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The "Lola Want War" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Devo, Elucid, Girlpool, and LVL UP are just some of the artists on this mixed-tape style playlist but I want to highlight Soviet Soviet since they were deported for trying to perform at SXSW..apologies from the remaining sane Americans to our Italian friends

PlaylistJoshua B. HoeMarch 13, 2017alternative hip hop, underground hip hop, abstract hip hop, hip hop, hardcore hip hop, detroit hip hop, underground rap, preverb, anti-folk, indie punk, indie garage rock, lo-fi, bay area indie, garage psych, nu gaze, chillwave, noise rock, indie rock, deep gothic post-punk, grave wave, punk, australian indie, alt indie rock, deep australian indie, australian alternative rock, disco polo, madchester, new wave, post-punk, uk post-punk, new romantic, experimental rock, alt indie-rock, slow core, Francobollo, Alexandra Savior, DEVO, Columbia Records, Warner Brothers Records, Sleaford Mods, Rough Trade Records, Total Control, Iron Lung Records, Brightness, I Oh You, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sub Pop, Sub Pop Records, Gold Class, Spunk Records, Aye Nako, Don Giovani Records, Soviet Soviet, Mannequin, LVL UP, Jay Som, Polyvinyl Records, Girlpool, ANTI-records, Elucid, Backwoodz StudiozComment

The "Gold-Plated Alternative Facts" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

This is my weekly mix-tape style playlist coming to you this time with a POTUS slant.

These are all protest songs that had special resonance to me after a weekend of protests and inaugural events. It includes songs from PE, The Clash, RTJ, Doom, and more.

Enjoy, Explore, and Share Music!

PlaylistJoshua B. HoeJanuary 23, 2017permanent wave, rock, album rock, classic rock, new wave, new romantic, The Police, Ghost In The Machine, funk rock, funk metal, ska punk, ska, Fishbone, The Clash, punk, punk rock, garage rock, alternative rock, Sandinista, hard rock, Ramones, glam rock, protopunk, british invasion, psychedelic rock, The Kinks, Vince Staples, underground hip hop, escape room, rap, hip-hop, trap music, Dead Kennedys, hardcore punk, skate punk, Uniform, mandible, industrial, fluxwork, grave wave, garage psych, indie punk, Pissed Jeans, noise rock, post-hardcore, noise punk, math rock, Rage Against The Machine, nu-metal, post-grunge, Public Enemy, old school hip hop, east coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, Run The Jewels, Lex Records, Run The Jewels Inc., Def Jam Records, Epic Records, Sub Pop, Sub Pop Records, Sacred Bones Records, Alternative Tentacles, Arista Records, Warner Brothers, Colombia Records, A&M RecordsComment

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

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.

Explore, Enjoy, and Share new music!

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

Have You Heard This (Yet)? Summer Cannibals and Mass Gothic

Yes, this is my version of "Album of the Week" and I try to highlight one "brand new album" and one album that is "new to me."

This week I am featuring Summer Cannibals and Mass Gothic.

Enjoy!

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