Variants is a pop-punk/emo band from New Orleans who played at The Dial's final show in Temecula, CA on April 30th and after their set I had a short conversation with the vocalist Lance. Check it out.
IAN: Alright this is Ian, I'm here with Lance from Variants...I just watched you guys here at The Dial; this is the last show we're ever gonna do here. You guys are from New Orleans?
LANCE: Yes sir
I: That's a long way from home
L: Yes, it is
I: Do you normally play places like this?
L: We usually try to stay local but we booked this last thing a few months ago and we really wanted to branch out, see new places and everything
I: I see you've got this album called "Commonwealth;" is the first thing you've released on this level?
L: No, we have a full-length out called "The Concept of Color." We released that about 2 years ago, about that, but this is the first thing in our new direction.
I: Sure. Now, I don't know if this will come as an insult or as a compliment; you guys sound to me, especially your voice: {early] Fall Out Boy.
L: I have heard that a lot.
I: How do you feel about that?
L: I love Fall Out Boy. "Take This To Your Grave" is probably one of my top 5 albums ever.
I: Now I'm just gonna be blunt: you are a great singer, but communicating, I can see you have a bit of a stutter
L: Yes I do
I: Do you know if that's a genetic thing or a nervous thing or...
L: I have had a stutter since I was 2 [years old], but singing is on the left side of the brain and speaking is on the right, so that something to do with it, I guess
I: Well either way you're a great singer
L: Thank you so much man
I: So where are you guys going from here?
L: Tomorrow we are playing the Chain Reaction actually
I: How long have you been on the road so far?
L: This is day 8 of about 30 days
I: God Damn
L: Yeah it should be pretty fun
I: So do you guys have anything coming to follow this album?
L: Yes, we are going into the studio around late June-ish, around there. Hopefully we'll have something new out by the turn of the new year.
I: Hey, there you go. Well again, you had a great set tonight, I really enjoyed your shit and I wish you well on the tour
L: Hell yeah, thanks dude
I: The last thing I always ask people when I'm talking to them: What's your favorite breakfast food?
L: Breakfast food? Oh dude, oh fuck...honestly man I'd say french toast. I'm a huge french toast guy.
I: There you go. That's a perfect answer. Well thank you again, Lance
L: Absolutely
I: I hope everything goes well on the rest of your trip
https://variantsmusic.bandcamp.com/
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
ALBUM REVIEW: Thrice - "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere"
I didn't even know Thrice had even been on hiatus. I kinda stopped paying attention after "The Alchemy Index" EPs, honestly, but I always held them as a band in fairly high regard. I love their early stuff and "The Artist in the Ambulance" was on nearly constant repeat for awhile in my high school girlfriend's room. I found their transformation from emo-punk to hard alt-rock to be somewhat disappointing and boring, but I could see what they were going for. It was still quality output, if a bit slow and pretentious for my tastes.
Apparently they took a break after their 2012 album "Majors/Minors," which I never listened to so I can't comment on how far removed that last effort is from this new one. I can say, however, that this new album "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" is a million miles away even from the toned-down Thrice I had already written off a decade ago.
First of all, vocalist Dustin Kensrue doesn't sound like old self whatsoever. He still sounds strained and gruff but it just somehow doesn't sound like the same singer to me. I noticed it right away and it's weird. I can't illustrate this aspect of the album more clearly, or make a bigger insult regarding his vocals, than what my roommate asked me as I was making my breakfast whilst blasting the album through our living room TV:
"Are you listening to fucking Daughtry?"
Dusty, I'm sure that hurts, and you deserve the pain.
Much like bands younger than them, such as A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon, Thrice's new material is almost completely stripped of their roots in punk/hardcore/emo/etc. and seems to be entirely catered to the festival market in its insipid accessibility. Its like if Kings Of Leon made an attempt at a post-hardcore-esque album. The song "Stay With Me," in particular, sounds like it was pre-planned for an uplifting reality-show montage, it's so cheesy. I expect this kind of shit out of the All-American Rejects or All Time Low, not you, Thrice.
The end of the album has some slight reminders of the style most Thrice fans are akin to, particularly the song "Whistleblower," but its a case of being too little too late, too far into the mess. If my roommate thinks you sound like Daughtry, he's not gonna get far enough into the album to hear the 2 songs that kinda sound like old Thrice. It's a statement to my music-OCD that I made it that far myself.
The last song is a mixed bag; it displays the more-mainstream affectation that Kensrue has put on his voice to its worst dimension, sounding somewhere in-between the singers of The Flaming Lips and Deer Tick but without either of their irony. It is, however, the most tranquil and subtle song on the album; for some reason it reminded me of a more-electrified version of "Farewell and Goodnight" by The Smashing Pumpkins. That's far and away the best thing I can say about this album, and that's really not even a standout Pumpkins song.
I'm sure this album will get its fair share of coverage because of the aforementioned hiatus, but in my ears this 'comeback' album doesn't even sound like the band I used to love at all. Instead it's something that I normally would have avoided if not for the name of the band.
Unfortunately, strongly not recommended.
Apparently they took a break after their 2012 album "Majors/Minors," which I never listened to so I can't comment on how far removed that last effort is from this new one. I can say, however, that this new album "To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere" is a million miles away even from the toned-down Thrice I had already written off a decade ago.
First of all, vocalist Dustin Kensrue doesn't sound like old self whatsoever. He still sounds strained and gruff but it just somehow doesn't sound like the same singer to me. I noticed it right away and it's weird. I can't illustrate this aspect of the album more clearly, or make a bigger insult regarding his vocals, than what my roommate asked me as I was making my breakfast whilst blasting the album through our living room TV:
"Are you listening to fucking Daughtry?"
Dusty, I'm sure that hurts, and you deserve the pain.
Much like bands younger than them, such as A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon, Thrice's new material is almost completely stripped of their roots in punk/hardcore/emo/etc. and seems to be entirely catered to the festival market in its insipid accessibility. Its like if Kings Of Leon made an attempt at a post-hardcore-esque album. The song "Stay With Me," in particular, sounds like it was pre-planned for an uplifting reality-show montage, it's so cheesy. I expect this kind of shit out of the All-American Rejects or All Time Low, not you, Thrice.
The end of the album has some slight reminders of the style most Thrice fans are akin to, particularly the song "Whistleblower," but its a case of being too little too late, too far into the mess. If my roommate thinks you sound like Daughtry, he's not gonna get far enough into the album to hear the 2 songs that kinda sound like old Thrice. It's a statement to my music-OCD that I made it that far myself.
The last song is a mixed bag; it displays the more-mainstream affectation that Kensrue has put on his voice to its worst dimension, sounding somewhere in-between the singers of The Flaming Lips and Deer Tick but without either of their irony. It is, however, the most tranquil and subtle song on the album; for some reason it reminded me of a more-electrified version of "Farewell and Goodnight" by The Smashing Pumpkins. That's far and away the best thing I can say about this album, and that's really not even a standout Pumpkins song.
I'm sure this album will get its fair share of coverage because of the aforementioned hiatus, but in my ears this 'comeback' album doesn't even sound like the band I used to love at all. Instead it's something that I normally would have avoided if not for the name of the band.
Unfortunately, strongly not recommended.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Playlist for May 2016
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of May 2016, as well lists of things I watched, saw live, and read during the same time period; notes regarding all follow. Enjoy.
