I'm digging around my old backup hard drives this morning and am finding some stuff:

• Adipem Frumenti was a collab between the members of Father Sleep, Welcome Wizard, and probably The Night Owl.
• Apples and Banananananas (by Apples and Cinnamon) was essentially Adipem Frumenti without The Night Owl.
• Satanic Harvest was a late Ugh God side-project.
• The Pentagram (by Drug from Shit) was effectively the first Satanic Harvest demo. I think.
• Mega Mega was Lee, Jae Won but with a sampled Greg Saunier on drums. Here's their incredible demo and a few live tracks. I don't have expressed permission to post this, but I don't care. I've always wanted to.

I removed the theme stuff. No one likes light mode anyway.

I also added a dedicated audio player. It supports radio mode and an album playlist mode. It should be intuitive to use. Good luck, Benji, and you're welcome. You can find it by clicking the "Player" button in the header or by clicking the play button next to any track. Let's celebrate with some new releases:

• A Three Ring Circus by A Three Ring Circus - Did you know that they released a real, full album at some point? I sure didn't!
• Nos Navizgark by Plain Jain - I hear that Plain Jain was from Baltimore. It's a gone-noplace side-project from one of the CAW! kids. It's been a while since any actually new artists have been added. Welcome, bois.
• MONKEYKNUCkLER by MONKEYKNUCkLER - For some strange reason they lost their presence on here. I had a CD-R laying around that just said "MONKEYKNUCkLER" on it. I'm pretty sure it's just a collection of every song that was released. I have no idea what the song titles should be.
• Dearth by Pink Panzer - Another Pink Panzer album I found on a CD-R. I'm calling it Dearth because I think it's supposed to just be self titled, but there's already a self titled Pink Panzer release.

Also, the track pages now display the track's metadata. These will probably be removed at some point because they're pretty pointless. Just something for the nerds to enjoy.

Lastly, the albums page now displays a badge for compilation albums to help with some confusion.

No one will care, but I just released a much more flexible version of the data generator. Now splits and comps are much easier for me to manage. As a result Faux Comp 1 exists, and along with it are some more "new" artists:

• Casy + Brian
• Dead Rabbits
• The Grays

Additionally, album pages responsible for listing splits or true compilations will list each track's artist, interlinking these album pages appropriately.

After a recent article was published about Faux Faux Fest '24, the better Ugh God drummer reminded me of a long-forgotten live set that they and The Beautiful Traps performed back in 2008. I made a split release of it:

• Ugh God & The Beautiful Traps - Live @ WPRB

Also, let's all take a moment to finally welcome Ugh God into the fold. Better late than never!

Assisted Living also played Faux Faux Fest '24. I added their track.

We suffered a slight regression where splits are split up by artist. This means that you can't currently listen to a split in its entirety from any page. As it turns out, showcasing more than one artist on a single album is a hard problem to solve. The way I solved it last week *technically* worked, but the way I handled it was gross. I'll keep noodling on it.

But more good news, we have new releases! Specifically, "The Best Of The First Four Acts of Faux Fest" and "Faux Faux Fest '24". The first was recorded forever ago but was never released. The second was recorded on my 40th birthday.

• The Best of the First Four Acts of Faux Fest
• Faux Faux Fest '24

I also made sure that artists & albums were sorted alphabetically and added a little search bar for the artists page.

Okay, this is actually exciting: I added six split releases that have been sitting around for far too long. This means that we welcome a few "new" "artists" into the fold, namely J. Mono & Miles Rozatti. Welcome. I'm sure you're SO happy to be here. We also welcome back Happybear Kaboom, which will likely be taken down soon, so listen while you can. Here's the list:

• Bornpilot & Welcome Wizard - Split
• Captain Werewolf & Miles Rozatti Split
• Happybear Kaboom & Father Sleep Split
• The Cold Lamper & J. Mono Split
• The Night Owl & Welcome Wizard Split
• The Riffingtons & Eat Split

I added Aunt Vivian's Revengence. This was the first recording ever made by the Chamomile boys, back when they didn't know how to play their instruments and they spent all their time getting high and listening to Pink Floyd and Yes. The name is inspired by Superbad.com. It is an objectively terrible album, but one that hasn't been heard by very many people. Now it's here for no additional people to listen to. Oh, and I updated dark mode to be less suck. You're welcome.

I added basic SEO. Pretty boring, tbh. It'll get good soon.

I've relaunched the site. Don't ask me why.