8 posts tagged “music”
108 - A New Beat from a Dead Heart
http://www.weare108.com/
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus
http://www.goremageddon.be
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
http://www.arcadefire.com
Battles - Mirrored
http://bttls.com
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
htttp://www.betweentheburiedandme.com
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
http://www.cephaliccarnage.net/
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
http://circasurvive.com
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
http://www.darkesthour.cc/
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
http://myspace.com/13372776
Hopesfall - Magnetic North
http://hopesfall.com
The Locust - New Erections
http://thelocust.com
Low - Drums & Guns
http://chairkickers.com
Modern Life is War - Midnight In America
http://www.modernlifeiswar.net
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
http://modestmouse.com
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel
http://itsnumber12time.com
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
http://theoxbow.com
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
http://myspace.com/therealpigdestroyer
Pelican - City of Echoes
http://pelicansong.com
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
http://porcupinetree.com
Radiohead - In Rainbows
http://www.radiohead.com
Swallow the Sun - Hope
http;//swallowthesun.net
Tomahawk - Anonymous
http://ipecac.com
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omnscient
http://hevydevy.com
Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor
http://myspace.com/trapthem
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Best Miscellaneous Releases
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Thursday - Kill the House Lights
http://www.thursday.net
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
http://www.opeth.com
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More to come as I buy more records/more records are released...
Okay, so I've been off from school for two weeks and I'm not really sure where it all went...but I start my sixth straight semester tomorrow. The schedule is pretty rough and here's how it looks:
Monday
Sever Side Scripting | 4:00 - 7:10pTuesday
Interactive Project Management | 12:30 - 3:40p
Principles of Digital Still Photography | 4:00 - 7:10p
Wednesday
Computer Animation | 9:00 - 12:10p
Thursday
Physical Science in Visual Technology | 9:00 - 11:50a
Friday
Physical Science in Visual Technology: Labs | 12:30 - 1:30p
So that's intense...five days a week. But I didn't have much of a choice considering I submitted my schedule seriously last minute.
What's more intense? Here's this week's schedule starting tonight -
Sunday
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15aMonday
Sever Side Scripting | 4:00 - 7:10p
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15aTuesday
Interactive Project Management | 12:30 - 3:40p
Principles of Digital Still Photography | 4:00 - 7:10p
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15aWednesday
Computer Animation | 9:00 - 12:10p
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15aThursday
Physical Science in Visual Technology | 9:00 - 11:50a
Pretty Girls Makes Graves (final show @ The Middle East) | 7:00pFriday
Physical Science in Visual Technology: Labs | 12:30 - 1:30p
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15aSaturday
Relay for Life Walk | Sometime - 6:00pSunday
Starbucks Overnight | 11:15 - 5:15a
Gah!
Other updates...
I launched a micro-version of my site, Pelagic Information Design
I just launched a site for a Cornetta-Brown Associates
I gouged a good chunk of my thumb out at Starbucks...
I picked up the original Converge demo tape...
I'm getting closer to finishing my two books...
I got my car fixed (brakes/exhaust...$676), but my lucky frog melted in the hot sun...
And I'm constantly half asleep, yay!...
And aside from playing the part of a secret agent, life's been good.
That's all...until next time.
Well, this should be interesting.
Sunday: working overnight
Monday: no school (President's Day) / working overnight
Tuesday: class
Wednesday: class / working overnight
Thursday: classes / working overnight
Friday: working overnight
Saturday: off...kind of
Sunday: working overnight
I've been listening to the new Blackfield album (Amazon) a lot recently, and I can't really decide how I feel about it. It has some really great tracks, but the lyrics got a lot worse. I mean, they weren't great to begin with, but they got very break-up/angsty pop. From "They said you're in love again, and I try to hide my pain" to "When you were a boy, you had no place inside your parent's world. You were falling like the leaves from an old and dying tree." It just kind of ruins the experience, mainly because the music is so great. Really depressing, but a few lines just really irk me. I have no problem with depressing lyrics, but the simple rhymes and the "A thousand people yell, shouting my name..but I want to die in this moment. I want to die." make it a little disappointing.
Nonetheless, Newbury Comics is offering signed booklets with the pre-order, so I went for it.
I mean, it's still a solid 6.5 - 7 out of 10. Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen are a great team, and they make some really awesome tracks. I'm not sure if I'm going to catch the show March 18th, but it's possible.
Anyways, aside from that...
Current Playlist:
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Converge - everything
Jesu - Conqueror
The Power & The Glory - Call Me Armaggeddon
Swallow the Sun - Ghosts of Lost
Scott Walker - The Drift
I've got a lot of projects coming up, school- and design-wise. Including...