MUSIC
5/1/16
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
V/A - "Metal For The Masses Vol. 666" Century Media Records sampler CD
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Parade Of The Lifeless - "The Anatomy of a People's Bondage"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - 9-song demo CD
Coerced - May 2016 demo
5/2/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Art Damage"
Tourist ft. Josef Salva & Niia - "Holding On" digital single
Burn - "Last Great Sea" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "By Chance" single
Power Trip/Integrity - split EP
EZLV/Romy - "Home" EP
Toxic Holocaust - "Conjure & Command"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
SUNK - S/T EP
Los Lobos - "Gates of Gold"
Neon Trees - "Animal" b/w "Call My Name" single
Krisiun - "Bloodshed"
Strike Anywhere - "Exit English"
Elbow - "Asleep in the Back"
5/3/16
Traps PS - "Real Corner Shock"
Dan Deacon - "Spiderman of the Rings"
Los Monjo - "La Vida Que Todos Envidian"
Indian Summer - "Science 1994" compilation
BTS - "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever"
Bon Jovi - "Slippery When Wet"
Bad Religion - S/T EP
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Insomnium - "In The Halls Of Waiting"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Gallows - "Orchestra of Wolves"
5/4/16
Violent Femmes - S/T
Rudimentary Peni - "Cacophony"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
Walls Of Jericho - "No One Can Save You From Yourself"
Cranium - "Speed Metal Sentence"
Born Against - S/T EP
Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love"
The 257ers - "Schrottmusik" EP
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
5/5/16
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Off The Deep End"
Pain Of Salvation - "Be"
Kids. - "Growing Up" EP
Variants - "LampPost" digital single
Flatbush Zombies - "3001: A Laced Odyssey"
The Wildhearts - "Earth Vs. The Wildhearts"
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - "Blossom"
Frank Turner - "Ten For Ten" compilation
Pierce The Veil - "A Flair For The Dramatic"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
5/6/16
KISS - "Love Gun"
51D - S/T cassette
Joris Voorn & Joran Van Pol - "Sonic Highway" 12"
Jordan Suckley - "Aztec Curse" digital single
Mercury Rev - "All Is Dream"
Feuerschwanz - "Metvernichter"
Jean-Baptiste Stuck - "Les Festes Bollonoise"
The Go-Betweens - "16 Lovers Lane"
Moderat Likvidation - S/T EP
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
The Fartz - "Because This World Fuckin' Stinks" EP
Articles Of Faith - "What We Want Is Free" EP
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 1
5/7/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Soledad Velez - "Dance & Run"
Black Flag - "My War"
Merit - "The Truth About The Twenties" EP
311 - S/T
5/8/16
The Vibrators - "Pure Mania"
Big Grams - S/T EP
Swells/Marcy - split EP
Invaders - 3-song demo CD
Born Without A Face - "Worship" EP
Feelgood/Scott Henry - "Fever: Time To Get Ill Vol. 4" DJ mix
LCD Soundsystem - "This Is Happening"
Incubus - "Make Yourself"
5/9/16
The Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"
Axwell V Ingrosso - "This Time" digital single
Bloom - S/T cassette
Broiler ft. Tish Hyman - "Fly By Night" digital single
Tragedy - "Vengeance"
Atreyu - "Long Live"
Broken Teeth - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" 7"
Issues - "Diamond Dreams" EP
UZ ft. 12th Planet - "Trap Shit" EP
Government Issue - "Legless Bull" EP
Beyond Creation - "The Aura"
Twisted Sister - "Stay Hungry"
Rubblebucket - "Survival Sounds"
5/10/16
Moby - "Long Ambients 1: Calm & Sleep"
5/11/16
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Culture Abuse - "Peach"
Burn - S/T EP
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat" EP
Horse Lords - "Interventions"
Xiu Xiu - "A Promise"
Nomads - S/T EP
The Blasters - S/T
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
V/A - "Generations: A Hardcore Compilation"
5/12/16
The Melvins - "The Crybaby"
The Flatliners - "Resuscitation of the Year" b/w "Fangs" 7"
Toys That Kill - "Fambly 42"
Foolish Johns - "Kid's Stuff"
Santoros - "Ancestors"
Bob Dylan - "Melancholy Mood" EP
Flying Lotus - "The Black Fist" DJ mix
The Cure - "Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1979-1985"
Primal Fear - "Rulebreaker"
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
5/13/16
From Autumn To Ashes - "Abandon Your Friends"
The Jonbonet - "Ugly/Heartless"
3Oh!3 - "Night Sports"
5/14/16
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
5/15/16
City Deluxe - "Go To The City" digital single
Lasting Impression - "Ending Upon Tragedy" EP
From Ashes Rise/Victims - split
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Meat Grinder - "Misanthropy"
5/16/16
Confide - "Shout The Truth"
The Mad - "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Rival Sons - "All That I Want" digital single
Deftones - "White Pony" (white-cover edition)
Ryan Adams - "1989" Taylor Swift cover album
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Blow in the Wind"
Mudvayne - "L.D.50"
5/17/16
Anthrax - "State Of Euphoria"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
The Roots - "Phrenology"
Fuck-Ups - "FU82" EP
Agent Fresco - "Destrier" deluxe edition
Zoax - "Is Everybody Listening?" EP
Angelic Upstarts - "Teenage Warning"
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
The Prodigy - "The Lost Beats" EP
Fetty Wap ft. Remy Boys - "679" digital single
Rammstein - "Klavier"
The English Dogs - "To The End of the Earth"
5/18/16
Forest Whitaker - "Blobfish"
Hannah West ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
World's Fair - "Bastards of the Party"
Ben Nicky ft. Chloe - "Anywhere" digital single
Beside Myself - "Lights Out" digital single
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
GloryHammer - "1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards"
Henri Sauguet - "Les Fornins"
Gwar - "Beyond Hell"
Burning The Masses - "Volatile Existence" EP
Elbert West - "Livin' the Life"
5/19/16
Frigora - S/T EP
The Mad - "The Hell" EP
Yeasayer - "Amen & Goodbye"
5/20/16
C.D. Truth - "Season 1" CD
HaSkaLa - "US Uber Alles" digital single
EVeryman - "Let Us Shine"
Waxahatchee - "Ivy Tripp"
High Contrast - "Remind Me" digital single
Jodie Abacus - "For Real Life and Not Pretend" EP
General Surgery - "Necrology" EP
Broadside - "Old Bones"
Down To Nothing - "All My Sons" EP
We Came As Romans - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Doomsday Machine"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
88 Fingers Louie - "Back on the Streets"
5/21/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Samhain - "Initium" EP
5/22/16
Seven Generations - "To See The End"
5/23/16
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
Turbonegro - "Apocalypse Dudes"
5/24/16
Whilk & Misky - "Clap Your Hands (Solomon remix)" single
Cold Cave - "Nothing Is True But You" digital single
Wolf Parade - "4" EP
Code Orange - "I Am King"
Deicide - S/T
Deicide - "Legion"
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/25/16
Discharge - "End Of Days"
Bustie - "The Shade Is Real" demos
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/26/16
Off With Their Heads - "Home"
Luna - "Lunapark"
Paul McCartney & Wings Vs. Timo Maas & James Teej - "1985" 12"
Parliament - "Chocolate City"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ground Up - 4-song 2008 demo
5/27/16
Chron Gen - "Chronic Generation"
Neurosis - "Given to the Rising"
Armored Saint - "March of the Saint"
Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
5/29/16
Smut - "Schnell Laut Schwer" EP
Mr. Bungle - S/T
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - "Blackout"/"Resurrection"/"Life is a Rebirth" 7"
Plattenbau - "Body of Desire" EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Arneson - 2-song promo CD
Dead Poetic - "Vices"
Atomkinder - S/T EP
5/30/16
Nora - S/T
Inocentes - "Adeus Carne"
Youth Korps - S/T EP
Thrice - "To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere"
Strike Anywhere - "Live Naked, Die Naked" EP
5/31/16
Secret Hate - "Vegetables Dancing"
The Rejectors - "Thoughts of War" EP
Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
Stille Volk - "Nueit de Sabbat"
Snapcase - "Progression Through Unlearning"
MUSIC NOTES
- That Century Media CD has a bunch of dope songs on it I'm glad I re-found it; on a related note, that "Generations" mix has a Fucked Up song at the end that I love so much I've been re-listening to almost every day...Fucked Up is just an amazing band
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Coerced, Flatbush Zombies, The Wildhearts, Big Grams, Forest Whitaker, World's Fair, Luna, Chron Gen, Plattenbau, Inocentes
- "Somehow, I never leave this Dead House"
- New releases by Coerced, Walls Of Jericho, Big Grams, Atreyu, Moby, Culture Abuse, Bob Dylan, Waxahatchee, Code Orange, and Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge are all on point
- "I get this funny feeling that you don't love me anymore..."
