This is a hard trance album released in 2004 by Japenese DJ Yoji. I downloaded it midway through college when I was getting into rave stuff and he was headlining an event so I listened to this on the way home to Temecula one weekend and I think that was the last time I ever listened to it. It's just one hour-plus track of very repetitive non-progressive trance beats that for me alone in my car doing nothing but driving was straight-up taxing to finish. The CD came up in my pile this morning so I put it on and while I still find it very repetitive and overlong, it works pretty good as mindless background to do stuff around the apartment to. Unlike lyric-based music or metal bands where I'm trying to pay attention to riffs and shit sometimes, this is so intrinsically mindless that its perfect for just walking around and doing shit. I shaved, finished a chapter in the book I'm reading, put some stuff away, got dressed, made my bed, made my breakfast, and wrote this little article while listening to it, whereas usually I'll get like one activity done per album or EP because I'm concerned with what the next song is or what I need to put on afterwards. (I have kinda a weird complex when it comes to my listening habits and this isn't the time nor the place to go into it.)
Anyway, I'm not really recommending this album except to people already into early-2000s trance or people who don't mind almost aggressive repetition.
If you've ever played "Geometry Wars," think of the soundtrack for that and imagine it going for over an hour with no game to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxljFEBo7k
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
INTERVIEW: Drag Me Under, September 4th 2015
This interview was conducted in between bands at Resurrect Cali Fest at 924 Gilman Sep. 4 2015
It was done in 2 parts; The first part is with the bassist and vocalist and the second part is just with the vocalist concerning a DIY venue in Reno. Enjoy.
IAN: Alright this is Ian, I'm just talking with Drag Me Under here, what are your guys's names?
JEREMY: My name is Jeremy, I play bass
MAURICE: I'm Maurice and I do vocals.
I: Word. So I had never seen you guy or really even heard of you guys much before this show; where are you guys from?
M: Reno, NV; just right over the hill
I: I've heard it's kinda violent out there
M: No...
J: Not really but it lingers, like the idea lingers; a lot of bands avoid going there because they think it's just like a beatdown town
M: We understand where the reputation comes from.
J: When we were younger it was definitely kinda a beatdown scene, we've kinda been working our way out of that, it's more positive, I don't know, it's very community-oriented now
I: Well that's where 7 Seconds is from
M: Yeah, 7 Seconds are the old-timers
I: Okay so you guys have a couple different records here, and you were talking about you have a new album you're gonna be putting out soon, is that gonna be on a label or are you doing that yourself?
J: Yeah, Panda Claw Records
M: Yeah, just got the masters today to check it out and verify; I have no idea how long the pressing plant will take for vinyl so we're probably gonna release it digitally before the physical copies, and then we have a 2 week tour in October; we'd like to get it out before then.
I: Always a good idea...what's the new album called?
M: "Moonripper"
[Both Jeremy and Maurice laugh]
I: Word, so are you guys on tour or did you just come out for the show?
M: Pretty much just for the show
J: Yeah we'll be out here all weekend
I: Cool, how's you're take on things [at the show tonight], how are you doing?
J: Doing great
M: Yeah this is awesome
I: So from here are you guys going home, or what are you doing?
M: We're going back home and we're playing with a band called No Future; they played at the show last night, the pre-show thing...We have a show set up with them in Reno on Monday. We're gonna be hanging out here and then going to do that, but you know, there's a few shows coming up.
I: Final word here: everybody's different, everybody has a different answer,: what's your favorite breakfast food?
J: Favorite breakfast food? I really enjoy pancakes or waffles
I: Okay more on the bread end, carbs
M: Yeah. Carbs.
J: Anything that makes me wanna go RIGHT back to sleep. That's what I want, you know?
I: Totally. Well thanks for talking with me and have a good one!
M: Awesome, thanks!
PART 2
IAN: Okay, we're restarting the interview here, we were just talking...so you have a basement venue out there in Reno? That's been going on for quite a while?
MAURICE: Yeah, we have a place called Fort Ryland in Reno that's been going for about 15 years; it took a break for a little bit but we've had some solid bands [come through]. We've had Backtrack play there, Cancer Bats played there.
I: O, those are fairly big bands
M: Yeah, we managed to get those bands. We realized awhile ago that it's the longest-running venue in Reno right now and what kinda kept it going was the people who have lived there, who know what they're getting themselves into, they know they're moving into a show house, they know there's some kind of, some sort of responsibility that comes along with that.
I: Totally...so have there been people come in-and-out or is there like, a core group?
M: For awhile there was like a core group of people and they have all since left, so it's been more or less a revolving door lately, but everyone gets the same talk: like, hey, this isn't a party house, you know? For the most part, when shows are going on they do their best to make sure no one's drinking outside...it got shut down awhile ago because things got out of hand.
I: People stopped caring?
M: Yeah, and so the cops came a bunch, shut it down, and then somebody else moved in, cleaned it up, and the cops would do the same thing. They'd come and just go through the house, literally walking through the whole house, and then realize that no one's drinking, no one's even smoking a cigarette. I mean for awhile everyone who lived there was straight edge and they would just leave. So it was like, alright, cut it off around 10 or 10:30 and fortunately no one's ever gotten seriously hurt or anything [during a show]...that's always a concern.
I: Yeah that's how it was at The Dial for little bit...So are you still going strong?
