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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 "999 Robots Unite" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Ear candy from Kraftwerk, Feist, Desert Mountain Tribe, Black Lips, and many others on this new mixed-tape style Spotify Playlist.

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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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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The "Sticky Warm Truth" Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Today's playlist features electronic music from many decades. In particular, it features Amnesia Scanner, Blanck Mass, Purity Ring, Chris and Cosey, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, and many others.

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The Flaming Lips, The XX, and a Projection - "I Hate Radio" Music News 1/14/2017

The Flaming Lips, The XX, A Projection, and Uranium Club make up the list of new albums that I have been listening to the most this week.

Friday's are for sharing New Music!

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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 10/28/2016

Today's Curated Music News

Including, the incredible Vince Clarke and also some discussion of the future of Rock music.

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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 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 "Groovey Silver Streaker" Spotify Playlist (#IHateRadio Transmission #35)

Yup, it is now Tuesday, which means it is time for my weekly Spotify Playlist.

This week it includes songs from The Angels of Light, Ciccone Youth, DEVO, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeNovember 28, 2016The Groovey Silver Streaker Spotify Playlist, #IHateRadio, #SpotifyPlaylist, #Spotify, Spotify, Bandcamp, Dreaming 80's Baby Playlist, Groovey Silver Streaker Playlist, Goth Kids Grandparents Playlist, Evangelline, Angels of Light, How I Loved You, Young God, Red Sleeping Beauty, McCarthy, That's All Very Well But?, Cherry Red Records, Silver Velvet, The Courtneys, Flying Nun Records, The State (I'm In), Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation, Mirage, Rocket, Streaker, Notrabel, Tobacco, Ultima II Massage, Ghostly Records, Whip IIt, Whip It, DEVO, DEVOTEES, Devo, Freedom Of Choice, Warner Brothers Records, Rattlesnake, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, ATO Records, Weigh In, False Heads, 25 Hour Records, Bad Girl, Hideous Sun Demon, Industry Connections LP, Pilerats Records, Warner Brothers, Into the Groovey, Ciccone Youth, The Whitey Album, Enigma, experimental, new wierd america, experimental rock, freak folk, industrial, no wave, c86, twee pop, indie punk, indietronica, zolo, new wave, dance rock, post-punk, new romantic, UK Post Punk, synthpop, new wave popo, new wave pop, punk, art rock, australian alternative rock, Neo-Psychedelic, alt indie rock, garage rock, british indie rock, indie rock, britpop, dance-punk, sheffield indie, deep australian indie, riot grrrl, shoegaze, dream popComment

Special: The "Goth Kid's Grandparents" Spotify Playlist

Once a month a do a special themed playlist, this month it is Gothic Rock from the 80's.

The playlist includes songs from Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, and many others.

Winter is coming, Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!

Playlist, Legacy PlaylistJoshua B. HoeNovember 24, 2016South Park, The Goth Kids, Goth Kids Grandparents Playlist, Spotify, #Spotify, #SpotifyPlaylist, Gothic Rock, A Short Term Effect, The Cure, Pornography, Lucretia My Reflection, Sisters of Mercy, Floodland, Elektra, Assimilate, Skinny Puppy, Bites, Nettwerk, Terror Couple Killed Colonel, Bauhaus, Press the Eject and Give Me The Tape, 4AD, Figurative Theater, Christian Death, Only Theater of Pain, Frontier, A day, A Day, Clan of Xymox, Hizbollah, Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey, Sire, Incubus Succubus, Xmal Deutschland, Tocsin, The Spangle Maker, Cocteau Twins, The Spangle Maker EP, Nocturnal Me, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain, Respect, The Wolfgang Press, The Legendary Wolfgang Press and Other Tall Stories, See You, Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame, Sire Records, Dear Prudence, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Hyaena, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Factory, permanent wave, new wave, UK Post Punk, dance rock, alternative rock, corrosion, industrial, industrial rock, digital hardcore, electro-industrial, ebm, industrial metal, experimental, dark wave, gothic rock, post-punk, ethereal wave, nu metal, alternative metal, gothic post-punk, neue deutsche welle, dream pop, melancholia, shoegaze, slow core, art rock, madchester, britpop, new romantic, synthpop, new wave pop, punk, The HungerComment

The "Firefly Street Miracle" Spotify Playlist (#IHateRadio Transmission #33)

Time for my weekly playlist, my small attempt to disrupt record industry consolidation and remind everyone that GREAT music is all around us!

This week the playlist includes songs from TRAAMS, The Plimsouls, Kristin Control, The Church, and many others.

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeNovember 14, 2016#IHateRadio, Firefly Street Miracle, Spotify, #Spotify, #SpotifyPlaylist, Magic Time Eraser, Firefly, gobbinjr, Vom Night, All For The Best, Miracle Legion, Surprise Surprise Suprise, A Million Miles Away, The Plimsouls, Everywhere At Once, Warsaw Street, Lea Porcelain, The Unguarded Moment, The Church, Of Skins and Hearts, Destroy, Flasher, A House On Fire, TRAAMS, Flying Duck Theory, The Vibrators, V2, I'll Make It Worth Your While, Artificial Pleasure, R.S.I., Fujiya & Miyagi, Semi-Automatic, Yak, Heavens Above, Show Me, Kristin Control, 80's Club Friends, This Is Radio Clash, The Clash, Captain Beefheart, preverb, Preverb, Jangle Pop, Lo-Fi, Neo-Psychedelic, alternative rock, power pop, underground power pop, dance rock, new wave, chamber psych, german indie, australian alternative rock, uk post punk, dream pop, post punk, new romantic, neo psychedelic, indie dream pop, indie punk, garage psych, alt-indie-rock, punk, pub rock, oi, escape room, alternative dance, new rave, dance-punk, indietronica, synthpop, electroclash, electronic, metropopolisComment

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