This interview was conducted during Resurrect Cali Fest in Berkeley as the band White Wards was setting up.
Ian: Alright, this is Ian, I'm here with Adam from Gag; Adam, you hurt yourself in the last couple days, what happened?
Adam: So, I was drunk as fuck and I fucking fell off a bridge and landed on my back
I: Where was this at?
A: In Olympia, just a couple hours before we had to leave to come here, where we are now. I was drunk as fuck and tried to jump onto the railing of a bridge and overcompensated and fell on my back 2 stories down.
I: But you're standing, I mean...
A: Yeah...
I: Have you been to a doctor?
A: Nah, nah, nah..But definitely I have like 2-3 cracked ribs
I: O my goodness...well tell me this, why did you want to jump onto the railing?
A: Uhhh...for fun
I: Alright, that says it all...What's your favorite breakfast food, just so I can end this out?
A: Eggs benedict. That's the one with the cream, right?
I: The hollandaise sauce
A: Yeah, eggs benedict.
I: Alright, well good luck on your set later on; Feel better man!
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Friday, October 23, 2015
INTERVIEW: Daniel from Health Problems, September 3rd 2015
Ian: This is Ian and I'm talking with Dan from Health Problems, we're at...what is this place?
Dan: (Shouting to someone else) What's this place called?
[Sam from The Coltranes passes by]
I: Sam! What is this place called?
D: We're in Santa Rosa
I: Tomorrow is Resurrect Cali
Sam: The Francis Theatre or some shit
I: [So we're at The Francis Theatre], you guys are on tour from Seattle; what's your itinerary been like?
D: We went through the Great American West into the Midwest, had a bunch of shows there, then swooped down South into Texas, then the Southwest, and then the West Coast. Oh and we played a couple Canadian and Northwest shows too
[NOISE]
I: Of course they're gonna start doing their jamming now; we can go into a different room...So I understand you guys had your van break down, where did that happen?
D: Oh, in Eastern Texas. It broke down twice; oh god it was so terrible...each time it broke down it was a full 24-hour process, having it towed, it's a station wagon - a Subaru - really old, over 200,000 miles. We had to get it towed, stay at a motel overnight until the mechanic could look at it, he got it back on the road the first time, we played in Austin and then in the middle of the desert it broke down again, it was another whole 24-hour process and we had to scrap it that time because the repair was gonna cost over $1,000 and we were gonna miss shows waiting for the guy to fix it.
I: Gotta do what you gotta do
D: So I'm down my personal car and the cost of a rental
I: O my god so that was your car?
D: Yeah it was me and my wife's personal station wagon
I: Awww...
D: And then we had to get the rental van
I: So what are you gonna do when you get home?
D: Uh, I don't know yet...
I: Oh man
D: Yeah, it's a straight-up unfortunate situation
I: Well, besides that, how's your tour been going?
D: That stretch in the Midwest was great, we played some really great shows, drove from Kansas City all the way to Minneapolis, down again to Nashville...Milwaukee and Iowa City were highlights...
[BASS NOISE]
I: Okay, we're moving it out to kinda the backstage place here so I can finish this interview...okay so you've had a good experience for the most part
D: Yeah
I: And you're here in the Bay Area right now, have you played here before?
D: Uh, yeah, we've played in the Bay Area a couple days at a time for the last 2 years, we've done West Coast tours the last 2 years
I: O word, so how long have you guys been playing?
D: 3 and a half years
I: How would you describe your experience in your scene up there in Seattle? Like, what's your take on what\s going on up there?
D: Oh, it's a lot of fun, there's a lot of creativity up there right now. There's a whole bunch of really exciting bands. I mean, in Seattle there's bands like Baths and Nudes and a whole lot of really good bands, and then up in Canada we played with Freak Heat Waves at the beginning of the tour, we played Victoria and Vancouver with Freak Heat Waves, who everyone should check out.
I: Okay, so as I mentioned I'm here with The Coltranes doing merch, and they had a problem on a recent tour when they went to Canada because the guitarist wasn't able to get in. Have you had any problems when you were doing the crossover there?
D: Luckily, not at all. We got through smoothly. We always hear bad stories about it.
I: Alright so I'm just gonna try to get a final question in cuz it looks like the next band is about to play...so you have a new album coming out soon through Virgin Spring called "Winners;" when did you guys record that?
D: A long time ago, about a year ago
I: Yeah I just heard it recently
D: Yeah it took us time to find those guys to release it and then to press the vinyl, that takes awhile...in the meantime as we've waited for the release, we've recorded and released a whole other full-length called "Ugly Man"
I: And you have a flexi as well
D: Yeah, that's through our friend Anthony from [band names inaudible under background noise -> maybe Lysol?] ; he released that flexi.
I: Word, alright well the next band's about to play, sorry to keep you but I do appreciate it; good luck with your tour and everything on your way home
D: Thank you
http://healthproblems.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Health-Problems-509733902393850/timeline/
Dan: (Shouting to someone else) What's this place called?
[Sam from The Coltranes passes by]
I: Sam! What is this place called?
D: We're in Santa Rosa
I: Tomorrow is Resurrect Cali
Sam: The Francis Theatre or some shit
I: [So we're at The Francis Theatre], you guys are on tour from Seattle; what's your itinerary been like?
D: We went through the Great American West into the Midwest, had a bunch of shows there, then swooped down South into Texas, then the Southwest, and then the West Coast. Oh and we played a couple Canadian and Northwest shows too
[NOISE]
I: Of course they're gonna start doing their jamming now; we can go into a different room...So I understand you guys had your van break down, where did that happen?
D: Oh, in Eastern Texas. It broke down twice; oh god it was so terrible...each time it broke down it was a full 24-hour process, having it towed, it's a station wagon - a Subaru - really old, over 200,000 miles. We had to get it towed, stay at a motel overnight until the mechanic could look at it, he got it back on the road the first time, we played in Austin and then in the middle of the desert it broke down again, it was another whole 24-hour process and we had to scrap it that time because the repair was gonna cost over $1,000 and we were gonna miss shows waiting for the guy to fix it.
I: Gotta do what you gotta do
D: So I'm down my personal car and the cost of a rental
I: O my god so that was your car?
D: Yeah it was me and my wife's personal station wagon
I: Awww...
D: And then we had to get the rental van
I: So what are you gonna do when you get home?
D: Uh, I don't know yet...
I: Oh man
D: Yeah, it's a straight-up unfortunate situation
I: Well, besides that, how's your tour been going?
D: That stretch in the Midwest was great, we played some really great shows, drove from Kansas City all the way to Minneapolis, down again to Nashville...Milwaukee and Iowa City were highlights...
[BASS NOISE]
I: Okay, we're moving it out to kinda the backstage place here so I can finish this interview...okay so you've had a good experience for the most part
D: Yeah
I: And you're here in the Bay Area right now, have you played here before?
D: Uh, yeah, we've played in the Bay Area a couple days at a time for the last 2 years, we've done West Coast tours the last 2 years
I: O word, so how long have you guys been playing?
D: 3 and a half years
I: How would you describe your experience in your scene up there in Seattle? Like, what's your take on what\s going on up there?
D: Oh, it's a lot of fun, there's a lot of creativity up there right now. There's a whole bunch of really exciting bands. I mean, in Seattle there's bands like Baths and Nudes and a whole lot of really good bands, and then up in Canada we played with Freak Heat Waves at the beginning of the tour, we played Victoria and Vancouver with Freak Heat Waves, who everyone should check out.
I: Okay, so as I mentioned I'm here with The Coltranes doing merch, and they had a problem on a recent tour when they went to Canada because the guitarist wasn't able to get in. Have you had any problems when you were doing the crossover there?
D: Luckily, not at all. We got through smoothly. We always hear bad stories about it.
I: Alright so I'm just gonna try to get a final question in cuz it looks like the next band is about to play...so you have a new album coming out soon through Virgin Spring called "Winners;" when did you guys record that?
D: A long time ago, about a year ago
I: Yeah I just heard it recently
D: Yeah it took us time to find those guys to release it and then to press the vinyl, that takes awhile...in the meantime as we've waited for the release, we've recorded and released a whole other full-length called "Ugly Man"
I: And you have a flexi as well
D: Yeah, that's through our friend Anthony from [band names inaudible under background noise -> maybe Lysol?] ; he released that flexi.
I: Word, alright well the next band's about to play, sorry to keep you but I do appreciate it; good luck with your tour and everything on your way home
D: Thank you
http://healthproblems.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Health-Problems-509733902393850/timeline/
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Playlist for September 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, singles, etc that I listened to in the month of September 2015, followed by lists of movies/shows/etc I watched and bands I saw live. Notes regarding all follow each. Enjoy!
MUSIC
9/1/15
Dan Dyer - "Oh Woman (She The Devil To Me)"
Jose Gonzalez - "Vestiges & Claws"
Autolux - "Future Perfect"
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - S/T
Angry Samoans - "Inside My Brain"
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
Lewd Acts - "Black Eyed Blues"
9/2/15
Big Freedia - "Azz Everywhere" EP
Beastie Boys - "Licensed To Ill"
Children Of Bodom - "Are You Dead Yet?"
Cornershop - "When I Was Born For The 7th Time"
Metallica - "Lords of Summer" digital single
Too Short - "Life Is...Too Short"
Dress Code - S/T EP
9/3/15
Funeral Oration - "Shadowland" EP
9/5/15
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Apathean - "Eve"
The E-Regulars - S/T
9/6/15
Bad Bikini/Black Jugs - "Babies" split EP
Slipknot - "Iowa"
Fool Of Fate - 4-song sampler CD
Orgone - "Strike" b/w "New You" 7"
Discordance Axis - "JouHou"
Discordance Axis/Plutocracy - split 7"
Melt-Banana/Discordance Axis - split 7"
Drowning Pool - "Sinner"
Weezer - "Make Believe"
9/7/15
Nate Ruess - "Grand Romantic"
Matador - "Play With Me"
Downtown Brown - S/T
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - "Upon The Right, I Saw A New Misery"
SFHH - S/T cassette EP
Mole People - S/T cassette
Powerwolves - Demo 2010
Disturbed - "Ten Thousand Fists"
Call The Cops - "Never Underestimate The Kids" demo CD
Fit For Rivals - "Steady Damage"
Van Morrison - "Moondance"
9/8/15
Monolink & Acid Pauli - "The End" 12"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Rebelution - "Courage To Grow"
Duke Dumont - "Ocean Drive" digital single
Story Of The Year - "Page Avenue"
The Vandals - "Peace Thru Vandalism" EP
Pure - "XXX" EP
BruceXCampbell - "Hail To The King" EP
The Nerve Agents - "Days of the White Owl"
9/9/15
All That Remains - "The Fall Of Ideals"
Zotz - S/T 7"
Touche Amore & Self Defense Family - "Self Love" collaborative EP
Ozzy Osbourne - "Memoirs of a Madman" compilation CD
SayWeCanFly - "Between The Roses"
Avail - "Satiate"
The Ramshackle Army - "Letters from the Road Less Traveled"
9/10/15
Opeth - "Your Arms, My Hearse"
Cashmere Cat ft. Adriana Grande - "Adore" digital single
The Ruts - "Something That I Said: The Best Of"
Griever - "Our Love Is Different"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Big D & The Kids Table - "Good Luck"
Suicide Silence - S/T EP
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - "Idi Amin" EP
Rammstein - "Sehnsucht"
A Calmer Day - 2005 Demo CD
Corrosion Of Conformity - "Deliverance"
9/11/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Ja Rule - "Rule 3:36"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness"
The Skank Agents - "Something For Everyone"
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
9/12/15
Light This City - "Facing The Thousand"
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
Avail - "Dixie"
Big Boys - "Where's My Towel?/Industry Standard"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
9/14/15
Take This Hand - "Our Only Hope" EP
9/15/15
Torche - "Meanderthal"
Discordance Axis - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
9/16/15
Avail - "Dixie"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
MATH - "Yumi" digital single
Mac Miller - "GO:OD AM"
The NewNo2 - "You Are Here"
9/17/15
Animosity - "Empires"
Static-X - "Machine"
Incendiary - "Crusade"
Angry Samoans - "Queer Pills" EP
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Green Velvet & Carl Craig - "Unity"
Richie Ramone - "Entitled"
Cartel - "The Ransom"
9/18/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Coyote Kisses - "Acid Wolfpack" EP
Coheed & Cambria - "The Second Stage Turbine Blade"
Twenty-One Pilots - S/T
Tale Of Us - "Another Earth" EP
Glassjaw - "Coloring Book"
Redd Kross - "Born Innocent"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
9/19/15
Fishbone - "Inttrinsically Intertwined"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Happy In Hemet - "Hush"
Autopsy - "Severed Survival"
9/20/15
Deceive - "Arrival of the Dark Masters" EP
Battlecross - "Rise To Power"
The Life We Live - 5-song demo
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Peace, Love, and Death Metal"
Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual"
Osker - "Treatment 5"
Make Do And Men - "Don't Be Long"
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Stick Together - S/T
From Autumn To Ashes - "The Fiction We Live"
9/21/15
The Faction - "Collection 1982-1985"
Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos"
Wisdom In Chains - "The God Rhythm"
Discharge - "Decontrol" EP
Lakeside - "Galactic Grooves: The Best Of"
Rocket From The Crypt - "Scream, Dracula, Scream!"