M: Yeah, still going strong, we're gonna be playing there Monday with No Future from Washington. That's where me and Jeremy, the bassist from Drag Me Under, whenever we book bands we just book it there. It's easier for us, the house doesn't take anything from the door, all the money goes to the bands.
I: O thats's what's up, so they all just pay their own rent?
M: They all pay their rent, they pay the electric bill, there's something like 7 people who live there so it's split up between them. The cost of living in Reno is not very high, so they can afford it. Trust me, it's not that bad.
I: Hey that's awesome...I just wanted to get a little 'scene report' real quick, awesome set tonight Maurice, thank you!
M: You're welcome!
http://dragmeunder.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dragmeunder/?fref=ts
It was done in 2 parts; The first part is with the bassist and vocalist and the second part is just with the vocalist concerning a DIY venue in Reno. Enjoy.
IAN: Alright this is Ian, I'm just talking with Drag Me Under here, what are your guys's names?
JEREMY: My name is Jeremy, I play bass
MAURICE: I'm Maurice and I do vocals.
I: Word. So I had never seen you guy or really even heard of you guys much before this show; where are you guys from?
M: Reno, NV; just right over the hill
I: I've heard it's kinda violent out there
M: No...
J: Not really but it lingers, like the idea lingers; a lot of bands avoid going there because they think it's just like a beatdown town
M: We understand where the reputation comes from.
J: When we were younger it was definitely kinda a beatdown scene, we've kinda been working our way out of that, it's more positive, I don't know, it's very community-oriented now
I: Well that's where 7 Seconds is from
M: Yeah, 7 Seconds are the old-timers
I: Okay so you guys have a couple different records here, and you were talking about you have a new album you're gonna be putting out soon, is that gonna be on a label or are you doing that yourself?
J: Yeah, Panda Claw Records
M: Yeah, just got the masters today to check it out and verify; I have no idea how long the pressing plant will take for vinyl so we're probably gonna release it digitally before the physical copies, and then we have a 2 week tour in October; we'd like to get it out before then.
I: Always a good idea...what's the new album called?
M: "Moonripper"
[Both Jeremy and Maurice laugh]
I: Word, so are you guys on tour or did you just come out for the show?
M: Pretty much just for the show
J: Yeah we'll be out here all weekend
I: Cool, how's you're take on things [at the show tonight], how are you doing?
J: Doing great
M: Yeah this is awesome
I: So from here are you guys going home, or what are you doing?
M: We're going back home and we're playing with a band called No Future; they played at the show last night, the pre-show thing...We have a show set up with them in Reno on Monday. We're gonna be hanging out here and then going to do that, but you know, there's a few shows coming up.
I: Final word here: everybody's different, everybody has a different answer,: what's your favorite breakfast food?
J: Favorite breakfast food? I really enjoy pancakes or waffles
I: Okay more on the bread end, carbs
M: Yeah. Carbs.
J: Anything that makes me wanna go RIGHT back to sleep. That's what I want, you know?
I: Totally. Well thanks for talking with me and have a good one!
M: Awesome, thanks!
PART 2
IAN: Okay, we're restarting the interview here, we were just talking...so you have a basement venue out there in Reno? That's been going on for quite a while?
MAURICE: Yeah, we have a place called Fort Ryland in Reno that's been going for about 15 years; it took a break for a little bit but we've had some solid bands [come through]. We've had Backtrack play there, Cancer Bats played there.
I: O, those are fairly big bands
M: Yeah, we managed to get those bands. We realized awhile ago that it's the longest-running venue in Reno right now and what kinda kept it going was the people who have lived there, who know what they're getting themselves into, they know they're moving into a show house, they know there's some kind of, some sort of responsibility that comes along with that.
I: Totally...so have there been people come in-and-out or is there like, a core group?
M: For awhile there was like a core group of people and they have all since left, so it's been more or less a revolving door lately, but everyone gets the same talk: like, hey, this isn't a party house, you know? For the most part, when shows are going on they do their best to make sure no one's drinking outside...it got shut down awhile ago because things got out of hand.
I: People stopped caring?
M: Yeah, and so the cops came a bunch, shut it down, and then somebody else moved in, cleaned it up, and the cops would do the same thing. They'd come and just go through the house, literally walking through the whole house, and then realize that no one's drinking, no one's even smoking a cigarette. I mean for awhile everyone who lived there was straight edge and they would just leave. So it was like, alright, cut it off around 10 or 10:30 and fortunately no one's ever gotten seriously hurt or anything [during a show]...that's always a concern.
I: Yeah that's how it was at The Dial for little bit...So are you still going strong?
M: Yeah, still going strong, we're gonna be playing there Monday with No Future from Washington. That's where me and Jeremy, the bassist from Drag Me Under, whenever we book bands we just book it there. It's easier for us, the house doesn't take anything from the door, all the money goes to the bands.
I: O thats's what's up, so they all just pay their own rent?
M: They all pay their rent, they pay the electric bill, there's something like 7 people who live there so it's split up between them. The cost of living in Reno is not very high, so they can afford it. Trust me, it's not that bad.
I: Hey that's awesome...I just wanted to get a little 'scene report' real quick, awesome set tonight Maurice, thank you!
M: You're welcome!
http://dragmeunder.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dragmeunder/?fref=ts
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Crackhead Josh's Attempted Apology
This is a true story that I understand some people may not relate to, but not everything is cut-and-dry.
