This was a very last-minute endeavor, the result of having started a new job with lots of promises when in the back of my mind all I want to do is leave the place I've been in for so long.
That's for a different blog.
I had hit up people about this free ska show when I woke up for the second time on this holiday weekend. I didn't really have any interest in watching the NFL Playoffs because the Chargers had offended me to the point of numbness and even the underdogs this year didnt interest me. We all know its gonna be some stupid Steelers/Patriots shit or something, like HHH needs ANOTHER Heavyweight Belt.
My weed dude Dizzy D was down to go, which actually surprised me. I didnt think anybody would want to drive all the way to Anaheim for ska bands that we didnt even know who they were, at a pizza place no less. But ain't shit going on in Temecula lately and his car was full on gas so we left around 7:30 and talked about whats been going on with all our go-nowhere friends and our own go-nowhere day-to-days.
We arrived a bit before 8pm, as the first band was playing their last song. I think they were called Rundown Kreeps.
I could tell immediately that I was in the top 10 percentile "oldest person here" bracket, and thats taking into account band members and pizza chefs. This was like an almost purely high school crowd, with a nearly-invisible scattering of almost-30s-looking people seen peripherally from time to time. I felt old as fuck, like I was doing something bad by holding a beer outside while surrounded by high school kids. But ska, right?
Los 2x4s were the first band I saw all the way through, and they were pretty good. All the music was pretty good throughout the night. They definitely were catering to their young crowd, as they appeared to be like a year or two removed, like they're the college freshmen to the crowd's high school senior. The saxophone player was definitely making eye moves at some blonde up-front that would have been great for a parody music video.
I had ordered some beer or another, I can't remember what, and still had like half in-between that set and the next, so I went with my remainder and scoured the Chuck E. Cheese Jr.-type layout of this pizza place until I found D, who had the foresight to have already chicken wings and cheesy bread. It wouldn't be ready until after the next band, however.
Matamoska is a Voodoo Glow Skulls type ska-punk band that doesn't skimp on classic ska bounce or street-punk circle-pit aesthetics while also bringing in hardcore and semi-metallic elements as well. This was the band I had come to see primarily and they didn't let down. Great energy from the young crowd for each band, really; it's nice to see kids are still about ska these days. It was kinda odd seeing bands in such a dad-rock atmosphere, because the restaurant trappings were inescapable, but in another way I guess that speaks to the acceptance that formerly-"niche" things have received as of late.
That cheesy bread was goddamn delicious. The people who had been sitting next to D all night gave him 3 things of unused ranch dressing so when the wings came we didnt need to ask for more. Shit was so good.
Dizzy D bought me another beer for the last band, La Banda Skalavera. They were cool, if unchallenging. Really, all 3 bands tonight were very similar in their mix of 90s ska with 90s pop-punk with modern pop at times. But they were all good and its refreshing to see so many kids so stoked on music as they were at this show. It didnt change the world but it made for a nice little time out of my normal space and an affirmation that the kids are alright.
My roommate commented when I recounted my night to her the next morning:
"So ska is back?"
My response:
"It never really went away..."
Monday, January 16, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Playlist for December 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, and singles I listened to in their entirety during the month of December 2017, along with lists of things I watched and read during the same time period. Notes regarding all follow.
MUSIC
12/1/16
Oak Ridge Boys - "Celebrate Christmas"
12/2/16
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"
The Faraday Trippers - "The Legend of Martense's Lane"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown"
12/19/16
Sugar - "Besides"
Creatures - Demo
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Poison Mantis - "Existential Crisis"/"The Loop" EP
Mozart - "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550"
The Chiefs - "Holly-West Crisis"
Falcon Punch - "Surface PPL (Josh Cole remix)" digital single
Ill Tempered - "Off The Streets" EP
Spectre - S/T EP
12/20/16
V/A - "Worldeater Vs. Not Common" split sampler CD
Buddy Guy - "More Rubbish"
The Coltranes - "Christmas Classics With Uncle Spenny" EP
Zao - "Liberate te ex Inferis"
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Ripcord - "The Damage is Done" EP
12/21/16
No Red Alice - "Ebony & Ivory" EP
No Red Alice - "Well-thy" EP
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
The Dogs - "Camping"
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Derelict - "Of Course It's Cashmere"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
12/22/16
Fugazi - "In On The Kill Taker"
Carl Freidrich Abel - "Suite en Re Manor"
David Benoit - "Urban Daydreams"
The Funky "Jah" Punkys - "Live at the Roadhouse"
Silo The Avatar - 8-song CD
12/23/16
Anthrax - "Return of the Killer A's" greatest hits CD
Enigma - :"MCMXC a.d."
