Music
- unrated
- 4-star and not played in a year
- 5-star and not played in the last two weeks
- Heavy Metal is one of the lightest genres of metal music.
- shoegaze: more boring than alternative rock
- blackgaze: less boring than black metal
- deathgaze: same interest as death metal, just different vibes
- Ishome - Eva
- Submotion Orchestra - Angel Eyes
- Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
- Clubroot - Low Pressure Zone
- Synkro - Acceptance
🎶 it’s “industrial rock” not “noise rock”
Get off my (rivet) lawn!
🎶 new shuffle playlist:
🎶 Listening to Hum’s “You’d Prefer to Be an Astronaut” album and I keep thinking “how were you making post-hardcore way back in 1994?”
🎶 Got to see American Arson for the first time today. The duo was great and Evan Baker (singer/guitarist) seemed to be having a ton of fun and was gracious with the audience. They encouraged a singalong to “Hammer & Gavel”, which I happily obliged.
Talked to Jesse Gentry (drummer) before the show. Got a non-black shirt (yay!). Also chatted about Rise & Fall which is their only release that one can’t get right now, except as a cassette. (The rest are available on Bandcamp or the Facedown Records site.)
He mentioned they are talking to Facedown about maybe re-recording that and some other material!
🎶 May artists report:
#1 American Arson
#2 Demon Hunter
#3 Front Line Assembly
#4 Zao
#5 Juno Reactor
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Listening to Umbilical feels like smiling while getting your teeth kicked in, because you know how much work it took for the assailant to get so strong.
Making Sense of Thou’s Messy Metal Discography | Bandcamp Daily
🎶 Since starting to track 5⭐️ albums, these are my first 9.
I promise there will be some that are other genres!
5⭐️ albums are ones you are happy to listen to straight through without ever wanting to skip a track.
🎶 There’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings, and then there’s “heck yes I’m so excited this came on”, so I started making a…like…six star playlist…for whenever that happens.
🎶 Discuss amongst yourselves:
🎶 Also, puzzle me this:
🎶 Listening to this track from Dawn Treader and really thought it was Kardashev. It was not. Time to check them out.
🎶 new genre just dropped
Spouse:
‘Noise Unit’: another one of Toddy’s nicknames
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🎶 I’m coming to it late, but I’m really enjoying American Arson.
🎶 I’m slowly migrating my music to lossless (ALAC) by re-ripping our CDs, re-downloading bandcamp, and re-downloading better files from iTunes and Amazon (where available).
I’m carrying over my ratings from iTunes and Plex and then prioritizing listening to 5-start tracks and unrated items. It has me thinking about my rating system again. It’s now something like:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I want to hear this again soon
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Happy to have this show up on a plalist, shuffle, DJ-mode, album, etc.
⭐️⭐️⭐️: Hrm, not sure if this is a good one for me
⭐️⭐️: I don’t really want to hear this
⭐️: Why do I even own this?
Pictured is my “shuffle” playlist, to which I often apply “DJ Stretch” from PlexAmp’s “Guest DJ” modes.
Finally reading the namesake of the band that adorns so many of my t-shirts: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis 📚🎶
🎶 Ok, let’s say I like Propaghandi and Rise Against and hardcore punk (esp. at the metalcore end of the spectrum), but find a lot of punk (esp. pop punk) to be vapid. What should I check out?
🎶 Ridehail had a giant speaker in shotgun and an iPad for DJing. Had some triphop and dub stuff going, so here’s where I took it:
Driver cranked it!