I started smoking weed during the summer between middle school and high school. The cool (looking back, totally obvious) place to go and find it was Nicholas Park, about 10 minutes walking distance from my old house. My nextdoor neighbor at the time, Marky, and I would do down there and be fake hoodlums; along the way I met many unsavory yet unconvincing characters that I will remit from describing here. The one who has remained somewhat important, however, is a ne'erdowell who was colloquially known as Crackhead Josh.
A lot of the people at the park didn't like him, and still, disregarding the tale I'm about to tell, I don't entirely understand why. From what I remember, he always has dank weed and gave people more than what they had paid for. He was a much more transparent weed guy than those other guys. Maybe that's what generated the animosity; or else it was something I was just not privy to.
About his moniker: I never gave two thoughts to it. I didn't understand real drugs, I still pretty much don't, and I think it was just spitefully derogatory. Did he do crack? I don't know. But he was nice and was into both cool underground hip hop and cool underground metal. He smoked me out many times. He fronted me weed when I didn't have cash. I trusted him.
One time at the end of the summer, I walked down to the park to get a 10-sack. He came by on his bike to get my money and said he'd be right back.
Like he always had been.
That was the last time I ever saw Crackhead Josh.
I sat there at the park table for hours, not accepting that he would do this to me. Part of my mind eve started to worry about him, like, did something happen on his bike ride? No way is he fucking me over for the only $10 I had...
Eventually I accepted the reality that I had been had, and by somebody I had befriended when no one would. As I walked home I was angry, but more than that I felt betrayed and hurt. I felt disillusioned.
Weed is that important to me.
A week or so later I was hanging out at Marky's house nextdoor to my own when there was a knock on the door, which another friend Allan answered instead of Marky for whatever reason. He came back to the room and said "Ian, that weird guy from the park is here, he says he wants to say sorry or something,"
and looking back I wish I had just gone downstairs.
Sometimes when I feel personally affronted like that, my heart dies and I become almost vindictively cold, and when I heard it was him, I could feel my face fold into a scowl and told Allan "tell him to go away. I don't want to hear from him or talk to him."
We went back to playing "Tony Hawk Pro Skater" or whatever the fuck we were doing and I didn't think anything more about it.
The next day at school there was hella traffic and it was because part of the road was sectioned off because somebody had gotten hit by a car on Winchester just in front of the school. This wasn't the first time this had happened; a kid got killed by an elderly guy who didn't understand brakes anymore I guess, and a similar thing happened to the older brother of a guy I used to know, who shall remain nameless because we're not really cool anymore. So although it always sucks to hear that someone has died, it was almost an expected explanation for the traffic when we learned it.
It wasn't until after school that I learned what you, the reader, may have already predicted: it was Crackhead Josh who had been hit, and it wasn't just a car, he got mowed down by a semi. Apparently he was riding his bike in the middle of Winchester, swerving in between lanes in black clothing and with no reflectors.
I didn't know how to feel and I still kinda don't know how to feel.
His death was not my fault. He's the one who fucked me over. I was his only friend. He made his own decisions and he is responsible for his own life.
I was his only friend. It was only $10.
To this day, some part of my mind still asks, "what if?" What if I had just gone to the door and heard his apology? What if he just wanted to make things right, and I told him no, and now he feels forever condemned? What if we had just smoked a bowl together and then he just went home?
What if?
Again, I know that his actions are his own and I'm not in the wrong about anything. He was a fucking crackhead and he stole my money.
But still,
Dead Hands Dig Deep....
I started smoking weed during the summer between middle school and high school. The cool (looking back, totally obvious) place to go and find it was Nicholas Park, about 10 minutes walking distance from my old house. My nextdoor neighbor at the time, Marky, and I would do down there and be fake hoodlums; along the way I met many unsavory yet unconvincing characters that I will remit from describing here. The one who has remained somewhat important, however, is a ne'erdowell who was colloquially known as Crackhead Josh.
A lot of the people at the park didn't like him, and still, disregarding the tale I'm about to tell, I don't entirely understand why. From what I remember, he always has dank weed and gave people more than what they had paid for. He was a much more transparent weed guy than those other guys. Maybe that's what generated the animosity; or else it was something I was just not privy to.
About his moniker: I never gave two thoughts to it. I didn't understand real drugs, I still pretty much don't, and I think it was just spitefully derogatory. Did he do crack? I don't know. But he was nice and was into both cool underground hip hop and cool underground metal. He smoked me out many times. He fronted me weed when I didn't have cash. I trusted him.
One time at the end of the summer, I walked down to the park to get a 10-sack. He came by on his bike to get my money and said he'd be right back.
Like he always had been.
That was the last time I ever saw Crackhead Josh.
I sat there at the park table for hours, not accepting that he would do this to me. Part of my mind eve started to worry about him, like, did something happen on his bike ride? No way is he fucking me over for the only $10 I had...
Eventually I accepted the reality that I had been had, and by somebody I had befriended when no one would. As I walked home I was angry, but more than that I felt betrayed and hurt. I felt disillusioned.
Weed is that important to me.
A week or so later I was hanging out at Marky's house nextdoor to my own when there was a knock on the door, which another friend Allan answered instead of Marky for whatever reason. He came back to the room and said "Ian, that weird guy from the park is here, he says he wants to say sorry or something,"
and looking back I wish I had just gone downstairs.
