You Should Never Have Opened That Door: February 2017

This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of January 2017. Also included are movies I watched, things I read, and stuff I saw live. Notes regarding all follow. Enjoy.

MUSIC
1/1/2017
Eric Clapton - "MTV Unplugged"
Joyce Manor - S/T
Ash Borer - "Cold of Ages"
Alcest - "Tristesse Hivernale" demo
C.D. Truth - "Chemically Dependent"
Bruise - "Vicious Cycle" EP
Sugar Ray - "14:59"
Momentum - "Bliss" EP
LVL UP - "Return to Love"
Centertown Insurgents - "Dumpster Dive" EP
Justin Bieber - "Purpose"
Eulogy - "The Sinking of the Navigator"
ruiner. - "ceilings II" EP
Oak Ridge Boys - "Greatest Hits"
Deviated State - "Sweater Weather" EP
Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!"
Centertown Insurgents - S/T demo
Mozart - "Requiem in D Minor"
Kharma/Backbone/Delinquents - "Midwest Young and Restless" 3-way split EP
Jerry's Kids - "Is This My World?"
Leonard Cohen - "Songs From A Room"
David Bowie - "Hunky Dory"

1/2/17
Kharma - "Survival" EP
George Michael - "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1"
Negative Saints - 6-song demo CD
Styx - "The Grand Illusion"
Marty Friedman - "Scenes"
Best Coast - "Crazy For You"
Fourth Grade Nothing - S/T
Pantera - "Vulgar Display Of Power"
Erykah Badu - "Baduizm"
Fit For An Autopsy - "Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell"
The Phenomenauts - "Electric Sheep" EP
Front 242 - "Official Version"
Nails/Full Of Hell - split EP
Stolas - "Allomaternal"
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"
Radio Birdman - "Zeno Beach
Burnt Palms - "Back On My Wall"

1/3/17
Pennywise - "Nineteen Eighty Nine"
Human Garbage - promo 2016
Esoteric - "Pterodactyl Timeline" compilation CD
Iris Jupiter - "Life Pile" digital single
PENs+ - "Our Days" EP
The Vandals - "Live Fast, Diarrhea"
Bjork - "Homogenic"
Sigur Ros - "Happipoll (Planet Earth II mix)" digital single
Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"

1/4/17
Mulatu Astatke - "New York - Addis - London"
Roxy Music - "Avalon"
Ringworm - "Snake Church"
Racetraitor - "Burn The Idol of the White Messiah"
Brujeria - "Raza Odiada"
Beck - "Mutations"
Mentors - "You Axed For It!"
The Pocket Rockets - "The End" digital single
Whitechapel - "Mark of the Blade"
Fugazi - "Red Medicine"
Avi Buffalo - S/T

1/5/17
terns - "The Abyss" digital single
Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Buck-o-Nine - "Water in My Head" EP
Waifle - "The Music Stops...The Man Dies"
Hatebreed - "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire"
MDC - "Millions of Dead Cops"
Welcome To Now - 8-song CD
David Allen Coe - "Longhaired Redneck"
Empyrean Throne - "Blood in the Ardennes" digital single
We're No Gentlemen - S/T EP
Vader - "The Ultimate Incantation"
Silent Scream - "From The Darkest Depths Of The Imagination"
Arkaik - "Lucid Dawn"

1/6/17
Bad Kids - "Sith & Wesson" digital single
The Effigies - "Remains Nonviewable"
Dash Jacket - "Some Songs" EP
Radiohead - "A Moon-Shaped Pool"
Hello Penelope - "Winona Ryder" EP

1/7/17
Overkill - "Our Finest Hour" digital single
Samhain - "Initium"
Antagonist - S/T EP
V/A - "PP Promo Records: Making A Scene 2015, Edition 1"

