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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 “Apologies, Dumb Ladyman” Spotify Playlist (I Hate Radio)

Nirvana, Interpol, Sleater-Kinney, Portishead along with many new artists like Stef Chura, Ho99o9, and the Last Artful Dodgr populate this mixtape-style playlist.

This is my weekly playlist for the week of 2/20/2017

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PlaylistJoshua B. HoeFebruary 20, 2017On Pirate Satellitealternative hip hop, underground hip hop, portland indie, electronic, trip hop, laboratorio, alternative rock, indie rock, garage rock, post-punk, wonky, punk, escape room, hip-hop, abstract hip-hop, indietronica, chaotic hardcore, indie punk, mathcore, post-hardcore, la indie, post-grunge, riot grrrl, lo-fi, anti-folk, noise rock, deep new americana, australian indie, garage psych, australian alternative rock, preverb, indie garage rock, grunge, permanent wave, rock, classic rock, Quelle Chris, Mello Music Group, The Last Artful Dodgr, Neil Tally, EYRST, Portishead, Polydor, Interpol, Matador Records, Paul White & Danny Brown, R & S Records, Ho99o9, Family Records, Swain, End Hits Records, Silversun Pickups, Dangerbird, Sleater-Kinney, Kill Rock Stars, Ron Gallo, New West Records, Tyrannamen, Cool Death Records, Stef Chura, Urinal Cake Records, Nirvana, DGC Records, The Clash, Captain BeefheartComment

"Sometimes It Snows In April" - A Prince Tribute Spotify Playlist

I have been a Prince fan most of my life (since Junior High School).

Yesterday Spotify started streaming most of Prince's albums.

This is my "Sometimes It Snows In April" tribute 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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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

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

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 "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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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

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 Top 45 Albums of 2016: The Complete #OPS Guide

The easy guide to finding all 45 of my Top Albums of 2016 and all of the companion playlists.

Too many albums to list here but let's just say it was a good year for Car Seat Headrest, Danny Brown, and Savages.

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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

#OPS Best Albums Of 2016 Part 1 Spotify Playlist (Albums #45-21)

Selections From My Best Albums Of 2016 Part 1 - Albums #45-21 #SpotifyPlaylist

This is the first companion playlist to my Best of 2016 Best Albums list (#45-21). It includes Gonjasufi, Radiohead, Tyvek, De La Soul, Sneaks, and many others.

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