Sometimes when I feel personally affronted like that, my heart dies and I become almost vindictively cold, and when I heard it was him, I could feel my face fold into a scowl and told Allan "tell him to go away. I don't want to hear from him or talk to him."
We went back to playing "Tony Hawk Pro Skater" or whatever the fuck we were doing and I didn't think anything more about it.
The next day at school there was hella traffic and it was because part of the road was sectioned off because somebody had gotten hit by a car on Winchester just in front of the school. This wasn't the first time this had happened; a kid got killed by an elderly guy who didn't understand brakes anymore I guess, and a similar thing happened to the older brother of a guy I used to know, who shall remain nameless because we're not really cool anymore. So although it always sucks to hear that someone has died, it was almost an expected explanation for the traffic when we learned it.
It wasn't until after school that I learned what you, the reader, may have already predicted: it was Crackhead Josh who had been hit, and it wasn't just a car, he got mowed down by a semi. Apparently he was riding his bike in the middle of Winchester, swerving in between lanes in black clothing and with no reflectors.
I didn't know how to feel and I still kinda don't know how to feel.
His death was not my fault. He's the one who fucked me over. I was his only friend. He made his own decisions and he is responsible for his own life.
I was his only friend. It was only $10.
To this day, some part of my mind still asks, "what if?" What if I had just gone to the door and heard his apology? What if he just wanted to make things right, and I told him no, and now he feels forever condemned? What if we had just smoked a bowl together and then he just went home?
What if?
Again, I know that his actions are his own and I'm not in the wrong about anything. He was a fucking crackhead and he stole my money.
But still,
Dead Hands Dig Deep....
Monday, December 7, 2015
Playlist for November 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of November 2015, followed by lists of stuff I watched or saw live afterwards. Notes regarding all are included. Enjoy.
MUSIC
11/1/15
Burn - S/T EP
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Legend" compilation CD
Tidemouth - "Velvet and Stone"
Execute - S/T EP
11/2/15
Rotting Corpse - "Genesis"
Yeasayer - "All Hour Cymbals"
Anti-Flag - "A New Kind Of Army"
Green Day - "Insomniac"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Throwdown - "Sellout" EP
G.L.O.S.S. - "We're From The Future" demo
11/3/15
The Roots - "Game Theory"
Frank Zappa - "Waka/Jawaka"
Beneath The Massacre - "Mechanics of Dysfunction"
Rammstein - 1994 Demos
Jozif - "Waikiki Pt. 2" 12"
11/4/15
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - "Black Messiah"
Herbie Hancock - "Death Wish" OST
N.W.A. - "N.W.A. and Their Family" compilation CD
The Album Leaf - "In A Safe Place"
11/5/15
Lyrica Anderson ft. Wiz Khalifa - "Sex You Up" digital single
Mob 47 - Live at Ultrahuset
Asobi Seksu - "Citrus"
Beloved - "The Running" EP
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - "So Familiar"
Hawthorne Heights - "The Silence In Black And White"
Kids In Heat - "High Energy, Low Income"
Lostprophets - "Start Something"
Suffocation - "Blood Oath"
Frank Zappa - "The Great Wazoo"
KoRn - S/T
Bloody Roar - 2009 demo CD
Band Aparte - "Enter" demos
11/6/15
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 1
Primus - "Tales From The Punchbowl"
A Life Once Lost - "Iron Gag"
Samhain - "Initium"
The Undertones - "An Anthology" Disc 2
PJ Harvey - "To Bring You My Love"
Dungen - "Tio Bitar"
Limp Bizkit - "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water"
Anti-Flag - "Underground Network"
Throwdown - "Drive Me Dead" EP
11/7/15
Baths - "Ocean Death" EP
Residual Echoes - S/T
Ghosts On The Radio - "Standing On Clovers"
Mark Henning - "Sunday Slide" EP
Strawberry Girls - "Italian Ghosts"
American Wrestlers - S/T EP
SinStorm - "Dreaming of Madness" demo
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst - "Recruit" digital single
Pharell Williams - "Freedom" digital single
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow"
Fang - "Landshark!" EP
11/8/15
New Gods - "What Did I Say?" EP
CoolSide - "Be Cool" EP
All Your Sisters - September 2012 Demos
Pain Of Salvation - "Remedy Lane"
Mini Mansions - "Death is a Girl" b/w "Sherlock Holmes" 7"
Mob 47 - S/T EP
Violent Children - S/T EP
Decrepit Birth - "...And Time Begins"
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - "Malice"
Xpulsion - "Collective Evil" digital demo
Neos - "Hassibah Gets The Martians" EP
Wolfpack - "Hellhound Warpig" EP
The Beta Factor - "Communication"
Shady Characters - "Thank You (Nikol)" digital single
Embrace - S/T
Mustard Plug - "Pray For Mojo"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
11/9/15
Arsis - "A Celebration Of Guilt"
Tim McGraw - "Damn Country Music"
Gogol Bordello - "Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony"
Samhain - "Unholy Passion" EP
The Offspring - "Smash"
Nudes - "Stain" EP
Dance Gavin Dance - "Downtown Battle Mountain"
NOFX - "S&M Airlines"
Madeon - "Adventure"
Death - "Politicians in My Eyes" b/w "Keep On Knockin'" 7"
Travis Scott - "Rodeo"
Throwdown - "Face The Mirror"
The Victoriana - "Ornamental (Marchesa)" digital single
Frustrated - "Losing Grip" EP
Replica - "Beast" EP
11/10/15
Vision Of Disorder - "Imprint"
Singled Out - "New Vision" EP
Dungen - "4"
Steak Number Eight - "Kosmokoma"
Violent Children - "Rock Against Spindles" cassette
DamagePlan - "New Found Power"
11/11/15
Inked In Blood - "Lay Waste The Poets"
After The Burial - "Forging a Future Self"
Twin Brother - "Best Frenzy"
The Toasters - "Skaboom!"
