Vince Staples

The "Revolution Wriggle" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

A Punk, Post-Punk, and Hip-Hop Spotify playlist including music by Depeche Mode, clipping, Vince Staples, The Pharcyde, Funafu, Priests, Beastie Boys and more.

My playlists are "mixed-tape" style lists (designed to be static)

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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.

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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

My Best Albums of 2016: The Silver Medals: 20-11

The Madness of my Best of 2016 list continues...

Today I am introducing My Best of 2016 Albums #20 - 11 including Angel Olsen, Kino Kimino, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and many others.

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Best Of 2016Joshua B. HoeDecember 6, 2016The #OPS Best Albums of 2016 List, The Clash, Hideous Sun Demon, The Industry Connections LP, hallelujah the hills, A Band Is Something To Figure Out, The Avalanches, Wildflower, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, A Man Alive, Angel Olsen, My Woman, Lithics, Borrowed Floors, Kino Kimino, Bait Is For Sissies, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Pretty Years, Moon City Boys, I Need MOre, I Need More, A Tribe Called Quest, We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your Service, Vince Staples, ATCQ, Malik, Phife Dawg, Joe Strummer, Redemption Song, Chris Salewicz, deep australian indie, australian alternative rock, boston rock, electronic, australian dance, trip hop, alternative dance, new rave, indietronica, synthpop, indie pop, chamber pop, stomp and holler, freak folk, indie folk, folk pop, indie rock, lo-fi, anti-folk, noise pop, Neo-Psychedelic, post punk, post-punk, garage psych, preverb, brooklyn indie, noise rock, nu gaze, experimental rock, dance punk, deep swedish indie pop, hip hop, east coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, alternative hip hop, rapComment

The "Voodoo Kiss Blues" #Spotify Playlist (#OPS Transmission #22)

Another #OPS Pirate Transmission #Spotify playlist (#22)

This one includes songs from Vince Staples, Ween, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jonwayne, De La Soul and many others.

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Have You Heard This (Yet)? Vince Staples + The Raincoats

Yup, it's back, my semi-weekly "Album of the Week" feature. Yes, sometimes I forget. Last week there were like seven really good albums released and I just could not choose between them all (see this week's playlist).

Anyway, this week my fave is (no surprise) Vince Staples.

Enjoy and #ShareNewMusic

Have You Heard This (Yet)Joshua B. HoeAugust 26, 2016Vince Staples, Prima Donna, The Raincoats, Outkast, The Kinks, Lola, No Age, Separation, War Ready, Pimp Hand, Big TimeComment

Pirate Transmission Playlist #17: Nigerian Zoo Devil

Time for another #Spotify Pirate Transmission Playlist! This one features some international flair, it is called Nigerian Zoo Devil and features music from The Police, Fela Kuti, All Dogs, Joy Division, Germs, Drab Majesty and many others.

If you like it, share it, because more plays means more money for the artists on the playlist.

Enjoy!

5 Reasons Why Vinyl (HBO) is Awesome

Not sure you want to dive in and start binge watching Vinyl (HBO)?

Here are five strong reasons you should take that plunge and start loving Vinyl!

Playlist: Vince Don't Care

Every Thursday I post a new Spotify playlist.

This week's playlist includes: Albert Hammond Jr., Beastie Boys, Chvrches, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Black Sheep and many others.

Enjoy!

Tribe Called Quest: The Low-End Theory (1991, Jive)

Every Wednesday I post a new entry into my All-Time Album series.

This week's entry is The Low-End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest.

My Gift to Belinda Carlisle: Music With Character

I challenged myself to come up with 40 good albums released in just the last two years so that I could respond to people, like Belinda Carlisle, who think no good music is being made today.

As usual, I believe music is fine, it is the industry that is doing a terrible job of communicating great music to the masses.

OpinionJoshua B. HoeFebruary 19, 2016Go Go's, Belinda Carlisle, Beauty and the Beat, Beach House, Depression Cherry, Father John Misty, I Love You Honeybear, Mas Ysa, Seraph, Shearwater, Jet Plane and Oxbow, La Misma, Kanizadi, Wand, Golem, Pinegrove, Cardinal, Bully, Feels Like, Ought, Sun Coming Down, Diat, Positive Energy, Pinkish Black, Bottom Of The Morning, Cloud Nothings, Here And Nowhere Else, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, So Pitted, Neo, TV On The Radio, TVOTR, DIIV, Run The Jewels, Killer Mike, Run The Jewels 2, Tame Impala, Currents, Grimes, Art Angels, Shopping, Why Choose, Cold Beat, Into The Air, Deerhunter, Fading Frontier, Chelsea Wolf, Abyss, Albert Hammond Jr., Momentary Masters, Blanck Mass, Dumb Flesh, Gun Ouftit, Alabama Shakes, The Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color, Brittany Howard, Dilly Dally, Sore, Milo, So The Flies Won't Come, Chastity Belt, Time To Go Home, Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect, Courtney Barnett, Speedy Ortiz, Foil Deer, Hop Along, Painted Shut, J. Tillman, Waxahatchee, Katie Curtchfield, Katie Crutchfield, Titus Andronicus, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Ivy Trip, Julien Baker, Sprained Ankle, Majical Cloudz, Are You Alone?, Chvrches, Every Open Eye, Vince Staples, Summertime 06, Girlpool, Before The World Was BigComment

The Top 20 Albums of 2015: 10-1

This is my top albums of the year, the very tip top.

Who will be my champ of 2015? Read, enjoy, and find out!