1/8/17
In Flux - "No More Macho Bullshit" demo
Syrebris - "Aetheric Dynamics"
Death Sentence: Panda! - "Insects Awaken"
The Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"
The Screamin' Yeehaws - "The Bullet"
Ordinary People - "Nothing New" EP
The Reverend Horton Heat - "Hardscrabble Woman"/"Lyin' to Myself" 7"
He Whose Ox Is Gored - "Fainting Room Collective Triple Six" 7"
Zeke - "Death Alley"
Battalion Of Saints - "Cuts..."
The Toasters - "In Retrospect: The Best Of"
Composure - "Jump Up Mix #001"

1/9/17
Lauge - "Snowflake (Oceanus Orientalis edit)" digital singlw
Happy In Hemet - "Fappy Hour"
Infernal Coil - "Burning Prayer of Infinite Hatred" EP
V/A - "Natural Rhythm: Houseroom Ibiza" Bonus Digital Tracks
Slightly Stoopid - "Closer to the Sun"
Condemned To Death - S/T EP
Tomber Lever - "Furniture Pedagogue"
Acid King - "Busse Woods"
Panoramic/Talk, Tired, Thanatoid - split EP

1/10/17
The Who - "My Generation: The Best Of"
Noctambulant - "Legions of Hell" EP
Sepultura - "Roots"
Silver Snakes - "Year of the Snake"
Bur Gur - "Alligator Cheesecake"
Ruines ov Abaddon - "Tongue on the Lamb" EP
La Bella - "Ides"

1/11/17
Mad Caddies - "Dirty Rice"
Dear Nora - "Mountain Rock"
Answer Code Request - "Code"
V/A - "Feel Guide Vol. 6"
Atomic Dilemma - "Take That, Kids!" EP
Gorgoroth - "Antichrist"
Vampire Squid - "Nautilus World"

1/12/17
Nails - "Abandon All Life"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
3peat - S/T EP
Miserable - "Uncontrollable"
Morbid Angel - "I Am Morbid" remixes 7"
Tomber Lever - 10-song CD
HEALTH - "Drugs Exist (Mr. Kitty remix)" digital single

1/13/17
Gore Gore Girls - "Get The Gore"
The xx - "I See You"
V/A - "Hopeless Records 50th Release" Disc 1
Samael - "Eternal"
Maricon - "L.O.V.E." demo

1/14/17
Wintersleep - S/T
Rosemary's Babies - "Blood Lust" EP
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
The English Dogs - "To The Ends Of The Earth"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
TM Juke - "Forward"
De Lux - "Generation"
Reproacher - "Nature's Bastard"

1/15/17
Four Minute Mile - "Self Depriving//Cast Away" EP
LotusRoom - "Hatchet Cat" EP
Michael Praetorius - "Dances From Terpsichore"
Vanity - "Wild Animal"
Cannibal Ox - "The Cold Vein"
Amber Pacific - "The Possibility and the Promise"
Rundown Kreeps - "Breakin' the Routine" EP
Los 2x4's - "In Case You Missed It" EP
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos & Order"

1/16/17
Gin Blossoms - "New Miserable Experience"
MPG/Savage - split 7"
TerrorStorm - "Nocturnal Nightmare" digital single
The Effigies - "Reside"
Spanky Wilson & The Quantic Soul Orchestra - "I'm Thankful"
V/A - "Blasphemous Empire Vol. 1"
Tank - "Filth Hounds Of Hades"
Locked Up/Third Chance - split 7"
Dangerously Sleazy - "Bad Things Just Happen" EP
Initiate - demo 2016
Volahn - "Dimensions del Trance Kosmico"
V/A - "What Is Happening?"
John Prine - "For Better, Or Worse"
Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"

1/17/17
Mudcrutch - "Trailer" b/w "Beautiful World" 7"
Dream Theater - "Images and Words"
Oak Ridge Boys - "Rock of Ages: Hymns and Gospel Favorites"
Neutral - "Unseen Between" EP
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
The Morning Light - S/T
Yeod Eum Son - "Mozart's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 21"
Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man"