David Bowie - "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
Dogs - "The Ongoing LP"
Before You Fled - "Forever Ends Today" EP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situation" split EP
11/12/15
ROSE rose - "From Born Till Die" EP
Wolfpack - "Lycanthro Punk"
King Diamond - "Dreams of Horror" compilation Disc 2
Napalm Death - "Scum"
Freak Heat Waves - "Bennie's State Of Mind"
A Lot Like Waves - "Conversation Piece"
The Waterboys - "Modern Blues"
Loop - "Array 1" 12"
Dej Loaf - "#andseethatsthething" EP
Holy Pinto - "Stenography" EP
Rebirth Of Paradise - demo CD
Samhain - "November Coming Fire"
NOFX - "Ribbed"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
Alaska - "Shrine"
11/13/15
Snow Roller/Sioux Falls - "Fadeaway" split EP
Save The Swim Team - "Brothers" digital single
Mandarin Dynasty - "Feedback Time"
Gogol Bordello - "East Infection" EP
A Crowd Of Small Adventures - "Blood" EP
Arsis - "A Diamond For Disease" EP
Logic - "The Incredible True Story"
Foo Fighters - "One By One"
Curses - "Song To Keep Cold By"
KoRn - "Take A Look In The Mirror"
V/A - "Spring Really Sucks"
Inked In Blood - "Sometimes We Are Beautiful"
11/4/15
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
Raein - "Sulla Linea Tra Questa Mia Vita E Quella Di Tutti"
Led Zeppelin - "III"
Matchbook Romance - "Stories and Alibis"
Dark Funeral - "The Secrets of the Black Arts"
Vices - "The Dealer" digital single
Against Me! - "Reinventing Axl Rose"
Green Day - "American Idiot"
Lye By Mistake - "Arrangements for Fulminating Vective"
Sixx:A.M. - "Modern Vintage"
11/15/15
Symphony X - "Paradise Lost"
V/A - Relapse Records sampler 2015
11/16/15
Slaves - "Through Art We Are All Equal"
Fall Out Boy - "American Beauty/American Psycho"
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Are A Drag"
Ought - "Sun Coming Down"
Logic - "Under Pressure"
Save The Swim Team - "Chop Suey" digital single
Wolfpack - "Allday Hell"
Woozy - "Blistered"
Cool American - "Synapses//Whatever" EP
Still Alive - "United By Defiance" EP
David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane"
R. Ariel - "Changer"
Propagandhi - "How To Clean Everything"
11/17/15
Rhapsody - "Power of the Dragonflame"
Fleshgod Apocalypse - "Mafia" EP
Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life" Disc 2
Ghost Noise - "Farther and Fainter" digital single
The Mumlers - "Don't Throw Me Away"
sandlot - "not okay" digital single
Public Image Ltd. - "Metal Box"
Theatre Of Tragedy - S/T
11/18/15
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Era Vulgaris"
Redlight - "X Colour"
Ratatat - S/T
Megadeth - "The System Has Failed"
Morgue Toad - "Buzzing Vibrations"
Children Of Bodom - "Hate Crew Deathroll"
Napalm Death - "From Enslavement To Obliteration"
88 Fingers Louie - "Behind Bars"
Four Year Strong - "Rise Or Die Trying"
11/19/15
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Dark Funeral - "Vobiscum Satanas"
Faith No More - "Album Of The Year"
Deicide - S/T
The Gravitys - May 2011 Demo
Gorguts - "The Erosion Of Sanity"
The Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
Volbeat - "Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood"
11/20/15
Death On Wednesday - "Buying The Lie"
Strawberry Girls - "French Ghetto"
11/21/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Miguel - "Wildheart"
The Mad "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Blanck Mass - "Dumb Flesh"
Cursive/Eastern Youth - "8 Teeth To Eat" split EP
11/22/15
Ty Dolla Sign - "Airplane Mode" mixtape
FOGOF - "Zygote" EP
Misery Ritual - "A Victory Over Suffering"
Children Of Bodom - "Hatebreeder"
Culture Abuse - "The Day Dreams Of Nothing" EP
Fist Benders - S/T EP
Sioux Falls - "Lights Off For Danger"
The Hound - "The Recovery" EP
Rats In The Walls - "Discarriage" EP
Helsott - "Woven"
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Ty Segall Band - "Slaughterhouse"
Carach Angren - "This Is No Fairy Tale"
Band Aparte - "Enter" demos
11/23/15
Disturbed - "Indestructible"
RX Bandits - "Progress"
W.A.S.P. - "The Best Of The Best: 1984-2000 Vol. 1"
11/24/15
Rotting Out - "Reckoning" EP
Alligatoah - "In Gottes Name"
Survay Says! - "Observations of the Human Condition"
Christopher Lawrence ft. Fergie & Sadrian - "Buenas Aires" EP
Ancient Rites - "Laguz"
Drag Me Under - "Moon Ripper"
D-Styles - "Phantazmagoria"
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 2
11/25/15
Carnivores - "Insecurior" digital single
Death - "Human"
Foo Fighters - "Saint Cecilia" EP
Descendents - "Enjoy!"