- Paleosol artwork/logo/website design (both a personal and a school project...a very involved one, at that)
- Campaign Base website design
- Template design for Campaign Base
- a few random things for Cornell Alumni
- Charles River Web Connections website redesign
- Massachusetts Motorcycle Association logo/website redesign
- Cornetta-Brown & Associates website redesign
- Jacobs Rosenberg, LLC website redesign
- Information Architecture mid-term & final / Studying for Oceanography test / Geometry mid-term (damn me needing math credits), Abnormal Psych mid-term
- Pelagic ID website redesign (the least of my worries...I'll get to it when I do)
So yeah, I've got a busy couple of months ahead of me. If there was any point to learn time management, this would be it.
I finally got Kindom Cold launched, which felt good. While certainly not the most involved site I've worked on, it was for a cool cat who does some great work. And he said specifically he wanted a very simple logo/site. Works for me.
That's about all for now, I just got back from a birthday lunch with my grandmother and now I'm off to see Kristen
before work tonight.
Cheers.
...wow. Just a random search and I found her. Guiness World Records for highest recorded note.
I went on a bit of a CD-purchase binge the past three days. I've been meaning to pick up the majority of these for quite some time (hell, I've needed to replace my scratched Lightning Bolt and Sigh CDs since who the hell knows when, and some of these I have burned for wayyy too long, way past my six month rule)...others were just spur of the moment decisions.
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed "PCP Torpedo/ANbRX"
- Air Conditioning "Weakness"
- Fahir Atakoglu "If"
- The Black Dahlia Murder "Miasma"
- The Black Dahlia Murder "Unhallowed"
- The Blood Brothers "Crimes"
- Bucket Full of Teeth "IV"
- A Day in Black and White "Notes"
- Denali "The Instinct"
- Downpour "No Lie Can Live Forever"
- ElDopa "The Complete Recordings"
- Gospel "The Moon is a Dead World"
- Growing "His Return"
- Gwar "Beyond Hell"
- Hellchild "Bareskin"
- His Hero is Gone "15 Counts of Arson"
- Lightning Bolt "Ride the Skies"
- Lightning Bolt "Wonderful Rainbow"
- Nine "Death is Glorious"
- Nine "Killing Angels"
- One Dead Three Wounded "Paint the Town"
- Shikari "1999 - 2003"
- Sigh "Imaginary Soundscapes"
- Standstill "The Ionic Spell"
- Themselves "Them"
- Transistor Transistor "Erase All Name & Likeness"
- Transistor Transistor/Wolves - split
- A Trillion Barnacle Lapse "Elemental Gearbot"
I have sooooooooooo many more CDs to get, I just need to wait until I get some extra cash.
Two good friends of mine, Tony Jannotta and Nick Bellavance, have posted some of their tunes up on this wonderful Interweb. Sadly, they put up a lot of the work as .wav files which, while great sound quality, will take a long ass time to load.
But whatever -
Rock it: The Apprehensive Approach
P.S. They put a space up for me on there, but I doubt that will have anything for quite some time.
As of late, I've been trying to come up with a favorite CD list of 2006. It's been rough...mostly because there is still so much I haven't heard this year that I've been meaning to...but that's pretty much why "Best of..." lists never make sense. Oh well.
Candidates (I'm sure more will be added / subtracted)
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- AFX - Chosen Lords
- Blood Brothers, The - Young Machetes
- Cannibal Corpse - Kill
- Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe
- Converge - No Heroes
- Cursive - Happy Hollow
- Dead Hearts - Bitter Verses
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
- Dir En Grey - Withering to Death
- Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
- Ihsahn - The Adversary
- Isis - In the Absence of Truth
- Jesu - Silver EP
- Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
- Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone in Copper Tongues
- Mars Volta, The - Amputechture
- Mastodon - Blood Mountain
- Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
- mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
- Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
- Mogwai - Mr. Beast
- Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
- Norma Jean - Redeemer
- Novembre - Materia
- Paatos - Silence of Another Kind
- Peeping Tom - s/t
- Planes Mistaken for Stars - Mercy
- Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
- Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion
- Saosin - s/t
- Scissorfight - Juggernaut
- Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
- Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
- This is Hell - Sundowning
- Thursday - A City by the Light Divided
- Tool - 10,000 Days
- Scott Walker - The Drift
- Suffocation - s/t
- Windmills by the Ocean - s/t (yes, it was recorded in 2003...but wasn't released until this year)
- Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
- Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
- Year of No Light - Nord
- Thom Yorke - The Eraser
- Zao - The Fear is What Keeps us Here
...and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch
