah, eggs benedict.
I: Alright, well good luck on your set later on; Feel better man!
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Friday, October 23, 2015
INTERVIEW: Daniel from Health Problems, September 3rd 2015
Ian: This is Ian and I'm talking with Dan from Health Problems, we're at...what is this place?
Dan: (Shouting to someone else) What's this place called?
[Sam from The Coltranes passes by]
I: Sam! What is this place called?
D: We're in Santa Rosa
I: Tomorrow is Resurrect Cali
Sam: The Francis Theatre or some shit
I: [So we're at The Francis Theatre], you guys are on tour from Seattle; what's your itinerary been like?
D: We went through the Great American West into the Midwest, had a bunch of shows there, then swooped down South into Texas, then the Southwest, and then the West Coast. Oh and we played a couple Canadian and Northwest shows too
[NOISE]
I: Of course they're gonna start doing their jamming now; we can go into a different room...So I understand you guys had your van break down, where did that happen?
D: Oh, in Eastern Texas. It broke down twice; oh god it was so terrible...each time it broke down it was a full 24-hour process, having it towed, it's a station wagon - a Subaru - really old, over 200,000 miles. We had to get it towed, stay at a motel overnight until the mechanic could look at it, he got it back on the road the first time, we played in Austin and then in the middle of the desert it broke down again, it was another whole 24-hour process and we had to scrap it that time because the repair was gonna cost over $1,000 and we were gonna miss shows waiting for the guy to fix it.
I: Gotta do what you gotta do
D: So I'm down my personal car and the cost of a rental
I: O my god so that was your car?
D: Yeah it was me and my wife's personal station wagon
I: Awww...
D: And then we had to get the rental van
I: So what are you gonna do when you get home?
D: Uh, I don't know yet...
I: Oh man
D: Yeah, it's a straight-up unfortunate situation
I: Well, besides that, how's your tour been going?
D: That stretch in the Midwest was great, we played some really great shows, drove from Kansas City all the way to Minneapolis, down again to Nashville...Milwaukee and Iowa City were highlights...
[BASS NOISE]
I: Okay, we're moving it out to kinda the backstage place here so I can finish this interview...okay so you've had a good experience for the most part
D: Yeah
I: And you're here in the Bay Area right now, have you played here before?
D: Uh, yeah, we've played in the Bay Area a couple days at a time for the last 2 years, we've done West Coast tours the last 2 years
I: O word, so how long have you guys been playing?
D: 3 and a half years
I: How would you describe your experience in your scene up there in Seattle? Like, what's your take on what\s going on up there?
D: Oh, it's a lot of fun, there's a lot of creativity up there right now. There's a whole bunch of really exciting bands. I mean, in Seattle there's bands like Baths and Nudes and a whole lot of really good bands, and then up in Canada we played with Freak Heat Waves at the beginning of the tour, we played Victoria and Vancouver with Freak Heat Waves, who everyone should check out.
I: Okay, so as I mentioned I'm here with The Coltranes doing merch, and they had a problem on a recent tour when they went to Canada because the guitarist wasn't able to get in. Have you had any problems when you were doing the crossover there?
D: Luckily, not at all. We got through smoothly. We always hear bad stories about it.
I: Alright so I'm just gonna try to get a final question in cuz it looks like the next band is about to play...so you have a new album coming out soon through Virgin Spring called "Winners;" when did you guys record that?
D: A long time ago, about a year ago
I: Yeah I just heard it recently
D: Yeah it took us time to find those guys to release it and then to press the vinyl, that takes awhile...in the meantime as we've waited for the release, we've recorded and released a whole other full-length called "Ugly Man"
I: And you have a flexi as well
D: Yeah, that's through our friend Anthony from [band names inaudible under background noise -> maybe Lysol?] ; he released that flexi.
I: Word, alright well the next band's about to play, sorry to keep you but I do appreciate it; good luck with your tour and everything on your way home
D: Thank you
http://healthproblems.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Health-Problems-509733902393850/timeline/
Dan: (Shouting to someone else) What's this place called?
