This is a list of all the albums/EPs/demos/singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of October 2016, along with stuff I read and watched. Notes regarding each follow. Somehow I've lost the page that had the entries for the entire week of 10/5-10/12 so who know what wondrous things are being left out of this posting. The world may never know.
Enjoy!
MUSIC
10/1/16
Knapsack - "Day Three Of My New Life"
Neil Young - "On The Beach"
Melanie Martinez - "Cry Baby"
C.D. Truth - "Chemically Dependent"
Sparks - "Indiscreet"
10/2/16
Jethro Tull - "Heavy Horses"
Schandmaul - "Mit Leib & Seele"
Yanni - "In My Time"
Mary J. Blige - "The Breakdown"
10/3/16
LeadBelly - "The Boll Weevil"
Tyler, The Creator - "Cherry Bomb"
Anne Hero - "An Untitled Song About Dying" digital single
Meredith Brooks - "Blurring the Edges"
Aphex Twin - "Cheetah" EP
The Dickheads - "Mr. Yum" digital single
Pepe Aguilar - "Por Una Mujer Bonita"
V/A - "Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1"
10/4/16
Dwight Yoakam - "Swimming Pools, Movie Stars..."
Morrissey - "Maladjusted"
Discrepancy - "Where The Strength Lies" demo
A$AP Ferg - "Always Strive and Prosper"
Black Beacon Sound - "Distance"
Good Neighbor - "Price" digital single
[10/5-10/12 missing]
10/13/16
Dead To Me - "Moscow Penny Ante"
The Faint - "Blank Wave Arcade"
Cat Stevens - "Catch Bull At Four"
Extinction Of Mankind - "Baptised in Shit"
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, conducted by David Zinman - "Ludwig van Beethoven's Complete Overtures" Disc 2
10/14/16
Sticky Doll - "The Kitchen Tape" EP
Vince Gill - "These Days" Disc 2: "The Reason Why"
The Quireboys - "Beautiful Curse"
SZA - "Z"
Lou Rawls - "The Very Best"
10/15/16
Anne Hero - "Schadenfreude"
Odesza - "In Return"
The Dickheads - "SxTxCx" EP
V/A - "Hotel Rwanda" OST
Ja Rule - "Exodus"
10/16/16
Vince Gill - "These Days" Disc 3
Vince Gill - "These Days" Disc 4
The Word Alive - "Empire" EP
Edwin McCain - "Misguided Roses"
Morrissey - "World Peace Is None Of Your Business"
Step 4 Change - "United Step" EP
10/17/16
No Chill - "Mind Pollution"
Little Child Man - "Delicious Octopus Gum!"
Evelyn Glennie - "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
New Way On - "Roads Home" EP
Black Gummy - "Singularity" EP
Susan Graham with the Orchestra of Enlightenment, conducted by Henry Bicket - "II Tenero Momento: Mozart & Gluck Arias"
10/18/16
The Gaslamp Killer - "Intrumentelepathy"
Angel Du$t - "Rock The Fuck On Forever"
The Word Alive - "Dark Matter"
Drowning - "Prey For Me" EP
Kids In Heat - "I Don't Wanna Go Home" digital single
10/19/16
Dream Theater - "The Astonishing" 2XCD
Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
Burial - "Rival Dealer"
Kevin Greenspon - "Push You Away Forever"
Living Legends - "Classic"
Oscar Levant - "Plays Gershwin"
10/20/16
The Pocket Rockets - "The End" digital single
The Marked Men - "Fix My Brain"
10/21/16
Downhome - "Long Range Hedonism" EP
Bon Jovi - "Have A Nice Day"
The Melvins - "The Crybaby"
Blink 182 - "Neighborhoods"
Enslaved - "Isa"
10/22/16
The Damned - "Strawberries"
10/23/16
The Knife - "Marble House" CD single
V/A - "Walk The Line" OST
Birote The Musical - "That Weird Boy Lorenzo"
10/24/16
Sia - "This Is Acting" deluxe edition
Plagues - S/T EP
Rats Eyes - "Vol. 3016" EP
PWR BTTM - "New Hampshire" digital single
PWR BTTM - "Projection" digital single
PWR BTTM - "Ugly Cherries"
10/24/16
Liza Ferschtman and Inon Barnatan - "Works for Piano and Violin"
Drake - "Views" 2XCD
Georg Gebel - "Christmas and New Years Oratorios"
10/26/16
Tony Bennett - "The Essential" Disc 1
Al Johnson - "Me and Him"
Finch - "Say Hello To Sunshine"
Bjork - "Medulla"
Blood Brothers - "Crimes"
Parkway Drive - "Deep Blue"
10/27/16
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
Tony Bennett - "The Essential" Disc 2
Nick Cannon - S/T
All Shall Perish - "The Price of Existence"
Death Sentence: Panda - "Insects Awaken"
Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"
10/28/16
aureate: insects: - "A Finishing Touch"
Diamond Rio - "One More Day"
Morrissey - "Beethoven Was Deaf" live album
Natalie Cole - "Unforgettable With Love"
10/29/16
The Red Leslies - "The Listening Room" EP
El-P - "I'll Sleep When You're Dead"
Secondaries - "Human..." digital single
LOCK - 3-song demo
Joel Andrews - "Walking On Air"
Napalm Death - "Harmony Corruption"
Sleep - "Sleep's Holy Mountain"
AC/DC - "The Razor's Edge"
Slaves - "Through Art We Are All Equal"
Raw Dawg - "Backstabber" digital single
Israel Kamakawiwoole - "Facing Future"
Andrew Bayer - "Anamnesis" EP
Alanis Morrissette - "Jagged Little Pill"
10/31/16
Vonda Shepard - "Songs From Ally McBeal" OST
Strung Up - "Society Rot In Hell"
CookBook & Evidence - "A Whole New Cook" digital single
Obscurer - S/T
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Anne Hero, Evelyn Glennie, Angel Du$t, PWR BTTM, LOCK
MOVIES
10/1/16: "Captain America: Civil War"
10/2/16: FINISHED "The Gold Rush"
10/3/16: "Gary Owens: True Story"
10/19/16: "Comet"
MOVIE NOTES
- Either our TV or our DVD player was fucking up but we gave up and watched that Captain America movie in black and white
(MAGA)ZINES
10/4/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1271
10/17/16: "Mig's Zine" MayDay 2012 infozine
"Mexiquito" #1
10/20/16: FINISHED "Shards of Glass In Your Eye" #6
"Copwatch Handbook: An Introduction to Citizen Monitoring of the Police"
LIVE
10/15/16: Interracial Bookclub/Mr. Girl/Maricon/Kazram @ Casa de Boo-lo
10/22/16: Happy In Hemet/Ill Com/Liquid/Tomber Lever/Birote The Musical/The Dickheads/SUNK @ Happy Fest (Anthony's house in San Jacinto)
LIVE NOTES
- I left my backpack at Casa De Boo-lo and havent gone back to get it even though those dudes live like 10 minutes from my apartment
- end of the summer was supposed to play but instead I just read from The Other Wise Man and The Satanic Verses in between bands and somehow still managed to break my (Evan's) guitar...Still the happiest day of the year though, that shit was great
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
INTERVIEW: Ryan from Frustrated and Seance 9/20/16
This interview was conducted in between bands at Awakening Church 9/20/16. To inform what much of our conversation is about: During Frustrated's set I was in the moshpit and apparently ran into a girl behind me or something, and it all almost turned into a big scurfuffle. I was frankly surprised at what was going on because I didn't feel like I touched anybody at all but half the crowd was against me and others also didn't see the problem. We also talk about music and stuff too. Much like my interview with Lost Cause, there are other cast members to this interview and there was a lot of noise in the background so I apologize to anybody if I got their name or anything wrong. It spirals into heavy breakfast talk at the end.
IAN: This is Ian, who am I speaking with right now?
RYAN: This is Ryan from Frustrated and Seance
ROJELIO: Rojelio Barro, Road Dawg
I: Alright, so let's go over what just happened during the mosh pit right now, from your point of view
R: Just inconveniences, really. I don't really know. To me it doesn't really matter that much because shit's bound to happen but in all honesty, just people got pissed and shit escalated way too much. I feel like it's all misconstrued bullshit. Like, from what I understand - I didn't really see anything happen - but someone said that a girl got hit. I mean, girls know what they're getting themselves into by going to shows and shit. Like, it's not new. Girls just as much as guys or anybody who identifies as anything different knows, if you go to a show you're gonna get hit
I: I feel like somehow I was the guy swinging my arms I guess [but] I didn't mean to hit anyone. I didn't even realize I had hit anyone. So from that point of view, like, how do you make reconciliation?
[Female voice from background, later identified as TAYLOR]: Just, if you hit someone, and you feel that you've hit someone, then stop
I: I didn't feel that I did
T: Okay but lets say that you did, you just kinda look back and see who it is, kinda tap'em on the shoulder
I: Well thats normally what I would do, of course. I didn't even know that I had even tapped or run into anyone. So I don't know who it was [that I hit] but...what was your name just so I can properly identify you in this interview?
T: Taylor
R: Yeah, I mean, from my point of view - I didn't see what happened - but you were just moshing and shit and I really appreciate that coming from, like, the musician side of things
I: I was just trying to rock out
R: No, I'm totally all for that shit. That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to feel the music
I: So, I feel bad if in any way I would have disrupted anybody. I'm glad I was able to talk to you, I don't know who it was maybe I should [apologize] to
R: I mean, you and I both know it wasn't intentional. You just felt the music, which is what we're here for, you know? This shit is about getting out your aggression but you're also having fun with the music. Some people go and, like, target people at shows, which is bullshit. In those cases, whatever chip is on your shoulder, deal with it on your own time. But if you're just moving and having fun , I don't see why people would get pissed over that. You're just enjoying yourself. You didn't mean to hurt anybody
I: No, no, not at all. Well I'm glad you agree with me on that point. Thank you for talking with me. Do you have stuff coming up, like any records or anything
R: Yeah we're releasing a 2-song promo tape on October 11th with Hyperjoint [sic?] Records. It's gonna be 2 songs off our new 10-inch called "I've Lost Myself" which will be out next year. That's 7 new songs.
I: Word. What's your favorite breakfast food?
R: French toast. All the way
I: French toast?
R: I've been a breakfast head since day one. Anybody who says breakfast is just for the morning is a fucking liar. I'll eat breakfast at 6pm, I'll eat breakfast at 3 in the morning
[Male voice from the background, later identified (I think) as ROY: Anybody who says "girly" breakfasts are only for girls are idiots cuz I fucking love pancakes with strawberries
I: Wait, wait, what's your name?
ROY: Roy
I: [To Rojelio] And what's your favorite breakfast food
ROJELIO: Uhhhhhh...
ROY: Pussy
ROJELIO: I don't know
ROY: I always get strawberry banana pancakes
[Ruckus begins in the background as next band starts up]
R: You got any other questions for me?
I: Really I just wanted to clarify that I didn't assault anyone
R: No you didn't you were just having fun
I: Alright well as long as we're all good. Again, thank you for your time
R: Thanks for talking with us man
I: Do you guys have any plans on playing around town more or going on tour or anything
R: We were supposed to tour this year but a lot of us have work and shit and we're busy writing records so we're taking a break from touring for the rest of this year but next year....
[Background music becomes too loud to talk any further]
https://frustratedxxx.bandcamp.com/
https://seanceca.bandcamp.com/
IAN: This is Ian, who am I speaking with right now?
RYAN: This is Ryan from Frustrated and Seance
ROJELIO: Rojelio Barro, Road Dawg
I: Alright, so let's go over what just happened during the mosh pit right now, from your point of view
R: Just inconveniences, really. I don't really know. To me it doesn't really matter that much because shit's bound to happen but in all honesty, just people got pissed and shit escalated way too much. I feel like it's all misconstrued bullshit. Like, from what I understand - I didn't really see anything happen - but someone said that a girl got hit. I mean, girls know what they're getting themselves into by going to shows and shit. Like, it's not new. Girls just as much as guys or anybody who identifies as anything different knows, if you go to a show you're gonna get hit
I: I feel like somehow I was the guy swinging my arms I guess [but] I didn't mean to hit anyone. I didn't even realize I had hit anyone. So from that point of view, like, how do you make reconciliation?
[Female voice from background, later identified as TAYLOR]: Just, if you hit someone, and you feel that you've hit someone, then stop
I: I didn't feel that I did
T: Okay but lets say that you did, you just kinda look back and see who it is, kinda tap'em on the shoulder
I: Well thats normally what I would do, of course. I didn't even know that I had even tapped or run into anyone. So I don't know who it was [that I hit] but...what was your name just so I can properly identify you in this interview?
T: Taylor
R: Yeah, I mean, from my point of view - I didn't see what happened - but you were just moshing and shit and I really appreciate that coming from, like, the musician side of things
I: I was just trying to rock out
R: No, I'm totally all for that shit. That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to feel the music
I: So, I feel bad if in any way I would have disrupted anybody. I'm glad I was able to talk to you, I don't know who it was maybe I should [apologize] to
R: I mean, you and I both know it wasn't intentional. You just felt the music, which is what we're here for, you know? This shit is about getting out your aggression but you're also having fun with the music. Some people go and, like, target people at shows, which is bullshit. In those cases, whatever chip is on your shoulder, deal with it on your own time. But if you're just moving and having fun , I don't see why people would get pissed over that. You're just enjoying yourself. You didn't mean to hurt anybody
I: No, no, not at all. Well I'm glad you agree with me on that point. Thank you for talking with me. Do you have stuff coming up, like any records or anything
R: Yeah we're releasing a 2-song promo tape on October 11th with Hyperjoint [sic?] Records. It's gonna be 2 songs off our new 10-inch called "I've Lost Myself" which will be out next year. That's 7 new songs.
I: Word. What's your favorite breakfast food?
R: French toast. All the way
I: French toast?
R: I've been a breakfast head since day one. Anybody who says breakfast is just for the morning is a fucking liar. I'll eat breakfast at 6pm, I'll eat breakfast at 3 in the morning
[Male voice from the background, later identified (I think) as ROY: Anybody who says "girly" breakfasts are only for girls are idiots cuz I fucking love pancakes with strawberries
I: Wait, wait, what's your name?
ROY: Roy
I: [To Rojelio] And what's your favorite breakfast food
ROJELIO: Uhhhhhh...
ROY: Pussy
ROJELIO: I don't know
ROY: I always get strawberry banana pancakes
[Ruckus begins in the background as next band starts up]
R: You got any other questions for me?
I: Really I just wanted to clarify that I didn't assault anyone
R: No you didn't you were just having fun
I: Alright well as long as we're all good. Again, thank you for your time
R: Thanks for talking with us man
I: Do you guys have any plans on playing around town more or going on tour or anything
R: We were supposed to tour this year but a lot of us have work and shit and we're busy writing records so we're taking a break from touring for the rest of this year but next year....
[Background music becomes too loud to talk any further]
https://frustratedxxx.bandcamp.com/
https://seanceca.bandcamp.com/
Playlist for September 2016
This is a list of all the things I listened to, watched, or read in their entirety during the month of September 2016. Afterwards are my notes regarding each. Enjoy!
NOTE: I was fucked up on mollies for like 2 full weeks in September so I apologize in advance for not having more cohesive notes. I know you guys really look forward to those ;D
MOVIES/SHOWS
9/2/16: "Jon Stewart: Unleavened"
9/4/16: FINISHED "The Turning Point"
"Kingdom of the Spiders"
"Child's Play 2"
9/5/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Pleaser"
"Meet The Feebles"
9/7/16: FINISHED "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
: "Keanu"
9/13/16: FINISHED "The Girl Can't Help It"
9/14/16: "Colin Quinn: Long Story Short"
9/15/16: FINISHED "Thank You For Smoking"
"Moneyball"
9/20/16: FINISHED "The Day Of The Animals"
MOVIE/SHOW NOTES
- I watched the old noir "Turning Point" not the 70s ballet "Turning Point" that my mom loves
- Wow "Meet The Feebles" would be a really fucked up, disturbing movie even if it wasn't starring only warped Muppet-esque creatures...the song at the end, "Garden of Love"....an evil classic
- "Plan 9" wasn't nearly the piece of shit I thought it was gonna be, it wasn't great but I feel like I've seen movies from that era that were way stupider and poorly filmed that are seen as classics now
- Now "The Day Of The Animals" and especially "Frogs," those really do deserve their worst-of-all-time distinctions purely for being too boring even to laugh at
MUSIC
9/3/16
Westward - "This Moment" digital single
9/4/16
Bassnectar - "Unlimited"
Tears For Fears - "The Hurting"
9/5/16
Agression - "Don't Be Mistaken"
Social Distortion - "Prison Bound"
Amon Amarth - "Jorgsviking"
9/6/16
Grace Jones - "Hurricane"
V/A - "Spawn: The Motion Picture" OST
Soundgarden - "Down on the Upside"
Battalion Of Saints a.d. - "Cuts"
Safe And Sound - "Embers Still Remain"
Crab Legs - "Friday Night No One" digital single
Mars Moles - "Fimme Some Melody"
The Haven - 2-song promo CD
Ian Anderson - "Thick As A Brick 2"
9/7/16
Zomby - "Ultra"
seethroughbuildings - "From One Point To Another"
Luscious Jackson - "Fever In Fever Out"
Dennis Ferrer - "The World As I See It"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
V/A - "Casa de Diversion Vol. 4"
Interpol - "Turn On The Bright Lights"
9/8/16
Thy Art Is Murder - "Holy War"
Chance The Rapper - "Coloring Book"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - "T.Z. Lite Vol. 1: Milo Goes To Otis"
The Knife - "Deep Cuts"
Misery Ritual - "I Hurt Because I Must"
Pier Damiano Peretti - "Nicholas de Grigny's Ave Maris Stella"
9/9/16
Black Sabbath - "Master of Reality"
Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
Primal Scream - "Chaosmosis"
Hatebreed - "The Rise of Brutality"
Hatebreed - "Perseverance"
R.E.M. - "Around the Sun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Pavlov - S/T EP
9/10/16
Hothouse Flowers - "Home"
9/11/16
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Kettle Cadaver - "Horronomicon" CD single
9/12/16
Los Olvidados - "Listen To This!"
Xpulsion - "War Is Imminent"
Caulfield - S/T EP
9/13/16
Benny The Jet Rodriguez - 4-song demo CD
Crisis Arm - 6-song demo CD
Tan Dollar - "Rats"
Nirvana - "MTV Unplugged In New York"
DevilDriver - "The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand"
9/14/16
A Wilhelm Scream - "Mute Print"
Neil Young - "Old Ways"
Allegeon - "The Elements of the Infinite"
Rogue Wave - "Asleep at Heaven's Door"
The Drums - "Partamento"
Light Light - "Breakfast/Overwhelmed" CD single
Prince & The New Revolution - "Diamonds and Pearls"
9/15/16
The Fighting James - S/T
Jethro Tull - "Minstrel in the Gallery"
Led Zeppelin - "IV"
Axxis - "Paradise in Flames"
9/16/16
Aerosmith - "Nine Lives"
Laura Muela - "Sing to the Man"
In Spite - Demo 2016
Tori Amos - "Under the Pink"
Frontguard - "No Love" demo
Castaway - "No Comfort"
Life Moves On - "Remedy" EP
Jimmy Buffett - "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
The Coltranes - "The Cat of Nine Tails" EP
9/17/16
Alicksy Vianna - "plays Sergio Assad: Solo Guitar Work"
Rubicon - "Resurface/Repair" EP
Rubicon - "Beacon" digital single
Yakuza - "Amount to Nothing"
Young Guns - "Echoes"
Fats Domino - "They Call Me The Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings" Disc 3
Irviner - "rest"
9/18/16
Guru -"Jazzmatazz Vol. 3: Street Soul"
Dream Theater - "Metropolis II: Scenes From A Memory"
Marvin Gaye - "Greatest Hits"
Ice Hockey - "The VAN Hall" digital single
Ernest Street House/The Happy Birthdays - split EP
The 1975 - "I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out"
Reproacher - "Nature's Bastard"
Castaway - "Casket" digital single
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Francesca Caccini - "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
9/19/16
Centertown Insurgents - S/T EP
Burning Spear - "Jah Is Real"
Johung Raducanu - "Jazz in Tara Mea"
Frontguard - "No Love" demo
Generifus - "Solstice Songs"
Terry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers - "Greatest Hits Encore"
9/20/16
The Flatliners - "Ahead By A Century" single
HK - S/T EP
Roger Waters - "Amused to Death"
Rival Sons - "Hollow Bones"
Prophets Of Rage - "The Party's Over" EP
A Better Hope Foundation - "Trading Heroes For Ghosts"
The Angry Brians - "We Came To Fight"
Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith, and Patti Smith - "Killer Road"
Jethro Tull - "War Child"
Jethro Tull - "A"
Kanye West - "Late Registration"
Born Guilty - S/T EP
9/21/16
Scale The Summit - "Carving Desert Canyons"
Opeth - "Heritage"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Youth Of Today - "Can't Close My Eyes" EP
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
9/22/16
Doro - "Classic Diamonds"
Akala - "It's Not A Rumor"
Walter Gray - "What a Bliss" promo
V/A - "Dead Ant Records Compilation"
Breathing Problem - "Bed of Sexpit of Tar"
Will Downing - "Soul Symphony"
Morrissey - "Southpaw Grammar"
Pepe Aguilar - "Por Mujeres Como Tu"
9/23/16
Takemitsu - "A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden"
Jean-Michael Jarre - "The Essential"
Dwight Yoakam - "The Very Best Of"
Stick Figure - "Set in Stone"
Unchained - demo CD (twice)
9/25/16
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
Careless Days - discography CD
9/26/16
Oasis - "Be Here Now"
Elliot Reed - "Hearthworm"
Dogs - "Prologue: The Death of Old" EP
Joni Mitchell - "Shine"
Yefim Bromfman - "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 (Live)"
The DeRita Sisters - "Ain't Street"
Birote The Musical - "That Weird Boy Lorenzo"
9/27/16
James Bay - "Chaos & The Calm"
Paper Route - "Real Emotion" deluxe edition
Hazmat - 3-song promo CD
Sledding With Tigers - "Not The Beatles Yet (A Brief Introduction)"
Etta James - "The Definitive Collection"
Star Club - S/T EP
9/28/16
Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Skeleton Tree"
Paul McCartney - "NEW"
Job For A Cowboy - "Demonocracy"
Suicide Silence - "The Black Crown"
Die Kolner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Williams - "Johann Mattheson's 'Der Liebreiche und Geldudige David"
Salt n Pepa - "Very Necessary"
9/29/16
Bryan White - "Between Me & Forever"
Chasms - "Bad Evolution" digital single
Phil Woode Quartet - "Gratitude"
V/A - "House: Original Television Soundtrack"
Manic Hispanic - "Mijo Goes to Jr. College"
Audacity - "Power Drowning"
9/30/16
Xpulsion - "Pizza Incision" EP
The Bangles - "Greatest Hits"
The Civil Wars - S/T
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases from Amon Amarth, Crab Legs, Zomby, Thy Art Is Murder, Chance The Rapper, Misery Ritual, Allegeon, Castaway, Rubicon, The 1975, Patti Smith & Co, Dogs, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- The soundtrack for "Spawn" was so much better than the movie itself...the remix of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is like the best track in Metallica's entire catalog, not to mention the stellar "No Remorse (I Want To Die)" collaboration between Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot or Orbital and Kirk Hammet's "Satan":...badass all around and has aged well with time surprisingly
- "Down on the Upside," much like its title, is a very internally confused and contradictory record, and not necessarily in a good way
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Crab Legs, Mars Moles, Thy Art Is Murder, Allegeon, Castaway, Rubicon, Takemitsu
- Luscious Jackson is much like The Verve Pipe in that they really only have like 2 good songs but somehow milked a semi-successful 90s rock career for a couple years before being justifiably forgotten by everyone
- "Master of Reality" is by fat the best Christian Rock record ever made
- That 90s Prince album kinda sucked
- Prophets Of Rage doesnt live up to the sum of its parts but honestly what was to be expected
- Although my acoustic project is nothing like any of the artists they work with, Dead Ant Records put my cover of "I Remember" by Deadmau5 & Kaskade on their awesome compilation...Check it out at deadantrecords.bandcamp.com and check out their other artists as well its cool, diverse stuff
- "Be Here Now" would have been alot better if every damn song wasn't 6 minutes long
LIVE
9/3/16: Chromeo/Mimi Zulu @ Del Mar Fairgrounds
9/17/16: Castaway/Life Moves On @ Awakening Church
9/20/16: Safe & Sound/Born Guilty/Modern Love/Frustrated/Slow Decay @ Awakening Church
9/24/16: Black Sabbath/Disturbed/Megadeth @ San Manuel Amphitheater (Ozzfest)
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit Chromeo fucking killed it, one of the best sets I've seen in awhile. That main singer dude can really wail on guitar, for real those dudes are underrated as musicians. Even if you're not too into their style of music, if you have a chance to see them live, take it. They are great. "Old 45's" is still like my #1 song right now.
