L'Antietam

Today was my final day of school. I am officially done with college. Thank fuck I am done, I couldn't stand being there anymore. L'Antietam hailing from Boston was a hardcore screamo band that sometimes would do some cool mathy like riffs on the later releases. I do know the vocalist formed Sneeze after this which is a pretty rad grunge like indie rock band. L'Antietam left some rad releases which most of them were added on a compilation CD titled "Family" that carries unreleased songs on their previous work all in one CD. Shortly after the band released a EP called Arthur Carr which is still great nonetheless. I found both CD's on deathwish website. So far I have bought 3 things off their that were interesting enough. The Saetia 2xLP and these 2 CD's which I think they are still on sale for like 3 dollars. The band also released another 2x7" of some sort that was like a double release with 2 different EP's in one. Something like that. Honestly that release didn't really hit hard and is almost completely forgotten (Or at least with me) Family is more where all the sick songs are at. I remember hearing about a split they were going to do with Loma Prieta back in the day but it only seems that Loma had recorded their side of the split only. About 2 splits with Loma were never made the one with Arse and the one with this one. Such a shame but as for L'Antietam they put out a bunch of great songs. They also released a split with Kidcrash and Furnance I believe. They came out in some mixtape compilation as well. I'll gather those in one file for you guys. I suppose I'll post the bands 2x7" Dark brew & Rock bottom

Family

Arthur Carr EP

Furnance split/Kidcrash Split/Mixtape comp

Rock bottom/Dark brew

Arches

This is my final week of college and I am damn excited. Perhaps this year I may have more time to post although I am not entirely sure for next year but I will figure it out by then. I have a bunch of rad and obscure stuff coming in the mail. I even have stuff from 2+ years I haven't even posted on here. Well this was one of those "Buy this if you want to listen" type of bands. I had bought it after reading Communique's wordpress and I liked the overall description of this band. So this band was pretty short lived. I mean only one 12" was released which was recorded at the Earth Capitol meaning they were from Cali. It is pretty Orchid/Jeromes dream type of hardcore and it was worth getting. I don't know which press record this is. There were multiple different ones with different sleeves. The one I have is in a manila envelope which seems pretty handmade to me. Luckily I converted this one for you guys. There is a bit of pop crackles at the first seconds of the first track but other than that the quality is overall listenable. It has been many years since I was interested on this record. This is a very underrated and not much appreciated record you guys should really listen to. Communique records has done some solid DIY looking records. From the pre Adobe homes band and Ghost towns 7" since I have presented those 2 to you guys before. Here is another Communique release.

17:48 12"

Loma Prieta

Let's speak of Loma Prieta and I mean the REAL Loma Prieta. Not the other Loma Prieta with no original members (I think only the drummer is the only one) but even then Loma Prieta from today isn't really Loma. Fuck Dark mountain, Life/less, IV and Self portrait. Even most of Last city was shit too so fuck that album except the track with David Fung. I don't know what fucking band released those but sure ass hell know it wasn't the Loma Prieta I know. Loma Prieta began in 2005 with a 3 song demo. These 3 songs were later added into the bands 1st EP called "Our LP is your EP" which was released in 12" and CD. I think Inkblot did the CD press only or maybe both I don't remember but Inkblot definitely did the CD (They still have them for 5 bucks w/ free shipping seriously get one) The band was also featured on a 7" compilation which is one of the songs off the EP. And luckily for me I was able to find me a cheap copy of the bands second 2 song EP titled "Matrimony" its fucking crazy that the copy I bought was the coke bottle tour edition. Honestly these 2 songs fucking kick ass really hard. There were also 2 b-sides for Our LP is your EP in which one is a cover song off David Fung's previous band Get get go and another original off Loma Prieta called The needle in the haystack which has a ridiculous energetic drumming. After that Last city was made which I think only David Fung did one song on vocals called by his own name. Other than that that whole album is meh. Everything good with the real loma lies within the demo, our LP, Matrimony and the 2 b sides to Our LP.