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles 1977-1992" Disc 1
Thursday - "Full Collapse"
Earth Crisis - "Destroy The Machines"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Tha Dogg Pound with Snoop Dogg - "That's My Work Vol. 5" mixtape
V/A - "F.I.M.P.: Ohio 2"
9/23/15
Hounds - Demo 2015
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Peelander-Z - "Metalander-Z"
Cartel - "Chroma"
David Gilmour - "Rattle That Lock"
Xibalba - S/T
Ben Howard - "I Forget Where We Were"
Angry Samoans - "Back From Samoa"
Davi - "The Gates Of Babylon" b/w "Eclipse" digital single
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Burn The Priest - S/T
Animosity - "Animal"
9/24/15
Adam Sandler - "They're All Gonna Laugh At You"
Sleeping With Sirens - "Madness"
9/25/15
Ajja & Cosmosis - "The Alien Jams: Live at the HR Giger Museum"
Autopsy - "Retribution for the Dead" EP
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - S/T
Action Bronson - "Dr. Lecter"
Dashboard Confessional - "The Swiss Army Romance"
Redd Kross - "Teen Babes From Monsanto"
Bouncing Souls - "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
Hooded Menace/Loss - "A View From The Rope" split 12"
Six Feet Under - "Crypt of the Devil"
Still Remains - "Of Love And Lunacy"
9/26/15
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
9/27/15
Lumpy & The Dumpers - "Total Punk" 7"
Del The Funky Homosapien - "Future Development"
Clutch - S/T
Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey"
Rich Aucion - "Ephemeral"
The Church - "El Momento Descuidado" acoustic album
Hudson Mohawke - "Satin Panthers" EP
Discharge - "Fight Back" EP
Client - "Trap" 8" flexi
Stereomud - "Every Given Moment"
Suffocation - "Pierced From Within"
Secret Machines - S/T
Zero Progress - "Champions of Hardcore"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
9/29/15
Neil Hamburger - "Hot February Night"
Soilwork - "Natural Born Chaos"
Disturbed - "Immortalized"
Crime Desire - "Your Power"
I Am Cassettes - "Believe" digital single
Peace Corpse - "Quincy's Lament" EP
A New Found Glory - "It's All About The Girls" EP
Youth Lagoon - "Savage Hills Ballroom"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"
Dropkick Murphys - "The Meanest of Times"
Cannabis Corpse - "Blunted at Birth"
Echosmith - "Acoustic Dreams" EP
9/30/15
Francesca Lombardi - "Perseidi" 12"
Angry Samoans - "Yesterday Started Tomorrow
Dead Kennedys - "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Dead Kennedys - "In God We Trust, Inc."
Carbon Based Lifeforms - "Interloper"
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T
Lamb Of God - "New American Gospel"
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - "Sour Soul"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Jose Gonzalez, Orgone, Pure, BruceXCampbell, Zotz, The NewNo2, Deceive, Hounds, Ajja, Cosmosis, Hooded Menace, Neil Hamburger, Carbon Based Lifeforms
- I appreciate their importance in the early LA punk scene but I just cannot for the life of me get into The Skulls at all
- Jeez that new Metallica single fucking sucks
- Ironically, my problem with Too Short is that his songs are too damn long
- Worst of the month: The E-Regulars, Nate Ruess, Twenty-One Pilots, I Am Cassettes
- Don't stop living in the red.
- The fact that I listened to entire albums by Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Ja Rule, and Stereomud really shows you how poor my decision-making on the whole has been lately
- God I love Protest The Hero
- New albums by Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, Happy In Hemet, and BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah are all pretty tight
- I didn't really like Cartel back when they were kinda blowing up and now I fucking LOVE them
- I thought Eagles Of Death Metal were gonna be alot doper ; very underwhelming
- Lakeside is without a doubt, indisputably, the dopest pirate/gypsy/other Halloween character-themed RnB band there ever was and I doubt anyone will ever even challenge their title
- "If Nigel says he's happy, he must be happy, he must be happy in his work..."
- That Adam Sandler album is so gratingly bad, how did that begin a media empire?
- Who is Clutch's fanbase? I can't see the appeal at all
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
9/1/15: "RoboCop"
9/2/15: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
9/3/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 4
9/5/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
"Bill Burr: You People Are All The Same"
"World's Greatest Dad"
9/6/15: "Fat Kid Rules The World"
"Trainspotting"
"Jumanji"
"White God"
9/7/15: "Monster Squad"
"Full Metal Jacket"
9/9/15: "Romper Stomper"
9/10/15: FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 3
9/12/15: "Bruce Almighty"
"Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 5
9/14/15: "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World"
9/15/15: "Big Trouble In Little China"
9/16/15: "Time Lapse"
9/18/15: "Dear White People"
9/19/15: "Zathura"
9/20/15: "Moonrise Kingdom"
9/22/15: "Masters Of The Universe"
FINISHED "South Park" Season 18
9/23/15: "Hackers"
9/25/15: "Kung Fu Killer"
9/27/15: "Skin Trade"
9/29/15: "The Road Within"
MOVIE NOTES
- Why did I watch so many movies based on toys this month?
- Neither the new RoboCop nor the new TMNT were nearly as awful as I expected, but that's not necessarily saying they were very good either
- I have my own reservations about how the Edwin documentary has turned out but they're minor and the newest cut especially was really good...Dead Hands Dig Deep.
- Wow "World's Greatest Dad" really is a fucked up movie
- A good friend of mine who's unfortunately addicted to heroin often lists "Trainspotting" as one of his favorite movies and it's just such a horrifying film at times that I cannot understand how it would be appealing to him...But then again one of my favorite movies is "The Lost Weekend", so...
- The ending of "Jumanji" presents a terrifying version of time travel in my opinion and I'm gonna write a gritty reboot based on my observations
- That dog in "White God" is the best actor of the year, I just wonder how they got that out of him its amazing
- "Time Lapse" is a stupid concept with terrible acting and I highly recommend not wasting your time on it
- Despite its somewhat inflammatory title, "Dear White People" has a bit more to do with divisions within black communities...If you're a racist though I'm sure you won't pick up on that
- After watching "Zathura" I was pissed at how much its story was the same as "Jumanji" so I looked up reviews and shit to confirm my outrage and it turns out both are based on books by the same author, which transfers my outrage to him for copying himself to such financial success
- "Moonrise Kingdom" was okay I guess, and I know the following statement is gonna rub some of my good friends the wrong way, but Wes Anderson's style is way too cutesy and twee for me and it seems like all his movies follow a pretty standard "quirky" formula and I could stand not to see another one
- TRIGGER WARNING: I really enjoy the new PC Principal character on "South Park."
- "Hackers" has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of the 1990s and there were a lot of those made in that decade
- "Skin Trade" is like Dolph Lundgren's pet project making him Liam Neeson from "Taken" for all captured sex slaves in Asia
LIVE
9/3/15: Destruction Unit/Gag/White Wards/The Coltranes/Health Problems @ Allen Francis Theatre
9/4/15: Culture Abuse/The Coltranes/Stressors/Drag Me Under/Mohicans @ 924 Gilman St (Resurrect Cali Fest Day 1)
LIVE NOTES
- That was a fun trip. Pies 4 life.
MUSIC
9/1/15
Dan Dyer - "Oh Woman (She The Devil To Me)"
Jose Gonzalez - "Vestiges & Claws"
Autolux - "Future Perfect"
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - S/T
Angry Samoans - "Inside My Brain"
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
The Skulls - "Therapy For The Shy"
Lewd Acts - "Black Eyed Blues"
9/2/15
Big Freedia - "Azz Everywhere" EP
Beastie Boys - "Licensed To Ill"
Children Of Bodom - "Are You Dead Yet?"
Cornershop - "When I Was Born For The 7th Time"
Metallica - "Lords of Summer" digital single
Too Short - "Life Is...Too Short"
Dress Code - S/T EP
9/3/15
Funeral Oration - "Shadowland" EP
9/5/15
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Apathean - "Eve"
The E-Regulars - S/T
9/6/15
Bad Bikini/Black Jugs - "Babies" split EP
Slipknot - "Iowa"
Fool Of Fate - 4-song sampler CD
Orgone - "Strike" b/w "New You" 7"
Discordance Axis - "JouHou"
Discordance Axis/Plutocracy - split 7"
Melt-Banana/Discordance Axis - split 7"
Drowning Pool - "Sinner"
Weezer - "Make Believe"
9/7/15
Nate Ruess - "Grand Romantic"
Matador - "Play With Me"
Downtown Brown - S/T
Love Lost But Not Forgotten - "Upon The Right, I Saw A New Misery"
SFHH - S/T cassette EP
Mole People - S/T cassette
Powerwolves - Demo 2010
Disturbed - "Ten Thousand Fists"
Call The Cops - "Never Underestimate The Kids" demo CD
Fit For Rivals - "Steady Damage"
Van Morrison - "Moondance"
9/8/15
Monolink & Acid Pauli - "The End" 12"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Rebelution - "Courage To Grow"
Duke Dumont - "Ocean Drive" digital single
Story Of The Year - "Page Avenue"
The Vandals - "Peace Thru Vandalism" EP
Pure - "XXX" EP
BruceXCampbell - "Hail To The King" EP
The Nerve Agents - "Days of the White Owl"
9/9/15
All That Remains - "The Fall Of Ideals"
Zotz - S/T 7"
Touche Amore & Self Defense Family - "Self Love" collaborative EP
Ozzy Osbourne - "Memoirs of a Madman" compilation CD
SayWeCanFly - "Between The Roses"
Avail - "Satiate"
The Ramshackle Army - "Letters from the Road Less Traveled"
9/10/15
Opeth - "Your Arms, My Hearse"
Cashmere Cat ft. Adriana Grande - "Adore" digital single
The Ruts - "Something That I Said: The Best Of"
Griever - "Our Love Is Different"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Big D & The Kids Table - "Good Luck"
Suicide Silence - S/T EP
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - "Idi Amin" EP
Rammstein - "Sehnsucht"
A Calmer Day - 2005 Demo CD
Corrosion Of Conformity - "Deliverance"
9/11/15
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
Ja Rule - "Rule 3:36"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness"
The Skank Agents - "Something For Everyone"
The Coltranes - "The Man With The Hat"
The Coltranes - "The Cat Of Nine Tails" EP
9/12/15
Light This City - "Facing The Thousand"
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Linkin Park - "Hybrid Theory"
Avail - "Dixie"
Big Boys - "Where's My Towel?/Industry Standard"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
9/14/15
Take This Hand - "Our Only Hope" EP
9/15/15
Torche - "Meanderthal"
Discordance Axis - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
9/16/15
Avail - "Dixie"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
MATH - "Yumi" digital single
Mac Miller - "GO:OD AM"
The NewNo2 - "You Are Here"
9/17/15
Animosity - "Empires"
Static-X - "Machine"
Incendiary - "Crusade"
Angry Samoans - "Queer Pills" EP
A$AP Rocky - "At.Long.Last"
Green Velvet & Carl Craig - "Unity"
Richie Ramone - "Entitled"
Cartel - "The Ransom"
9/18/15
The Kills - "No Wow"
Coyote Kisses - "Acid Wolfpack" EP
Coheed & Cambria - "The Second Stage Turbine Blade"
Twenty-One Pilots - S/T
Tale Of Us - "Another Earth" EP
Glassjaw - "Coloring Book"
Redd Kross - "Born Innocent"
Protest The Hero - "Kezia"
Protest The Hero - "Fortress"
9/19/15
Fishbone - "Inttrinsically Intertwined"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
Happy In Hemet - "Hush"
Autopsy - "Severed Survival"
9/20/15
Deceive - "Arrival of the Dark Masters" EP
Battlecross - "Rise To Power"
The Life We Live - 5-song demo
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Peace, Love, and Death Metal"
Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual"
Osker - "Treatment 5"
Make Do And Men - "Don't Be Long"
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Stick Together - S/T
From Autumn To Ashes - "The Fiction We Live"
9/21/15
The Faction - "Collection 1982-1985"
Dream Theater - "Systematic Chaos"
Wisdom In Chains - "The God Rhythm"
Discharge - "Decontrol" EP
Lakeside - "Galactic Grooves: The Best Of"
Rocket From The Crypt - "Scream, Dracula, Scream!"
XTC - "Fossil Fuel: Singles 1977-1992" Disc 1
Thursday - "Full Collapse"
Earth Crisis - "Destroy The Machines"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Tha Dogg Pound with Snoop Dogg - "That's My Work Vol. 5" mixtape
V/A - "F.I.M.P.: Ohio 2"
9/23/15
Hounds - Demo 2015
Protest The Hero - "A Calculated Use Of Sound" EP
Peelander-Z - "Metalander-Z"
Cartel - "Chroma"
David Gilmour - "Rattle That Lock"
Xibalba - S/T
Ben Howard - "I Forget Where We Were"
Angry Samoans - "Back From Samoa"
Davi - "The Gates Of Babylon" b/w "Eclipse" digital single
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Burn The Priest - S/T
Animosity - "Animal"
9/24/15
Adam Sandler - "They're All Gonna Laugh At You"
Sleeping With Sirens - "Madness"
9/25/15
Ajja & Cosmosis - "The Alien Jams: Live at the HR Giger Museum"
Autopsy - "Retribution for the Dead" EP
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - S/T
Action Bronson - "Dr. Lecter"
Dashboard Confessional - "The Swiss Army Romance"
Redd Kross - "Teen Babes From Monsanto"
Bouncing Souls - "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
Hooded Menace/Loss - "A View From The Rope" split 12"
Six Feet Under - "Crypt of the Devil"
Still Remains - "Of Love And Lunacy"
9/26/15
The Gravitys - "Bring You Down"
9/27/15
Lumpy & The Dumpers - "Total Punk" 7"
Del The Funky Homosapien - "Future Development"
Clutch - S/T
Ministry - "The Land of Rape and Honey"
Rich Aucion - "Ephemeral"
The Church - "El Momento Descuidado" acoustic album
Hudson Mohawke - "Satin Panthers" EP
Discharge - "Fight Back" EP
Client - "Trap" 8" flexi
Stereomud - "Every Given Moment"
Suffocation - "Pierced From Within"
Secret Machines - S/T
Zero Progress - "Champions of Hardcore"
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Mongrel"
9/29/15
Neil Hamburger - "Hot February Night"
Soilwork - "Natural Born Chaos"
Disturbed - "Immortalized"
Crime Desire - "Your Power"
I Am Cassettes - "Believe" digital single
Peace Corpse - "Quincy's Lament" EP
A New Found Glory - "It's All About The Girls" EP
Youth Lagoon - "Savage Hills Ballroom"
Boogie Down Productions - "Criminal Minded"
Dropkick Murphys - "The Meanest of Times"
Cannabis Corpse - "Blunted at Birth"
Echosmith - "Acoustic Dreams" EP
9/30/15
Francesca Lombardi - "Perseidi" 12"
Angry Samoans - "Yesterday Started Tomorrow
Dead Kennedys - "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Dead Kennedys - "In God We Trust, Inc."
Carbon Based Lifeforms - "Interloper"
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T
Lamb Of God - "New American Gospel"
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - "Sour Soul"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: Jose Gonzalez, Orgone, Pure, BruceXCampbell, Zotz, The NewNo2, Deceive, Hounds, Ajja, Cosmosis, Hooded Menace, Neil Hamburger, Carbon Based Lifeforms
- I appreciate their importance in the early LA punk scene but I just cannot for the life of me get into The Skulls at all
- Jeez that new Metallica single fucking sucks
- Ironically, my problem with Too Short is that his songs are too damn long
- Worst of the month: The E-Regulars, Nate Ruess, Twenty-One Pilots, I Am Cassettes
- Don't stop living in the red.
- The fact that I listened to entire albums by Drowning Pool, Disturbed, Ja Rule, and Stereomud really shows you how poor my decision-making on the whole has been lately
- God I love Protest The Hero
- New albums by Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, Happy In Hemet, and BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah are all pretty tight
- I didn't really like Cartel back when they were kinda blowing up and now I fucking LOVE them
- I thought Eagles Of Death Metal were gonna be alot doper ; very underwhelming
- Lakeside is without a doubt, indisputably, the dopest pirate/gypsy/other Halloween character-themed RnB band there ever was and I doubt anyone will ever even challenge their title
- "If Nigel says he's happy, he must be happy, he must be happy in his work..."
- That Adam Sandler album is so gratingly bad, how did that begin a media empire?
- Who is Clutch's fanbase? I can't see the appeal at all
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
9/1/15: "RoboCop"
9/2/15: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
9/3/15: "Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 4
9/5/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
"Bill Burr: You People Are All The Same"
"World's Greatest Dad"
9/6/15: "Fat Kid Rules The World"
"Trainspotting"
"Jumanji"
"White God"
9/7/15: "Monster Squad"
"Full Metal Jacket"
9/9/15: "Romper Stomper"
9/10/15: FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 3
9/12/15: "Bruce Almighty"
"Dead Hands Dig Deep" rough cut 5
9/14/15: "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World"
9/15/15: "Big Trouble In Little China"
9/16/15: "Time Lapse"
9/18/15: "Dear White People"
9/19/15: "Zathura"
9/20/15: "Moonrise Kingdom"
9/22/15: "Masters Of The Universe"
FINISHED "South Park" Season 18
9/23/15: "Hackers"
9/25/15: "Kung Fu Killer"
9/27/15: "Skin Trade"
9/29/15: "The Road Within"
MOVIE NOTES
- Why did I watch so many movies based on toys this month?
- Neither the new RoboCop nor the new TMNT were nearly as awful as I expected, but that's not necessarily saying they were very good either
- I have my own reservations about how the Edwin documentary has turned out but they're minor and the newest cut especially was really good...Dead Hands Dig Deep.
- Wow "World's Greatest Dad" really is a fucked up movie
- A good friend of mine who's unfortunately addicted to heroin often lists "Trainspotting" as one of his favorite movies and it's just such a horrifying film at times that I cannot understand how it would be appealing to him...But then again one of my favorite movies is "The Lost Weekend", so...
- The ending of "Jumanji" presents a terrifying version of time travel in my opinion and I'm gonna write a gritty reboot based on my observations
- That dog in "White God" is the best actor of the year, I just wonder how they got that out of him its amazing
- "Time Lapse" is a stupid concept with terrible acting and I highly recommend not wasting your time on it
- Despite its somewhat inflammatory title, "Dear White People" has a bit more to do with divisions within black communities...If you're a racist though I'm sure you won't pick up on that
- After watching "Zathura" I was pissed at how much its story was the same as "Jumanji" so I looked up reviews and shit to confirm my outrage and it turns out both are based on books by the same author, which transfers my outrage to him for copying himself to such financial success
- "Moonrise Kingdom" was okay I guess, and I know the following statement is gonna rub some of my good friends the wrong way, but Wes Anderson's style is way too cutesy and twee for me and it seems like all his movies follow a pretty standard "quirky" formula and I could stand not to see another one
- TRIGGER WARNING: I really enjoy the new PC Principal character on "South Park."
- "Hackers" has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious movies of the 1990s and there were a lot of those made in that decade
- "Skin Trade" is like Dolph Lundgren's pet project making him Liam Neeson from "Taken" for all captured sex slaves in Asia
LIVE
9/3/15: Destruction Unit/Gag/White Wards/The Coltranes/Health Problems @ Allen Francis Theatre
9/4/15: Culture Abuse/The Coltranes/Stressors/Drag Me Under/Mohicans @ 924 Gilman St (Resurrect Cali Fest Day 1)
LIVE NOTES
- That was a fun trip. Pies 4 life.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Playlist for August 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of August 2015, followed by lists of the stuff I watched, read, and saw live; my notes regarding all follow each list. Enjoy.
MUSIC
8/1/15
Coalesce - "Salt & Passage" EP
Damnear Divine - 3-song demo CD
Meshuggah - "I" CD
Black Stone Cherry - "Hits, Rarities, and Live"
Alpha & Omega - "No Rest No Peace"
8/2/15
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Savatage - "Hall Of The Mountain King"
The Cure/Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven" split 7"
Gary Clark Jr. - "Black & Blu"
Smut Peddlers - "Freedom"
8/3/15
The Avener - "Wanderings Of The Avener"
The Sonics - "This Is The Sonics"
Nails - "Among the Arches of Intolerance" b/w "In Pain" 7"
The Polish Ambassador - "Pushing Through The Pavement"
Babes In Toyland - "Fontanelle"
Gold Panda - "Lucky Shiner"
P.O.D. - "SoCal Sessions"
Death Cab For Cutie - "Kintsugi"
Flogging Molly - "Drunken Lullabies"
The Teen Idles - "Minor Disturbance" EP
Youth Brigade - "Possible" EP
Hypocrisy - S/T
Regurgitate - "Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood"
8/4/15
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Nosaj Thing - "Fated"
Blacklisted - "When People Grow, People Go"
TV On The Radio - "Seeds"
Down To Nothing - "The Most"
La Sera - "Hour of the Dawn"
8/5/15
Larry & His Flask - "Gutted"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Arade Fire - "Reflektor"
The Chemical Brothers - "Electronic Battle Weapon 11" digital single
The Stooges - "Fun House"
The Black Box Revelation - "High on a Wire" digital single
Tidemouth - "Velvet & Stone"
3Lau & Nom De Strip ft. Estelle - "The Night" digital single
Crime In Stereo - "The Troubled Stateside"
The Movielife - "Forty Hour Train Back To Penn"
The Get-Up Kids - "Something To Write Home About"
8/6/15
Bad Religion - "The Empire Strikes First"
Coalesce - "Ox"
Morbosidad - "Muerte de Cristo en Golgota"
Bring Me The Horizon - "Throne"/"Happy Song" digital single
Bastille - "Oblivion" 7"
Power Trip - "Armageddon Blues" EP
Grimes ft. Blood Diamonds - "Go" digital single
Girl Talk - "All Day"
Girl Talk - "Night Ripper"
8/7/15
Markus Schulz - "Toronto '09" Disc 1
Tomahawk - "Mit Gas"
Craic Haus - "Who's Yer Paddy Now?"
July Talk - "Summer Dress" EP
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique - "Set Me Free" digital single
Systematic Abuse - "Murder for Hire" 7"
Reflection Eternal - "Train Of Thought"
Surf Curse - "Sad Boys" EP
8/8/15
Bloody Death Skull - "Space Age Sock Hop" EP
The Empire Shall Fall - "Awaken"
Refused - "Freedom"
Chelsea Wolfe - "Abyss"
The Wonder Years - "The Greatest Generation"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
The F.U.'s - "Kill For Christ" EP
Saosin - S/T
Wretched Philiproy - Demo
8/9/15
Fortunate Youth - "Don't Think Twice"
Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"
Larry & His Flask - S/T EP
George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass" Disc 2
RL Grime - "Void"
Diat - "Everyday" b/w "Hinge and Bracket" 7"
From A Second Story Window - "Delenda"
8/10/15
Crisis - "No Town Hall" EP
Sever - "Fuck'em All, Kill Everything" demo
Clinic - "Walking With Thee"
Cold Cave - "Doom Doom Doom" digital single
Dwight Yoakam - "Second Hand Heart"
HVOB - "Trialog"
Dirty Filthy Mugs - "Drinks on Me" b/w "Crazy Phil" 7"
King Nine - Demo 2011
K-Os - "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco"
The Warriors - "Genuine Sense of Outrage"
8/11/15
The Acid - "Liminal"
The Weakerthans - "Fallow"
Deep Creep - "Hold Tight" b/w "Bees in the Basement" 7"
Kill The Noise & Tommy Trash - "Louder (ft. Rock City)" digital single
Beartooth - "Disgusting"
The Warriors - "War Is Hell"
Atmosphere - "The Lake Nokomis" maxi single
Kongos - "Lunatic"
Rush - "Fly By Night"
Clarity - "Stepping Stone (ft. Thomas Acosta from Barbarian)" digital single
Tokyo Police Club - "Forcefield"
Clarity - Demo 2011
Husker Du - "Zen Arcade"
8/12/15
Annie Mac - "Presents 2014" DJ Mix
Charles Bradley - "I Hope You Find The Good Life" b/w "Electric Victim" 12"
Alesso - "Forever"
Happy In Hemet - S/T EP
The F.U.'s - "My America"
Funeral Oration - "Say No To Life"
8/13/15
Failure - "The Heart Is A Monster"
Finch - "Back To Oblivion"
H2O - "FTTW"
Cannabis Corpse/Ghoul - "Splatterhash" split EP
Clinic - "Visitations"
Bouncing Souls - "Maniacal Laughter"
Tank - "This Means War"
8/14/15
Crisis - "White Youth" EP
Clutch/Lionize - "Run, John Barleycorn, Run"/"Ether Madness" split 7"
All Time Low - "Future Hearts"
Boston Strangler - "Fire"
Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - "Instant Crush" digital single
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - "Tyranny"
Joey Bada$$ - "Born Day" digital single
The Mahones - "The Hunger and the Fight (Pt. 1)"
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - "Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious"
Carousel Kings - "Unity"
Magrudergrind - "OWNED!" 7"
8/15/15
Hail The Sun - "POW! Right In The Kisser"
Shiner - "Starless"
Placebo - "Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996-2004"
Hum - "Downward Is Heavenward"
8/16/15
The Sword - "Age Of Winters"
Ill Bill - "Black Metal" mixtape
Casual Friday - S/T cassette
8/17/15
The War On Drugs - "Slave Ambient"
7 Seconds - "The Crew"
The Toasters - "The Best Of"
The First Step - "What We Know"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Bane - "Don't Wait Up"
Die Antwoord - "Donker Mag"
8/18/15
Avenged Sevenfold - "Nightmare"
8/19/15
The F.U.'s - "Do We Really Want To Hurt You?"
