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The “Cred Reduction Agent” Spotify Playlist: Featuring Kevin Morby

Enjoy my "Cred Reduction Agent" Mixed Tape Style Playlist featuring Kevin Morby while you read about his music and new album "City Music" Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

PlaylistJoshua B. HoeJuly 10, 2017Kevin Morby, Ramones, The Babies, Woods, City Music, Dead Oceans, Woodsist, freak folk, preverb, Lo-Fi, anti-folk, punkComment

"The Damn Pinhead War" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

New Ear Candy in "The Damn Pinhead War" Mixed-Tape Style Spotify Playlist including music from The National, Oneohtrix Point Never, Arcade Fire, Ho99o9, Trapped Under Ice, Waxahatchee and many more. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The "Sofa King Birdland" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

New Ear candy including Afghan Whicgs, LCD Soundsystem, Perfume Genius, Danger Doom and many others on this Mixed-Tape style playlist. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The "Clown Kick Grave" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

The Cramps, The Dahmers, Bad Breeding, Flat Worms and more on this dark rockabilly roller coaster ride of a mixed-tape style playlist. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The "Tall Dream Janitor" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

The Cure, Gang of Four, and Father John Misty meet in a room full of new music. This is the "Tall Dream Janitor" mixed-tape style Spotify Playlist.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeMarch 6, 2017indie folk, indie rock, freak folk, no wave, experimental rock, chicago indie, preverb, garage rock, post punk, post-punk, uk post-punk, punk, noise rock, alternative rock, lo-fi, nu gaze, shoegaze, Neo-Psychedelic, madchester, new wave, west coast trap, bay area hip hop, chamber psych, garage psych, indie garage rock, permanent wave, new romantic, Father John Misty, Sub Pop Records, Joshua Michael Tillman, Lee Ranaldo, Matador Records, Sonic Youth, NE-HI, Grand Jury Music, Gang of Four, EMI, Suburban Lawns, I.R.S. Records, Women, Jagjaguwar, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Warner Music Group, Sneaks, Merge Records, Eva Moolchan, Downtown Boys, Bas Jan, Sarafina Steer, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tim Darcy, Ought, Froth, Wichita Recordings, The Cure, Elektra, Bronco Bowl, University of North Texas, Cold Beat, Crime on the Moon, Hannah Lew, This Is Radio Clash, The Clash, Captain BeefheartComment

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 "Outlaw Pleasure Bugs" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Cherry Glazerr, Priests, Japandroids, Cloud Nothings, and much more.

This weeks mixtape-style playlist is called "Outlaw Pleasure Bugs" and new playlists come out every week.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeJanuary 30, 2017indie punk, preverb, garage psych, lo-fi, noise rock, alternative rock, freak folk, indie rock, new honky tonk, chamber psych, noise pop, nu gaze, vancouver indie, canadian indie, post-hardcore, space rock, garage punk, riot grrrl, post punk., punk, la indie, indie garage rock, indie garage, indie psych-rock, uk post-punk, c86, experimental rock, alt-indie-rock, mexican indie, industrial, industrial rock, no wave, gothic rock, kraut rock, new wave, Mute Records, Cabaret Voltaire, Ipecac Recordings, Le Butcherettes, The Moonlandingz, Transgressive Records, Josef K, Postcard Records, Cherry Glazerr, Secretly Canadian, Priests, Nothing Feels Natural, Sister Polygon Records, Apocalypstick, Radioactivity, Dirtnap Records, At The Drive In, Rise Records, Japandroids, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, ANTI-records, Cloud Nothings, Life Without Sound, Carpark Records, Communions, Fat Possum Records, Dead Hot Workshop, Atlantic Records, Fred Thomas, Bedbugs, polyvinyl recordsComment

Fred Thomas, Human League, and Chris Morton - Music News 1/18/2017

Fred Thomas has a new album dropping in 10 days, The Human League just released a retrospective and famous Punk sleeve artist Chris Morton gets honored in a new art show.

Curated Music News for 1/18/2017

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Protomartyr, Kim Gordon, and the Paste Punk List - "I Hate Radio" Music News 1/13/2017

Celebrate the Feast of the Holy Protomartyr by listening to the band Protomartyr, hear a Kim Gordon "interrogation," and explore Paste Magazine's best punk of the 2000's list.