30 Seconds To Mars - "A Beautiful Lie"
11/26/15
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
11/27/15
Despised Icon - "The Ills Of Modern Man"
V/A - "Freedom" themovement.org compilation CD
Voivod - "Dimension Hatross"
11/28/15
Faith No More - "Angel Dust"
Therefore I Am - "The Sound Of Human Lives"
V/A - "This Is Lemon Grove"
11/30/15
100 Demons - S/T
Van Halen - "II"
The Whyioughtas - "The First Year"
Iced Earth - "The Dark Saga"
[no one is innocent] - "Propaganda"
Okilly Dokilly - "Okilly Demos"
Dance Gavin Dance - "Acceptance Speech"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: G.L.O.S.S., Asobi Seksu, Baths, Strawberry Girls, Alaska, Snow Roller, Sioux Falls, Logic, Curses, Raein, every single band on the new Relapse Records sampler, Miguel, Carach Angren, D-Styles
- "It's been a Long Time"
- Don't worry, I threw that Lostprophets CD in the trash after I read their Wikipedia page...also because of the shitty music
- Wow Limp Bizkit is even worse than I had remembered
- God Pharell sucks
- "Death is a Girl"
- That Tim McGraw album actually isn't completely terrible
- Inked In Blood was underrated
- Is there Life On Mars?
- Multinational corporations = Genocide of the starving nations
- New releases from Dogs, The Waterboys, Alaska, Miguel, Fist Benders are all solid
- Dude I liked that one Fall Out Boy album but this new shit is like, intolerable
- I thought Miguel was gonna be like Drake but he's more like Prince
- That Carach Angren album is so over-the-top ridiculous that its badass
- The future is shining upon you.
- Danny, you can tell me, and I'll still be your friend.
- The concept of Okilly Dokilly is doper than the actual band is
ZINES/PAMPHLETS
11/4/15: FINISHED: "Refuge in an Urbanizing Land = The Santa Margarita River: Cultural and Natural Resource" pamphlet
11/12/15: FINISHED: PM Press Catalog 2014-2015
11/13/15: "Inside Temecula" 2015 semi-annual newsletter
MOVIES/SHOWS
11/7/15: "Sling Blade"
11/16/15: "Blackfish"
11/27/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
11/28/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
MOVIE/SHOW NOTES
- "Sling Blade" was at once more fucked up and less fucked up than I had expected
- Dang "Blackfish" is fucking depressing
- The documentary about Edwin Borsheim and Kettle Cadaver that my brother Spencer Heath and his boy Jai Love having been working on for the last year (and that I'm interviewed in) will be debuting at Slamdance Festival in Utah in January. Dead Hands Dig Deep.
LIVE
11/21/15: Odd Advantage/Zoccola/Richard Friend/The Heathens @ The Wheelhouse Bar
11/23/15: Alaska/Woozy/Fist Benders @ The Dial
11/27/15: Vanderhuge/[The Gravitys]/FOGOF/The Loneliest Mountain @ The Dial
LIVE NOTES
- Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Java, Patty, Shane, and everybody at The Dial for helping me withj my \_/ set, that was a great time...Good Will To Mankind.
MUSIC
11/1/15
Burn - S/T EP
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Legend" compilation CD
Tidemouth - "Velvet and Stone"
Execute - S/T EP
11/2/15
Rotting Corpse - "Genesis"
Yeasayer - "All Hour Cymbals"
Anti-Flag - "A New Kind Of Army"
Green Day - "Insomniac"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Throwdown - "Sellout" EP
G.L.O.S.S. - "We're From The Future" demo
11/3/15
The Roots - "Game Theory"
Frank Zappa - "Waka/Jawaka"
Beneath The Massacre - "Mechanics of Dysfunction"
Rammstein - 1994 Demos
Jozif - "Waikiki Pt. 2" 12"
11/4/15
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - "Black Messiah"
Herbie Hancock - "Death Wish" OST
N.W.A. - "N.W.A. and Their Family" compilation CD
The Album Leaf - "In A Safe Place"
11/5/15
Lyrica Anderson ft. Wiz Khalifa - "Sex You Up" digital single
Mob 47 - Live at Ultrahuset
Asobi Seksu - "Citrus"
Beloved - "The Running" EP
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - "So Familiar"
Hawthorne Heights - "The Silence In Black And White"
Kids In Heat - "High Energy, Low Income"
Lostprophets - "Start Something"
Suffocation - "Blood Oath"
Frank Zappa - "The Great Wazoo"
KoRn - S/T
Bloody Roar - 2009 demo CD
Band Aparte - "Enter" demos
11/6/15
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 1
Primus - "Tales From The Punchbowl"
A Life Once Lost - "Iron Gag"
Samhain - "Initium"
The Undertones - "An Anthology" Disc 2
PJ Harvey - "To Bring You My Love"
Dungen - "Tio Bitar"
Limp Bizkit - "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water"
Anti-Flag - "Underground Network"
Throwdown - "Drive Me Dead" EP
11/7/15
Baths - "Ocean Death" EP
Residual Echoes - S/T
Ghosts On The Radio - "Standing On Clovers"
Mark Henning - "Sunday Slide" EP