- I missed the first 2 bands of that Awakening show unfortunately
- During Frustrated's set I apparently knocked into a girl and a bunch of people got in my face and a bunch of other people had my back but I interviewed the singer of the band who watched the whole thing and said the people getting pissed were the ones in the wrong so there's that...but it almost got gnarly up in that church
- I fucked up and missed almost all of Ozzfest but I bought my ticket for Black Sabbath and they did not disappoint. Just amazing, better than I was expecting it to be by a longshot. They might be old as fuck but they put on such a good show. For the first time I was one of the firepit people in the crowd and as toxic as those fumes are, it was quite the experience
(MAGA)ZINES
9/15/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" July 2016 issue
9/16/16: "The Stranger & A Gun" by Mable
9/17/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks 3"
9/28/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone issue 1271
NOTE: I was fucked up on mollies for like 2 full weeks in September so I apologize in advance for not having more cohesive notes. I know you guys really look forward to those ;D
MOVIES/SHOWS
9/2/16: "Jon Stewart: Unleavened"
9/4/16: FINISHED "The Turning Point"
"Kingdom of the Spiders"
"Child's Play 2"
9/5/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Pleaser"
"Meet The Feebles"
9/7/16: FINISHED "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
: "Keanu"
9/13/16: FINISHED "The Girl Can't Help It"
9/14/16: "Colin Quinn: Long Story Short"
9/15/16: FINISHED "Thank You For Smoking"
"Moneyball"
9/20/16: FINISHED "The Day Of The Animals"
MOVIE/SHOW NOTES
- I watched the old noir "Turning Point" not the 70s ballet "Turning Point" that my mom loves
- Wow "Meet The Feebles" would be a really fucked up, disturbing movie even if it wasn't starring only warped Muppet-esque creatures...the song at the end, "Garden of Love"....an evil classic
- "Plan 9" wasn't nearly the piece of shit I thought it was gonna be, it wasn't great but I feel like I've seen movies from that era that were way stupider and poorly filmed that are seen as classics now
- Now "The Day Of The Animals" and especially "Frogs," those really do deserve their worst-of-all-time distinctions purely for being too boring even to laugh at
MUSIC
9/3/16
Westward - "This Moment" digital single
9/4/16
Bassnectar - "Unlimited"
Tears For Fears - "The Hurting"
9/5/16
Agression - "Don't Be Mistaken"
Social Distortion - "Prison Bound"
Amon Amarth - "Jorgsviking"
9/6/16
Grace Jones - "Hurricane"
V/A - "Spawn: The Motion Picture" OST
Soundgarden - "Down on the Upside"
Battalion Of Saints a.d. - "Cuts"
Safe And Sound - "Embers Still Remain"
Crab Legs - "Friday Night No One" digital single
Mars Moles - "Fimme Some Melody"
The Haven - 2-song promo CD
Ian Anderson - "Thick As A Brick 2"
9/7/16
Zomby - "Ultra"
seethroughbuildings - "From One Point To Another"
Luscious Jackson - "Fever In Fever Out"
Dennis Ferrer - "The World As I See It"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
V/A - "Casa de Diversion Vol. 4"
Interpol - "Turn On The Bright Lights"
9/8/16
Thy Art Is Murder - "Holy War"
Chance The Rapper - "Coloring Book"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - "T.Z. Lite Vol. 1: Milo Goes To Otis"
The Knife - "Deep Cuts"
Misery Ritual - "I Hurt Because I Must"
Pier Damiano Peretti - "Nicholas de Grigny's Ave Maris Stella"
9/9/16
Black Sabbath - "Master of Reality"
Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
Primal Scream - "Chaosmosis"
Hatebreed - "The Rise of Brutality"
Hatebreed - "Perseverance"
R.E.M. - "Around the Sun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Pavlov - S/T EP
9/10/16
Hothouse Flowers - "Home"
9/11/16
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Kettle Cadaver - "Horronomicon" CD single
9/12/16
Los Olvidados - "Listen To This!"
Xpulsion - "War Is Imminent"
Caulfield - S/T EP
9/13/16
Benny The Jet Rodriguez - 4-song demo CD
Crisis Arm - 6-song demo CD
Tan Dollar - "Rats"
Nirvana - "MTV Unplugged In New York"
DevilDriver - "The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand"
9/14/16
A Wilhelm Scream - "Mute Print"
Neil Young - "Old Ways"
Allegeon - "The Elements of the Infinite"
Rogue Wave - "Asleep at Heaven's Door"
The Drums - "Partamento"
Light Light - "Breakfast/Overwhelmed" CD single
Prince & The New Revolution - "Diamonds and Pearls"
9/15/16
The Fighting James - S/T
Jethro Tull - "Minstrel in the Gallery"
Led Zeppelin - "IV"
Axxis - "Paradise in Flames"
9/16/16
Aerosmith - "Nine Lives"
Laura Muela - "Sing to the Man"
In Spite - Demo 2016
Tori Amos - "Under the Pink"
Frontguard - "No Love" demo
Castaway - "No Comfort"
Life Moves On - "Remedy" EP
Jimmy Buffett - "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
The Coltranes - "The Cat of Nine Tails" EP
9/17/16
Alicksy Vianna - "plays Sergio Assad: Solo Guitar Work"
Rubicon - "Resurface/Repair" EP
Rubicon - "Beacon" digital single
Yakuza - "Amount to Nothing"
Young Guns - "Echoes"
Fats Domino - "They Call Me The Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings" Disc 3
Irviner - "rest"
9/18/16
Guru -"Jazzmatazz Vol. 3: Street Soul"
Dream Theater - "Metropolis II: Scenes From A Memory"
Marvin Gaye - "Greatest Hits"
Ice Hockey - "The VAN Hall" digital single
Ernest Street House/The Happy Birthdays - split EP
The 1975 - "I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out"
Reproacher - "Nature's Bastard"
Castaway - "Casket" digital single
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Francesca Caccini - "La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
9/19/16
Centertown Insurgents - S/T EP
Burning Spear - "Jah Is Real"
Johung Raducanu - "Jazz in Tara Mea"
Frontguard - "No Love" demo
Generifus - "Solstice Songs"
Terry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers - "Greatest Hits Encore"
9/20/16
The Flatliners - "Ahead By A Century" single
HK - S/T EP
Roger Waters - "Amused to Death"
Rival Sons - "Hollow Bones"
Prophets Of Rage - "The Party's Over" EP
A Better Hope Foundation - "Trading Heroes For Ghosts"
The Angry Brians - "We Came To Fight"
Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith, and Patti Smith - "Killer Road"
Jethro Tull - "War Child"
Jethro Tull - "A"
Kanye West - "Late Registration"
Born Guilty - S/T EP
9/21/16
Scale The Summit - "Carving Desert Canyons"
Opeth - "Heritage"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Youth Of Today - "Can't Close My Eyes" EP
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
9/22/16
Doro - "Classic Diamonds"
Akala - "It's Not A Rumor"
Walter Gray - "What a Bliss" promo
V/A - "Dead Ant Records Compilation"
Breathing Problem - "Bed of Sexpit of Tar"
Will Downing - "Soul Symphony"
Morrissey - "Southpaw Grammar"
Pepe Aguilar - "Por Mujeres Como Tu"
9/23/16
Takemitsu - "A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden"
Jean-Michael Jarre - "The Essential"
Dwight Yoakam - "The Very Best Of"
Stick Figure - "Set in Stone"
Unchained - demo CD (twice)
9/25/16
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
Careless Days - discography CD
9/26/16
Oasis - "Be Here Now"
Elliot Reed - "Hearthworm"
Dogs - "Prologue: The Death of Old" EP
Joni Mitchell - "Shine"
Yefim Bromfman - "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 (Live)"
The DeRita Sisters - "Ain't Street"
Birote The Musical - "That Weird Boy Lorenzo"
9/27/16
James Bay - "Chaos & The Calm"
Paper Route - "Real Emotion" deluxe edition
Hazmat - 3-song promo CD
Sledding With Tigers - "Not The Beatles Yet (A Brief Introduction)"
Etta James - "The Definitive Collection"
Star Club - S/T EP
9/28/16
Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Skeleton Tree"
Paul McCartney - "NEW"
Job For A Cowboy - "Demonocracy"
Suicide Silence - "The Black Crown"
Die Kolner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Williams - "Johann Mattheson's 'Der Liebreiche und Geldudige David"
Salt n Pepa - "Very Necessary"
9/29/16
Bryan White - "Between Me & Forever"
Chasms - "Bad Evolution" digital single
Phil Woode Quartet - "Gratitude"
V/A - "House: Original Television Soundtrack"
Manic Hispanic - "Mijo Goes to Jr. College"
Audacity - "Power Drowning"
9/30/16
Xpulsion - "Pizza Incision" EP
The Bangles - "Greatest Hits"
The Civil Wars - S/T
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases from Amon Amarth, Crab Legs, Zomby, Thy Art Is Murder, Chance The Rapper, Misery Ritual, Allegeon, Castaway, Rubicon, The 1975, Patti Smith & Co, Dogs, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- The soundtrack for "Spawn" was so much better than the movie itself...the remix of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is like the best track in Metallica's entire catalog, not to mention the stellar "No Remorse (I Want To Die)" collaboration between Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot or Orbital and Kirk Hammet's "Satan":...badass all around and has aged well with time surprisingly
- "Down on the Upside," much like its title, is a very internally confused and contradictory record, and not necessarily in a good way
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Crab Legs, Mars Moles, Thy Art Is Murder, Allegeon, Castaway, Rubicon, Takemitsu
- Luscious Jackson is much like The Verve Pipe in that they really only have like 2 good songs but somehow milked a semi-successful 90s rock career for a couple years before being justifiably forgotten by everyone
- "Master of Reality" is by fat the best Christian Rock record ever made
- That 90s Prince album kinda sucked
- Prophets Of Rage doesnt live up to the sum of its parts but honestly what was to be expected
- Although my acoustic project is nothing like any of the artists they work with, Dead Ant Records put my cover of "I Remember" by Deadmau5 & Kaskade on their awesome compilation...Check it out at deadantrecords.bandcamp.com and check out their other artists as well its cool, diverse stuff
- "Be Here Now" would have been alot better if every damn song wasn't 6 minutes long
LIVE
9/3/16: Chromeo/Mimi Zulu @ Del Mar Fairgrounds
9/17/16: Castaway/Life Moves On @ Awakening Church
9/20/16: Safe & Sound/Born Guilty/Modern Love/Frustrated/Slow Decay @ Awakening Church
9/24/16: Black Sabbath/Disturbed/Megadeth @ San Manuel Amphitheater (Ozzfest)
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit Chromeo fucking killed it, one of the best sets I've seen in awhile. That main singer dude can really wail on guitar, for real those dudes are underrated as musicians. Even if you're not too into their style of music, if you have a chance to see them live, take it. They are great. "Old 45's" is still like my #1 song right now.
- I missed the first 2 bands of that Awakening show unfortunately
- During Frustrated's set I apparently knocked into a girl and a bunch of people got in my face and a bunch of other people had my back but I interviewed the singer of the band who watched the whole thing and said the people getting pissed were the ones in the wrong so there's that...but it almost got gnarly up in that church
- I fucked up and missed almost all of Ozzfest but I bought my ticket for Black Sabbath and they did not disappoint. Just amazing, better than I was expecting it to be by a longshot. They might be old as fuck but they put on such a good show. For the first time I was one of the firepit people in the crowd and as toxic as those fumes are, it was quite the experience
(MAGA)ZINES
9/15/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" July 2016 issue
9/16/16: "The Stranger & A Gun" by Mable
9/17/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks 3"
9/28/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone issue 1271
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
INTERVIEW: Evan Pierce from The Coltranes, 9/20/16
This interview was during in-between shows at a recent show at Awakening Church in Murrieta, CA and is split into two parts, as you will see. This is like the third time I've interviewed Evan, my former roommate, but the first time I was able to transcribe it before my phone was destroyed. Enjoy.
IAN: This is Ian, I'm talking to Evan from The Coltranes, as well as other groups - The Ugly, etc...We were just kinda chit-chatting, we're outside a show, outside the Awakening Church; it's like, a hardcore show, and you kinda had something to say about how there might be a disconnect between what you guys have been presenting as "hardcore" and what I might be presenting as "punk" or "emo" or whatever [versus] what the scene at large might be doing. How would you like to elaborate on that?
EVAN: Uh, yeah, like I said earlier, I think that people have become really self-conscious and like, they've missed the whole point of hardcore and, like, punk in general which is just to be your fucking self. It just seems like, I don't know, everything makes them feel uncomfortable and [a lot of people] are just always on edge.
I: Like, what's the point of even doing this if you're not having fun?
E: Yeah, exactly. Maybe I'm just bitter but it seems like [some people] just come here as like, a fashion statement or something
I: I feel you. You've been around the country, you've toured around the country. I have not done that. Is California worse off than other parts of the country [regarding fashion]
E: Well, not blatantly, but in some ways, yeah. Alot of things are super fashion-sensitive and even fashion-driven really, which, I mean, I guess, in some aspects of punk the fashion can be part of the act, which is cool in some cases, but in most cases not really. But I don't know, in places like the Midwest, they just...I don't know, that's the only scene that I can think of where they just don't give a shit about anything and they're just there to have fun and it's really cool.
I: Well I can imagine that might be because they're a bit more isolated from the big media scenes; But [anyway,] we're here at a church [for the show tonight]. Me and you, well, I'm not gonna speak for you...
E: No, I'm full-blown atheist
I: Okay there ya go
[Laughter]
But like, this isn't a space we would normally inhabit or support; how do you feel performing in places like this? To me, I have a double view about it: I like that they open their doors to us
E: Yeah
I: But on the other end, I don't want to be in any way obligated to them or like, bring credence to what they espouse
E: Right
I: How do you feel [about the mater?]Because you've performed much more than I have.
E: Yeah, it's kind of a double-edged thing. I'm always iffy about it if I know a cut from the door is going directly towards the church. That's something I don't support in any way. You know, fuck that. But on the other hand, you know, it wasn't that uncommon like in the 80s to, like, rent out a church to play punk shows and that's cool, I guess.
I: Alright well it looks like [the next band] might be going on soon; I've interviewed you like, four times and this might be the only one that gets transcribed. You know what's coming next: What's your favorite breakfast food?
E: Fucking eggs florentine
I: Eggs florentine.Okay you gotta describe that fully
E: Okay so you know what eggs benedict is?
I: Yes of course
E: Okay, so eggs florentine is just a spin on it where it's just an english muffin topped with spinach and a poached egg and then hollandaise sauce. It doesn't have, like, canadian bacon on it.\
I: What is in hollandaise sauce? It's like the yolk and then something else mixed with it or something?
E: I actually don't know. That's actually something I've never known. I just eat it.
I: Okay well we'll figure this out on the next episode
[Laughter]
Well thanks for talking with me, we'll be talking again soon
E: Of course
PART II
I: Alright Evan, we're doing an extension of the interview [from earlier]. We just talked about general stuff, music, etc. but [on a more serious note], you had a stroke recently
E: A seizure
I: A seizure, I'm sorry. That was a couple weeks ago
E: Yeah, three weeks ago
I: I worry about you, man, I really do. Explain the circumstances of what happened
E: Well, essentially I, like, pumped a lot of narcotics into my body for a week straight and then on top of that I drank alot of alcohol and, um, also I'm very emotionally stressed out. I was having a little crisis and I had a seizure while I was working at my job
I: Which job was this
E: I was a fry cook
I: Okay
E: The seizure...luckily, my fucking manager, like, grabbed my head cuz I would have hit my head. She had seen me and my eyes started to roll in the back of my head while I was still standing up and she...I basically fell over and she caught my head before I landed straight onto the fucking corner. Which I am thankful for, I guess, but...yeah
I: I'm thankful too. Okay so because of that you had lost your driver's license for awhile but now it's back?
E: Yeah. I don't know what's up with the hospitals around here but this is the second time I've had my license revoked cuz of a seizure, but it, like, wasn't really revoked. The DMV never got notified and they never sent me any paperwork.
I: So they just told you it was revoked
E: Yeah they basically just lied I guess cuz I called the DMV and they checked and my license is still valid. But I mean I'm not gonna have any seizures any time soon. I'm 15 days sober, and that's what was causing my seizures I guess...withdrawal
I: Well, you're gonna head out from here, I'm gonna stay for the rest of the show but I'm gonna extend my normal ending question since you already answered it: What's your favorite song, right now, right this second, favorite song?
E: "When I Get The Time" by the Descendents
I: "I Get The Time?"
E: Yeah, you know, [singing]"when I get the time to sit down a write a song for you"
I: See I would go with [singing] "I saw the sign, I opened up my eyes I saw the sign"...you know, Ace Of Base?
[Laughter]
Alright Evan I love you man
E: You too
I: I'll post this once I have both parts typed up; who do you think I should interview next? Have you noticed anyone interesting?
E: Yeah, I liked that band who was playing when everybody tried to fight you. They were good, [but] I don't know who they were
I: You're right, everybody tried to fight me
[Laughter]
Nobody fought me at all
E: Nobody wins, we all lose. Dead for nothing
I; This is gonna be a good interview. Enjoy the soul, live together.
UPDATES:
- Googles definition of hollandaise sauce: An emulsion of egg yolk and liquid butter, usually seasoned with lemon juice, salt, and a little white pepper or cayenne pepper.
- The band who was playing when everyone tried to fight me was Frustrated and I have an interview with them regarding all that and more coming soon.
http://thecoltranes.bandcamp.com/
IAN: This is Ian, I'm talking to Evan from The Coltranes, as well as other groups - The Ugly, etc...We were just kinda chit-chatting, we're outside a show, outside the Awakening Church; it's like, a hardcore show, and you kinda had something to say about how there might be a disconnect between what you guys have been presenting as "hardcore" and what I might be presenting as "punk" or "emo" or whatever [versus] what the scene at large might be doing. How would you like to elaborate on that?
EVAN: Uh, yeah, like I said earlier, I think that people have become really self-conscious and like, they've missed the whole point of hardcore and, like, punk in general which is just to be your fucking self. It just seems like, I don't know, everything makes them feel uncomfortable and [a lot of people] are just always on edge.
I: Like, what's the point of even doing this if you're not having fun?
E: Yeah, exactly. Maybe I'm just bitter but it seems like [some people] just come here as like, a fashion statement or something
I: I feel you. You've been around the country, you've toured around the country. I have not done that. Is California worse off than other parts of the country [regarding fashion]
E: Well, not blatantly, but in some ways, yeah. Alot of things are super fashion-sensitive and even fashion-driven really, which, I mean, I guess, in some aspects of punk the fashion can be part of the act, which is cool in some cases, but in most cases not really. But I don't know, in places like the Midwest, they just...I don't know, that's the only scene that I can think of where they just don't give a shit about anything and they're just there to have fun and it's really cool.
I: Well I can imagine that might be because they're a bit more isolated from the big media scenes; But [anyway,] we're here at a church [for the show tonight]. Me and you, well, I'm not gonna speak for you...
E: No, I'm full-blown atheist
I: Okay there ya go
[Laughter]
But like, this isn't a space we would normally inhabit or support; how do you feel performing in places like this? To me, I have a double view about it: I like that they open their doors to us
E: Yeah
I: But on the other end, I don't want to be in any way obligated to them or like, bring credence to what they espouse
E: Right
I: How do you feel [about the mater?]Because you've performed much more than I have.
E: Yeah, it's kind of a double-edged thing. I'm always iffy about it if I know a cut from the door is going directly towards the church. That's something I don't support in any way. You know, fuck that. But on the other hand, you know, it wasn't that uncommon like in the 80s to, like, rent out a church to play punk shows and that's cool, I guess.
I: Alright well it looks like [the next band] might be going on soon; I've interviewed you like, four times and this might be the only one that gets transcribed. You know what's coming next: What's your favorite breakfast food?
E: Fucking eggs florentine
I: Eggs florentine.Okay you gotta describe that fully
E: Okay so you know what eggs benedict is?
I: Yes of course
E: Okay, so eggs florentine is just a spin on it where it's just an english muffin topped with spinach and a poached egg and then hollandaise sauce. It doesn't have, like, canadian bacon on it.\
I: What is in hollandaise sauce? It's like the yolk and then something else mixed with it or something?
E: I actually don't know. That's actually something I've never known. I just eat it.
I: Okay well we'll figure this out on the next episode
[Laughter]
Well thanks for talking with me, we'll be talking again soon
E: Of course
PART II
I: Alright Evan, we're doing an extension of the interview [from earlier]. We just talked about general stuff, music, etc. but [on a more serious note], you had a stroke recently
E: A seizure
I: A seizure, I'm sorry. That was a couple weeks ago
E: Yeah, three weeks ago
I: I worry about you, man, I really do. Explain the circumstances of what happened
E: Well, essentially I, like, pumped a lot of narcotics into my body for a week straight and then on top of that I drank alot of alcohol and, um, also I'm very emotionally stressed out. I was having a little crisis and I had a seizure while I was working at my job
I: Which job was this
E: I was a fry cook
I: Okay
E: The seizure...luckily, my fucking manager, like, grabbed my head cuz I would have hit my head. She had seen me and my eyes started to roll in the back of my head while I was still standing up and she...I basically fell over and she caught my head before I landed straight onto the fucking corner. Which I am thankful for, I guess, but...yeah
I: I'm thankful too. Okay so because of that you had lost your driver's license for awhile but now it's back?
