The Mars Volta – Landscape Tantrums

It was recently announced that all of The Mars Volta's catalog of albums would be released in a ginormous box set of vinyl called La Realidad De Los Suenos. As part of that set is this newly remastered and compiled recordings from the first sessions for De-Loused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta's first album. Due to its historical significance, they also decided to…

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10 to Midnight (1983)

Look out, serial killers, Charles Bronson is coming for your ass. After having watched a few Death Wish movies, I decided to try something similar but not exactly the same. The biggest difference here is that the character, Leo Kessler, is a detective who takes some liberties with the law, but is not quite the full-on vigilante revenge killer as Paul Kersey from the…

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Sufjan Stevens – Lamentations

This is the second installment of the Convocations series. As the name implies, this one is a bit more sad than the previous one, though not a lot sadder. Sometimes it is eerie, like in the track number VI. Mostly, it is more repetitive and less fulfilling than the Meditations volume. I've listened to it 3 full times now and only a couple tracks…

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Weezers Golden Era

Weezer is one of my all time favorite bands. They put on one of the best shows Ive ever seen live. And their first three albums helped shape my taste in music. With out them the post grunge, pop alternative, neo emo music landscape would have been left with little to offer. This week I decided to make a short, 20 song, playlist of…

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Sufjan Stevens – Meditations

This is the first volume of a five volume series called Convocations. Each album will be released weekly starting today. Is it Christmas or something? This is in the same style as the Aporia album he released last year. It's very ambient and moody. At times, it reminds me of Hans Zimmer film scores or Brian Eno. It has a calming effect, almost hypnotic…

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