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"Witness" Benjamin Booker & listen to the "R U Afraid Mapoleon" Spotify Playlist

Benjamin Booker went all the way to Mexico to get inspired to write his incredible new album "Witness" but I didn't have to leave home to put him on my new playlist! Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

PlaylistJoshua B. HoeJuly 17, 2017Benjamin Booker, ATO Records, Witness, modern blues, garage rock, deep new americana, spotify, streaming, streaming musicComment

The "Halo Ghost Cigarettes" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

The Cool Kids meet Lorde? Wire, The Ramones, and a tip of my cap to the immortal Chuck Berry. This is my "Halo Ghost Cigarettes" mixed-tape style Playlist.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeMarch 20, 2017Maybelline, Chuck Berry, What Up Man, The Cool Kids, The Bake Sale, Chocolate Industries, Iron Fist, Wire, Harvest Records, Hurray For The Riff Raff, The Navigator, ATO Records, Wall, Wharf Cat Recoirds, wharf cat records, B Boys, Dada, Captured Tracks Records, Casual Wrecks, Adult Books, Running From The Blows, Lollipop Records, I Think I'm Old Enough, Adult Mom, Sometimes Bad Happens, Miscreant Records, More Cigarettes, Cheap Time, Wallpaper Music, In the Red Records, I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones, Road To Ruin, Sire Records, Sugar Town, ShitKid, EP 2, PNKSLM Recordings, No Halo, Sorority Noise, Triple Crown Records, Sleeprydr, Holy Motors, Wharf Cat Records, Green Light, Lorde, Universal Music, This Is Radio Clash, The Clash, Captain Beefheart, punk, post-punk, lo-fiComment

Best Of 2016 – “The Best of the Rest” Spotify Playlist

Now that the Top Albums of 2016 list is done, all that is left is to rank the Best Of The Rest.

This is my Best is the Rest of 2016 Spotify Playlist highlighting the bands I liked that didn't make the final best albums list.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeDecember 12, 2016Only Child, Shearwater, Jet Plane and Oxbow, Sub Pop Records, Fantasy Boys, BRONCHO, Double Vanity, Dine Alone Music, Size of the Moon, Pinegrove, Cardinal, Run For Cover Records, Mass Gothic, Nice Night, Sub Pop, Heaven and Hell, Desert Mountain Tribe, Either That Or The Moon, Metropolis, Slew, False Heads, 25 Hour Convenience Store Records, All That Heaven Allows, Mercury Girls, Slumberland, Ariana, 333, Against Me, Shape Shift With Me, Total Treble, Pink Coffin, Duchess Says, Sciences Nouvelle, Bonsound, WALL, Cuban Cigars, holding the void, Sp Pitted, neo, Ready for the Magic, Honeyblood, Babes Never Die, fat Cat Records, On The Lips, Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing, Bayonet Records, You Used to be a Good Girl, Beverly, The Blue Swell, Kanine, Kaninie Records, Margaret Glaspy, Emotions & Math, ATO Records, Pimp Hand, Vince Staples, Prima Donna EP, Def Jam Records, Ain't It A Sin, Charles Bradley, Changes, Daptone, Dean's Room, Allison Crutchfield, Merge, Jacuzzi Boys, Ping Pong, Hardly Art, Days, Cool Ghouls, Animal Races, Melodic, melancholia, chamber pop, slow core, austindie, freak folk, stomp and holler, new wierd america, lo-fi, indie rock, ok indie, alternative emo, emo, chicago indie, dreamo, indie punk, pop punk, preverb, psych gaze, alt indie rock, british indie rock, garage rock, sheffield indie, Indie Punk, garage psych, noise pop, folk punk, Against Me!, melodic hardcore, punk, orgcore, skatepunk, electroclash, dance-punk, new rave, brooklyn indie, nu gaze, alt-indie-rock, new americana, folk pop, underground hip hop, hip hop, funk, soul, deep funk, garage pop, bay area indie, indie garage rockComment

My Best Albums of 2016: The Gold Medals: 10-1

Here it is, 100's of hours of work, and a whole year of listening to albums has led to these final ten albums.

My Top Ten Albums of 2016 (and a special tribute)

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Best Of 2016Joshua B. HoeDecember 8, 2016glam rock, art rock, permanent wave, protopunk, rock, singer-songwriter, mellow gold, new wave, classic rock, dance rock, David Bowie, Blackstar, Columbia Records, straight edge, hardcore, fury, Fury, Paramount, Triple B Records, australian alternative rock, deep australian indie, Camp Cope, Poison City Records, folk-punk, indie-punk, folk punk, alternative emo, Jeff Rosenstock, Worry., The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, preverb, brooklyn indie, Mitski, Puberty 2, Dead Oceans, Your Best American Girl, St. Vincent, Lucy Dacus, No Burden, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Nonagon Infinity, ATO Records, Courtney Barnett, Talking Heads, DEVO, garage psych, post punk, post-punk, Preoccupations, Flemish Eye Records, Jagjaguwar, Joy Division, noise pop, neo-psychedelic, nu gaze, indie rock, dream pop, experimental rock, noise rock, dance punk, Savages, Adore Life, Matador, Matador Records, escape room, alternative hip hop, underground hip hop, detroit hip hop, Danny Brown, Atrocity Exhibition, Kanye West, Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial, Will Toldeo, Spotify, #SpotifyComment

The "Groovey Silver Streaker" Spotify Playlist (#IHateRadio Transmission #35)

Yup, it is now Tuesday, which means it is time for my weekly Spotify Playlist.