Strawberry Girls - "Italian Ghosts"
American Wrestlers - S/T EP
SinStorm - "Dreaming of Madness" demo
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst - "Recruit" digital single
Pharell Williams - "Freedom" digital single
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow"
Fang - "Landshark!" EP
11/8/15
New Gods - "What Did I Say?" EP
CoolSide - "Be Cool" EP
All Your Sisters - September 2012 Demos
Pain Of Salvation - "Remedy Lane"
Mini Mansions - "Death is a Girl" b/w "Sherlock Holmes" 7"
Mob 47 - S/T EP
Violent Children - S/T EP
Decrepit Birth - "...And Time Begins"
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - "Malice"
Xpulsion - "Collective Evil" digital demo
Neos - "Hassibah Gets The Martians" EP
Wolfpack - "Hellhound Warpig" EP
The Beta Factor - "Communication"
Shady Characters - "Thank You (Nikol)" digital single
Embrace - S/T
Mustard Plug - "Pray For Mojo"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
11/9/15
Arsis - "A Celebration Of Guilt"
Tim McGraw - "Damn Country Music"
Gogol Bordello - "Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony"
Samhain - "Unholy Passion" EP
The Offspring - "Smash"
Nudes - "Stain" EP
Dance Gavin Dance - "Downtown Battle Mountain"
NOFX - "S&M Airlines"
Madeon - "Adventure"
Death - "Politicians in My Eyes" b/w "Keep On Knockin'" 7"
Travis Scott - "Rodeo"
Throwdown - "Face The Mirror"
The Victoriana - "Ornamental (Marchesa)" digital single
Frustrated - "Losing Grip" EP
Replica - "Beast" EP
11/10/15
Vision Of Disorder - "Imprint"
Singled Out - "New Vision" EP
Dungen - "4"
Steak Number Eight - "Kosmokoma"
Violent Children - "Rock Against Spindles" cassette
DamagePlan - "New Found Power"
11/11/15
Inked In Blood - "Lay Waste The Poets"
After The Burial - "Forging a Future Self"
Twin Brother - "Best Frenzy"
The Toasters - "Skaboom!"
David Bowie - "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
Dogs - "The Ongoing LP"
Before You Fled - "Forever Ends Today" EP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situation" split EP
11/12/15
ROSE rose - "From Born Till Die" EP
Wolfpack - "Lycanthro Punk"
King Diamond - "Dreams of Horror" compilation Disc 2
Napalm Death - "Scum"
Freak Heat Waves - "Bennie's State Of Mind"
A Lot Like Waves - "Conversation Piece"
The Waterboys - "Modern Blues"
Loop - "Array 1" 12"
Dej Loaf - "#andseethatsthething" EP
Holy Pinto - "Stenography" EP
Rebirth Of Paradise - demo CD
Samhain - "November Coming Fire"
NOFX - "Ribbed"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
Alaska - "Shrine"
11/13/15
Snow Roller/Sioux Falls - "Fadeaway" split EP
Save The Swim Team - "Brothers" digital single
Mandarin Dynasty - "Feedback Time"
Gogol Bordello - "East Infection" EP
A Crowd Of Small Adventures - "Blood" EP
Arsis - "A Diamond For Disease" EP
Logic - "The Incredible True Story"
Foo Fighters - "One By One"
Curses - "Song To Keep Cold By"
KoRn - "Take A Look In The Mirror"
V/A - "Spring Really Sucks"
Inked In Blood - "Sometimes We Are Beautiful"
11/4/15
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
Raein - "Sulla Linea Tra Questa Mia Vita E Quella Di Tutti"
Led Zeppelin - "III"
Matchbook Romance - "Stories and Alibis"
Dark Funeral - "The Secrets of the Black Arts"
Vices - "The Dealer" digital single
Against Me! - "Reinventing Axl Rose"
Green Day - "American Idiot"
Lye By Mistake - "Arrangements for Fulminating Vective"
Sixx:A.M. - "Modern Vintage"
11/15/15
Symphony X - "Paradise Lost"
V/A - Relapse Records sampler 2015
11/16/15
Slaves - "Through Art We Are All Equal"
Fall Out Boy - "American Beauty/American Psycho"
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Are A Drag"
Ought - "Sun Coming Down"
Logic - "Under Pressure"
Save The Swim Team - "Chop Suey" digital single
Wolfpack - "Allday Hell"
Woozy - "Blistered"
Cool American - "Synapses//Whatever" EP
Still Alive - "United By Defiance" EP
David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane"
R. Ariel - "Changer"
Propagandhi - "How To Clean Everything"
11/17/15
Rhapsody - "Power of the Dragonflame"
Fleshgod Apocalypse - "Mafia" EP
Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life" Disc 2
Ghost Noise - "Farther and Fainter" digital single
The Mumlers - "Don't Throw Me Away"
sandlot - "not okay" digital single
Public Image Ltd. - "Metal Box"
Theatre Of Tragedy - S/T
11/18/15
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Era Vulgaris"
Redlight - "X Colour"
Ratatat - S/T
Megadeth - "The System Has Failed"
Morgue Toad - "Buzzing Vibrations"
Children Of Bodom - "Hate Crew Deathroll"
Napalm Death - "From Enslavement To Obliteration"
88 Fingers Louie - "Behind Bars"
Four Year Strong - "Rise Or Die Trying"