Our LP is your EP

Matrimony 7"

B-sides to Our LP is your EP

The Evergreen Trio

This band is one of those softy types which isn't such a hype for me but they did make some solid tunes. The bands 7" has a cheesy yet sweet sound. It even includes some electronic drum kit and the 2 songs gives that winter feeling vibe. Same thing can also be said about the band's only full length. They had also self released a acoustic length but to be honest I am not into that stuff. On the side note the band left a few songs behind but it still beats anything The promise ring and mineral made so it's worth something to post on here. It took me forever to search for the songs off the 7" which were once online. Everyone else sucks for never posting it online. I had to buy a copy of it so I can convert it myself. I do like those songs slightly more even with its cheesy sound shits a bit little hilarious though but still enjoyable and listenable.

The Evergreen Trio 7"

For all intents and purposes

My favorite split ever

This split was one of my favorites when I was 16 and even today. I found out these bands thanks to this split. This led me to all these and from the 4 The reptilian is still active (They have a new LP coming out in September) this was a self released CDr in a sewed manila folder. I had bought this crap off someone and honestly it wasn't worth what I paid for. No insert is in this and even song titles. So in honor of this amazing split I shall post it here for you guys to listen. 2 of the lautrec songs were added to the bands 8 songs cd while the 2 songs off the reptilian were added to we have become ep as for osceola these songs were from a split with Suis la lune. Finally we have the short lived band I have not mentioned here which is Boy problems. The band lasted half a year which they released a 5 song tour cd and this split. One of the songs on this split is off the tour demo while the other appears to be new. The quality is all the same so perhaps they were saving this one for this split. The band appeared to have started in the summer of 2008 and ended later in the fall of that same year. I don't like splits a whole lot because most of the time I don't like all the bands in the split but as for this split its one of the few 4 ways I admire a whole lot.

Lautrec

Boy problems

The reptilian

Osceola

Lautrec/The reptilian/Boy problems/Osceola

Cowboys are Indians

So I am just close to graduating from college and I believe my life is going in for a drastic turn, the love I know I will probably see her until next year since she has some business of family importance over at Arizona. I had thought about moving there but I also wouldn't mind bringing her here so we can move down to Bixby or Lakewood which both areas are much nicer than here in Long Beach. I recently got a new job at Ross where I think even though I am settling in with an AA I probably will stick at this place for a while and rank myself up. I am a bit stoked on whatever is coming in. This band was from New Hampshire that played some great chaotic screamo. They seemed to have only made one LP under BEAR records while the rest were self released DIY. They have a 8 song self titled cdr, a split cdr with cassettes on fire (Who are also another great band) and another live that happens to be a split with another band called Giant fucking mirror which happens to be just a practice set. Their debut LP Constantly fucked was long overdue but after time BEAR records finally showed us another great release from this epic label. I really like the cover for the bands LP. Pretty fucking brutal ass fuck haha. Before the LP and much after one of the original members had passed away in which I think the LP was in memory of him. I think this is still sold at BEAR for like 5 dollars I think so you should really check it out and give BEAR your money. Friendly otter might have some coming in soon. Cowboys are Indians aren't a band you want to miss. It's another on in the family of BEAR and its easily one of the records that stick out a lot to me on this label next to Carrion spring, The caution children, Fire team charlie and Sneeze. bandcamp and put up all the releases they did.

Constantly fucked LP

Saetia

This is possibly the biggest talk there is of Saetia getting its first ever discography repress on wax. We all waited so long for this thing to ever be a actual thing. Saetia was the second real screamo emotional hardcore band I got into. After listening to The spirit of versailles for some weeks I would see "Saetia" being thrown in those 2007-2008 forums and well I gave them a shot. One of the early songs I heard were the ones off the demo tape mainly being Closed hands and One dying wish. It was such a emotional rollercoaster of wanting to mosh but also get sad. Those screams still give me the goosebumps. Saetia has remained pretty important to me being the second band that taught me that the diy of screamo is still the best and good at it still. A label called Secret voice had plans of releasing this record since last year but word of it spread like a wildfire in January of this year. It was the main thing I was anticipated about, I was also hoping for a shirt reissue (Which they also made that happen) I was also hoping for a remaster of the 17 songs which I believe they were. Before that Deathwish had release a cassette version of the Live at ABC No Rio songs which was kinda like a early announcement that the discography LP was in the works. I had picked this tape up with the belief that it might be in bad quality due to the songs being crappy quality live sets but they actually did a great job with these pro dubbed tapes. Once one of my friends told me that the pre order was up I had then preordered the bundle. By all means this is a pretty rad year to have this come out. Well I received my copy this past Thursday morning. When I got home I had played the first LP which contains the songs from the self titled. Today I played the second LP which has the songs from Eronel on the first side while the other side has the songs off the demo tape and the compilation song. Although I do find the title being "Collected" a bit silly and funny. Perhaps being A retrospective or Discography would have been fine. Even Collection but collected, not really what I had hoped for. So the sleeve has a glued booklet which shares each member's experience with the band or at least a portion of it. They do not exactly tell the whole story but it gets to the point. I also did wished there were a bit more to be told. Saetia was a great band I stumbled upon and I do believe it's those bands everyone will stumble upon at first due to its popularity and early mentions about getting into emotive hardcore. And honestly its a great example and a good way to start off.