[Sam from The Coltranes passes by]
I: Sam! What is this place called?
D: We're in Santa Rosa
I: Tomorrow is Resurrect Cali
Sam: The Francis Theatre or some shit
I: [So we're at The Francis Theatre], you guys are on tour from Seattle; what's your itinerary been like?
D: We went through the Great American West into the Midwest, had a bunch of shows there, then swooped down South into Texas, then the Southwest, and then the West Coast. Oh and we played a couple Canadian and Northwest shows too
[NOISE]
I: Of course they're gonna start doing their jamming now; we can go into a different room...So I understand you guys had your van break down, where did that happen?
D: Oh, in Eastern Texas. It broke down twice; oh god it was so terrible...each time it broke down it was a full 24-hour process, having it towed, it's a station wagon - a Subaru - really old, over 200,000 miles. We had to get it towed, stay at a motel overnight until the mechanic could look at it, he got it back on the road the first time, we played in Austin and then in the middle of the desert it broke down again, it was another whole 24-hour process and we had to scrap it that time because the repair was gonna cost over $1,000 and we were gonna miss shows waiting for the guy to fix it.
I: Gotta do what you gotta do
D: So I'm down my personal car and the cost of a rental
I: O my god so that was your car?
D: Yeah it was me and my wife's personal station wagon
I: Awww...
D: And then we had to get the rental van
I: So what are you gonna do when you get home?
D: Uh, I don't know yet...
I: Oh man
D: Yeah, it's a straight-up unfortunate situation
I: Well, besides that, how's your tour been going?
D: That stretch in the Midwest was great, we played some really great shows, drove from Kansas City all the way to Minneapolis, down again to Nashville...Milwaukee and Iowa City were highlights...
[BASS NOISE]
I: Okay, we're moving it out to kinda the backstage place here so I can finish this interview...okay so you've had a good experience for the most part
D: Yeah
I: And you're here in the Bay Area right now, have you played here before?
D: Uh, yeah, we've played in the Bay Area a couple days at a time for the last 2 years, we've done West Coast tours the last 2 years
I: O word, so how long have you guys been playing?
D: 3 and a half years
I: How would you describe your experience in your scene up there in Seattle? Like, what's your take on what\s going on up there?
D: Oh, it's a lot of fun, there's a lot of creativity up there right now. There's a whole bunch of really exciting bands. I mean, in Seattle there's bands like Baths and Nudes and a whole lot of really good bands, and then up in Canada we played with Freak Heat Waves at the beginning of the tour, we played Victoria and Vancouver with Freak Heat Waves, who everyone should check out.
I: Okay, so as I mentioned I'm here with The Coltranes doing merch, and they had a problem on a recent tour when they went to Canada because the guitarist wasn't able to get in. Have you had any problems when you were doing the crossover there?
D: Luckily, not at all. We got through smoothly. We always hear bad stories about it.
I: Alright so I'm just gonna try to get a final question in cuz it looks like the next band is about to play...so you have a new album coming out soon through Virgin Spring called "Winners;" when did you guys record that?
D: A long time ago, about a year ago
I: Yeah I just heard it recently
D: Yeah it took us time to find those guys to release it and then to press the vinyl, that takes awhile...in the meantime as we've waited for the release, we've recorded and released a whole other full-length called "Ugly Man"
I: And you have a flexi as well
D: Yeah, that's through our friend Anthony from [band names inaudible under background noise -> maybe Lysol?] ; he released that flexi.
I: Word, alright well the next band's about to play, sorry to keep you but I do appreciate it; good luck with your tour and everything on your way home
D: Thank you
http://healthproblems.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Health-Problems-509733902393850/timeline/
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Playlist for September 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, singles, etc that I listened to in the month of September 2015, followed by lists of movies/shows/etc I watched and bands I saw live. Notes regarding all follow each. Enjoy!
