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/

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.



  

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

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

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