El-P & Blue Series Continuum - "High Water"
Kid At Heart - 4-song promo CD
Short Dawg Tha Native - "The Black Sheep" EP
Welcome To Limerick - "Departure Plans"
The Life We Live - demo
Sinatra - "Lost in Hyrule" EP
12/24/16
aureate: insects: - "A Finishing Touch"
Battalion Of Saints - "Death 'R Us"
Pyogenesis - "Sweet X-Rated Nothings"
The New Varsity - 4-song promo CD
Thee-O - "Seriously" EP
Toys That Kill - "Sentimental Ward"
Shataan - "Weight of the Wolf"
V/A - "DR Records Three-Dee" compilation CD
12/25/16
Creepers - "Lost" digital single
Runaround - "Fill My Head" EP
Lower Depths - "Demonstration" demo
Built To Spill - "You In Reverse"
Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
Adele - "25"
Stevie Nicks - "Bella Donna"
Firebeatz & Schalla - "Dat Disco Swindle" digital single
V/A - "Amalgamorous Confections" Pink House Records sampler CD
Oak Ridge Boys - "Live" 1977 LP
Exiled Force - "The Dirty Dog" demo
Bob Dylan - "The Essential" Disc 1
12/26/16
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
Anthrax - "The Perseverance of Time"
Mozart - "Requiem Mass in D Minor"
Scared Of Chaka - "Tired of You"
Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
Dredg - "Leitmotif"
George Michael - "Older"
12/27/16
Wu-Tang Clan - "Freestyle 1997"
Styx - "Paradise Theater"
V/A - FMLY 15-song CD
Marty Friedman - "Inferno"
Melvins - "Stoner Witch"
Snoop Dogg - "Tha Last Meal"
Limerent Dance Machine - "Dream A Reason Why"
Primus - "Frizzle Fry"
Dead Farm Animals x Youthonix ft. R Kelly - "Wanna Know" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder/The Acacia Strain/Fit For An Autopsy - "The Depression Sessions" 3-way split
DevilDriver - "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand"
Mustard Plug - "Can't Contain It"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
Panoramic - "Not Exactly"
I'm Glad It's You - "The Things I Say"
Iggy Pop - "Post Pop Depression"
V/A - "PooPoo Platter" Laramie compilation CD
Proletariat Youth - "Chin Check" EP
Leer - "Spring Break No Parents"
12/28/16
NOFX - "First Ditch Effort"
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
The Box Elders - "Alice & Friends"
Stag Hare - "Black Medicine Music"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4"
Band Aparte - 4-song demo CD
C.D. Truth - "1990-2005" Disc 2
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
12/29/16
Sigur Ros - "Oveour" digital single
Naughty By Nature - "Poverty's Paradise"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Murder City Devils - S/T
Darkest Hour - "The Mark of Judas"
DVT - Sampler #2
Run The Jewels - "RTJ3"
Bedbugs - "Alone" EP
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes"
The Gods Hate Kansas - S/T EP
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
12/30/16
Nine Inch Nails - "Not The Actual Events" EP
Dash Jacket - "Romance"
Veil Of Maya - "All Things Set Aside"
The Jonbenet - "Ugly/Heartless"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Tim Schweiger & The Middle-Men - 4-song sampler CD
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Ernest Tubb - "My Pick Of The Hits"
Majid Jordan - S/T
Crisis Arm - "Thread of Pisces"
Misery Ritual x Wreckage - "Glow" digital single
William Croft - "The Burial Service"
Weed Diamond - "Seasonal" EP
Allan Vache meets Jim Galloway - "Raisin' The Roof"
The Horse I Rode - "Black Mirage"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk And Parents Were Scared"
Mahjongg - "The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger"
Farabee - "Welcome to the Underleagues"
12/31/16
Stevie Wonder - "Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits"
The Quireboys - "Black Eyed Sons"
Prince - "3121"
Cootie Wootie - "Mannequin Music Vol. 1" EP
Hoobastank - "The Reason"
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Emarosa - "Relativity"
Force Of Nature/Tsutchie - "Samurai Champloo Music Record Mash" split
Freeman - "J'Palais de Justice"
MUSIC NOTES
- Barenaked Ladies are way better than I realized, there are 2 songs on that album that got heavy, heavy rotation this month: "Light Up My Room" and "I'll Be That Girl". Really really good songs.