MUSIC
9/1/15
Dan Dyer - "Oh Woman (She The Devil To Me)"
Jose Gonzalez - "Vestiges & Claws"
Autolux - "Future Perfect"
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - S/T
Angry Samoans - "Inside My Brain"
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
Lewd Acts - "Black Eyed Blues"
9/2/15
Big Freedia - "Azz Everywhere" EP
Beastie Boys - "Licensed To Ill"
Children Of Bodom - "Are You Dead Yet?"
Cornershop - "When I Was Born For The 7th Time"
Metallica - "Lords of Summer" digital single
Too Short - "Life Is...Too Short"
Dress Code - S/T EP
9/3/15
Funeral Oration - "Shadowland" EP
9/5/15
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Apathean - "Eve"
The E-Regulars - S/T
9/6/15
Bad Bikini/Black Jugs - "Babies" split EP
Slipknot - "Iowa"
Fool Of Fate - 4-song sampler CD
Orgone - "Strike" b/w "New You" 7"
Discordance Axis - "JouHou"
Discordance Axis/Plutocracy - split 7"
Melt-Banana/Discordance Axis - split 7"
Drowning Pool - "Sinner"
Weezer - "Make Believe"
9/7/15
Nate Ruess - "Grand Romantic"
Matador - "Play With Me"
Downtown Brown - S/T
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - "Upon The Right, I Saw A New Misery"
SFHH - S/T cassette EP
Mole People - S/T cassette
Powerwolves - Demo 2010
Disturbed - "Ten Thousand Fists"
Call The Cops - "Never Underestimate The Kids" demo CD
Fit For Rivals - "Steady Damage"
Van Morrison - "Moondance"
9/8/15
Monolink & Acid Pauli - "The End" 12"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Rebelution - "Courage To Grow"
Duke Dumont - "Ocean Drive" digital single
Story Of The Year - "Page Avenue"
The Vandals - "Peace Thru Vandalism" EP
Pure - "XXX" EP
BruceXCampbell - "Hail To The King" EP
The Nerve Agents - "Days of the White Owl"
9/9/15
All That Remains - "The Fall Of Ideals"
Zotz - S/T 7"
Touche Amore & Self Defense Family - "Self Love" collaborative EP
Ozzy Osbourne - "Memoirs of a Madman" compilation CD
SayWeCanFly - "Between The Roses"
Avail - "Satiate"
The Ramshackle Army - "Letters from the Road Less Traveled"
9/10/15
Opeth - "Your Arms, My Hearse"
Cashmere Cat ft. Adriana Grande - "Adore" digital single
The Ruts - "Something That I Said: The Best Of"
Griever - "Our Love Is Different"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Big D & The Kids Table - "Good Luck"
Suicide Silence - S/T EP
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - "Idi Amin" EP
Rammstein - "Sehnsucht"
A Calmer Day - 2005 Demo CD
Corrosion Of Conformity - "Deliverance"
9/11/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Ja Rule - "Rule 3:36"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness"
The Skank Agents - "Something For Everyone"
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
9/12/15
Light This City - "Facing The Thousand"
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
Avail - "Dixie"
Big Boys - "Where's My Towel?/Industry Standard"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
9/14/15
Take This Hand - "Our Only Hope" EP
9/15/15
Torche - "Meanderthal"
Discordance Axis - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
9/16/15
Avail - "Dixie"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
MATH - "Yumi" digital single
Mac Miller - "GO:OD AM"
The NewNo2 - "You Are Here"
9/17/15
Animosity - "Empires"
Static-X - "Machine"
Incendiary - "Crusade"
Angry Samoans - "Queer Pills" EP
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Green Velvet & Carl Craig - "Unity"
Richie Ramone - "Entitled"
Cartel - "The Ransom"
9/18/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Coyote Kisses - "Acid Wolfpack" EP
Coheed & Cambria - "The Second Stage Turbine Blade"
Twenty-One Pilots - S/T
Tale Of Us - "Another Earth" EP
Glassjaw - "Coloring Book"
Redd Kross - "Born Innocent"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
9/19/15
Fishbone - "Inttrinsically Intertwined"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Happy In Hemet - "Hush"
Autopsy - "Severed Survival"
9/20/15
Deceive - "Arrival of the Dark Masters" EP
Battlecross - "Rise To Power"
The Life We Live - 5-song demo
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Peace, Love, and Death Metal"
Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual"
Osker - "Treatment 5"
Make Do And Men - "Don't Be Long"
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Stick Together - S/T
From Autumn To Ashes - "The Fiction We Live"
9/21/15
The Faction - "Collection 1982-1985"
Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos"
Wisdom In Chains - "The God Rhythm"
Discharge - "Decontrol" EP
Lakeside - "Galactic Grooves: The Best Of"
Rocket From The Crypt - "Scream, Dracula, Scream!"