E: Yeah. I don't know what's up with the hospitals around here but this is the second time I've had my license revoked cuz of a seizure, but it, like, wasn't really revoked. The DMV never got notified and they never sent me any paperwork.
I: So they just told you it was revoked
E: Yeah they basically just lied I guess cuz I called the DMV and they checked and my license is still valid. But I mean I'm not gonna have any seizures any time soon. I'm 15 days sober, and that's what was causing my seizures I guess...withdrawal
I: Well, you're gonna head out from here, I'm gonna stay for the rest of the show but I'm gonna extend my normal ending question since you already answered it: What's your favorite song, right now, right this second, favorite song?
E: "When I Get The Time" by the Descendents
I: "I Get The Time?"
E: Yeah, you know, [singing]"when I get the time to sit down a write a song for you"
I: See I would go with [singing] "I saw the sign, I opened up my eyes I saw the sign"...you know, Ace Of Base?
[Laughter]
Alright Evan I love you man
E: You too
I: I'll post this once I have both parts typed up; who do you think I should interview next? Have you noticed anyone interesting?
E: Yeah, I liked that band who was playing when everybody tried to fight you. They were good, [but] I don't know who they were
I: You're right, everybody tried to fight me
[Laughter]
Nobody fought me at all
E: Nobody wins, we all lose. Dead for nothing
I; This is gonna be a good interview. Enjoy the soul, live together.
UPDATES:
- Googles definition of hollandaise sauce: An emulsion of egg yolk and liquid butter, usually seasoned with lemon juice, salt, and a little white pepper or cayenne pepper.
- The band who was playing when everyone tried to fight me was Frustrated and I have an interview with them regarding all that and more coming soon.
http://thecoltranes.bandcamp.com/
Thursday, September 22, 2016
INTERVIEW: Benjamin from Castaway, 9/17/16
I talked to Ben from Castaway a few days ago and followed up with an email question which I never have done before. Baby steps.
IAN: This is Ian, I'm here talking with the guitarist of Castaway; what was your name again, man?
BENJAMIN: Benjamin.
I: Benjamin. Alright, well you guys just finished up here at Awakening out here in Murrieta; You're from San Jose, that's a long way from home
B: Yes sir
I: How long have you guys been touring around on this stretch?
B: Almost 2 weeks, I think this is the twelfth day
I: Have you guys been down this way before?
B: Yeah totally. We played at a house in...I don't know, I forgot the name of the city but it started with a P.
I: Pomona maybe?
B: Yeah, Pomona
I: That would make sense. So how long have you guys actually been playing? Because you're very together [sonically]
B: As a band or as individuals?
I: Well I guess as a band, but...
B: About 3 years
I: Have you guys been involved in other projects before that?
B: Oh yeah totally. I'm 19 now, so [I've been playing] since 13, so 7 years straight
I: Damn, that's what's up
B: Thanks
I: I'm 28 and still haven't even toured so keep on going on. So, the song I was mentioning to you that I really identified with is "Long Lost;" is that from the most recent album or is there anything that's come out since then?
B: Yeah, the last thing we released was an LP called "No Comfort" and it was on that.
I: I really liked the theme of that, like you can't take certain things back, you know?
B: Totally, totally
[email follow-up question:]
I: During our initial convo you had said the rest of the band doesn't really like playing [that song] so my question is why is that? Is is the music itself or the lyrical content? Why do you think you're the main supporter of keeping that song in the set?
B: Shoot I should've kept my mouth shut about that haha. However, "Long Lost" is the oldest song in our set so we have been playing it the longest. And as true as that may be, I still think it can be enjoyable for new and even old listeners. Doesn't matter if the performers are tired of playing it. It's about what the fans want to hear. Until a new song of ours outshines "Long Lost" is when I think we should stop playing it
I: So the scene in San Jose and the Bay Area in general is kind of - I've been there a couple times - it seems like the melodic hardcore stuff is alot more prevalent there than it is here in Southern Caifornia
B: Yeah it's a pretty new genre
I: It seems like here in this area it's still more of the aggro stuff. I mean, when you've come down here have you ever felt, like, out of place at shows or anything?
B: Oh totally, yeah. We're on tour with a band called Spirit now and they're like a post-hardcore band and we've played nothing but post-hardcore shows all tour so we've been sticking out at every show really. We were kinda worried about it at first.
I: I would think that crowd would appreciate you guys more than like the beatdown crowd
B: Either way, I think it's right in-between really. It just depends on whether [people] like it or not.
I: Word. Well, the show's over and I missed half the bands unfortunately
B: You fucked up man
I: Was Spirit not here tonight?
B: Yeah, yesterday was their last show with us and they just had to go home today cuz one of their bassists got pretty sick
I: Oh that sucks. Well where are you guys going from here?
B: We're going to Fresno tomorrow and that's the last day
I: Finally home
B: Yeah, yeah...It's kinda sad, kinda happy to be home so I can see my dog and stuff
I: Do you guys have plans from here for like another release or another tour; what's your itinerary?
B: We just got gone writing and recording a new EP. We haven't named it anything or released it
I: But it's already recorded and everything?
B: Yeah it's already recorded. We're waiting for the mixes and the masters back
I: Hell yeah
B: We don't know when they'll get back to us
I: Well I'm gonna kinda end things out here; something I like to ask people although it's not related to anything: What's your favorite breakfast food?
B: That's a good question. I like to get, at Denny's - we go to Denny's alot cuz it's cheap - I like to get chicken-fried steak and eggs
I: Oh yeah, like with the gravy
B: Oh yeah dude that's the best part
I: What I do is I get the hash browns and then you the mix the gravy [with them]
B: Yes. Over-easy eggs, cholula, dive in
I: There ya go. Well, thank you much for your time Benjamin and good luck on your travels!
B: Thank you for coming out
https://castawayca.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/castawayca408/
IAN: This is Ian, I'm here talking with the guitarist of Castaway; what was your name again, man?
BENJAMIN: Benjamin.
I: Benjamin. Alright, well you guys just finished up here at Awakening out here in Murrieta; You're from San Jose, that's a long way from home
B: Yes sir
I: How long have you guys been touring around on this stretch?
B: Almost 2 weeks, I think this is the twelfth day
I: Have you guys been down this way before?
B: Yeah totally. We played at a house in...I don't know, I forgot the name of the city but it started with a P.
I: Pomona maybe?
B: Yeah, Pomona
I: That would make sense. So how long have you guys actually been playing? Because you're very together [sonically]
B: As a band or as individuals?
I: Well I guess as a band, but...
B: About 3 years
I: Have you guys been involved in other projects before that?
B: Oh yeah totally. I'm 19 now, so [I've been playing] since 13, so 7 years straight
I: Damn, that's what's up
B: Thanks
I: I'm 28 and still haven't even toured so keep on going on. So, the song I was mentioning to you that I really identified with is "Long Lost;" is that from the most recent album or is there anything that's come out since then?
B: Yeah, the last thing we released was an LP called "No Comfort" and it was on that.
I: I really liked the theme of that, like you can't take certain things back, you know?
B: Totally, totally
[email follow-up question:]
I: During our initial convo you had said the rest of the band doesn't really like playing [that song] so my question is why is that? Is is the music itself or the lyrical content? Why do you think you're the main supporter of keeping that song in the set?
B: Shoot I should've kept my mouth shut about that haha. However, "Long Lost" is the oldest song in our set so we have been playing it the longest. And as true as that may be, I still think it can be enjoyable for new and even old listeners. Doesn't matter if the performers are tired of playing it. It's about what the fans want to hear. Until a new song of ours outshines "Long Lost" is when I think we should stop playing it
I: So the scene in San Jose and the Bay Area in general is kind of - I've been there a couple times - it seems like the melodic hardcore stuff is alot more prevalent there than it is here in Southern Caifornia
B: Yeah it's a pretty new genre
I: It seems like here in this area it's still more of the aggro stuff. I mean, when you've come down here have you ever felt, like, out of place at shows or anything?
B: Oh totally, yeah. We're on tour with a band called Spirit now and they're like a post-hardcore band and we've played nothing but post-hardcore shows all tour so we've been sticking out at every show really. We were kinda worried about it at first.
I: I would think that crowd would appreciate you guys more than like the beatdown crowd
B: Either way, I think it's right in-between really. It just depends on whether [people] like it or not.
I: Word. Well, the show's over and I missed half the bands unfortunately
B: You fucked up man
I: Was Spirit not here tonight?
B: Yeah, yesterday was their last show with us and they just had to go home today cuz one of their bassists got pretty sick
I: Oh that sucks. Well where are you guys going from here?
B: We're going to Fresno tomorrow and that's the last day
I: Finally home
B: Yeah, yeah...It's kinda sad, kinda happy to be home so I can see my dog and stuff
I: Do you guys have plans from here for like another release or another tour; what's your itinerary?
B: We just got gone writing and recording a new EP. We haven't named it anything or released it
I: But it's already recorded and everything?
B: Yeah it's already recorded. We're waiting for the mixes and the masters back
I: Hell yeah
B: We don't know when they'll get back to us
I: Well I'm gonna kinda end things out here; something I like to ask people although it's not related to anything: What's your favorite breakfast food?
B: That's a good question. I like to get, at Denny's - we go to Denny's alot cuz it's cheap - I like to get chicken-fried steak and eggs
I: Oh yeah, like with the gravy
B: Oh yeah dude that's the best part
I: What I do is I get the hash browns and then you the mix the gravy [with them]
B: Yes. Over-easy eggs, cholula, dive in
I: There ya go. Well, thank you much for your time Benjamin and good luck on your travels!
B: Thank you for coming out
https://castawayca.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/castawayca408/
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Faith No More: My DIY Spirituality
I will preface this writing by letting you, the reader, know that I endorse no religion or faith beyond what my own mind has conjured. Along with that sentiment I want to also make it clear that I mean no offense to any other forms of belief if they help you and don't hurt others.
I also understand that the ideas I'm expressing are in no way new. Sometimes it just makes me feel better to put things in word form.Everyone sees things differently, and this is how I see them.
All animals, plants, minerals, bacteria, etc. have all come from the same source, and its nothing mystical. It's all from our Mother Earth. We are terrestrial beings and our planet has given us everything we will ever need, and when we pass away we will return to Her soil and regenerate a new era. We will always be, although this momentary existence gives us anxious doubt. We're so worried about death, but in reality, our corpses will be productive fertilizer for those yet to come.
We are all always reincarnated.
The Melting Corpse is the Sea Of Light, The Ancient Tide.
But our planet doesn't care about us. It's a rock in space, just like you are an animal in the wilderness. Mother Earth can't control everything you do, She can't even inform you of what you might be doing wrong because you're supposed to figure that out yourself.
She birthed you and She will kill you eventually. It's not up to Her to give you direction all the time. We're already rotating at a consistent pace around the Sun; you'll figure out the rest for yourself or you won't.
That said, the seemingly-bleak lack-of-meaning is what ultimately gives you, a Human Animal, so many possibilities. You can do whatever you want as long as you're not hurting others. Shit, the criminal class figured out long ago that no one's watching you.
Besides police. The Police are real and I'm really afraid of them. They're really good at what they do.
Jail is real. Lucifer is a character. I'm not scared of characters.I'm scared of Police.
I'm scared of car crashes.
There is no hell; hell is an elaborately effective literary device that has trapped us for millennia. But that trapping, in itself, reflects the very nature of our experience. Our art, our literature, our thoughts...these are the best parts of our animal existence. These feelings and expressions and meanings that we make for ourselves, they are the best parts of our short lives. Mother Earth can't take those things away because we pass ourselves to the next generation.
Rock n roll can never die.
I understand that it's hard for certain individuals, certain personality types etc., to feel confident in themselves when they cognize the idea of being an animal in a godless world full of self-indulged mythology and lies, but to me it's empowering. Once you set aside all the guilt and shame of sin and judgement what you're left with is freedom limited only by physics and morality.
Morality itself is a mechanism of the mind and therefore somewhat malleable. Rights do not exist but they are a nice thing to keep in mind so as to make our existence in society workable. But our philosophical ramblings and 'conclusions' are in essence only thoughts that we somehow make real through our actions, or negate and make useless, through our actions.
It's all always in our hands.
So lay down the fear and the anxiety that belief in a higher power entails and find meaning in the life that's in front of you. Mother Earth will always be there, but she's not there for you. You make your own fate.
Faith No More.
I also understand that the ideas I'm expressing are in no way new. Sometimes it just makes me feel better to put things in word form.Everyone sees things differently, and this is how I see them.
All animals, plants, minerals, bacteria, etc. have all come from the same source, and its nothing mystical. It's all from our Mother Earth. We are terrestrial beings and our planet has given us everything we will ever need, and when we pass away we will return to Her soil and regenerate a new era. We will always be, although this momentary existence gives us anxious doubt. We're so worried about death, but in reality, our corpses will be productive fertilizer for those yet to come.
We are all always reincarnated.
The Melting Corpse is the Sea Of Light, The Ancient Tide.
But our planet doesn't care about us. It's a rock in space, just like you are an animal in the wilderness. Mother Earth can't control everything you do, She can't even inform you of what you might be doing wrong because you're supposed to figure that out yourself.
She birthed you and She will kill you eventually. It's not up to Her to give you direction all the time. We're already rotating at a consistent pace around the Sun; you'll figure out the rest for yourself or you won't.
That said, the seemingly-bleak lack-of-meaning is what ultimately gives you, a Human Animal, so many possibilities. You can do whatever you want as long as you're not hurting others. Shit, the criminal class figured out long ago that no one's watching you.
Besides police. The Police are real and I'm really afraid of them. They're really good at what they do.
Jail is real. Lucifer is a character. I'm not scared of characters.I'm scared of Police.
I'm scared of car crashes.
There is no hell; hell is an elaborately effective literary device that has trapped us for millennia. But that trapping, in itself, reflects the very nature of our experience. Our art, our literature, our thoughts...these are the best parts of our animal existence. These feelings and expressions and meanings that we make for ourselves, they are the best parts of our short lives. Mother Earth can't take those things away because we pass ourselves to the next generation.
Rock n roll can never die.
I understand that it's hard for certain individuals, certain personality types etc., to feel confident in themselves when they cognize the idea of being an animal in a godless world full of self-indulged mythology and lies, but to me it's empowering. Once you set aside all the guilt and shame of sin and judgement what you're left with is freedom limited only by physics and morality.
Morality itself is a mechanism of the mind and therefore somewhat malleable. Rights do not exist but they are a nice thing to keep in mind so as to make our existence in society workable. But our philosophical ramblings and 'conclusions' are in essence only thoughts that we somehow make real through our actions, or negate and make useless, through our actions.
It's all always in our hands.
So lay down the fear and the anxiety that belief in a higher power entails and find meaning in the life that's in front of you. Mother Earth will always be there, but she's not there for you. You make your own fate.
Faith No More.
Playlist for August 2016
This is a list of all the music, movies, books/zines, and shows I experienced in their entirety, with notes about each following. Enjoy!
MUSIC
8/1/16
Flatfoot 56 - "Black Thorn"
8/2/16
James Blake - "The Colour in Anything"
G-Spot - S/T 7"
Janis Joplin - "Pearl"
Carole King - "Tapestry"
Mindkiller - demo
Neighbors - "This Is Me Now"
Spiritualized - "Lazer Guided Melodies"
8/3/16
Zhu - "Generationwhy"
Atomic Dilemma - S/T EP
Norma Jean - "O God...The Aftermath"
ruiner. - "No Apologies" digital single
Plagues - S/T EP
Stu Phillips - "Feels Like Lovin'"
Sunflower Bean - "Human Ceremony"
M.H.V. - "Sector 27 and the Vadaverse" EP
The Nerves - "One Way Ticket" LP
Fear - "More Beer"
Down Again - "Voices"
8/4/16
The Simpkin Project - "In The Wake"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Growing Pains"
Trash Boat - "Nothing I Write You Can Change What You've Been Through"
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. W&W - "Arcade" digital single
8/5/16
Tarja - "What Lies Beneath" deluxe edition
8/7/16
Thelonious Monk - "The Columbia Years" Disc 2
Duke Ellington - "
8/8/16 - 8/10/16
Propagandhi - "How To Clean Everything"
Ben Folds Five - "Whatever & Ever Amen"
Cro-Mags - "The Age Of Quarrel"
Cro-Mags - "Best Wishes"
V/A - "Cali Co-Op Vol. 1"
The Bronx - S/T
Necrophagist - "Onset of Putrefaction"
Necrophagist - "Epitaph"
Primus - "Miscellaneous Debris" EP
Crash Box - "Vivi!" EP
8/14/16
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Northern Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas Ward with Lorraine McAlson - "Leopold Hofmann's Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major"
Vadim Repin, directed by Evgeny Svetlanov - "Tikhov Krennikov's Concerto No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra in C Major"
Desperate Living - "I Think I'm Losing Touch" EP
Run Doris Run - "Five More Songs And You Can Go Home" EP
Awaiting Shipwrecks/After Colony - split EP
Singled Out - March 2014 promo CD
Thursday - "War All The Time"
Denzel Curry - "Imperial"
8/16/16
Latterman - "No Matter Where We Go...!"
The Who - "Sell Out"
Funkadelic - S/T
8/17/16
Himsa - "Courting Tragedy & Disaster"
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
Seric - "Eyes of You" EP
8/18/16
Tenement - "Napalm Dream"
AWOLNation - "Run"
Heron Oblivion - S/T
8/19/16
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Gaelic Storm - "The Boathouse"
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
8/20/16
The Gift Machine - "Goodbye/Good Luck"
V/A - Glory Kid Records winter 2009 sampler CD
Nicolas Jaar - "Fight" digital single
Fuck White God - demo
Chronic Sick - "Cutest Band in Hardcore" EP
8/24/16
Le Scrawl - S/T EP
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
8/25/16
V/A - "Mosh Pop" Epitaph Records sampler CD
8/28/16 + 8/29/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
MUSIC NOTES
- My god I love Carole King's songwriting so much..."So Far Away" has been like the anthem of my last couple months
- The Garden and Rexx are both cool but they were better combined as M.H.V.
- I was on a sick one from the 8th thru the 10th so I can't remember the actual order of those albums listed in that time period but I know that I listened to them all fully
- "This rebellion cut-to-fit, well I refuse to be the soundtrack to it...We strive for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard"
- "You just smile, like a bankteller"
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Denzel Curry, Heron Oblivion
- WTF ever happened to my Seric shirt?
- "Did you forget who your friends are?"
- "Nothing can stop me now"
MOVIES
8/1/16: FINISHED "The Highlander"
8/2/16: "Birdman"
8/3/16: FINISHED "Blue Velvet"
8/4/16: "Waterworld"
8/13/16: FINISHED "Syriana"
8/15/16: FINISHED "The English Patient"
8/16/16: "Ghost World"
8/19/16: FINISHED "Better Off Dead"
8/20/16: "Monster"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Birdman" is an immaculately put-together movie, some of the shots they manage seem unmanageable, hats off to that cinematographer...Highly recommended.
- It's crazy you can get movies like "Blue Velvet" at the public library
- "The English Patient" is an alright movie but my lord is it long as fuck
ZINES
8/4/16: "Huby" issue 3
8/15/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" vol. 5
8/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" August 2016 issue
LIVE
8/16/16: "Titanic: The Musical"
LIVE NOTES
- I usually don't like musicals at all but man that production of "Titanic" was very well done, it was like watching a fucking movie but in real life
MUSIC
8/1/16
Flatfoot 56 - "Black Thorn"
8/2/16
James Blake - "The Colour in Anything"
G-Spot - S/T 7"
Janis Joplin - "Pearl"
Carole King - "Tapestry"
Mindkiller - demo
Neighbors - "This Is Me Now"
Spiritualized - "Lazer Guided Melodies"
8/3/16
Zhu - "Generationwhy"
Atomic Dilemma - S/T EP
Norma Jean - "O God...The Aftermath"
ruiner. - "No Apologies" digital single
Plagues - S/T EP
Stu Phillips - "Feels Like Lovin'"
Sunflower Bean - "Human Ceremony"
M.H.V. - "Sector 27 and the Vadaverse" EP
The Nerves - "One Way Ticket" LP
Fear - "More Beer"
Down Again - "Voices"
8/4/16
The Simpkin Project - "In The Wake"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Growing Pains"
Trash Boat - "Nothing I Write You Can Change What You've Been Through"
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. W&W - "Arcade" digital single
8/5/16
Tarja - "What Lies Beneath" deluxe edition
8/7/16
Thelonious Monk - "The Columbia Years" Disc 2
Duke Ellington - "
8/8/16 - 8/10/16
Propagandhi - "How To Clean Everything"
Ben Folds Five - "Whatever & Ever Amen"
Cro-Mags - "The Age Of Quarrel"
Cro-Mags - "Best Wishes"
V/A - "Cali Co-Op Vol. 1"
The Bronx - S/T
Necrophagist - "Onset of Putrefaction"
Necrophagist - "Epitaph"
Primus - "Miscellaneous Debris" EP
Crash Box - "Vivi!" EP
8/14/16
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Northern Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas Ward with Lorraine McAlson - "Leopold Hofmann's Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major"
Vadim Repin, directed by Evgeny Svetlanov - "Tikhov Krennikov's Concerto No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra in C Major"
Desperate Living - "I Think I'm Losing Touch" EP
Run Doris Run - "Five More Songs And You Can Go Home" EP
Awaiting Shipwrecks/After Colony - split EP
Singled Out - March 2014 promo CD
Thursday - "War All The Time"
Denzel Curry - "Imperial"
8/16/16
Latterman - "No Matter Where We Go...!"
The Who - "Sell Out"
Funkadelic - S/T
8/17/16
Himsa - "Courting Tragedy & Disaster"
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
Seric - "Eyes of You" EP
8/18/16
Tenement - "Napalm Dream"
AWOLNation - "Run"
Heron Oblivion - S/T
8/19/16
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Gaelic Storm - "The Boathouse"
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
8/20/16
The Gift Machine - "Goodbye/Good Luck"
V/A - Glory Kid Records winter 2009 sampler CD
Nicolas Jaar - "Fight" digital single
Fuck White God - demo
Chronic Sick - "Cutest Band in Hardcore" EP
8/24/16
Le Scrawl - S/T EP
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"
8/25/16
V/A - "Mosh Pop" Epitaph Records sampler CD
8/28/16 + 8/29/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
MUSIC NOTES
- My god I love Carole King's songwriting so much..."So Far Away" has been like the anthem of my last couple months
- The Garden and Rexx are both cool but they were better combined as M.H.V.