- I've been recommended Flatbush Zombies for several years now and I regret sleeping on them, they rule
- "Can't Hardly Wait"
- If a band released an album like "Love Gun" today they'd be ostracized for the sheer level of misogyny...or they'd be Steel Panther
- "What We Want Is Free"
- Thin Lizzy's song "Sarah" is like the greatest thing ever
- Some of the lyrics on Culture Abuse's new album really hit home for me, very good stuff
- "Let's Face It" is one of the most listened-to CDs in my entire gigantic collection despite it being so drastically more upbeat than most of my other favorites...maybe that's why I turn to it so often, come to think of it
- Meat Grinder was so underrated even in the-then much-smaller Temecula scene they were from in the late 90s but goddamn those dudes could wail
- If anybody wants that Confide CD you can have it but be warned, I'm gonna judge you
- I know that Chino Moreno regrets "Back To School" but goddamn that song is badass
- Who would have guessed that Ryan Adams covering a very recent Taylor Swift album in full would be such a good listen
- It's a real shame about the dissolution of Crisis Arm because their final album "Rend" has only gotten better with time
- "We may not be The Young Ones very long"
- I can't believe I had never even heard of Luna, Chron Gen, or Inocentes before now ...Inocentes especially is fucking awesome, like if The Adicts spoke Spanish
- The new Thrice album is so disappointing that I wrote a fairly lengthy review of how bad I thought it was...look for that soon
MOVIES
5/1/16: "Amelie"
"Pleasantville"
5/3/16: "For A Good Time, Call..."
5/4/16: "The Brass Teapot"
5/8/16: FINISHED "Lolita"
5/12/16: "The Voices"
5/16/16: FINISHED "The Aviator"
5/21/16: FINISHED "Tapeheads"
5/28/16: FINISHED "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
"Don't Be A Menace To South Central"
5/30/16: FINISHED "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"Eyes Wide Shut"
LIVE
5/29/16: Glacial Blue @ 3rd Street Bar
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit the bassist for Glacial Blue was like the best bassist I've ever seen
MUSIC
5/1/16
Ordinary People - "Nothing New"
V/A - "Metal For The Masses Vol. 666" Century Media Records sampler CD
Gorilla Biscuits - "Start Today"
Parade Of The Lifeless - "The Anatomy of a People's Bondage"
Tyrannosaurus Zebra - 9-song demo CD
Coerced - May 2016 demo
5/2/16
Fear Before The March Of Flames - "Art Damage"
Tourist ft. Josef Salva & Niia - "Holding On" digital single
Burn - "Last Great Sea" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "By Chance" single
Power Trip/Integrity - split EP
EZLV/Romy - "Home" EP
Toxic Holocaust - "Conjure & Command"
Zoccola - "Mean Girls Club"
SUNK - S/T EP
Los Lobos - "Gates of Gold"
Neon Trees - "Animal" b/w "Call My Name" single
Krisiun - "Bloodshed"
Strike Anywhere - "Exit English"
Elbow - "Asleep in the Back"
5/3/16
Traps PS - "Real Corner Shock"
Dan Deacon - "Spiderman of the Rings"
Los Monjo - "La Vida Que Todos Envidian"
Indian Summer - "Science 1994" compilation
BTS - "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever"
Bon Jovi - "Slippery When Wet"
Bad Religion - S/T EP
Crisis Arm - "Caterwaul"
Wire - "Pink Flag"
Insomnium - "In The Halls Of Waiting"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Gallows - "Orchestra of Wolves"
5/4/16
Violent Femmes - S/T
Rudimentary Peni - "Cacophony"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
Walls Of Jericho - "No One Can Save You From Yourself"
Cranium - "Speed Metal Sentence"
Born Against - S/T EP
Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love"
The 257ers - "Schrottmusik" EP
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
Katatonia - "Discouraged Ones"
5/5/16
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Off The Deep End"
Pain Of Salvation - "Be"
Kids. - "Growing Up" EP
Variants - "LampPost" digital single
Flatbush Zombies - "3001: A Laced Odyssey"
The Wildhearts - "Earth Vs. The Wildhearts"
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - "Blossom"
Frank Turner - "Ten For Ten" compilation
Pierce The Veil - "A Flair For The Dramatic"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
5/6/16
KISS - "Love Gun"
51D - S/T cassette
Joris Voorn & Joran Van Pol - "Sonic Highway" 12"
Jordan Suckley - "Aztec Curse" digital single
Mercury Rev - "All Is Dream"
Feuerschwanz - "Metvernichter"
Jean-Baptiste Stuck - "Les Festes Bollonoise"
The Go-Betweens - "16 Lovers Lane"
Moderat Likvidation - S/T EP
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
The Fartz - "Because This World Fuckin' Stinks" EP
Articles Of Faith - "What We Want Is Free" EP
Thin Lizzy - "Greatest Hits" Disc 1
5/7/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Soledad Velez - "Dance & Run"
Black Flag - "My War"
Merit - "The Truth About The Twenties" EP
311 - S/T
5/8/16
The Vibrators - "Pure Mania"
Big Grams - S/T EP
Swells/Marcy - split EP
Invaders - 3-song demo CD
Born Without A Face - "Worship" EP
Feelgood/Scott Henry - "Fever: Time To Get Ill Vol. 4" DJ mix
LCD Soundsystem - "This Is Happening"
Incubus - "Make Yourself"
5/9/16
The Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"
Axwell V Ingrosso - "This Time" digital single
Bloom - S/T cassette
Broiler ft. Tish Hyman - "Fly By Night" digital single
Tragedy - "Vengeance"
Atreyu - "Long Live"
Broken Teeth - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" 7"
Issues - "Diamond Dreams" EP
UZ ft. 12th Planet - "Trap Shit" EP
Government Issue - "Legless Bull" EP
Beyond Creation - "The Aura"
Twisted Sister - "Stay Hungry"
Rubblebucket - "Survival Sounds"
5/10/16
Moby - "Long Ambients 1: Calm & Sleep"
5/11/16
Econochrist/Detonators - split EP
Culture Abuse - "Peach"
Burn - S/T EP
The Coltranes - "Never Sleep Again" EP
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat" EP
Horse Lords - "Interventions"
Xiu Xiu - "A Promise"
Nomads - S/T EP
The Blasters - S/T
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
V/A - "Generations: A Hardcore Compilation"
5/12/16
The Melvins - "The Crybaby"
The Flatliners - "Resuscitation of the Year" b/w "Fangs" 7"
Toys That Kill - "Fambly 42"
Foolish Johns - "Kid's Stuff"
Santoros - "Ancestors"
Bob Dylan - "Melancholy Mood" EP
Flying Lotus - "The Black Fist" DJ mix
The Cure - "Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1979-1985"
Primal Fear - "Rulebreaker"
Neurosis - "The Word As Law"
5/13/16
From Autumn To Ashes - "Abandon Your Friends"
The Jonbonet - "Ugly/Heartless"
3Oh!3 - "Night Sports"
5/14/16
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Let's Face It"
5/15/16
City Deluxe - "Go To The City" digital single
Lasting Impression - "Ending Upon Tragedy" EP
From Ashes Rise/Victims - split
Sledding With Tigers - "Come On And Slam" EP
Meat Grinder - "Misanthropy"
5/16/16
Confide - "Shout The Truth"
The Mad - "Eyeball" b/w "I Hate Music" 7"
Rival Sons - "All That I Want" digital single
Deftones - "White Pony" (white-cover edition)
Ryan Adams - "1989" Taylor Swift cover album
Talk Is Poison - S/T
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Blow in the Wind"
Mudvayne - "L.D.50"
5/17/16
Anthrax - "State Of Euphoria"
Motherboy - "Filthy Human" EP
Crisis Arm - "Rend"
The Roots - "Phrenology"
Fuck-Ups - "FU82" EP
Agent Fresco - "Destrier" deluxe edition
Zoax - "Is Everybody Listening?" EP
Angelic Upstarts - "Teenage Warning"
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
The Prodigy - "The Lost Beats" EP
Fetty Wap ft. Remy Boys - "679" digital single
Rammstein - "Klavier"
The English Dogs - "To The End of the Earth"
5/18/16
Forest Whitaker - "Blobfish"
Hannah West ft. Kristine W - "Just" digital single
World's Fair - "Bastards of the Party"
Ben Nicky ft. Chloe - "Anywhere" digital single
Beside Myself - "Lights Out" digital single
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
GloryHammer - "1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards"
Henri Sauguet - "Les Fornins"
Gwar - "Beyond Hell"
Burning The Masses - "Volatile Existence" EP
Elbert West - "Livin' the Life"
5/19/16
Frigora - S/T EP
The Mad - "The Hell" EP
Yeasayer - "Amen & Goodbye"
5/20/16
C.D. Truth - "Season 1" CD