- Its extremely uncharacteristic for me to have not listened to any albums for 17 full days but I was in a really, really bad place this month
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Sugar, Ill Tempered, Blue Series Continuum, Toys That Kill, Runaround, Lower Depths, Panoramic
- Zach Navis once told me that my band sounds more like Sugar, Bob Mould's band after Husker Du, than we do Husker Du, whom we had been compared to before. I had never listened to them before the 19th and I have to agree with Navis, except I can't wail like Bob.
- Spenny's Christmas album is so fucking ridiculous but I think the world needed it
- New releases from Toys That Kill, I'm Glad It's You, Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails are all on point
- "Children, they walk away. I think about it every day."
MOVIES/SHOWS
12/13/16: FINISHED "The Colossus Of New York"
"Henry Rollins: Critical Conversations"
12/15/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Person"
12/18/16: FINISHED "The Chumscrubber"
12/19/16: FINISHED "Rumplestiltskin"
12/20/16: FINISHED "Hot Pursuit"
12/21/16: "Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint"
12/25/16: "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece Of My Mind"
12/30/16: FINISHED "Love Streams"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Rumplestiltskin" is just as terrible as you would imagine
- I watched the "Hot Pursuit" from the 80s with John Cusack, not the more recent one with the mom from "Modern Family"
MAGAZINES
12/24/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1276/1277
12/26/16: FINISHED "The 420 Book" issue 10
MUSIC
12/1/16
Oak Ridge Boys - "Celebrate Christmas"
12/2/16
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt"
The Faraday Trippers - "The Legend of Martense's Lane"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Drown"
12/19/16
Sugar - "Besides"
Creatures - Demo
Gang Green - "Another Wasted Night"
Poison Mantis - "Existential Crisis"/"The Loop" EP
Mozart - "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550"
The Chiefs - "Holly-West Crisis"
Falcon Punch - "Surface PPL (Josh Cole remix)" digital single
Ill Tempered - "Off The Streets" EP
Spectre - S/T EP
12/20/16
V/A - "Worldeater Vs. Not Common" split sampler CD
Buddy Guy - "More Rubbish"
The Coltranes - "Christmas Classics With Uncle Spenny" EP
Zao - "Liberate te ex Inferis"
Magpie/Interracial Bookclub - "All Bacon, No Beans" split EP
Collective Soul - S/T
Ripcord - "The Damage is Done" EP
12/21/16
No Red Alice - "Ebony & Ivory" EP
No Red Alice - "Well-thy" EP
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"
Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
The Dogs - "Camping"
Ghost Noise - "Our Heaven Of Darkness"
Derelict - "Of Course It's Cashmere"
Radiohead - "Kid A"
12/22/16
Fugazi - "In On The Kill Taker"
Carl Freidrich Abel - "Suite en Re Manor"
David Benoit - "Urban Daydreams"
The Funky "Jah" Punkys - "Live at the Roadhouse"
Silo The Avatar - 8-song CD
12/23/16
Anthrax - "Return of the Killer A's" greatest hits CD
Enigma - :"MCMXC a.d."