- I was on a sick one from the 8th thru the 10th so I can't remember the actual order of those albums listed in that time period but I know that I listened to them all fully
- "This rebellion cut-to-fit, well I refuse to be the soundtrack to it...We strive for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard"
- "You just smile, like a bankteller"
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Denzel Curry, Heron Oblivion
- WTF ever happened to my Seric shirt?
- "Did you forget who your friends are?"
- "Nothing can stop me now"
MOVIES
8/1/16: FINISHED "The Highlander"
8/2/16: "Birdman"
8/3/16: FINISHED "Blue Velvet"
8/4/16: "Waterworld"
8/13/16: FINISHED "Syriana"
8/15/16: FINISHED "The English Patient"
8/16/16: "Ghost World"
8/19/16: FINISHED "Better Off Dead"
8/20/16: "Monster"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Birdman" is an immaculately put-together movie, some of the shots they manage seem unmanageable, hats off to that cinematographer...Highly recommended.
- It's crazy you can get movies like "Blue Velvet" at the public library
- "The English Patient" is an alright movie but my lord is it long as fuck
ZINES
8/4/16: "Huby" issue 3
8/15/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" vol. 5
8/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" August 2016 issue
LIVE
8/16/16: "Titanic: The Musical"
LIVE NOTES
- I usually don't like musicals at all but man that production of "Titanic" was very well done, it was like watching a fucking movie but in real life
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Playlist for July 2016
This is a list of all the things I listened to, watched, read, or saw live in their entirety during the month of July 2016. Afterwards are notes regarding all. Enjoy.
MUSIC
7/1/16
Chimaira - "Resurrection"
Chemotherapy - S/T EP
joy - "Astral Agonies"
Sex Bunker - "Elephant Skull" EP
3 Inches Of Blood - "Advance and Vanquish"
Behemoth - "Demigod"
7/2/16
Snoop Dogg - "Coolaid"
Gepopel - "Paracide" EP
Dimmu Borgir - "Death Cult Armageddon"
Karas - "Earthblood" demo
Kalmah - "The Black Waltz"
Lost Horizon - "A Flame To The Ground Beneath"
Mass Appeal - "Nobody Likes A Thinker" EP
We Still Dream - Summer 2011 sampler CD
Toy Dolls - "A Far Out Disc"
Doves - "The Last Broadcast" limited edition bonus disc
end of the summer - "Second" EP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Replacements - "Let It Be"
7/3/16
Beyonce - "Lemonade"
Down - "III: Over The Under"
Shannon & The Clams - "Gone By The Dawn"
Kilgore Trout - "Correspondence" EP
Anti-Hund Mina - B-Sound EP
Motez ft. Tkay Maidza - "Down Like This" digital single
99 Souls ft. Destiny's Child & Brandy - "The Girl Is Mine" digital single
Kero Kero Bonito - "Intro Bonita"
Laura Benitez & The Heartache - "Heartless Woman"
Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"
7/6/16
The Black Keys - "Attack & Release"
The Walkmen - "You & Me"
The Starting Line - "Say It Like You Mean It"
V/A - "Springman To The Rescue"
7/7/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Come"
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 2
Dannic & HIIO - "Funky Time" digital single
Underoath - "They're Only Chasing Safety"
Ihsahn - "Arktis"
7/8/16
G.L.O.S.S. - "Trans Day Of Revenge"
Drug Control - "Stabbed" demo
DRI - "Crossover"
Suicidal Tendencies - "Cyco Punk"
Devendra Banhart - "Cripple Crow"
Heinrich Albert - "Sonata 1"
The 1990s - "Cookies"
The Regents - "Barbara Ann"
Van Halen - "Diver Down"
7/9/16
U2 - "War"
Against The Current - "In Our Bones"
Carnifex - "Dead In My Arms"
Machine Head - "The Blackening"
Into Eternity - "The Scattering of Ashes"
7/10/16
Spoon - "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
Gorgoroth - "Pentagram"
Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
Motley Crue - "Dr. Feelgood"
Peter Bjorn & John - "Breakin' Point"
Year Of The Knife - "Outgrowth"
7/11/16
Neil Young - "Harvest"
Body Count - "Cop Killer"
Flying Lotus - "Pattern Grid World" EP
Ripcord - "The Damage Is Done" EP
The Shrine - "Rare Breed"
The Apples (In Stereo) - "New Magnetic Wonder"
Drezo - "Ginseng" digital single
7/12/16
Kneebody & Daedelus - "Kneedelus"
Darker My Love - "2"
Tenement - S/T EP
Absurd - "Blodig Stag" EP
Mobb Deep - "The Infamous"
Frustrated - "Losing Grip" EP
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Elysia - "Masochist"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Hand It Over"
Brian Wilson - "Smile"
Assfactor 4 - "Smoked Out" EP
Deep Wound - S/T EP
7/13/16
Blindside USA - Summer '16 demo
August Spies/13 Tons Of Napalm - "We Can't Do Anything By Ourselves" split EP
The Cranberries - "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?"
Switchfoot - "Where The Light Shines Through"
Ugly Lovers - "Drought" EP
Krisiun - "The Plague" demo
Leon Rusself - "Carney"
Sonic Youth - "A Thousand Leaves"
Cut Copy - "Bright Like Neon Love"
7/14/16
The Neighbourhood ft. French Montana - "I Can't Even" digital single
Protoje - "Ancient Future" mixtape
Neurosis - "Times Of Grace"
Marc Pinol - "Clef III" 12"
Joe Stene & Ferrick Dawn - "Man Enough" digital single
Jesus Crusler Supercar - "Among The Ruins and Desolate Lands"
Gerald Finzi - "Romance in E Flat Major, Op. 11"
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Monteverdi Chorus, conducted by Elliot Gardiner - "Mozart: Great Mass in C minor"
7/15/16
Akimbo - "Navigating The Bronze"
Bill Justis - "Tamoure Pipeline"
Nails - "You Will Never Be One Of Us"
7/16/16
V/A - "Not So Quiet On The Western Front"
Emarosa - "131"
Ingested - "The Architect of Extinction"
Trapped Under Ice - "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
Wild Nothing - "Life On Pause"
Griever - "Inferior" EP
Alice Cooper - "...A Nice Nightmare"
7/17/16
end of the summer - "First" demo
end of the summer - "Second" EP
end of the summer - "Three" EP
The Prodigy - "The Fat Of The Land"
M.I.A. - "Lost Boys"
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
7/18/16
Fear Factory - "Obsolete"
Bon Iver - S/T
The Mahones - "The Black Irish"
The Ergs! - "dadrockcorkrod"
7/19/16
The Who - "Tommy" 2XLP
Parliament - "Osmium"
7/20/16
Team Sleep - S/T
The Cranberries - "Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?"
7/21/16
In Flames - "Clayman"
San Holo - "New Sky" b/w "They Just Haven't Seen It" 12"
GonjaSufi - "MU.22.LE" EP
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio - "Right Now"
7/22/16
Cypress Hill - "Black Sunday"
Ice-T - "Home Invasion"
Pearl Jam - "Yield"
MC Lyte - "Eyes On This"
7/23/16
Periphery - "III: Select Difficulty"
Apathean - "Forgive Us"
Pure - "XXX" EP
Guru - "Jazzmatazz Vol. 3: Street Soul"
Seizures - "Antipathy"
Dennis Ferrer - "The World As I See It"
The Coasters - "The Very Best Of"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Them Savages - "Demos/Covers/B-Sides" EP
Four Minute Mile - "Bad Weather" digital single
GAG - "America's Greatest Hits" LP
7/24/16
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Getaway"
Krisiun - "The Unmerciful Order"
Two Door Cinema Club - "Are We Ready" digital single
Otto Knows - "Next To Me" digital single
Kampfar - "Profan"
Orchestre Lyrique de l'ORTF, conducted by Robert Benedetti - "Adolphe Adam's Le Farfadet"
Ik-Husan Bae - "Brahms' Victorian Concerto in D, I. Allegro"
Iron Savior- "Unification"
Ordinary People- "Nothng New" EP
Weed Diamond - "Early Dayz"
7/25/16
Ripped To Shreds - "Humanflytrapmaggotfactory" limited edition version
Beck - "Mutations"
Falling In Reverse - "Just Like You"
Slaughter To Prevail - "Chapters of Misery" EP
Bayside - "Killing Time"
Hop Along - "Get Disowned"
Purity Ring - "Shrines"
7/26/16
The Prodigy - "The Fat Of The Land"
The Ramones - "Their Toughest Hits"
Bully - "Feels Like"
Louis Armstrong& Duke Ellington - "The Great Summit: The Master Takes"
Battery - "Final Fury: 1990-1997"
7/27/16
Pat Metheny - "Orchestration"
7/28/16
Naysayer - "Nation Of Greed"
Strike Anywhere - "Changes in Sound"
DJ Shadow - "...Endtroducing"
Bread - "The Best Of"
No Truce/Crucified - split EP
Big Boys - "Industry Standard/Where's My Towel?"
The Rolling Stones - "Voodoo Lounge"
7/29/16
War Of Ages - "Pride of the Wicked"
War Of Ages - "Arise & Conquer"
Run With The Hunted - "Find Your Way Out" EP
No Truce - "My Life. My Struggle" EP
7/30/16
Shabazz Palaces - "Black Up"
Black Sabbath - "The End"
Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber & MO - "Cold Water" digital single
Media Jeweler - "Tryptych" digital single
Krisiun - "Black Force Domain"
Rage Against The Machine - "Evil Empire"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Beyond"
Herbie Hancock - "Thrust"
Herbie Hancock - "Death Wish" OST
Killswitch Engage - "As Daylight Dies"
7/31/16
Bjork - "Homogenic"
Bjork - "Selmasongs" OST
All Shall Perish - "The Price Of Existence"
Nirvana - "MTV Unplugged in New York"
MUSIC NOTES
- The new Snoop Dogg album is surprisingly dope, it's like he's a G again
- We don't say razzamatazz, we say razzmatazz
- end of the summer 10-year retrospective CD and/or tape coming out this winter, just in time for solstice
- God I love Laura Benitez
- New releases from Snoop Dogg, Ihsahn, G.L.O.S.S., Nails, Periphery, David Bowie, Purity Ring
- I take back what I had previously said about Fear Factory they're actually pretty dope
- Team Sleep is one of those bands that was just too good to exist
- Wow David Bowie really went out on a high note, "Blackstar" is so fucking good..."I Can't Give Everything Away" is maybe my favorite song of his career
- Red Hot Chili Peppers need to just stop
- "It's Nobody's Fault But My Own"
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Kampfar, Naysayer
- So stoked to see Black Sabbath next weekend
MOVIES
7/2/16: FINISHED "La Double Vie de Veronique"
7/8/16: "The Revenant"
7/9/16: FINISHED "Three Colors: Blue"
7/13/16: "Rosemary's Baby"
FINISHED: "The Usual Suspects"
7/15/16: FINISHED: "Midnight In Paris"
7/19/16: FINISHED: "Au Revoir Les Enfantes"
7/20/16: FINISHED: "Freeway"
7/22/16: FINISHED: "Swingers
"The Corporation"
7/24/16: "Scratch"
"Gone Girl"
7/25/16: FINISHED "Taxi Driver"
7/28/16: "Gone Girl"
MOVIE NOTES
- Damn "The Revenant" is badass, Leonardo DiCaprio fights a fuckin bear
MUSIC
7/1/16
Chimaira - "Resurrection"
Chemotherapy - S/T EP
joy - "Astral Agonies"
Sex Bunker - "Elephant Skull" EP
3 Inches Of Blood - "Advance and Vanquish"
Behemoth - "Demigod"
7/2/16
Snoop Dogg - "Coolaid"
Gepopel - "Paracide" EP
Dimmu Borgir - "Death Cult Armageddon"
Karas - "Earthblood" demo
Kalmah - "The Black Waltz"
Lost Horizon - "A Flame To The Ground Beneath"
Mass Appeal - "Nobody Likes A Thinker" EP
We Still Dream - Summer 2011 sampler CD
Toy Dolls - "A Far Out Disc"
Doves - "The Last Broadcast" limited edition bonus disc
end of the summer - "Second" EP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Replacements - "Let It Be"
7/3/16
Beyonce - "Lemonade"
Down - "III: Over The Under"
Shannon & The Clams - "Gone By The Dawn"
Kilgore Trout - "Correspondence" EP
Anti-Hund Mina - B-Sound EP
Motez ft. Tkay Maidza - "Down Like This" digital single
99 Souls ft. Destiny's Child & Brandy - "The Girl Is Mine" digital single
Kero Kero Bonito - "Intro Bonita"
Laura Benitez & The Heartache - "Heartless Woman"
Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"
7/6/16
The Black Keys - "Attack & Release"
The Walkmen - "You & Me"
The Starting Line - "Say It Like You Mean It"
V/A - "Springman To The Rescue"
7/7/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Come"
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 2
Dannic & HIIO - "Funky Time" digital single
Underoath - "They're Only Chasing Safety"
Ihsahn - "Arktis"
7/8/16
G.L.O.S.S. - "Trans Day Of Revenge"
Drug Control - "Stabbed" demo
DRI - "Crossover"
Suicidal Tendencies - "Cyco Punk"
Devendra Banhart - "Cripple Crow"
Heinrich Albert - "Sonata 1"
The 1990s - "Cookies"
The Regents - "Barbara Ann"
Van Halen - "Diver Down"
7/9/16
U2 - "War"
Against The Current - "In Our Bones"
Carnifex - "Dead In My Arms"
Machine Head - "The Blackening"
Into Eternity - "The Scattering of Ashes"
7/10/16
Spoon - "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
Gorgoroth - "Pentagram"
Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
Motley Crue - "Dr. Feelgood"
Peter Bjorn & John - "Breakin' Point"
Year Of The Knife - "Outgrowth"
7/11/16
Neil Young - "Harvest"
Body Count - "Cop Killer"
Flying Lotus - "Pattern Grid World" EP
Ripcord - "The Damage Is Done" EP
The Shrine - "Rare Breed"
The Apples (In Stereo) - "New Magnetic Wonder"
Drezo - "Ginseng" digital single
7/12/16
Kneebody & Daedelus - "Kneedelus"
Darker My Love - "2"
Tenement - S/T EP
Absurd - "Blodig Stag" EP
Mobb Deep - "The Infamous"
Frustrated - "Losing Grip" EP
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Elysia - "Masochist"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Hand It Over"
Brian Wilson - "Smile"
Assfactor 4 - "Smoked Out" EP
Deep Wound - S/T EP
7/13/16
Blindside USA - Summer '16 demo
August Spies/13 Tons Of Napalm - "We Can't Do Anything By Ourselves" split EP
The Cranberries - "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?"
Switchfoot - "Where The Light Shines Through"
Ugly Lovers - "Drought" EP
Krisiun - "The Plague" demo
Leon Rusself - "Carney"
Sonic Youth - "A Thousand Leaves"
Cut Copy - "Bright Like Neon Love"
7/14/16
The Neighbourhood ft. French Montana - "I Can't Even" digital single
Protoje - "Ancient Future" mixtape
Neurosis - "Times Of Grace"
Marc Pinol - "Clef III" 12"
Joe Stene & Ferrick Dawn - "Man Enough" digital single
Jesus Crusler Supercar - "Among The Ruins and Desolate Lands"
Gerald Finzi - "Romance in E Flat Major, Op. 11"
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Monteverdi Chorus, conducted by Elliot Gardiner - "Mozart: Great Mass in C minor"
7/15/16
Akimbo - "Navigating The Bronze"
Bill Justis - "Tamoure Pipeline"
Nails - "You Will Never Be One Of Us"
7/16/16
V/A - "Not So Quiet On The Western Front"
Emarosa - "131"
Ingested - "The Architect of Extinction"
Trapped Under Ice - "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
Wild Nothing - "Life On Pause"
Griever - "Inferior" EP
Alice Cooper - "...A Nice Nightmare"
7/17/16
end of the summer - "First" demo
end of the summer - "Second" EP
end of the summer - "Three" EP
The Prodigy - "The Fat Of The Land"
M.I.A. - "Lost Boys"
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
7/18/16
Fear Factory - "Obsolete"
Bon Iver - S/T
The Mahones - "The Black Irish"
The Ergs! - "dadrockcorkrod"
7/19/16
The Who - "Tommy" 2XLP
Parliament - "Osmium"
7/20/16
Team Sleep - S/T
The Cranberries - "Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?"
7/21/16
In Flames - "Clayman"
San Holo - "New Sky" b/w "They Just Haven't Seen It" 12"
GonjaSufi - "MU.22.LE" EP
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio - "Right Now"
7/22/16
Cypress Hill - "Black Sunday"
Ice-T - "Home Invasion"
Pearl Jam - "Yield"
MC Lyte - "Eyes On This"
7/23/16
Periphery - "III: Select Difficulty"
Apathean - "Forgive Us"
Pure - "XXX" EP
Guru - "Jazzmatazz Vol. 3: Street Soul"
Seizures - "Antipathy"
Dennis Ferrer - "The World As I See It"
The Coasters - "The Very Best Of"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Them Savages - "Demos/Covers/B-Sides" EP
Four Minute Mile - "Bad Weather" digital single
GAG - "America's Greatest Hits" LP
7/24/16
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Getaway"
Krisiun - "The Unmerciful Order"
Two Door Cinema Club - "Are We Ready" digital single
Otto Knows - "Next To Me" digital single
Kampfar - "Profan"
Orchestre Lyrique de l'ORTF, conducted by Robert Benedetti - "Adolphe Adam's Le Farfadet"
Ik-Husan Bae - "Brahms' Victorian Concerto in D, I. Allegro"
Iron Savior- "Unification"
Ordinary People- "Nothng New" EP
Weed Diamond - "Early Dayz"
7/25/16
Ripped To Shreds - "Humanflytrapmaggotfactory" limited edition version
Beck - "Mutations"
Falling In Reverse - "Just Like You"
Slaughter To Prevail - "Chapters of Misery" EP
Bayside - "Killing Time"
Hop Along - "Get Disowned"
Purity Ring - "Shrines"
7/26/16
The Prodigy - "The Fat Of The Land"
The Ramones - "Their Toughest Hits"
Bully - "Feels Like"
Louis Armstrong& Duke Ellington - "The Great Summit: The Master Takes"
Battery - "Final Fury: 1990-1997"
7/27/16
Pat Metheny - "Orchestration"
7/28/16
Naysayer - "Nation Of Greed"
Strike Anywhere - "Changes in Sound"
DJ Shadow - "...Endtroducing"
Bread - "The Best Of"
No Truce/Crucified - split EP
Big Boys - "Industry Standard/Where's My Towel?"
The Rolling Stones - "Voodoo Lounge"
7/29/16
War Of Ages - "Pride of the Wicked"
War Of Ages - "Arise & Conquer"
Run With The Hunted - "Find Your Way Out" EP
No Truce - "My Life. My Struggle" EP
7/30/16
Shabazz Palaces - "Black Up"
Black Sabbath - "The End"
Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber & MO - "Cold Water" digital single
Media Jeweler - "Tryptych" digital single
Krisiun - "Black Force Domain"
Rage Against The Machine - "Evil Empire"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Beyond"
Herbie Hancock - "Thrust"
Herbie Hancock - "Death Wish" OST
Killswitch Engage - "As Daylight Dies"
7/31/16
Bjork - "Homogenic"
Bjork - "Selmasongs" OST
All Shall Perish - "The Price Of Existence"
Nirvana - "MTV Unplugged in New York"
MUSIC NOTES
- The new Snoop Dogg album is surprisingly dope, it's like he's a G again
- We don't say razzamatazz, we say razzmatazz
- end of the summer 10-year retrospective CD and/or tape coming out this winter, just in time for solstice
- God I love Laura Benitez
- New releases from Snoop Dogg, Ihsahn, G.L.O.S.S., Nails, Periphery, David Bowie, Purity Ring
- I take back what I had previously said about Fear Factory they're actually pretty dope
- Team Sleep is one of those bands that was just too good to exist
- Wow David Bowie really went out on a high note, "Blackstar" is so fucking good..."I Can't Give Everything Away" is maybe my favorite song of his career
- Red Hot Chili Peppers need to just stop
- "It's Nobody's Fault But My Own"
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Kampfar, Naysayer
- So stoked to see Black Sabbath next weekend
MOVIES
7/2/16: FINISHED "La Double Vie de Veronique"
7/8/16: "The Revenant"
7/9/16: FINISHED "Three Colors: Blue"
7/13/16: "Rosemary's Baby"
FINISHED: "The Usual Suspects"
7/15/16: FINISHED: "Midnight In Paris"
7/19/16: FINISHED: "Au Revoir Les Enfantes"
7/20/16: FINISHED: "Freeway"
7/22/16: FINISHED: "Swingers
"The Corporation"
7/24/16: "Scratch"
"Gone Girl"
7/25/16: FINISHED "Taxi Driver"
7/28/16: "Gone Girl"
MOVIE NOTES
- Damn "The Revenant" is badass, Leonardo DiCaprio fights a fuckin bear
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Playlist for June 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of June 2016, as well as lists of movies I watched and things I saw live. Notes regarding each follow accordingly. Enjoy.