Soulfly - "Archangel"
Rush - "2112"
The Silent Comedy - "Common Faults"
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "Don't You Fake It"
No Warning - "Ill Blood"
The Crown - "Crowned In Terror"
Ben UFO - "Untitled" cassette
A.C. Slater - Demo CD
8/20/15
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
George Ezra - "Wanted On Voyage"
andhim - "Spayce" b/w "Domplatte" 12"
Battalion Of Saints - "The Second Coming"
Ibeyi - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Wages Of Sin"
8/21/15
Elle King - "Catch Us If You Can" digital single
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Twenty Dozen"
8/22/15
Art Of Dying - S/T
Gwar - "Scumdogs of the Universe"
Thievery Corporation - "The Richest Man In Babylon"
Iration - "Automatic"
ACxDC - "Antichrist Demoncore"
8/23/15
Pixies - "At The BBC"
St. Lucia - "When The Night"
Gorgon City - "Sirens (Remixes)"
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Magrudergrind - "Religious Baffle" MCD
Jean-Michel Jarre & Armin Van Buuren - "Stardust" digital single
Adair - "The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New"
NOFX - "Backstage Passport" soundtrack
Crisis - "Alienation" b/w "Bruckwood Hospital" 7"
Xibalba - "Hasta la Muerte"
8/24/15
Trivium - "Shogun"
Panic! At The Disco - "Pretty Odd"
Bright Eyes - "Every Day & Every Night" EP
No Tolerance - "Discography" LP
Camera Obscura - "4AD Sessions" EP
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - "Deceptacon" b/w "Don't Take My Man To Idaho" 7"
7 Seconds - "Walk Together, Rock Together"
Young Dubliners - "Saints and Sinners"
Pouya - "Baby Bone" EP
The Glory - demo CD
8/25/15
August Burns Red - "Constellations"
Catch-22 - "Keasbey Nights"
STS9 - "When The Dust Settles" EP
Dan Deacon - "Gliss Riffer"
Finntroll - "Nattfodd"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
Dennis Most & The Instigators - "Instigate Me!"
8/26/15
Pendulum - "Greatest Hits"
The Waterboys - "The Whole Of The Moon: The Music of Mike Scott & The Waterboys"
Tarantula Hawk - S/T
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos and Order"
Yes - "Fragile"
Underneath The Gun - "The Awakening"
I See Stars - "New Demons"
8/27/15
The Cure - "Seventeen Seconds"
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - "Not Sorry"
Magrudergrind - "Don't Support Humanitarian Aid Led By The Church" demo
The Sword - "High Country"
Peter Matthew Bauer - "Liberation!"
Violation - "Devoured"
Torche - S/T
Glass Animals - "Remixes" EP
Yung Lean - "Lavender" EP
Sage Emeralds - "DubCastles"
8/28/15
Courtaud & Bobtail - "My Love Who Never Was Will Never Be"
KiNK - "Fantasia" b/w "Fantasia (Truncate remix)" digital single
Garbage - "Version 2.0"
True Rivals - "The Revenant"
Retaliate - "We Are One"
Bright Eyes - "Drunk Kid Catholic" EP
Built To Spill - "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
Grace Love & The True Loves - "Fire" b/w "Say What You Gotta Say" 7"
Haywyre - "Insight" digital single
Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
7 Seconds - "New Wind"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Pennywise - "About Time"
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "Boys Of Rock: Greatest Hits"
8/29/15
The B-52's - "Cosmic Thing"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
Germ - "Dream" EP
Metric - "The Shade" EP
The Damned - "Go! -45" compilation LP
James Taylor - "The Best Of"
Tarantula Hawk - "Burrow"
Underneath The Gun - "Forfeit Misfortunes"
8/30/15
Fissure - S/T EP
Impact - "Punk Christmas" EP
Robert DeLong - "The Long Way Down" EP
V/A - "The Jacknife Tape Vol. 1"
Underworld Vs. Heller & Farley/Vs. The Misterons - "Baby Wants To Ride" digital single
Xpulsion - "Collective Evil" digital single
Bassnectar - "Into the Sun"
Greek Fire - "Deus Ex Machina"
Goldfinger - S/T
Ritual Necromancy - "Void Manifest" EP
Voivod/At The Gates - "We Are Connected"/"Language of the Dead" split 7"
8/31/15
Neck Deep - "Life's Not Out To Get You"
Give - "Sonic Bloom" EP
Warpaint - "No Way Out"/"I'll Start Believing" EP
Flatfoot 56 - "Toil"
I See Stars - "Digital Renegade"
Graveworm - "Engraved in Black"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: The Avener, Babes In Toyland, La Sera, Morbosidad, Boston Strangler, Shiner, St. Lucia, Peter Matthew Bauer, Crossface, Bad Times Crew, Vitality, Sawdust, Spinebreaker, Ritual Necromancy, Give
- New albums by Death Cab, TV On The Radio, The Arcade Fire, Refused, Chelsea Wolfe, Finch, Bassnectar are all solid
- Worst of the month: The Black Box Revelation, Bastille, July Talk, Sever, The Silent Comedy, Elle King, Art Of Dying, Greek Fire
- That new Bring Me The Horizon single is fucking terrible, I liked them better when they were lame-ass deathcore
- Reflection Eternal isn't very dope at all
- The Clarity from Washington is doper than the Clarity from Texas but not by a whole lot
- I like the remixed version of that Gorgon City album more than the normal version of the album
- I guess NOFX has like a web show and they did their own soundtrack for it, and a bunch of the songs make jokes about how they suck nowadays, but the joke isn't funny because NOFX legitimately sucks nowadays
- That second Panic! album is goddamn terrible
- Man Underneath The Gun was way worse than I remembered
- I don't like the direction The Sword has begun to take on this new album
MOVIES/SHOWS/DVDS
8/1/15: "Arnez J: Racially Motivated"
"The Warriors"
"Women Who Kill"
8/2/15: "Wet Hot American Summer"
"Jen Kirkman: I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)"
8/3/15: "An Honest Liar"
FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 3
8/4/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
8/5/15: "The Skeleton Twins"
8/6/15: "Staten Island Summer"
8/7/15: "Gary Gulman: In This Economy?"
8/8/15: "Interview With The Vampire"
"John Mulaney: New In Town"
8/9/15: "The Master"
"Joe Rogan Live"
8/10/15: "Chronic-Con Episode 420: A New Dope"
8/11/15: "Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry"
"Welcome To Me"
8/12/15: FINISHED: "Orange Is The New Black" Season 2
"Donald Glover: Weirdo"
"Kill Me Three Times"
8/14/15: "Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
"Hercules"
8/15/15: "Demetri Martin Live"
8/18/15: "Good Will Hunting"
"Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional"
8/19/15: "Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story"
8/20/15: "Moshe Kasher: Live In Oakland"
8/21/15: FINISHED "Bob's Burgers" Season 2
"Jim Norton: American Degenerate"
"Antichrist"
8/22/15: "This Is 40"
"Todd Glass Stand-Up Special"
8/23/15: "Serpico"
"Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said"
8/24/15: "Chinatown"
"Bo Burnham: what."
8/25/15: "Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus"
"Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time"
8/26/15: "Star Trek: Into Darkness"
"Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth"
"Apocalypse Now"
8/28/15: FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 4
"Full Metal Jacket"
8/30/15: "Josh Blue: Sticky Change"
8/31/15: "Brian Posehn: The Fartist"
MOVIE NOTES
- That was the first time I had ever seen "The Warriors" and it was even cheesier than I had expected
- I cannot recommend "An Honest Liar" enough...it really made me think.
- "Staten Island Summer" was like the weakest ripoff of "Superbad" I can imagine, highly not recommended
- "Interview With The Vampire" was way doper AND way more homoerotic than I expected it to be
- Doug Benson is just so desperate, he makes me ashamed to be a pothead
- Chris Porter and Josh Blue are probably the worst stand-up comedians I've ever seen and they're both kinda similar...in that they fuckin suck
- That new "Hercules" movie with The Rock as Hercules is fucking HILARIOUS I don't think I've laughed so hard in a good minute...Fool bodyslams a fucking horse it's absolutely ridiculous
- "Chinatown" deserves its legacy as one of the all-time greats, especially the ending....just damn. Same thing goes for "Apocalypse Now" but in entirely different ways.
- "Crystal Fairy..." was like the most pointless movie I've ever seen, just awful
LIVE
8/15/15: Deap Valley/HOT TTP/Media Jeweler/The Maximizers/Wax Idols @ Echo Park Rising
LIVE NOTES
- Echo Park Rising was cool but me and Miller showed up way too late and Miller was fucking wasted. Sam from Media Jeweler gave me a shout-out during their set. "Kiss that horse. Pucker up. Just kiss that horse."
ZINES
8/19/15: Echo Park Rising 2015 guide/zine
THEATRE
8/29/15: "Urinetown" presented by the Barn Stage Company
THEATRE NOTES
- "Some people don't like to be told that their way of life is unsustainable."
MUSIC
8/1/15
Coalesce - "Salt & Passage" EP
Damnear Divine - 3-song demo CD
Meshuggah - "I" CD
Black Stone Cherry - "Hits, Rarities, and Live"
Alpha & Omega - "No Rest No Peace"
8/2/15
The Fall Of Troy - "Ghostship" EP
Savatage - "Hall Of The Mountain King"
The Cure/Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven" split 7"
Gary Clark Jr. - "Black & Blu"
Smut Peddlers - "Freedom"
8/3/15
The Avener - "Wanderings Of The Avener"
The Sonics - "This Is The Sonics"
Nails - "Among the Arches of Intolerance" b/w "In Pain" 7"
The Polish Ambassador - "Pushing Through The Pavement"
Babes In Toyland - "Fontanelle"
Gold Panda - "Lucky Shiner"
P.O.D. - "SoCal Sessions"
Death Cab For Cutie - "Kintsugi"
Flogging Molly - "Drunken Lullabies"
The Teen Idles - "Minor Disturbance" EP
Youth Brigade - "Possible" EP
Hypocrisy - S/T
Regurgitate - "Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood"
8/4/15
Ground Up - 2008 4-song demo
Nosaj Thing - "Fated"
Blacklisted - "When People Grow, People Go"
TV On The Radio - "Seeds"
Down To Nothing - "The Most"
La Sera - "Hour of the Dawn"
8/5/15
Larry & His Flask - "Gutted"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Arade Fire - "Reflektor"
The Chemical Brothers - "Electronic Battle Weapon 11" digital single
The Stooges - "Fun House"
The Black Box Revelation - "High on a Wire" digital single
Tidemouth - "Velvet & Stone"
3Lau & Nom De Strip ft. Estelle - "The Night" digital single
Crime In Stereo - "The Troubled Stateside"
The Movielife - "Forty Hour Train Back To Penn"
The Get-Up Kids - "Something To Write Home About"
8/6/15
Bad Religion - "The Empire Strikes First"
Coalesce - "Ox"
Morbosidad - "Muerte de Cristo en Golgota"
Bring Me The Horizon - "Throne"/"Happy Song" digital single
Bastille - "Oblivion" 7"
Power Trip - "Armageddon Blues" EP
Grimes ft. Blood Diamonds - "Go" digital single
Girl Talk - "All Day"
Girl Talk - "Night Ripper"
8/7/15
Markus Schulz - "Toronto '09" Disc 1
Tomahawk - "Mit Gas"
Craic Haus - "Who's Yer Paddy Now?"
July Talk - "Summer Dress" EP
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique - "Set Me Free" digital single
Systematic Abuse - "Murder for Hire" 7"
Reflection Eternal - "Train Of Thought"
Surf Curse - "Sad Boys" EP
8/8/15
Bloody Death Skull - "Space Age Sock Hop" EP
The Empire Shall Fall - "Awaken"
Refused - "Freedom"
Chelsea Wolfe - "Abyss"
The Wonder Years - "The Greatest Generation"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
The F.U.'s - "Kill For Christ" EP
Saosin - S/T
Wretched Philiproy - Demo
8/9/15
Fortunate Youth - "Don't Think Twice"
Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"
Larry & His Flask - S/T EP
George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass" Disc 2
RL Grime - "Void"
Diat - "Everyday" b/w "Hinge and Bracket" 7"
From A Second Story Window - "Delenda"
8/10/15
Crisis - "No Town Hall" EP
Sever - "Fuck'em All, Kill Everything" demo
Clinic - "Walking With Thee"
Cold Cave - "Doom Doom Doom" digital single
Dwight Yoakam - "Second Hand Heart"
HVOB - "Trialog"
Dirty Filthy Mugs - "Drinks on Me" b/w "Crazy Phil" 7"
King Nine - Demo 2011
K-Os - "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco"
The Warriors - "Genuine Sense of Outrage"
8/11/15
The Acid - "Liminal"
The Weakerthans - "Fallow"
Deep Creep - "Hold Tight" b/w "Bees in the Basement" 7"
Kill The Noise & Tommy Trash - "Louder (ft. Rock City)" digital single
Beartooth - "Disgusting"
The Warriors - "War Is Hell"
Atmosphere - "The Lake Nokomis" maxi single
Kongos - "Lunatic"
Rush - "Fly By Night"
Clarity - "Stepping Stone (ft. Thomas Acosta from Barbarian)" digital single
Tokyo Police Club - "Forcefield"
Clarity - Demo 2011
Husker Du - "Zen Arcade"
8/12/15
Annie Mac - "Presents 2014" DJ Mix
Charles Bradley - "I Hope You Find The Good Life" b/w "Electric Victim" 12"
Alesso - "Forever"
Happy In Hemet - S/T EP
The F.U.'s - "My America"
Funeral Oration - "Say No To Life"
8/13/15
Failure - "The Heart Is A Monster"
Finch - "Back To Oblivion"
H2O - "FTTW"
Cannabis Corpse/Ghoul - "Splatterhash" split EP
Clinic - "Visitations"
Bouncing Souls - "Maniacal Laughter"
Tank - "This Means War"
8/14/15
Crisis - "White Youth" EP
Clutch/Lionize - "Run, John Barleycorn, Run"/"Ether Madness" split 7"
All Time Low - "Future Hearts"
Boston Strangler - "Fire"
Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - "Instant Crush" digital single
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - "Tyranny"
Joey Bada$$ - "Born Day" digital single
The Mahones - "The Hunger and the Fight (Pt. 1)"
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - "Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious"
Carousel Kings - "Unity"
Magrudergrind - "OWNED!" 7"
8/15/15
Hail The Sun - "POW! Right In The Kisser"
Shiner - "Starless"
Placebo - "Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996-2004"
Hum - "Downward Is Heavenward"
8/16/15
The Sword - "Age Of Winters"
Ill Bill - "Black Metal" mixtape
Casual Friday - S/T cassette
8/17/15
The War On Drugs - "Slave Ambient"
7 Seconds - "The Crew"
The Toasters - "The Best Of"
The First Step - "What We Know"
Desperate Living - "Vital Exhaustion" EP
Bane - "Don't Wait Up"
Die Antwoord - "Donker Mag"
8/18/15
Avenged Sevenfold - "Nightmare"
8/19/15
The F.U.'s - "Do We Really Want To Hurt You?"