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles 1977-1992" Disc 1
Thursday - "Full Collapse"
Earth Crisis - "Destroy The Machines"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Tha Dogg Pound with Snoop Dogg - "That's My Work Vol. 5" mixtape
V/A - "F.I.M.P.: Ohio 2"
9/23/15
Hounds - Demo 2015
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Peelander-Z - "Metalander-Z"
Cartel - "Chroma"
David Gilmour - "Rattle That Lock"
Xibalba - S/T
Ben Howard - "I Forget Where We Were"
Angry Samoans - "Back From Samoa"
Davi - "The Gates Of Babylon" b/w "Eclipse" digital single
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Burn The Priest - S/T
Animosity - "Animal"
9/24/15
Adam Sandler - "They're All Gonna Laugh At You"
Sleeping With Sirens - "Madness"
9/25/15
Ajja & Cosmosis - "The Alien Jams: Live at the HR Giger Museum"
Autopsy - "Retribution for the Dead" EP
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - S/T
Action Bronson - "Dr. Lecter"
Dashboard Confessional - "The Swiss Army Romance"
Redd Kross - "Teen Babes From Monsanto"
Bouncing Souls - "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
Hooded Menace/Loss - "A View From The Rope" split 12"
Six Feet Under - "Crypt of the Devil"
Still Remains - "Of Love And Lunacy"
9/26/15
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
9/27/15
Lumpy & The Dumpers - "Total Punk" 7"
Del The Funky Homosapien - "Future Development"
Clutch - S/T
Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey"
Rich Aucion - "Ephemeral"
The Church - "El Momento Descuidado" acoustic album
Hudson Mohawke - "Satin Panthers" EP
Discharge - "Fight Back" EP
Client - "Trap" 8" flexi
Stereomud - "Every Given Moment"
Suffocation - "Pierced From Within"
Secret Machines - S/T
Zero Progress - "Champions of Hardcore"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
9/29/15
Neil Hamburger - "Hot February Night"
Soilwork - "Natural Born Chaos"
Disturbed - "Immortalized"
Crime Desire - "Your Power"
I Am Cassettes - "Believe" digital single
Peace Corpse - "Quincy's Lament" EP
A New Found Glory - "It's All About The Girls" EP
Youth Lagoon - "Savage Hills Ballroom"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"
Dropkick Murphys - "The Meanest of Times"
Cannabis Corpse - "Blunted at Birth"
Echosmith - "Acoustic Dreams" EP
9/30/15
Francesca Lombardi - "Perseidi" 12"
Angry Samoans - "Yesterday Started Tomorrow
Dead Kennedys - "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Dead Kennedys - "In God We Trust, Inc."
Carbon Based Lifeforms - "Interloper"
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T
Lamb Of God - "New American Gospel"
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - "Sour Soul"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Jose Gonzalez, Orgone, Pure, BruceXCampbell, Zotz, The NewNo2, Deceive, Hounds, Ajja, Cosmosis, Hooded Menace, Neil Hamburger, Carbon Based Lifeforms
- I appreciate their importance in the early LA punk scene but I just cannot for the life of me get into The Skulls at all
- Jeez that new Metallica single fucking sucks
- Ironically, my problem with Too Short is that his songs are too damn long
- Worst of the month: The E-Regulars, Nate Ruess, Twenty-One Pilots, I Am Cassettes
- Don't stop living in the red.
