Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Playlist for February 2016

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of February 2016, followed by lists of stuff I watched and read and bands I saw live as well. Notes regarding each follow. Enjoy.


MUSIC
2/1/16
Silverstein - "Discovering The Waterfront"
Quicksand - "Manic Compression"
Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Essential Madness from the Scratch Files"
Slipknot - "All Hope Is Lost"

2/3/16
Amon Amarth - "Once Sent From The Golden Hall"
UB40 - "Greatest Hits"
The Ruins Of Beverast - "Enchanted By Gravemold

2/4/16
Gorgon City ft. ROMANS - "Saving My Life" digital single
Wartorn - "Banzai" EP
Florence and the Machine - "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful"
LCD Soundsystem - "Christmas Will Break Your Heart" digital single
Rebelution - "Courage to Grow"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Master"/S/T EP
Ambersmoke - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Shpongle - "Tales of the Inexpressible"
Sunk - Demo

2/5/16
Behemoth - "The Apostasy"
American Football - S/T
The Grateful Dead - "American Beauty"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Negative Approach - "Tied Down" LP

2/6/16
Jackson Shaw - "Just Met You" digital single
Radiohead - "Spectre" digital single
Anathema - "The Silent Enigma"
Deeds Of Flesh - "Inbreeding the Anthropophagi"
Wiz Khalifa - "Khalifa"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Shojo Winter - "Somewhere Else" EP
Happy In Hemet - "Hush"
Skate Death - "You Break It, You Buy It"
Mount Eerie - "Wind's Poem"
Count Basie - "The Complete Atomic Basie" Disc 1
R.E.M. - "Chronic Town" EP
Less Than Jake - "Anthem

2/7/16
The Locust - S/T EP
Refused - "Freedom"
The Horrors - "Primary Colours"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Let's Go Steady!" EP
Primus - "Rhinoplasty"
Shinobu - "10 Thermidor"
Twenty One Pilots - "Blurryface"

2/8/16
Veil Of Maya - "All Things Set Aside"
Motherboy - "Not Punk Session #8" EP
frnkiero and the cellabration/Lonely The Brave - split EP
Halestorm - "Into the Wild Life"
Candiria - "300% Density"
Woodruff - Practice Demos
Cryptopsy - S/T
Lost Cause - "The World Is Yours" demo

2/9/16
Black Breath - "Slaves Beyond Death"
7 Seconds - "New Wind" demo
Carnifex - "The Diseased and the Poisoned"
Steel Panther - "Feel The Steel"

2/10/16
Billy Kenny & Abby Jane - "I Operate" b/w "The Chord March" digital single
R.E.M. - "Murmur"
Iration - "Hotting Up"
ill.Gates - "Mother Mash" digital single
Uli Jon Roth - "Scorpions Revisited"

2/11/16
John Coltrane - "Ken Burns Jazz"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
Killswitch Engage - "The End of Heartache"
PsyOpus - "Odd Senses"

2/17/16
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Death By Stereo - "If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die"
Death By Stereo - "Day of the Death"

2/19/16
Chvrches - "Every Open Eye"
Stereophonics - "Performance and Cocktails"
Twenty One Pilots - "The LC LP"
The Courteeners - "Winter Wonderland" b/w "Small Bones (acoustic)" digital single
Caribou - "Mars" 12"
KISS - "Lo Mejor de...KISS"
The Maccabees - "Marks To Prove It"
Daz-n-Snoop - "Cuzznz"
Young Thug - "I'm Up" EP
Klubbheads - "Klubbhopping" b/w "Work This Pussy" 12"
Borknagar - "Winter Thrice"

2/20/16
Patti Smith - "Horses"
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
Spiritualized - "Lazer Guided Melodies"

2/21/16
The Coltranes - "Sessions of Terror and Piss" EP
Liquid - "Entropy"
Carl Czeny - "Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 780"
Clark Terry - "The Happy Horns Of..."
Atomic Dilemma - "Take This, Kids" EP
Diamond Rugs - 14-song CD
The Grateful Dead - "Infrared Roses"

2/22/16
Disarm - "Deras Krig" EP
Wilderness - "Sleeping" EP
Gryffin ft. Josef Salvat - "Heading Home" digital single
Darryl Hall & John Oates - "Private Eyes"
Disclosure - "Caracal"
Ellie Goulding - "Delirium"
KONE - "Legend Days" EP
Fleshgod Apocalypse - "Agony"
Brand New - "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Of Me"
Wolfmother - "Victorious"
Digitalism - "Idealism"

2/23/16
Asleep In The Lake/Monological Terrorist - "Cosmic Sorrow In The Underbrush" split
UK Subs - "Yellow Leader"
Young Jesus - "Grow/Decompose"
Slade - "Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Emotion"
Frenzal Rhomb - "Meet The Family"
Killswitch Engage - "Strength of the Mind" digital single
The Raconteurs - "Consolers of the Lonely"
Defeater - "Still & True" b/w "Let Me Down" 7"
The Struts - "Everybody Wants"
The Scene Aesthetic - "A Type & A Shadow" EP
Unit Pride - "Live in Berkeley '87"

2/24/16
Judas Priest - "Screaming For Vengeance"
Amber Pacific - "The Possibility and the Promise"
Gorguts - "The Erosion Of Sanity"
Nirvana - "Unplugged in New York"
Suicidal Tendencies - "Lights...Camera...Revolution"
Hatebreed - "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire"
Midewest Moms - "Guilt Trip" EP
Trey The Ruler - "Hell Is Under My Hair" EP
Wu-Tang Clan - "Enter The Wu: 36 Chambers"
Eyedea & Abilities - "First Born"

