the acacia strain - Acacia seyal is thought to be the shittah tree of the Bible, which supplied shittim-wood. This was used in the construction of the Ark of the Covenant. As a spiritual icon it is also one of the most powerful symbols in freemasonry, representing the eternal soul and purity of the soul.
...And you will know us by the trail of the dead - According to the band's website, the name "...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead" is taken from an ancient Mayan ritual chant.
Appleseed cast - presumably from the movie of the same name.
As i lay dying - faulkner novel of same name
atreyu - character from the Neverending Story
at the drive-in - The band is named after a lyric from the song "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison.
Avenged Sevenfold - taken from the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
bad brains - Via McCray, Mind Power became obsessed with punk rock and changed their name to the "Bad Brains", after the Ramones song "Bad Brain", but with the word "bad" in the sense of "powerful".
Beastie Boys - often thought to be in reference to a kind of breakdance but really stands for "Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence" according to Jason
Belle & Sebastian - named after Belle et Sébastien, a children's book by French writer Cécile Aubry
Between the buried and me - counting crows lyric - "100,000 feet between the buried and me"
black ark - The Black Ark was the recording studio of legendary reggae and dub producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, located in the yard of his family's home in the Washington Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Although the studio itself was somewhat rudimentary in its set-up and particularly basic with regard to some of the dated equipment employed by Perry, it was nonetheless the breeding-ground for some of Jamaica's (and arguably the world's) most innovative sounds and recording techniques in the later half of the 1970s.
black flag - The name 'Black Flag' denoted both the anarchist symbol, the insect spray of the same name, and was reminiscent of the British heavy metal group, Black Sabbath.
circle takes the square - probably because it was a phrase often uttered on the show Hollywood Squares which was a variant of tic-tac-toe
the dillinger escape plan - a refrence to John Dillinger
The Dismemberment Plan - comes from a stray phrase uttered by the insurance salesman in the popular comedy Groundhog Day
the doors - taken from the title "the doors of perception" written by aldous huxley
fugazi - The band name alludes to a Vietnam-era GI slang backronym for a particularly bad combat situation, which stands for "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In". In Our Band Could Be Your Life, the group reported that they chose the name because of its ambiguous and vaguely exotic qualities.
Hot Water Music - on the spot, book one of the band members was reading at the time or liked according to Taylor
Husker Du - The group's name is a modified version (see Heavy metal umlaut) of the phrase "Husker Du?", which means "Do You Remember?" in Danish and Norwegian. See Husker Du? (game). Husker du? was also a music program on Norwegian television in the 1970's and 1980's, consisting of old people singing songs from their youth. That's why so many Norwegians think it funny that a hardcore punk band has the same name
Jejune - (Meaning: childish, or dull)
Joshua Fit For Battle - whose name was a corruption of the song "Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho", a traditional American spiritual song.
Minor Threat - was derived from The Teen Idles' only release, an EP entitled 'Minor Disturbance'.
modest mouse - Brock came up with the name "Modest Mouse" when he read the Virginia Woolf story The Mark On the Wall in which the author described the working middle class as "modest, mouse-coloured people."
off minor - The name is taken from a Thelonius Monk song
Pink Floyd - different names taken from different records syd was looking through.
Poison the well - Originally named "An Acre Lost", poison the well is a term coined when the romans would poison the well of a town
Pretty girls make graves - taken from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums
Radiohead - The band also changed their name to Radiohead at the behest of the label, the title of a song on Talking Heads' True Stories album.
Saetia - Their name originates from a misspelling of the Miles Davis "Saeta", off of his landmark album Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after a religious tradition of flamenco music
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - named after the Cap'n Jazz song of the same name
Seven Storey Mountain - named after the autobiography of Thomas Merton, of the same name
sunny day real estate - originally Empty Set
UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBAStart - the contra code or capcom code as it is sometimes known
We Are Scientists! - named after the Cap'n Jazz song of the same name
weakerthans - They took their name from a line from the film adaptation of Marguerite Duras' The Lover: "Go ahead, I'm weaker than you can possibly imagine."Samson has also cited Ralph Chaplin's union hymn, "Solidarity Forever" -- which contains the line "what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one" -- as inspiration. Incidentially, Samson borrows this line in his song "Pamphleteer".
zao - The word "zao" is Greek word for "Alive".