Soulfly - "Archangel"
Rush - "2112"
The Silent Comedy - "Common Faults"
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "Don't You Fake It"
No Warning - "Ill Blood"
The Crown - "Crowned In Terror"
Ben UFO - "Untitled" cassette
A.C. Slater - Demo CD
8/20/15
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
George Ezra - "Wanted On Voyage"
andhim - "Spayce" b/w "Domplatte" 12"
Battalion Of Saints - "The Second Coming"
Ibeyi - S/T
Arch Enemy - "Wages Of Sin"
8/21/15
Elle King - "Catch Us If You Can" digital single
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Twenty Dozen"
8/22/15
Art Of Dying - S/T
Gwar - "Scumdogs of the Universe"
Thievery Corporation - "The Richest Man In Babylon"
Iration - "Automatic"
ACxDC - "Antichrist Demoncore"
8/23/15
Pixies - "At The BBC"
St. Lucia - "When The Night"
Gorgon City - "Sirens (Remixes)"
Mouthful Of Snow - "[EPHEMERA]"
Magrudergrind - "Religious Baffle" MCD
Jean-Michel Jarre & Armin Van Buuren - "Stardust" digital single
Adair - "The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New"
NOFX - "Backstage Passport" soundtrack
Crisis - "Alienation" b/w "Bruckwood Hospital" 7"
Xibalba - "Hasta la Muerte"
8/24/15
Trivium - "Shogun"
Panic! At The Disco - "Pretty Odd"
Bright Eyes - "Every Day & Every Night" EP
No Tolerance - "Discography" LP
Camera Obscura - "4AD Sessions" EP
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - "Deceptacon" b/w "Don't Take My Man To Idaho" 7"
7 Seconds - "Walk Together, Rock Together"
Young Dubliners - "Saints and Sinners"
Pouya - "Baby Bone" EP
The Glory - demo CD
8/25/15
August Burns Red - "Constellations"
Catch-22 - "Keasbey Nights"
STS9 - "When The Dust Settles" EP
Dan Deacon - "Gliss Riffer"
Finntroll - "Nattfodd"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Ruptures - "DECA" EP
Dennis Most & The Instigators - "Instigate Me!"
8/26/15
Pendulum - "Greatest Hits"
The Waterboys - "The Whole Of The Moon: The Music of Mike Scott & The Waterboys"
Tarantula Hawk - S/T
Against All Authority - "The Restoration of Chaos and Order"
Yes - "Fragile"
Underneath The Gun - "The Awakening"
I See Stars - "New Demons"
8/27/15
The Cure - "Seventeen Seconds"
Bad Cop/Bad Cop - "Not Sorry"
Magrudergrind - "Don't Support Humanitarian Aid Led By The Church" demo
The Sword - "High Country"
Peter Matthew Bauer - "Liberation!"
Violation - "Devoured"
Torche - S/T
Glass Animals - "Remixes" EP
Yung Lean - "Lavender" EP
Sage Emeralds - "DubCastles"
8/28/15
Courtaud & Bobtail - "My Love Who Never Was Will Never Be"
KiNK - "Fantasia" b/w "Fantasia (Truncate remix)" digital single
Garbage - "Version 2.0"
True Rivals - "The Revenant"
Retaliate - "We Are One"
Bright Eyes - "Drunk Kid Catholic" EP
Built To Spill - "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
Grace Love & The True Loves - "Fire" b/w "Say What You Gotta Say" 7"
Haywyre - "Insight" digital single
Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
7 Seconds - "New Wind"
This Is Hell - "Misfortunes"
Pennywise - "About Time"
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "Boys Of Rock: Greatest Hits"
8/29/15
The B-52's - "Cosmic Thing"
NASA Space Universe - "Across The Wounded Galaxies"
Germ - "Dream" EP
Metric - "The Shade" EP
The Damned - "Go! -45" compilation LP
James Taylor - "The Best Of"
Tarantula Hawk - "Burrow"
Underneath The Gun - "Forfeit Misfortunes"
8/30/15
Fissure - S/T EP
Impact - "Punk Christmas" EP
Robert DeLong - "The Long Way Down" EP
V/A - "The Jacknife Tape Vol. 1"
Underworld Vs. Heller & Farley/Vs. The Misterons - "Baby Wants To Ride" digital single
Xpulsion - "Collective Evil" digital single
Bassnectar - "Into the Sun"
Greek Fire - "Deus Ex Machina"
Goldfinger - S/T
Ritual Necromancy - "Void Manifest" EP
Voivod/At The Gates - "We Are Connected"/"Language of the Dead" split 7"
8/31/15
Neck Deep - "Life's Not Out To Get You"
Give - "Sonic Bloom" EP
Warpaint - "No Way Out"/"I'll Start Believing" EP
Flatfoot 56 - "Toil"
I See Stars - "Digital Renegade"
Graveworm - "Engraved in Black"
MUSIC NOTES
- Favorite "new finds" of the month: The Avener, Babes In Toyland, La Sera, Morbosidad, Boston Strangler, Shiner, St. Lucia, Peter Matthew Bauer, Crossface, Bad Times Crew, Vitality, Sawdust, Spinebreaker, Ritual Necromancy, Give
- New albums by Death Cab, TV On The Radio, The Arcade Fire, Refused, Chelsea Wolfe, Finch, Bassnectar are all solid
- Worst of the month: The Black Box Revelation, Bastille, July Talk, Sever, The Silent Comedy, Elle King, Art Of Dying, Greek Fire
- That new Bring Me The Horizon single is fucking terrible, I liked them better when they were lame-ass deathcore
- Reflection Eternal isn't very dope at all
- The Clarity from Washington is doper than the Clarity from Texas but not by a whole lot
- I like the remixed version of that Gorgon City album more than the normal version of the album
- I guess NOFX has like a web show and they did their own soundtrack for it, and a bunch of the songs make jokes about how they suck nowadays, but the joke isn't funny because NOFX legitimately sucks nowadays
- That second Panic! album is goddamn terrible
- Man Underneath The Gun was way worse than I remembered
- I don't like the direction The Sword has begun to take on this new album
MOVIES/SHOWS/DVDS
8/1/15: "Arnez J: Racially Motivated"
"The Warriors"
"Women Who Kill"
8/2/15: "Wet Hot American Summer"
"Jen Kirkman: I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)"
8/3/15: "An Honest Liar"
FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 3
8/4/15: "Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way"
8/5/15: "The Skeleton Twins"
8/6/15: "Staten Island Summer"
8/7/15: "Gary Gulman: In This Economy?"
8/8/15: "Interview With The Vampire"
"John Mulaney: New In Town"
8/9/15: "The Master"
"Joe Rogan Live"
8/10/15: "Chronic-Con Episode 420: A New Dope"
8/11/15: "Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry"
"Welcome To Me"
8/12/15: FINISHED: "Orange Is The New Black" Season 2
"Donald Glover: Weirdo"
"Kill Me Three Times"
8/14/15: "Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
"Hercules"
8/15/15: "Demetri Martin Live"
8/18/15: "Good Will Hunting"
"Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional"
8/19/15: "Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story"
8/20/15: "Moshe Kasher: Live In Oakland"
8/21/15: FINISHED "Bob's Burgers" Season 2
"Jim Norton: American Degenerate"
"Antichrist"
8/22/15: "This Is 40"
"Todd Glass Stand-Up Special"
8/23/15: "Serpico"
"Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said"
8/24/15: "Chinatown"
"Bo Burnham: what."
8/25/15: "Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus"
"Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time"
8/26/15: "Star Trek: Into Darkness"
"Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth"
"Apocalypse Now"
8/28/15: FINISHED: "Mad Men" Season 4
"Full Metal Jacket"
8/30/15: "Josh Blue: Sticky Change"
8/31/15: "Brian Posehn: The Fartist"
MOVIE NOTES
- That was the first time I had ever seen "The Warriors" and it was even cheesier than I had expected
- I cannot recommend "An Honest Liar" enough...it really made me think.
- "Staten Island Summer" was like the weakest ripoff of "Superbad" I can imagine, highly not recommended
- "Interview With The Vampire" was way doper AND way more homoerotic than I expected it to be
- Doug Benson is just so desperate, he makes me ashamed to be a pothead
- Chris Porter and Josh Blue are probably the worst stand-up comedians I've ever seen and they're both kinda similar...in that they fuckin suck
- That new "Hercules" movie with The Rock as Hercules is fucking HILARIOUS I don't think I've laughed so hard in a good minute...Fool bodyslams a fucking horse it's absolutely ridiculous
- "Chinatown" deserves its legacy as one of the all-time greats, especially the ending....just damn. Same thing goes for "Apocalypse Now" but in entirely different ways.
- "Crystal Fairy..." was like the most pointless movie I've ever seen, just awful
LIVE
8/15/15: Deap Valley/HOT TTP/Media Jeweler/The Maximizers/Wax Idols @ Echo Park Rising
LIVE NOTES
- Echo Park Rising was cool but me and Miller showed up way too late and Miller was fucking wasted. Sam from Media Jeweler gave me a shout-out during their set. "Kiss that horse. Pucker up. Just kiss that horse."
ZINES
8/19/15: Echo Park Rising 2015 guide/zine
THEATRE
8/29/15: "Urinetown" presented by the Barn Stage Company
THEATRE NOTES
- "Some people don't like to be told that their way of life is unsustainable."
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Playlist for July 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of July 2015. Afterwards are lists of the stuff I watched, read, and saw live, with notes regarding all. Enjoy.
MUSIC
7/1/15
Useless Eaters - "The Moves" EP
Hozier - S/T EP
7/4/15
Cannibal Corpse - "Tomb of the Mutilated"
7/5/15
Crisis Arm - "Part-Time Punks Session" EP
7/7/15
The Cramps - "Songs the Lord Taught Us"
7/9/15
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - "Artifact"
7/10/15
Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons - "Message From The Other Side"
Street Dogs/No!se - split 7"
Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute"
Glassjaw - "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence"
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
7/11/15
Excel - "Split Image"
7/12/15
Justin Martin - "Ghettos & Gardens"
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Gossip - "That's Not What I Heard"
Jethro Tull - "Stand Up"
All Out War - "Dying Gods" EP
Jehne Aiko - "Souled Out"
Gold Panda - "Clarke's Dream" digital single
Obsolete Sun - July 2015 demo
7/13/15
Black Veil Brides - "IV"
Duran Duran ft. Janelle Monae & Nile Rodgers - "Pressure Off" digital single
Tenacious D - S/T
The Cure - "Pornography"
7/14/15
Earl Sweatshirt - "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside"
Breakdown - "Runnin' Scared" demotape
Brandon Flowers - "The Desired Effect"
Crime In Stereo - "Explosives and the Will to Use Them"
7/15/15
Terror - "Keepers of the Faith"
The Spits - "V"
7/16/15
Patti Smith - "Depravity (New York May 28th 1975)" live album
The Unseen - "So This Is Freedom?"