HaSkaLa - "US Uber Alles" digital single
EVeryman - "Let Us Shine"
Waxahatchee - "Ivy Tripp"
High Contrast - "Remind Me" digital single
Jodie Abacus - "For Real Life and Not Pretend" EP
General Surgery - "Necrology" EP
Broadside - "Old Bones"
Down To Nothing - "All My Sons" EP
We Came As Romans - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Doomsday Machine"
Kikeiji - "Plastic Scandal" EP
88 Fingers Louie - "Back on the Streets"
5/21/16
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Samhain - "Initium" EP
5/22/16
Seven Generations - "To See The End"
5/23/16
Ambersmoke - "The Great Nothing"
Turbonegro - "Apocalypse Dudes"
5/24/16
Whilk & Misky - "Clap Your Hands (Solomon remix)" single
Cold Cave - "Nothing Is True But You" digital single
Wolf Parade - "4" EP
Code Orange - "I Am King"
Deicide - S/T
Deicide - "Legion"
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/25/16
Discharge - "End Of Days"
Bustie - "The Shade Is Real" demos
The Verve Pipe - "Villains"
5/26/16
Off With Their Heads - "Home"
Luna - "Lunapark"
Paul McCartney & Wings Vs. Timo Maas & James Teej - "1985" 12"
Parliament - "Chocolate City"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Ground Up - 4-song 2008 demo
5/27/16
Chron Gen - "Chronic Generation"
Neurosis - "Given to the Rising"
Armored Saint - "March of the Saint"
Ice Cube - "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"
5/29/16
Smut - "Schnell Laut Schwer" EP
Mr. Bungle - S/T
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - "Blackout"/"Resurrection"/"Life is a Rebirth" 7"
Plattenbau - "Body of Desire" EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Miss Machine"
Arneson - 2-song promo CD
Dead Poetic - "Vices"
Atomkinder - S/T EP
5/30/16
Nora - S/T
Inocentes - "Adeus Carne"
Youth Korps - S/T EP
Thrice - "To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere"
Strike Anywhere - "Live Naked, Die Naked" EP
5/31/16
Secret Hate - "Vegetables Dancing"
The Rejectors - "Thoughts of War" EP
Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
Stille Volk - "Nueit de Sabbat"
Snapcase - "Progression Through Unlearning"
MUSIC NOTES
- That Century Media CD has a bunch of dope songs on it I'm glad I re-found it; on a related note, that "Generations" mix has a Fucked Up song at the end that I love so much I've been re-listening to almost every day...Fucked Up is just an amazing band
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Coerced, Flatbush Zombies, The Wildhearts, Big Grams, Forest Whitaker, World's Fair, Luna, Chron Gen, Plattenbau, Inocentes
- "Somehow, I never leave this Dead House"
- New releases by Coerced, Walls Of Jericho, Big Grams, Atreyu, Moby, Culture Abuse, Bob Dylan, Waxahatchee, Code Orange, and Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge are all on point
- "I get this funny feeling that you don't love me anymore..."
- I've been recommended Flatbush Zombies for several years now and I regret sleeping on them, they rule
- "Can't Hardly Wait"
- If a band released an album like "Love Gun" today they'd be ostracized for the sheer level of misogyny...or they'd be Steel Panther
- "What We Want Is Free"
- Thin Lizzy's song "Sarah" is like the greatest thing ever
- Some of the lyrics on Culture Abuse's new album really hit home for me, very good stuff
- "Let's Face It" is one of the most listened-to CDs in my entire gigantic collection despite it being so drastically more upbeat than most of my other favorites...maybe that's why I turn to it so often, come to think of it
- Meat Grinder was so underrated even in the-then much-smaller Temecula scene they were from in the late 90s but goddamn those dudes could wail
- If anybody wants that Confide CD you can have it but be warned, I'm gonna judge you
- I know that Chino Moreno regrets "Back To School" but goddamn that song is badass
- Who would have guessed that Ryan Adams covering a very recent Taylor Swift album in full would be such a good listen
- It's a real shame about the dissolution of Crisis Arm because their final album "Rend" has only gotten better with time
- "We may not be The Young Ones very long"
- I can't believe I had never even heard of Luna, Chron Gen, or Inocentes before now ...Inocentes especially is fucking awesome, like if The Adicts spoke Spanish
- The new Thrice album is so disappointing that I wrote a fairly lengthy review of how bad I thought it was...look for that soon
MOVIES
5/1/16: "Amelie"
"Pleasantville"
5/3/16: "For A Good Time, Call..."
5/4/16: "The Brass Teapot"
5/8/16: FINISHED "Lolita"
5/12/16: "The Voices"
5/16/16: FINISHED "The Aviator"
5/21/16: FINISHED "Tapeheads"
5/28/16: FINISHED "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
"Don't Be A Menace To South Central"
5/30/16: FINISHED "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"Eyes Wide Shut"
LIVE
5/29/16: Glacial Blue @ 3rd Street Bar
LIVE NOTES
- Holy shit the bassist for Glacial Blue was like the best bassist I've ever seen
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Playlist for April 2016
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
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
Monday, April 25, 2016
INTERVIEW: Wreckage/Black Cat @ The Dial January 30th 2016
IAN: Alright this is Ian, talking with Sarah, and I'm sorry, I just saw you perform but what was your [project's] name?
SARAH: My solo noise project is called Wreckage
I: I just saw you perform with Black Cat
S: Yes
I: You guys are very confrontational, especially for a harsh noise act...alot of [acts] are very solo-oriented [to the point of being isolating] but you guys are right in people's faces. Is that a Wendy O'Williams thing or where do you think you get your approach from?
S: Where I get my approach from? It's basically...[pause] I'm sorry...
I: No, I mean obviousely [you're not influenced] by just one thing...
S: Yeah, it's a combination of a lot of different thing, it's combining my love for putting mysticism and ritual with a lot of people who have problems, you know, and seizures and things like that, and [they] can't really hide that. So when you're in a situation where you're at school or something, or something happens where you can't really hide what's happening to you, usually people kind-of laugh at you or whatever. So I like to be able to turn that concept into performance art where no one's laughing, but it's very art-oriented and it's not uncomfortable.
I: That I can definitely see; I don't think anybody's laughing at what you're doing. I really appreciate the way that you approach people in a confrontational yet almost comforting manner. What would you say to that effect?
S: I assess people differently depending on what kind of vibes I get off them. When they seem very uncomfortable and they start trying to giggle or something like that, then I'm more aggressive with them to shut them down immediately. People who look really timid and nervous, I try to be a lot more comforting to them.
I: I saw that, [there were moments where] you hugged people in a way that [made you] seem very approachable; but then there's also that element of unapproachability as well.
S: That's something I deal with a lot in real life. There's the mentality where you love everyone but you don't really like anyone.
I: You don't even know them, but at the same time you've got your heart open
S: Yeah
I: [to Black Cat aka Jimmy] So what I wanted to ask you - you're there behind [while] she's doing this very bold performance. Do you feel in any way overshadowed by that? Obviously you know what you're doing
JIMMY: The way I like setting up is, I kinda do like a back-up soundtrack on purpose. I set I set the mood so you can hear her scream louder than she might actually be. It doesn't end up affecting it but I still get the highs and the lows. I like that ability to have dynamics. I like the [fact] that she doesn't have to use a mic with anything. I make it as easy as possible for her to do that cuz she ends up being the sole [point of] attention, with me being a backing track to it.
I: Right, so are you gonna do anything like a joint release with both of you, or is this more of a live thing?
