Heavy Rotation: sending off the year with a heavy playlist

 

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 then there’sstuff that I wasn’t up on like Russell Haswell’s debut LP from 2000 or actual noise-rockers Sightings 2013 album “Terribly Well” and a bunch more. Enjoy and hit me up on IG if you make a new discovery.

  1. “Words Were Words” Wrong War

  2. “First Shot Misses” Wrong War

  3. “All You Ever Knew” Wrong War

  4. “The Samsara of Secondary Markets” Strangelight

  5. “Digressions From Sierra Leone” Strangelight

  6. “Exhaling” Tunic

  7. “Slow Burn” Demons

  8. “Uglier Americans” Demons

  9. “Cult” Night Goat

  10. “Inverted Burial” Night Goat

  11. “All I Need” Trvss

  12. “Declare Independence” Trvss

  13. “Profit Over People” Chokehold

  14. “Wretched Warez” Expander

  15. “Megacorp” Expander

  16. “A Tempting Pain” Portrayal of Guilt

  17. “It’s Already Over” Portrayal of Guilt

  18. “Through The Ashes” Shrimpnose

  19. “Hotel Rooms” Fed Nance

  20. “3:30 In Houston” BENNY The Butcher

  21. “The Butcher and The Banker” BENNY The Butcher and SofaKing

  22. “Whassup Now Muthafucka?” Artifacts

  23. “C’mon Wit Da Gitdown (Buckwild Remix)” Artifacts feat. Busta Rhymes

  24. “Goon Opera (20/20 Vision)” Krohme feat. Kool G. Rap, Chino XL, Sean Price, C-Rayz Walz, Hell Razah

  25. “Boxcutter Jiu Jitsu (feat. DJ Grouch)” by Big Ghost Ltd, Ufo Fev, Nems, Dj Grouch

  26. “Chalk Board” 38 Spesh

  27. “Food On My Fork” DJ Muggs and Rome Streetz

  28. “Salt” Aesop Rock”

  29. “Hammer of Chaos” Rob Sonic

  30. “From The Gods” Caspa

  31. “What Light Dwells Upon Us” Sectra

  32. “Kakapo Talk” Merzbow

  33. “06:48:30, 1999, Posthof, Linz” Russell Haswell

  34. “03:08:62, 2000, National Centre For Early Music, York” Russell Haswell

  35. “Mute’s Retreat” Sightings

  36. “Blue To Black” The Bug and DisFig

  37. “Angelene (Demo)” PJ Harvey

Check out past playlists here:

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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.

 
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