This week it includes songs from The Angels of Light, Ciccone Youth, DEVO, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeNovember 28, 2016The Groovey Silver Streaker Spotify Playlist, #IHateRadio, #SpotifyPlaylist, #Spotify, Spotify, Bandcamp, Dreaming 80's Baby Playlist, Groovey Silver Streaker Playlist, Goth Kids Grandparents Playlist, Evangelline, Angels of Light, How I Loved You, Young God, Red Sleeping Beauty, McCarthy, That's All Very Well But?, Cherry Red Records, Silver Velvet, The Courtneys, Flying Nun Records, The State (I'm In), Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation, Mirage, Rocket, Streaker, Notrabel, Tobacco, Ultima II Massage, Ghostly Records, Whip IIt, Whip It, DEVO, DEVOTEES, Devo, Freedom Of Choice, Warner Brothers Records, Rattlesnake, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, ATO Records, Weigh In, False Heads, 25 Hour Records, Bad Girl, Hideous Sun Demon, Industry Connections LP, Pilerats Records, Warner Brothers, Into the Groovey, Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album, Enigma, experimental, new wierd america, experimental rock, freak folk, industrial, no wave, c86, twee pop, indie punk, indietronica, zolo, new wave, dance rock, post-punk, new romantic, UK Post Punk, synthpop, new wave popo, new wave pop, punk, art rock, australian alternative rock, Neo-Psychedelic, alt indie rock, garage rock, british indie rock, indie rock, britpop, dance-punk, sheffield indie, deep australian indie, riot grrrl, shoegaze, dream popComment

April Band Roll: What Bands Were on #OPS Playlists In April

I wanted to see how many bands I covered in April on the blog and this is just the bands from my playlists. All the bands, with links to their pages, the playlists they were on, and their record labels.

Not sure I can do this every month (took HOURS) but I will try.

Enjoy!

OpinionJoshua B. HoeMay 10, 2016Spotify Playlist, #Spotify, #SpotifyPlaylist, YouTube, #YouTubePlaylist, #YouTube, A Place To Bury Strangers, Straight Tripping Witch Playlist, Mute Records, Acid Baby Jesus, Ha Magic Tomboy Playlist, Slovenly Recordings, Beastie Boys, The Beastie Boys, Blues Rock Rap Playlist, Def Jam Records, Black Francis, Bad Teeth Island Playlist, Cooking Vinyl, Black Mountaiin, Haunted Faith Attack Playlist, JaJaguwar, Blondie, Chrysalis Records, Buke and Gase, Houdini Trash Rash Playlist, Brassland Records, Cannibal Ox, Definitive Jux, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, A&M Records, Chain and the Gang, Chain & the Gang, K Records, Clorox Girls, Explore This Playllist, Burger Records, Cloud Nothings, Wichita Recordings, Cosmic Psychos, Normal Records, Cypress Hill, Colombia Records, Dalek, Ipecac Recordings, Dead Milkmen, Blog Mischief Playlist, Restless Records, Deposit Man, Deposit Man EP, Destruction Unit, Rock Ain't Dead Playlist, Sacred Bones Records, Downtown Boys, Don Giovani Records, Dread Zeppelin, IRS Records, Drive Like Jehu, Interscope Records, Elvis Presley, RCA Records, Fear Of Men, Kaninie Records, Frankie Cosmos, Double Double Whammy, George Clinton, Parliament, Capital Records, Gleaming Spires, Scotti Brothers Records, Greys, Carpark Records, Guerilla Toss, DFA Records, Hallelujah the Hills, Hallelujah The Hills, Misra Records, Honduras, Black Bell Records, HTRK, Blast First Petite, Hunx and His Punx, Hardly Art, Institute, Jay Reatard, In The Red Records, Julien Casablancas, Atlantic, Kweku Collins, Closed Sessions, L7, Slash Records, La Misma, Toxic State, LCD Soundsystem, Lil' Yachty, Lilys, Manifesto Records, Love and Rockets, Haunted Faith Attack, Makthaverskan, Run For COver Records, Meatbodies, Minor Threat, Dischord Records, Mojo Nixon, No Age, Sub Pop Records, Not On Tour, Diner Junkie, Parquet Courts, Rough Trade Records, Patto, Vertigo Records, Personal and the Pizzas, Personal & The Pizza's, Go! Records, GO! Records, Preoccupations, Viet Cong, Flemish Eye Records, Prince, NPG Records, Public Enemy, Radiohead, XL Recordings, Reverend Horton Heat, Sub Pop, Run DMC, RVIVR, Rumbletowne Records, Sheer Mag, Katorga Works, Sports, Father/Daughter Records, Smashing Pumpkins, Virgin Records, Stars, Soft Revolution, ATO Records, Stepsisters, Palaver Records, Sudakistan, PNKSLM Recordings, Summer Cannibals, Kill Rock Stars, Tacocat, Tenement, Grave Mistake Records, The Autumn Stones, Immediate Records, The Bad Plus, EmArcy Records, The Clash, Epic Records, The Coathangers, Suicide Squeeze Records, The Courtneys, The Darkness, Atlantic Records, The Meanies, Poison City Records, The Rolling Stones, Decca Records, Queen, EMI, The Rentals, Maverick Records, The Saints, Fatal Records, Total Widow, Relapse Records, Wilco, Nonesuch, Wire, Pinkflag Records, Youth Code, Dais RecordsComment