Collected 2x12"

Live at ABC No Rio

Quantice never crashed

I was roaming around lastfm just for the memories sake of back in the day and while roaming I found this short lived band from New york. They present to us a self titled CD which I just received today in the mail. They sort of have that generic hardcore familiar sound but what makes the band up is the vocals that slightly remind me of Ampere or Orchid and for that this clearly helps the band being unique from the rest. The cd was released sometime in the fall of 2004. There was a early promo press edition which happens to be a gatefold (Don't like those) Here we have the regular jewel case I got myself for a dollar on amazon that was still sealed. I really enjoyed listening to this band and I am sure you will too. The band did a 2 song early demo, these 2 songs were later added to the bands self titled. Another 2 unreleased demos were also made. There is also a 2 song live set which is combined to a single track. These are under the unreleased file which I was able to get off soundcloud. They also recently released a song off a compilation tape (Even though the band is no longer active) they somehow made it in this comp tape. I believe they had a show 3 years ago for some benefit show, the band is still active somewhat even after all this time.
You can check the comp tape here everything goes towards the animal shelter. You can check it here

Quantice never crashed (Unreleased tracks also included)

Car vs. Driver

This was one of those random cd's i bought even though I have heard some of their stuff. Because I like discography CD's I picked this one up from Stickfigure distro since it was for 5 bucks (Still is). It is a 2 disc set. First cd has the bands 2 LP's while the second disc has the bands 7", split, compilation songs, etc. The band has its emo/post hardcore flare that is a bit typical. I really like the bands LP's the most (So i am constantly stuck on the first cd) Car vs drive sticks out for me because of Cars get crushed so I had thought it be something similar but naahh. I think this might have been another Atlanta band that roamed with Inkwell and The Kossabone Red, I am too lazy to do some research right now. Although I am positive Car vs Driver was from Atlanta due to Stickfigure releasing this discography CD. I think Beyond failure blogspot have mentioned them. Even the dude from that blog had converted the original demo tape to mp3. He has more info on the band than I do since he was their during the scene. I'm just the middleman here. I really can't leave a long paragraph on this one since its pretty self explanatory. I just don't have much words for this one. Great band and very worth getting a copy of this 2xCD. The fact is a jewel case and not some crappy gatefold cardboard of some sort makes me give this a double thumbs up.

The Completeist 2xCD

Thursday

Thursday eh? Well I have to be honest Thursday is a pretty okay band. I got into them late but my main focus is between the bands first 3 lengths. I believe I started giving them a shot within the summer of 2008 which I mainly heard Waiting and Full collapse a lot and because of it I find them extremely memorable. I really couldn't get into A city divided from the light and so on. I also want to state that I really diss on Victory records for doing warped tour hot topic pop bullshit, screwing bands over and definitely screwing this band over which made them switch to another major label which was Island records. I have no info or business with such a major label that I actually been doubting of ever posting Thursday on here because of the mix feelings I have with Victory and Island records. That being said Thursday did a great job with both albums being the end for my love on Thursday. I believe they played with other great bands at the time such as Saetia, Reversal of man, Hot cross, Bright calm blue, Staynless, You and I and a few others that were not fake fuse emo crap. I have love and some hate with this band mainly because I have no clue why such a band that began as independent band got hanging around with Victory records or Warped tour to begin with. That is just my entitled opinion and I can't be certain I a correct of my opinion. By the end of the day a opinion is a opinion. But we all have to agree I somehow got a hold of supporting this band somehow by purchasing their cd's and even Five stories falling which they told fans not to buy. I did it just for the small collection. If you never heard of them Thursday is a pretty easy listen. They definitely have many catchy songs between Waiting and Full collapse.

Waiting

Full collapse

Five stories falling EP

War all the time