MUSIC
6/2/16
Blind Guardian - "Tales From The Twilight World"
Turbonegro - "Scandinavian Leather"
6/3/16
Weed Diamond - "Junior Crumble" EP
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
6/6/16
The Cherry Wave/Airs - split EP
Bo Diddly - S/T
Soilwork - "Figure #5"
Bad Books - "II"
Arctic Monkeys - "Favorite Worst Nightmares"
6/7/16
George Scott & Wiener Philharmonik - "Jeunesse Concerte 2nd December 1968"
Bob Welch - "Man Overboard"
Oh Wonder - S/T
Variants - "Commonwealth" EP
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "The Cross Of My Calling"
GRiZ - "Say It Loud"
Judiciary - "The Axis of Equality" EP
The Scorpions - "Rockers n Ballads - The Best Of"
6/8/16
Kiscsillag - "Szeles"
Despise You - "All Your Majestic Bullshit" single-sided 7"
The Cute Lepers - "Can't Stand Modern Music"
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - "Get Lost, Find Yourself"
Guns Up! - "Game Over" EP
Alvaro & Wiwek - "Fire" digital single
Veil Of Maya - "[id]"
Black Flag - "Damaged"
Quicksand - S/T EP
Charles Bradley - "Changes"
World Be Free - "The Anti-Circle"
Xiu Xiu - "Fabulous Muscles"
A Wilhelm Scream - "Partycrasher"
The Rolling Stones - "Tattoo You"
Deer Tick - "War Elephant"
6/9/16
Thundercat - "The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam" EP
Disturbed - "The Sickness"
Baaur - "Aa"
Jonwayne - "is Retired" EP
Taake - "Noregs Vaapan"
Sonata Arctica - "Reckoning Night" deluxe edition
Tegan and Sara - "Love You To Death"
Myrkur - "Den Lie Piges Dod (The Little Girl's Death)" digital single
3TEETH - "Sell Your Face" digital single
Orden Mundial - "Obediencia Debida" EP
TV On The Radio - "Dear Science"
6/10/16
The B-52's - "Wild Planet"
Megadeth - "Countdown to Extinction"
Wolfmother - S/T
D.R.I. - "Thrash Zone"
6/11/16
Just Nick - "Critters" EP
The Chariot - "The Fiancee"
Morrissey - "Bona Drag"
Remainder - "Set Aside Your Fears"
6/12/16
Gorgoroth - "Destroyer or About How To Philosophize With The Hammer"
Kanye West - "The Life of Pablo"
Survay Says! - "Things I Need To Say"
Motley Crue - "Too Fast For Love"
6/13/16
Lupe Fiasco - "Food & Liquor"
United States - S/T cassette
M.O.P. - "Street Credentials"
Hinds - Fopp Exclusive Bonus Disc promo CD
Tiesto + Oliver Heldens ft. Natalie La Rose - "The Right Song" digital single
Failure Pact - "Late Nights" EP
Major Lazer - "Free The Universe"
SSD - "Power" compilation cassette
W&W - "How Many" digital single
5150 - "1982" EP
Hamatom - "Wir Sind Gott"
Porcupine Tree - "Fear of a Blank Planet"
6/14/16
Expatriate - S/T EP
Orchestra Sinfonica di Sassari - "Antonio Sacchini's La Contadina in Corte 1_2"
Hugo Blanco - "Granfe Exitos"
Stevie Wonder & Andra Day - "Someday at Christmas" digital single
AKKeezdet Phiai - "Koltazur" Disc 1
Disgorge - "Cranial Impalement"
Colin Of Arabia/Blood Stands Still/In Search Of/Stop This Fall - "Four Scenes, One Family" split
Future Islands - "Post Office Wave Chapel" EP
Donnybrook/Piece By Piece - "There Goes The Neighborhood" split EP
The Junior Varsity -"Cinematographic"
6/15/16
White Fang - "Pure Evil"
Emarosa -S/T
Alesso ft. Nico & Vinz - "I Wanna Know" digital single
Born Of Osiris - "Tomorrow We Die Alive"
Gorgoroth - "Incipit Satan"
Cannibal Corpse - "Gore Obsessed"
Cradle Of Filth - "Hammer of the Witch"
Deerhunter - "Fading Frontier"
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - "Blood Lust"
Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth"
V/A - "Songs From The Hydra Head Hype Machine: Volume One...Or Did You Mean Hawaiian Souvlaki?"
Glocca Morra - "Ghoul Intentions" EP
S.O.B. - "Leave Me Alone"
6/16/16
Haymaker - S/T
Kite Party - "Baseball Season"
Dead To Me - "Little Brother" EP
Ensiferum - "Iron"
The Who - "My Generation Blues '75" 7"
Shabazz Palaces - "The Mystery of Lonnie the Don" digital single
Megadeth - "Youthanasia"
The Rolling Stones - "Exile on Main Street"
Sneeze - "I'm Going To Kill Myself"
Nile - "Ithyphallic"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 1 & 2"
Dead Kennedys - "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables"
Misfits - S/T
6/17/16
Minor Threat - "Complete Discography"
Bad Brains - S/T
V/A - "Nambla Night Fever" or "Hardcore Priapism"
6/18/16
Abandon - "In Reality We Suffer"
6/19/16
Lunice - "Can't Wait To" digital single
Invisible Skratch Piklz - "The Shigger Fragger Show Vol. 3
Post Nothing - "Misinformation" EP
6/20/16
Raped Teenagers - "Jag Gillar Blommer" EP
Poco - "Seven"
Radiohead - "A Moon-Shaped Pool"
Carcass - "Heartwork"
Damian Lazarus & Mathew Johnson - "Going to the Desert" digital single
Tenement - "Bruised Music Vol. 2" compilation
Public Enemy - "Man Plans, God Laughs"
Blindside USA - "Wave of Regret" EP
God Forbid - "IV: Constitution of Treason"
Reik - "Des/Amar"
Apathean - "Eve"
Send Them Sin - "Onset of Obliteration"
Mary Christ - S/T EP
Yesterday's Rising - "When We Speak, We Breathe" EP
Atilla - "About That Life"
6/21/16
Brooks & Dunn - "Brand New Man"
Bryan Adams - "Reckless"
Cattle Decapitation - "The Anthropoceme Extinction"
Julian Cope - "Trip Advizer" EP
Snarky Puppy - "Culeiha Vuleha"
Ambersmoke - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Hannah Wants ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
Philip George & Dragonette - "Feel This Way" digital single
Skepta - "Konnichiwa"
Speedy J - "A Shocking Hobby"
Lotus Fucker - "The Planted Seed: This Time, I Will Show You True Happiness"
Barcode - "Hardcore"
Anti-Dogmatakiss - S/T EP
Ben Folds Five - "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"
August Burns Red - "Messengers"
6/22/16
Ice Hockey - "Wavefunction Collapse" EP
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Iceburn - "Hephaestus"
Septic Flesh - "Sumerian Daemons"
At The Gates - "With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness"
Venom - "Prime Evil"
Horror Dance Squad - "Game Changer"
Francesco Manfredi - "12 Concerti Op. 3"
Raw Power - "Wop Hour" EP
Teena Marie - "Emerald City"
Arch Enemy - "Anthems of Rebellion"
Sparta - "Porcelain"
KMFDM - "Naive"
6/23/16
The Lau - "Hemel Valt" digital single
Mychildren Mybride - "Unbreakable"
Set Your Goals - "Burning At Both Ends"
Kungfu Rick - "Acceptance" EP
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Das Klown - "Rapid Fire"
6/24/16
Political Justice? - "Speaking the Truths & Healing the Wounds" EP
M. Ward - "More Rain"
Omega/Locomotive GT/Beatrice - "Kisstadion '80" live split album
Nile - "What Should Not Be Unearthed"
DRI - "But Wait...There's More!" EP
The Bouncing Souls - "Anchors Aweigh"
Midnight Oil - "Diesel & Dust"
Young Thug - "Slime Season 3" EP
Most Precious Blood - "Nothing In Vain"
Roger Waters - "The Wall" live 2XCD
Mophono X The Gaslamp Killer - "Murder Man" b/w "Xposure" 7"
Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
Growing - "Pumps!"
6/25/16
Wonder Wheel - "21 Succotash Xs"
V/A - Never Lost Records summer compilation CD
Boys Noize & Salva - "Choo Choo" digital single
Hippie Sabotage - "Providence"
Kettle Cadaver - "Halloween"
6/26/16
Funeral Oration - "Discography" 2XCD
Rubix - demo CD
Too $hort - "Born Ta Mack"
KMFDM - "Naive"
Too $hort - "Born Ta Mack"
6/27/16
Suede - "Coming Up"
Carcass - "Symphonies of Sickness"
6/28/16
Headcleaners - "Disinfect" EP
Headcleaners - "The Infection Grows" EP
Dirty Sweet - "...Of Monarchs and Beggars"
Black Thumb - "Wrap Your Troubles In Blue"
The Velvet Underground - "With Nico"
6/30/16
Kept In Line - summer promo
Joeski ft. E-Man - "Clap Yo Handz" digital single
Atari Teenage Riot - "60 Second Wipeout"
Satyricon - "Rebel Extravaganza"
Naughty By Nature - S/T
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: GRiZ, Judiciary, Chunk! No Captain Chunk!, Invisible Skratch Piklz, Poco, Reik, Mary Christ
- Wolfmother is amongst the lamest bands of all music history, coming neck and neck with Atilla
- \_/ played a show with Kite Party headlining just before the Metaphor in Escondido shut down and they were all the way from Philadelphia but my whole crew wanted to mob back home before they played, I was the only one protesting and I'll always feel really bad about that
- I actually bought that Sneeze tape at the aforementioned Kite Party show and then years later listened to them both in the same day...Some things are beyond explanation
- "Stealing People's Mail!"
- New releases by Radiohead, Ambersmoke, Reik, Nile
- Worst of the month: Send Them Sin, Horror Dance Squad
- You know what, I actually enjoyed that Brooks & Dunn album. Call me a brand new man. (See what I did there)
- If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times: KMFDM is a drug against war
- "Every fucking day I have to put up with the sight, smell, and general unhealthiness of another fucking cigarette, you motherfuckers"
- That Naughty By Nature album is FIIIIIRE despite it coming out more than 20 years ago
MOVIES/SHOWS
6/5/16: "Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?"
6/6/16: "Ricky Gervais: Animals"
6/9/16: FINISHED "Short Term 12"
6/10/16: FINISHED: "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
6/12/16: FINISHED "The Color Purple"
6/13/16: "The Human Centipede: First Sequence"
6/14/16: "GWAR: Phallus In Wonderland"
6/16/16: FINISHED "Exit Through The Gift Shop"
6/9/16: "Clueless"
"Bad Teacher"
"Workaholics Season 5" Disc 1
FINISHED "About Alex"
"Three Colors: Red"
6/21/16: FINISHED "Corpse Bride"
6/26/16: FINISHED "A Day Without A Mexican"
PAMPHLETS
6/19/16: "The Pulse" IEHP newsletter Volume 57, summer 2016
MUSIC
6/2/16
Blind Guardian - "Tales From The Twilight World"
Turbonegro - "Scandinavian Leather"
6/3/16
Weed Diamond - "Junior Crumble" EP
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
6/6/16
The Cherry Wave/Airs - split EP
Bo Diddly - S/T
Soilwork - "Figure #5"
Bad Books - "II"
Arctic Monkeys - "Favorite Worst Nightmares"
6/7/16
George Scott & Wiener Philharmonik - "Jeunesse Concerte 2nd December 1968"
Bob Welch - "Man Overboard"
Oh Wonder - S/T
Variants - "Commonwealth" EP
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "The Cross Of My Calling"
GRiZ - "Say It Loud"
Judiciary - "The Axis of Equality" EP
The Scorpions - "Rockers n Ballads - The Best Of"
6/8/16
Kiscsillag - "Szeles"
Despise You - "All Your Majestic Bullshit" single-sided 7"
The Cute Lepers - "Can't Stand Modern Music"
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - "Get Lost, Find Yourself"
Guns Up! - "Game Over" EP
Alvaro & Wiwek - "Fire" digital single
Veil Of Maya - "[id]"
Black Flag - "Damaged"
Quicksand - S/T EP
Charles Bradley - "Changes"
World Be Free - "The Anti-Circle"
Xiu Xiu - "Fabulous Muscles"
A Wilhelm Scream - "Partycrasher"
The Rolling Stones - "Tattoo You"
Deer Tick - "War Elephant"
6/9/16
Thundercat - "The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam" EP
Disturbed - "The Sickness"
Baaur - "Aa"
Jonwayne - "is Retired" EP
Taake - "Noregs Vaapan"
Sonata Arctica - "Reckoning Night" deluxe edition
Tegan and Sara - "Love You To Death"
Myrkur - "Den Lie Piges Dod (The Little Girl's Death)" digital single
3TEETH - "Sell Your Face" digital single
Orden Mundial - "Obediencia Debida" EP
TV On The Radio - "Dear Science"
6/10/16
The B-52's - "Wild Planet"
Megadeth - "Countdown to Extinction"
Wolfmother - S/T
D.R.I. - "Thrash Zone"
6/11/16
Just Nick - "Critters" EP
The Chariot - "The Fiancee"
Morrissey - "Bona Drag"
Remainder - "Set Aside Your Fears"
6/12/16
Gorgoroth - "Destroyer or About How To Philosophize With The Hammer"
Kanye West - "The Life of Pablo"
Survay Says! - "Things I Need To Say"
Motley Crue - "Too Fast For Love"
6/13/16
Lupe Fiasco - "Food & Liquor"
United States - S/T cassette
M.O.P. - "Street Credentials"
Hinds - Fopp Exclusive Bonus Disc promo CD
Tiesto + Oliver Heldens ft. Natalie La Rose - "The Right Song" digital single
Failure Pact - "Late Nights" EP
Major Lazer - "Free The Universe"
SSD - "Power" compilation cassette
W&W - "How Many" digital single
5150 - "1982" EP
Hamatom - "Wir Sind Gott"
Porcupine Tree - "Fear of a Blank Planet"
6/14/16
Expatriate - S/T EP
Orchestra Sinfonica di Sassari - "Antonio Sacchini's La Contadina in Corte 1_2"
Hugo Blanco - "Granfe Exitos"
Stevie Wonder & Andra Day - "Someday at Christmas" digital single
AKKeezdet Phiai - "Koltazur" Disc 1
Disgorge - "Cranial Impalement"
Colin Of Arabia/Blood Stands Still/In Search Of/Stop This Fall - "Four Scenes, One Family" split
Future Islands - "Post Office Wave Chapel" EP
Donnybrook/Piece By Piece - "There Goes The Neighborhood" split EP
The Junior Varsity -"Cinematographic"
6/15/16
White Fang - "Pure Evil"
Emarosa -S/T
Alesso ft. Nico & Vinz - "I Wanna Know" digital single
Born Of Osiris - "Tomorrow We Die Alive"
Gorgoroth - "Incipit Satan"
Cannibal Corpse - "Gore Obsessed"
Cradle Of Filth - "Hammer of the Witch"
Deerhunter - "Fading Frontier"
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - "Blood Lust"
Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth"
V/A - "Songs From The Hydra Head Hype Machine: Volume One...Or Did You Mean Hawaiian Souvlaki?"
Glocca Morra - "Ghoul Intentions" EP
S.O.B. - "Leave Me Alone"
6/16/16
Haymaker - S/T
Kite Party - "Baseball Season"
Dead To Me - "Little Brother" EP
Ensiferum - "Iron"
The Who - "My Generation Blues '75" 7"
Shabazz Palaces - "The Mystery of Lonnie the Don" digital single
Megadeth - "Youthanasia"
The Rolling Stones - "Exile on Main Street"
Sneeze - "I'm Going To Kill Myself"
Nile - "Ithyphallic"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 1 & 2"
Dead Kennedys - "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables"
Misfits - S/T
6/17/16
Minor Threat - "Complete Discography"
Bad Brains - S/T
V/A - "Nambla Night Fever" or "Hardcore Priapism"
6/18/16
Abandon - "In Reality We Suffer"
6/19/16
Lunice - "Can't Wait To" digital single
Invisible Skratch Piklz - "The Shigger Fragger Show Vol. 3
Post Nothing - "Misinformation" EP
6/20/16
Raped Teenagers - "Jag Gillar Blommer" EP
Poco - "Seven"
Radiohead - "A Moon-Shaped Pool"
Carcass - "Heartwork"
Damian Lazarus & Mathew Johnson - "Going to the Desert" digital single
Tenement - "Bruised Music Vol. 2" compilation
Public Enemy - "Man Plans, God Laughs"
Blindside USA - "Wave of Regret" EP
God Forbid - "IV: Constitution of Treason"
Reik - "Des/Amar"
Apathean - "Eve"
Send Them Sin - "Onset of Obliteration"
Mary Christ - S/T EP
Yesterday's Rising - "When We Speak, We Breathe" EP
Atilla - "About That Life"
6/21/16
Brooks & Dunn - "Brand New Man"
Bryan Adams - "Reckless"
Cattle Decapitation - "The Anthropoceme Extinction"
Julian Cope - "Trip Advizer" EP
Snarky Puppy - "Culeiha Vuleha"
Ambersmoke - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Hannah Wants ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
Philip George & Dragonette - "Feel This Way" digital single
Skepta - "Konnichiwa"
Speedy J - "A Shocking Hobby"
Lotus Fucker - "The Planted Seed: This Time, I Will Show You True Happiness"
Barcode - "Hardcore"
Anti-Dogmatakiss - S/T EP
Ben Folds Five - "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner"
August Burns Red - "Messengers"
6/22/16
Ice Hockey - "Wavefunction Collapse" EP
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Iceburn - "Hephaestus"
Septic Flesh - "Sumerian Daemons"
At The Gates - "With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness"
Venom - "Prime Evil"
Horror Dance Squad - "Game Changer"
Francesco Manfredi - "12 Concerti Op. 3"
Raw Power - "Wop Hour" EP
Teena Marie - "Emerald City"
Arch Enemy - "Anthems of Rebellion"
Sparta - "Porcelain"
KMFDM - "Naive"
6/23/16
The Lau - "Hemel Valt" digital single
Mychildren Mybride - "Unbreakable"
Set Your Goals - "Burning At Both Ends"
Kungfu Rick - "Acceptance" EP
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Das Klown - "Rapid Fire"
6/24/16
Political Justice? - "Speaking the Truths & Healing the Wounds" EP
M. Ward - "More Rain"
Omega/Locomotive GT/Beatrice - "Kisstadion '80" live split album
Nile - "What Should Not Be Unearthed"
DRI - "But Wait...There's More!" EP
The Bouncing Souls - "Anchors Aweigh"
Midnight Oil - "Diesel & Dust"
Young Thug - "Slime Season 3" EP
Most Precious Blood - "Nothing In Vain"
Roger Waters - "The Wall" live 2XCD
Mophono X The Gaslamp Killer - "Murder Man" b/w "Xposure" 7"
Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
Growing - "Pumps!"
6/25/16
Wonder Wheel - "21 Succotash Xs"
V/A - Never Lost Records summer compilation CD
Boys Noize & Salva - "Choo Choo" digital single
Hippie Sabotage - "Providence"
Kettle Cadaver - "Halloween"
6/26/16
Funeral Oration - "Discography" 2XCD
Rubix - demo CD
Too $hort - "Born Ta Mack"
KMFDM - "Naive"
Too $hort - "Born Ta Mack"
6/27/16
Suede - "Coming Up"
Carcass - "Symphonies of Sickness"
6/28/16
Headcleaners - "Disinfect" EP
Headcleaners - "The Infection Grows" EP
Dirty Sweet - "...Of Monarchs and Beggars"
Black Thumb - "Wrap Your Troubles In Blue"
The Velvet Underground - "With Nico"
6/30/16
Kept In Line - summer promo
Joeski ft. E-Man - "Clap Yo Handz" digital single
Atari Teenage Riot - "60 Second Wipeout"
Satyricon - "Rebel Extravaganza"
Naughty By Nature - S/T
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: GRiZ, Judiciary, Chunk! No Captain Chunk!, Invisible Skratch Piklz, Poco, Reik, Mary Christ
- Wolfmother is amongst the lamest bands of all music history, coming neck and neck with Atilla
- \_/ played a show with Kite Party headlining just before the Metaphor in Escondido shut down and they were all the way from Philadelphia but my whole crew wanted to mob back home before they played, I was the only one protesting and I'll always feel really bad about that
- I actually bought that Sneeze tape at the aforementioned Kite Party show and then years later listened to them both in the same day...Some things are beyond explanation
- "Stealing People's Mail!"
- New releases by Radiohead, Ambersmoke, Reik, Nile
- Worst of the month: Send Them Sin, Horror Dance Squad
- You know what, I actually enjoyed that Brooks & Dunn album. Call me a brand new man. (See what I did there)
- If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times: KMFDM is a drug against war
- "Every fucking day I have to put up with the sight, smell, and general unhealthiness of another fucking cigarette, you motherfuckers"
- That Naughty By Nature album is FIIIIIRE despite it coming out more than 20 years ago
MOVIES/SHOWS
6/5/16: "Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?"
6/6/16: "Ricky Gervais: Animals"
6/9/16: FINISHED "Short Term 12"
6/10/16: FINISHED: "Lee Daniels' The Butler"
6/12/16: FINISHED "The Color Purple"
6/13/16: "The Human Centipede: First Sequence"
6/14/16: "GWAR: Phallus In Wonderland"
6/16/16: FINISHED "Exit Through The Gift Shop"
6/9/16: "Clueless"
"Bad Teacher"
"Workaholics Season 5" Disc 1
FINISHED "About Alex"
"Three Colors: Red"
6/21/16: FINISHED "Corpse Bride"
6/26/16: FINISHED "A Day Without A Mexican"
PAMPHLETS
6/19/16: "The Pulse" IEHP newsletter Volume 57, summer 2016
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A Walk To The Store
Pt. 1
I stood there, not knowing what I was so afraid of.
Pt. 2
The Difference Between Balconies and Ledges is the railing security. On a ledge, a strong zephyr could push a stationary object into the implied abyss without much resistance, but on a balcony the railing will hold it there. For something to fall off a balcony it would be either a result of carelessness or deliberance. Either something got knocked off the sill by, lets generously say, a sauntering cat, ot else it had purposely been thrown.
Perhaps it threw itself.
But intent is an element on a balcony. With a ledge its all nature. Nothing is stopping the wind from pushing things off the edge.
Pt. 3
Jessica was outside smoking a cigarette and peering over the rail, looking deeply at who knows what. Beside her leaning arm was her mug of coffee, sweetened beyond my own tastes. I told her I'd be leaving and asked if she needed anything. Without changing pose she replied in the negative. I could see she had her thoughts.
Pt. 4
From my apartment to the store there is a sidewalk trail separating the housing complex from an adjacent park where children practice sports. The first thing you come across when you pass the threshold from private to public domain is a small gated dog park where bored adults sit and sigh to the ether as their animals for once let loose.
Normally, passing this area is a small joy, what with the unstoppable spirit prancing by the gate. But that day I was confronted by a large German shepherd who had ran out of the unlocked fence and sprinted around the side landscaping to growl at me.
Having spent my life around beasts of all kinds, I'm accustomed to unprovoked aggression, but it still causes alarm. I stepped back and cooed "puppy..." as though it were my own, but as soon as the word left my mouth I heard a second growl from behind my back.
The first dog's companion had produced hinself behind me and had me cornered at the edge of the chain-link fence. Despite my love of animals and nature, I also know that those things can be unpredictable. They can be dangerous.
I put my back to the fence and lightly muttered "no..." when the canine's owner ran out from the park and yelled "get back here!!!" towards his pets and almost concurrently "don't worry, they're nice" towards me. I accepted his platitude and he furthered, "they're never like this. I don't know what set them off."
The dogs ran back to their owner and I continued walking down the trail, shaken but still...
A voice came down spitefully from an unseeable balcony above the exterior fence, from my own apartment complex but from a section I am unfamiliar with, from some disembodied person who apparently witnessed my apprehension as they enjoyed their coffee and cigarettes.
He said, "I would have attacked you too."
I was flabbergasted at such an expression of impossible hostility, but then I realized I wss wearing Chargers blue, and even though I'm in Southern California, this will always be Raiders Nation for some reason.
Fucking animals.
Pt. 5
The end of the trail has multiple pairs of tied-together shoes hanging from the phone posts above. I've always wondered who does this because I walk down this trail all the time and not once have I seen an altercation or instance of bullying. But the amount of shoes on the line indicates that at some point in the recent past, some kind of low-level predator predated.
The thought of walking back without ample footing is a dismal one indeed.
I passed through the Town Center, past the gym and the beauty salon and the retail box where people spend entirely too much time purchasing things they barely want and do not need.
