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