1/18/17
David Bowie - "Aladdin Sane"
Weed Diamond - "Early Thingz + More" CD
Revoke - demo
George Michael - "Faith"
The Surge - 2016 demo
Hands Of God - "Demonstration" demo
The Leather Chain - Demo 16
United Nothing - "U.N. 2017" demo
Restraint - "Power Beyond Reason" EP
BarrioSlam - "Stories From The Streets" EP

1/19/17
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - "Miss Sharon Jones" OST
Rise - "Final Resting" EP
Lucky Dragons - "Widows"
Nomeansno - "The Day Everything Became Nothing" EP
tHE pAPER cHASE - "Now You Are One Of Us"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
Battlehooch - 3-song demo CD

1/21/17
Slow Decay - "My Release" demo
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Ground Up - 2008 demo
Between The Buried And Me - "The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues"

1/22/17
John J. Becker - "Vigilante (A Dance)"
Ashanti - "Foolish"
Star Club - S/T EP
The Mirage Theory - "Origins" EP
The Phenomenauts - "I'm With Neil" b/w "Every Day is Science Friday" 7"
New Balance - "Thoughts of Future Unbalance" EP
Benny "The Jet" Ramirez - 4-song CD
Descendents - "Hypercaffium Spazzinate"

1/23/17
Winter Vacation - "Blue Coaching"
Alanis Morrissette - "Jagged Little Pill"

1/24/17
A Wilhelm Scream - "Career Suicide"
Tan Dollar - "Rats"
Sigur Ros - "( )"
House Of Pain - "Truth Crushed To Earth, Shall Rise Again"
Black Bear - 8-song CD
Terveet Kadet - "II" EP
Terveet Kadet - "Rock Laahautsa Vastaan" EP
Cani - "Guia a Voi!" EP

1/25/17
Wolves In The Throne Room - "Black Cascade"
Don Caballero - "World-Class Listening Problem"
Tombs - "All Empires Fall"
Climate - "MMXVI" EP
Cattle Decapitation - "The Anthropocene Extinction"
The Breeders - "Last Splash"
Short Dawg Tha Native - "Road Warrior" EP
Maps - "We Can Create"

1/26/17
V/A - "What'd You Expect For Free?" Vol. 26
The Island Of Misfit Toys - S/T
Caulfield - 5-song demo CD
Zeke - "Pinstriping the Dutchman's Coffin" EP
Dr. Know - "HABILY: What Was Old Is New Again"
Brain Fragment - "LSD Is Good For You"
Dow Jones & The Industrials - "Can't Stand The Midwest" EP

1/27/17
The Velvet Underground - "Live at Max's Kansas City" Disc 1
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Abysmal"
Fake Tides - S/T
Jawbox - S/T
The xx - "Coexist"

1/28/17
Matchbook Romance - "West for Wishing" EP

1/29/17
The Sundays - "Static and Silence"
Operatic - 2-song demo
Fear Factory - "Obsolete"
The Booze Bombs - "Ice Cold Whiskey"
Nile - "At The Gates Of Sethu"
Ninja Gandhi - "Wax Empire"
The Crucifucks - S/T
No Right - S/T EP
SWINE - "Live at Skinny's Lounge" EP

1/30/17
The Asteroid No. 4 - S/T
Advanced Placement - S/T EP
Dust Moth - "Scale"
Nashville Pussy - "Higher Than Hell"

1/31/17
Rebelution - "Peace of Mind"
Mink Capital Terror - S/T EP
Tiamat - "Sumerian Cry"
Micthutecuhtli - "Pillars of Silence"

