I'm Back!

Not really but i felt the need to write a quick post to recognize Nate Beaty. He's sponsored so he's kind of a big deal and he plays in Circle Back so he's pretty much the biggest deal. Check him out below...This is Nate as his spirit animal...And this is Nate's official "Look At How Sponsored I Am" photo...told ya, big dealAnd this is what Nate looks like when hes playing Final Fantasy or about to throw down Hey Nat...

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dogs under water

I've got nothing to say, but these photos of dogs under water make me laugh every time I see them. If you don't find those hilarious, you have no soul.  Other than looking at pictures of dogs underwater, life is busy.  Went and saw Every Time I Die in Myrtle Beach this past weekend with the Stonez and Jared. Such an amazing show and one of the openers, Let Live, absolutely blew me away.  I saw them open for August Burns Red but the sound was so bad (popping speakers are the worse) that it didn't dawn on me how amazing they were.  ETID had tons of energy but nothing will compare to a Let Live show, dude was all over...

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Ex Lives

In the event that the title doesn't give it away, Ex Lives is the title for the new Every Time I Die album...and I'll be damned if all the hype leading up to it wasn't spot on.  And when I say all the hype, I mean ALL of the hype because there were tons of it.  From the music sites I visit daily to the merch guy at the Maylene show who happened to get a few listens somehow. Ex Lives is every great thing they did on the previous five albums, mixed into one of the best albums I've heard in years.  And I don't even own it! My pre-order should be in today but up until today, I've been listening solely to the album stream on SoundCloud (provided below, not sure how long it'll be up). So thanks to modern technology and the SoundCloud iPhone app, I've been able to listen to this in...

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ah shucks

so it's been a little over a week since i turned 28 and this birthday was one of the better ones in recent memory (minus not hearing from a couple of folks i kind of expected to...oh well), definitely since i've been down in charleston. so while i don't do sappy well (or at all really), i would like to thank anyone that wished me a happy birthday via text, twitter, or facebook.  the facebook posts were a little overwhelming so i didn't try to respond to everyone but they didn't go unnoticed.  big thanks to everyone that was a part of that surprise party the sunday before (you scared the shit out of me btw) and those that came out on valentines day to have a drink with me. ok, enough of that. since no new music has been released lately that i care about i have no idea what to really...

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a gentle reminder

So it's been a while since I've blogged anything. Not much to say and I've been staying fairly busy so there are my excuses. merchants first show is in a month, pretty stoked on that. I'll be 28 in 2 weeks, not stoked on that...at all. Anyways, merchants should have merch soon. Stickers and pins are being printed now, we're going to start pressing shirts soon so all in all, the band stuff is coming together quite nicely. Hopefully start recording an EP here soon too. let's move on to some music.  two main albums have come out in the past two weeks that are phenomenal and should be on your list...unless you hate good music,...

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versus the beast

so it's 2012 now. fingers crossed no one i'm close to dies this year and that the mayans weren't correct and the world collapses on December 21st. other than those two things, it's just a different number at the end of the date. let's roll with the tunes. so my pals in house of fools finally released their new album (after years of record label turmoil) and it's everything i expected and more.  i couldn't make the release show on the 30th since i had some band stuff to do down here in chucktown but i've heard nothing but good things about the show. plus HoF has always been a band that you have to see live, no matter how good their albums are. anyway, back to the album. it's full of great music, great songwriting and great harmonies. it's equal parts classic rock (tom petty, pink floyd),...

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you knew it was coming...best albums of 2011

2011 is about to wrap itself up and while, personally, it was somewhat of a shitty year, musically it was fantastic.  I was originally going to try and narrow it down to just 10 albums but that seemed to be an injustice to a lot of good albums that did drop this year, so i'm doing 20 instead. Also, I hate narrowing this down, there will be a lot of albums that will be left out that probably would have made my top ten in other years, but I've got to cut it off at some point. Wanna know something else pretty cool? There are a ton of albums that I've heard great things about that I have still not have had the chance to listen to, so I'm sure...

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