glassjaw

Q: What do you get when you mix Mike Patton, Frank Zappa, Japanese monster movies, debilitating diseases, backstabbing acquaintances , Groovy Hardcore and 4 (or 5) guys from Long Island?

A: {cheesy, i know...} the one and only Glassjaw/


Glassjaw did most of their damage around the turn of the millenia, releasing extremely popular EPs before getting signed by Roadrunner and producing their first full length with producer Ross Robinson. Their 2 albums Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence and Worship and Tribute go from spacy to extremely heavy to upbeat hardcore to experimental from song to song. Videos were made, albums were sold, but given the serious disagreement with Roadrunner, the band left the label and now encourages fans to download them for free.

Eccentric Frontman Daryl Palumbo freespirits his way from project to project, including mod rock Head Automatica, crust/grind/experimental United Nations, and electronic House of Blow on top of Glassjaw duties, so the band has been dormant for awhile, with intermittant performances (which may or may not get cancelled due to Daryl's disease).

Unfortunately, many of today's post-hardcore bands have aped their sound, co-opting the tone while neglecting the sincerity and artistry found in Glassjaw's music.

Fortunately, they are preparing a new album, as evidenced by the brand new song, ""so You Think You're John Fucking Lennon"

This mix is composed of a cross-section of their material. check it out!
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track list:
you think you're john fucking lennon
siberian kiss
tip your bartender
el mark
pink roses
piano
radio cambodia
everything you ever wanted to know about silence
two tabs of mescaline

afterstasis' hardcore punk mix #1

01 gehenna- 83 percent
02 harriet the spy - the forgetable fire
03 life at these speeds - retina
04 kilara - snuffulupugus
05 guyana punch line - direkt aktionists daily affirmation
06 catharsis - the witch's heart (lives lost too soon or too late)
07 heaven in her arms - partiality of luminosity eight
08 saetia - venus and bacchus
09 gauge means nothing - pilgrims
10 in/humanity - if i can't have what i want (i don't want anything)

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Lifetime: New Jersey's Favorite Sons

Probably my favorite band of all time, Lifetime was/is a melodic hardcore punk band from New Brunswick NJ, rising out of the same area that gave us bands like Bouncing Souls (who they frequently toured with) and You and I. They bounced around the early 90s playing a heavier. more metallic style before refocusing into the lineup that produced the albums Hello Bastards and Jersey's Best Dancers. Both albums featured songs that combined energetic, hyperspeed drumming, with dual guitars, and Ari Katz's distinctive interestingly enunciated english language, with each song containing 4 of 5 different parts, with few songs lasting more than 2 and a half minutes. What really separates Lifetime from their compatriots is the quality of their lyrics. Lifetime rarely had a typical verse-chorus-verse arangement, with each song almost coming off as a diary entry from a literate diary (in a good way)

springsteen meets husker du meets rites of spring meets bad religion?

This mix i assembled includes things from all of their albums, including their self-titled comeback record. also included is their excellent cover of Billy Bragg's "New England"

Lifetime Mix
1. all night long
2. rodeo clown
3. francie nolan
4. somewhere in the swamps of jersey
5. irony is for suckers
6. knives bats new tats
7. starsixtynine
8. turnpike gates
9. a new england

I Hate Myself & John Luther Adams

tracklisting:

01 i hate myself - less than nothing
02 i hate myself - polar bear summer
03 i hate myself - ...and keep reaching for those stars
04 i hate myself - caught in the flood
05 i hate myself - to a husband at war

01 john luther adams - beginning
02 john luther adams - red arc blue veil
03 john luther adams - l
04 john luther adams - velocities crossing in phase-space
05 john luther adams - the farthest place

I Hate Myself were an emo band from Gainesville, Florida...
In the mid-90's we had I Hate Myself rising out of a scene that relied on cryptic lyrics and fragmentary liner notes, eagerly proclaiming their worthless lives, their desires to be accepted and loved, their utter hopelessness. It was a bit odd. Yet, while there are traces of humor in the bands work, the majority of it seems to be delivered entirely without irony. People can't seem to arrive on a consensus in regard to the band's honesty. Some people can't see a line as goofy as "an empty forty--fuller than my life" as being entirely honest, but the same people oftentimes can't see a line like "I'm trying to explain something, but you're not listening--like I can't speak" as being a joke, especially when delivered with the onslaught of distorted, descending guitars that back it.

John Luther Adams (born January 23, 1953 in Meridian, Mississippi) is a composer whose music is inspired by nature, especially the landscapes of Alaska where he has lived since 1978.
Adams's musical work spans many genres and media. He has composed for television, film, children's theater, voice, acoustic instruments, orchestra, and electronics.
His frequent use of static textures and subtle changes show his obvious affinities with minimalism, and his tendencies toward extended, meditative, and intuitive structures convey his true love of the music of Morton Feldman.

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Moss Icon & The Wipers

i'm going to try doing some duo-uploads... the bands themselves will likely be totally unconnected, but i'm going to focus on my absolute favorite bands of all time that most have overlooked.

tracklisting:

01 moss icon - guatemala
02 moss icon - i'm back sleeping, or fucking, or something
03 moss icon - what they lack
04 moss icon - divinity cove
05 moss icon - happy (unbounded glory)

01 the wipers - is this real
02 the wipers - mystery
03 the wipers - alien boy
04 the wipers - don't know what i am
05 the wipers - telepathic love

Moss Icon was an Annapolis, Maryland emo band from 1986 to 1991. The original members were Jonathan Vance, Tonie Joy, Monica DiGialleonardo, and Mark Laurence. Moss Icon are most known for their influence on the splinter genre of punk known as Emo, and affiliation to the original DC bands born in the so-called "Revolution Summer" of 1985, including Rites of Spring, Gray Matter, Embrace, and Maryland's The Hated.

The Wipers were a punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The Wipers were one of the earliest American purveyors of the genre, and the group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion has been hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians including Nirvana who covered many of their songs.

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