Showing posts with label not starbucks approved. Show all posts
Showing posts with label not starbucks approved. Show all posts

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Like a G6


like a g6 g6 now i'm feeling so fly like a g6

Look, if you don't like this, I don't care. Party jam 2k10.


Ps, I really actually like comments. Let me know what you think of ANYTHING

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

oh god



I'm sorry, it's just really good.

Monday, August 9, 2010

The South Park Movie Soundtrack


you are not above this

Don't think too much about it. We all know every single word. I've been kinda busy lately with work and being out of town and trying to deal with everyone hating me, and I guess this kinda helps. I find that I'm returning to cartoons again after a long period of thinking I was too old for them or something. Which is stupid. I lost all my friends, I started watching the Simpsons again. I started working, lost everyone close to me, I started watching South Park again. I did this same thing in 8th grade. It's like I had my friends all along, they were just on at 10 on Comedy Central. It makes me feel like I have people I know and care about without actually... I don't know. I have to go to work now.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Confide - Recover


I told you that this was coming.

I don't have words anymore but this is a good album and I'm surprised at how it stands up to Shout The Truth. It's got more singing and less god, but I'm still enjoying it upon listening. It's good car music. The screaming is lower pitched, more stereotypical hardcore, I think they stole a couple of breakdowns from other bands, but it works for them. This reminds me of A Day To Remember's For Those Who Have Heart, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. That's about all I've got.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Versaemerge - Cities Built On Sand

Hold on, hold on. I know what you're thinking - versaemerge? Like that one band with the vocalist like the girl from paramore?
No. I fucking hate Sierra. I miss spencer and anthony and blake. These guys were my friends three years ago, and now the fame has gone to their head because they can put out a fueled by ramen endorsed album. Or whatever the fuck they're on.
Anyway. This isn't the time for me to be bitter.

A different suffix every page of us

This is good post-hardcore, straight out of '07, when post-hardcore was thriving and had fucking wonderful things going for it. MALE VOCALS ONLY (thank god, chicks don't BELONG IN THIS) and it's fucking fantastic. Sounds like if sparks the rescue had a baby with before their eyes - and if you know either of those bands, you really probably don't hate them and want this now. I bet you're drooling a little, this is seriously like a big deal omg before they had a cunt sing for them! Better lyrics, better music, no fake production bullshit. This EP only has like 50 scrobbles on last.fm, too.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Boxcutter - Glyphic

Alright, it's late, I had the worst night of sleep ever last night, I haven't even TRIED for bed tonight, and I'm working on figuring out this blackberry thing (my PIN is 31EC2CE4 for you blackberry readers who want to have a conversation or something) but I digress

Download this right now

Holy god damn this album is one you CAN indeed judge by the art. Look at it! This album is perfect for the things depicted, if you catch where I'm going with this. It's dirty dubstep/ambient/experimental. Perfect for dancing, drinking, staying up all night, relaxing, and just being carefree. It's a summer party soundtrack of sorts. If your friends like filth (and they should).

Friday, July 2, 2010

letlive - fake history

Oh god this album is goooooooooood. I haven't gone to bed yet (sleep is a joke, I can sleep when I die) and it's giving me enough energy to bounce around and nod along. You want catchy? You got it.


If we are the faithful living, then we are the grateful dead.


Best post-hardcore release of 2010, I'm calling it right now. Full of riffs, angry chords, lots of yelling, and then catchy group yells, it's going to get stuck in your head, and put in constant rotation in your car. It's like Glassjaw had a baby with... Four Year Strong. Yeah. But it's much better than that. The vocals are higher pitched, there's no low yelling in this (thank GOD), but it's high-energy, catchy, and probably my favorite post-hardcore record of the year. You're going to get MAD HARDCORE cred for this, (1.5k listeners on last.fm) and you will fall in love. A bit political, but that's what makes it so damn good. The singing sort of reminds me of early A Skylit Drive in places, but it's more melodic, a bit more experimental (is that some funk influence I hear on Muther? I THINK IT IS) Oh, and lower pitched. The main difference is that this is full of soul, compared to dead singing. The lyrics are better, make more sense, and really, really just seem to be perfect. Don't let that comparison turn you off, this album is better than I'm making it sound.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Motion City Sountrack - Commit This To Memory

Oh, this album.

Is it legal to do this? I surely don't know.

This album is fantastic. I don't care it's pop punk. It's got all the pure teenage angst an album could ever offer (I'm looking at you, LGFUAD) and lovely adolescent synths. Upbeat and poppy, yet so hopelessly fucking depressing in places. The lyrics can be cynical, regretful (Make Out Kids), kind of silly and anxious (Everything is Alright) and even a bit depressing (Feel Like Rain). It's one of those albums you can listen to and be upset and happy and feel a bit anxious at the same time. You can sing along and know every word and spend all summer blaring it out of your car and just fucking yelling along. It's so teenage, so true, and just a perfect summer soundtrack. And if you're a proper human being, you'll get this not only because of what I just said, but also the sick nostalgia that comes along with it. You know you loved this album. And if you didn't, now's your chance.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Saves The Day - Stay What You Are

I am going out of town until like the 18th (I'm going to Austin, bitches) and I really don't feel like posting from out of town.