El-P & Blue Series Continuum - "High Water"
Kid At Heart - 4-song promo CD
Short Dawg Tha Native - "The Black Sheep" EP
Welcome To Limerick - "Departure Plans"
The Life We Live - demo
Sinatra - "Lost in Hyrule" EP
12/24/16
aureate: insects: - "A Finishing Touch"
Battalion Of Saints - "Death 'R Us"
Pyogenesis - "Sweet X-Rated Nothings"
The New Varsity - 4-song promo CD
Thee-O - "Seriously" EP
Toys That Kill - "Sentimental Ward"
Shataan - "Weight of the Wolf"
V/A - "DR Records Three-Dee" compilation CD
12/25/16
Creepers - "Lost" digital single
Runaround - "Fill My Head" EP
Lower Depths - "Demonstration" demo
Built To Spill - "You In Reverse"
Warrant - "Cherry Pie"
Adele - "25"
Stevie Nicks - "Bella Donna"
Firebeatz & Schalla - "Dat Disco Swindle" digital single
V/A - "Amalgamorous Confections" Pink House Records sampler CD
Oak Ridge Boys - "Live" 1977 LP
Exiled Force - "The Dirty Dog" demo
Bob Dylan - "The Essential" Disc 1
12/26/16
Zao - "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here"
Anthrax - "The Perseverance of Time"
Mozart - "Requiem Mass in D Minor"
Scared Of Chaka - "Tired of You"
Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
David Bowie - "Blackstar"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne of Nazarene"
Dredg - "Leitmotif"
George Michael - "Older"
12/27/16
Wu-Tang Clan - "Freestyle 1997"
Styx - "Paradise Theater"
V/A - FMLY 15-song CD
Marty Friedman - "Inferno"
Melvins - "Stoner Witch"
Snoop Dogg - "Tha Last Meal"
Limerent Dance Machine - "Dream A Reason Why"
Primus - "Frizzle Fry"
Dead Farm Animals x Youthonix ft. R Kelly - "Wanna Know" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder/The Acacia Strain/Fit For An Autopsy - "The Depression Sessions" 3-way split
DevilDriver - "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand"
Mustard Plug - "Can't Contain It"
Entombed A.D. - "Dead Dawn"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Living With The Living"
Panoramic - "Not Exactly"
I'm Glad It's You - "The Things I Say"
Iggy Pop - "Post Pop Depression"
V/A - "PooPoo Platter" Laramie compilation CD
Proletariat Youth - "Chin Check" EP
Leer - "Spring Break No Parents"
12/28/16
NOFX - "First Ditch Effort"
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
The Box Elders - "Alice & Friends"
Stag Hare - "Black Medicine Music"
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4"
Band Aparte - 4-song demo CD
C.D. Truth - "1990-2005" Disc 2
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
12/29/16
Sigur Ros - "Oveour" digital single
Naughty By Nature - "Poverty's Paradise"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" CD
Murder City Devils - S/T
Darkest Hour - "The Mark of Judas"
DVT - Sampler #2
Run The Jewels - "RTJ3"
Bedbugs - "Alone" EP
Railcars - "Cathedral With No Eyes"
The Gods Hate Kansas - S/T EP
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
12/30/16
Nine Inch Nails - "Not The Actual Events" EP
Dash Jacket - "Romance"
Veil Of Maya - "All Things Set Aside"
The Jonbenet - "Ugly/Heartless"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Tim Schweiger & The Middle-Men - 4-song sampler CD
Recluse - "Wilted" digital single
Ernest Tubb - "My Pick Of The Hits"
Majid Jordan - S/T
Crisis Arm - "Thread of Pisces"
Misery Ritual x Wreckage - "Glow" digital single
William Croft - "The Burial Service"
Weed Diamond - "Seasonal" EP
Allan Vache meets Jim Galloway - "Raisin' The Roof"
The Horse I Rode - "Black Mirage"
V/A - "When Punkers Were Punk And Parents Were Scared"
Mahjongg - "The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger"
Farabee - "Welcome to the Underleagues"
12/31/16
Stevie Wonder - "Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits"
The Quireboys - "Black Eyed Sons"
Prince - "3121"
Cootie Wootie - "Mannequin Music Vol. 1" EP
Hoobastank - "The Reason"
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Emarosa - "Relativity"
Force Of Nature/Tsutchie - "Samurai Champloo Music Record Mash" split
Freeman - "J'Palais de Justice"
MUSIC NOTES
- Barenaked Ladies are way better than I realized, there are 2 songs on that album that got heavy, heavy rotation this month: "Light Up My Room" and "I'll Be That Girl". Really really good songs.
- Its extremely uncharacteristic for me to have not listened to any albums for 17 full days but I was in a really, really bad place this month
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Sugar, Ill Tempered, Blue Series Continuum, Toys That Kill, Runaround, Lower Depths, Panoramic
- Zach Navis once told me that my band sounds more like Sugar, Bob Mould's band after Husker Du, than we do Husker Du, whom we had been compared to before. I had never listened to them before the 19th and I have to agree with Navis, except I can't wail like Bob.