MUSIC NOTES
- KP totally ditched me on New Year's and I sat alone listening to Eric Clapton all night. I don't even really like Eric Clapton, even though he has the same birthday as me. Thanks KP.
- Sugar Ray had a lot more memorable songs than many of their peers. Fight me.
- I was surprised that I enjoyed that Justin Bieber album as much as I did. Fight me.
- "You take all my money. You take all my weed."
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: PENs+, Waifle, In Flux, Composure, Infernal Coil, Talk Tired Thanatoid, Noctambulant, Dear Nora, Answer Code Request, Vampire Squid, 3peat, De Lux, Vanity, Locked Up, Volahn, Neutral, The Surge, Hands Of God, United Nothing, Rise, The Mirage Theory, New Balance, Climate, Ninja Gandhi, No Right, SWINE, The Asteroid No. 4
- Satisfaction is the death of desire.
- New releases by Syrebris, Tomber Lever, Ruines ov Abaddon, La Bella, Miserable, Descendents, Tombs, Cattle Decapitation, Dust Moth
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- I listened to the strange final song on "Roots" as I rode home from work, the first time I had ridden a bike in like a decade.
- Not that I was ever really a big fan to begin with, but jeez the Mad Caddies don't sound anything like what I remember. It's a jump to even call it ska.
- How did I just learn about Dear Nora now? It's like the exact type of music that I make as end of the summer, but way better. A million times better.
- I listened to that "Feel Guide" compilation to check out a specific band who was gonna play with some friends of mine soon and that band turned out to totally suck but the rest of that compilation is pretty cool.
- I dowloaded Spotify because the new album by the xx was streamed on there the first day of its release. I'm not really a fan of theirs at all. I don't know why I did that
- Interviews with Matamoska!, The Surge, United Nothing, Restraint coming soon
- R.I.P. Sharon Jones
- Vive La Peligra
- The Temecula Goodwill has like a really good CD selection and everything is $1 each. They have "Sleep's Holy Mountain" there but I already have that. Go get it.
- I'm just looking for One Divine Hammer.
- I thought Jawbox was gonna be way different and honestly way better than they are

MOVIES
- 1/2/17: FINISHED "Office Christmas Party"
- 1/4/17: FINISHED "The Stranger"
- 1/8/17: FINISHED "A Day In The Life"
- 1/12/17: FINISHED "Arrival"
- 1/13/17: FINISHED "In Bruges"
- 1/16/17: FINISHED "Don Peyote"

MOVIE NOTES
- "Don Peyote" is a terrible, terrible waste of time. That guy from that ping pong movie and that Type O Negative music video is kinda trying to be deep or something but it is just so fucking awful. Worst movie I have seen in quite awhile. That guy just sucks.

LIVE
1/15/17: La Banda Skalavera/Matamoska!/Los 2x4s @ Out Of The Park Pizza
1/21/17: Proletariat Youth/Hands Of God/Deadheat/Surplus/Slow Decay/The Surge/BarrioSlam/Maricon/The Leather Chain/P.E.A.R.L./United Nothing/Restraint @ Awakening (Standing Hard III)

LIVE NOTES
- Some kid at Standing Hard III asked me how I'm able to stay in the pit for every single band at an all-day hardcore show, and I just asked him, how are you not? You're clearly way younger than me. All I'm doing is watching the bands and pushing people away as need be. During our conversation he told me he was 20 years old and had only started going to shows, despite being the guitarist for one of the bands playing the festival. I told him I had been doing this since I was 13 and then realized via basic math that I have been going to shows since this kid was 5 years old. I don't know how to feel about that.

MAGAZINES/BOOKS
1/17/17: FINISHED "UCI Magazine" Winter 2016 issue
1/19/17: FINISHED "Rolling Stone" issue 1278/1279
1/24/17: FINISHED Why Do Cats Do That? by Kim Campbell Thornton

