The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/16/25)

August 16, 2025 — Leave a comment

It’s August, which means summer is coming to its end (yay), and I have turned another year older (ugh). It also means the eighth installment of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist is here!

Don’t forget to check out parts one through seven after you dive into these recent additions!

Mudvayne: LD 50 25th Anniversary Tour

August 15, 2025 — Leave a comment

Mudvayne has announced a fall run in celebration of 25 years of L.D. 50. With them on this anniversary tour will be Static-X, who is ringing in 25 years of Wisconsin Death Trip, and Vended. Tickets are available at mudvayneofficial.com!

9/11 – Dubuque, IA – Q Casino Back Waters Stage
9/13 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall
9/14 – Chicago, IL – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
9/16 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club
9/17 – Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre
9/19 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival 2025*
9/20 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory
9/21 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha
9/23 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
9/24 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
9/26 – Las Vegas, NV – Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort
9/27 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
9/28 – Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Palladium
9/30 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
10/1 – Airway Heights, WA – Northern Quest Resort & Casino
10/3 – Pocatello, ID – Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheatre
10/5 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival 2025*
10/7 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
10/9 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Theater
10/11 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
10/12 – San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port
10/13 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
10/16 – Durant, OK – Choctaw Grand Theater
10/18 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
10/19 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
10/21 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
10/22 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
10/24 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater
10/25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
10/26 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

* Festival date. Mudvayne only.

Life Update: Why I’ve Been Inactive

August 7, 2025 — Leave a comment

I guess it started with the panic attack.

I had never had a panic attack, but there I was at work and suddenly, it was like an elephant was sitting on my chest. I couldn’t draw a full breath and I was jittery. I wanted to crawl out of my skin.

It wasn’t long after that I decided to put the blog on hiatus. I was constantly feeling like I couldn’t breathe when I was at work. And yes, there were a lot of things to be stressed about, but no more than usual. I thought maybe I could deal with the job stuff if I wasn’t putting pressure on myself to post here every day.

Then, it got worse. I was unhappy at work. I cried more times than I care to admit. My boss gave me a two week unpaid leave of absence, hoping the break would help. However, at this point, it was no longer just work. I was miserable, period.

I didn’t care about anything. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, and each time I tried, I couldn’t hold onto the conversation. I wanted to sleep all the time. If I hadn’t had to go back to work, I’m pretty sure I would have simply laid in bed and done nothing. That mental state made my job much harder.

I hid out at my best friends’ place, and I sought solace with a coworker who is fast becoming one of my favorite people. These respites were a blessing, but they weren’t going to solve the bigger issue.

So now I’m on a low dose of an antidepressant. It seems to be helping. I’m not as stuck in my own head as I was. I’m not really happy, either. I’m just…here. Existing.

I don’t feel that I’m ready to come back to blogging full-time. I miss writing, though. I’m still keeping up with the 2025 playlist because I owe that to all the musicians out there, and I just updated my reading challenge. (I hadn’t done that since May.)

In other news, my birthday is this week! My best friend is going to spoil me with dinner and painting and horror movies and swimming. We’re gonna get dolled up when we go out; I bought a new dress and everything!

I hope this post finds all of you well, and I hope I’ll get motivated to start blogging again soon. Maybe seeing Carbonstone in September will help with that…

Goodreads Reading Challenge 2025 [Updated 8/6/25]

August 6, 2025 — Leave a comment

So, the blog has been on a bit of a hiatus for reasons that I will explain in a separate post. The only thing I’ve kept up with over the past two months is The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, which means, of course, that I haven’t updated my reading challenge since May. But I am rectifying that right now! There will be another post at the end of this month, just to get back on track. For now, let me fill you in on all I’ve read in June and July.

You Shouldn’t Have Come Here (Jeneva Rose)

Rating: 3/5

The Collected (K.R. Alexander)

Rating: 2.5/5

There’s No Way I’d Die First (Lisa Springer)

Rating: 3/5

Rock, Paper, Scissors (Alice Feeney)

Rating: 4/5

Summer Rental (Rektok Ross)

Rating: 3/5

Spring Harvest (Rektok Ross)

Rating: 4/5

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

Rating: 2/5

Clown in a Cornfield (Adam Cesare)

Rating: 2/5

Carnival Kills (Caesar Daniels)

Rating: 3/5

Red Hot Murder (Michele Pariza Wacek)

Rating: 4.5/5

They’re Watching You (Chelsea Ichaso)

Rating: 4/5

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Lois Duncan)

Rating: 2/5

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight (Kalynn Bayron)

Rating: 2.5/5

***

I am currently reading A Cornucopia of Murder (Michele Pariza Wacek) and I Think I Was Murdered (Colleen Coble).