- Spenny's Christmas album is so fucking ridiculous but I think the world needed it
- New releases from Toys That Kill, I'm Glad It's You, Run The Jewels, Nine Inch Nails are all on point
- "Children, they walk away. I think about it every day."
MOVIES/SHOWS
12/13/16: FINISHED "The Colossus Of New York"
"Henry Rollins: Critical Conversations"
12/15/16: "Daniel Tosh: People Person"
12/18/16: FINISHED "The Chumscrubber"
12/19/16: FINISHED "Rumplestiltskin"
12/20/16: FINISHED "Hot Pursuit"
12/21/16: "Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint"
12/25/16: "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece Of My Mind"
12/30/16: FINISHED "Love Streams"
MOVIE NOTES
- "Rumplestiltskin" is just as terrible as you would imagine
- I watched the "Hot Pursuit" from the 80s with John Cusack, not the more recent one with the mom from "Modern Family"
MAGAZINES
12/24/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1276/1277
12/26/16: FINISHED "The 420 Book" issue 10
Monday, January 2, 2017
Playlist for November 2016
This is a list of all the albums/EPs/demos/splits/singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of November 2016, along with lists of things I watched, read, or saw live; notes regarding all follow. Enjoy!
MOVIES
11/3/16: FINISHED "I Shot Andy Warhol"
11/13/16: "The Lion In The Living Room"
"A Dog's Life"
"David Cross: Making America Great Again"
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rebecca"
11/23/16: FINISHED "Margot at the Wedding"
11/24/16: "Before The Flood"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece of My Mind"
11/27/16: FINISHED "The Devil & Miss Jones"
MUSIC
11/3/16
Benny Goodman & His Sextet - "On Stage"
Kronos Quartet - "Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh"
Looking Up - S/T
Graves At Sea/Asunder - split
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
Deaf Ears - 3-song demo
11/4/16
Death By Stereo - "Into the Valley of Death"
11/5/16
Boyz II Men - "II"
11/6/16
Mike & The Melvins - "Three Men & A Baby"
Moon Bandits/Pat The Bunny - split EP
Cthtr - S/T EP
Smogtown - "Fuhrers of the New Wave"
Elvis Costello - "My Aim Is True" deluxe edition
11/7/16
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." EP
Water Parks - "Double Dare"
Slingshot Dakota - "Break"
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Propagandhi - "Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
11/8/16
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Kyoko - "Isn't That A Girl's Name?"
1/9/16
Matt Pless - "Tumbleweed"
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
Leon Bridges - "Coming Home"
Reig - "Disarm" 7"
Health Problems - "Ugly Man"
11/10/16
Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
Chain Reaction - "Gabbie" EP
Shotgun Solution - "Shotgun" EP
Sugarhill Gang - "The Best Of"
11/11/16
Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs Of Leonard Cohen"
Alexander Borodin - "Prince Igor"
Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - "Spinner"
11/12/16
Moon Pearl - "Pearl Jams" EP
Take This Hand - "We Fight To Survive" EP
11/14/16
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - "paavojoivie"
11/15/16
V/A - "Hopelessly Devoted To You Too"
11/16/16
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - "Logo Brazil"
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - "Tails"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" 2XLP
11/17/16
Fleetwood Mac - S/T
Los Lobos - "Colossal Head"
D.A.D. - "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
ruiner. & aureate: insects: - "Live at The Mine"
STAB - "Timeholders"
V/A - "Boomerang" OST
Dream Theater - "Awake"
The Sundays - "The Static & The Silence"
Grand Tapestry - S/T
The Strumbellas - "Hope"
MC Hammer - "Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em"
11/19/16
Nick Murphy - "Fear Less" digital single
Calyx - "Make A Freak Feel Clean" EP
Cetas Aspire - "We're All Suspects" EP
Amygdala - "Semillas" digital single
inc. - "No World"
Jonathan Morning - "Gravity Matters" digital single
Grim Reaper - "Walking in the Shadows"
Still Alive - 2-song promi CD
New Ruin - S/T EP
Sara Brightman - "Diva: The Singles Collection"
11/20/16
Braineater - "Weak, Frail, and Powerless" EP
