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[kyleeoty]

2023

Albums: 1. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us (Run For Cover) 2. Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit (Run For Cover) 3. Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity (Run For Cover) 4. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun (Loma Vista) 5. boygenius - The Record (Interscope) 6. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (Funeral Plant Collective) 7. Code Orange - The Above (Blue Grape Music) 8. Blink-182 - One More Time... (Columbia) 9. Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown (Century Media) 10. Morgan Wade - Psychopath (RCA/Ladylike) Honorable Mentions: The Features - The Mahaffey Sessions 1999 (yk) Margo Price - Strays (Loma Vista)

EPs: 1. Webbed Wing - Right After I Smoke This... (Memory Music) 2. Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine (Flatspot) 3. Balance & Composure - Too Quick To Forgive (Memory Music) 4. In Loving Memory... - A Gentler Sun (self released) 5. One Step Closer - Songs for the Willow (Run For Cover)

Shows: 1. Balance & Composure - Far Out Lounge, Austin, TX - 11/4/23 2. Superheaven - Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL - 10/13/23 3. The Envy Corps - GDP Fest at Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA - 4/15/23 4. In Loving Memory..., Black Market Fetus - The Botanical Center, Des Moines, IA - 9/8/23 5. Webbed Wing - Wooly's, Des Moines, IA - 3/5/23

Films: 1. Oppenheimer 2. May December 3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4. Barbie 5. Infinity Pool

TV: 1. Loki - Season 2 (Disney+) 2. Dave - Season 3 (FXX/Hulu) 3. Reservation Dogs - Season 3 (FX/Hulu) 4. The Last of Us (HBO/Max) 5. The Bear - Season 2 (FX/Hulu)

Favorite Songs playlist: "I Want To Start a Religion with You" - Fireworks "The News" - Paramore "Sure Could Use a Friend" - Webbed Wing "Psychic Dance Routine" - Scowl "The Mask of Sanity Slips" - Code Orange "Radio (feat. Sharon Van Etten)" - Margo Price "Got You (In My World Now)" - Steve Marino "Savior Mode" - Balance & Composure "Dance the Night" - Dua Lipa "Over" - CHVRCHES "Show Me How" - Foo Fighters "Be On Your Way" - Daughter "An Offering to the Night" - Jesus Piece "Think Less" - Militarie Gun "Chosen to Deserve" - Wednesday "Tangled in Joy" - Temple of Angels "Satanist" - boygenius "Sunshine" - Teenage Wrist "Alanis" - Morgan Wade "Funeral Flowers" - Closet Witch "Going to Die" - Fiddlehead

[kyleeoty]

2022

Albums: 1. Angel Olsen - Big Time (Jagjaguwar) 2. Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here (Pure Noise) 3. Soul Blind - Feel It All Around (Other People) 4. Tegan & Sara - Crybaby (Mom + Pop) 5. Looming - Anybody’s Baby (No Sleep) 6. No Devotion - No Oblivion (Velocity/Equal Vision) 7. Nikki Lane - Denim & Diamonds (New West) 8. Parker Gispert - Golden Years (Normaltown) 9. Elizabeth Moen - Wherever You Aren’t (self released) 10. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)

EPs: 1. Hazel English - Summer Nights (self released) 2. Tigers Jaw - Old Clothes (Hopeless) 3. Speedway - Paradise (Revelation) 4. Morgan Wade - Acoustic Sessions (Ladylike/Arista) 5. END/Cult Leader - Gather & Mourn split (Closed Casket Activities/Deathwish)

Shows: 1. CHVRCHES - Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln, NE - 6/15/22 2. Code Orange - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA - 3/28/22 3. Japanese Breakfast - 80/35, Des Moines, IA - 7/8/22 4. Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, MUNA - Hinterland, St. Charles, IA - 8/7/22 5. Stars Hollow - xBk, Des Moines, IA - 3/17/22

Films: 1. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2. X 3. The Batman 4. Clerks 3 5. Pearl Honorable Mention: Barbarian

TV: 1. Peacemaker (HBO) 2. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+) 3. The Bear (FX/Hulu) 4. The White Lotus - Season 2 (HBO) 5. Reservation Dogs - Season 2 (FX/Hulu) Honorable Mention: The Offer (Paramount+)