- The fact that I listened to entire albums by Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Ja Rule, and Stereomud really shows you how poor my decision-making on the whole has been lately
- God I love Protest The Hero
- New albums by Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, Happy In Hemet, and BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah are all pretty tight
- I didn't really like Cartel back when they were kinda blowing up and now I fucking LOVE them
- I thought Eagles Of Death Metal were gonna be alot doper ; very underwhelming
- Lakeside is without a doubt, indisputably, the dopest pirate/gypsy/other Halloween character-themed RnB band there ever was and I doubt anyone will ever even challenge their title
- "If Nigel says he's happy, he must be happy, he must be happy in his work..."
- That Adam Sandler album is so gratingly bad, how did that begin a media empire?
- Who is Clutch's fanbase? I can't see the appeal at all
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
9/1/15: "RoboCop"
9/2/15: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
9/3/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 4
9/5/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
"Bill Burr: You People Are All The Same"
"World's Greatest Dad"
9/6/15: "Fat Kid Rules The World"
"Trainspotting"
"Jumanji"
"White God"
9/7/15: "Monster Squad"
"Full Metal Jacket"
9/9/15: "Romper Stomper"
9/10/15: FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 3
9/12/15: "Bruce Almighty"
"Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 5
9/14/15: "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World"
9/15/15: "Big Trouble In Little China"
9/16/15: "Time Lapse"
9/18/15: "Dear White People"
9/19/15: "Zathura"
9/20/15: "Moonrise Kingdom"
9/22/15: "Masters Of The Universe"
FINISHED "South Park" Season 18
9/23/15: "Hackers"
9/25/15: "Kung Fu Killer"
9/27/15: "Skin Trade"
9/29/15: "The Road Within"
MOVIE NOTES
- Why did I watch so many movies based on toys this month?
- Neither the new RoboCop nor the new TMNT were nearly as awful as I expected, but that's not necessarily saying they were very good either
- I have my own reservations about how the Edwin documentary has turned out but they're minor and the newest cut especially was really good...Dead Hands Dig Deep.
- Wow "World's Greatest Dad" really is a fucked up movie
- A good friend of mine who's unfortunately addicted to heroin often lists "Trainspotting" as one of his favorite movies and it's just such a horrifying film at times that I cannot understand how it would be appealing to him...But then again one of my favorite movies is "The Lost Weekend", so...
- The ending of "Jumanji" presents a terrifying version of time travel in my opinion and I'm gonna write a gritty reboot based on my observations
- That dog in "White God" is the best actor of the year, I just wonder how they got that out of him its amazing
- "Time Lapse" is a stupid concept with terrible acting and I highly recommend not wasting your time on it
- Despite its somewhat inflammatory title, "Dear White People" has a bit more to do with divisions within black communities...If you're a racist though I'm sure you won't pick up on that
- After watching "Zathura" I was pissed at how much its story was the same as "Jumanji" so I looked up reviews and shit to confirm my outrage and it turns out both are based on books by the same author, which transfers my outrage to him for copying himself to such financial success
- "Moonrise Kingdom" was okay I guess, and I know the following statement is gonna rub some of my good friends the wrong way, but Wes Anderson's style is way too cutesy and twee for me and it seems like all his movies follow a pretty standard "quirky" formula and I could stand not to see another one
- TRIGGER WARNING: I really enjoy the new PC Principal character on "South Park."
- "Hackers" has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of the 1990s and there were a lot of those made in that decade
- "Skin Trade" is like Dolph Lundgren's pet project making him Liam Neeson from "Taken" for all captured sex slaves in Asia
LIVE
9/3/15: Destruction Unit/Gag/White Wards/The Coltranes/Health Problems @ Allen Francis Theatre
9/4/15: Culture Abuse/The Coltranes/Stressors/Drag Me Under/Mohicans @ 924 Gilman St (Resurrect Cali Fest Day 1)
LIVE NOTES
- That was a fun trip. Pies 4 life.