The sheer amount of products in that store is a reflection of how much is returned. As long as you keep your receipt you can continue that process of hyper-consumption ad infinitum without truly seeing a cost. You just return.
My path through the drug store is always very deliberate. The seventh aisle holds what I want. I pick it up and head to the register, awkwardly waiting behind others doing the same. All waiting for the same interaction and outcome.
Sometimes it feels like forever.
The ladies at the counter are familiar with me because I frequent this location fairly often, and despite my tendency towards vice that's clearly indicated by my usual purchases, they all display a certain level of relief upon a somewhat known visage.
Perhaps it is because I return.
Predictability can dull most anything, and comfort comes from the known.
During my exchange at the counter, three adolescents in baggy clothes walked in and immediately walked to the candy area, which happened to be directly next to the cashier station we were at. They grabbed some sweets and left our vicinity towards the beverage area.
With accusatory eyes peering - following them - the cashier said to me, "I always forget when kids start wearing jackets in here; I'm in the air conditioning all day so I don't feel the seasons change."
There was an implied air of aloof humor in her statement, but what she was actually saying was "I thought those hoodlum youths were going to attack and rob us both."
It was an odd thing to hear from this lady. Those kids looked like my little brother's friends.
I wonder what she really think about me.
Pt.6
On the way home I again pass by the storefronts underneath a concrete awning still bearing the faded imprinted insignias of former occupants. I glance at my reflection from the passing windows here and there to make sure I'm still who I think I am, and then then turn away quickly so as to deny my vanity from being seen by anyone else.
Thank goodness this place is empty.
On the way back to the dog-park trail, shoes still hanging overhead in the brewing evening darkness, a sewer system beneath the back alley rushes. In drier seasons, local ne'erdowells traverse the tunnels, now heavily graffitied and fondly nicknamed "Hell."
I went down there one time on Halloween. The walk from beginning to end, eventually pouring out near a medical complex, was just fine. It was the walk back, however, when I felt the needed fear sweep over me.
We realized about halfway through that we had taken the wrong tunnel and we didn't know where we were going, where we would end up, or how long it would take to get back. I had stepped in a puddle and every step I took squished with uncertainty.
We were surrounded by nothing, nothing but our own worry.
"What if I never get back?"
The trail from the store, conversely, is always somehow nicer on the way home, especially during this time of day when the sunset implies night but colors the remaining moments of light as though it were mournful for their loss. I started feeling content with the evening, looking to the sky and accepting that the day was done.
As I reached the top of the hill, near the opening to the dog park where the shepherds had earlier surrounded me, an elderly woman passed through the entrance from the apartment parking lot. She looked up at me as I approached and had a look of utter terror in her eyes when she perceived me. She stood concrete where she stood and clutched her handbag to her chest.
She thought I was going to do something bad. It made me feel odd so I just bowed my head and said "good evening" without making eye contact as I walkes past her, leaving ample room between our persons.
When I looked behind me upon reaching the parking lot she was carefully walking down the sidewalk, looking dead forward and continuing to clutch her things close to herself.
I wonder what she's had to deal with.
Pt. 7
I put my bags in my room and walked out to the balcony, leaning on the ledge and looking nowhere.
I stood there, not knowing what I was so afraid of.
I stood there, not knowing what I was so afraid of.
Pt. 2
The Difference Between Balconies and Ledges is the railing security. On a ledge, a strong zephyr could push a stationary object into the implied abyss without much resistance, but on a balcony the railing will hold it there. For something to fall off a balcony it would be either a result of carelessness or deliberance. Either something got knocked off the sill by, lets generously say, a sauntering cat, ot else it had purposely been thrown.
Perhaps it threw itself.
But intent is an element on a balcony. With a ledge its all nature. Nothing is stopping the wind from pushing things off the edge.
Pt. 3
Jessica was outside smoking a cigarette and peering over the rail, looking deeply at who knows what. Beside her leaning arm was her mug of coffee, sweetened beyond my own tastes. I told her I'd be leaving and asked if she needed anything. Without changing pose she replied in the negative. I could see she had her thoughts.
Pt. 4
From my apartment to the store there is a sidewalk trail separating the housing complex from an adjacent park where children practice sports. The first thing you come across when you pass the threshold from private to public domain is a small gated dog park where bored adults sit and sigh to the ether as their animals for once let loose.
Normally, passing this area is a small joy, what with the unstoppable spirit prancing by the gate. But that day I was confronted by a large German shepherd who had ran out of the unlocked fence and sprinted around the side landscaping to growl at me.
Having spent my life around beasts of all kinds, I'm accustomed to unprovoked aggression, but it still causes alarm. I stepped back and cooed "puppy..." as though it were my own, but as soon as the word left my mouth I heard a second growl from behind my back.
The first dog's companion had produced hinself behind me and had me cornered at the edge of the chain-link fence. Despite my love of animals and nature, I also know that those things can be unpredictable. They can be dangerous.
I put my back to the fence and lightly muttered "no..." when the canine's owner ran out from the park and yelled "get back here!!!" towards his pets and almost concurrently "don't worry, they're nice" towards me. I accepted his platitude and he furthered, "they're never like this. I don't know what set them off."
The dogs ran back to their owner and I continued walking down the trail, shaken but still...
A voice came down spitefully from an unseeable balcony above the exterior fence, from my own apartment complex but from a section I am unfamiliar with, from some disembodied person who apparently witnessed my apprehension as they enjoyed their coffee and cigarettes.
He said, "I would have attacked you too."
I was flabbergasted at such an expression of impossible hostility, but then I realized I wss wearing Chargers blue, and even though I'm in Southern California, this will always be Raiders Nation for some reason.
Fucking animals.
Pt. 5
The end of the trail has multiple pairs of tied-together shoes hanging from the phone posts above. I've always wondered who does this because I walk down this trail all the time and not once have I seen an altercation or instance of bullying. But the amount of shoes on the line indicates that at some point in the recent past, some kind of low-level predator predated.
The thought of walking back without ample footing is a dismal one indeed.
I passed through the Town Center, past the gym and the beauty salon and the retail box where people spend entirely too much time purchasing things they barely want and do not need.
The sheer amount of products in that store is a reflection of how much is returned. As long as you keep your receipt you can continue that process of hyper-consumption ad infinitum without truly seeing a cost. You just return.
My path through the drug store is always very deliberate. The seventh aisle holds what I want. I pick it up and head to the register, awkwardly waiting behind others doing the same. All waiting for the same interaction and outcome.
Sometimes it feels like forever.
The ladies at the counter are familiar with me because I frequent this location fairly often, and despite my tendency towards vice that's clearly indicated by my usual purchases, they all display a certain level of relief upon a somewhat known visage.
Perhaps it is because I return.
Predictability can dull most anything, and comfort comes from the known.
During my exchange at the counter, three adolescents in baggy clothes walked in and immediately walked to the candy area, which happened to be directly next to the cashier station we were at. They grabbed some sweets and left our vicinity towards the beverage area.
With accusatory eyes peering - following them - the cashier said to me, "I always forget when kids start wearing jackets in here; I'm in the air conditioning all day so I don't feel the seasons change."
There was an implied air of aloof humor in her statement, but what she was actually saying was "I thought those hoodlum youths were going to attack and rob us both."
It was an odd thing to hear from this lady. Those kids looked like my little brother's friends.
I wonder what she really think about me.
Pt.6
On the way home I again pass by the storefronts underneath a concrete awning still bearing the faded imprinted insignias of former occupants. I glance at my reflection from the passing windows here and there to make sure I'm still who I think I am, and then then turn away quickly so as to deny my vanity from being seen by anyone else.
Thank goodness this place is empty.
On the way back to the dog-park trail, shoes still hanging overhead in the brewing evening darkness, a sewer system beneath the back alley rushes. In drier seasons, local ne'erdowells traverse the tunnels, now heavily graffitied and fondly nicknamed "Hell."
I went down there one time on Halloween. The walk from beginning to end, eventually pouring out near a medical complex, was just fine. It was the walk back, however, when I felt the needed fear sweep over me.
We realized about halfway through that we had taken the wrong tunnel and we didn't know where we were going, where we would end up, or how long it would take to get back. I had stepped in a puddle and every step I took squished with uncertainty.
We were surrounded by nothing, nothing but our own worry.
"What if I never get back?"
The trail from the store, conversely, is always somehow nicer on the way home, especially during this time of day when the sunset implies night but colors the remaining moments of light as though it were mournful for their loss. I started feeling content with the evening, looking to the sky and accepting that the day was done.
As I reached the top of the hill, near the opening to the dog park where the shepherds had earlier surrounded me, an elderly woman passed through the entrance from the apartment parking lot. She looked up at me as I approached and had a look of utter terror in her eyes when she perceived me. She stood concrete where she stood and clutched her handbag to her chest.
She thought I was going to do something bad. It made me feel odd so I just bowed my head and said "good evening" without making eye contact as I walkes past her, leaving ample room between our persons.
When I looked behind me upon reaching the parking lot she was carefully walking down the sidewalk, looking dead forward and continuing to clutch her things close to herself.
I wonder what she's had to deal with.
Pt. 7
I put my bags in my room and walked out to the balcony, leaning on the ledge and looking nowhere.
I stood there, not knowing what I was so afraid of.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
INTERVIEW: Lance from Variants, April 30th 2016 at The Dial
Variants is a pop-punk/emo band from New Orleans who played at The Dial's final show in Temecula, CA on April 30th and after their set I had a short conversation with the vocalist Lance. Check it out.
IAN: Alright this is Ian, I'm here with Lance from Variants...I just watched you guys here at The Dial; this is the last show we're ever gonna do here. You guys are from New Orleans?
LANCE: Yes sir
I: That's a long way from home
L: Yes, it is
I: Do you normally play places like this?
L: We usually try to stay local but we booked this last thing a few months ago and we really wanted to branch out, see new places and everything
I: I see you've got this album called "Commonwealth;" is the first thing you've released on this level?
L: No, we have a full-length out called "The Concept of Color." We released that about 2 years ago, about that, but this is the first thing in our new direction.
I: Sure. Now, I don't know if this will come as an insult or as a compliment; you guys sound to me, especially your voice: {early] Fall Out Boy.
L: I have heard that a lot.
I: How do you feel about that?
L: I love Fall Out Boy. "Take This To Your Grave" is probably one of my top 5 albums ever.
I: Now I'm just gonna be blunt: you are a great singer, but communicating, I can see you have a bit of a stutter
L: Yes I do
I: Do you know if that's a genetic thing or a nervous thing or...
L: I have had a stutter since I was 2 [years old], but singing is on the left side of the brain and speaking is on the right, so that something to do with it, I guess
I: Well either way you're a great singer
L: Thank you so much man
I: So where are you guys going from here?
L: Tomorrow we are playing the Chain Reaction actually
I: How long have you been on the road so far?
L: This is day 8 of about 30 days
I: God Damn
L: Yeah it should be pretty fun
I: So do you guys have anything coming to follow this album?
L: Yes, we are going into the studio around late June-ish, around there. Hopefully we'll have something new out by the turn of the new year.
I: Hey, there you go. Well again, you had a great set tonight, I really enjoyed your shit and I wish you well on the tour
L: Hell yeah, thanks dude
I: The last thing I always ask people when I'm talking to them: What's your favorite breakfast food?
L: Breakfast food? Oh dude, oh fuck...honestly man I'd say french toast. I'm a huge french toast guy.
I: There you go. That's a perfect answer. Well thank you again, Lance
L: Absolutely
I: I hope everything goes well on the rest of your trip
https://variantsmusic.bandcamp.com/
IAN: Alright this is Ian, I'm here with Lance from Variants...I just watched you guys here at The Dial; this is the last show we're ever gonna do here. You guys are from New Orleans?
LANCE: Yes sir
I: That's a long way from home
L: Yes, it is
I: Do you normally play places like this?
L: We usually try to stay local but we booked this last thing a few months ago and we really wanted to branch out, see new places and everything
I: I see you've got this album called "Commonwealth;" is the first thing you've released on this level?
L: No, we have a full-length out called "The Concept of Color." We released that about 2 years ago, about that, but this is the first thing in our new direction.
I: Sure. Now, I don't know if this will come as an insult or as a compliment; you guys sound to me, especially your voice: {early] Fall Out Boy.
L: I have heard that a lot.
I: How do you feel about that?
L: I love Fall Out Boy. "Take This To Your Grave" is probably one of my top 5 albums ever.
I: Now I'm just gonna be blunt: you are a great singer, but communicating, I can see you have a bit of a stutter
L: Yes I do
I: Do you know if that's a genetic thing or a nervous thing or...
L: I have had a stutter since I was 2 [years old], but singing is on the left side of the brain and speaking is on the right, so that something to do with it, I guess
I: Well either way you're a great singer
L: Thank you so much man
I: So where are you guys going from here?
L: Tomorrow we are playing the Chain Reaction actually
I: How long have you been on the road so far?
L: This is day 8 of about 30 days
I: God Damn
L: Yeah it should be pretty fun
I: So do you guys have anything coming to follow this album?
L: Yes, we are going into the studio around late June-ish, around there. Hopefully we'll have something new out by the turn of the new year.
I: Hey, there you go. Well again, you had a great set tonight, I really enjoyed your shit and I wish you well on the tour
L: Hell yeah, thanks dude
I: The last thing I always ask people when I'm talking to them: What's your favorite breakfast food?
L: Breakfast food? Oh dude, oh fuck...honestly man I'd say french toast. I'm a huge french toast guy.
I: There you go. That's a perfect answer. Well thank you again, Lance
L: Absolutely
I: I hope everything goes well on the rest of your trip
https://variantsmusic.bandcamp.com/
Monday, June 13, 2016
ALBUM REVIEW: Thrice - "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere"
I didn't even know Thrice had even been on hiatus. I kinda stopped paying attention after "The Alchemy Index" EPs, honestly, but I always held them as a band in fairly high regard. I love their early stuff and "The Artist in the Ambulance" was on nearly constant repeat for awhile in my high school girlfriend's room. I found their transformation from emo-punk to hard alt-rock to be somewhat disappointing and boring, but I could see what they were going for. It was still quality output, if a bit slow and pretentious for my tastes.
Apparently they took a break after their 2012 album "Majors/Minors," which I never listened to so I can't comment on how far removed that last effort is from this new one. I can say, however, that this new album "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" is a million miles away even from the toned-down Thrice I had already written off a decade ago.
First of all, vocalist Dustin Kensrue doesn't sound like old self whatsoever. He still sounds strained and gruff but it just somehow doesn't sound like the same singer to me. I noticed it right away and it's weird. I can't illustrate this aspect of the album more clearly, or make a bigger insult regarding his vocals, than what my roommate asked me as I was making my breakfast whilst blasting the album through our living room TV:
"Are you listening to fucking Daughtry?"
Dusty, I'm sure that hurts, and you deserve the pain.
Much like bands younger than them, such as A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon, Thrice's new material is almost completely stripped of their roots in punk/hardcore/emo/etc. and seems to be entirely catered to the festival market in its insipid accessibility. Its like if Kings Of Leon made an attempt at a post-hardcore-esque album. The song "Stay With Me," in particular, sounds like it was pre-planned for an uplifting reality-show montage, it's so cheesy. I expect this kind of shit out of the All-American Rejects or All Time Low, not you, Thrice.
The end of the album has some slight reminders of the style most Thrice fans are akin to, particularly the song "Whistleblower," but its a case of being too little too late, too far into the mess. If my roommate thinks you sound like Daughtry, he's not gonna get far enough into the album to hear the 2 songs that kinda sound like old Thrice. It's a statement to my music-OCD that I made it that far myself.
The last song is a mixed bag; it displays the more-mainstream affectation that Kensrue has put on his voice to its worst dimension, sounding somewhere in-between the singers of The Flaming Lips and Deer Tick but without either of their irony. It is, however, the most tranquil and subtle song on the album; for some reason it reminded me of a more-electrified version of "Farewell and Goodnight" by The Smashing Pumpkins. That's far and away the best thing I can say about this album, and that's really not even a standout Pumpkins song.
I'm sure this album will get its fair share of coverage because of the aforementioned hiatus, but in my ears this 'comeback' album doesn't even sound like the band I used to love at all. Instead it's something that I normally would have avoided if not for the name of the band.
Unfortunately, strongly not recommended.
Apparently they took a break after their 2012 album "Majors/Minors," which I never listened to so I can't comment on how far removed that last effort is from this new one. I can say, however, that this new album "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" is a million miles away even from the toned-down Thrice I had already written off a decade ago.
First of all, vocalist Dustin Kensrue doesn't sound like old self whatsoever. He still sounds strained and gruff but it just somehow doesn't sound like the same singer to me. I noticed it right away and it's weird. I can't illustrate this aspect of the album more clearly, or make a bigger insult regarding his vocals, than what my roommate asked me as I was making my breakfast whilst blasting the album through our living room TV:
"Are you listening to fucking Daughtry?"
Dusty, I'm sure that hurts, and you deserve the pain.
Much like bands younger than them, such as A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon, Thrice's new material is almost completely stripped of their roots in punk/hardcore/emo/etc. and seems to be entirely catered to the festival market in its insipid accessibility. Its like if Kings Of Leon made an attempt at a post-hardcore-esque album. The song "Stay With Me," in particular, sounds like it was pre-planned for an uplifting reality-show montage, it's so cheesy. I expect this kind of shit out of the All-American Rejects or All Time Low, not you, Thrice.
The end of the album has some slight reminders of the style most Thrice fans are akin to, particularly the song "Whistleblower," but its a case of being too little too late, too far into the mess. If my roommate thinks you sound like Daughtry, he's not gonna get far enough into the album to hear the 2 songs that kinda sound like old Thrice. It's a statement to my music-OCD that I made it that far myself.
The last song is a mixed bag; it displays the more-mainstream affectation that Kensrue has put on his voice to its worst dimension, sounding somewhere in-between the singers of The Flaming Lips and Deer Tick but without either of their irony. It is, however, the most tranquil and subtle song on the album; for some reason it reminded me of a more-electrified version of "Farewell and Goodnight" by The Smashing Pumpkins. That's far and away the best thing I can say about this album, and that's really not even a standout Pumpkins song.
I'm sure this album will get its fair share of coverage because of the aforementioned hiatus, but in my ears this 'comeback' album doesn't even sound like the band I used to love at all. Instead it's something that I normally would have avoided if not for the name of the band.
Unfortunately, strongly not recommended.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Playlist for May 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of May 2016, as well lists of things I watched, saw live, and read during the same time period; notes regarding all follow. Enjoy.
MUSIC
5/1/16
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
V/A - "Metal For The Masses Vol. 666" Century Media Records sampler CD
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Parade Of The Lifeless - "The Anatomy of a People's Bondage"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - 9-song demo CD
Coerced - May 2016 demo
5/2/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Art Damage"
Tourist ft. Josef Salva & Niia - "Holding On" digital single
Burn - "Last Great Sea" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "By Chance" single
Power Trip/Integrity - split EP
EZLV/Romy - "Home" EP
Toxic Holocaust - "Conjure & Command"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
SUNK - S/T EP
Los Lobos - "Gates of Gold"
Neon Trees - "Animal" b/w "Call My Name" single
Krisiun - "Bloodshed"
Strike Anywhere - "Exit English"
Elbow - "Asleep in the Back"
5/3/16
Traps PS - "Real Corner Shock"
Dan Deacon - "Spiderman of the Rings"
Los Monjo - "La Vida Que Todos Envidian"
Indian Summer - "Science 1994" compilation
BTS - "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever"
Bon Jovi - "Slippery When Wet"
Bad Religion - S/T EP
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Insomnium - "In The Halls Of Waiting"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Gallows - "Orchestra of Wolves"
5/4/16
Violent Femmes - S/T
Rudimentary Peni - "Cacophony"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
Walls Of Jericho - "No One Can Save You From Yourself"
Cranium - "Speed Metal Sentence"
Born Against - S/T EP
Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love"
The 257ers - "Schrottmusik" EP
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
5/5/16
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Off The Deep End"
Pain Of Salvation - "Be"
Kids. - "Growing Up" EP
Variants - "LampPost" digital single
Flatbush Zombies - "3001: A Laced Odyssey"
The Wildhearts - "Earth Vs. The Wildhearts"
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - "Blossom"
Frank Turner - "Ten For Ten" compilation
Pierce The Veil - "A Flair For The Dramatic"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
5/6/16
KISS - "Love Gun"
51D - S/T cassette
Joris Voorn & Joran Van Pol - "Sonic Highway" 12"
Jordan Suckley - "Aztec Curse" digital single
Mercury Rev - "All Is Dream"
Feuerschwanz - "Metvernichter"
Jean-Baptiste Stuck - "Les Festes Bollonoise"
The Go-Betweens - "16 Lovers Lane"
Moderat Likvidation - S/T EP
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
The Fartz - "Because This World Fuckin' Stinks" EP
Articles Of Faith - "What We Want Is Free" EP
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 1
5/7/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Soledad Velez - "Dance & Run"
Black Flag - "My War"
Merit - "The Truth About The Twenties" EP
311 - S/T
5/8/16
The Vibrators - "Pure Mania"
Big Grams - S/T EP
Swells/Marcy - split EP
Invaders - 3-song demo CD
Born Without A Face - "Worship" EP
Feelgood/Scott Henry - "Fever: Time To Get Ill Vol. 4" DJ mix
LCD Soundsystem - "This Is Happening"
Incubus - "Make Yourself"
5/9/16
The Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"
Axwell V Ingrosso - "This Time" digital single
Bloom - S/T cassette
Broiler ft. Tish Hyman - "Fly By Night" digital single
Tragedy - "Vengeance"
Atreyu - "Long Live"
Broken Teeth - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" 7"
Issues - "Diamond Dreams" EP
UZ ft. 12th Planet - "Trap Shit" EP
Government Issue - "Legless Bull" EP
Beyond Creation - "The Aura"
Twisted Sister - "Stay Hungry"
Rubblebucket - "Survival Sounds"
5/10/16
Moby - "Long Ambients 1: Calm & Sleep"
5/11/16
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Culture Abuse - "Peach"
Burn - S/T EP
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat" EP
Horse Lords - "Interventions"
Xiu Xiu - "A Promise"
Nomads - S/T EP
The Blasters - S/T
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
V/A - "Generations: A Hardcore Compilation"
5/12/16
The Melvins - "The Crybaby"
The Flatliners - "Resuscitation of the Year" b/w "Fangs" 7"
Toys That Kill - "Fambly 42"
Foolish Johns - "Kid's Stuff"
Santoros - "Ancestors"
Bob Dylan - "Melancholy Mood" EP
Flying Lotus - "The Black Fist" DJ mix
The Cure - "Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1979-1985"
Primal Fear - "Rulebreaker"
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
5/13/16
From Autumn To Ashes - "Abandon Your Friends"
The Jonbonet - "Ugly/Heartless"
3Oh!3 - "Night Sports"
5/14/16
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
5/15/16
City Deluxe - "Go To The City" digital single
Lasting Impression - "Ending Upon Tragedy" EP
From Ashes Rise/Victims - split
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Meat Grinder - "Misanthropy"
5/16/16
Confide - "Shout The Truth"
The Mad - "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Rival Sons - "All That I Want" digital single
Deftones - "White Pony" (white-cover edition)
Ryan Adams - "1989" Taylor Swift cover album
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Blow in the Wind"
Mudvayne - "L.D.50"
5/17/16
Anthrax - "State Of Euphoria"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
The Roots - "Phrenology"
Fuck-Ups - "FU82" EP
Agent Fresco - "Destrier" deluxe edition
Zoax - "Is Everybody Listening?" EP
Angelic Upstarts - "Teenage Warning"
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
The Prodigy - "The Lost Beats" EP
Fetty Wap ft. Remy Boys - "679" digital single
Rammstein - "Klavier"
The English Dogs - "To The End of the Earth"
5/18/16
Forest Whitaker - "Blobfish"
Hannah West ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
World's Fair - "Bastards of the Party"
Ben Nicky ft. Chloe - "Anywhere" digital single
Beside Myself - "Lights Out" digital single
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
GloryHammer - "1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards"
Henri Sauguet - "Les Fornins"
Gwar - "Beyond Hell"
Burning The Masses - "Volatile Existence" EP
Elbert West - "Livin' the Life"
5/19/16
Frigora - S/T EP
The Mad - "The Hell" EP
Yeasayer - "Amen & Goodbye"
5/20/16
C.D. Truth - "Season 1" CD
HaSkaLa - "US Uber Alles" digital single
EVeryman - "Let Us Shine"
Waxahatchee - "Ivy Tripp"
High Contrast - "Remind Me" digital single
Jodie Abacus - "For Real Life and Not Pretend" EP
General Surgery - "Necrology" EP
Broadside - "Old Bones"
Down To Nothing - "All My Sons" EP
We Came As Romans - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Doomsday Machine"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
88 Fingers Louie - "Back on the Streets"
5/21/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Samhain - "Initium" EP
5/22/16
Seven Generations - "To See The End"
5/23/16
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
Turbonegro - "Apocalypse Dudes"
5/24/16
Whilk & Misky - "Clap Your Hands (Solomon remix)" single
Cold Cave - "Nothing Is True But You" digital single
Wolf Parade - "4" EP
Code Orange - "I Am King"
Deicide - S/T
Deicide - "Legion"
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/25/16
Discharge - "End Of Days"
Bustie - "The Shade Is Real" demos
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/26/16
Off With Their Heads - "Home"
Luna - "Lunapark"
Paul McCartney & Wings Vs. Timo Maas & James Teej - "1985" 12"
Parliament - "Chocolate City"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ground Up - 4-song 2008 demo
5/27/16
Chron Gen - "Chronic Generation"
Neurosis - "Given to the Rising"
Armored Saint - "March of the Saint"
Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
5/29/16
Smut - "Schnell Laut Schwer" EP
Mr. Bungle - S/T
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - "Blackout"/"Resurrection"/"Life is a Rebirth" 7"
Plattenbau - "Body of Desire" EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Arneson - 2-song promo CD
Dead Poetic - "Vices"
Atomkinder - S/T EP
5/30/16
Nora - S/T
Inocentes - "Adeus Carne"
Youth Korps - S/T EP
Thrice - "To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere"
Strike Anywhere - "Live Naked, Die Naked" EP
5/31/16
Secret Hate - "Vegetables Dancing"
The Rejectors - "Thoughts of War" EP
Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
Stille Volk - "Nueit de Sabbat"
Snapcase - "Progression Through Unlearning"
MUSIC NOTES
- That Century Media CD has a bunch of dope songs on it I'm glad I re-found it; on a related note, that "Generations" mix has a Fucked Up song at the end that I love so much I've been re-listening to almost every day...Fucked Up is just an amazing band
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Coerced, Flatbush Zombies, The Wildhearts, Big Grams, Forest Whitaker, World's Fair, Luna, Chron Gen, Plattenbau, Inocentes
- "Somehow, I never leave this Dead House"
- New releases by Coerced, Walls Of Jericho, Big Grams, Atreyu, Moby, Culture Abuse, Bob Dylan, Waxahatchee, Code Orange, and Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge are all on point
- "I get this funny feeling that you don't love me anymore..."