Animals As Leaders - "The Madness of Many"
Botched Facelift - "The Living Wasteland" EP
Gossimer - "Brioche Rib"
Joyce Manor - "Cody"
Ash Borer - S/T
Alcest - "Kodama"
Heywood Banks - "Pretending I'm Not Home"
Trash Bag Villains - "Hateful Miser" EP
Bruise - "Wrongful Death" EP
Fuzzy Knuckles - 4-song demo CD
Snakeway - "Beyond the Realm" EP
11/21/16
Tangerine Dream - "Melrose"
Sting - "57th & 9th"
Seance - "Introspection" EP
Jane Monheit - "Come Dream With Me"
11/22/16
Taylor Swift - "1989"
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
11/23/16
DJ Khaled - "Major Key"
Take Offense - "United State Of Mind"
Bitter End - "Guilty As Charged"
Dharma - "Sea Nothing" EP
The Garden - "Call This # Now" digital single
V/A - "Great American Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin"
Colombian Necktie - " All Paths Lead To Nowhere"
11/24/16
Ice Cube - "Raw Footage"
A-Trak & Ookay - "Only One" digital single
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
Whelm/Not Down - split EP
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Go -- "Fiesta"
Louis Armstrong - "The Definitive Collection"
Elevators - "Future" EP
Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrod - "3 Pianos"
11/25/16
Pure - "XXX" EP
Jesse Cook - "Free Fall"
Incantation - "Onwards to Golgotha"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
Bon Iver - "22 A Million"
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
RSO Berlin & RIAS Kammercher, conducted by Gerd Albrecht - "Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Traurkantate den Ton Friedrich des Grosson"
Petr Hapka - "Milacek zen a Vetesniku"
Tim Schweiger - 4-song promo CD
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Dudman - "Fu Hatsu Dam Otoku"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
11/26/16
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" demo
The Art Of Noise - "The Best Of"
Ronald Jenkees - "Disorganized Fun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Blues Traveler - "Four"
Robert Levi - "Sings the Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 1
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
aureate: insects:/ruiner. - split
11/27/16
End Of Flesh - "Broken and Violent" digital single
Living Legends - "Legendary Music Vol. 1"
Mouthful Of Snow - "The Truth Hurts, But You Would Still Like To Hear It"
Bishop Briggs - S/T EP
Run The Jewels - S/T
P.E.A.R.L. - S/T EP
V/A - "Flashdance" OST
Ted Nugent - "Love Grenade"
Phoebe - S/T EP
11/28/16
Intervals - "A Voice Within"
Final Fight - "Half Head, Full Shred"
ruiner. - "Near the Ocean Breeze" digital single
AJJ - "The Bible 2"
Volahn - "Aq' Ab' Al"
The Body - "No One Deserves Happiness"
11/29/16
Joshua Bell with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas - "Peter Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35"
Dead 77 - "No Hope For Me" digital single
Kharma - "Survival" EP
Lotus Roon - 3-song demo CD
Cvltvre - "Drown" digital single
The Rolling Stones - "Totally Stripped"
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - "The Silver Lining"
11/30/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Grow"
YG ft. Drake - "Why You Always Hating" digital single
Select Sex -S/T 7"
Britney Spears ft. G-Eazy - "Make Me" digital single
The Chainsmokers ft. Charlee - "Inside Out" digital single
H2O - "The Romance" digital single
Kid Armor - "The Outcome Replays"
Robert Levi - "Sings The Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 2
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases by Maricon, Animals As Leaders, Joyce Manor, Ash Borer, Alcest, Bruise, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Volahn, The Body, Kharma are all on point
- R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, "the songwriter's songwriter"
- If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Christine McVie is the true magic behind Fleetwood Mac
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: STAB, Grand Tapestry, inc., Bruise, Seance, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Intervals, Volahn, Kharma, Kid Armor
- That Grand Tapestry album is one of the best hip hop albums ever made
- Crisis Arm was so fucking good
- "Children, they walk away...I think about it every day."