J: We're doing a release of what we used to do, for the most part live, which is still kinda what we do; the central, kind-of soft-track is passed over. But we don't really have anything other than that planned.
S: We were planning on doing something where we have this set order and routine as to what we do and which songs, where we choose what we play like pretty often, and then release that as an album, and then completely change it.
J: The way I like to view it, I like having a lot of structure in how we do our shows. It's not really improvised, for the most part, because we do have structure with it, which is something I try alot with because [sometimes] we switch over really fast, between completely different sets.
I: So you know what's what [as it changes]
J: Usually we have one more ambient-style thing switching into that softer [style], kind-of just her over a backing sample and then going back into a more monotone piece [which] usually has like a matching beat behind it. It really depends on what we're able to do with the venue.
I: So I'm gonna kinda cut things out right here; I really appreciate you guys taking time to talk with me real quick; the thing I always like to ask people before we're done here - what's your favorite breakfast food?
S: My favorite breakfast food would have to be cake
I: Cake! Any particular type of cake?
S: Well, I really like it when somebody has a birthday in my house or, like, in my dorm, wherever I am. There's always, like, refrigerated cake the next morning. That's like, the best feeling.
I: That does sound good [Laughter] And then Black Cat, I'm sorry, what was your name again?
J: Jimmy
I: For some reason I want to call you Alex, I don't know why
J: That's a first. Usually it's like, Steven, or something like that.
I: Breakfast foods?
J: Pancakes.
I: Pancakes?
J: Particularly the chocolate pancakes they offer at IHOP
I: Oh those are good. Well thank you for your time, I'm gonna include this on my blog and again, great performance. Keep doing what you're doing.
https://w-r-e-c-k-a-g-e.bandcamp.com/
http://noiseblackcat.bandcamp.com/
SARAH: My solo noise project is called Wreckage
I: I just saw you perform with Black Cat
S: Yes
I: You guys are very confrontational, especially for a harsh noise act...alot of [acts] are very solo-oriented [to the point of being isolating] but you guys are right in people's faces. Is that a Wendy O'Williams thing or where do you think you get your approach from?
S: Where I get my approach from? It's basically...[pause] I'm sorry...
I: No, I mean obviousely [you're not influenced] by just one thing...
S: Yeah, it's a combination of a lot of different thing, it's combining my love for putting mysticism and ritual with a lot of people who have problems, you know, and seizures and things like that, and [they] can't really hide that. So when you're in a situation where you're at school or something, or something happens where you can't really hide what's happening to you, usually people kind-of laugh at you or whatever. So I like to be able to turn that concept into performance art where no one's laughing, but it's very art-oriented and it's not uncomfortable.
I: That I can definitely see; I don't think anybody's laughing at what you're doing. I really appreciate the way that you approach people in a confrontational yet almost comforting manner. What would you say to that effect?
S: I assess people differently depending on what kind of vibes I get off them. When they seem very uncomfortable and they start trying to giggle or something like that, then I'm more aggressive with them to shut them down immediately. People who look really timid and nervous, I try to be a lot more comforting to them.
I: I saw that, [there were moments where] you hugged people in a way that [made you] seem very approachable; but then there's also that element of unapproachability as well.
S: That's something I deal with a lot in real life. There's the mentality where you love everyone but you don't really like anyone.
I: You don't even know them, but at the same time you've got your heart open
S: Yeah
I: [to Black Cat aka Jimmy] So what I wanted to ask you - you're there behind [while] she's doing this very bold performance. Do you feel in any way overshadowed by that? Obviously you know what you're doing
JIMMY: The way I like setting up is, I kinda do like a back-up soundtrack on purpose. I set I set the mood so you can hear her scream louder than she might actually be. It doesn't end up affecting it but I still get the highs and the lows. I like that ability to have dynamics. I like the [fact] that she doesn't have to use a mic with anything. I make it as easy as possible for her to do that cuz she ends up being the sole [point of] attention, with me being a backing track to it.
I: Right, so are you gonna do anything like a joint release with both of you, or is this more of a live thing?
J: We're doing a release of what we used to do, for the most part live, which is still kinda what we do; the central, kind-of soft-track is passed over. But we don't really have anything other than that planned.
S: We were planning on doing something where we have this set order and routine as to what we do and which songs, where we choose what we play like pretty often, and then release that as an album, and then completely change it.
J: The way I like to view it, I like having a lot of structure in how we do our shows. It's not really improvised, for the most part, because we do have structure with it, which is something I try alot with because [sometimes] we switch over really fast, between completely different sets.
I: So you know what's what [as it changes]
J: Usually we have one more ambient-style thing switching into that softer [style], kind-of just her over a backing sample and then going back into a more monotone piece [which] usually has like a matching beat behind it. It really depends on what we're able to do with the venue.
I: So I'm gonna kinda cut things out right here; I really appreciate you guys taking time to talk with me real quick; the thing I always like to ask people before we're done here - what's your favorite breakfast food?
S: My favorite breakfast food would have to be cake
I: Cake! Any particular type of cake?
S: Well, I really like it when somebody has a birthday in my house or, like, in my dorm, wherever I am. There's always, like, refrigerated cake the next morning. That's like, the best feeling.
I: That does sound good [Laughter] And then Black Cat, I'm sorry, what was your name again?
J: Jimmy
I: For some reason I want to call you Alex, I don't know why
J: That's a first. Usually it's like, Steven, or something like that.
I: Breakfast foods?
J: Pancakes.
I: Pancakes?
J: Particularly the chocolate pancakes they offer at IHOP
I: Oh those are good. Well thank you for your time, I'm gonna include this on my blog and again, great performance. Keep doing what you're doing.
https://w-r-e-c-k-a-g-e.bandcamp.com/
http://noiseblackcat.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Playlist for March 2016
This is a list of all the albums/EPs/demos/singles that I listened to in their entirety during the month of March 2016, along with lists of things I watched, read, and saw live. I spilled vodka all over my notebook and I write in different colors every day so everything that was in red ink got all splotched and as a result some of the things I wrote down are unintelligible. I'm sure you're all very upset but we gotta make do and mend.