Favorite Songs playlist: “Pressure Cooker” - Dazy & Militarie Gun “A Sky Deep and Clear” - No Devotion “Big Time” - Angel Olsen “New Beginning” - Automatic “I Become Heavy” - New German Cinema “Whispers of Your Death” - Counterparts “Faded” - Nikki Lane “Ready For Love” - Wiz Khalifa & Girl Talk “Long, Long Year” - Chris Shiflett “Spitting Off the Edge of the World feat. Perfume Genius” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Softly” - Arlo Parks “Fight” - Ian Sweet “Run” - Morgan Wade “In the In Between” - Soul Blind “Stuck Inside Someone Else’s Dream” - Parker Gispert “I Can’t Stand Busy People feat. Woolworm” - Militarie Gun

[kyleeoty]

2021

Albums: 1. Fiddlehead - Between the Richness (Run For Cover) 2. Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me (Hopeless) 3. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence (Glassnote/EMI) 4. Webbed Wing - What’s So Fucking Funny? (Memory Music) 5. Morgan Wade - Reckless (Ladylike/Thirty Tigers) 6. Turnstile - GLOW ON (Roadrunner) 7. Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (Capitol) 8. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (Matador) 9. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (Dead Oceans) 10. Foo Fighters - Medicine At Midnight (RCA/Roswell) Honorable Mentions: Luna Shadows - Digital Pacific (+1) One Step Closer - This Place You Know (Run For Cover)

EPs: 1. In Lieu - Edible (self released) 2. Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To the Gun I & II (Alternatives/Convulse) 3. Potty Mouth - 1% Happier (Get Better) 4. Salt Creek - Our Own World (Tooth & Nail) 5. Soul Blind - Third Chain (Other People)

Shows: 1. Fiddlehead, Militarie Gun - Chi Town Futbol, Chicago, IL - 11/5/21 2. Chris Stapleton, Nikki Lane - Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, IA - 8/19/21 3. Modern Life Is War, Closet Witch - Village Theatre, Davenport, IA - 12/3/21

Films: 1. Eternals 2. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City 3. Spencer 4. The Suicide Squad 5. Nomadland Honorable Mention: Fear Street Trilogy

TV: 1. WandaVision (Disney+) 2. Dave - Season 2 (FXX) 3. Loki (Disney+) 4. Midnight Mass (Netflix) 5. Joe Pera Talks With You - Season 3 (Adult Swim) Honorable Mention: Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Favorite Songs playlist: Foo Fighters - “Making a Fire” Japanese Breakfast - “Be Sweet” Tigers Jaw - “Lemon Mouth” Turnstile - “Holiday” CHVRCHES - “Violent Delights” Luna Shadows - “god.drugs.u” Julien Baker - “Heatwave” Kings Of Leon - “The Bandit” Touché Amoré - “Hard To Explain” Morgan Wade - “Wilder Days” Kacey Musgraves - “easier said” Fiddlehead - “Down University” Better Off - “No Drama” In Lieu - “Anymore” Salt Creek - “Lock the Doors” Silk Sonic - “Leave the Door Open” Linda Susan - “i do what i want” Webbed Wing - “Need You Around” Soul Blind - “Third Chain” Militarie Gun - “Ain’t No Flowers” Halsey - “honey” MUNA - “Silk Chiffon” feat. Phoebe Bridgers Potty Mouth - “Contessa Barefoot” Modern Life Is War - “I Wanna Be Your Dog” Makthaverskan - “Maktologen”

[kyleeoty]

2020

Albums: 1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher (Dead Oceans) 2. Code Orange - Underneath (Roadrunner) 3. HUM - Inlet (Earth Analog) 4. Touché Amoré - Lament (Epitaph) 5. Hazel English - Wake UP! (Polyvinyl) 6. Four Year Strong - Brain Pain (Pure Noise) 7. Narrow Head - 12th House Rock (Run For Cover) 8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (Warner) 9. Chris Stapleton - Starting Over (Mercury) 10. New Found Glory - Forever + Ever x Infinity (Hopeless) Honorable Mentions: The Strokes - The New Abnormal (RCA/Cult) Snarls - Burst (Take This To Heart)

EPs: 1. Gouge Away - Consider (Deathwish) 2. Linda Susan - Home Recordings Vol. 1 (Criminalized) 3. Holy Fawn - The Black Moon (Triple Crown)

Shows: 1. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Gabe’s, Iowa City, IA - 3/10/20 2. Elizabeth Moen - The Outer Space, Oskaloosa, IA - 2/29/20 3. Kevin Burt - The Outer Space, Oskaloosa, IA - 2/8/20 4. Good Devils, Hollowtree - The Castle, Ottumwa, IA - 2/15/20