Greenday (North Charleston Coliseum)
Stabbing Westward
Placebo
Flick
(Music Farm)
No Use For A Name
Mad Caddies
A New Found Glory
?
?
(Music Farm)
Man or Astroman?
Superchunk
(Music Farm)
Weezer
The Get Up Kids
(Charlotte, )
Hot Water Music
Alkaline Trio
Strike Anywhere
(Fubar Columbia, SC)
Azazel
Undying
An Orchids Chance In December (Aria)
(VFW Summerville)
Cornerstone
MxPx
P.O.D.
Training for Utopia
Skadaddles or Skatelites?
MC Hammer
Teen Idols
The Lillingtons
Fuel
American Hi-Fi
Staind
Cowboy Mouth
Jimmy's Chicken Shack
Feeder
Everclear
Saves the Day
Dashboard Confessional
No Motiv
Jimmy Eat World
Hey Mercedes
Reuben's Accomplice
Piebald
Small Brown Bike
?
Between The Buried and Me
Dillinger Escape Plan
(March of 2002)
The Jenova Project
Working Title
The Conviences
Our Lady Peace
Eve 6
Sheldon
Wormbelly
Children's Choir
Sheldon
Corrosion of Confomity
Isabelle's Gift
Hootie and the Blowfish
Edwin McCain
Butthole Surfers
Stone Temple Pilots
Cowboy Mouth
Disturbed
Black Crowes
The Ciders
Mike of Ye old Music's band
MT Minds
Sheldon
Marlowe's Ride
Unjust
Southern Culture on the Skids
Buckcherry
Bayside
Winter Wake
Burns Out Bright
The Casket Lottery
Open Hands
Taking Back Sunday
From Autumn to Ashes
Hopesfall
A Stained Glass Romance
Dead Poetic
Underwater
Underoath
UnEarth
Zao
(Last tour, not really)
This Runs Through
Silent Anthem
Seneca
(All Books)
Dispensing of False Halos
Archimedes Death Ray
Before You Die
?
Ash
Kind of Like Spitting
Saves The Day
Hopesfall
Between the Buried and Me
Code 7
Celebrity
Aria
Retisonic
Jets to Brazil
(summer 2003, new brookland tavern)
Elliott
Matt Pond PA
Army of Me
?
(The Reef 2003)
Converge
A Life Once Lost
?
(Tremont Music Hall, 2003)
Between the Buried and Me
Hopesfall
Scarlet
Glass Casket
(Tremont Music Hall)
The Rollins Band (with original members of Black Flag, playing all Black Flag songs)
Anti-Seen
?
The Juliana Theory
The Ataris
Prayer for Cleansing (reunion show)
Undying
Earth Crisis Cover Band?
?
Alkaline Trio
Reggie and the Full Effect
From Autumn to Ashes
Grandaddy
Saves The Day
The Fire Theft
?
Holopaw
The Fruit Bats
Quintin Nadiq
Deep Purple
The Scorpions
Hey Mercedes
?
?
(New Brookland Tavern, Feb ? 2004)
Primus
(Asheville Civic Center, April 2004)
Pedro The Lion
John Vanderslice
Braid
Minus The Bear
Murder by Death
Jet By Day
(June 16th, 2004)
Warped Tour 2004
Anti-Flag
Avenged Sevenfold
The Casualties
Bad Religion
The Vandals
Coheed and Cambria
The Bouncing Souls
Underminded
Trophy Scars
Rise Against
Hazen St.
From Autumn to Ashes
Rose Hill Drive
(HiFi Buys Ampitheatre, Atlanta, July 27th)
The Curiousa Festival
The Cure
Thursday
Interpol
Mogwai
The Rapture
(HiFi Buys Ampitheatre, Atlanta, July 28th)
Stretch Armstrong
Martyr A.D.
Between the Buried and Me
MachineGun Kelly
The Pixies
The Thrills
(October 13th 2004, Fox Theatre, Atlants)
David Byrne
(October 29th, Charleston Music Hall)
Earlimart
Pedro the Lion
(January 29th, The Village Tavern)
The Street Dogs
Backyard Babies
Social Distortion
(March 2nd, 2005, The Plex)
Your Last Dream User Friendly The Firebird Band Liars Academy (May 19th, 2005, New Brookland Tavern)
Desark Bella Lea Engine Down (August 4th, 2005, Village Tavern)
The Firebird Band Head of Femur (September 29th, 2005, Village Tavern)
Leftover Crack w/ Planned Collapse w/ Green Goblyn Project (April 13th, 2006, Cumberlands)
Warped Tour 2006 w/Anti-Flag, Saves the Day, Joan Jett and the blackhearts, The Bouncing Souls, The Buzzcocks, I am ghost, the fully down, Senses Fail (June 26, 2006, Charleston, Fair Grounds)
NIN w/Bauhaus w/T.V. on the Radio (July 7?, 2006, Charlotte Ampitheatre)
Random Bands Ive seen, but dont remember when or with who
Flamin' Anus
Index for Potential Suicide
Waiffle
Quench
Simon Says
Candiass
Clair Danes
FLK's
Shaman Mary
Vent
Stuck Mojo
Bone Shelter
Meat Rocket
Beam
Flick
Store Bought Lies
Dies Irae
Broken Arrow
Harrison Four
Punch Counter Punch
Soda Pop Curtis
Chapter 19
Reversal of Man
Songs of Zarathustra
Seven Days of Samsara
Cobra Kai
Roots of Cause
Children's Choir
eurogression
Mt Minds
Paul Anderson - Genesis
J.O. Barr - The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams
Beowulf
Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Poppy Z. Brite - Lost Souls
Charles Bukowski - Bone Palace Ballet
Women
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
Love is a Dog from Hell
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Denver Butson - Triptych
Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could KIll
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of being a wallflower
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Arthur C. Clark - Rendezvous with Rama
The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Deanne J. Conway - Celtic Magic
Craine - Portrait of a Thousand Punks
Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
Aleister Crowley - The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley Vol. 1
Dante - The Divine Comedy
Gustav Davidson - A Dictionary of Angels
David Day - A Tolkien Bestiary
Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
Charles Dickens - A Tale of two Cities
Ende - The Neverending Story
Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Sigmund Freud - Reflections
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Mr. Punch
Good Omens
Sandman Graphic Novels 1-4
James Finn Garner - Politically Corect Bedtime Stories
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Terry Goodkind - Wizards First Rule
Stone of Tears
Blood of the Fold
Temple of the Winds
Daniel Grotta - J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-Earth
Ernesto Che Guevera - The Motorcycle Diaries
Rosemary Guiley - Vampires Among Us
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
The Doors of Perception
Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time: New Spring
Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
Crown of Swords
Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Jack Kerouac - Mexico City Blues
Books of Blues
Ken Kessey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee - Inherit the Wind
Alan Lightman - Einstein's Dreams
Carol and Dinah Mack - A field Guide to Demons
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Robert Masello - Raising Hell
J. Gordon Melton - The Vampire Book
Anne McCaffrey - Dragon Song
Dragon Singer
Dragon Drums
Mike McCormack – Crowe’s Requiem
Robin McKinley - The Hero and The Crown
The Blue Sword
The Door in the Hedge
Deerskin
Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Henry Miller – Under the Roofs of Paris
Pat Murphy - There and Back Again
Necronomicon
Arthur Nersesian – Dog Run
Pablo Neruda - The Sea and Bells
Anais Nin - Delta of Venus
George Orwell - Animal Farm
1984
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Choke
Parker - Turned On: Biography of Henry Rollins
Peter Phillips - Censored 2001
Robert Pirsing - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Edgar Allen Poe - misc.
Emily Prager - Eve’s Tattoo
Pauline Reage - Story of O
James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy
Tenth Insight
Erich Remarque - All quiet on the western front
Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Still Life with Woodpecker
Henry Rollins - Get In The Van
The First Five
See a Grown Man Cry, Now watch him Die
Broken Summers
Black Coffee Blues
Solipsist
Roomanitarian
Donald Rumbelow - The Complete Jack the Ripper
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Hunter S. Thompson - Kingdom of Fear
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
Book of Lost Tales 2
Mark Twain - Huck Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jhonen Vasquez - Johnny The Homicidal Maniac graphic novel
Voltaire - Candide
Kurt Vonnegutt - Breakfast of Champions
Player Piano
Slaughter-House Five
Welcome to the Monkey House
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
God Bless You, Dr. Rosewater
Galapagos
Siren of the Titans
Hocus Pocus
Timequake
Arthur Edward Waite - The Book of Black Magic
Wedick - Dictionary of the Occult
Paul Anthony Woods - Ed Gein: Psycho
Richard Wright - Black Boy
tolkien language book, sir gawain and the green knight, wolverine-the end graphic novel
Jan. 1
The Pixies – “The Best Of”
Against Me! – “As the Eternal Cowboy”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
AK1200 – “Fully Automatic”
Jan. 2
Nirvana – “With the Lights Out (Disc 2)”
Jan. 3
Against Me! – “As the Eternal Cowboy”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Cursive – “The Ugly Organ”
Boy Sets Fire – “The Day the Sun Went Out”
MC Chris – Fett’s Vett
You and I – “Discography”
Jawbreaker – “Dear You”
Team America World Police Soundtrack – Fuck Yeah!