Missy Elliot - "Respect M.E." compilation CD
The Hickey Underworld - "III"
Skinslip - "Detachment" EP
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
7/17/15
The Weakerthans - "Left and Leaving"
Da Tweekaz - "#Tweekay14 The Ultimate Collection"
The All-American Rejects - "Move Along"
Lagwagon/Swingin' Utters/Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Fat Music For Riot Fest People" 3-way split 7"
Sam Smith - "In the Lonely Hour"
Dead Infection/Parricide - "Looking For Victims"/"The Idealist" split
Orphan Crippler - "Amputated Remnants"
Agent 86 - "Scary Action" 7"
Problem//Reaction//Solution - "Police State Takeover" demo 05
Mastodon ft. Gibby Haynes - "Atlanta" digital single
7/19/15
Alice In Chains - "Dirt"
Mumford & Sons - "Wilder Mind"
7/20/15
Title Fight - "Floral Green"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
7/21/15
Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"
Type O Negative - "World Coming Down"
7/23/15
The Cramps - "Psychedelic Jungle"
7/24/15
The Growlers - "Chinese Fountain"
Jack U - "Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U"
7/25/15
Gaelic Storm - "Full Irish: The Best Of"
Saves The Day - "Through Being Cool"
Ground Up - 2008 mastered demo
Taking Back Sunday - "Tell All Your Friends"
7/26/15
together PANGEA - "Badillac"
August Burns Red - "Found In Far Away Places"
7/27/15
Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
7/28/15
Eddie Cochran - "The Eddie Cochran Story" Boxset, Disc 1: "I'm Ready"
Adult Books - S/T 7"
Larry & His Flask - "Loud and Crowded" EP
The National - "Sunshine on My Back" digital single
The Gossip - "Arkansas Heat" EP
All That Remains - "The Order Of Things"
7/29/15
Felina - "On My Way" EP
Fates Warning - "Chasing Time" compilation CD
Motion City Soundtrack - "TKO" digital single
Stick Figure - "Burial Ground"
7/31/15
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
The Devil Makes Three - "Dragging Chains" 7"
Ninos du Brasil - S/T cassette
The Glitch Mob - "Piece of the Indestructible" EP
Crime In Stereo - "The Contract" EP
Ott - "MMII" EP
Fear Factory - "Demanufacture: The Roadrunner 25th Anniversary Edition"
Mercer & 4B - "Bounce" digital single
Culture - "Born of You"
MUSIC NOTES
- I know this sounds weird but "Tomb Of The Mutilated" is like, comfort music to me
- "Inconvenient people"
- Favoite "new finds": Shojo Winter, The Hickey Underworld, Skinslip, Dead Infection, Parricide, Type O Negative, together PANGEA, Ninos du Brasil, Ott, Culture
- New Obsolete Sun stuff is dope as fuck
- How are Black Veil Brides so popular? It's mind-blowing, they suck
- That Brandon Flowers album is exactly as lame as I expected
- Patti Smith is overrated and I'm not ashamed to say it. Same goes for Missy Elliot.
- R.I.P. The Weakerthans
- From all the hype I thought that Sam Smith was gonna be hella dope but not so much
- I talk alot of shit but the new albums by Mumford & Sons and The Growlers are both ALOT better than I expected...but then again that's because I'm a hater
- Man I didn't realize how fucking dope Type O Negative is
- "Don't call my name out your window. I'm leaving."
- I know they're Christian, and hopefully anybody reading this already knows how I feel about that, but goddamn the new August Burns Red album is like the best metal album of the year
- Fear Factory never did much for me before but this time around I feel like I finally understand the appeal, and more than that, I really enjoyed it...I don't know what my issue with them had been before, maybe just bias against "nu-metal" which they kinda embodied at times in the late 90s but "Demanufacture" deserves its recognition as a classic.
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
7/1/15: "After Porn Ends"
7/7/15: "John Caparulo: Come Inside Me"
7/8/15: "Doug Stanhope: Beerhall Putsch"
"Dave Attell: Road Work"
"Greg Fitzsimmons: Life On Stage"
7/12/15: "The Babadook"
"Snowpiercer"
7/13/15: "Kettle Cadaver: A Taste Of Blood"
"The Blair Witch Project"
7/14/15: "Chris Tucker Live"
7/15/15: "Chef"
"Pi"
7/16/15: "Tom Papa: Freaked Out"
7/17/15: "Myq Kaplan: Small, Dark, and Handsome"
7/18/15: "Faults"
7/20/15: "Young and Handsome: An Evening With Jeff Garlin"
7/21/15: "My Bloody Valentine"
7/22/15: "Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour"
FINISHED: "Bob's Burgers" Season 1
7/23/15: "Bernie"
7/25/15: "Bill Burr: Let It Go"
"The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir"
7/26/15: "Creep"
"Eugene Mirman: Vegan On His Way to the Complain Store"
"They Came Together"
"Kettle Cadaver: A Taste Of Blood"
7/27/15: "Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate"
7/29/15: "Russel Peters: Notorious"
7/30/15: "Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe"
7/31/15: "Teacher of the Year"
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
- "The Blair Witch Project" is pretty damn bad, in retrospect
- "Pi" is way more boring than I remembered
- My boy Miller had been trying to tell me about Bill Burr and I was hating but now he's like my favorite comic
- Peachfuzz
ZINES
7/2/15: FINISHED "Death + Taxes" Mar/Apr 2010
7/15/15: FINISHED "Slingshot" Issue #88 Fall 2005
SHOWS
7/2/15: Life For A Life/Cool Side/Frustrated/Armless @ Dad's Den
SHOW NOTES
- Sorry to everybody who was at that Cool Side show, I really pulled a Sam Patch on that one. For real, tho, it's not okay to crowd-bash but it's also not cool to attack other people at a hardcore show. I feel like we were both in the bad but I was kinda more in the bad and I'm sorry. Please don't attack me.
MUSIC
7/1/15
Useless Eaters - "The Moves" EP
Hozier - S/T EP
7/4/15
Cannibal Corpse - "Tomb of the Mutilated"
7/5/15
Crisis Arm - "Part-Time Punks Session" EP
7/7/15
The Cramps - "Songs the Lord Taught Us"
7/9/15
Shojo Winter - "Eternal Snow" EP
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - "Artifact"
7/10/15
Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons - "Message From The Other Side"
Street Dogs/No!se - split 7"
Glassjaw - "Worship and Tribute"
Glassjaw - "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence"
At The Drive-In - "Relationship of Command"
7/11/15
Excel - "Split Image"
7/12/15
Justin Martin - "Ghettos & Gardens"
Left Astray - Demo 2015
The Gossip - "That's Not What I Heard"
Jethro Tull - "Stand Up"
All Out War - "Dying Gods" EP
Jehne Aiko - "Souled Out"
Gold Panda - "Clarke's Dream" digital single
Obsolete Sun - July 2015 demo
7/13/15
Black Veil Brides - "IV"
Duran Duran ft. Janelle Monae & Nile Rodgers - "Pressure Off" digital single
Tenacious D - S/T
The Cure - "Pornography"
7/14/15
Earl Sweatshirt - "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside"
Breakdown - "Runnin' Scared" demotape
Brandon Flowers - "The Desired Effect"
Crime In Stereo - "Explosives and the Will to Use Them"
7/15/15
Terror - "Keepers of the Faith"
The Spits - "V"
7/16/15
Patti Smith - "Depravity (New York May 28th 1975)" live album
The Unseen - "So This Is Freedom?"
Missy Elliot - "Respect M.E." compilation CD
The Hickey Underworld - "III"
Skinslip - "Detachment" EP
The Fall Of Troy - "Doppelganger"
7/17/15
The Weakerthans - "Left and Leaving"
Da Tweekaz - "#Tweekay14 The Ultimate Collection"
The All-American Rejects - "Move Along"
Lagwagon/Swingin' Utters/Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Fat Music For Riot Fest People" 3-way split 7"
Sam Smith - "In the Lonely Hour"
Dead Infection/Parricide - "Looking For Victims"/"The Idealist" split
Orphan Crippler - "Amputated Remnants"
Agent 86 - "Scary Action" 7"
Problem//Reaction//Solution - "Police State Takeover" demo 05
Mastodon ft. Gibby Haynes - "Atlanta" digital single
7/19/15
Alice In Chains - "Dirt"
Mumford & Sons - "Wilder Mind"
7/20/15
Title Fight - "Floral Green"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
7/21/15
Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"
Type O Negative - "World Coming Down"
7/23/15
The Cramps - "Psychedelic Jungle"
7/24/15
The Growlers - "Chinese Fountain"
Jack U - "Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U"
7/25/15
Gaelic Storm - "Full Irish: The Best Of"
Saves The Day - "Through Being Cool"
Ground Up - 2008 mastered demo
Taking Back Sunday - "Tell All Your Friends"
7/26/15
together PANGEA - "Badillac"
August Burns Red - "Found In Far Away Places"
7/27/15
Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
7/28/15
Eddie Cochran - "The Eddie Cochran Story" Boxset, Disc 1: "I'm Ready"
Adult Books - S/T 7"
Larry & His Flask - "Loud and Crowded" EP
The National - "Sunshine on My Back" digital single
The Gossip - "Arkansas Heat" EP
All That Remains - "The Order Of Things"
7/29/15
Felina - "On My Way" EP
Fates Warning - "Chasing Time" compilation CD
Motion City Soundtrack - "TKO" digital single
Stick Figure - "Burial Ground"
7/31/15
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
The Devil Makes Three - "Dragging Chains" 7"
Ninos du Brasil - S/T cassette
The Glitch Mob - "Piece of the Indestructible" EP
Crime In Stereo - "The Contract" EP
Ott - "MMII" EP
Fear Factory - "Demanufacture: The Roadrunner 25th Anniversary Edition"
Mercer & 4B - "Bounce" digital single
Culture - "Born of You"
MUSIC NOTES
- I know this sounds weird but "Tomb Of The Mutilated" is like, comfort music to me
- "Inconvenient people"
- Favoite "new finds": Shojo Winter, The Hickey Underworld, Skinslip, Dead Infection, Parricide, Type O Negative, together PANGEA, Ninos du Brasil, Ott, Culture
- New Obsolete Sun stuff is dope as fuck
- How are Black Veil Brides so popular? It's mind-blowing, they suck
- That Brandon Flowers album is exactly as lame as I expected
- Patti Smith is overrated and I'm not ashamed to say it. Same goes for Missy Elliot.
- R.I.P. The Weakerthans
- From all the hype I thought that Sam Smith was gonna be hella dope but not so much
- I talk alot of shit but the new albums by Mumford & Sons and The Growlers are both ALOT better than I expected...but then again that's because I'm a hater
- Man I didn't realize how fucking dope Type O Negative is
- "Don't call my name out your window. I'm leaving."
- I know they're Christian, and hopefully anybody reading this already knows how I feel about that, but goddamn the new August Burns Red album is like the best metal album of the year
- Fear Factory never did much for me before but this time around I feel like I finally understand the appeal, and more than that, I really enjoyed it...I don't know what my issue with them had been before, maybe just bias against "nu-metal" which they kinda embodied at times in the late 90s but "Demanufacture" deserves its recognition as a classic.
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
7/1/15: "After Porn Ends"
7/7/15: "John Caparulo: Come Inside Me"
7/8/15: "Doug Stanhope: Beerhall Putsch"
"Dave Attell: Road Work"
"Greg Fitzsimmons: Life On Stage"
7/12/15: "The Babadook"
"Snowpiercer"
7/13/15: "Kettle Cadaver: A Taste Of Blood"
"The Blair Witch Project"
7/14/15: "Chris Tucker Live"
7/15/15: "Chef"
"Pi"
7/16/15: "Tom Papa: Freaked Out"
7/17/15: "Myq Kaplan: Small, Dark, and Handsome"
7/18/15: "Faults"
7/20/15: "Young and Handsome: An Evening With Jeff Garlin"
7/21/15: "My Bloody Valentine"
7/22/15: "Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour"
FINISHED: "Bob's Burgers" Season 1
7/23/15: "Bernie"
7/25/15: "Bill Burr: Let It Go"
"The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir"
7/26/15: "Creep"
"Eugene Mirman: Vegan On His Way to the Complain Store"
"They Came Together"
"Kettle Cadaver: A Taste Of Blood"
7/27/15: "Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate"
7/29/15: "Russel Peters: Notorious"
7/30/15: "Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe"
7/31/15: "Teacher of the Year"
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
- "The Blair Witch Project" is pretty damn bad, in retrospect
- "Pi" is way more boring than I remembered
- My boy Miller had been trying to tell me about Bill Burr and I was hating but now he's like my favorite comic
- Peachfuzz
ZINES
7/2/15: FINISHED "Death + Taxes" Mar/Apr 2010
7/15/15: FINISHED "Slingshot" Issue #88 Fall 2005
SHOWS
7/2/15: Life For A Life/Cool Side/Frustrated/Armless @ Dad's Den
SHOW NOTES
- Sorry to everybody who was at that Cool Side show, I really pulled a Sam Patch on that one. For real, tho, it's not okay to crowd-bash but it's also not cool to attack other people at a hardcore show. I feel like we were both in the bad but I was kinda more in the bad and I'm sorry. Please don't attack me.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Playlist for June 2015
This is a list of all the albums, EPs, singles, etc. that I listened to in their entirety during the month of June 2015. Afterwards are lists of things I watched, things I read, and things I saw live; notes regarding all are included with each.
