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The #OPS Best Albums of 2016 List: The Bronze Medals: 40-21

The madness begins, I stayed up until 5 a.m. putting this together Friday night. Every year, doing this almost kills me but every year I love doing it.

Okay, this is the Bronze Medals, the albums ranked 40-21 (and maybe a few bonus albums too). Albums like "Callus" by Gonjasufi, "A Moon Shaped Pool" by Radiohead, "Hooray For Me" by Vomitface and many others.

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Best Of 2016Joshua B. HoeDecember 3, 2016#OPS, Xylouris White, Black Peak, Cretan Luts, Gretan Lute, Tyvek, Origin Of What, Super Unison, Auto, Deathwish Inc., Naked Giants, R.I.P. EP, Miscreant Records, Summer Cannibals, Full Of It, Kill Rock Stars, Tobacco, Sweatbox Dynasty, Ghostly International, Ex-Cult, Negative Growth, In The Red Records, Sneaks, Gymnastics, Merge Records, Eva Moolchan, Chris Shaw, Powell, Sport, Cabaret Voltaire, XL Recordings, Vomitface, Hooray For Me, Help Yourself Records, Big Business, Command Your Weather, Joyful Noise Records, Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool, Violent Soho, Waco, Dine Alone Music, Deerhoof, The Magic, Polyvinyl, Polyvinyl Records, Gonjasufi, Callus, Warp, GOGGS, In The Red, De La Soul, and the Anonymous Nobody..., AOI, Moonface & Siinai, My Best Human Face, Jagjaguwar, Controlled Bleeding, Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps, Artoffact Records, Chvad SB, Paul Lemos, Yak, Alas Salvation, Octopus Electrical, Joey Purp, iii Drops, Xenia Rubinos, Bella Union, drone folk, experimental psych, freak folk, chamber psych, garage pop, punk, post punk, indie punk, Preverb, seattle indie, indie garage rock, indietronica, bay area hip hop, fluxwork, outsider house, Chris and Cosey, Indie Punk, sludge metal, stoner metal, post-doom metal, stoner rock, post-metal, doom metal, drone metal, permanent wave, alternative rock, garage rock, melancholia, indie rock, rock, australian alternative rock, pop-punk, noise rock, bay area indie, noise pop, experimental rock, neo-psychedelic, lo-fi, nu gaze, wonky, bass mucis, hip hop, east coast hip hop, alternative hip hop, hardcore hip hop, industrial, industrial rock, experimental ebm, alt-indie rock, Mothers, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, Grand Jury Music, brooklyn indie, lo star, preverb, avantgarde metal, Rip It Up And Start Again, Simon Reynolds, Subrosa, For This We Fought The Battle of the Ages, Daymare Recordings, Big Ups, Before A Million Universes, Exploding In Sound RecordingsComment

The “Manitoba Sea Castle” Spotify Playlist (#OPS Transmission #30)

This is my 30th #OPS Transmission Playlist (about my 80th overall I suspect).

This week's playlist includes the Flaming Lips, No Age, Crocodiles, Priests, Sleaford Mods and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeOctober 24, 2016Manitoba Sea Castle, #OPS Transmission #30, Second Animal Coffins, The Flaming Lips, The Castle, Warner Brothers, Staring Out The Window At Your Own Apartment, Jeff Rosenstock, WORRY, Side One Dummy, Later, Free Weed, Introducing, The Bad Dietr, The Bad Diet, Bad News, Helmet, earMusic, Design Within Reach, Priests, Bodies and Control and Money and Power, Don Giovani Records, Dad's Corner, Sleaford Mods, TCR, Rough Trade Records, Am I Real, Nail Polish, Authentic Living, Help Yourself Records, Serf to Serf, No Age, Sub Pop, Out to Sea, Male Bonding, Headache, Sub Pop Records, Go Now, Crocodiles, Dreamless, Zoo Music, Robots in the Garden, Autolux, Future Perfect, Manitoba, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Loon, XL Recordings, neo psychedelic, indie rock, alternative rock, lo-fi, space rock, noise pop, ok indie, experimental rock, anti-folk, folk punk, indie punk, punk, alternative emo, emo, indie garage rock, vaporwave, funk rock, grunge, alternative metal, industrial rock, groove metal, nu metal, post-hardcore, preverb, garage psych, riot grrrl, no wave, post-punk, experimental, noise rock, Chamber Psych, portland indie, Neo-Psychedelic, nu gaze, dance punk, freak folk, popgaze, garage pop, shoegaze, dream popComment

Vomitface: A Soundtrack For The (Futile) Search For Meaning (My Interview)

This is my interview with the Toronto band Vomitface.

Their most recent album is called "Hooray for Me" and I enjoyed it a great deal. We talk about the history of the band, the band's unique origin story, and about the band working with Steve Albini.

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