Jan. 4
Against Me! – “As the Eternal Cowboy”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Cursive – “The Ugly Organ”
Jawbreaker – “Etc.”
Jan. 5
Cursive – “The Ugly Organ”
Dead to Fall – “Villany and Virtue”
Horse the Band – “Beautiful Songs by Men”
Jawbreaker – “Etc.”
Leonard Nemoy – The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
The Dismemberment Plan – “Emergency and I”
The Anniversary – “split with Superdrag”
Cursive – “Burst and Bloom”
Braid – “Frankie Welfare Boy Age 5”
Avenged Sevenfold – “Waking the Fallen”
Fireside – “Do Not Tailgate”
MC Chris – “Knowing is half the haste”
The Casket Lottery – “Survival is for Cowards”
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Invent yourself a shortcake”
The Gossip – sweet baby
Smashing Pumpkins – “Machina II”
Across Five Aprils – Saving Seats
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – “Source Tags and Codes”
Modest Mouse – Float On, Ocean Breaths Salty
The Pixies – “Surfer Rosa (import with Come On Pilgrim)”
Against Me! – “As the Eternal Cowboy”
Grandaddy – “A Pretty Mess by this One Band”
Beck – “Stray Blues”
L’Spaerow – “s/t”
Franz Ferdinand – “s/t”
Jan. 6
Avenged Sevenfold – “Waking the Fallen”
Between the Buried and Me – “The Silent Circus”
Black Eyes – “s/t”
Jan. 7
Forever is Forgotten – “The Architecture is Still Burning”
NIN – The Great Below
Against Me! – 8 full hours of sleep
Cursive – “Domestica”
The Smashing Pumpkins – “Melloncholly and the Infinite Sadness”
Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
NIN – “And All That Could Have Been (live album)”
Jawbreaker – “Live 4.30.96”
Alkaline Trio – “Maybe I’ll Catch Fire”
Alkaline Trio – “From Here To Infirmary”
Jan. 8th
A Static Lullaby – “Withered”
Full Blown Chaos – “Prophet of Hostility”
On Broken Wings – “Some of us may never see the world”
Minus The Bear – Absinthe Party at the fly honey warehouse
Sparta – “Porcelain”
Dredg – “Industry Demo 2001”
Bats and Mice – “Believe It Mammals”
Do Make Say Think – “Goodbye Enemy Airship, the Landlord is Dead”
Franz Ferdinand – “s/t”
John Vanderslice – “Cellar Door”
Kings of Convience – Leaning Against the Wall
Jan. 10th
Suffocates Faster – “s/t”
Jawbreaker – “Live 4.30.96”
Jan. 11th
Suffocate Faster – “s/t”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Dillinger Escape Plan – “Miss Machine 2 song sampler”
A Static Lullaby – “Withered”
Alkaline Trio – “From Here to Infirmary”
Cross My Heart – “Anthology”
Jan. 12th
As I Lay Dying – “Beneath the encasing of ashes”
Aveneged Sevenfold – “Waking the Fallen”
A Life Once Lost – “The Fourth Plague Flies”
Minus the Bear – “Highly Refined Pirates”
Jan. 13th
Suffocates Faster – “s/t”
Minus the Bear – “This is what I know about being Gigantic”
Sparta – “Porcelain”
On Broken Wings – “Some of us may never see the world”
Thursday – “War All of the Time”
Jan. 14th
On Broken Wings – “Some of us may never see the world”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Dillinger Escape Plan – “Miss Machine 2 song sampler”
A Static Lullaby – “Withered”
At the Gates – “Terminal Spirit Disease”
Cool Hand Luke – “So far…”
Misfits – Bullet (live w/Henry Rollins)
At the Drive-In – “Alfaro Vive, Carajo”
At the Drive-In – “El Gran Orgo”
Jan. 15th
Cursive – “The Ugly Organ”
Dan Andrianno – “split with Mike Felumlee”
The Jazz June – “They love those who make the music”
AFI – “Retrospective”
Prodigy – “Always outnumbered but never outgunned”
The Pixies – “Surfer Rosa (import w/Come on Pilgrim)”
AK1200 – “Fully Automatic”
Meshuggah – Chaossphere, Rational Gaze, Soul Burn, War, New Millenium, Cyanide Christ
Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Tonight Tonight
Modest Mouse – Float On
Franz Ferdinand – Take me out
Cursive – The Ugly Organist
The Cure – Pictures of You, Just like Heaven
Coheed and Cambria – A favor house atlantic
Anti-Flag – Fuck Police Brutality
Alkaline Trio – Clavicle, Private Eye
AFI – the leaving song pt. 2
AFI – “All Hallow’s Eve e.p.”