Livestreams: 1. Code Orange - Underneath Record Release Show 2. Touché Amoré - Lament Record Release 3. Parker Gispert - 5 Sundays, 5 The Whigs records 4. Taylor Madison/Webbed Wing - Live from his practice space

Films: 1. 1917 2. Tenet 3. The Hunt 4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5. Just Mercy Honorable Mention: The Devil All the Time

TV: 1. High Fidelity (Hulu) 2. Dave (FXX) 3. The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) 4. The Right Stuff (Disney+) 5. The Real Bros of Simi Valley - Season 3 (Facebook Watch) Honorable Mention: Three Busy Debras (Adult Swim)

Originally posted on December 18th, 2020.

Favorite Songs playlist: Touché Amoré - “Come Heroine” Four Year Strong - “Get Out of My Head” HUM - “Desert Rambler” Phoebe Bridgers - “ICU” Snarls - “Walk In the Woods” Charmer - “Wolf Fang Fist” Halsey, Alanis Morissette - “Alanis’ Interlude” Into It. Over It. - “Courtesy Greetings” Gouge Away - “Consider” Dua Lipa - “Cool” Hazel English - “Waiting” Code Orange - “Autumn and Carbine” Hayley Williams - “Over Yet” Some Stranger - “Speak In Code” Narrow Head - “Yer’ Song” Forest Green - “In Waves” Chris Stapleton - “You Should Probably Leave” The Strokes - “Ode to the Mets” Rick & Morty - “Snake Jazz”

[kyleeoty]

2019

Albums: 1. Potty Mouth - SNAFU (Get Better) 2. Webbed Wing - Bike Ride Across the Moon (self released) 3. The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger (Third Man) 4. Better Off - Reap What You Sow (self released/No Sleep) 5. Tegan & Sara - Hey, I’m Just Like You (Sire) 6. Jade Bird - Jade Bird (Glassnote) 7. Stay - iwillneveraskyouto (self released) 8. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds (Pure Noise) 9. Counterparts - Nothing Left to Love (Pure Noise) 10. In Lieu - Hatemail (self released) Honorable Mentions: Pine - Pine (No Sleep) Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans)

EPs: 1. Dream Ritual - Trips Around the Sun (self released) 2. MIRSY - Permanent For Now (self released) 3. Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right (Run For Cover) 4. Salt Creek - If You Were There (self released) 5. Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam (Deathwish) Honorable Mention Creeks - Summer Demo (self released)

Shows: 1. Balance and Composure - Final Show, The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA - 5/11/19 2. New Found Glory - Wooly’s, Des Moines, IA - 11/7/19 3. Kacey Musgraves, Jade Bird - Hinterland Fest, St. Charles, IA - 8/2/19 4. Ox Fest - Sioux City, IA - 3/2/19 5. Salt Creek - The Gallery House, Des Moines, IA - 7/17/19

Films: 1. Avengers: Endgame 2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 3. Polar 4. The Irishman 5. Spider-Man: Far From Home

TV: 1. The Righteous Gemstones (HBO) 2. The Mandalorian (Disney+) 3. Joe Pera Talks With You - Season 2 (Adult Swim) 4. Unidentified (History) 5. Rick and Morty - Season 4 (Adult Swim)

Originally posted on December 19th, 2019.

Favorite Songs playlist: Webbed Wing - “Door Creaks Open” SeeYouSpaceCowboy - “Self Help Specialist Ends Own Life” Potty Mouth - “Plastic Paradise” The Raconteurs - “Help Me Stranger” Jade Bird - “Uh Huh” In Lieu - “Probably” (not on YouTube playlist) Charli XCX - “Cross You Out” feat. Sky Ferreira Tegan & Sara - “Keep Them Close ‘Cause They Will Fuck You Too” Fiddlehead - “Get My Mind Right” Frail Body - “Your Death Makes Me Wish Heaven Was Real” Sheer - “Glimpse” Stars Hollow - “Tadpole” (not on YouTube playlist) Salt Creek - “Electricity Is Humming”

[kyleeoty]