- Tenacious D is basically just Blues Traveler with a bunch of jokes and less harmonica
- Worst of the month: Bishop Briggs
(MAGA)ZINES/COMICS/BOOKS
11/16/16: "hoax" issue #1
11/18/16: "Team Seven" issue #1
"The Juniper" issue #4
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1273
11/21/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" issue #4
FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1274
11/23/16: "X-Men: Prelude to Schism"
11/22/16: The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
11/26/16: FINISHED "Shonen Jump: The Complete Edition" issue #1
11/29/16: FINSIHED "UCI Magazine" Spring 2016 issue
MOVIES
11/3/16: FINISHED "I Shot Andy Warhol"
11/13/16: "The Lion In The Living Room"
"A Dog's Life"
"David Cross: Making America Great Again"
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rebecca"
11/23/16: FINISHED "Margot at the Wedding"
11/24/16: "Before The Flood"
"Paul Mooney: A Piece of My Mind"
11/27/16: FINISHED "The Devil & Miss Jones"
MUSIC
11/3/16
Benny Goodman & His Sextet - "On Stage"
Kronos Quartet - "Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh"
Looking Up - S/T
Graves At Sea/Asunder - split
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
Deaf Ears - 3-song demo
11/4/16
Death By Stereo - "Into the Valley of Death"
11/5/16
Boyz II Men - "II"
11/6/16
Mike & The Melvins - "Three Men & A Baby"
Moon Bandits/Pat The Bunny - split EP
Cthtr - S/T EP
Smogtown - "Fuhrers of the New Wave"
Elvis Costello - "My Aim Is True" deluxe edition
11/7/16
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." EP
Water Parks - "Double Dare"
Slingshot Dakota - "Break"
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Propagandhi - "Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
11/8/16
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Kyoko - "Isn't That A Girl's Name?"
1/9/16
Matt Pless - "Tumbleweed"
Street Rats - "Suboredom"
Leon Bridges - "Coming Home"
Reig - "Disarm" 7"
Health Problems - "Ugly Man"
11/10/16
Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
Chain Reaction - "Gabbie" EP
Shotgun Solution - "Shotgun" EP
Sugarhill Gang - "The Best Of"
11/11/16
Flying Lotus - "Until the Quiet Comes"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs Of Leonard Cohen"
Alexander Borodin - "Prince Igor"
Brian Eno & Jah Wobble - "Spinner"
11/12/16
Moon Pearl - "Pearl Jams" EP
Take This Hand - "We Fight To Survive" EP
11/14/16
Sights Sounds - "Mammoth" EP
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - "paavojoivie"
11/15/16
V/A - "Hopelessly Devoted To You Too"
11/16/16
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet - "Logo Brazil"
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - "Tails"
Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk" 2XLP
11/17/16
Fleetwood Mac - S/T
Los Lobos - "Colossal Head"
D.A.D. - "No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
ruiner. & aureate: insects: - "Live at The Mine"
STAB - "Timeholders"
V/A - "Boomerang" OST
Dream Theater - "Awake"
The Sundays - "The Static & The Silence"
Grand Tapestry - S/T
The Strumbellas - "Hope"
MC Hammer - "Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em"
11/19/16
Nick Murphy - "Fear Less" digital single
Calyx - "Make A Freak Feel Clean" EP
Cetas Aspire - "We're All Suspects" EP
Amygdala - "Semillas" digital single
inc. - "No World"
Jonathan Morning - "Gravity Matters" digital single
Grim Reaper - "Walking in the Shadows"
Still Alive - 2-song promi CD
New Ruin - S/T EP
Sara Brightman - "Diva: The Singles Collection"
11/20/16
Braineater - "Weak, Frail, and Powerless" EP
Animals As Leaders - "The Madness of Many"
Botched Facelift - "The Living Wasteland" EP
Gossimer - "Brioche Rib"
Joyce Manor - "Cody"
Ash Borer - S/T
Alcest - "Kodama"
Heywood Banks - "Pretending I'm Not Home"
Trash Bag Villains - "Hateful Miser" EP
Bruise - "Wrongful Death" EP
Fuzzy Knuckles - 4-song demo CD
Snakeway - "Beyond the Realm" EP
11/21/16
Tangerine Dream - "Melrose"
Sting - "57th & 9th"
Seance - "Introspection" EP
Jane Monheit - "Come Dream With Me"
11/22/16
Taylor Swift - "1989"
Pearl Jam - "Vs."
