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QUIETDRIVE interview




SKYWIND interview




DAVE LOMBARDO / PHILM interview




MARMOZETS interview (live from The Garage in Burnsville, MN)




DIVIDING EDEN interview




BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - WARROOSTER / OLD TOWNE GHOSTS interview from May 2013

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/26/14 - BEST OF 2014 - NATIONAL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/26/14
BEST OF 2014 - NATIONAL

HOUR 1
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
QUIETDRIVE - "without my hands" // the ghost of what you used to be
THE MODERN ERA - "where was I (when I needed me)" // where was I (when I needed me) - ep
KICK - "away from the world" // away from the world - ep
DOOMTREE - "gray duck" // all hands

(Favorite Rock Albums)
ROYAL BLOOD - "out of the dark" // royal blood
JACK WHITE - "lazaretto" // lazaretto
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "tread lightly" // go down in history
ANBERLIN - "losing it all" // lowborn
(Honorable mentions)
NONPOINT - "never ending hole" // the return
IN FLAMES - "everything's gone" // siren charms
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "rejoice" // Z 2
THROWDOWN - "avow" // intolerance

HOUR 2
UNEARTH - "the swarm" // watchers of rule
(2 favorites that aren't radio friendly besides 1 or 2 songs)
STEEL PANTHER - "the burden of being wonderful" // all you can eat
BODY COUNT - "back to rehab" // manslaughter
10. (tie) ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
10. (tie) LACUNA COIL - "nothing stands in our way" // broken crown halo
9. KILLER BE KILLED - "wings of wax and feather" // killer be killed
8. WOVENWAR - "profane" // wovenwar

7. KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
6. AMARANTHE - "drop dead cynical" // massive addictive
5. MASTODON - "the motherload" // once more round the sun
4. EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
3. MACHINE HEAD - "beneath the silt" // bloodstone and diamonds
2. MARMOZETS - "is it horrible" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
1. SLIPKNOT - "the negative one" // .5: the grey chapter

Two more honorable mentions that I ran out of time for ... PERIPHERY's "Clear" and SUICIDE SILENCE's "You Can't Stop Me".

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/19/14 - BEST OF 2014 - LOCAL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/19/14
BEST OF 2014 - LOCAL

HOUR 1
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless - ep
QUIETDRIVE - "all I want for Christmas is you" // all I want for Christmas is you - single
QUIETDRIVE - "world war u" // the ghost of what you used to be
THE ODDFATHERS - "shake you up" // part I
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone

NEW MEDICINE - "one too many" // breaking the model
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "Snoopy's Christmas" // Snoopy's Christmas - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in - single
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
SIMS - "uh huh" // field notes

HOUR 2
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
PALE HORSE PROPHECY - "behind the curse" // behind the curse - single
WARROOSTER - "lot lizard" // lot lizard - single
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis

LEMMY & DAVE GROHL - "run, rudolph, run" // we wish you a metal Christmas
FLYLEAF - "oh holy night" // oh holy night - single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill
AUGUST BURNS RED - "sleigh ride" // sleddin' hill
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
REAPING ASMODIEA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth
PSYCHOSTICK - "so. heavy." // IV: revenge of the vengenance
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/12/14 - QUIETDRIVE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/12/14
GUESTS :: QUIETDRIVE

HOUR 1
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
WARROOSTER - "intergalatic performance review" // demo
KICK - "sick religion" // away from the world
DOOMTREE - "gray duck" // all hands
CECIL OTTER & P.O.S - "traveling dunk tank" // false hopes
MICTLAN & SIMS - "slow burn" // false hopes
DESSA - "mineshaft" // false hopes
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark

QUIETDRIVE - "without my hands" // the ghost of what you used to be
QUIETDRIVE - "tattoo" // the ghost of what you used to be
QUIETDRIVE - "yeah" // the ghost of what you used to be
QUIETDRIVE - "maybe misery" // when all that's left is you

HOUR 2
TORCHE - "minions" // restarter
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
NEW YEARS DAY - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
FLYLEAF - "set me on fire" // between the stars
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
RANCID - "collision course" // honor is all we know
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
BANNER PILOT - "modern shakes" // souvenir

ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents
LET IT BREATHE - "mauler" // river wizard - ep
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // cva
BARONESS - "take my bones away" // yellow and green
BATTLECROSS - "never coming back" // war of will
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth

**SPECIAL THANKS to KEVIN from QUIETDRIVE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! QUIETDRIVE's new album "The Ghost of What You Used to Be" is out now!!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/5/14 - SKYWIND

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/5/14
GUESTS :: SKYWIND

HOUR 1
DOOMTREE – “gray duck” // all hands
QUIETDRIVE – “without my hands” // the ghost of what you used to be
FIFTH HOUR – “wait” // the line between love and hate
ARROWS AT DAWN – “dead in the water” // no place to hide
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “until we dream” // everything is red
VAUDEVILLE – “where darkness lies” // masquerade part 1 – ep

SKYWIND – “lamhaj” // O 2
SKYWIND – “hero’s welcome” // sleeping giants
EMERGENT – “dead letters” // emergent
SKYWIND – “drug store” // sleeping giants

HOUR 2
COLD KINGDOM – “let it burn” // let it burn – single
SKYWIND – “the devil in our house” // sleeping giants
PATHOS ETHOS – “actions fight harder than words” // pathos ethos – ep
ECHO EFFECT – “seven” // the beauty in disaster

WARROOSTER – “hyperdrive” // demo
PANTERA – “cowboys from hell” // cowboys from hell
PANTERA – “walk” // vulgar display of power
PANTERA – “5 minutes alone” // far beyond driven
PANTERA – “the great southern trendkill” // the great southern trendkill
PANTERA – “uplift” // reinventing the steel
PANTERA – “a new level” // vulgar display of power

**SPECIAL THANKS to WALLY from SKYWIND for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! SKYWIND’s new album “Sleeping Giants” is out now!

Catch EMERGENT, SKYWIND, COLD KINGDOM and PATHOS ETHOS at Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on Dec 20 (18+ show)!

Also tonight we paid tribute to the legacy of Dimebag Darrell who we lost 10 years ago.**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/28/14 - DAVE LOMBARDO / PHILM

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/28/14
GUESTS :: DAVE LOMBARDO / PHILM

HOUR 1
3 PILL MORNING - "skin" // black tie love affair
IN THIS MOMENT - "sick like me" // black widow
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy - ep
STAIJA - "hemorrhage" // a new energy
BANEHINGE - "if I can" // psycles
KILL SWITCH - "rebuild" // what doesn't kill us

LETLIVE - "the sick, sick 6.8 billion" // fake history
SLAYER - "postmortem" // reign in blood
PHILM - "we sail at dawn" // fire from the evening sun
PHILM - "lion's pit" // fire from the evening sun

HOUR 2
PHILM - "omniscience" // fire from the evening sun
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "reach and touch" // trepanation
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
DISEMBODIED - "anvil chandelier" // diablere
MARTYR AD - "american hollow" // on earth as it is in hell
DEVILINSIDE - "kiss the cynic" // volume one

THIRA - "fathoms" // fathoms - single
OPETH - "cusp of eternity" // pale communion
IN FLAMES - "rusted nail" // siren charms
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
UGLY - "suffer then die" // demo
PSYCHOSTICK - "dogs like socks" // IV: revenge of the vengeance
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth
NORMA JEAN - "the lash whistled like a singing wind" // wrongdoers

**SPECIAL THANKS to DAVE LOMBARDO from PHILM for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! PHILM’s new album “Fire From The Evening Sun” is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/21/14 - MARMOZETS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/21/14
GUESTS :: MARMOZETS

HOUR 1
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // let me in - single
LA MADNESS – “she’s a devil” // chances are
COLD KINGDOM – “let it burn” // let it burn - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “devil on my shoulder” // yesteryear
PHANTOGRAM –“bad dreams” // voices
RANCID – “collision course” // honor is all we know
THE INTERRUPTERS feat TIM ARMSTRONG – “family” // the interrupters
3 PILL MORNING – “rain” // black tie love affair