Get this, okay?


I don't care Saves The Day isn't really super indie. They are the best pop punk band to ever exist. This album is my favorite - I know all the words, I blast the fuck out of it in my car, and really, if I was stranded on a deserted island, this would be one of the three albums I would bring and listen to forever and never ever get tired of. This came out in 2001, and moves away from their original direction, and got them a lot of recognition. It's catchy and wonderful and it's something you will never get tired of singing out. They're honest lyrics, kind of sad, and Chris Conley has the best/whiny voice you'll ever hear, and you probably can't help but fall in love with them. He's been around since '94 with them, and he better never change. Old-school pop punk - you need this, and I promise you will fall in love with it.

Monday, June 7, 2010

drop dead, gorgeous - worse than a fairy tale

I'm going back to my roots.

The lyrics on this, as angsty and pathetically screamed like Danny Stillman would die if he didn't get them out, are not the most intricate thing. Drop Dead, Gorgeous isn't even unheard of. But you know what? They are not okay and they are okay with knowing that, and they channel it into pure, pure heartbroken and angry sound. If you can get over their obsession with being a blood brothers sounding band (because they will never be as good, but they can still try) then you might enjoy this just as much as I do. Honestly? They are the soundtrack to driving around at night when you're all shook up and just need something to scream at the steering wheel and feel completely alone and like you're the only one who's ever been where you are, and you're the only one who can honestly feel as bad as you feel.
we all have something to scream about.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Every Day and Every Night EP by Bright Eyes (and comics about ethan being sad)


There are a few records out there that are made of concentrated sadness. There is "I See a Darkness" by the legend Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, there is "Alopecia" by the indie-rock/hip-hop group Why?, there's obviously "Nebraska" by the Boss, and then there's this. This is Bright Eyes before he had all the funding and support and notability. This is Bright Eyes at a point where Bright Eyes didn't matter, and it shows. This record shines through with dissonant country, ominous ballads, and a closer that feels like the musical equivalent of throwing up alcohol. Conor's wavering voice guides you through a journey into 21 minutes of his diary. Musings on every lost love, and every urge to cry, and every day wasted on a three minute poem that's gonna mean something to someone. If I had to choose between a very good sandwich and this EP, I would choose the EP. That's a major selling point.


(in case you were wondering if there's a comic for this album, here)

Sunday, May 23, 2010

"A New White" by Subtle


There's this kid in my choir, his name is Eric. I think his favorite genres are techno and nu-metal. He'll constantly sneak away to stick his headphones into the computer and listen to the techno viking or whatever. (I had to google it to even know what he was on about, turns out it's terrible.) He'll be back there pumpin' up the bass and listenin' to the chugga chugga choo choo for an hour and a half, lost in his own little world. He once asked me what my favorite band was, and I replied "Henry Bemis is a Superhero". He gave me a weird look and asked, "What genre do they play?" Fumbling around my own mistake of a conversation, I said, "Uhm... I don't really know. Folky screamo?" His next question will remain with me to the ends of the Earth.

"Are they heavy?"

I then realized that he is everything I hate about music. The insincerity, the mass-marketed media, the unbelievably expensive concerts and albums for a band that hates you and a show that is just loud and nothing else. Eric is an idiot. (And I showed him Burzum once and he thought it was great.)

In complete retaliation to the points I just made, there is this album. "A New White" by Subtle is a post-hip-hop glitch nasalcore dream. It's a concept album of a future destroyed by humans, while we learn to live in the waste we created. It's beautiful, it's ambient, it's unknown as hell. Doseone is up in this bitch, spittin' some mean ass rhymes. The production is something we all love anticon for. The songs are made of honey and razors. Do you want to die saying you've never put honey and razors into your ears?

Is it heavy?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Swing Kids

DA DA DA DA DA DIE DIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEIDCDIEIDIEIDIEIDIE!
mediafire, DIE

It's cool to like '90s powerviolence/emo. Just shut the fuck up, download, and jam the shit out. Blue Note may be my favorite pissed off angry song of all time. It's good for killing Zombies or something to. I'm too lazy and jamming the fuck out too hard to write even a decent post for this, but you need it.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Lone Justice by Lone Justice

As of the instant that I am writing this, I have not decided what to post. I figure I should post something. It's just been one of Those Days, yknow? All day long I was giving this presentation, and I tell you what: Saying the same monologue over 16 times is terrible work. It's something I could not do.

Oh! I know something.


This is an album my good friend Riley showed me. It's country/punk/awesome. I don't know what else to say except that I am playing guitar while Riley sings Don't Toss Us Away for a vocal recital. I also bought this on vinyl. So that is something.