MUSIC
3/1/16
Of Monsters And Men - "Beneath The Skin"
Crazy P - "Walk Dance Talk Sing"
Desert Dwellers - "The Great Mystery"
Pearl Jam - "I Want You So Hard (live)" b/w "I Love You All The Time" digital single
Modern English - "After The Snow"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene"
Iron Maiden - "The Book Of Souls" 2XCD
3/2/16
Vader - "De Profundis"
Future - "Purple Reign" mixtape
Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
Nine Inch Nails - "Ghosts I" EP
Nine Inch Nails - "Ghosts II" EP
King's X - "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska"
Where My Bones Rest Easy - "Exercises in Futility"
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
iamerror - Demo 06
Poison The Well - "I-II" EP
Poison The Well - "The Tropic Rot"
3/3/16
Mercy Ties - "Proper Corruption"
Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm"
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Lost Sounds - S/T
George Michael - "Faith"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Machine" EP
Barrington Levy - "Too Experienced: The Best Of"
Prong - "Cleansing"
Where The Sidewalk Ends - "Blame The West Coast" EP
Vader - "The Ultimate Incantation"
Dogs - "The Ongoing"
3/4/16
Quarrels - "Admit"
The Home Team - "Letters From A Friend" digital single
Kississippi - "We Have No Future, We're All Doomed" EP
Dio - "Diamonds: The Best Of"
Earth - "Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light"
Joanna Newsom - "Divers"
Enslaved - "Isa"
Of Mice & Men - "Restoring Force"
Deorro & J-Trick/DJ Shoot/Marnik, Lush, and Simon - "Rambo"/"Swap"/"Orion" EP
Cannibal Corpse - "The Bleeding"
Agnostic Front - "United Blood" EP
Sheer - "Uneasy"
3/5/16
All That Remains - "Overcome"
Bestial Mouths - S/T
Myotonia - S/T
Culture Abuse - "Spray Paint The Dog" EP
Dream Theatre - "Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory"
3/6/16
Roisin Murphy - "Hairless Toys"
Dimmu Borgir - "In Sorte Diaboli"
Avatar - "Hail The Apocalypse"
Eric Clapton - "The Cream Of Clapton"
3/7/16
Bob Dylan - "The Essential"
iamerror - "Super IAE 2" EP
The Clash - S/T
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Vader - "De Profundis"
3/8/16
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever To Tell"
AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It" EP
Nicolas Jaar - "Fight" digital single
Wiz Khalifa - "Taylor Alderdice" mixtape
Sixx:A.M. - "This Is Gonna Hurt"
The Chemical Brothers - "Born in the Echoes"
Flo Rida - "My House" digital single
Black Tiger Sex Machine - "The Kannihalen Anthem" EP
Slipmott - "Maximum Hardcore" Disc 3
3/9/16
Clutch - "Earth Rocker"
Poison The Well - "The Tropic Rot"
Josef Mystivec - "Cello Concerto in C Major"
Wayne Kemp - "Harlan County" b/w "I'll Leave This World Loving You" 7"
Loco Dice - "Underground Sound Suicide"
Capitalist Casualties - "Disassembly Line"
Grimes - "Kill v Maim (Little Johnny Urine remix)" digital single
The Last Shadow Puppets - "Bad Habits" digital single
Jr. Thomas & The Volcanoes - "Beware"
Ed Solo & Stickybuds - "Smoke The Weed" b/w "Joker Smoker" 12"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "This Unruly Mess I've Made"
Wiz Khalifa - "Kush & OJ" mixtape
Homewrecker - "Circle Of Death"
Syzslak - "When Demons Ride Angels"
Big Whup - 5-song EP
Helsott - "Folkvangr" EP
Tool - "Undertow"
The Victioriana - "Ornamental (Marchesa)" digital single
3/10/16
Kanye West - "Late Registration"
Blood Orange - "Cupid Deluxe"
Nuclear Assault - "Pounder" EP
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
Brothers In Law - "Raise"
Low Culture / Needles//Pins - split EP
The Temptations - "Ultimate Collection"
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - "Boss Lady" EP
Trivium - "Ascendency"
Tonight Alive - "Limitless"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Is Is" EP
Letters To Catalonia - Demo
V/A - "This One Goes To Eleven" NoiseFest XI compilation
Sustains - "Lucero" b/w "What Comes Today" EP
Agnostic Front - "Victim In Pain" EP
Somewhat Ace - "spacesinbetween" EP
3/11/16
Doubter - "The Hits" EP
Slow Code - "Marketable Skills" EP
DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing..."
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles Collection" Disc 2
Knots - "Heartbreaker" b/w "Action" 7"
Good Riddance - "Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit"
Wintersleep - S/T
Ikkashinju - "Slow Down" EP
Stoned Jesus - "Stormy Monday" EP
Natalie Prass - S/T
Condemned To Death - S/T EP
Ink. - "Flock and Flee" digital single
Kississippi - "I Can Feel You In My Hair Still" EP
Wovoka - "Saros"
3/12/16
The Melvins - "Houdini"
3/13/16
Dizzy Gillespie - "Dizzy Atmosphere"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
The Animals - "Complete" Disc 1
3/14/16
iamerror - "Trout Yogurt"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication"
Misery Ritual - "Become" EP
Dogs - "Inquire Within" digital single
Mayday Parade - "Black Lines"
PopEvil - "Up"
Delta Heavy - "Oscillator" b/w "Fun House" digital single
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index"
3/15/16
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
Stevie Wonder - "My Cherie Amour"
All Time Low - "Nothing Personal"
Kerri Chandler - "Kaoz Theory" mixtape
Paul Kalkbrenner - "7"
Banners - S/T EP
Birdy Nam Nam - "Can't Do Me" digital single
Ty Segall - "Mr. Face" EP
King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
3/16/16
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Take Them On, On Your Own"
Gamma Ray - "The Best Of" Disc 1
Thrice - "The Illusion Of Safety"
Jamie xx & Four Tet ft. Romy - "SeeSaw (Club Version)" digital single
Smut Peddlers - "Failure"
Janelle Monae - "The Electric Lady"
Claptone - "Charmer"
3/17/16
Primus - "Miscellaneous Debris" EP
Lusty - "XTC" digital single
Der Weg einer Freiheit - "Stellar"
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre - "Le Sommeil d'Ulisse"
Agnostic Front - "Cause For Alarm"
The Barleycorn - "The Winds Are Singing Freedom"
Verbal Abuse - "Just An American Band"
Purity Ring - "Another Eternity"
Sparks - "A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing"
Ibeyi - S/T
Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo"
The Coltranes - first demo
3/18/16
Lowest Priority - "Golden & Violet 14" demo
Tiger Army - "Music From Regions Beyond"
Motion City Soundtrack - "Panic Stations"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
The Funk Hunters & DJ Wood - "Nasty" digital single
Bleep Bloop - "10 Watt Lazers" EP
Halsey - "Badlands"
Gusgus - "Sailor Kid" digital single
Jidenna ft. Roman GianArthur - "Classic Man" digital single
Paradise Lost - "The Plague Within"
Million Young - "Replicants"
The Smiths - "The Best"
3/19/16
John Coltrane - "Ken Burns Jazz"
3/21/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
Goo Goo Dolls - "A Boy Named Goo"
3/22/16
The Nobles - "Pitfalls of Earth Living"
3/23/16
Moving Picture Show - "Frame By Frame"
Black Cat - "Death In Sleep"
The Yardbirds - "Ultimate" Disc 2
Falling In Reverse - "Just Like You"
Agnostic Front - "Something's Gotta Give"
Green River - "Come On Down"
3/24/16
Hank Williams - "40 Greatest Hits" Disc 1
American Nightmare - "Background Music"
Panic! At The Disco - "Death of a Bachelor"
Avicii vs. Conrad Sewell - "Taste The Feeling" digital single
Arch Enemy - "Wages Of Sin"
Blink-182 - "Dogs Eating Dogs" EP
Zombie Nation - "Absorber"
Enter Shikari - "Redshift" digital single
Marcus Marr & Chet Faker - "The Trouble With Us" digital single
Eric Dahlman - "Glacier"
The Academy Is... - "The Academy" EP
Scale The Summit - "Scaling The Summit"
3/25/16
Circle Jerks - "Wonderful"
Phobia - "Cruel"
Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book"
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
Lecherous Gaze/Hot Lunch - split 7"
Buildings - "It Doesn't Matter" EP
Shamir - "Ratchet"
Pixies - "Complete B-Sides"
Rogue Rats - S/T EP
3/26/16
The Cheyenne Line - "You Can't Close The Sky" demo
The Slow Death - "Turnstile Comix #1" EP
Sparks - "Propaganda"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
Deadless Muss - "I Will" EP
Ensiferum - "Dragonheads" EP
3/27/16
Degenerics - "Generica"
3/28/16
Decent Criminal - S/T
Arsonists Get All The Girls - "Portals"
3/29/16
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
3/30/16
Scale The Summit - "Carving Desert Canyons"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
3/31/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
MUSIC NOTES
- I listened to "You're Not Good Enough" by Blood Orange like every single day this month to the point where I had to teach myself rudimentary funk guitar so I could learn how to play the main riff...I've been at it for like 2 weeks and I'm still not playing it entirely correct and no way can I do vocals over it but DAMN that's a dope riff...honestly his whole "Cupid Deluxe" album kicks ass but that song in particular is just the banger
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Crazy P, King's X, Mercy Ties, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Quarrels, Kississippi, Sheer, Letters To Catalonia, Slow Code, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Eric Dahlman
- Why "Mystery" isn't on Dio's greatest hits album really is a mystery
- Myotonia was only around for like a split second but they kicked fucking ass; when I saw them at the Showcase back in like 2007 it was like I was slackjawed at how badass they were
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are alright I guess but how in the fuck were they so popular for awhile? Not entirely my bag
- After all these years of seeing their patches on crusty kids's jackets, that was the first time I think I ever listened to Capitalist Casualties...a bit generic but alright
- I interviewed Somewhat Ace when \_/ played with them but then I lost my phone like 2 days later so don't look out for that one...sorry guys
- Never been a big fan but after "Behind The Sun" I think "Easily" is probably my favorite RHCP song
- "Fuck you, that's why."