MUSIC
6/1/15
Thee Oh Sees - "Mutilator, Defeated At Last"
Hermitude - "Threads"
Dress Code - "Perception" EP
Whitechapel - "Our Endless War"
Neil Young - "Decade 1966-1976" Disc 1
6/2/15
Trapt - S/T
Run The Jewels - "Bust No Moves" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "SremLife"
Celeste - "Morte(s) Nee(s)"
Coyote Kisses - "Thundercolor" EP
The Gears - "Let's Go To The Beach" 7"
Chokehold - "Content With Dying"
Alexisonfire - "Crisis"
6/3/15
Cro-Mags - "Age Of Quarrel"
Krokodil - "An Invisible World Revealed"
Violation - "Possessed" 7"
Armored Saint - "Win Hands Down"
Run The Jewels - S/T
Corners - "Maxed Out On Distractions"
Cold War Kids - "Five Quick Cuts" EP
6/4/15
Pennywise - "Full Circle"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
V/A - "Life On The Fat Lane"
Cake - "Fashion Nugget"
6/5/15
Alabama Shakes - "Sound & Color"
Thievery Corporation - "Saudade"
6/6/15
Tycho - "Awake"
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Rikk Agnew - "All By Myself"
Freddie Gibbs - "Pronto" EP
6/7/15
tUnE-yArDs - "Nikki Nack"
Namatay Sa Ingay - S/T cassette EP
Judge - "Bringin' It Down"
Vegan Reich - "Hardline" EP
Flying Lotus - "1983"
Youth Draft - Demo 2014
Atmosphere - "Southsiders"
Clayface - Demo
Slipknot - S/T
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
6/8/15
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Snoop Dogg ft. Stevie Wonder and Pharrell Williams - "California Roll" digital single
Action Bronson - "Mr. Wonderful"
DTAL - "Time to Die" EP
Underneath The Gun - "The Awakening"
6/10/15
Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Before The Ship Even Sank"
Invisibl Skratch Piklz Vs. Da Klamz Uv Deth - 12"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
6/11/15
Magda - "From The Fallen Page"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Helmet - "Betty"
6/12/15
Bold - "Speak Out"
Skrillex ft. Ellie Goulding - "Summit" digital single
Helmet - "Meantime"
Judge - "Chung King Can Suck It" LP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
!!! - "Louden Up Now"
end of the summer - "Three" EP
end of the summer - "Second" EP
6/13/15
Integrity - "Systems Overload"
6/18/15
Florence + The Machine - "Lungs"
OutKast - "Aquemini"
6/19/15
Above & Beyond - "We're All We Need"
6/20/15
Crisis Arm - "Part Time Punks Session" EP
Andrew Rayel - "Find Your Harmony"
Cardio Kazan - "The Baralax"
6/21/15
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Have A Ball"
6/22/15
Serj Tankian - "Elect The Dead"
The Used - S/T
6/23/15
Descendents - "Somery" compilation album
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Gossip - S/T EP
Breaking Benjamin - "Dark Before Dusk"
Family Force 5 - "Time Stands Still"
Robert Delong - "Long Way Down" EP
Jethro Tull - "This Was"
Minnie Driver - "The Minnie Driver Collection" EP
G-Eazy - "These Things Happen"
6/24/15
Ninos du Brasil - "Arombates NDB" b/w "Clelia Clelia" 12" single
The Cure - "Faith"
6/25/15
Hot Chip - "Why Make Sense?"
RL Grime & What So Not - "Tell Me" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder - "Holy War"
6/26/15
Deviated Instinct - "Welcome to the Orgy" EP
Big Gigantic - "Nocturnal
The Misfits - "Walk Among Us"
6/27/15
Shattered Faith - "Power to the Kids" 7"
Infest - "No Man's Slave" LP
6/28/15
The Unseen - "Lower Class Crucifixion"
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - S/T
Five Finger Death Punch - "The Way Of The Fist"
Billy Talent - "Hits"
Hypocrisy - "Inferior Devoties" EP
H2O - S/T
6/29/15
Judas Priest - "5 Souls" EP
Incendiary - "Cost Of Living" EP
By The Grace Of God - "For The Love Of Indie Rock"
6/30/15
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
Cock And Ball Torture - "Sadochismo"
Jon Hopkins - "Contact Note"
MUSIC NOTES
- Worst of the month: Rae Sremmurd, Breaking Benjamin, Family Force 5
- Rae Sremmurd is some of the absolute worst music I've ever heard and I don't understand how its popular whatsoever...They're like, children and I can't take any of their gangsterisms seriously
- Favorite 'new finds' of the month: Celeste, Krokodil, Vegan Reich, Cardio Kazan, Incendiary, Jon Hopkins
- Man those 90's Fat Wreck compilations were fuckin CRUCIAL
- "Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year."
- tUnE-yArDs is hella overrated. Same thing with Infest.
- "There will be silence..."
- Wow Vegan Reich sounds so much different than I had imagined...I mean obviously I'm not about Hardline politics but there's all sorts of bands I don't see eye to eye with that are worse than them
- I listened to that Slipknot album while loading the tracks from my latest acoustic EP onto bandcamp....Itg also includes the first song my brother Troy ever finished and recorded; check it out https://endofthesummer.bandcamp.com/album/living-situations
- The dog days are over.
- "Inconvenient, immoral people..."
- I like trance music so much better when there's no vocals...vocals ruin it like 90% of the time
- Man o man Serj Tankian is annoying
- Yes, THAT Minnie Driver
- 20 Eyes In My Head
- That Shattered Faith 7" was really disappointing
- She's lump, she's lump, she's lump, she's in my head. She might be dead.
- My god Billy Talent is fucking ANNOYING how in the hell did they manage a career much less one long enough to warrant a "Hits" album?
- "Don't forget your roots"
- Their early association with deathcore has maligned both their fanbase's opinion of them and the larger metal world's opinion of them, but I feel confident in saying that Job For A Cowboy is one of the best death metal bands operating currently
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
6/1/15: "Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive"
6/3/15: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
6/6/15: "Would You Rather?"
6/7/15: FINISHED "Mad Men" Season 1
"Dead Silence"
6/12/15: "The One I Love"
6/17/15: "Nightwatcher"
6/21/15: FINISHED "The Birthday Boys" Season 2
"Gravity"
6/22/15: FINISHED "Mad Men" Season 2
6/23/15: "Don Jon"
"Re-Animator"6/24/15: "Carl Barron: A One Ended Stick"
6/25/15: "W."
"V/H/S"
"Rodney Carrington: Laughter Is Good"
6/26/15: "A Trip To The Moon"
6/27/15: "Steve Byrne: Champion"
FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 1
6/28/15: "Hot Girls Wanted"
"Christian Finnegan: The Fun Part"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
6/29/15: "Steve Trevino: Relatable"
6/30/15: "Greenberg"
"Elon Gold: Chosen and Taken"
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC NOTES
- Between "Would You Rather?" and "Dead Silence" I think I may have watched 2 of the worst 'horror' movies ever made last month
- "Mad Men" certainly lives up to its hype ; "Orange Is The New Black" is good too but very, very unrealistic
- Jake Gyllenhaal is fucking intense in "Nightwatcher," that movie was pretty tight
- "How do I freshy???"
- Holy shit Scarlett Johansson is so goddamn hot
- Holy shit Jennifer Lawrence is so goddamn hot
BOOKS
6/22/15: FINISHED The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
LIVE
6/22/15: Empty Vessels/Happy In Hemet/Monochromancy/Orphan Cripplers @ Creep 13 Punx Safe Haus
LIVE NOTES
- I wrote a review for that singular show I went to this month, check it out http://youshouldneverhaveopenedthatdoor.blogspot.com/2015/06/show-review-empty-vesselshappy-in.html
MUSIC
6/1/15
Thee Oh Sees - "Mutilator, Defeated At Last"
Hermitude - "Threads"
Dress Code - "Perception" EP
Whitechapel - "Our Endless War"
Neil Young - "Decade 1966-1976" Disc 1
6/2/15
Trapt - S/T
Run The Jewels - "Bust No Moves" EP
Rae Sremmurd - "SremLife"
Celeste - "Morte(s) Nee(s)"
Coyote Kisses - "Thundercolor" EP
The Gears - "Let's Go To The Beach" 7"
Chokehold - "Content With Dying"
Alexisonfire - "Crisis"
6/3/15
Cro-Mags - "Age Of Quarrel"
Krokodil - "An Invisible World Revealed"
Violation - "Possessed" 7"
Armored Saint - "Win Hands Down"
Run The Jewels - S/T
Corners - "Maxed Out On Distractions"
Cold War Kids - "Five Quick Cuts" EP
6/4/15
Pennywise - "Full Circle"
The Gravitys - "Nutrition"
V/A - "Life On The Fat Lane"
Cake - "Fashion Nugget"
6/5/15
Alabama Shakes - "Sound & Color"
Thievery Corporation - "Saudade"
6/6/15
Tycho - "Awake"
Naked Raygun - "Throb Throb"
Rikk Agnew - "All By Myself"
Freddie Gibbs - "Pronto" EP
6/7/15
tUnE-yArDs - "Nikki Nack"
Namatay Sa Ingay - S/T cassette EP
Judge - "Bringin' It Down"
Vegan Reich - "Hardline" EP
Flying Lotus - "1983"
Youth Draft - Demo 2014
Atmosphere - "Southsiders"
Clayface - Demo
Slipknot - S/T
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
6/8/15
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Snoop Dogg ft. Stevie Wonder and Pharrell Williams - "California Roll" digital single
Action Bronson - "Mr. Wonderful"
DTAL - "Time to Die" EP
Underneath The Gun - "The Awakening"
6/10/15
Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Before The Ship Even Sank"
Invisibl Skratch Piklz Vs. Da Klamz Uv Deth - 12"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
6/11/15
Magda - "From The Fallen Page"
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
Helmet - "Betty"
6/12/15
Bold - "Speak Out"
Skrillex ft. Ellie Goulding - "Summit" digital single
Helmet - "Meantime"
Judge - "Chung King Can Suck It" LP
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
!!! - "Louden Up Now"
end of the summer - "Three" EP
end of the summer - "Second" EP
6/13/15
Integrity - "Systems Overload"
6/18/15
Florence + The Machine - "Lungs"
OutKast - "Aquemini"
6/19/15
Above & Beyond - "We're All We Need"
6/20/15
Crisis Arm - "Part Time Punks Session" EP
Andrew Rayel - "Find Your Harmony"
Cardio Kazan - "The Baralax"
6/21/15
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - "Have A Ball"
6/22/15
Serj Tankian - "Elect The Dead"
The Used - S/T
6/23/15
Descendents - "Somery" compilation album
end of the summer/Troy Campbell - "Living Situations" split EP
The Gossip - S/T EP
Breaking Benjamin - "Dark Before Dusk"
Family Force 5 - "Time Stands Still"
Robert Delong - "Long Way Down" EP
Jethro Tull - "This Was"
Minnie Driver - "The Minnie Driver Collection" EP
G-Eazy - "These Things Happen"
6/24/15
Ninos du Brasil - "Arombates NDB" b/w "Clelia Clelia" 12" single
The Cure - "Faith"
6/25/15
Hot Chip - "Why Make Sense?"
RL Grime & What So Not - "Tell Me" digital single
Thy Art Is Murder - "Holy War"
6/26/15
Deviated Instinct - "Welcome to the Orgy" EP
Big Gigantic - "Nocturnal
The Misfits - "Walk Among Us"
6/27/15
Shattered Faith - "Power to the Kids" 7"
Infest - "No Man's Slave" LP
6/28/15
The Unseen - "Lower Class Crucifixion"
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - S/T
Five Finger Death Punch - "The Way Of The Fist"
Billy Talent - "Hits"
Hypocrisy - "Inferior Devoties" EP
H2O - S/T
6/29/15
Judas Priest - "5 Souls" EP
Incendiary - "Cost Of Living" EP
By The Grace Of God - "For The Love Of Indie Rock"
6/30/15
Job For A Cowboy - "Sun Eater"
Cock And Ball Torture - "Sadochismo"
Jon Hopkins - "Contact Note"
MUSIC NOTES
- Worst of the month: Rae Sremmurd, Breaking Benjamin, Family Force 5
- Rae Sremmurd is some of the absolute worst music I've ever heard and I don't understand how its popular whatsoever...They're like, children and I can't take any of their gangsterisms seriously
- Favorite 'new finds' of the month: Celeste, Krokodil, Vegan Reich, Cardio Kazan, Incendiary, Jon Hopkins
- Man those 90's Fat Wreck compilations were fuckin CRUCIAL
- "Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year."
- tUnE-yArDs is hella overrated. Same thing with Infest.
- "There will be silence..."
- Wow Vegan Reich sounds so much different than I had imagined...I mean obviously I'm not about Hardline politics but there's all sorts of bands I don't see eye to eye with that are worse than them
- I listened to that Slipknot album while loading the tracks from my latest acoustic EP onto bandcamp....Itg also includes the first song my brother Troy ever finished and recorded; check it out https://endofthesummer.bandcamp.com/album/living-situations
- The dog days are over.
- "Inconvenient, immoral people..."
- I like trance music so much better when there's no vocals...vocals ruin it like 90% of the time
- Man o man Serj Tankian is annoying
- Yes, THAT Minnie Driver
- 20 Eyes In My Head
- That Shattered Faith 7" was really disappointing
- She's lump, she's lump, she's lump, she's in my head. She might be dead.
- My god Billy Talent is fucking ANNOYING how in the hell did they manage a career much less one long enough to warrant a "Hits" album?
- "Don't forget your roots"
- Their early association with deathcore has maligned both their fanbase's opinion of them and the larger metal world's opinion of them, but I feel confident in saying that Job For A Cowboy is one of the best death metal bands operating currently
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC
6/1/15: "Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive"
6/3/15: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
6/6/15: "Would You Rather?"
6/7/15: FINISHED "Mad Men" Season 1
"Dead Silence"
6/12/15: "The One I Love"
6/17/15: "Nightwatcher"
6/21/15: FINISHED "The Birthday Boys" Season 2
"Gravity"
6/22/15: FINISHED "Mad Men" Season 2
6/23/15: "Don Jon"
"Re-Animator"6/24/15: "Carl Barron: A One Ended Stick"
6/25/15: "W."