Jan. 16th
As I Lay Dying – “Beneath the encasing of ashes”
Avenged Sevenfold – “Waking the Fallen”
Undying – “At History’s End”
Hot Water Music – “Fuel For The Hate Game”
Jan 17th
Poison The Well – “The Opposite of December”
Tuesday – “Freewheelin’”
The Get Up Kids – “Eudora”
The Firebird Band – “The City At Night”
Bob Dylan – “The essential”
The Weakerthans – “Left and Leaving”
Piebald – “All Ears, All Eyes, All of the Time”
Jan. 21st
Avenged Sevenfold – “Waking the Fallen”
Cap’n Jazz – “Alphabetaanthology”
7 angels 7 plagues – “Jhazmyne’s Lullaby”
As the Sun Sets – “7744”
On Broken Wings – “Number One Beautiful”
Jan. 22nd
The Beatles – “Rubber Soul”
Pig Destroyer – “Terrifyer”
At the Drive-In – “El Gran Orgo”
Camera Obscura – “Under Achievers, please try harder”
AFI – “Answer that and stay fashionable”
The Pixies – “Surfer Rosa”
Hey Mercedes – “Everynight Fireworks”
Hey Mercedes – “Loses Control”
NIN – “And all that could have been (live cd)”
NIN – “The Fragile”
Rumbleseat – “Restless/Tressless”
Rumbleseat – “Saturn in Crosshairs/Cursing Concrete”
Hot Water Music – “Moonpies for Misfits”
Against Me! – “Reinventing Axl Rose”
Dead Kennedy’s – “Holiday in Cambodia 7inch”
Jan. 23rd
AFI – “The Art of Drowning”
Jan. 24th
Pig Destroyer – “Terrifyer”
Camera Obscura – “Underachiever’s Please Try Harder”
Jan. 25th
Camera Obscura – “Underachiever’s please try harder
Pig Destroyer – “Terrifyer”
Jan. 26th
Pig Destroyer – “Terrifyer”
Owen – Breaking Away (video)
Braid – Grand Theft Autumn
Walls of Jericho – “The bound feed the gagged”
Songs: Ohia – “Axxes and Ace”
Remembering Never – “Women and Children Die First”
Henry Rollins – “Sweatbox (record 1, side 1)”
Neil Young – “Harvest”
Jan. 27th
Against Me! – “As the eternal cowboy”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Cursive – “The Ugly Organ”
The Pixies – “Trompe Le Monde”
The Anniversary – “Designing a Nervous Breakdown”
Jan. 28th
The Smiths – “Hatful of Hollow”
Radio – 40 mins
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Airplane over the sea”
Small Brown Bike – “The River Bed”
Jan. 29th
Against Me! – Crime as forgiven by”
As I Lay Dying/American Tragedy – “split”
Darkest Hour – “The mark of the Judas”
Underoath – “act of depression”
Radiohead – “Hail to the Thief”
The Casket Lottery – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Appleseed Cast – “Lost Songs”
Murder By Death – “Who will survive and what will be left”
Sunny Day Real Estate – “Diary”
Jan. 30th
Against Me! – “Crime as forgiven by”
At the drive-in – “Alfaro, Vive Carajo”
Coco Rosie – “La Maison De Mon Reve”
Jets to Brazil – “Orange Rhyming Dictionary”
Jan. 31st
Darkest Hour – “The Mark of the Judas”
A Thousand Falling Skies – “From behind the shadows”
Underoath – “Act of Depression”