IAN: Alright, I'm recording. What are your guys's names again?
ARIEL: We're Born Guilty. I'm Ariel, this is Rob.
ROB: hey
I: Okay, so I have vocals and drums from Born Guilty here; how long have you been playing as Born Guilty?
A: Probably about 2 years now. I mean, we started about 2 years ago but we really got it going in 2015. That's when we kinda started rolling the ball.
I: Do you have, like, an LP out? Or just singles?
A: Yeah we actually have our old demo out, which is called "Hounds," which is online. You can check us out at bornguilty.bandcamp.com . We also have the EP we released this year, which is self-titled; we put that out ourselves and that has like every song you can kinda catch nowadays.
I: So this is kind-of a random place to play, just a church in Murrieta; are you guys used to playing this type of show?
A: To be honest, we'd rather just play shows like this, where it's more local. That's kinda what we grew off of. It just makes you better at playing. Playing venues like this tells you whether you're really here for hardcore or not. These little venues are what make it for kids in smaller towns, so for me I'd rather play at a local venue then play... you know, eventually we'll probably play something big but for right now we're kinda rolling the ball.
I: I feel you; if it's not real, it's not real. Now this is out of nowhere but we had talked a moment ago, that you may have known my friend KP; he may have worked with you guys. How did that work out?
A: It worked out a little bit. I think he came to 2 practices. It all came down to him and our old drummer, this kinda younger guy who filled in, it really didn't work for them. You know, we're hardcore-based. We don't really play too fast and stuff like that. Our biggest influences are, like, Terror, Cruel Hand, stuff like that.
I: Kinda mid-tempo hardcore
A: Yeah, so like, I guess people would call it "tough-guy" hardcore but we don't claim that kind of shit. We just play the music we grew up with.
I: [towards Rob] So for you as a drummer, who would you say are influences for yourself?
R: Like, the style we play or just in general?
I: Just yourself, as a drummer.
R: I love Expire. That dude's beats are on-point. He's solid. Another favorite drummer of mine is the dude from Turnstile, and a bunch of other bands. The drummer from Defeater, he's amazing.
I: So mainly hardcore stuff
R: Oh yeah. Yeah. Honestly. I mean, I respect all other drummers and other categories of music but I'm meant for hardcore more than any other genre.
I: So one of the things I wanted to talk to you guys about is that you are all connected with other bands as well [as this one]. What are some of the upcoming projects that you guys have going on?
A: What we're really trying to get going right now, somebody hit us up from Australia and we might try to do a split with that guy if anything. We're also trying to put out a 5-song EP. We're kinda just in the motions of getting everything done, trying to pull all the songs together. We don't like to put out any songs that are, like, half-assed. We really take time with our music.
I: And I appreciate that. There are alot of bands, not even just in hardcore, but in punk rock, indie rock, etc. where they release stuff before its ready.
A: Yeah, like with us, if we hear something wrong, we're not afraid to say it. In the end we play what we want to play, like, this is the shit that we're playing and we don't care if you like it or not. It's our style.
I: Alright well it sounds like the next band is about to come up so I'm gonna end this thing out real quick; my question that I always try to end things out with: What's your favorite breakfast food?
A: Ah, fuck...um...Bacon. Bacon and waffles. I love that shit.
I: Hey, whatever works. [towards Rob] And you?
R: Egg whites scrambled with avocado on it. With some hot sauce.
A: And he doesn't play when it comes to that.
R: Every morning, Monday through Friday, same breakfast.
I: That sounds pretty good, pretty healthy. Well thank you so much for your time; are you guys heading out anywhere else after this?
R: Che Cafe
A: Yeah we got the Che Cafe coming up pretty soon; we also have a couple shows maybe in L.A. We're really trying to push it. If anyone wants to check us out we have a Facebook and Instagram.
I: All the normal social media
A: Yeah so check us out
I: Alright well thanks again for talking with me, great set tonight!

bornguilty.bandcamp.com

You Should Never Have Opened That Door

Monday, February 13, 2017

Playlist for January 2017

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

CD MINI-REVIEW: Zoology 5-song demo/EP

Sunday, February 5, 2017

INTERVIEW: Born Guilty, September 20 2016 at Awakening in Murrieta, CA