Allergic Reactions

A blog from Zack Zarrillo

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2017: Show Data

Total amount of shows: 633 in 10 years. Average of 63/year. New this year: Comparisons of 2017 to 2017, in each category.

2017: 91

2016: 91

2015: 81

2014: 86

2013: 77

2012: 66

2011: 68

2010: 39

2009: 28

2008: 5

Cities:

Brooklyn: 27 (18)

Manhattan: 20 (28)

Philadelphia: 18 (11)

Chicago: 12 (5)

States:

New York: 48 (48)

Pennsylvania: 18 (12)

New Jersey: 4 (8)

Illinois: 12 (5)

California: 4 (4)

Venues:

Music Hall of Williamsburg: 6 (4)

Irving Plaza: 6 (5)

Webster Hall: 5 (8)

Union Transfer: 5 (2)

Brooklyn Night Bazaar: 4 (0)

Most seen:

Knuckle Puck: 12 (15)

Kevin Devine: 10 (6)

Real Friends: 7 (5)

Brand New: 4 (8)

Modern Baseball: 3 (7)

Sorority Noise: 3 (6)

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2017: Music I Heard; Music I Helped Release

Listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

Balance & Composure - Slow Heart

David Bazan - Care

Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights

oso oso - the yunahon mixtape

Paramore - After Laugher

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

Shannen Moser - Oh, My Heart

Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie

Tigers Jaw - spin

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Always Foreign

Music I helped release via management or label management, by date, not rank:

The Early November - Fifteen Years - January 20

Sorority Noise - You’re Not As _____ As You Think - March 17

Knuckle Puck - Calendar Days/Indecisive - March 17

Remo Drive - Greatest Hits - March 17

Have Mercy - Make the Best of It - April 21

Homesafe - Evermore - May 26

Cameron Boucher - Hell Is Warm - June 19

McCafferty - Thanks. Sorry. Sure. - June 30

En Route - Then Is A Song - July 21

Brand New - Science Fiction - August 18

Small Circle - Cyclical - September 8

Caracara - Summer Megalith - September 22

Jetty Bones - Old Women - October 6

Knuckle Puck - Shapeshifter - October 13

Sorority Noise - Alone - October 13

Kevin Devine - We Are Who We’ve Always Been - October 20

nothing,nowhere - Reaper - October 20

Mansions - Deserter - November 3

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2017: TV I Liked

Listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

13 Reasons Why

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dark

The Defenders

The Leftovers

Master of None

Orange is the New Black

Riverdale

Stranger Things 2

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2017: Food I Enjoyed Digesting

Listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

Chuko

Dizengoff

Gordoughs Donuts

Mellizoz Tacos

Pizza Gutt

The Publican

Vetri

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2017: Podcasts I Devoured

Favorite new podcasts of 2017, listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

The Daily

Download

House of Carbs

Pod Save America

Favorite classic podcasts of 2017, listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

The Bill Simmons Podcast

Do By Friday

Exponent

The Lowe Post

Reply All

Roderick on the Line

Search for any of the above choices on Overcast.

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2017: Movies I Enjoyed

Listed in alphabetical order, not by rank:

Baby Driver

The Big Sick

Dunkirk

Fast 8

Get Out

Spiderman: Homecoming

Thor

To the Bone

Wonder Woman

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2016: Show Data

Total amount of shows: 541 in 9 years. Average of 60/year

2016: 91

2015: 81

2014: 86

2013: 77

2012: 66

2011: 68

2010: 39

2009: 28

2008: 5

Cities:

Manhattan: 28

Brooklyn: 18

Philadelphia: 11

Chicago: 5

States (+ a foreign country):

New York: 48

Pennsylvania: 12

New Jersey: 8

Illinois: 5

California: 4

United Kingdom: 2

Venues:

Music Hall: 4

Bowery: 3

Market Hotel: 3

Irving: 5

Studio: 6

Webster: 8

Most seen:

Knuckle Puck: 15

Pinegrove: 9

Brand New: 8

Modern Baseball: 7

Kevin Devine: 6

Sorority Noise: 6

blink-182: 5

Julien Baker: 5

Petal: 5

Real Friends: 5

Have Mercy: 5

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2016: TV Shows

Atlanta

The Americans

Fleabag

Game of Thrones

The Night Of

The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Silicon Valley

Stranger Things

Veep

Westworld

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2016: Restaurants, etc

Abe Fisher (Philadelphia, PA)

Abeeno Too (London, UK)

Cove Castle (Greenwood Lake, NY)

The Gin Joint (Charleston, SC)

Silver Fork Winery (Morganton, NC)

Taco Boy (Charleston, SC)

Uchi (Dallas, TX)

Vlaams Friteshuis Vleminck (Amsterdam, NE)

Abeeno Too was by far and away my favorite. But I loved these all.