- "How do you say 'I miss you' to an answering machine?"
- Bigmouth Strikes Again. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.
- I listened to Dave Matthews Band more this month than ever before and you know what, they are a genuinely great band. Fight me.
- Looking at this list you would think I was way more into Agnostic Front than I actually am
- I really liked that first Panic! At The Disco album back in high school and my god this new album has absolutely none of the things I liked about them...I mean, what the hell happened?
READINGS
3/3/16: FINISHED San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday January 24th issue
3/4/16: "I Heart Technology" issue 1
3/10/16: FINISHED "Savage Henry" issue #63
3/12/16: TokyoPop Sneaks Vol. 1 - 2004
READINGS NOTES
- I forgot how many fucking sections are in a Sunday newspaper
- That TokyoPop Sneaks thing really made me dislike the concept of manga
MOVIES
3/4/16: "Sinister 2"
"The Diary Of A Teenage Girl"
3/11/16: "WWE: The Attitude Era"
3/19/16: "Casino"
"The Victory Show Vol. 5"
3/22/16: "Pineapple Express"
3/25/16: "Daddy's Home"
3/27/16: "Thor: The Dark World"
MOVIE NOTES
- "The Diary Of A Teenage Girl" is kinda fucked up but also pretty good
- "Oh my god, he's got a steel chair!"
LIVE
3/12/16: Dogs/Bedbugs/[The Gravitys] @ White Oak Music & Arts
3/19/16: [The Gravitys]/Happy In Hemet/Somewhat Ace @ The Dial
MUSIC
3/1/16
Of Monsters And Men - "Beneath The Skin"
Crazy P - "Walk Dance Talk Sing"
Desert Dwellers - "The Great Mystery"
Pearl Jam - "I Want You So Hard (live)" b/w "I Love You All The Time" digital single
Modern English - "After The Snow"
Incantation - "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene"
Iron Maiden - "The Book Of Souls" 2XCD
3/2/16
Vader - "De Profundis"
Future - "Purple Reign" mixtape
Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
Nine Inch Nails - "Ghosts I" EP
Nine Inch Nails - "Ghosts II" EP
King's X - "Gretchen Goes To Nebraska"
Where My Bones Rest Easy - "Exercises in Futility"
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets"
iamerror - Demo 06
Poison The Well - "I-II" EP
Poison The Well - "The Tropic Rot"
3/3/16
Mercy Ties - "Proper Corruption"
Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm"
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Lost Sounds - S/T
George Michael - "Faith"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Machine" EP
Barrington Levy - "Too Experienced: The Best Of"
Prong - "Cleansing"
Where The Sidewalk Ends - "Blame The West Coast" EP
Vader - "The Ultimate Incantation"
Dogs - "The Ongoing"
3/4/16
Quarrels - "Admit"
The Home Team - "Letters From A Friend" digital single
Kississippi - "We Have No Future, We're All Doomed" EP
Dio - "Diamonds: The Best Of"
Earth - "Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light"
Joanna Newsom - "Divers"
Enslaved - "Isa"
Of Mice & Men - "Restoring Force"
Deorro & J-Trick/DJ Shoot/Marnik, Lush, and Simon - "Rambo"/"Swap"/"Orion" EP
Cannibal Corpse - "The Bleeding"
Agnostic Front - "United Blood" EP
Sheer - "Uneasy"
3/5/16
All That Remains - "Overcome"
Bestial Mouths - S/T
Myotonia - S/T
Culture Abuse - "Spray Paint The Dog" EP
Dream Theatre - "Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory"
3/6/16
Roisin Murphy - "Hairless Toys"
Dimmu Borgir - "In Sorte Diaboli"
Avatar - "Hail The Apocalypse"
Eric Clapton - "The Cream Of Clapton"
3/7/16
Bob Dylan - "The Essential"
iamerror - "Super IAE 2" EP
The Clash - S/T
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Vader - "De Profundis"
3/8/16
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever To Tell"
AlunaGeorge - "You Know You Like It" EP
Nicolas Jaar - "Fight" digital single
Wiz Khalifa - "Taylor Alderdice" mixtape
Sixx:A.M. - "This Is Gonna Hurt"
The Chemical Brothers - "Born in the Echoes"
Flo Rida - "My House" digital single
Black Tiger Sex Machine - "The Kannihalen Anthem" EP
Slipmott - "Maximum Hardcore" Disc 3
3/9/16
Clutch - "Earth Rocker"
Poison The Well - "The Tropic Rot"
Josef Mystivec - "Cello Concerto in C Major"
Wayne Kemp - "Harlan County" b/w "I'll Leave This World Loving You" 7"
Loco Dice - "Underground Sound Suicide"
Capitalist Casualties - "Disassembly Line"
Grimes - "Kill v Maim (Little Johnny Urine remix)" digital single
The Last Shadow Puppets - "Bad Habits" digital single
Jr. Thomas & The Volcanoes - "Beware"
Ed Solo & Stickybuds - "Smoke The Weed" b/w "Joker Smoker" 12"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "This Unruly Mess I've Made"
Wiz Khalifa - "Kush & OJ" mixtape
Homewrecker - "Circle Of Death"
Syzslak - "When Demons Ride Angels"
Big Whup - 5-song EP
Helsott - "Folkvangr" EP
Tool - "Undertow"
The Victioriana - "Ornamental (Marchesa)" digital single
3/10/16
Kanye West - "Late Registration"
Blood Orange - "Cupid Deluxe"
Nuclear Assault - "Pounder" EP
Crystal Castles - "Frail" digital single
Brothers In Law - "Raise"
Low Culture / Needles//Pins - split EP
The Temptations - "Ultimate Collection"
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - "Boss Lady" EP
Trivium - "Ascendency"
Tonight Alive - "Limitless"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Is Is" EP
Letters To Catalonia - Demo
V/A - "This One Goes To Eleven" NoiseFest XI compilation
Sustains - "Lucero" b/w "What Comes Today" EP
Agnostic Front - "Victim In Pain" EP
Somewhat Ace - "spacesinbetween" EP
3/11/16
Doubter - "The Hits" EP
Slow Code - "Marketable Skills" EP
DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing..."