NEW MEDICINE – “one too many” // breaking the model
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “invisible monsters” // commit this to memory (deluxe edition)
FLYLEAF – “magnetic“ // between the stars
ROYAL BLOOD – “you could be so cruel” // royal blood
MARMOZETS – “is it horrible” // the weird and wonderful marmozets
MARMOZETS – “hit the wave” // the weird and wonderful marmozets

HOUR 2
MARMOZETS – “vibetech” // the weird and wonderful marmozets
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “when I lost my bet” // one of us is the killer
WOVENWAR – “profane” // wovenwar
PERIPHERY – “ragnarok” // periphery II
WARROOSTER – “intergalactic performance review” // demo
TORCHE – “kicking” // harmonicraft

OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “knight boat” // the old ones are and forever shall be
CLUTCH – “unto the breach” // earth rocker
NUISANCE – “priapism” // kill the silence
RED FANG – “blood like cream” // whales and leeches
IN FLAMES – “everything’s gone” // siren charms
GALLOWS – “last june” // gallows
ISLANDER – “counteract” // violence and destruction
REVILWEN – “just breathe” // the script
HATEBREED – “last breath“ // satisfaction is the death of desire

**SPECIAL THANKS to WILL and JACK from MARMOZETS for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! “The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets” is out now on Roadrunner Records!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/14/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/14/14

HOUR 1
PVRIS - "smoke" // white noise
AM TAXI - "central standard time" // king of the pond - ep
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
HARAKIRI - "lorelei" // harakiri
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
KOO KOO KANGA ROO feat P.O.S - "shake it well" // whoopty whoop
DESSA - "call off your ghost" // parts of speech
DOOMTREE - "beacon" // no kings

FOO FIGHTERS - "what did I do? / God as my witness" // sonic highways
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
DIVIDING EDEN - "puppet" // here comes the water
THE DEAD WEATHER - "buzzkill(er)" // buzzkill(er) - single
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "start walking" // home
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
ANTHRAX - "caught in a mosh" // among the living
GWAR - "madness at the core of time" // battle maximus
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
IN THIS MOMENT - "bones" // black widow

PSYCHOSTICK - "dogs like socks" // IV: revenge of the vengeance
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // CVI
GOJIRA - "vacuity" // the way of all flesh
MACHINE HEAD - "beneath the silt" // bloodstone and diamonds
STEEL PANTHER - "you're beautiful when you don't talk" // all you can eat

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/7/14 - 14th ANNIVERSARY SHOW with DIVIDING EDEN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/7/14
14th ANNIVERSARY SHOW
GUESTS :: DIVIDING EDEN

HOUR 1
MACHINE HEAD - "beneath the silt" // bloodstone and diamonds
INDEX CASE - "why dreams bleed" // glass
ALIGN - "carrying" // some breaking news
REMOVER - "so well" // breakdown barrier
REDOVERLUNAR - "found" // fighting fire with gasoline
BUSS - "radar" // low noise / high density ep

2 TON CRUTCH - "drown me out" // demo
DIVIDING EDEN - "puppets" // here comes the water
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water

HOUR 2
DIVIDING EDEN - "water" // here comes the water
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
STAIJA - "choler" // show yourself
DODD - "empty words" // xxx-mas ball 2002
KILL SWITCH - "old testment" // the disaster image
AVADO - "death express" // viscera

SECRETLY DROWNING - "k" // the camden ep
DESTROPHY - "why I hate goodbye" // the way of your world
SMILIN LIAR - "our voice" // anthropomorphism
BANEHINGE - "edge of ruin" // edge demo
DISEMBODIED - "anvil chandelier" // diablerie
MACHINE HEAD - "take me through the fire" // bloodstone and diamonds
STATIC-X - "wisconsin death trip" // wisconsin death trip

**SPECIAL THANKS to ERIC ROTTER from DIVIDING EDEN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!

VERY SPECIAL THANKS to all the radio hero's who called in and donated money to support KMSU! We hit our goal of $25,000 just moments before the Midwest Beatdown went live!

SUPER SPECIAL THANKS to GULLY and KAREN at KMSU for giving me the honor to play loud rock music for all of Southern Minnesota and the entire world on KMSU! Super proud to be a volunteer at KMSU! Thank you for the past 14 years and I look forward to many, many more!