Curated music news for 1/13/2017 Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

The "Men Kill Fox" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Every Tuesday I produce a new Mixed-Tape style #Spotify playlist. Today's playlist includes songs from Television, The Strokes, the Talking Heads, Buzzcocks and many others.

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"I Hate Radio" Music News 1/7/2017

Lots of music to share in today's music news.

Links to new and old music from Elbow, Car Seat Headrest, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Preoccupations.

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The "Me and the Losers" Spotify Playlist (Hello 2017!)

Here it is, my first new Spotify playlist of 2017, this one is called "Me and the Losers"

It includes songs from Childish Gambino, Karies, The Microphones, Tame Impala, Mary Lynn, and many others.

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Joshua B. HoeJanuary 3, 2017alternative pop punk, rock, female indie pop, indie rock, noise pop, columbus, piano rock, garage psych, Chamber Psych, preverb, freak folk, indie punk, Neo-Psychedelic, hip-hop, rap, pop rap, german indie, lo-fi, slow core, noise rock, e6fi, anti-folk, experimental rock, dream pop, canadian india, indie garage rock, alternative emo, columbus ohio indie, folk punk, australian alternative rock, indietronica, progressive metal, neo-progressive, progressive rock, symphonic rock, fluxwork, grave wave, mandible, outsider house, minimal wave, vaporwave, drone, nu-gaze, shoegaze, space rock, post rock, permanent wave, new wave, synthpop, alternative dance, deep swedish indie pop, chillwave, indie psych-rock, escape room, spotify, I Hate Radio, The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor, My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock SurvivorComment

"I Hate Radio" Music News 10/29/2016

This is my curated music news for 12/29/2016

It includes discussion of Mac Quayle's Emmy-nominated Mr. Robot soundtrack and Billboard's breakout predictions 2017 list.

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The “Red Kismet Kill” Spotify Playlist (Adios 2016)

This is my last playlist of 2016 (and what a bittersweet journey it has been).

Anyway, this list includes songs from Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, Nine Inch Nails, Alternative TV, Haley Bonar, The Sueves, and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeDecember 26, 2016Spotify, Spotify Playlist, #Spotify, #SpotifyPlaylist, Red Kismet Kill, I Hate Radio, I Heart Radio, eggnog from a drunk tank, Taxi Driver, Pip Blom, Are We There Yet, Big Hassle, Amsterdam, The Pressure, Patience, Night School Records, Roxanne Clifford, Veronica Falls, Red Roulette, Dirty Dishes, Guilty, Funeral Sounds, Branches/Bones, Nine Inch Nails, Not The Actual Events, The Null Corporation, Oh the Flatlands, Oh Boland, Spilt Music, Volar Records, Action Time Vision, Alternative TV, Cherry Red Records, Made Up Song, The Sueves, Change Your Life, HoZac Records, Age of Consent, Cayetana, Tired Eyes, Asian Man Records, Isolation, Joy Divsion, Factory Records, Ian Curtis, Black Mirror, Butcher Billy, MSQ No Extra, Black Marble, A Different Arrangement, Hardly Art, Dirty Boulevard, Lou Reed, New York, Sire, Bob Dylan, Dead Meat, Personal and the Pizzas, Slovenly Recordings, Kismet Kill, Haley Bonar, Impossible Dream, Memphis Industries, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, The Greatest Conversation Ever in the History of the Universe, 30 Days 30 Songs, Mark Kozelek, The Post-Punk/New Wave Super Friends, Peter Hook, Inside New Order, Substance: Inside New Order: Coming Up Coming Down, dutch rock, chamber pop, Chamber Psych, preverb, garage psych, chillwave, twee pop, c86, indie dream pop, indie psych-rock, indie punk, industrial noise, industrial rock, industrial, industrial metal, alternative rock, alternative metal, funk rock, post-grunge, punk, noise rock, lo-fi, garage pop, freak folk, UK post punk, uk post punk, no wave, post-punk, chicago indie, garage punk, noise pop, alternative emo, new wave, grave ave, grave wave, nu gaze, vaporwave, indie psych, glam rock, protopunk, classic rock, melancholia, stomp and holler, slow-core, anti-folkComment

"I Hate Radio" Music News 10/23/2016

Okay, I am excited to share this edition of my curated music news...why?

Clash Documentary!!!! The Clash Documentary "Audio Ammunition" is embedded inside.

Oh, also Ty Segall does something awesome and Angel Olsen gets interviewed!

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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