2018

Albums: 1. Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind (Run For Cover) 2. Chvrches - Love Is Dead (Glassnote/Goodbye) 3. Wax Idols - Happy Ending (Etruscan Gold) 4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (MCA) 5. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar (Deathwish) 6. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises (Dirty Hit/Interscope) 7. Tancred - Nightstand (Polyvinyl) 8. Now, Now - Saved (Trans-) 9. Jesus Piece - Only Self (Southern Lord) 10. Basement - Beside Myself (Fueled by Ramen) Honorable Mentions: Petal - Magic Gone (Run For Cover) Closet Witch - Closet Witch (Sassbologna)

EPs: 1. boygenius - boygenius (Matador) 2. Grave School - Strange Routine (self released) 3. Forest Green - Nothing Is Special (No Sleep) 4. Counterparts - Private Room (Pure Noise) 5. Agent Blå - Medium Rare (Kanine) Honorable Mention: MIRSY - Thoughts I’ve Kept Inside (self released)

Shows: 1. Lorde - Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, IA - 3/25/18 2. CHVRCHES - Hinterland Fest, St. Charles, IA - 8/3/18 3. Tigers Jaw, The Sidekicks - Slowdown, Omaha, NE - 10/11/18 4. Phoebe Bridgers, Closet Witch - 80/35 Fest, Des Moines, IA - 7/6/18 5. Paramore - The Armory, Minneapolis, MN - 7/5/18

Films: 1. Avengers: Infinity War 2. Halloween (2018) 3. Black Panther 4. Ant Man & The Wasp 5. Bohemian Rhapsody

TV: 1. Joe Pera Talks With You (Adult Swim)

Originally posted on December 20th, 2018.

Favorite Songs playlist: Fiddlehead - “Spousal Loss” Grave School - “Strange Routine” Kacey Musgraves - “High Horse” Wax Idols - “Too Late” Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey - “The Middle” Modern Life Is War - “Feels Like End Times” Tancred - “Something Else” boygenius - “Ketchum, ID” Petal - “Magic Gone” Now, Now - “Drive” Pale Waves - “Eighteen” * one unknown song is missing.

[kyleeoty]

2017

Albums: 1. Looming - Seed (No Sleep) 2. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In the Alps (Dead Oceans) 3. Lorde - Melodrama (Universal) 4. Paramore - After Laughter (Fueled by Ramen) 5. Daddy Issues - Deep Dream (Infinity Cat) 6. Neaux - Chain Up the Sun (The Native Sound) 7. Code Orange - Forever (Roadrunner) 8. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sorry Is Gone (ATO) 9. Agent Blå - Agent Blue (Kanine) 10. Makthaverskan - III (Run For Cover/Luxery) Honorable Mentions: Daisyhead - In Case You Missed It (No Sleep) Tigers Jaw - Spin (Black Cement)

EPs: 1. Hazel English - Just Give In/Never Going Home 2xEP (Polyvinyl) 2. END - From the Unforgiving Arms of God (Good Fight) 3. Gouge Away - Swallow b/w Sweat (Secret Voice) 4. Sheer - Psychic Quarry (The Native Sound) 5. Milk Teeth - Be Nice (Roadrunner) Honorable Mention: Pine - Pillow Talk (No Sleep)

Shows: 1. Kings Of Leon - First Tennessee Park, Nashville, TN - 9/29/17 2. Touché Amoré, Basement, Wax Idols - Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN - 4/5/17 3. Tancred - Cheer Up Charlie’s/SXSW, Austin, TX - 3/16/17 4. Balance & Composure, Daisyhead - River City Jam, Covington, KY - 8/26/17 5. Everest, Nicole Atkins - Basement East, Nashville, TN - 1/27/17 6. Phoebe Bridgers - TOMS House/SXSW, Austin, TX - 3/17/17 7. Looming, Slingshot Dakota - Cafe Coco, Nashville, TN - 3/11/17 8. New Found Glory - Basement East, Nashville, TN - 7/20/17 9. Chris Stapleton - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN - 10/14/17 10. Paramore, Best Coast - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 10/17/17

Films: 1. Logan 2. Dunkirk 3. Baby Driver 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 5. Wonder Woman

Originally posted on December 18th, 2017.