2/25/16
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
Incantation - "Onward to Golgotha"
Dazeac & Carnage - "FNX 338 (2001 version)" digital single
Michael Angelo Batio - "Shred Force 1: The Essential MAB"
Abysmal Dawn - "Leveling the Plane of Existence"
Blaze - "But Nothing Ever Change" EP
Action Bronson & Supplies - "Blue Chips" mixtape
Alien Ant Farm - "Always & Forever"

2/26/16
Kodaline - "In A Perfect World"
RAMBO/Crucial Unit - split EP
Foals - "What Went Down"
Imagine Dragons - "Night Visions"
Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener" digital single
State Children - "Bomb Shelter for Moneymaking" EP
Megadeth - "Dystopia"
Muse - "Drones"
ZHU x Bony Thugs n Harmony x Trombone Shorty - "Hold Up, Wait A Minute" digital single
Dragonforce - "Ultra Beatdown"
Tchami & Marshall Jefferson - "Move Your Body (Future House)" digital single
Mark EG vs. Outlaw Brothers- "Injected" digital single
Callejon - "Man Spricht Deutsch"

2/27/16
The Tar Babies - "Honey Bubble"

2/28/16
As Cities Burn - "Come Now Sleep"
John Alden Carpenter - "Diversions (for piano)"
Armando Trovajoli - "Profunda di Donna"
Tomber Lever - "C21H10O5" EP
The Distillers - "Coral Fang"
Gorguts - "From Wisdom To Hate"

2/29/16
Vlad Voorhees' Wallachian Nightmare - "Illegally Alive!"
V/A - "PooPoo Platter" Laramie compilation
Chingalera - "Dose"
Gestaffelstein - "Maryland" OST
DJ Khaled ft. Chris Brown, August Alsina, and Fetty Wap - "Gold Slugs" digital single
Unholy Grave - "Crucified"
Therion - "Lepaca Kliffoth"

MUSIC NOTES
- New albums from Florence and the Machine, Chvrches, Liquid, Young Jesus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Gestaffelstein are all on-point
- LCD Soundsystem sucks
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Ambersmoke, American Football, Ordinary People, Shinobu, Chvrches, Darryl Hall & John Oates, Young Jesus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Armando Trovajoli, Unholy Grave
- Weird how I know the people in Ambersmoke fairly well and this was the first time I actually listened to them....for shame
- Steely Dan winning Best Album over "Kid A" is probably the most egregious error ever committed by the Grammys, and thats coming from a Smashing Pumpkins fan who got snubbed by Celine Dion AND a Jethro Tull fan who snubbed Metallica
- The Courteeners, The Maccabees, Kodaline, Foals, Imagine Dragons, etc are so bland, it's like I guess I understand why they're popular cuz they're not out-and-out horrible, but they're just so boring how can anyone be excited about this stuff?
- I'm sorry but I have never been able to really get into Brand New...Like, they're alright, but pretty forgettable...
- O my god Wolfmother fucking sucks I thought they stopped doing this hokey shit like a decade ago
- The new Killswitch Engage single and music video is fucking LAME, they're just sitting around the studio but the editing makes it seem all EXTREME lol
- Worst of the month: The Struts
- For whatever reason I though The Scene Aesthetic was gonna be a shitty screamo band but no they're a shitty acoustic band
- That Unit Pride live recording is alright if a bit noisy but things kinda went dark when the singer said he was proud to be straight and this next song is about being straight...at first I heard it as like, straight edge, but then I realized maybe this band is like anti-gay or something, they're from the hardline era after all...IDK
- Isn't it weird that Alien Ant Farm is still like, really popular in Europe? Speaking of which, sometimes I wonder why alot of European metal, punk, and psychobilly is so fucking blatantly silly, and then I remember that Faith No More never really lost popularity there...Hmmm

ZINES/BOOKS/COMICS
2/1/16: FINISHED: "L.A. Record" Issue 120 Fall 2015
2/3/16: FINISHED: The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
2/21/16: "This Damned Band" Issue 1

ZINE/BOOK/COMIC NOTES
- Dam-Funk is a fucking genius

MOVIES/SHOWS
2/4/16: "Woodstock '94"
2/6/16: "Heart and Souls"
2/11/16: "Led Zeppelin: Mothership"
2/20/16: "Grumpy Old Men"
              "Ace Of Base: The Sign" VHS
2/21/16: "Junior" series
              "Faith No More: You Fat Bastards - Live at the Brixton Academy"
              "Bullet For My Valentine: The Poison" Deluxe Edition
              "Burnt"
2/22/16: "Ted 2"
2/24/16: "Straight Outta Compton"
2/26/16: "Iron Man"
2/27/16: "Neighbors"
              "The Town"
2/28/16: FINISHED "Straw Dogs"

MOVIE NOTES
- Dang Faith No More was even more badass than I already thought they were
- "Straight Outta Compton" was good but too long

LIVE
2/18/16: (end of the summer)/Dead Rosemary Blue/Ordinary People/fogof @ The Dial
2/19/16: Happy In Hemet/Lost Cause/Caveman Movies/PEST @ The Dial
2/20/16: Liquid/Happy In Hemet/Ill Com/C.O.T./Fight Like A Girl/Captain Mayhem @ The Happy Haus

LIVE NOTES
- Dead Rosemary Blue fucking sucks, fuck that band. They're everything I hate in music. Rockstars.
- That dude who calls himself PEST played his guitar with a fucking buzzing toothbrush in his frets it was badass...his real name is Ian also so thats cool
- Captain Mayhem closed their set with a Coltranes cover...easy circle-pit material

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