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Yesterday, I took a trip down to San Diego with a few friends to go see Funny People and hit up the Epicentre for the Summer Smackdown show, which consists of a few local bands and such. As a side note, Funny People was a great movie and you should go see it.


The Bands (in order)
She Screams Remedy, Adalia, Mozart Season, The Subtle Way, He is a Painter, AdestriA, Thy Kingdom Come, and A City Serene.


I only have one complaint, but it is a biggie
-The crowd was dead beyond all belief until AdestriA came on (third to last band out of eight), which made me really sad especially since some bands deserved the recognition. Like Mozart Season!


Top 3 Performances
1) Thy Kingdom Come
2) Mozart Season
3) AdestriA


Notenotenotes
-I chatted with Nate and Benton of Mozart Season. Nice group of guys, Benton even added me on Myspace the day after the show. Felt bad for Nate though because he got the flu earlier that week and it was still going. Also picked up their EP regardless that I have it on my iPod. Nice to help out a band in need.
-Jon Mess wasn't there to do his vocals on MZ's "Look Mom, I'm On TV". But that didn't stop MZ from performing it so well.
-They had a raffle going on but I didn't bother to buy any tickets. Mainly because I didn't have enough money. Prizes ranged from merch to tickets for future shows including Owl City and the Artery Metal Tour with Bleeding Through.
-Once the pit started going, it was pretty fun. A must for each show I go to is to dance, so I fulfilled that requirement. Members from some of the bands that played even got down.
-There were cute girls up the ying-yang at this show. I really hope I am able to move back down to San Diego after high school.


The crowd that night may have been a major drag, but when the show got going, it really got going. Glad I finally got to see Mozart Season after a long time. Speaking of whom, if you haven't already, I highly suggest you check out their EP "Apotheosis". If you're a fan of pre-Happiness Dance Gavin Dance, check out "Look Mom, I'm On Tv" feat. Jon Mess. You won't regret it.

01. Maybeshewill - [Not For Want Of Trying #03] The Paris Hilton Sex Tape
02. GO! With Fourteen O - [The End Is Close. Almost No Need For Money. #02] Made A Gun With My Fingers And Shot At My Friends
03. Penknifelovelife - Cry This Blood For Me
04. Bloc Party - [Silent Alarm #05] Blue Light
05. Klaxons - [Myths Of The Near Future #03] Golden Skans
06. The Kooks - [Inside in Inside Out #02] See the World
07. Dance Gavin Dance - [Dance Gavin Dance #01] Alex English
08. Pendulum - [In Silico #10] The Tempest
09. Ryan Adams - [Love is Hell Part 1 #05] Wonderwall
10. Trophy Scars - Assistant. Assistants.
11. MGMT - [Oracular Spectacular] Kids
12.Alexisonfire - [Alexisonfire #06] Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas)
13. We Are Scientists - [With Love And Squalor #01] Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt
14. PlayRadioPlay! - [Texas #04] Madi Don't Leave
15. Radiohead - [The Best Of CD1 #03] Karma Police
16. Forever the Sickest Kids - Give And Take
17. Thursday - [War All The Time #09] War All The Time
18.A Skylit Drive - You're The Past, Love And Memories

Bonus tracks:
19. From First to Last- [Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count #06] Emily
20. Mozart Season - [Demo #08] Cellar Doors, Donnie!

Here is a list of some of the bands I consider to belong to the musically and masculinely inferior genre "Fagcore", and my opinion is always the truth. In case you're an ignorant prick not conversant with the meaning of this word, it's a genre with music comprised of faggy girl like vocals (performed by boys who haven't reached sexual maturity yet, which is evident when considering the profound absence of manliness in the singing), hence the "Fag" prefix. Furthermore these kinda bands are characterized by a sort of wannabe hXc kind of screaming, which often fails, hence the ironic suffix "core".
however, im not saying that all of these bands necessarily
suck arse, im just saying that they belong to this genre. a handfull of 'em are actually quite listenable, although that doenst make them less fagcore.