Favorite Songs playlist: Hazel English - “That Thing” Lorde - “Perfect Places” Phoebe Bridgers - “Smoke Signals” Tigers Jaw - “June” Looming - “Waves” Code Orange - “Bleeding In the Blur” Jessica Lea Mayfield - “Meadow” Gouge Away - “Swallow” Neaux - “LUV” Priests - “No Big Bang” Jake Clarke - “Always On My Mind” Bleached - “Can You Deal?” Chris Stapleton - “Either Way” Seaway - “Day Player”

[kyleeoty]

2016

Albums: 1. Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death (Warner Bros) 2. Touché Amoré - Stage Four (Epitaph) 3. Kings Of Leon - WALLS (RCA) 4. Tancred - Out of the Garden (Polyvinyl) 5. Departures - Death Touches Us From the Moment We Begin To Love (No Sleep/Holy Roar) 6. Balance & Composure - Light We Made (Vagrant) 7. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me (Total Treble) 8. Fear of Men - Fall Forever (Kanine) 9. Moose Blood - Blush (Hopeless/No Sleep) 10. Milk Teeth - Vile Child (Hopeless) Honorable Mentions: White Lies - Friends (BMG/PIAS) Mudcrutch - 2 (Reprise)

EPs: 1. Turnstile - Move Thru Me (Pop Wig) 2. Luna Shadows - Summertime (self released) 3. G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day of Revenge (self released) 4. Cellars - Cellars (Rhed Rholl) 5. Moseley - Moseley (self released) Honorable Mention: The Strokes - Future. Present. Past. (Cult)

Shows: 1. Kings Of Leon - Ascend Amphitheatre, Nashville, TN - 10/06/16 (played WALLS in full) 2. Moose Blood - Subterranean, Chicago, IL - 7/16/16 3. Fear of Men - Kaiju, Louisville, KY - 11/09/16 4. Beach Slang/Potty Mouth/Dyke Drama - The High Watt, Nashville, TN - 5/15/16 5. Balance and Composure - The Masquerade in Hell, Atlanta, GA - 10/15/16

Films: 1. Captain America: Civil War 2. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates 3. Deadpool 4. Manchester by the Sea 5. Arrival

Originally posted on December 19th, 2016.

Favorite Songs playlist: Tegan & Sara - “Stop Desire” The Thermals - “Thinking of You” Tancred - “Poise” Luna Shadows - “Hallelujah California” Touché Amoré - “Displacement” Milk Teeth - “Burger Drop” Fear of Men - “Trauma” Turnstile - “Fuck Me Blind” Against Me! - “Boyfriend” Potty Mouth - “Smash Hit” My Iron Lung - “Damage” Kings Of Leon - “WALLS”

[kyleeoty]

2015

Albums: 1. Title Fight - Hyperview (Anti-) 2. Superheaven - Ours Is Chrome (Sideonedummy) 3. Best Coast - California Nights (Harvest) 4. The Story So Far - The Story So Far (Pure Noise) 5. Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling (Reaper) 6. Chvrches - Every Open Eye (Glassnote) 7. Better Off - Milk (Equal Vision) 8. Counterparts - Tragedy Will Find Us (Pure Noise) 9. Adventures - Supersonic Home (Run For Cover) 10. Pentimento - I, No Longer (Bad Timing) Honorable Mentions: Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop/Milk) Looming - Nailbiter (No Sleep)

EPs: 1. Daddy Issues - Can We Still Hang? (Infinity Cat) 2. Wild Ones - Heatwave (Topshelf) 3. Koji - Fury (No Sleep) 4. G.L.O.S.S. - Demo (self released) 5. Sundance Kid - Happiness/Uncertainty (self released) Honorable Mention: Remiss - Unsought (self released)

Shows: 1. Moose Blood – Vans Warped Tour, Nashville, TN – 7/1/15 2. Title Fight – The Wrecking Ball at The Masquerade in Hell, Atlanta, GA – 8/9/15 (midnight show) 3. Chvrches – Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN – 10/27/15 4. HUM – Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN – 8/7/15 5. Makthaverskan – SXSW, House of Vans at The Mohawk, Austin, TX – 3/19/15

Films: 1. The Martian 2. Avengers – Age of Ultron 3. Jurassic World 4. Ant-Man 5/Honorable Mention. Comet (2014)

Originally posted on December 17th, 2015.