- I've been recommended Flatbush Zombies for several years now and I regret sleeping on them, they rule
- "Can't Hardly Wait"
- If a band released an album like "Love Gun" today they'd be ostracized for the sheer level of misogyny...or they'd be Steel Panther
- "What We Want Is Free"
- Thin Lizzy's song "Sarah" is like the greatest thing ever
- Some of the lyrics on Culture Abuse's new album really hit home for me, very good stuff
- "Let's Face It" is one of the most listened-to CDs in my entire gigantic collection despite it being so drastically more upbeat than most of my other favorites...maybe that's why I turn to it so often, come to think of it
- Meat Grinder was so underrated even in the-then much-smaller Temecula scene they were from in the late 90s but goddamn those dudes could wail
- If anybody wants that Confide CD you can have it but be warned, I'm gonna judge you
- I know that Chino Moreno regrets "Back To School" but goddamn that song is badass
- Who would have guessed that Ryan Adams covering a very recent Taylor Swift album in full would be such a good listen
- It's a real shame about the dissolution of Crisis Arm because their final album "Rend" has only gotten better with time
- "We may not be The Young Ones very long"
- I can't believe I had never even heard of Luna, Chron Gen, or Inocentes before now ...Inocentes especially is fucking awesome, like if The Adicts spoke Spanish
- The new Thrice album is so disappointing that I wrote a fairly lengthy review of how bad I thought it was...look for that soon
MOVIES
5/1/16: "Amelie"
"Pleasantville"
5/3/16: "For A Good Time, Call..."
5/4/16: "The Brass Teapot"
5/8/16: FINISHED "Lolita"
5/12/16: "The Voices"
5/16/16: FINISHED "The Aviator"
5/21/16: FINISHED "Tapeheads"
5/28/16: FINISHED "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
"Don't Be A Menace To South Central"
5/30/16: FINISHED "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"Eyes Wide Shut"
LIVE
5/29/16: Glacial Blue @ 3rd Street Bar
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit the bassist for Glacial Blue was like the best bassist I've ever seen
MUSIC
5/1/16
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
V/A - "Metal For The Masses Vol. 666" Century Media Records sampler CD
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Parade Of The Lifeless - "The Anatomy of a People's Bondage"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - 9-song demo CD
Coerced - May 2016 demo
5/2/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Art Damage"
Tourist ft. Josef Salva & Niia - "Holding On" digital single
Burn - "Last Great Sea" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "By Chance" single
Power Trip/Integrity - split EP
EZLV/Romy - "Home" EP
Toxic Holocaust - "Conjure & Command"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
SUNK - S/T EP
Los Lobos - "Gates of Gold"
Neon Trees - "Animal" b/w "Call My Name" single
Krisiun - "Bloodshed"
Strike Anywhere - "Exit English"
Elbow - "Asleep in the Back"
5/3/16
Traps PS - "Real Corner Shock"
Dan Deacon - "Spiderman of the Rings"
Los Monjo - "La Vida Que Todos Envidian"
Indian Summer - "Science 1994" compilation
BTS - "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever"
Bon Jovi - "Slippery When Wet"
Bad Religion - S/T EP
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Insomnium - "In The Halls Of Waiting"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Gallows - "Orchestra of Wolves"
5/4/16
Violent Femmes - S/T
Rudimentary Peni - "Cacophony"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
Walls Of Jericho - "No One Can Save You From Yourself"
Cranium - "Speed Metal Sentence"
Born Against - S/T EP
Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love"
The 257ers - "Schrottmusik" EP
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
5/5/16
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Off The Deep End"
Pain Of Salvation - "Be"
Kids. - "Growing Up" EP
Variants - "LampPost" digital single
Flatbush Zombies - "3001: A Laced Odyssey"
The Wildhearts - "Earth Vs. The Wildhearts"
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - "Blossom"
Frank Turner - "Ten For Ten" compilation
Pierce The Veil - "A Flair For The Dramatic"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
5/6/16
KISS - "Love Gun"
51D - S/T cassette
Joris Voorn & Joran Van Pol - "Sonic Highway" 12"
Jordan Suckley - "Aztec Curse" digital single
Mercury Rev - "All Is Dream"
Feuerschwanz - "Metvernichter"
Jean-Baptiste Stuck - "Les Festes Bollonoise"
The Go-Betweens - "16 Lovers Lane"
Moderat Likvidation - S/T EP
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
The Fartz - "Because This World Fuckin' Stinks" EP
Articles Of Faith - "What We Want Is Free" EP
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 1
5/7/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Soledad Velez - "Dance & Run"
Black Flag - "My War"
Merit - "The Truth About The Twenties" EP
311 - S/T
5/8/16
The Vibrators - "Pure Mania"
Big Grams - S/T EP
Swells/Marcy - split EP
Invaders - 3-song demo CD
Born Without A Face - "Worship" EP
Feelgood/Scott Henry - "Fever: Time To Get Ill Vol. 4" DJ mix
LCD Soundsystem - "This Is Happening"
Incubus - "Make Yourself"
5/9/16
The Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"
Axwell V Ingrosso - "This Time" digital single
Bloom - S/T cassette
Broiler ft. Tish Hyman - "Fly By Night" digital single
Tragedy - "Vengeance"
Atreyu - "Long Live"
Broken Teeth - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" 7"
Issues - "Diamond Dreams" EP
UZ ft. 12th Planet - "Trap Shit" EP
Government Issue - "Legless Bull" EP
Beyond Creation - "The Aura"
Twisted Sister - "Stay Hungry"
Rubblebucket - "Survival Sounds"
5/10/16
Moby - "Long Ambients 1: Calm & Sleep"
5/11/16
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Culture Abuse - "Peach"
Burn - S/T EP
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat" EP
Horse Lords - "Interventions"
Xiu Xiu - "A Promise"
Nomads - S/T EP
The Blasters - S/T
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
V/A - "Generations: A Hardcore Compilation"
5/12/16
The Melvins - "The Crybaby"
The Flatliners - "Resuscitation of the Year" b/w "Fangs" 7"
Toys That Kill - "Fambly 42"
Foolish Johns - "Kid's Stuff"
Santoros - "Ancestors"
Bob Dylan - "Melancholy Mood" EP
Flying Lotus - "The Black Fist" DJ mix
The Cure - "Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1979-1985"
Primal Fear - "Rulebreaker"
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
5/13/16
From Autumn To Ashes - "Abandon Your Friends"
The Jonbonet - "Ugly/Heartless"
3Oh!3 - "Night Sports"
5/14/16
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
5/15/16
City Deluxe - "Go To The City" digital single
Lasting Impression - "Ending Upon Tragedy" EP
From Ashes Rise/Victims - split
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Meat Grinder - "Misanthropy"
5/16/16
Confide - "Shout The Truth"
The Mad - "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Rival Sons - "All That I Want" digital single
Deftones - "White Pony" (white-cover edition)
Ryan Adams - "1989" Taylor Swift cover album
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Blow in the Wind"
Mudvayne - "L.D.50"
5/17/16
Anthrax - "State Of Euphoria"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
The Roots - "Phrenology"
Fuck-Ups - "FU82" EP
Agent Fresco - "Destrier" deluxe edition
Zoax - "Is Everybody Listening?" EP
Angelic Upstarts - "Teenage Warning"
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
The Prodigy - "The Lost Beats" EP
Fetty Wap ft. Remy Boys - "679" digital single
Rammstein - "Klavier"
The English Dogs - "To The End of the Earth"
5/18/16
Forest Whitaker - "Blobfish"
Hannah West ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
World's Fair - "Bastards of the Party"
Ben Nicky ft. Chloe - "Anywhere" digital single
Beside Myself - "Lights Out" digital single
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
GloryHammer - "1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards"
Henri Sauguet - "Les Fornins"
Gwar - "Beyond Hell"
Burning The Masses - "Volatile Existence" EP
Elbert West - "Livin' the Life"
5/19/16
Frigora - S/T EP
The Mad - "The Hell" EP
Yeasayer - "Amen & Goodbye"
5/20/16
C.D. Truth - "Season 1" CD
HaSkaLa - "US Uber Alles" digital single
EVeryman - "Let Us Shine"
Waxahatchee - "Ivy Tripp"
High Contrast - "Remind Me" digital single
Jodie Abacus - "For Real Life and Not Pretend" EP
General Surgery - "Necrology" EP
Broadside - "Old Bones"
Down To Nothing - "All My Sons" EP
We Came As Romans - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Doomsday Machine"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
88 Fingers Louie - "Back on the Streets"
5/21/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Samhain - "Initium" EP
5/22/16
Seven Generations - "To See The End"
5/23/16
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
Turbonegro - "Apocalypse Dudes"
5/24/16
Whilk & Misky - "Clap Your Hands (Solomon remix)" single
Cold Cave - "Nothing Is True But You" digital single
Wolf Parade - "4" EP
Code Orange - "I Am King"
Deicide - S/T
Deicide - "Legion"
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/25/16
Discharge - "End Of Days"
Bustie - "The Shade Is Real" demos
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/26/16
Off With Their Heads - "Home"
Luna - "Lunapark"
Paul McCartney & Wings Vs. Timo Maas & James Teej - "1985" 12"
Parliament - "Chocolate City"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ground Up - 4-song 2008 demo
5/27/16
Chron Gen - "Chronic Generation"
Neurosis - "Given to the Rising"
Armored Saint - "March of the Saint"
Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
5/29/16
Smut - "Schnell Laut Schwer" EP
Mr. Bungle - S/T
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - "Blackout"/"Resurrection"/"Life is a Rebirth" 7"
Plattenbau - "Body of Desire" EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Arneson - 2-song promo CD
Dead Poetic - "Vices"
Atomkinder - S/T EP
5/30/16
Nora - S/T
Inocentes - "Adeus Carne"
Youth Korps - S/T EP
Thrice - "To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere"
Strike Anywhere - "Live Naked, Die Naked" EP
5/31/16
Secret Hate - "Vegetables Dancing"
The Rejectors - "Thoughts of War" EP
Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
Stille Volk - "Nueit de Sabbat"
Snapcase - "Progression Through Unlearning"
MUSIC NOTES
- That Century Media CD has a bunch of dope songs on it I'm glad I re-found it; on a related note, that "Generations" mix has a Fucked Up song at the end that I love so much I've been re-listening to almost every day...Fucked Up is just an amazing band
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Coerced, Flatbush Zombies, The Wildhearts, Big Grams, Forest Whitaker, World's Fair, Luna, Chron Gen, Plattenbau, Inocentes
- "Somehow, I never leave this Dead House"
- New releases by Coerced, Walls Of Jericho, Big Grams, Atreyu, Moby, Culture Abuse, Bob Dylan, Waxahatchee, Code Orange, and Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge are all on point
- "I get this funny feeling that you don't love me anymore..."
- I've been recommended Flatbush Zombies for several years now and I regret sleeping on them, they rule
- "Can't Hardly Wait"
- If a band released an album like "Love Gun" today they'd be ostracized for the sheer level of misogyny...or they'd be Steel Panther
- "What We Want Is Free"
- Thin Lizzy's song "Sarah" is like the greatest thing ever
- Some of the lyrics on Culture Abuse's new album really hit home for me, very good stuff
- "Let's Face It" is one of the most listened-to CDs in my entire gigantic collection despite it being so drastically more upbeat than most of my other favorites...maybe that's why I turn to it so often, come to think of it
- Meat Grinder was so underrated even in the-then much-smaller Temecula scene they were from in the late 90s but goddamn those dudes could wail
- If anybody wants that Confide CD you can have it but be warned, I'm gonna judge you
- I know that Chino Moreno regrets "Back To School" but goddamn that song is badass
- Who would have guessed that Ryan Adams covering a very recent Taylor Swift album in full would be such a good listen
- It's a real shame about the dissolution of Crisis Arm because their final album "Rend" has only gotten better with time
- "We may not be The Young Ones very long"
- I can't believe I had never even heard of Luna, Chron Gen, or Inocentes before now ...Inocentes especially is fucking awesome, like if The Adicts spoke Spanish
- The new Thrice album is so disappointing that I wrote a fairly lengthy review of how bad I thought it was...look for that soon
MOVIES
5/1/16: "Amelie"
"Pleasantville"
5/3/16: "For A Good Time, Call..."
5/4/16: "The Brass Teapot"
5/8/16: FINISHED "Lolita"
5/12/16: "The Voices"
5/16/16: FINISHED "The Aviator"
5/21/16: FINISHED "Tapeheads"
5/28/16: FINISHED "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
"Don't Be A Menace To South Central"
5/30/16: FINISHED "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"Eyes Wide Shut"
LIVE
5/29/16: Glacial Blue @ 3rd Street Bar
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit the bassist for Glacial Blue was like the best bassist I've ever seen
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Playlist for April 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of April 2016, as well as lists of things I watched, read, and saw live. My notes regarding all follow. Enjoy.
MUSIC
4/1/16
V/A - "CVLT Nation presents Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables"
4/4/16
Tidemouth - "Pop Songs" EP
Abuse Of Power - Demo 2016
The Nubs - "Job" b/w "Little Billy's Burning" 7"
Fear - "More Beer"
4/5/16
French Exit/Hillary Chillton - split EP
Valkyrie - "Shadows"
Jawbox - S/T
James Taylor - "Before Today"
Britta Arnold - "Chicken Curry" EP
Deftones - "Around The Fur"
4/6/16
Zoccola - "Wormy, Germy, and Spermy" live album
Suicidal Tendencies - "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today?"
Behemoth - "And The Forests Dream Eternally"
The Thermals - "The Blood, The Body, The Machine"
Suffocation - "Human Waste" EP
Zao - "Liberte Te Ex Inferis"
Skream - "Still Lemonade" 12"
Twin Atlantic - "Great Divide"
Giggs - "Let'em Ave It" digital single
AlunaGeorge ft. Popcaan - "I'm In Control" digital single
Sunn O))) - "Kannon"
Halestorm - S/T
Somewhat Ace - "Spacesinbetween" EP
Social Anxiety - Live Demo
4/7/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Odd How People Shake"
The First Step - "What We Know" EP
Mac Demarco - "Salad Days" b/w "My Kind Of Woman" 7"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Dr. John The Night Tripper - "Gris-Gris"
Allan Kingdom - "Future Memoirs" mixtape
Damo Cassetti - "Shake Out" digital single
Dragonforce - "Valley of the Damned"
Gary Karr - "Domenico Dragonetti's Concerto in A-Major, Movement 1"
The Bailey Brothers & The Happy Valley Boys - "Take Me Back To Happy Valley"
Excruciating Terror - "Expression of Pain"
4/8/16
Fourth Grade Nothing - S/T
Terveet Kadet - "II" EP
Black Mask - S/T EP
Duck Duck Goose - "Off Yourself" EP
Behemoth - "Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)"
Death By Stereo - "Death For Life"
Lagwagon - "I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon" EP
Lord Huron - "Strange Trails"
The Thermals - "Now We Can See"
Goldroom - "It's Liek You Never Went Away" EP
DJ Dan - "Funk The System"
Bryson Tiller - "Trapsoul"
Zao - "Liberte Te Ex Infernis"
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
4/9/16
The Prodigy - "The Day Is My Enemy"
Leon Bridges - "Lousiana Sun (from the 'Coming Home' sessions)" EP
Goblin - "Roller"
Suicidal Tendenices - "Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu"
4/10/16
Iron Maiden - "Fear of the Dark"
Shai Hulud - "That Within Blood Ill-Tempered"
Shai Hulud - "That Within Blood Ill-Tempered"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
4/11/16
Kansas City Stars - "The Seventh is Full of Phantoms"
3Oh!3 - "Want"
Freedom - "Pay The Price" EP
New Found Glory - "Not Without A Fight"
Born Of Osiris - "Soul Sphere"
Against Me! - "New Wave"
KoRn - "Issues"
4/12/16
Neck Deep - "Life's Not Out To Get You"
Big Gigantic - "Nocturnal"
Esoteric - "Pterodactyl Timeline" compilation CD
Anti-Flag - "Kaputtmacher Session" acoustic EP
AIR - "Moon Safari"
Turning Point - "Complete Discography: 1988-1991"
Merzbow + Xiu Xiu - "Merzxiu"
The Haunted - "Versus"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
Gatsby's Fiddle - "Think & Smile" EP
PEST/Caveman Movies - " A Personal Proposition" split
Deer Tick - "Born on Flag Day"
4/13/16
As The Sun Sets - "8949" EP
Horse Lords - "Hidden Cities Remix"
Dangers - "Anger"
Discharge - "New World Order" b/w "Ain't No Feeble Bastard (live)" 7"
Gastunk - S/T EP
Media Jeweler - "$99 R/T Hawaii"
Anomie - "Discography 1994-1999" CD
Tim Hecker - "Love Streams"
Wow, Owls! - "Pick Your Patterns"
Harms Way - "Rust"
Unsane - "Visqueen"
Spudgun - "Watch It Burn"
4/14/16
Marduk - "Dark Endless"
Hoax - S/T LP
Dow Jones & The Industrials/The Gizmos - "Can't Stand The Midwest Vol.1" EP
Ozma - "Rock And Roll Part 3"
Janet Jackson - "Unbreakable"
Colombian Necktie/Seizures - split EP
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
4/15/16
Pawn Shop Porno - "Samples from 'Window Shopping'" promo CD
David Bowie - "Diamond Dogs"
The Ataris - "So Long, Astoria"
Dayglo Abortions - "Feed Us A Fetus"
Jethro Tull - "A Passion Play"
DCVDNS - "D.W.I.S."
Memphis May Fire - "Unconditional"
Deniz Kurtel ft. Art Department - "Deepression" b/w "Forgot Your Name" 12"
AIR - "The Original Motion Soundtrack for 'The Virgin Suicides'"
Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute"
Princess//Princess - "Upon Reaching My Goal, I Am Completely Underwhelmed" EP
Vice Cooler - "Lost in a Dream" 7"
4/16/16
Groove Armada - "The Best Of"
Laura Benitez & The Heartache - "Heartless Woman"
Arsonists Get All The Girls - "Portals"
Incantation - "Primordial Domination"
Bad Brains - S/T
4/17/16
Fearless Iranians From Hell - S/T EP
As The Sun Sets - "7744"
Die Antwoord - "Donker Mag"
Styx - "Greatest Hits"
4/18/16
Marduk - "Those Of The Unlight"
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes" EP
Jack U - "Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U"
Twenty One Pilots - "Double-Sided" 7"
Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
KoRn - "Untouchables"
Autoerotique & Major Lazer - "The Sound" digital single
Boz Scaggs - "A Fool To Care"
Emancipator - "Kids/Truman Sleeps" digital single
BK, Steve Hill, & Knuckleheadz - "Fire Burning" digital single
Einherjer - "Norwegian Native Art"
Ensemble Seicentonovencento & Flavio Coluso - "Oratorio di Daniele Profeta"
Claude Frank with KU Orchestra, conducted by Brian Priestman - "Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5"
Benny The Jet Rodriguez - "Home Run"
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
Fortunate Youth - "Up-Lifted" EP
Tool - "AEnima"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Hoosier Hysteria"
4/19/16
Mink Capital Terror - S/T EP
Mitochondrian - "Parasignosis"
Rudimental - "We The Generation"
George Fitzgerald - "Fading Love"
Chali 2na - "Fish Outta Water"
Band Of Horses - "Everything All The Time"
Alle Farben - "My Ghost" b/w "Piano Bomb" EP
Migos - "Young Rich Niggers 2" mixtape
Bongzilla - "Stash"
Doves - "The Last Broadcast"
4/20/16
Bad Seed Rising - "606" EP
Mallory Knox - "Asymmetry"
Alison Wonderland - "Run"
Response - "There's No Choice" EP
Peeping Tom - S/T
Veil Of Maya - "Matriarch"
Limp Bizkit - "Significant Other"
Ibeyi - "Oya" EP
Incantation - "Blasphemous Cremation"
Hot Chip - "Why Make Sense?"