It's been a long day. I'm going to go lay down, finish Catcher in the Rye and then dream of somewhere far far far far away. Howabout while I do that, you listen to this.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

"Razia's Shadow: A Musical" by Forgive Durden (2008)


Somewhere out there right now, there is a 13 year old girl who has just learned about this album by searching through Panic at the Disco's wikipedia. Her eyes reflect off the screen a pale white, full of excitement and fear and wanting. She grasps at the screen, she tears at her scalp, "I want it!" she cries. She runs down to daddy, who has bought her everything from an Alice in Wonderland sweatshirt to the zebra stripes in her hair. I can only hope that this time, this time... he slaps her in the face.

All of that aside, this is a tremendous album. Do you like pop-punk (a little)? Do you like musicals (i guess across the universe was okay)? Just get this. I don't know what else to say.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Sleigh Bells - Treats

Holy shit, this is so fantastic. You may have already heard of them (get off of /mu/), but this is their debut lp.

get it, mediafire

Mixing indie female vox with abrasive guitars and some legit as shit beats, this comes close to defining new genres of music (read: dreamcrunk). It might be a little too annoyingly loud and poppy to play in Starbucks, but if you're driving around in your bright red or some other annoyingly bright colored piece of shit with the go green stickers on the back, and the windows all rolled down, this is your jam. It's sort of grimy hiphop/loud riffs/dreamy indie voice/some synths/some sick beats mixed on in. It's just hip-hoppy enough to work, but just indie enough that you won't lose any cred. it's a summertime favorite, party music, and shit, just get drunk and pretend to dance around to this, it's an experience every (true) hipster has already had - what are you waiting on?

Monday, May 10, 2010

oOoOO - No Summr4U

I'm back, in full swing, and I can't stop listening to witch house , so look forward to a lot of shit you've never heard of being posted.

And so, I present to you:

mediafire.


oOooO is fucking amazing. there's this new movement sort of starting called witch house, and it's got all sorts of okkvlt shit going on in it. think that awesome video in the ring (come on, you fucking saw it) only in music form, and shoegaze-y. It's aalllll about taking that shit you were comfortable with and making it ethereal, and deeper than you can handle. if you don't get it, well, it's still trippy shit, so next time you smoke off some pbr can (to be ironic lul) and afterwards, you're smokin' your blacks, well, throw this on, and watch you and all two of your ironic friends trip shit.

just get it, faggots.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

stay cold

this is music for a bad/angry night.

mediafire.


shut up, you like hardcore and you fucking know it. you go to the shows to take pictures and shit. i don't have it in me right now to give a legit post. just download this.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Remeber that Rapper from that Gorillaz Song?



I think I first heard this man rap way back when the Gorillaz first came out with their "Clint Eastwood" music video. Hell, I remember even being able spout out the lyrics to that song on command. His voice, flow, and style was so laid back, but all I knew him as was a ghost in the music video.

Fast forward to about 7 or so years later, and I find myself going back to hip-hop with a feeling that I missed out on something. I started listening to old, less popular stuff, and then I came across Del the Funky Homosapian's album, "I Wish My Brother George Was Here."

Here is a link to get it:

CLICK HERE!

Anyways, his music is fun, his lyrics are interesting, and he is very relaxing and chill to listen too. Get this album, sit around on your front porch with a beer, and just chill out.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Idiot Pilot - Wolves

It must be your birthday, because I'm posting yet a third album today for your semi-enjoyment. You will like this album, if you don't, it's a case of too deep for you, and you should probably just kill yourself now, because you can't handle experimental genre crossovers.


Mediafire


Idiot Pilot's second album, Wolves, is full of strange experimenting. They're a post-hardcore duo, but they also throw in some weird beats, some fucking electronic bullshit that makes you feel just at home, 'cause it sounds like animal collective, and some crazy awesome buildups into some sweet-ass tunes that are in your face walls of noise and vocals that at times are reminiscent of Thom Yorke - and then suddenly, you're hearing screams that you could swear were from Fear Before's Odd How People Shake album, or hell, even The Blood Brother's Crimes at some points. While your brain is trying to process just where the hell those screams came from, the track switches, and you just hear some fantastic electronic noises, and you're starting to wonder if maybe you clicked on a different album while you were musically flailing to describe some of this. This album is sort of a roller-coaster of heavy and hard like the time you stretched your ears too fast, to soft and calm like you're listening to a slowcore album. Suddenly you're upside down and oh shit you forgot to fasten your safety harness oh god what is going on...shit, this is like the time you tripped while listening to some animal collective and you almost and then oh wait - you're righted again and everything is well. Hey, this is kind of calm, maybe some of this is okay. Don't let your friends know you're listening to this, or shit, they might disown you for listening to the shit that they "used to listen to" when they were "scene as fuck". (Ps: they still listen to it.)

Enjoy the coaster. Try not to fall out. You might hit the wall (of sexy ass noise)