Alesana
The Vesper Fairchild Broadcast
A Vain Attempt
A Static Lullaby
Blessthefall
The Devil Wears Prada
Underoath (newer stuff)
Chemical Vocation
Senses Fail
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Aiden
I Set My Friends On Fire
Silverstein
From Autumn to Ashes
From First to Last
Hawthorne Heights
Dance Gavin Dance
Your Name In Vain
The Used
Chiodos
Funeral for a Friend
Saosin
Remember Eden
Mozart Season
Enter Shikari
A Skylit Drive
Emarosa
dicember
Herbrightskies
Adept
Agony Accepted
Fordirelifesake
Nearest The Positive
LoveHateHero
Eyes Set to Kill (however their singer is actually a girl, so i guess u cant really deem them faggy in that sense, but whatev, i set the rules ^^)
Escape the Fate
Finch
Thrice
Alexisonfire
Saving Joshua
Underoath
The Bled
Remember Eden
Poison the Well
Intohimo
Kincaide
Bullet For My Valentine(perhaps not entirely fagcore, yet indeed very faggy)

I'm already sick of that trend and even more when my little brother is trying to be super scene. It stops being cool (the music used to be cool for me ;) ) when an ignorant 13 year old starts saying


- OMG everybody look at me, I'm sooo emo, I bought everything with checkered pattern, straightened my hair and wear punk studded belts, so I guess I'm the emoest kid in the world!!, please, please!! david, copy me the video of alesana, ambrosia, yeah I know that you showed it to me like a year ago and I didn't like it, but like my equally idiots friends are telling me that it's cool they must be right! -

So basically he ruined that music for me, everytime I listen one of those full-of-scenecers bands I remember this idiot...

whatever...., there are enough good music in the world, I won't miss it while I get used to his shitty look and behavior, thank god I'm leaving home soon..

Banned Bands:

A Skylit Drive,akissforjersey,Alesana,Blessthefall,Chiodos,Drop Dead, Gorgeous,Emarosa,Escape the Fate,Greeley Estates,GunsLikeGirls,LoveHateHero,Mozart Season,The Devil Wears Prada,Underoath

anyway Alesana is so two years ago....



Yeah I'm being immature , sooo???


btw: I can't wait for fortress from Protest the Hero :D!!

This is the list of the top 100 favorite new albums that I discovered in 2007, many of them were released recently but there are also some old albums. I added the genres to each album and the rating. and before you say something about my genre names : I Invent Genre Names and I'm perfectly happy about it :)



Protest the Hero - Kezia (3,96)
Progressive Metalcore | New Hard Rock | Math Metal | Fast | emotional vocals

Escape the Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion (3,62)
emocore | Heavy Metal Touches

Golden City - Myspace Demo (3,61)
Indie Emo

The Minibosses - Brass (3,58)
Videogame | Instrumental Metal

Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies (3,58)
emocore | electronica | Post Hardcore

Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow (3,54)
Progressive Rock

David Wise - Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy's Kong Quest (3,43)
Videogame

Blitzkid - Trace of a Stranger (3,37)
Horror Punk | Punk Rock

Fire in the Attic - Crush/Rebuild (3,35)
emocore

Silverstein - Arrivals & Departures (3,33)
emopop | emocore

Dream Theater - Liquid Tension Experiment (3,32)
Heavy Metal | Instrumental Metal | Progressive Metal

Neil on Impression - The Perfect Tango (3,32)
Post Rock | Instrumental Screamo

A Skylit Drive - She Watched The Sky (3,3)
Screamocore | emocore | emopop

Damiera - M(US)IC (3,3)
Progressive emopop

Blessthefall - His Last Walk (3,3)
Screamocore | emocore | Crying Baby Screaming

The Minibosses - The Minibosses EP (3,29)
Videogame | Megaman y Castelvania

Calabrese - 13 Halloweens (3,27)
Horror Punk

Flyleaf - Flyleaf (3,27)
Hard NuRock | Nu Metal

Jason Becker - The Blackberry Jams (3,27)
Guitar Virtuoso | Classical Inspired | Heavy Metal