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles Collection" Disc 2
Knots - "Heartbreaker" b/w "Action" 7"
Good Riddance - "Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit"
Wintersleep - S/T
Ikkashinju - "Slow Down" EP
Stoned Jesus - "Stormy Monday" EP
Natalie Prass - S/T
Condemned To Death - S/T EP
Ink. - "Flock and Flee" digital single
Kississippi - "I Can Feel You In My Hair Still" EP
Wovoka - "Saros"
3/12/16
The Melvins - "Houdini"
3/13/16
Dizzy Gillespie - "Dizzy Atmosphere"
Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
The Animals - "Complete" Disc 1
3/14/16
iamerror - "Trout Yogurt"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication"
Misery Ritual - "Become" EP
Dogs - "Inquire Within" digital single
Mayday Parade - "Black Lines"
PopEvil - "Up"
Delta Heavy - "Oscillator" b/w "Fun House" digital single
Thrice - "The Alchemy Index"
3/15/16
Depeche Mode - "Violator"
Stevie Wonder - "My Cherie Amour"
All Time Low - "Nothing Personal"
Kerri Chandler - "Kaoz Theory" mixtape
Paul Kalkbrenner - "7"
Banners - S/T EP
Birdy Nam Nam - "Can't Do Me" digital single
Ty Segall - "Mr. Face" EP
King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"
3/16/16
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Take Them On, On Your Own"
Gamma Ray - "The Best Of" Disc 1
Thrice - "The Illusion Of Safety"
Jamie xx & Four Tet ft. Romy - "SeeSaw (Club Version)" digital single
Smut Peddlers - "Failure"
Janelle Monae - "The Electric Lady"
Claptone - "Charmer"
3/17/16
Primus - "Miscellaneous Debris" EP
Lusty - "XTC" digital single
Der Weg einer Freiheit - "Stellar"
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre - "Le Sommeil d'Ulisse"
Agnostic Front - "Cause For Alarm"
The Barleycorn - "The Winds Are Singing Freedom"
Verbal Abuse - "Just An American Band"
Purity Ring - "Another Eternity"
Sparks - "A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing"
Ibeyi - S/T
Devo - "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo"
The Coltranes - first demo
3/18/16
Lowest Priority - "Golden & Violet 14" demo
Tiger Army - "Music From Regions Beyond"
Motion City Soundtrack - "Panic Stations"
The Replacements - "Pleased To Meet Me"
The Funk Hunters & DJ Wood - "Nasty" digital single
Bleep Bloop - "10 Watt Lazers" EP
Halsey - "Badlands"
Gusgus - "Sailor Kid" digital single
Jidenna ft. Roman GianArthur - "Classic Man" digital single
Paradise Lost - "The Plague Within"
Million Young - "Replicants"
The Smiths - "The Best"
3/19/16
John Coltrane - "Ken Burns Jazz"
3/21/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
Goo Goo Dolls - "A Boy Named Goo"
3/22/16
The Nobles - "Pitfalls of Earth Living"
3/23/16
Moving Picture Show - "Frame By Frame"
Black Cat - "Death In Sleep"
The Yardbirds - "Ultimate" Disc 2
Falling In Reverse - "Just Like You"
Agnostic Front - "Something's Gotta Give"
Green River - "Come On Down"
3/24/16
Hank Williams - "40 Greatest Hits" Disc 1
American Nightmare - "Background Music"
Panic! At The Disco - "Death of a Bachelor"
Avicii vs. Conrad Sewell - "Taste The Feeling" digital single
Arch Enemy - "Wages Of Sin"
Blink-182 - "Dogs Eating Dogs" EP
Zombie Nation - "Absorber"
Enter Shikari - "Redshift" digital single
Marcus Marr & Chet Faker - "The Trouble With Us" digital single
Eric Dahlman - "Glacier"
The Academy Is... - "The Academy" EP
Scale The Summit - "Scaling The Summit"
3/25/16
Circle Jerks - "Wonderful"
Phobia - "Cruel"
Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book"
Asking Alexandria - "The Black"
Lecherous Gaze/Hot Lunch - split 7"
Buildings - "It Doesn't Matter" EP
Shamir - "Ratchet"
Pixies - "Complete B-Sides"
Rogue Rats - S/T EP
3/26/16
The Cheyenne Line - "You Can't Close The Sky" demo
The Slow Death - "Turnstile Comix #1" EP
Sparks - "Propaganda"
Blind Guardian - "A Night At The Opera"
Deadless Muss - "I Will" EP
Ensiferum - "Dragonheads" EP
3/27/16
Degenerics - "Generica"
3/28/16
Decent Criminal - S/T
Arsonists Get All The Girls - "Portals"
3/29/16
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
3/30/16
Scale The Summit - "Carving Desert Canyons"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
3/31/16
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash"
MUSIC NOTES
- I listened to "You're Not Good Enough" by Blood Orange like every single day this month to the point where I had to teach myself rudimentary funk guitar so I could learn how to play the main riff...I've been at it for like 2 weeks and I'm still not playing it entirely correct and no way can I do vocals over it but DAMN that's a dope riff...honestly his whole "Cupid Deluxe" album kicks ass but that song in particular is just the banger
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Crazy P, King's X, Mercy Ties, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Quarrels, Kississippi, Sheer, Letters To Catalonia, Slow Code, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Eric Dahlman
- Why "Mystery" isn't on Dio's greatest hits album really is a mystery
- Myotonia was only around for like a split second but they kicked fucking ass; when I saw them at the Showcase back in like 2007 it was like I was slackjawed at how badass they were
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are alright I guess but how in the fuck were they so popular for awhile? Not entirely my bag
- After all these years of seeing their patches on crusty kids's jackets, that was the first time I think I ever listened to Capitalist Casualties...a bit generic but alright
- I interviewed Somewhat Ace when \_/ played with them but then I lost my phone like 2 days later so don't look out for that one...sorry guys
- Never been a big fan but after "Behind The Sun" I think "Easily" is probably my favorite RHCP song
- "Fuck you, that's why."
- "How do you say 'I miss you' to an answering machine?"
- Bigmouth Strikes Again. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.
- I listened to Dave Matthews Band more this month than ever before and you know what, they are a genuinely great band. Fight me.
- Looking at this list you would think I was way more into Agnostic Front than I actually am
- I really liked that first Panic! At The Disco album back in high school and my god this new album has absolutely none of the things I liked about them...I mean, what the hell happened?
READINGS
3/3/16: FINISHED San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday January 24th issue
3/4/16: "I Heart Technology" issue 1
3/10/16: FINISHED "Savage Henry" issue #63
3/12/16: TokyoPop Sneaks Vol. 1 - 2004
READINGS NOTES
- I forgot how many fucking sections are in a Sunday newspaper
- That TokyoPop Sneaks thing really made me dislike the concept of manga
MOVIES
3/4/16: "Sinister 2"
"The Diary Of A Teenage Girl"
3/11/16: "WWE: The Attitude Era"
3/19/16: "Casino"
"The Victory Show Vol. 5"
3/22/16: "Pineapple Express"
3/25/16: "Daddy's Home"
3/27/16: "Thor: The Dark World"
MOVIE NOTES
- "The Diary Of A Teenage Girl" is kinda fucked up but also pretty good
- "Oh my god, he's got a steel chair!"
LIVE
3/12/16: Dogs/Bedbugs/[The Gravitys] @ White Oak Music & Arts
3/19/16: [The Gravitys]/Happy In Hemet/Somewhat Ace @ The Dial
Monday, April 4, 2016
My top 3 fears
Everyone is afraid. Some people live in a state of Constant Horror. I'm afraid and skittish almost all the time, even if sometimes I try to bro-core it off. Angry dogs, actual criminals, natural diasasters, etc...Life gives you many things to fear. This is a list of the things I fear the most.
3. Dying in a car
I was in a terrible car crash in 2006 that my friends and I are almost unrealistically lucky to have survived. People that drive me around probably think I'm a schizoid when minor traffic things happen cuz I grab the door and put my foot down as though I had a brake myself. But dying in a car is terrifying to me...it's too unnatural.
2. Breaking my hands and being unable to write or play guitar anymore
This one is also car-related. When I was a kid I almost always had my hand hanging out the passenger window when my parents drove me around. One day a car kinda came close and I had to pull my arm inside. Ever since that day in like 6th grade I've had the thought in the back of my mind that if I lost my hands I would lose everything. If I couldn't scribble in my notebook or jam on the guitar I would lose all meaning, all purpose, all.
1. Finding true love and happiness
I have this terrible feeling that one day I'll finally find someone and life will start to turn around and that's when I'll finally be diagnosed with irrecovable cirrhosis. It's probably my most lingering thought. It keeps me up at night. I almost want to wallow in lonliness and semi-despair for the rest of my life because I don't want to let anyone down more than I already have.
Rock n roll will never die, but you will.
DRIVE SAFELY
3. Dying in a car
I was in a terrible car crash in 2006 that my friends and I are almost unrealistically lucky to have survived. People that drive me around probably think I'm a schizoid when minor traffic things happen cuz I grab the door and put my foot down as though I had a brake myself. But dying in a car is terrifying to me...it's too unnatural.
2. Breaking my hands and being unable to write or play guitar anymore
This one is also car-related. When I was a kid I almost always had my hand hanging out the passenger window when my parents drove me around. One day a car kinda came close and I had to pull my arm inside. Ever since that day in like 6th grade I've had the thought in the back of my mind that if I lost my hands I would lose everything. If I couldn't scribble in my notebook or jam on the guitar I would lose all meaning, all purpose, all.
1. Finding true love and happiness
I have this terrible feeling that one day I'll finally find someone and life will start to turn around and that's when I'll finally be diagnosed with irrecovable cirrhosis. It's probably my most lingering thought. It keeps me up at night. I almost want to wallow in lonliness and semi-despair for the rest of my life because I don't want to let anyone down more than I already have.
Rock n roll will never die, but you will.
DRIVE SAFELY
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