Youth Of Today - "Break Down The Walls" EP
All Your Sisters - "Modern Failures"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk and Parents Were Scared"
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - "I'm Thankful"
Bobby Barnett - "Live From The Star & Garter"
Failure Pact - "Late Nights" EP
4/21/16
Les Savy Fav - "Lets Stay Friends"
Jim Croce - "Greatest Hits"
Eyehategod/B'Last! - split 7"
Tenement - "Predatory Headlights"
X - "More Fun In The New World"
I'm From Barcelona - "Who Killed Harry Houdini?"
Liquid - Live Singles
Caveman Movies - "Eclipsis" EP
Media Jeweler - "No Exit" digital single
VRIL - "No Traditions" EP
Jimmy Eat World - "Futures"
Rosemary's Babies - "Blood Lust" EP
Propagandhi - "Failed States"
Porcupine Tree - "The Sky Moves Sideways"
Xiu Xiu - "Plays The Music From 'Twin Peaks'"
4/22/16
Relative Anger - "Hell Is Other People" EP
Hall & Oates - "Private Eyes"
Kalte Lust - "Somewhere Outside The Circle"
My American Heart - "The Meaning In Make-Up"
The Locust - S/T EP
Sick Of It All - "Yours Truly"
The Mamas & The Papas - "16 Greatest Hits"
Crash Box - "Vivi!" EP
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Turnstile - "Nonstop Feeling"
Assassin & Morpeme Shakur - "Black & Brown Pride" mixtape
Natalia Lafourcade - "Hasta la Ruiz"
V/A - "California Co-Op Vol. 1"
First Waking Breath - 4-song demo CD
Lay Down Mains - "Go Rest On High, Mama"
4/23/16
Soul Inside - 10-song CD
Black Bear - 6-song CD
Morgue Toad - "Buzzing Vibrations"
Fettes Brot - "Von Der Liebe" single
Walls Of Jericho - "The Bound Feed The Gagged"
A Day To Remember - "Paranoia" digital single
Goldie presents Refige Kuv - "Dark Rider (SCAR remix)" b/w "Beachdrifta VIP" 12"
Bjork - "Homogenic"
4/24/16
Liquid - "Entropy" EP
4/25/16
Mouthful Of Snow - "Ephemera"
Skillet - "Rise"
Rihanna - "Anti"
Lower Than Atlantis - "World Record"
Nothing But Thieves - S/T
Allah-Las - S/T
The Shrine - "Bless Off"
Delorean - "Transatlantic KK"
Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Dear Lord (Give Me The Strength" digital single
Mr. Carmack - "Drugs"
Uniform - S/T cassette
Krisiun - "Works Of Carnage"
4/28/16
Samhain - "Initium"
My American Heart - "Hiding Inside The Terrible Weather"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
Ludvig Schytte - "Piano Concerto Op. 28"
The Kingsmen - "Louie, Louie" b/w "Haunted Castle" 7"
Birdflesh/Slavebreed - "Nekroacropolis" split EP
Digable Planets - "Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time & Space)"
Worthy - "Lower & Slower" EP
Purity Ring - "Heartsigh" digital single
High Contrast - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Johnny L remix)" b/w "Nobody Gets Out Alive" 12"
The Locust - S/T LP
Sick Of It All - "Death To The Tyrants"
Wisp - "The Shimmering Hour"
4/29/16
Forced Elegance - 7-song CD
Anderson .Paak - "Malibu"
Walls Of Jericho - "All Hail The Dead"
Excel - "Seeking Refuge"
Atreyu - "So Others May Live" b/w "When The Day Is Done" 7"
Of Mice & Men - "Restoring Force"
Adventure Club & Krewella - "Rise & Fall" digital single
Bjork - "Selmasongs: Music From The Motion Picture 'Dancer in the Dark'"
Cattle Decapitation - "Cannibalistic Invasivorism" digital single
Puscifer - "Money $hot"
Spiritualized - "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space"
The Locust - "Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle"
The Locust - "Flight of the Wounded Locust"
The Locust - "Follow the Flock, Step in Shit" EP
4/30/16
The Locust - "Safety Second, Body Last" EP
MUSIC NOTES
- Why does every hardcore band have ridiculous FX on the vocals nowadays? And why for the DK's would they make such a shitty covers compilation? For shame...
- New releases by Tidemouth, Abuse Of Power, Born Of Osiris, Harms Way, Janet Jackson, Die Antwoord, Mallory Knox, Tenement, Xiu Xiu
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Abuse Of Power, Jawbox, Goblin, Mallory Knox, Lower Than Atlantis
- The dude's voice kinda gets on my nerves but man, The Thermals have excellent lyrics; I think I underestimated them in that aspect when I first heard them
- Rebel, Rebel
- "I guess good love ain't good enough"
- God I fucking hate Styx
- Man that Hall & Oates album fucking kicks ass I had no idea
- Sorry kids but Turnstile wasn't nearly as dope as you guys make them out to be
- The devil sends me here to you, and if you fear, you have reason to
MOVIES
4/1/16: "Katt Williams: American Hustle"
"Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious"
4/4/16: "Adult World"
4/5/16: "Atonement"
4/6/16: FINISHED "Children Of The Corn"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
4/7/16: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
4/8/16: "The Hateful Eight"
4/12/16: "Russell Peters: Green Card"
"Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive"
4/14/16: "Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker"
4/21/16: FINISHED "Master of None" Season 1
MOVIE NOTES
- I hate to be so blatantly corny, but "Children Of The Corn" is probably the corniest "horror" movie I've ever seen
- "Can't Buy Me Love" has such a fucked-up premise and so many fucked-up plot points along the way that all I can think of doing with it is making a gritty reboot
- The new Star Wars movie was even better than I expected; my only lament is that there's not more screen time for R2
- Someday I'm gonna do a stand-up special of my own
- "Master Of None" is a really good show
LIVE
4/2/16: Happy In Hemet/Tomber Lever/The Dickheads/[The Gravitys] @ Anthony's house
4/22/16: Frustrated/Failure Pact/Relevant Anger/Proletariat Youth @ The Dial
4/23/16: Royce Rubio/Gatsby's Fiddle/Liquid/Zoccola/Magpie @ Casa de Teme-culo
4/30/16: [end of the summer]/My Iron Lung/Variants/Keyes/Mouthful Of Snow @ The Dial
LIVE NOTES
- It sucks that Bean and by extension Happy In Hemet are gone now but that show at Anthony's house was fucking killer...It was so dope that I passed out at like 11pm and when I woke up the ceiling lights in the living room had been pulled down and there were like 500 beercans to clean up...Glorious
- Wow, Frustrated was fucking AWESOME; I had seen them before and it was alright but this time was straight-up bonkers
- As much as I find it hard to believe and very depressing that after all these years The Dial has been brought down by the actions of its own maker and not because of some random act of drunkenness or violence or something, the times I spent with the community there have been invaluable to me and I'll never forget the greatness we once harnessed. It was important to me that I closed out that final show because it really is the end of an era for me as well as for many others, so thank you to those of you who watched. Rock n roll will never die.
ZINES/BOOKS
4/8/16: FINISHED: Louisiana Vampires compiled by Lawrence Schimel & Martin Greenberg
Movies R Fun: A Collection of Cinematic Classics for the Pre-(Film) School Cinbephile by Josh
Cooley
4/12/16: "Marvel New Stories Start Now Previews" No. 1 April 2016
"2016 Aftershock Retailer Preview"
4/13/16: "Tiber vs. The Hives" issue #1
ZINE/BOOK NOTES
- Jeez that vampire book was terribly edited
MUSIC
4/1/16
V/A - "CVLT Nation presents Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables"
4/4/16
Tidemouth - "Pop Songs" EP
Abuse Of Power - Demo 2016
The Nubs - "Job" b/w "Little Billy's Burning" 7"
Fear - "More Beer"
4/5/16
French Exit/Hillary Chillton - split EP
Valkyrie - "Shadows"
Jawbox - S/T
James Taylor - "Before Today"
Britta Arnold - "Chicken Curry" EP
Deftones - "Around The Fur"
4/6/16
Zoccola - "Wormy, Germy, and Spermy" live album
Suicidal Tendencies - "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today?"
Behemoth - "And The Forests Dream Eternally"
The Thermals - "The Blood, The Body, The Machine"
Suffocation - "Human Waste" EP
Zao - "Liberte Te Ex Inferis"
Skream - "Still Lemonade" 12"
Twin Atlantic - "Great Divide"
Giggs - "Let'em Ave It" digital single
AlunaGeorge ft. Popcaan - "I'm In Control" digital single
Sunn O))) - "Kannon"
Halestorm - S/T
Somewhat Ace - "Spacesinbetween" EP
Social Anxiety - Live Demo
4/7/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Odd How People Shake"
The First Step - "What We Know" EP
Mac Demarco - "Salad Days" b/w "My Kind Of Woman" 7"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Dr. John The Night Tripper - "Gris-Gris"
Allan Kingdom - "Future Memoirs" mixtape
Damo Cassetti - "Shake Out" digital single
Dragonforce - "Valley of the Damned"
Gary Karr - "Domenico Dragonetti's Concerto in A-Major, Movement 1"
The Bailey Brothers & The Happy Valley Boys - "Take Me Back To Happy Valley"
Excruciating Terror - "Expression of Pain"
4/8/16
Fourth Grade Nothing - S/T
Terveet Kadet - "II" EP
Black Mask - S/T EP
Duck Duck Goose - "Off Yourself" EP
Behemoth - "Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)"
Death By Stereo - "Death For Life"
Lagwagon - "I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon" EP
Lord Huron - "Strange Trails"
The Thermals - "Now We Can See"
Goldroom - "It's Liek You Never Went Away" EP
DJ Dan - "Funk The System"
Bryson Tiller - "Trapsoul"
Zao - "Liberte Te Ex Infernis"
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
4/9/16
The Prodigy - "The Day Is My Enemy"
Leon Bridges - "Lousiana Sun (from the 'Coming Home' sessions)" EP
Goblin - "Roller"
Suicidal Tendenices - "Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu"
4/10/16
Iron Maiden - "Fear of the Dark"
Shai Hulud - "That Within Blood Ill-Tempered"
Shai Hulud - "That Within Blood Ill-Tempered"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
4/11/16
Kansas City Stars - "The Seventh is Full of Phantoms"
3Oh!3 - "Want"
Freedom - "Pay The Price" EP
New Found Glory - "Not Without A Fight"
Born Of Osiris - "Soul Sphere"
Against Me! - "New Wave"
KoRn - "Issues"
4/12/16
Neck Deep - "Life's Not Out To Get You"
Big Gigantic - "Nocturnal"
Esoteric - "Pterodactyl Timeline" compilation CD
Anti-Flag - "Kaputtmacher Session" acoustic EP
AIR - "Moon Safari"
Turning Point - "Complete Discography: 1988-1991"
Merzbow + Xiu Xiu - "Merzxiu"
The Haunted - "Versus"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
Gatsby's Fiddle - "Think & Smile" EP
PEST/Caveman Movies - " A Personal Proposition" split
Deer Tick - "Born on Flag Day"
4/13/16
As The Sun Sets - "8949" EP
Horse Lords - "Hidden Cities Remix"
Dangers - "Anger"
Discharge - "New World Order" b/w "Ain't No Feeble Bastard (live)" 7"
Gastunk - S/T EP
Media Jeweler - "$99 R/T Hawaii"
Anomie - "Discography 1994-1999" CD
Tim Hecker - "Love Streams"
Wow, Owls! - "Pick Your Patterns"
Harms Way - "Rust"
Unsane - "Visqueen"
Spudgun - "Watch It Burn"
4/14/16
Marduk - "Dark Endless"
Hoax - S/T LP
Dow Jones & The Industrials/The Gizmos - "Can't Stand The Midwest Vol.1" EP
Ozma - "Rock And Roll Part 3"
Janet Jackson - "Unbreakable"
Colombian Necktie/Seizures - split EP
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
4/15/16
Pawn Shop Porno - "Samples from 'Window Shopping'" promo CD
David Bowie - "Diamond Dogs"
The Ataris - "So Long, Astoria"
Dayglo Abortions - "Feed Us A Fetus"
Jethro Tull - "A Passion Play"
DCVDNS - "D.W.I.S."
Memphis May Fire - "Unconditional"
Deniz Kurtel ft. Art Department - "Deepression" b/w "Forgot Your Name" 12"
AIR - "The Original Motion Soundtrack for 'The Virgin Suicides'"
Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute"
Princess//Princess - "Upon Reaching My Goal, I Am Completely Underwhelmed" EP
Vice Cooler - "Lost in a Dream" 7"
4/16/16
Groove Armada - "The Best Of"
Laura Benitez & The Heartache - "Heartless Woman"
Arsonists Get All The Girls - "Portals"
Incantation - "Primordial Domination"
Bad Brains - S/T
4/17/16
Fearless Iranians From Hell - S/T EP
As The Sun Sets - "7744"
Die Antwoord - "Donker Mag"
Styx - "Greatest Hits"
4/18/16
Marduk - "Those Of The Unlight"
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes" EP
Jack U - "Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U"
Twenty One Pilots - "Double-Sided" 7"
Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T
KoRn - "Untouchables"
Autoerotique & Major Lazer - "The Sound" digital single
Boz Scaggs - "A Fool To Care"
Emancipator - "Kids/Truman Sleeps" digital single
BK, Steve Hill, & Knuckleheadz - "Fire Burning" digital single
Einherjer - "Norwegian Native Art"
Ensemble Seicentonovencento & Flavio Coluso - "Oratorio di Daniele Profeta"
Claude Frank with KU Orchestra, conducted by Brian Priestman - "Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5"
Benny The Jet Rodriguez - "Home Run"
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
Fortunate Youth - "Up-Lifted" EP
Tool - "AEnima"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Hoosier Hysteria"
4/19/16
Mink Capital Terror - S/T EP
Mitochondrian - "Parasignosis"
Rudimental - "We The Generation"
George Fitzgerald - "Fading Love"
Chali 2na - "Fish Outta Water"
Band Of Horses - "Everything All The Time"
Alle Farben - "My Ghost" b/w "Piano Bomb" EP
Migos - "Young Rich Niggers 2" mixtape
Bongzilla - "Stash"
Doves - "The Last Broadcast"
4/20/16
Bad Seed Rising - "606" EP
Mallory Knox - "Asymmetry"
Alison Wonderland - "Run"
Response - "There's No Choice" EP
Peeping Tom - S/T
Veil Of Maya - "Matriarch"
Limp Bizkit - "Significant Other"
Ibeyi - "Oya" EP
Incantation - "Blasphemous Cremation"
Hot Chip - "Why Make Sense?"
Youth Of Today - "Break Down The Walls" EP
All Your Sisters - "Modern Failures"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk and Parents Were Scared"
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - "I'm Thankful"
Bobby Barnett - "Live From The Star & Garter"
Failure Pact - "Late Nights" EP
4/21/16
Les Savy Fav - "Lets Stay Friends"
Jim Croce - "Greatest Hits"
Eyehategod/B'Last! - split 7"
Tenement - "Predatory Headlights"
X - "More Fun In The New World"
I'm From Barcelona - "Who Killed Harry Houdini?"
Liquid - Live Singles
Caveman Movies - "Eclipsis" EP
Media Jeweler - "No Exit" digital single
VRIL - "No Traditions" EP
Jimmy Eat World - "Futures"
Rosemary's Babies - "Blood Lust" EP
Propagandhi - "Failed States"
Porcupine Tree - "The Sky Moves Sideways"
Xiu Xiu - "Plays The Music From 'Twin Peaks'"
4/22/16
Relative Anger - "Hell Is Other People" EP
Hall & Oates - "Private Eyes"
Kalte Lust - "Somewhere Outside The Circle"
My American Heart - "The Meaning In Make-Up"
The Locust - S/T EP
Sick Of It All - "Yours Truly"
The Mamas & The Papas - "16 Greatest Hits"
Crash Box - "Vivi!" EP
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
Turnstile - "Nonstop Feeling"
Assassin & Morpeme Shakur - "Black & Brown Pride" mixtape
Natalia Lafourcade - "Hasta la Ruiz"
V/A - "California Co-Op Vol. 1"
First Waking Breath - 4-song demo CD
Lay Down Mains - "Go Rest On High, Mama"
4/23/16
Soul Inside - 10-song CD
Black Bear - 6-song CD
Morgue Toad - "Buzzing Vibrations"
Fettes Brot - "Von Der Liebe" single
Walls Of Jericho - "The Bound Feed The Gagged"
A Day To Remember - "Paranoia" digital single
Goldie presents Refige Kuv - "Dark Rider (SCAR remix)" b/w "Beachdrifta VIP" 12"
Bjork - "Homogenic"
4/24/16
Liquid - "Entropy" EP
4/25/16
Mouthful Of Snow - "Ephemera"
Skillet - "Rise"
Rihanna - "Anti"
Lower Than Atlantis - "World Record"
Nothing But Thieves - S/T
Allah-Las - S/T
The Shrine - "Bless Off"
Delorean - "Transatlantic KK"
Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Dear Lord (Give Me The Strength" digital single
Mr. Carmack - "Drugs"
Uniform - S/T cassette
Krisiun - "Works Of Carnage"
4/28/16
Samhain - "Initium"
My American Heart - "Hiding Inside The Terrible Weather"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
Ludvig Schytte - "Piano Concerto Op. 28"
The Kingsmen - "Louie, Louie" b/w "Haunted Castle" 7"
Birdflesh/Slavebreed - "Nekroacropolis" split EP
Digable Planets - "Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time & Space)"
Worthy - "Lower & Slower" EP
Purity Ring - "Heartsigh" digital single
High Contrast - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Johnny L remix)" b/w "Nobody Gets Out Alive" 12"
The Locust - S/T LP
Sick Of It All - "Death To The Tyrants"
Wisp - "The Shimmering Hour"
4/29/16
Forced Elegance - 7-song CD
Anderson .Paak - "Malibu"
Walls Of Jericho - "All Hail The Dead"
Excel - "Seeking Refuge"
Atreyu - "So Others May Live" b/w "When The Day Is Done" 7"
Of Mice & Men - "Restoring Force"
Adventure Club & Krewella - "Rise & Fall" digital single
Bjork - "Selmasongs: Music From The Motion Picture 'Dancer in the Dark'"
Cattle Decapitation - "Cannibalistic Invasivorism" digital single
Puscifer - "Money $hot"
Spiritualized - "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space"
The Locust - "Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle"
The Locust - "Flight of the Wounded Locust"
The Locust - "Follow the Flock, Step in Shit" EP
4/30/16
The Locust - "Safety Second, Body Last" EP
MUSIC NOTES
- Why does every hardcore band have ridiculous FX on the vocals nowadays? And why for the DK's would they make such a shitty covers compilation? For shame...
- New releases by Tidemouth, Abuse Of Power, Born Of Osiris, Harms Way, Janet Jackson, Die Antwoord, Mallory Knox, Tenement, Xiu Xiu
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Abuse Of Power, Jawbox, Goblin, Mallory Knox, Lower Than Atlantis
- The dude's voice kinda gets on my nerves but man, The Thermals have excellent lyrics; I think I underestimated them in that aspect when I first heard them
- Rebel, Rebel
- "I guess good love ain't good enough"
- God I fucking hate Styx
- Man that Hall & Oates album fucking kicks ass I had no idea
- Sorry kids but Turnstile wasn't nearly as dope as you guys make them out to be
- The devil sends me here to you, and if you fear, you have reason to
MOVIES
4/1/16: "Katt Williams: American Hustle"
"Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious"
4/4/16: "Adult World"
4/5/16: "Atonement"
4/6/16: FINISHED "Children Of The Corn"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
4/7/16: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
4/8/16: "The Hateful Eight"
4/12/16: "Russell Peters: Green Card"
"Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive"
4/14/16: "Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker"
4/21/16: FINISHED "Master of None" Season 1
MOVIE NOTES
- I hate to be so blatantly corny, but "Children Of The Corn" is probably the corniest "horror" movie I've ever seen
- "Can't Buy Me Love" has such a fucked-up premise and so many fucked-up plot points along the way that all I can think of doing with it is making a gritty reboot
- The new Star Wars movie was even better than I expected; my only lament is that there's not more screen time for R2
- Someday I'm gonna do a stand-up special of my own
- "Master Of None" is a really good show
LIVE
4/2/16: Happy In Hemet/Tomber Lever/The Dickheads/[The Gravitys] @ Anthony's house
4/22/16: Frustrated/Failure Pact/Relevant Anger/Proletariat Youth @ The Dial
4/23/16: Royce Rubio/Gatsby's Fiddle/Liquid/Zoccola/Magpie @ Casa de Teme-culo
4/30/16: [end of the summer]/My Iron Lung/Variants/Keyes/Mouthful Of Snow @ The Dial
LIVE NOTES
- It sucks that Bean and by extension Happy In Hemet are gone now but that show at Anthony's house was fucking killer...It was so dope that I passed out at like 11pm and when I woke up the ceiling lights in the living room had been pulled down and there were like 500 beercans to clean up...Glorious
- Wow, Frustrated was fucking AWESOME; I had seen them before and it was alright but this time was straight-up bonkers
- As much as I find it hard to believe and very depressing that after all these years The Dial has been brought down by the actions of its own maker and not because of some random act of drunkenness or violence or something, the times I spent with the community there have been invaluable to me and I'll never forget the greatness we once harnessed. It was important to me that I closed out that final show because it really is the end of an era for me as well as for many others, so thank you to those of you who watched. Rock n roll will never die.
ZINES/BOOKS
4/8/16: FINISHED: Louisiana Vampires compiled by Lawrence Schimel & Martin Greenberg
Movies R Fun: A Collection of Cinematic Classics for the Pre-(Film) School Cinbephile by Josh
Cooley
4/12/16: "Marvel New Stories Start Now Previews" No. 1 April 2016
"2016 Aftershock Retailer Preview"
4/13/16: "Tiber vs. The Hives" issue #1
ZINE/BOOK NOTES
- Jeez that vampire book was terribly edited
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