Vegastar - Unknown Album Name (3,27)
Nu Metal | Hard NuRock | emo Nu Metal

Thrice - The Alchemy Index Fire (3,27)
Post Hardcore

In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy (3,24)
Melodic Metalcore | Metalcore

Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (3,23)
Avant-garde Metal | Symphonic Metal | Gothic Metal

Antartica - 23.03 (3,23)
Space Indie | Indie Rock | Eric Richter

The Used - Lies For The Liars (3,23)
emopop | Pop Rock | emocore

Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet (3,22)
emopop | emocore | Post Hardcore

Jorge Salan - From Now On (3,21)
Heavy Metal | Guitar Virtuoso

Open Hand - Evolutions (3,2)
Alternative Emorock

Black Market Hero - Black Market Hero EP (3,2)
Nu Metal | 40 Below Summer

Blitzkid - Terrifying Tales (3,2)
Horror Punk | Punk Rock

This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain (3,2)
Post Rock

Kittie - Funeral For Yesterday (3,19)
New Hard Rock | Nu Metal

Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor (3,19)
New Hard Rock | Melodic Metalcore | Hard Rock

Emarosa - This Is Your Way Out (3,19)
Screamocore | Atmospheric Emocore

Eyes Set to Kill - When Silence Is Broken The Night Is Torn (3,19)
Hardcore | emocore | Female Vocalist

The Minibosses - The Minibosses (3,17)
Videogame

Jejune - Junk (3,17)
Indie Emo | Indie Rock | Punk Rock

Hundred Hands - Little Eyes (3,17)
Indie Emo

Caspian - You Are the Conductor (3,17)
Post Rock

Sounds Like Violence - With Blood On My Hands (3,17)
Alternative Emorock | Indie Rock

The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues (3,15)
Screamocore | Atmospheric Metalcore

Austin tv - Fontana Bella (3,15)
Post Rock

Jorge Salan - Chronicles Of An Evolution (3,14)
Heavy Metal | Progressive Metal | Guitar Virtuoso

Calabrese - The Traveling Vampire Show (3,14)
Horror Punk

Blindside - The Black Rose (3,14)
Hard NuRock | Alternative Rock | Nu Metal

Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (3,13)
Post Rock

Russian Circles - Enter [II] (3,13)
Post Rock

Haste the Day - Pressure The Hinges (3,13)
emocore

Analena - Arhythmetics CD (3,13)
emocore | Punk Rock | Screamo | Hard NuRock

The 101 - Green Street (3,12)
Indie Emo | Christie Front Drive | Space Indie | Indie Rock

Mozart Season - Is Heaven Everything You Thought It Would Be (3,12)
emocore

akissforjersey - Keep Your Head Above the Water (3,1)
emocore

Still Remains - The Serpent (3,1)
Melodic Metalcore | New Hard Rock

Fireflight - The Healing Of Harms (3,1)
Hard NuRock

The Hurt Process - The Last Goodbye (3,1)
emocore

The Human Abstract - Nocturne (3,1)
Progressive Metal | Melodic Metalcore

Down to Earth Approach - Another Intervention (3,1)
emopop

Jason Becker - The Raspberry Jams (3,1)
Guitar Virtuoso | Instrumental Metal | Experimental | Blues

Drop Dead Gorgeous - Worse Than A Fairy Tale (3,09)
Screamocore | emopop

David Wise - Donkey Kong Country (3,07)
Videogame

On the Might of Princes - The Making of a Conversation (3,07)
Screamo | Punk | emo | Indie Emo Instr.