R.I.P. Wayne Static!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/31/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/31/14

HOUR 1
THE MISFITS - "monster mash" // cuts from the crypt
THE SLAIN - "the vampire bat" // the slain
STEEL PANTHER - "don't stop believin'" // don't stop believin' - single
SEAWEED - "go your own way" // clerks - soundtrack
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "radioactive" // hydra
COREY TAYLOR - "rainbow in the dark" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
PSYCHOSTICK - "dogs like socks" // IV: revenge of the vengeance
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent

GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
THE SLAIN - "creature of the moat" // the slain
CASANATRA - "rusty cage" // black days: midwest movement tribute to soundgarden
FAITH NO MORE - "easy" // we care a lot
GHOST - "if you have ghosts" // if you have ghost
GHOST - "secular haze" // infestissumam

HOUR 2
THE SLAIN - "the haunted castle" // the slain
SLIPKNOT - "custer" // .5: the grey chapter
DETHKLOK - "hatredcopter" // the dethalbum
BUTCHER BABIES - "they're coming to take me away" // uncovered
BABIES IN TOYLAND - "bruise violet" // fontanelle
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
IRON MAIDEN - "the number of the beast" // the number of the beast
DEMON HUNTER - "storm the gates of hell" // storm the gates of hell

THE SLAIN - "werewolf wood" // the slain
PROJECT 86 - "the spy hunter" // songs to burn your bridges by
GEMINI SYNDROME - "pleasure and pain" // lux
IN THIS MOMENT - "postmortem" // postmortem - single
TYPE O NEGATIVE - "black no. 1 (little miss scare all)" // bloody kisses

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/24/14 - UNEARTH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/24/14
GUESTS :: UNEARTH

HOUR 1
SLIPKNOT – “AOV” // .5: the grey chapter
BOBAFLEX – “rogue” // charlatan’s web
ROYAL BLISS – “monster” // waiting out the sun
ARSON RIVER – “chemicals” // any given day
FIFTH HOUR – “wait” // the line between love and hate
WHITHER THE TIDE – “look where we are” // the lunar phase vol 1
KAT PERKINS – “Paris (ooh la la)” // fearless

TONIGHT ALIVE – “the edge” // music from the amazing spiderman 2
CITY OF THE WEAK – “white fire alarm” // white fire alarm
RANCID – “collision course” // honor is all we know
MARMOZETS – “is it horrible” // the weird and wonderful marmozets
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // let me in - single
GOING TO THE SUN – “new year” // going to the sun
AMARANTHE – “massive addictive” // massive addictive
NONPOINT – “breaking skin” // the return
ICON FOR HIRE – “cynics and critics” // icon for hire

HOUR 2
SLIPKNOT – “skeptic” // .5: the grey chapter
THIRA – “fathoms” // fathoms - single
UNEARTH – “the swarm” // watchers of rule
UNEARTH – “trial to fire” // watchers of rule
UNEARTH – “guards of contagion” // watchers of rule

EMERGENT – “the fall” // emergent
WARROOSTER – “hyperdrive” // demo
AUGUST BURNS RED – “empire” // leveler
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “don’t need it / Sisyphus” // torch
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – “rejoice” // Z 2
SLIPKNOT – “custer” // .5: the grey chapter
EVERY TIME I DIE – “decayin’ with the boys” // from parts unknown
COLD KINGDOM – “let it burn” // let it burn – single

**SPECIAL THANKS to BUZZ and TREVOR from UNEARTH for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! UNEARTH’s new album “Watchers of Rule” comes out on Monday!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/17/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/17/14

HOUR 1
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear winter sampler 2013
SELF-EVIDENT - "rumors" // we built a fortress on short notice
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
ANBERLIN - "Godspeed" // cities
ANBERLIN - "Adelaide" // cities
ANBERLIN - "a whisper and a clamor" // cities
ANBERLIN - "the unwinding cable car" // cities

ANBERLIN - "there is no mathematics to love and loss" // cities
ANBERLIN - "hello alone" // cities
ANBERLIN - "alexithymia" // cities
ANBERLIN - "reclusion" // cities
ANBERLIN - "inevitable" // cities
ANBERLIN - "dismantle. repair." // cities
ANBERLIN - "(*fin)" // cities