11/19/15
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Dark Funeral - "Vobiscum Satanas"
Faith No More - "Album Of The Year"
Deicide - S/T
The Gravitys - May 2011 Demo
Gorguts - "The Erosion Of Sanity"
The Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
Volbeat - "Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood"
11/20/15
Death On Wednesday - "Buying The Lie"
Strawberry Girls - "French Ghetto"
11/21/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Miguel - "Wildheart"
The Mad "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Blanck Mass - "Dumb Flesh"
Cursive/Eastern Youth - "8 Teeth To Eat" split EP
11/22/15
Ty Dolla Sign - "Airplane Mode" mixtape
FOGOF - "Zygote" EP
Misery Ritual - "A Victory Over Suffering"
Children Of Bodom - "Hatebreeder"
Culture Abuse - "The Day Dreams Of Nothing" EP
Fist Benders - S/T EP
Sioux Falls - "Lights Off For Danger"
The Hound - "The Recovery" EP
Rats In The Walls - "Discarriage" EP
Helsott - "Woven"
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Ty Segall Band - "Slaughterhouse"
Carach Angren - "This Is No Fairy Tale"
Band Aparte - "Enter" demos
11/23/15
Disturbed - "Indestructible"
RX Bandits - "Progress"
W.A.S.P. - "The Best Of The Best: 1984-2000 Vol. 1"
11/24/15
Rotting Out - "Reckoning" EP
Alligatoah - "In Gottes Name"
Survay Says! - "Observations of the Human Condition"
Christopher Lawrence ft. Fergie & Sadrian - "Buenas Aires" EP
Ancient Rites - "Laguz"
Drag Me Under - "Moon Ripper"
D-Styles - "Phantazmagoria"
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 2
11/25/15
Carnivores - "Insecurior" digital single
Death - "Human"
Foo Fighters - "Saint Cecilia" EP
Descendents - "Enjoy!"
30 Seconds To Mars - "A Beautiful Lie"
11/26/15
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
11/27/15
Despised Icon - "The Ills Of Modern Man"
V/A - "Freedom" themovement.org compilation CD
Voivod - "Dimension Hatross"
11/28/15
Faith No More - "Angel Dust"
Therefore I Am - "The Sound Of Human Lives"
V/A - "This Is Lemon Grove"
11/30/15
100 Demons - S/T
Van Halen - "II"
The Whyioughtas - "The First Year"
Iced Earth - "The Dark Saga"
[no one is innocent] - "Propaganda"
Okilly Dokilly - "Okilly Demos"
Dance Gavin Dance - "Acceptance Speech"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: G.L.O.S.S., Asobi Seksu, Baths, Strawberry Girls, Alaska, Snow Roller, Sioux Falls, Logic, Curses, Raein, every single band on the new Relapse Records sampler, Miguel, Carach Angren, D-Styles
- "It's been a Long Time"
- Don't worry, I threw that Lostprophets CD in the trash after I read their Wikipedia page...also because of the shitty music
- Wow Limp Bizkit is even worse than I had remembered
- God Pharell sucks
- "Death is a Girl"
- That Tim McGraw album actually isn't completely terrible
- Inked In Blood was underrated
- Is there Life On Mars?
- Multinational corporations = Genocide of the starving nations
- New releases from Dogs, The Waterboys, Alaska, Miguel, Fist Benders are all solid
- Dude I liked that one Fall Out Boy album but this new shit is like, intolerable
- I thought Miguel was gonna be like Drake but he's more like Prince
- That Carach Angren album is so over-the-top ridiculous that its badass
- The future is shining upon you.
- Danny, you can tell me, and I'll still be your friend.
- The concept of Okilly Dokilly is doper than the actual band is
ZINES/PAMPHLETS
11/4/15: FINISHED: "Refuge in an Urbanizing Land = The Santa Margarita River: Cultural and Natural Resource" pamphlet
11/12/15: FINISHED: PM Press Catalog 2014-2015
11/13/15: "Inside Temecula" 2015 semi-annual newsletter
MOVIES/SHOWS
11/7/15: "Sling Blade"
11/16/15: "Blackfish"
11/27/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
11/28/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep"
MOVIE/SHOW NOTES
- "Sling Blade" was at once more fucked up and less fucked up than I had expected
- Dang "Blackfish" is fucking depressing
- The documentary about Edwin Borsheim and Kettle Cadaver that my brother Spencer Heath and his boy Jai Love having been working on for the last year (and that I'm interviewed in) will be debuting at Slamdance Festival in Utah in January. Dead Hands Dig Deep.
LIVE
11/21/15: Odd Advantage/Zoccola/Richard Friend/The Heathens @ The Wheelhouse Bar
11/23/15: Alaska/Woozy/Fist Benders @ The Dial
11/27/15: Vanderhuge/[The Gravitys]/FOGOF/The Loneliest Mountain @ The Dial
LIVE NOTES
- Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Java, Patty, Shane, and everybody at The Dial for helping me withj my \_/ set, that was a great time...Good Will To Mankind.
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