Antartica - 81.03 (3,07)
Space Indie | Electronic | Eric Richter | Indie Emo

Karate High School - Arcade Rock (3,07)
emopop | electronicore

On the Might of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want to Be (3,07)
emo | Screamo | Indie Emo

Colossal - Welcome The Problems (3,07)
Indie Rock | Progressive Rock | Indie Emo

Boys Night Out - Boys Night Out (3,07)
emopop

Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (3,06)
Hard NuRock

Waterdown - All Riot (3,06)
Hardcore | emocore

The Toasters - Skaboom! (3,06)
Ska | 2 Tone

Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss (3,03)
Post Rock

David Wise - Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (3,03)
Videogame | African | Electronica | Jazz

you.may.die.in.the.desert - Bears In The Yukon (3,03)
Post Rock

Time Spent Driving - Just Enough Bright (3,02)
Indie Emo | emopop

Dear Whoever - Sound the Trumpet (3,02)
emocore

GunsLikeGirls - The Octopus in the Igloo (3,02)
emocore

The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger & the Duke (3,02)
Experimental | Progressive emopop

InMe - Daydream Anonymous (3,02)
Hard NuRock | Progressive Alternative Rock | Post Grunge

Boilermaker - Leucadia (3,02)
Indie Emo

Spineshank - Rare & Demos (3)
Nu Metal | Industrial Metal

osian - The Slow Fade of Loving Things (3)
Nu Metal | Hard NuRock

A Day to Remember - For Those Who Have Heart (3)
Hardcore | Pop Punk | emocore

Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (2,99)
emopop | emocore | Alternative Rock

Casket Salesmen - Sleeping Giants (2,99)
emopop | A Static Lullaby | Indie Rock | emocore Instrumental

The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers (2,99)
Industrial Rock | Gothic

Number One Son - Majority of One (2,98)
Nu Metal | Nu Metal Generico

The String Quartet - Tribute To My Chemical Romance (2,97)
Clasica | Covers | My Chemical Romance

Lifetime - Lifetime (2,97)
Punk Rock | Pop Punk | emopop

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare (2,97)
Guitar Virtuoso | Progressive Rock | Experimental | Heavy Metal

Turing Machine - A New Machine for Living (2,97)
Post Rock

Boilermaker - Boilermaker (2,97)
Indie Emo

Shun - Promising (2,97)
Hard NuRock | Rapcore | dredg

A Day to Remember - And Their Name Was Treason (2,97)
emocore | Hardcore

Turing Machine - Zwei (2,97)
Math Rock | Post Rock

Aina - Days Of Rising Doom - The Metal Opera - Disc 1 (2,97)
Power Metal

Days in Grief - Behind the Curtain of a Modern Tomorrow (2,96)
emocore | emopop

LoveHateHero - White Lies (2,96)
emocore

Ethel Meserve - Spelling The Names (2,95)
emo | Punk Rock | Indie Emo

Ethel Meserve - The Milton Abandonment (2,95)
Indie Emo

Nevea Tears - Do I Have to Tell You Why I Love You (2,94)
emocore | Screamocore | Electronic Sounds

Jason Becker - Perspective (2,93)
Guitar Virtuoso | Clasica | Folk | Experimental | Blues

CD's I've been meaning to buy but havn't for some odd reason, and if you'd like to buy them for me be my guest : )


Nightmare of You- Bang
Alesana-Try This With Your Eyes Closed
For Your Eyes Only-A Mind Awake
Emarosa-This Is Your Way Out
The Skies Revolt-Some Sort of War
Secret Lives of the Freemasons-The Cut and Thrust of Clear Thinking
Tear Down December-At The Mercy of Storms EP
From Aphony-Builders, Wreckers, Lovers and Takers
Mozart Season-Is Heaven Everything You Thought It Would Be? [If you found this for me, I'd love you forever lol]

So these are all of the CD's that I own, there is no point to this, I just felt like doing it haha. Critique if you'd like.

!=Favorites
?=Sucked

Album Count=108 (8/29/07)

30 Seconds to Mars-A Beautiful Lie

Adam Sandler-What the Hell Happened to Me? (?)