11/23/16
DJ Khaled - "Major Key"
Take Offense - "United State Of Mind"
Bitter End - "Guilty As Charged"
Dharma - "Sea Nothing" EP
The Garden - "Call This # Now" digital single
V/A - "Great American Songwriters: George & Ira Gershwin"
Colombian Necktie - " All Paths Lead To Nowhere"
11/24/16
Ice Cube - "Raw Footage"
A-Trak & Ookay - "Only One" digital single
Holy Shit! - "Had A Couple Good Songs" discography CD
Whelm/Not Down - split EP
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Go -- "Fiesta"
Louis Armstrong - "The Definitive Collection"
Elevators - "Future" EP
Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrod - "3 Pianos"
11/25/16
Pure - "XXX" EP
Jesse Cook - "Free Fall"
Incantation - "Onwards to Golgotha"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
Bon Iver - "22 A Million"
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
RSO Berlin & RIAS Kammercher, conducted by Gerd Albrecht - "Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Traurkantate den Ton Friedrich des Grosson"
Petr Hapka - "Milacek zen a Vetesniku"
Tim Schweiger - 4-song promo CD
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Dudman - "Fu Hatsu Dam Otoku"
Frustrated/Deep End - split EP
11/26/16
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" demo
The Art Of Noise - "The Best Of"
Ronald Jenkees - "Disorganized Fun"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
Blues Traveler - "Four"
Robert Levi - "Sings the Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 1
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
aureate: insects:/ruiner. - split
11/27/16
End Of Flesh - "Broken and Violent" digital single
Living Legends - "Legendary Music Vol. 1"
Mouthful Of Snow - "The Truth Hurts, But You Would Still Like To Hear It"
Bishop Briggs - S/T EP
Run The Jewels - S/T
P.E.A.R.L. - S/T EP
V/A - "Flashdance" OST
Ted Nugent - "Love Grenade"
Phoebe - S/T EP
11/28/16
Intervals - "A Voice Within"
Final Fight - "Half Head, Full Shred"
ruiner. - "Near the Ocean Breeze" digital single
AJJ - "The Bible 2"
Volahn - "Aq' Ab' Al"
The Body - "No One Deserves Happiness"
11/29/16
Joshua Bell with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas - "Peter Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35"
Dead 77 - "No Hope For Me" digital single
Kharma - "Survival" EP
Lotus Roon - 3-song demo CD
Cvltvre - "Drown" digital single
The Rolling Stones - "Totally Stripped"
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - "The Silver Lining"
11/30/16
Dharma - "A Seed To Grow"
YG ft. Drake - "Why You Always Hating" digital single
Select Sex -S/T 7"
Britney Spears ft. G-Eazy - "Make Me" digital single
The Chainsmokers ft. Charlee - "Inside Out" digital single
H2O - "The Romance" digital single
Kid Armor - "The Outcome Replays"
Robert Levi - "Sings The Desert Cahuilla Birdsongs" Disc 2
MUSIC NOTES
- New releases by Maricon, Animals As Leaders, Joyce Manor, Ash Borer, Alcest, Bruise, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Volahn, The Body, Kharma are all on point
- R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, "the songwriter's songwriter"
- If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Christine McVie is the true magic behind Fleetwood Mac
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: STAB, Grand Tapestry, inc., Bruise, Seance, P.E.A.R.L., Phoebe, Intervals, Volahn, Kharma, Kid Armor
- That Grand Tapestry album is one of the best hip hop albums ever made
- Crisis Arm was so fucking good
- "Children, they walk away...I think about it every day."
- Tenacious D is basically just Blues Traveler with a bunch of jokes and less harmonica
- Worst of the month: Bishop Briggs
(MAGA)ZINES/COMICS/BOOKS
11/16/16: "hoax" issue #1
11/18/16: "Team Seven" issue #1
"The Juniper" issue #4
11/19/16: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1273
11/21/16: FINISHED "KYEO Speaks" issue #4
FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue #1274
11/23/16: "X-Men: Prelude to Schism"
11/22/16: The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
11/26/16: FINISHED "Shonen Jump: The Complete Edition" issue #1
11/29/16: FINSIHED "UCI Magazine" Spring 2016 issue
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