MUSIC
9/1/15
Dan Dyer - "Oh Woman (She The Devil To Me)"
Jose Gonzalez - "Vestiges & Claws"
Autolux - "Future Perfect"
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - S/T
Angry Samoans - "Inside My Brain"
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
Lewd Acts - "Black Eyed Blues"
9/2/15
Big Freedia - "Azz Everywhere" EP
Beastie Boys - "Licensed To Ill"
Children Of Bodom - "Are You Dead Yet?"
Cornershop - "When I Was Born For The 7th Time"
Metallica - "Lords of Summer" digital single
Too Short - "Life Is...Too Short"
Dress Code - S/T EP
9/3/15
Funeral Oration - "Shadowland" EP
9/5/15
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Apathean - "Eve"
The E-Regulars - S/T
9/6/15
Bad Bikini/Black Jugs - "Babies" split EP
Slipknot - "Iowa"
Fool Of Fate - 4-song sampler CD
Orgone - "Strike" b/w "New You" 7"
Discordance Axis - "JouHou"
Discordance Axis/Plutocracy - split 7"
Melt-Banana/Discordance Axis - split 7"
Drowning Pool - "Sinner"
Weezer - "Make Believe"
9/7/15
Nate Ruess - "Grand Romantic"
Matador - "Play With Me"
Downtown Brown - S/T
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - "Upon The Right, I Saw A New Misery"
SFHH - S/T cassette EP
Mole People - S/T cassette
Powerwolves - Demo 2010
Disturbed - "Ten Thousand Fists"
Call The Cops - "Never Underestimate The Kids" demo CD
Fit For Rivals - "Steady Damage"
Van Morrison - "Moondance"
9/8/15
Monolink & Acid Pauli - "The End" 12"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Rebelution - "Courage To Grow"
Duke Dumont - "Ocean Drive" digital single
Story Of The Year - "Page Avenue"
The Vandals - "Peace Thru Vandalism" EP
Pure - "XXX" EP
BruceXCampbell - "Hail To The King" EP
The Nerve Agents - "Days of the White Owl"
9/9/15
All That Remains - "The Fall Of Ideals"
Zotz - S/T 7"
Touche Amore & Self Defense Family - "Self Love" collaborative EP
Ozzy Osbourne - "Memoirs of a Madman" compilation CD
SayWeCanFly - "Between The Roses"
Avail - "Satiate"
The Ramshackle Army - "Letters from the Road Less Traveled"
9/10/15
Opeth - "Your Arms, My Hearse"
Cashmere Cat ft. Adriana Grande - "Adore" digital single
The Ruts - "Something That I Said: The Best Of"
Griever - "Our Love Is Different"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Big D & The Kids Table - "Good Luck"
Suicide Silence - S/T EP
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - "Idi Amin" EP
Rammstein - "Sehnsucht"
A Calmer Day - 2005 Demo CD
Corrosion Of Conformity - "Deliverance"
9/11/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Ja Rule - "Rule 3:36"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness"
The Skank Agents - "Something For Everyone"
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
9/12/15
Light This City - "Facing The Thousand"
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
Avail - "Dixie"
Big Boys - "Where's My Towel?/Industry Standard"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
9/14/15
Take This Hand - "Our Only Hope" EP
9/15/15
Torche - "Meanderthal"
Discordance Axis - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
9/16/15
Avail - "Dixie"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
MATH - "Yumi" digital single
Mac Miller - "GO:OD AM"
The NewNo2 - "You Are Here"
9/17/15
Animosity - "Empires"
Static-X - "Machine"
Incendiary - "Crusade"
Angry Samoans - "Queer Pills" EP
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Green Velvet & Carl Craig - "Unity"
Richie Ramone - "Entitled"
Cartel - "The Ransom"
9/18/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Coyote Kisses - "Acid Wolfpack" EP
Coheed & Cambria - "The Second Stage Turbine Blade"
Twenty-One Pilots - S/T
Tale Of Us - "Another Earth" EP
Glassjaw - "Coloring Book"
Redd Kross - "Born Innocent"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
9/19/15
Fishbone - "Inttrinsically Intertwined"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Happy In Hemet - "Hush"
Autopsy - "Severed Survival"
9/20/15
Deceive - "Arrival of the Dark Masters" EP
Battlecross - "Rise To Power"
The Life We Live - 5-song demo
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Peace, Love, and Death Metal"
Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual"
Osker - "Treatment 5"
Make Do And Men - "Don't Be Long"
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Stick Together - S/T
From Autumn To Ashes - "The Fiction We Live"
9/21/15
The Faction - "Collection 1982-1985"
Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos"
Wisdom In Chains - "The God Rhythm"
Discharge - "Decontrol" EP
Lakeside - "Galactic Grooves: The Best Of"
Rocket From The Crypt - "Scream, Dracula, Scream!"