Progress: 44/75

The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 7 (Updated 7/31/25)

July 31, 2025 — Leave a comment

Here are the recent releases that have been added to my playlist since July 16th!

The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 7 (Updated 7/16/25)

July 16, 2025 — Leave a comment

Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!

Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6

Here is the first batch of tracks released in July!

EPs Released From April to June 2025

July 1, 2025 — Leave a comment

Hand of the Tribe – Makinas, Vol. 1 [4/4]
Wraithlurk – Suffering [4/4]
Rise to Ruin – The Alchemy EP [4/4]
Once Unnoticed – Forever Again [4/5]
In Passing – In Passing [4/11]
postdrome – Postdrome [4/15]
Jutes – The End [4/23]
Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori [4/25]
Death Valley High – U DON’T KNOW WHAT UR ASKING [4/25]
Bad Valentines – Memory Tattoos [4/25]
Valtozash – Sundered Synapses [5/2]
The Journals Kept – Strike the Match [5/2]
Anaria – Spark of Life [5/9]
I Was the Crown – Broken Wings [6/1]
StarrShine – As a Kid [6/5]
Kumiko – The Space Between [6/7]
Atomic Fate – Try It… You Might Like It!!! [6/10]
Eayondig – Ivory Eye [6/11]
L.O.U.D. – FM Broadcast [6/13]
Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori (Instrumental) [6/13]
Lucretia Death – Half Dead [6/20]
Priest – Chaos EP [6/20]
Stain the Canvas – Gattini [6/27]
Have I Weather – Porch Sessions [6/27]
splinter kid – Control Freak [6/27]
The Lucidia Project – The Twilight Affliction [6/30]

Albums Released From April to June 2025

July 1, 2025 — Leave a comment

Swallow the Sun – Shining (Deluxe Edition) [4/11]
K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Chapter 5: Astral Projection [4/11]
Young Other – Enlightenment [4/11]
Arcadia – Renovatio [4/15]
Circuit Preacher – Heaven Can’t Heal [4/18]
Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel [4/25]
AM FALL – All My Friends Are Local Legends [4/25]
Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis [4/25]
Zammek – Swell As Well [4/25]
Naked Sunday – The Shoe String Sessions [5/2]
Crimson Whisper – Vast World [5/2]
How We Feel – Ready for War [5/2]
The Fifth – We Are One [5/2]
Plain Suite – Sweet Lady [5/8]
Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia [5/9]
Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace [5/9]
Sleep Theory – Afterglow [5/16]
Sister Kill Cycle – We Were Ghosts [5/16]
No Fly List – Way More Tracks [5/30]
Deadcode – Nothing and Nowhere [5/30]
Lift the Curse – Don’t Bury the Dream [5/30]
Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope [5/30]
Cosmobrigade – Hollow Obsessions [6/6]
AnimA – Demigod [6/10]
Elvira’s Curse – The Time Has Come [6/12]
Static Season – Peripheral [6/13]
turner.Eturnal – Eturnal Terror [6/13]
FleischKrieg – Herzblut II [6/13]
McKenzie Hills – Ice Crossing [6/13]
AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky [6/13]
The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (From Beyond the Abyss: Deluxe Edition) [6/13]
Whispers in the Shadow – Rapture [6/13]
Fright – GhostTown [6/18]
Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human [6/20]
Wraithlurk – Teethmarks [6/20]
Ghost Chamber – A Decade in Review, Pt. 1 [6/20]
Mission to the Sun – Seven Years [6/27]
Half Lyfe – All in All [6/29]

The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 6/30/25)

June 30, 2025 — Leave a comment

Make sure you check out each installment of my 2025 playlist!

Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6

Here are the tracks that have been added since June 15th.

The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 6/15/25)

June 15, 2025 — Leave a comment

Not much to say, so I’ll just encourage y’all to check out every installment of the playlist.

Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5

And here are the singles I’ve found that have been released so far in June!

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