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The “Prissy Kombat Face” Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

New Ear candy on the "Prissy Kombat Face" mixed-tape style Spotify playlist including songs from Beach House, The Clash, Cayetana, JJ Doom and many others. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The “Killer Fish Guy” Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

New Ear Candy including Vince Staples, The Psychedelic Furs, Young M.A., Wimps, Dolores Haze, Dasher, and many others on this Mixed-Tape style Playlist. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The "78 Ketamine Girls" Best New Music Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Johnwayne to Kate Tempest and The Feelies to Rank/Xerox this best new music mixed-tape style Spotify playlist celebrates alternative hip-hop and lo-fi with some sprinkles of darkness. Pull Back the Bolt and Explore, Enjoy and Share Music!

The “Eggnog From a Drunk Tank (on Christmas Eve)” Spotify "I Hate Radio" Playlist

Every Tuesday (often a bit early) I put out a new Playlist.

This week's playlist is Holiday themed and features songs from Fiona Apple, Ramones, Sufjan Stevens, The Knife, Pet Shop Boys, the Pogues and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeDecember 19, 2016This Was The Worst Christmas Ever, Sufjan Stevens, Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas (Singalong), Do They Know It's Christmas, Band Aid, Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight), Ramones, Brain Drain, Oi! To The World, The Vandals, No Doubt, Everything In Time, This Time of Year, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Medium Rare, Candy Cane Children, The White Stripes, Merry Christmas From The White Stripes, Frosty the Snowman, Fiona Apple, The Hotel Cafe Presents Winter Songs, Is This Home On Ice, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Christmas Island, Depedhe Mode, A Question of Lust EP, Reindeer, The Knife, Christmas Reindeer, It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas, Pet Shop Boys Christmas, Fairytale of New York, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Asthmatic Kitty, Phongram, Colombia, Sire, KIDinaKorner, Big Rig Records, XL Recordings, Wichita Recordings, Mute, Rabid, Island, chamber pop, indie pop, indie folk, indie christmas, folk pop, folk christmas, freak folk, indie rock, stomp and holler, singer-songwriter, Christmas, Pop Christmas, punk, permanent wave, heavy christmas, punk christmas, rock, classic rock, hard rock, alternative rock, pop rock, dance pop, post-grunge, ska, ska punk, skate punk, boston rock, funk rock, garage rock, punk blues, blues rock, Classic Rock, lilith, piano rock, brooklyn indie, new wave, new romantic, dance rock, synthpop, electronic, electroclash, alternative dance, new rave, swedish synthpop, indietronica, europop, new wave pop, celtic rock, celtic punk, ounkComment

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

Best Albums Of 2016 Part 2 Spotify Playlist (Albums #20-11)

Spotify Playlist - Selections from my Best of 2016 Albums List #20-11

Click on the playlist or hit play and then scroll down to learn more about the bands, including A Tribe Called Quest, Moon City Boys, Hideous Sun Demon, The Avalanches, Kimo Kimino and many more.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeDecember 7, 2016deep australian indie, australian, 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, alternative hip hop, rap, Never Be Mine, Angel Olsen, My Woman, Jagjaguwar, Rosy Rudiger, Kino Kimino, Bait Is For Sissies, Have a Heart, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Pretty Years, Sinderlyn, Ghost Ramp, Frankie Sinatra, The Avalanches, Wildflower, Astralwerks, Astonished Man, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, A Man Alive, Ribbon Music, Ego, A Tribe Called Quest, We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your Service, Epic Records, Carry My Bags, Moon City Boys, I Need More, 8tta_7uor, The Girl With Electronics Inside, Hallelujah the Hills, hallelujah the hills, A Band Is Something To Figure Out, Discrete Pageantry, Bad Girl, Hideous Sun Demon, Corporate Influence LP, Pilerats Records, Warner Brothers Australia, Blood Bath, I'm In the Phone Book I'm on the Planet I'm Dying Slowly, Shut Up And Kiss Me, Whateva Will Be, Epic, This Is Radio Clash, The Clash, Captain Beefheart, Kim Gordon, Girl In A BandComment

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 #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 "Magic Time Eraser" Spotify Playlist (#IHateRadio Transmission #32)

Magic Time Eraser could refer to listening to this playlist and losing all track of time or whatever you want it to mean.

Whatever you choose, this playlist includes new Run The Jewels, Japandroids, Slothrust, Aesop Rock, Tyvek and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeNovember 8, 2016#IHateRadio, Magic Time Eraser, I Heart Radio, Clandestine Jagermeister Missile, Kicker, Alex G., Beach Music, Something I Can Never Have, Vitamin String Quartet, String Quartet Tribute To Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine, Every Time, Fury, Grey Erasure, True Widow, Avvolgere, Ready for the Magic, Honeyblood, Babes Never Die, Tip to Tail, Tyvek, Origin of What, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, Japandroids, My Belly, Aesop Rock, Run The Jewels, RTJ 3, Ya Ya, Naked Giants, R.I.P. EP, Trial and Error, Slothrust, Everyone Else, Motion Picture Soundtrack, Radiohead, Kid A, preverb, indie garage rock, bow pop, string quartet, straight edge, hardcore, nu gaze, shoegaze, garage psych, alt-indie-rock, garage pop, noise popo, noise pop, neo psychedelic, neo-psychedelic, noise rock, vancouver indie, indie rock, lo-fi, freak folk, experimental rock, dance punk, abstract hip hop, alternative hip hop, hip hop, underground hip hop, indie punk, seattle indie, brooklyn indie, permanent wave, alternative rock, melancholia, rockComment

The "Clandestine Jagermeister Missile" Spotify Playlist (#IHateRadio Transmission #31)

You can't stop me, even after two playlists this weekend, I have my Tuesday playlist ready.

This week's playlist includes Los Nastys, Pavement, Mind Spiders, Male Gaze, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeOctober 31, 2016#IHateRadio, #OPS, Clandestine Jagermeister Missile, Spotify, Spotify Playlist, #SpotifyPlaylist, #Spotify, Manitoba Sea Castle, Needle in the Hay, Juliana Hatfield, Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliot Smith, It's My Feeling, Holy Sons, In the Garden, You Used to be a Good Girl, Beverly, The Blue Swell, Broken Bones, CRX, Think Twice, Male Gaze, Cliffs of Madness/Think Twice, Boys Like Blood, Jacuzzi Boys, Ping Pong, Jagermeister, Los Nastys, Cannibal Business, Prosthesis, Mind Spiders, X.T.Y, Sneaks, Gymnastics, Love Missile F1-11, Flaunt It, Dean's Room, Allison Crutchfield, Forging, Xylouris White, Black Peak, Clandestine Time, Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect, Summer Babe, Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted, alternative pop, boston rock, permanent wave, riot grrrl, lilith, power pop, grunge, anti-folk, new wierd america, freak folk, garage psych, brooklyn indie, indie punk, garage, garage rock, dance-punk, alternative rock, indie pop, neo-psychedelic, new rave, noise pop, alternative dance, alt-indie-rock, la indie, nu gaze, noise rock, indie garage rock, garage pop, spanish noise pop, punk, post punk, garage punk, new wave, new romantic, synthpop, new wave pop, uk post punk, drone folk, experimental psych, chamber psych, gbvfi, slow core, lo-fiComment