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles 1977-1992" Disc 1
Thursday - "Full Collapse"
Earth Crisis - "Destroy The Machines"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Tha Dogg Pound with Snoop Dogg - "That's My Work Vol. 5" mixtape
V/A - "F.I.M.P.: Ohio 2"
9/23/15
Hounds - Demo 2015
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Peelander-Z - "Metalander-Z"
Cartel - "Chroma"
David Gilmour - "Rattle That Lock"
Xibalba - S/T
Ben Howard - "I Forget Where We Were"
Angry Samoans - "Back From Samoa"
Davi - "The Gates Of Babylon" b/w "Eclipse" digital single
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Burn The Priest - S/T
Animosity - "Animal"
9/24/15
Adam Sandler - "They're All Gonna Laugh At You"
Sleeping With Sirens - "Madness"
9/25/15
Ajja & Cosmosis - "The Alien Jams: Live at the HR Giger Museum"
Autopsy - "Retribution for the Dead" EP
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - S/T
Action Bronson - "Dr. Lecter"
Dashboard Confessional - "The Swiss Army Romance"
Redd Kross - "Teen Babes From Monsanto"
Bouncing Souls - "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
Hooded Menace/Loss - "A View From The Rope" split 12"
Six Feet Under - "Crypt of the Devil"
Still Remains - "Of Love And Lunacy"
9/26/15
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
9/27/15
Lumpy & The Dumpers - "Total Punk" 7"
Del The Funky Homosapien - "Future Development"
Clutch - S/T
Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey"
Rich Aucion - "Ephemeral"
The Church - "El Momento Descuidado" acoustic album
Hudson Mohawke - "Satin Panthers" EP
Discharge - "Fight Back" EP
Client - "Trap" 8" flexi
Stereomud - "Every Given Moment"
Suffocation - "Pierced From Within"
Secret Machines - S/T
Zero Progress - "Champions of Hardcore"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
9/29/15
Neil Hamburger - "Hot February Night"
Soilwork - "Natural Born Chaos"
Disturbed - "Immortalized"
Crime Desire - "Your Power"
I Am Cassettes - "Believe" digital single
Peace Corpse - "Quincy's Lament" EP
A New Found Glory - "It's All About The Girls" EP
Youth Lagoon - "Savage Hills Ballroom"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"
Dropkick Murphys - "The Meanest of Times"
Cannabis Corpse - "Blunted at Birth"
Echosmith - "Acoustic Dreams" EP
9/30/15
Francesca Lombardi - "Perseidi" 12"
Angry Samoans - "Yesterday Started Tomorrow
Dead Kennedys - "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Dead Kennedys - "In God We Trust, Inc."
Carbon Based Lifeforms - "Interloper"
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T
Lamb Of God - "New American Gospel"
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - "Sour Soul"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Jose Gonzalez, Orgone, Pure, BruceXCampbell, Zotz, The NewNo2, Deceive, Hounds, Ajja, Cosmosis, Hooded Menace, Neil Hamburger, Carbon Based Lifeforms
- I appreciate their importance in the early LA punk scene but I just cannot for the life of me get into The Skulls at all
- Jeez that new Metallica single fucking sucks
- Ironically, my problem with Too Short is that his songs are too damn long
- Worst of the month: The E-Regulars, Nate Ruess, Twenty-One Pilots, I Am Cassettes
- Don't stop living in the red.