HOUR 2
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
3 PILL MORNING - "skin" // black tie love affair
LA MADNESS - "she's a devil" // chances are
NEW MEDICINE - "like a rose" // breaking the model
PROF - "farout" // farout - single
FLYLEAF - "magnetic" // between the stars
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep
THE ODD LIFE - "retrace my steps" // time machine

ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
THE ODDFATHERS - "shake you up" // part I
AMARANTHE - "digital world" // massive addictive
SLIPKNOT - "the negative one" // .5 : the grey chapter
THIRA - "good morning my name is john" // vein I: varying states of decay
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
WHITE EMPRESS - "darkness encroaching" // rise of the empress
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "trogdor" // smb's museum of barnyard oddities

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/10/14 - AMARANTHE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/10/14
GUESTS :: AMARANTHE

HOUR 1
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in – single
RANCID - "collision course" // honor is all we know
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
AGAINST ME - "black me out" // transgender dysphoria blues
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone

GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
AMARANTHE - "massive addictive" // massive addictive
AMARANTHE - "drop dead cynical" // massive addictive
AMARANTHE - "trinity" // massive addictive

HOUR 2
AMARANTHE - "digital world" // massive addictive
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn – single
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "rejoice" // Z 2
TUESDAY NIGHT DANCE FIGHT - "childhood spaceship" // tarantism
STEEL PANTHER - "the burden of being wonderful" // all you can eat
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence

ELUVETITE - "the call of the mountains" // origins
WOVENWAR - "profane" // wovenwar
KATATONIA - "july" // the great cold distance
UNEARTH - "the swarm" // watchers of rule
REAPING ASMODIEA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth
MESHUGGAH - "do not look down" (live) // the ophidian trek
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be

**SPECIAL THANKS to JAKE, JOHAN and OLOF from AMARANTHE for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! AMARANTHE’s new album “Massive Addictive” comes out on Oct 21 thru Spinefarm Records!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/3/14 - WITHIN TEMPTATION

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/3/14
GUESTS :: WITHIN TEMPTATION

HOUR 1
MARMOZETS - "is it horrible" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
MARMOZETS - "vibetech" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // let me in – single
ARSON RIVER – “chemicals” // forthcoming disc
ANBERLIN – “the haunting" // lost songs
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear

DOOMTREE – “beacon" // no kings
SLEEPWAVE - "the wolf" // broken compass
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "dangerous" // hydra
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "radioactive" // hydra

HOUR 2
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "let us burn" // hydra
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "and we run" // hydra
COLD KINGDOM – “let it burn” // let it burn – single
CWN ANNWN – “seasons" // metamorphosis
AMARANTHE - "trinity" // massive addictive

NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "rejoice" // Z 2
AFTER THE BURIAL – “parise" // wolves within
REFLECTIONS – “my cancer” // exi(s)t
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “das arbeislied" // torch
BUTCHER BABIES – “they’re coming to take me away” // uncovered
MACHINE HEAD – “now we die” // bloodstones and diamonds
EVERY TIME I DIE - "thirst" // from parts unknown

**SPECIAL THANKS to SHARON from WITHIN TEMPTATION for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! WITHIN TEMPTATION’s new album HYDRA is out now via Nuclear Blast Records!

WITHIN TEMPTATION’s new live DVD/CD set “Let Us Burn – Elements & Hydra Live in Concert” is due out on Nov 24 along with a reissue of “Enter” and “The Dance” out Nov 11 both thru Nuclear Blast Records!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/26/14 - KAT PERKINS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/26/14
GUEST :: KAT PERKINS

HOUR 1
SKYWIND - "drug store" // sleeping giants
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
MARMOZETS - "hit the wave" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless

KAT PERKINS - "hero" // one bad
KAT PERKINS - "paris (ooh la la)" // fearless
KAT PERKINS - "barracuda" // fearless
CAROLINE SMITH - "half about being a woman" // half about being a woman
LIZZO - "batches and cookies" // lizzobangers

HOUR 2
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
PINWHEEL - "playground"
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "let us burn" // hydra
AMARANTHE - "drop dead cynical" // massive addictive
NONPOINT - "never ending hole" // the return
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // forthcoming disc