Favorite Songs playlist: Title Fight - “Dizzy” Best Coast - “Jealousy” (not on YouTube playlist) Daddy Issues - “Creepy Girl” The Story So Far - “How You Are” Courtney Barnett - “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)” The Sidekicks - “Jesus Christ Supermalls” Hundredth - “Break Free” Wild Ones - “Heatwave” Turnstile - “Drop” Kacey Musgraves - “Are You Sure” feat. Willie Nelson

[kyleeoty]

2014

Albums: 1. Moose Blood - I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time (No Sleep) 2. Xerxes - Collision Blonde (No Sleep) 3. Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine) 4. Fireworks - (Oh,) Common Life (Triple Crown) 5. Code Orange - I Am King (Deathwish) 6. The Whigs - Modern Creation (New West) 7. Tigers Jaw - Charmer (Run For Cover) 8. New Found Glory - Resurrection (Hopeless) 9. To The Wind - Block Out the Sun and Sleep (Pure Noise) 10. PVRIS - White Noise (Velocity/Rise)

EPs: 1. Nest - Hadal (Broken Circles) 2. Dream Ritual - Dream Ritual (6131) 3. Bonesetters - Figure It Out (Rhed Rholl/In Store) 4. Basement - Further Sky (Run For Cover) 5. Adventures/Pity Sex - Split (Run For Cover)

Shows: 1. Kings Of Leon - Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN - 2/7/14 2. Neutral Milk Hotel - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 2/4/14 3. Foo Fighters - The Ryman, Nashville, TN - 10/31/14 4. Balance & Composure - Zydeco, Birmingham, AL - 9/16/14 5. Xerxes - The Stone Fox, Nashville, TN - 11/4/14

Films: 1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3. Lucy

Originally posted on December 18th, 2014.

[kyleeoty]

2013

Albums: 1. Balance & Composure - The Things We Think We’re Missing (No Sleep) 2. Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull (RCA) 3. Daylight - Jar (Run For Cover) 4. Better Off - (I Think) I’m Leaving (Blood & Ink/6131) 5. Ivy League TX - Transparency (6131) 6. Modern Life Is War - Fever Hunting (Deathwish) 7. The Virgins - Strike Gently (Cult) 8. The Weeks - Dear Bo Jackson (Serpents & Snakes) 9. Polar Bear Club - Death Chorus (Rise) 10. Man Overboard - Heart Attack (Rise) Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order): Altars - Something More (Facedown) Koji - Crooked In My Mind (Run For Cover) Maps For Travelers - Change Your Name (No Sleep) Moor Hound - Stifled Spirit (Rhed Rholl/Viva La) Paramore - Paramore (Fueled By Ramen) Sombear - Love You In the Dark (Trans-) The Story So Far - What You Don’t See (Pure Noise) The Swellers - The Light Under Closed Doors (No Sleep) Tancred - Tancred (Topshelf) Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob (Warner Bros) Tiny Moving Parts - This Couch Is Long and Full of Friendship (Kind Of Like) To The Wind - Empty Eyes (Pure Noise) Touché Amoré - Is Survived By (Deathwish) White Lies - Big TV (Harvest) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (Hopeless)

EPs: 1. Title Fight - Spring Songs (Revelation) 2. Survival Soundtrack - What You Wanted To Say (self released/Hang In There) 3. Pretty Ugly - Space Ghost (Rhed Rholl) 4. Adventures - Clear My Head With You (No Sleep) 5. Remiss - I Can’t See In Color Anymore (Hang In There) 6. Kitten - Like A Stranger (Elektra) 7. Departures/Moose Blood - Split (No Sleep/Fist In the Air) 8. Balance & Composure/Braid - Split (No Sleep/Polyvinyl) 9. Gunther Doug - Gunther Doug (Rhed Rholl) 10. The Here and Now - Born To Make Believe Part 1 (Black Numbers) Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order): Cloakroom - Infinity (Run For Cover) Daisyhead - I Couldn’t Face You (self released/Spartan) Koji - Matters (The Native Sound) Pet Symmetry - Two Songs... (Asian Man) Some Stranger - Some Stranger (Robotic Empire) Their/They’re/There - Analog Weekend (Polyvinyl/Topshelf) Touché Amoré/Pianos Become the Teeth - Split (Deathwish/Topshelf) Xerxes - Would You Understand? (No Sleep)

Originally posted on December 27th, 2013.