AFI-Decemberunderground

Alesana-On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax

All Time Low - Put Up Or Shut Up

Anberlin-Never Take Friendship Personal

As Cities Burn-Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest (!)

As I Lay Dying-Frail Words Collapse

As I Lay Dying- An Ocean Between Us

Atreyu-Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses (!)

Atreyu-The Curse

Blessthefall- His Last Walk (!)

Blinded Black-Under the Sunrise (!)

Blink 182-Enema of the State

Bon Jovi-Crush

Bright Eyes-Digital Ash In a Digital Urn

Bright Eyes-I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Buck-O-Nine- Twenty Eight Teeth

Burden of A Day-Pilots and Paper Planes

Catherine-Rumor Has It

Chiodos-All's Well That Ends Well (!)

Chiodos Bros-The Heartless Control Everything

Circa Survive-Juturna (!)

CKY-Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

Coheed & Cambria-The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Coheed & Cambria-In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed & Cambria-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star, Volume I:From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness

Crash Romeo-Minutes to Miles

The Cure-S/T (?)

Cute Is What We Aim For-The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch

Dance Club Massacre - Feast of the Blood Monsters

Dance Gavin Dance- Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean (!)

Dashboard Confessional-The Swiss Army Romance

Dashboard Confessional-The Places You've Come to Fear The Most

Dashboard Confessional -Dusk And Summer

Dropkick Murphys-Blackout

Drop Dead, Gorgeous-In Vogue (!)

Drop Dead, Gorgeous -Worse Than a Fairy Tale

Emery-The Question (!)

Escape From Earth-Three Seconds East EP

Escape From Earth-So Much More EP

Escape The Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion

Fall Out Boy-Take This to Your Grave

Fall Out Boy-From Under the Cork Tree

From Autumn to Ashes-The Fiction We Live

From Autumn to Ashes- Holding A Wolf By the Ears

Funeral For A Friend-Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation (!)

Genghis Tron- Dead Mountain Mouth

Hellogoodbye- Hellogoodbye EP (!)

Jamies Elsewhere-Goodbye Rocketman, St.George is Under Fire EP (!)

Jet-Get Born (?)

Just Left-Keep This In Mind (!)

Korn-Follow the Leader

Less Than Jake-Anthem

Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park-Reanimation (?)

Linkin Park-Meteora

Mae-The Everglow

Madina Lake-EP (!)

Madina Lake-From Them,Through Us,To You (!)

Mayday Parade - A Lesson In Romantics (!)

Metallica-St.Anger (?)

Motion City Soundtrack-Commit This to Memory (!)

My Bitter End-The Renovation (!)

My Chemical Romance-I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love (!)

My Chemical Romance-Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Nightmare of You-S/T (!)

Nights Like These- The Faithless

Odd Project-The Second Hand Stopped (!)

Odd Project-Lovers, Fighters, Sinners and Saints

Pierce the Veil-A Flair For The Dramatic

A Perfect Circle-The Thirteenth Step (!)

The Ramones-Loud, Fast Ramones

Rancid-...And Out Came the Wolves

Rancid-Indestructible (!)

Rosaline-We're All Just Passing Through... (!)

Saliva-Every Six Seconds (?)

Saosin-Translating the Name EP (!)

Saosin-Black Album EP (?)

Saosin-S/T LP (!)

Scary Kids Scaring Kids-After Dark EP

Secret Lives of the Freemasons-This Was Built to Make You Dance (!)

Senses Fail-From The Depths of Dreams

Senses Fail - Still Searching (!)

Slipknot-S/T

Silverstein-When Broken Is Easily Fixed (!)

Silverstein-Discovering the Waterfront

A Static Lullaby- And Don't Forget to Breath (!)

A Static Lullaby-S/T

Static-X-Machine

Submersed-In Due Time

Sugar Ray-S/T (?)

