Heavy Rotation

A bunch of my favorite musicians have new music out: Chris “Crispy” Corvino of Deadguy now sings for Atom Driver, Kowloon Walled City bassist Ian Miller’s Strangelight (featuring one-time KWC member and The New Trust drummer Julian Lancer along with members of Transistor Transistor + Western Addiction) have a new EP out, and Louis Jucker of Coilguns dropped a new single.

This stuff all flows into some music that I think everyone should hear: the 2021 albums by Kowloon Walled City, Human Impact and Rob Sonic.

Plus, there’s multiple new Alchemist projects (because there always is) and the instrumentals of O.C.’s classic ’94 debut Word… Life are on DSP’s now.

And I can’t stop listening to the Mouthpiece LP from 1994.

This is a solid hour of good tunes.

“Wournos” Atom Driver (2017, pre-Crispy)
“Lead Blanket” Strangelight
“The World Needs Laughter” Strangelight
“Easy Lover” Atom Driver
“Happy” Atom Driver
“To The Side” Mouthpiece (1994)
“What Remains” Mouthpiece (1994)
“Nothing There” Mouthpiece (1994)
“Recognition” Human Impact
“Contact” Human Impact
“You Had A Plan” Kowloon Walled City
“The Cold” The Alchemist
“The Perfect Body” Louis Jucker
“Mink” Rob Sonic
“Smothered & Covered” Rob Sonic
“Hot Water Tank” Boldy James, The Alchemist, ICECOLDBISHOP
“Ga Head (instrumental)” Lord Finesse beat for O.C. (1994)
“Times UP (instrumental)” Buckwild beat for O.C. (1994)

Enjoy and leave a comment if you make a new discovery.

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Week of 12/10/2021

A ton of good new noise rock and hardcore from The Poison Arrows, the mighty Coilguns, Bummer, Tunic, Cloakroom and Demons along with new instrumental stuff by Tyondai Braxton, Coilguns side-project Closet Disco Queen and DJ Abilities. And ending with a new discovery for me — the transcendant and eccentric black-ish metal of Gaahs WYRD.

Week of 3/30/2021

MOSTLY NEW TUNES FROM DJ MUGGS, CASPA, LASSE MARHUAG, DEMONS, TECH LEVEL 2 AND BENNY THE BUTCHER. PLUS ONE OF THE BEST PJ HARVEY SONGS EVER IN ITS DEMO STATE.

Week of 12/31/2020

2 hours is a lot of tunes but I haven’t posted one of these in awhile and there’s been so much to check out lately. Its not a surprise but this playlist covers a lot of ground: new punk and hardcore bands from people who I’ll always check out like Current/Ottawa frontman Matthias Weeks’ band Wrong War (doing an early 80s Dischord thing) and Ian from Kowloon Walled City’s new Wipers-inpsired outfit Strangelight; new releases from some of my favorites: Portrayal of Guilt, Night Goat, Trvss, The Bug, Merzbow, BENNY The Butcher and motherfucking Rob Sonic; and stuff that I wasn’t up on like Russell Haswell’s debut LP from 2000 or actual noise-rockers Sightings 2013 album “Terribly Well”.

Week of 10/16/2020

This one goes from soft as an overripe avocado to hard as something that is really hard. Also I really fucks with this Miley Cyrus tune, UK metalcore kids Employed To Serve have gone rock and it rules and, dear lord, Lil Wayne has still got it. Like really got it. Plus Facialmess, John Wiese, Demdike Stare and some stuff I that might actually be embarrassed to like.

Week of 9/18/2020

Some perfect pop songs from the new Katie Perry album and a whole bunch of harshness from Sissy Spacek and Merzbow.

Week of 7/10/2020

Heavy on the hip-hop with new Big Ghost Ltd, Conway The Machine, and Muja Messiah and vintage ragga-jungle from the early-00’s Shockout Records era (Kid 606, The Bug, Daddy Freddy, Wayne Lonesome) and a lot more.