- The fact that I listened to entire albums by Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Ja Rule, and Stereomud really shows you how poor my decision-making on the whole has been lately
- God I love Protest The Hero
- New albums by Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, Happy In Hemet, and BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah are all pretty tight
- I didn't really like Cartel back when they were kinda blowing up and now I fucking LOVE them
- I thought Eagles Of Death Metal were gonna be alot doper ; very underwhelming
- Lakeside is without a doubt, indisputably, the dopest pirate/gypsy/other Halloween character-themed RnB band there ever was and I doubt anyone will ever even challenge their title
- "If Nigel says he's happy, he must be happy, he must be happy in his work..."
- That Adam Sandler album is so gratingly bad, how did that begin a media empire?
- Who is Clutch's fanbase? I can't see the appeal at all
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
9/1/15: "RoboCop"
9/2/15: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
9/3/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 4
9/5/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
"Bill Burr: You People Are All The Same"
"World's Greatest Dad"
9/6/15: "Fat Kid Rules The World"
"Trainspotting"
"Jumanji"
"White God"
9/7/15: "Monster Squad"
"Full Metal Jacket"
9/9/15: "Romper Stomper"
9/10/15: FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 3
9/12/15: "Bruce Almighty"
"Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 5
9/14/15: "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World"
9/15/15: "Big Trouble In Little China"
9/16/15: "Time Lapse"
9/18/15: "Dear White People"
9/19/15: "Zathura"
9/20/15: "Moonrise Kingdom"
9/22/15: "Masters Of The Universe"
FINISHED "South Park" Season 18
9/23/15: "Hackers"
9/25/15: "Kung Fu Killer"
9/27/15: "Skin Trade"
9/29/15: "The Road Within"
MOVIE NOTES
- Why did I watch so many movies based on toys this month?
- Neither the new RoboCop nor the new TMNT were nearly as awful as I expected, but that's not necessarily saying they were very good either
- I have my own reservations about how the Edwin documentary has turned out but they're minor and the newest cut especially was really good...Dead Hands Dig Deep.
- Wow "World's Greatest Dad" really is a fucked up movie
- A good friend of mine who's unfortunately addicted to heroin often lists "Trainspotting" as one of his favorite movies and it's just such a horrifying film at times that I cannot understand how it would be appealing to him...But then again one of my favorite movies is "The Lost Weekend", so...
- The ending of "Jumanji" presents a terrifying version of time travel in my opinion and I'm gonna write a gritty reboot based on my observations
- That dog in "White God" is the best actor of the year, I just wonder how they got that out of him its amazing
- "Time Lapse" is a stupid concept with terrible acting and I highly recommend not wasting your time on it
- Despite its somewhat inflammatory title, "Dear White People" has a bit more to do with divisions within black communities...If you're a racist though I'm sure you won't pick up on that
- After watching "Zathura" I was pissed at how much its story was the same as "Jumanji" so I looked up reviews and shit to confirm my outrage and it turns out both are based on books by the same author, which transfers my outrage to him for copying himself to such financial success
- "Moonrise Kingdom" was okay I guess, and I know the following statement is gonna rub some of my good friends the wrong way, but Wes Anderson's style is way too cutesy and twee for me and it seems like all his movies follow a pretty standard "quirky" formula and I could stand not to see another one
- TRIGGER WARNING: I really enjoy the new PC Principal character on "South Park."
- "Hackers" has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of the 1990s and there were a lot of those made in that decade
- "Skin Trade" is like Dolph Lundgren's pet project making him Liam Neeson from "Taken" for all captured sex slaves in Asia
LIVE
9/3/15: Destruction Unit/Gag/White Wards/The Coltranes/Health Problems @ Allen Francis Theatre
9/4/15: Culture Abuse/The Coltranes/Stressors/Drag Me Under/Mohicans @ 924 Gilman St (Resurrect Cali Fest Day 1)
LIVE NOTES
- That was a fun trip. Pies 4 life.
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