[kyleeoty]

2012

Albums: 1. Now, Now - Threads (Trans-) 2. Basement - Colourmeinkindness (Run For Cover) 3. Title Fight - Floral Green (Sideonedummy) 4. Daytrader - Twelve Years (Rise) 5. The Tower & The Fool - How Long (Run For Cover) 6. The Whigs - Enjoy the Company (New West) 7. Such Gold - Misadventures (Razor & Tie) 8. Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm (Run For Cover) 9. Forever Came Calling - Contender (Pure Noise) 10. Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved (Rise) Honorable Mentions (chronological order): Cheap Girls - Giant Orange (Rise) Xerxes - Our Home Is a Deathbed (No Sleep) The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds (Red Scare/Really) Pomegranates - Heaven (Broken Circles) Slingshot Dakota - Dark Hearts (Topshelf) Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love//Return To Dust (Deathwish)

EPs: 1. Adventures - Adventures (No Sleep) 2. Kitten - Cut It Out (Atlantic) 3. Daylight - The Difference In Good and Bad Dreams (Run For Cover) 4. Secret Plot To Destroy the Entire Universe - Montauk (Kat Kat) 5. Seaway - Seaway (self released)

Films: 1. Django Unchained 2. The Avengers 3. The Dark Knight Rises 4. Looper 5. Resident Evil: Retribution

Originally posted on December 28th, 2012.

Favorite Songs from all of the Releases above: “Prehistoric” - Now, Now “Covet” - Basement “Make You Cry” - Title Fight “Letter To a Former Lover” - Daytrader “How Long” - The Tower and The Fool “Gospel” - The Whigs “Locked Out of the Magic Theater” - Such Gold “Don’t Die On Me Now” - Hostage Calm “Ides” - Forever Came Calling “Desert Lily” - Make Do and Mend “Ruby” - Cheap Girls “Tide/This Place Is a Prison” - Xerxes “1940′s Fighter Jet” - The Sidekicks “Surfing the Human Heart” - Pomegranates “May Day” - Slingshot Dakota “Flowermouth (The Leech) - Code Orange Kids “I Feel So Sure” - Adventures “Japanese Eyes” - Kitten “Damp” - Daylight “The Montauk Project” - Secret Plot To Destroy the Entire Universe “Sabrina the Teenage Bitch” - Seaway

[kyleeoty]

2011

Releases: 1. Balance & Composure - Separation (No Sleep) 2. Title Fight - Shed (Sideonedummy) 3. Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here (Run For Cover) 4. Fireworks - Gospel (Triple Crown) 5. Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me (Deathwish) 6. Man Overboard - Man Overboard (Rise/Lost Tape Collective) 7. Into It. Over It. - Proper (No Sleep) 8. Daytrader - Last Days of Rome (Run For Cover) 9. Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak (No Sleep) 10. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing (Hopeless/No Sleep) Honorable Mentions: Various Artists - Mixed Signals (Run For Cover) The Strokes - Angles (RCA) The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt (Pure Noise) White Wives - Happeners (Adeline) This Time Next Year - Drop Out of Life (Equal Vision/No Sleep) White Lies - Ritual (Fiction) Our Life Story - I’d Rather Change Than Stay the Same (Barrett)

Originally posted on December 27th, 2011.

Favorite songs from all of the Releases above: “Galena” - Balance & Composure “Where Am I?” - Title Fight “Yoke” - Basement “Teeth” - Fireworks “Method Act” - Touché Amoré “Picture Perfect” - Man Overboard “Midnight: Carroll Street” - Into It. Over It. “Death Means Nothing To Men Like Me” - Daytrader “Trust Fund Kids” - Former Thieves “Don’t Let Me Cave In” - The Wonder Years “Distress Signal” - Tigers Jaw “Life Is Simple In the Moonlight” - The Strokes “Mt. Diablo” - The Story So Far “Hungry Ghosts” - White Wives “Last Call” - This Time Next Year “Bad Love” - White Lies “Growing Pains” - Our Life Story

[kyleeoty]

2010

Releases: 1. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown (RCA) 2. The Whigs - In The Dark (ATO) 3. Balance & Composure/Tigers Jaw - Split (Run For Cover/No Sleep) 4. Transit - Keep This To Yourself (Run For Cover) 5. Daylight - Dispirit (Six Feet Under) 6. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm (Run For Cover) 7. Man Overboard - Real Talk (Run For Cover/Lost Tape Collective) 8. Basement - Songs About the Weather (City of Gold/Lost Tape Collective) 9. Into It. Over It./Koji - IIOI/KOJI Split (No Sleep) 10. The Wonder Years - The Upsides (No Sleep/Run For Cover) Honorable Mentions: Stay Ahead of the Weather - We Better Get Goin’ If We’re Gonna (No Sleep) Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds (Run For Cover) Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World (Decaydance)

Originally posted on December 31st, 2010.