Sugar Ray-14:59

Sum 41-All Killer, No Filler (!)

Take Action!-Vol.6

The Academy Is...-Almost Here (!)

The Academy Is...-Santi

The Devil Wears Prada- Dear Love:A Beautiful Discord

The Movielife-Has A Gambling Problem (!)

The Movielife-Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (!)

The Number Twelve Looks Like You- Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses (!)

The Number Twelve Looks Like You- An Inch of Gold for a Inch of Time (!)

The Number Twelve Looks Like You- Nuclear.Sad.Nuclear

The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel

The Used-S/T (!)

Trophy Scars-Alphabet.Alphabets (!)

UnderOath-They're Only Chasing Safety

UnderOath-Define The Great Line



Some of these CD's I bought without even listening to the band. The Devil Wears Prada is one of them. Ok, they're on a label that I like a majority of the bands on, and a lot of people listen to them. Sure this CD is ok, but whats the big fucking deal? Catherine blows this shit out of the water haha. TDWP is ok and all but it doesn't really have any memorable stuff to it unless its in a car and so loud you can't tell whats going on.

Then, there's good examples. Catherine is one of them haha. Same with TAI (it was like $7 so I bought it, never listened to them before haha), Night Like These, Odd Project, As Cities Burn and Blessthefall (I had heard one song from them before..and I actually didn't like it a whole lot..don't ask why I bought it haha).

So, I really regret buying some of those CD's haha. Some of those are from when I was in 6th grade and earlier [even earlier than that they're not even on there, those CD's are somewhere in my closet haha]. That would basically be Linkin Park and Bon Jovi, not saying they're bad but they don't get near my CD player haha. And if I said it sucked, that doesn't mean the whole CD was bad, just that only one or two songs were good. I should put this in order I bought them, you'd noticed a pattern haha.
Yea, I'm done.
Note:These are just CD's I physically own, It makes up about 1/4 of my collection haha.

Anyone who has heard this band and liked what they heard knows Mozart Season is the shit. I remember coming across their myspace page somehow about a year ago and liking Cellar Doors, Donnie!, which is a great song. When I read their biography and saw that they broke up recently before that I was surprised because they were so good, and it seemed they had a lot of fans and played with some pretty big bands over the years. I listened to one song I was able to download for some time and when I saw them on this site and saw that people outside of their state were listening to their music I decided to check it out. Well, I went on limewire and found most of their songs, and when you can find a majority of a bands songs on limewire that really shows you how big they are, or how long they've been around, what kind of fan base they have. Needless to say the Mozart Season fan base is pretty fucking huge for a band that wasn't signed. People are still listening today and telling them to get back together. I'm not sure what the members have went off to do after Mozart Season, but it must be bigger than what they were up to considering that if they had stayed together they would've definitely been signed. I think with one more record a little better produced they could've gotten a major deal, because they had everything else pretty much locked down. When I hear their songs I think they really have a sound that in the "scene" has been abused one way or another, but they really have a way of playing it decently and pulling it off, not just sounding like another screamo band. The layers of vocals, those simple guitar licks that we hear in most screamo songs, all of that stuff, they had a way of doing it that gained them a shit load of fans. I remember in about 2002 when they formed (I think, maybe '03) all of the bands in this scene were just coming up and being in a band myself and really liking these types of music I predicted that it was going to blow up, and here we are 4 years later seeing it all over MTV. So with that, it seems that since the scene has been saturated, there are two extremes, the kids who listen to the bullshit on MTV and the kids who are constantly looking for something more obscure so they can say they're so much different than everyone else. Mozart Season seems to play to neither crowd. They just take that screamo, melodic post hardcore, and other influences and pull it off beautifully and get fans doing it the way it was when this music first broke out, making the scene a fun place like it used to be. I honestly don't know what made this band stick out to me so much, I guess there just aren't too many bands like this around anymore, and neither are they. However, thank you Mozart Season.