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2016: Podcasts, New and Old

Favorite New Podcasts of 2016:

Do By Friday

2 Dope Queens

Free Agency

Heavyweight

How I Built This

Keepin’ It 1600

Out West

There Goes the Neighborhood

Oldies Favorites:

Accidental Tech Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

Cortex

Do By Friday

Hello Internet

Keepin’ It 1600

Recode Decode with Kara Swisher

Recode Media with Peter Kafka

Reconcilable Differences

Reply All

StartUp

The Talk Show

There Goes the Neighborhood

Update

The Watch

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2016: Movies I Enjoyed

Green Room

Arrival

The Room (2015)

Deadpool

Manchester by the Sea

Captain America: Civil War

Sausage Party 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Movies I have yet to see from 2016, but intend to:

Rogue One (I fell asleep during the last 20 minutes of this)

La La Land

Moonlight

Jackie

Nocturnal Animals

Nice Guys

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Favorite Releases of 2016

Listed in the order they were released in, not by rank:

Basement - Promise Everything

Pinegrove - Cardinal

Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

The Hotelier - Goodness

Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere

blink-182 - California

Touché Amoré - Stage Four

American Football - LP2

Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues

Forth Wanderers - Slop

Here’s a list of every release I paid attention to and every release I was involved in this year. 

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A Year in the Life of a Retired Kid Blogger

PropertyOfZack was laid to rest a year ago today. Since then, most things have changed for me. I moved back to New York, I shed several jobs and responsibilities while gaining more, I bought a house, I moved in with my partner, and I even started liking seltzer (but not LaCroix - yet?).

Towards the end of my stay in Philly, the majority of my activities were singular, while everything I noted above has involved positive outside forces and collaboration. 

Graduating college was rewarding in a finally kind of way, but I was stuck beyond that in a job that was cancerous and a studio apartment that was isolated. I had no plans to leave, but an opportunity pulled me away and I’m very thankful to have jumped into something new.

Every month or so, someone will ask me if I miss running the website. The answer never waivers from “no,” but I do miss the community of people around it from Jesse and Adrienne to very excited Twitter followers. It does, after all, seem crazy that a website that primarily existed because of blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, and Kevin Devine bowed out the year before each of those bands released new music. But that’s life.

While I still tweet endlessly, it felt like a noticeable internal change has taken place to be able to be less public, which is something that was beginning to take a real strain on me over the final year of the site’s existence. And that has been healthy for me. 

I did and do love the website though. And I was and am proud of all that was accomplished despite hardships, mistakes, internal and external ignorance, and arthritis. 

I hope more music blogs pop up in the next year.

I hope I write more.

I hope you all listen to the great music I’m lucky enough to be involved in. 

And I hope my wrist stops hurting. 

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The Supporting Cast 📸: Michael Piantadosi (at PhilaMOCA)

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I would not mind watching Death Cab for Cutie, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, Thursday, and Motion City Soundtrack’s final show all over the course of one weekend. I would not mind that at all.

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I am a nightmare and you are a miracle

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Google Releases Gboard Keyboard

From MacStories:

Gboard solves a common problem on mobile devices – sharing information. Whether you’re using Twitter, email, or a chat client, it’s not uncommon to have to leave the app you are using to find the information you want to share, whether that’s a location, a GIF, a photo, or even something like a stock price or the weather.

Gboard has a special button on the far left side of the row above the keyboard. Tapping that button activates a search field, above which are your most recent three searches. Type a search term and when you tap the ‘Search’ button, the keyboard is replaced by search results.

It’s really good. I’ve been using Gboard as my only keyboard on my iPhone since the app launched and it’s the first time a third party keyboard has ever stuck for me. You can grab the app here.