"V/H/S"
"Rodney Carrington: Laughter Is Good"
6/26/15: "A Trip To The Moon"
6/27/15: "Steve Byrne: Champion"
FINISHED "Orange Is The New Black" Season 1
6/28/15: "Hot Girls Wanted"
"Christian Finnegan: The Fun Part"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
6/29/15: "Steve Trevino: Relatable"
6/30/15: "Greenberg"
"Elon Gold: Chosen and Taken"
MOVIES/SHOWS/ETC NOTES
- Between "Would You Rather?" and "Dead Silence" I think I may have watched 2 of the worst 'horror' movies ever made last month
- "Mad Men" certainly lives up to its hype ; "Orange Is The New Black" is good too but very, very unrealistic
- Jake Gyllenhaal is fucking intense in "Nightwatcher," that movie was pretty tight
- "How do I freshy???"
- Holy shit Scarlett Johansson is so goddamn hot
- Holy shit Jennifer Lawrence is so goddamn hot
BOOKS
6/22/15: FINISHED The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
LIVE
6/22/15: Empty Vessels/Happy In Hemet/Monochromancy/Orphan Cripplers @ Creep 13 Punx Safe Haus
LIVE NOTES
- I wrote a review for that singular show I went to this month, check it out http://youshouldneverhaveopenedthatdoor.blogspot.com/2015/06/show-review-empty-vesselshappy-in.html
Saturday, June 27, 2015
SHOW REVIEW: Empty Vessels/Happy In Hemet/Monochromancy/Orphan Cripplers @ Creep 13 Punx Safe Haus 6/22/15
This was a spur-of-the-moment show for me; I had seen the flyer on Bean's FB page, noticed it was a free show and that they'd be coming my way as they headed from from Hemet to Escondido, and tossed out the suggestion that he and Viv pick me up while en route despite the fact that I had no gas money. I didn't really expect them to take me up on it but to my surprise they were down and around 7:45 they picked me up from my apartment. The ride down to Esco was pretty chill, listening to grunge (including a Nirvana song I'd somehow never heard before) and although Bean's GPS was a bit off and we had to backtrack a few miles we still got there before the first band was set up.Upon arrival Bean downed his only beer and I had some vodka shots; they played me one of the songs from their upcoming EP and it was good stuff, although the snare drum and bass guitar tracks need to be raised.
I needed to use the bathroom so we got out and awkwardly approached the house. It was a one-story pad that seemed to just spill out organically onto the patio where there were a few circles of punks hanging out. There was also a fire-pit across the driveway where some more people were chilling, and I asked an obviously-drunk dude with a goatee where the bathroom was. He guided me down a hallway to what appeared to be the only bathroom in the small house, next to the kitchen. The guy was a bit older than anybody else there and was like the kind of former-skater punk type who's still gnar'd out even though his knees probably aren't what they used to be, and by skate-punk I mean more Smut Peddlers/Dr. Know than Pennywise/Guttermouth. You know the type. I think it may have been his house but I don't think we ever really confirmed who was actually hosting this show.
The first band was a group called Orphan Cripplers, a 3-piece grind-punk band that didn't do much for me but weren't entirely terrible either. They had a couple pointlessly short songs, as bands of this ilk are wont to have, but they managed to mix up the tempo between circle-pit/D-beat thrash to slower quasi-breakdowns enough to keep it from being boring. A bigger guy was trying to get a pit started the whole set and I guess my headbanging indicated that I was down for that cuz he kept trying to put his arm around my shoulder to bring me into his imaginary circle but wasn't all butt-hurt when I politely resisted. A couple kids did eventually slam with him.
After the set Bean & Viv went to get some more beer because they hadn't brought nearly enough alcohol to sustain a punk house show, so I snaked my way into a circle with some of the kids who had been dancing during Orphan Cripplers. They were all younger than me, I wanna say probably around 20 years old, so they were full of enthusiasm and jokes and friendly vibes. They were based around a small keg of Stone beer as well so that sealed the deal. All they had were small Styrofoam cups and the beer was a bit foamy but some dude looked at me and was like, 'help yourself man!' and it was much appreciated. I introduced myself to some girl named Ari who apparently does the booking for these shows before Java showed up and we started chatting it up. Also during this juncture that bigger mosh guy came up to me and introduced himself - his name is Jimmy. I explained that my leg was hurt and that's why I wasn't trying to get too rowdy (which was a half-truth) and he was like, 'it's all good man!' Drunk Skate Guy came out of the house and said something along the lines of 'come inside and watch Monochromancy! I just learned a new word!"
Monochromancy is a dude doing abstract dark soundscapes on his electric guitar; I'm not very well-versed in this type of stuff although I generally like it, but for that reason I don't really describe it too well. My first thought is that it's like my buddy Doug's project Light Light but far heavier and thrashier. Homie was really killing those strings, I can't believe he didn't break anything with how hard he was strumming. Again, I don't really understand sound manipulation or pedals or guitar FX pretty much at all so my commentary here is limited in that regard, but it was a cool set and the dude was nice when I talked to him afterward.
Happy In Hemet was up next and I stood around inside the house as they set up their stuff. I always wanna help people set up and break down their equipment so as to be of some kind of assistance, but even in my own band I feel like I'm just getting in the way. They did, however, specifically ask me to set up the baby heads around them when the amps were ready, to which I gladly obliged. If you've never seen Happy In Hemet (formerly Beanvian Stalks Guava) they have a sort-of schtick where they surround their performance area with mannequin heads adorned with baby-face masks so as to create a surreally creepy aura around them. I made sure to put one above the TV stand next to Viv's set-up so it looked like it was peering down ominously on the crowd.
The band played a great set; I've seen this group many, many times over the last few years and this one of the tightest sets I've seen from them. They had mentioned that they've been practicing a lot more often lately and it shows. Also, they seem to have a number of new songs - or at least, new to me. Bean was very concerned about the levels of the various amps but it all sounded good and the crowd reacted very positively. Happy In Hemet have a very unique style and for the most part they stand out from whoever else they play with, and tonight they definitely built excitement where before there was just a somewhat by-the-numbers punk show. People were feeling the weirdness. People were getting Happy. Towards the end of the set Bean encouraged the kids in the crowd to put on the baby-face masks, a request duly met as masks were thrown into the pit.
A big part of what made this show dope was that although everybody was punked out and halfway-if-not-more-drunk, there weren't any assholes, everybody was real cool. Even though me and the Hemet crew were the odd men out and everyone else seemed to already know each other, people were hella friendly and encouraged us to start coming to shows there more often. I think I might do as such.
The last band of the night was Empty Vessels, a 2-piece hardcore band on tour from Connecticut. For some reason I expected them to be, like, youth-crew HC or something but it was more along the lines of Deathwish technical heavy hardcore. Maybe its just lumping them together because they both have a female guitarist/vocalist but I got a Code Orange vibe during their set. There were some very interesting time changes and well-executed off-kilter fills throughout the set; the only problem was that the vocals were pretty much inaudible. Both the drummer and the guitarist were screaming their heads off but the music was so loud it was impossible to hear anything they said. All in all it was a good set though.
After the show was done I lingered outside next to a tree where I had hung my backpack. Bean & Viv had left a few songs into Empty Vessels' set so I was waiting on Java , who bought a CD from the guitarist girl. I think her name was Allison. I asked if she'd be down for a short interview but she sad she wanted to wait for her drummer, which was understandable. Jimmy & some other kid who were cleaning up accidentally dropped a glass bottle in between where Java's car was parked and where we needed to drive so we waited for them to clean it up. The drummer guy was taking forever and I really only had basic, rudimentary questions anyway so I nixed the interview idea and we said bye to everybody. On the way home we listened to the CD Java had bought and it seemed like a real quick drive. When I got home I put on the Descendents and went to sleep.
I needed to use the bathroom so we got out and awkwardly approached the house. It was a one-story pad that seemed to just spill out organically onto the patio where there were a few circles of punks hanging out. There was also a fire-pit across the driveway where some more people were chilling, and I asked an obviously-drunk dude with a goatee where the bathroom was. He guided me down a hallway to what appeared to be the only bathroom in the small house, next to the kitchen. The guy was a bit older than anybody else there and was like the kind of former-skater punk type who's still gnar'd out even though his knees probably aren't what they used to be, and by skate-punk I mean more Smut Peddlers/Dr. Know than Pennywise/Guttermouth. You know the type. I think it may have been his house but I don't think we ever really confirmed who was actually hosting this show.
The first band was a group called Orphan Cripplers, a 3-piece grind-punk band that didn't do much for me but weren't entirely terrible either. They had a couple pointlessly short songs, as bands of this ilk are wont to have, but they managed to mix up the tempo between circle-pit/D-beat thrash to slower quasi-breakdowns enough to keep it from being boring. A bigger guy was trying to get a pit started the whole set and I guess my headbanging indicated that I was down for that cuz he kept trying to put his arm around my shoulder to bring me into his imaginary circle but wasn't all butt-hurt when I politely resisted. A couple kids did eventually slam with him.
After the set Bean & Viv went to get some more beer because they hadn't brought nearly enough alcohol to sustain a punk house show, so I snaked my way into a circle with some of the kids who had been dancing during Orphan Cripplers. They were all younger than me, I wanna say probably around 20 years old, so they were full of enthusiasm and jokes and friendly vibes. They were based around a small keg of Stone beer as well so that sealed the deal. All they had were small Styrofoam cups and the beer was a bit foamy but some dude looked at me and was like, 'help yourself man!' and it was much appreciated. I introduced myself to some girl named Ari who apparently does the booking for these shows before Java showed up and we started chatting it up. Also during this juncture that bigger mosh guy came up to me and introduced himself - his name is Jimmy. I explained that my leg was hurt and that's why I wasn't trying to get too rowdy (which was a half-truth) and he was like, 'it's all good man!' Drunk Skate Guy came out of the house and said something along the lines of 'come inside and watch Monochromancy! I just learned a new word!"
Monochromancy is a dude doing abstract dark soundscapes on his electric guitar; I'm not very well-versed in this type of stuff although I generally like it, but for that reason I don't really describe it too well. My first thought is that it's like my buddy Doug's project Light Light but far heavier and thrashier. Homie was really killing those strings, I can't believe he didn't break anything with how hard he was strumming. Again, I don't really understand sound manipulation or pedals or guitar FX pretty much at all so my commentary here is limited in that regard, but it was a cool set and the dude was nice when I talked to him afterward.Happy In Hemet was up next and I stood around inside the house as they set up their stuff. I always wanna help people set up and break down their equipment so as to be of some kind of assistance, but even in my own band I feel like I'm just getting in the way. They did, however, specifically ask me to set up the baby heads around them when the amps were ready, to which I gladly obliged. If you've never seen Happy In Hemet (formerly Beanvian Stalks Guava) they have a sort-of schtick where they surround their performance area with mannequin heads adorned with baby-face masks so as to create a surreally creepy aura around them. I made sure to put one above the TV stand next to Viv's set-up so it looked like it was peering down ominously on the crowd.
The band played a great set; I've seen this group many, many times over the last few years and this one of the tightest sets I've seen from them. They had mentioned that they've been practicing a lot more often lately and it shows. Also, they seem to have a number of new songs - or at least, new to me. Bean was very concerned about the levels of the various amps but it all sounded good and the crowd reacted very positively. Happy In Hemet have a very unique style and for the most part they stand out from whoever else they play with, and tonight they definitely built excitement where before there was just a somewhat by-the-numbers punk show. People were feeling the weirdness. People were getting Happy. Towards the end of the set Bean encouraged the kids in the crowd to put on the baby-face masks, a request duly met as masks were thrown into the pit.
A big part of what made this show dope was that although everybody was punked out and halfway-if-not-more-drunk, there weren't any assholes, everybody was real cool. Even though me and the Hemet crew were the odd men out and everyone else seemed to already know each other, people were hella friendly and encouraged us to start coming to shows there more often. I think I might do as such.The last band of the night was Empty Vessels, a 2-piece hardcore band on tour from Connecticut. For some reason I expected them to be, like, youth-crew HC or something but it was more along the lines of Deathwish technical heavy hardcore. Maybe its just lumping them together because they both have a female guitarist/vocalist but I got a Code Orange vibe during their set. There were some very interesting time changes and well-executed off-kilter fills throughout the set; the only problem was that the vocals were pretty much inaudible. Both the drummer and the guitarist were screaming their heads off but the music was so loud it was impossible to hear anything they said. All in all it was a good set though.
After the show was done I lingered outside next to a tree where I had hung my backpack. Bean & Viv had left a few songs into Empty Vessels' set so I was waiting on Java , who bought a CD from the guitarist girl. I think her name was Allison. I asked if she'd be down for a short interview but she sad she wanted to wait for her drummer, which was understandable. Jimmy & some other kid who were cleaning up accidentally dropped a glass bottle in between where Java's car was parked and where we needed to drive so we waited for them to clean it up. The drummer guy was taking forever and I really only had basic, rudimentary questions anyway so I nixed the interview idea and we said bye to everybody. On the way home we listened to the CD Java had bought and it seemed like a real quick drive. When I got home I put on the Descendents and went to sleep.
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