MACHINE HEAD - "now we die" // bloodstones and diamonds
MACHINE HEAD - "killers and kings" // bloodstones and diamonds
BUTCHER BABIES - "they're coming to take me away" // uncovered
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth
IN THIS MOMENT - "sick like me" // black widow
UGLY - "suffer then die" // demo

**SPECIAL THANKS to KAT PERKINS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! Kat’s new EP “Fearless” is out now!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/19/14 - KAT PERKINS and ARROWS AT DAWN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/19/14
GUESTS :: KAT PERKINS and ARROWS AT DAWN

HOUR 1
KAT PERKINS - "paris (ooh la la)" // fearless
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless
FLYLEAF - "traitor" // between the stars
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide

(Tim's picks)
DEAD SARA - "weatherman" // dead sara
HOT WATER MUSIC - "drag my body" // exister

ARROWS AT DAWN - (acoustic 1)
ARROWS AT DAWN - lifetime of war (acoustic in studio)
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
SLEEPWAVE - "the wolf" // broken compass
BIFFY CLYRO - "black chandelier" // opposites

HOUR 2

(Matt's picks)
BLACK MAP - "I'm just the driver" // driver – ep
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS - "the mile" // dead letter circus

SKYWIND - "circles in the ground" // o 2

DAVE GROHL, COREY TAYLOR - "from can to can't" // sound city: real to reel
KOO KOO KANGRA ROO feat P.O.S - "shake it well" // whoopty whoop
ARROWS AT DAWN - "who you are" (acoustic in studio)
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // forthcoming disc
UNEARTH - "the swarm" // watchers of rule

**SPECIAL THANKS to TIM and MATT from ARROWS AT DAWN for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week and playing some new songs acoustically! Also, SPECIAL THANKS to KAT PERKINS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week. The full interview with KAT airs next Friday!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/12/14 - NONPOINT

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/12/14
GUESTS :: NONPOINT

HOUR 1
KAT PERKINS - "barracuda" // barracuda - single
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear
HARAKIRI - "lorelai" // harakiri
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
SLEEPWAVE - "rock and roll is dead and so am i" // broken compass
THE ODD LIFE - "retrace my steps" // time machine

IN THIS MOMENT - "sick like me" // black widow
ROYAL BLOOD - "figure it out" // royal blood
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
SKYWIND - "circles in the ground" // o 2
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
TAKING BACK SUNDAY - "stood a chance" // happiness is
THE USED - "cry" // imaginary enemy
FRNKIERO ANDTHE CELLABRATION - ".weighted." // stomachaches

HOUR 2
AMARANTHE - "drop dead cynical" // massive addictive
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
NONPOINT - "breaking skin" // the return
EYES SET TO KILL - "little liar" // masks
NONPOINT - "never ending hole" // the return
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single

NONPOINT - "that day" // nonpoint
CLUTCH - "crucial velocity" // earth rocker
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
REFLECTIONS - "vain words from empty minds" // exi(s)t
EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth

**SPECIAL THANKS to ELIAS from NONPOINT for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!! NONPOINT’s new album “The Return” comes out on Sept 30 on Razor and Tie Records.

Catch NONPOINT live at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis on Sept 14 with Eyes Set to Kill, Righteous Vendetta, Letters from the Fire and Cold Kingdom. 18+ show.

NONPOINT will also be at the Cavalier Theater in La Crosse, WI on Sept 30 with Eyes Set to Kill, Righteous Vendetta and Letters from the Fire!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/05/14 - GOING TO THE SUN

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 09/05/14
GUESTS :: GOING TO THE SUN

HOUR 1
NONPOINT - "breaking skin" // the return
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in - single
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live 45
3 PILL MORNING - "skin" // black tie love affair
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun

GOING TO THE SUN - "never get over you" // going to the sun
GOING TO THE SUN - "autumn turning over" // going to the sun
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless - single
WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1

HOUR 2
IN FLAMES - "in plain view" // siren charms
ISLANDER - "counteract" // violence and destruction
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
OTHERWISE - "darker side of the moon" // peace at all costs
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "effigy 23" // the war of art
UGLY - "suffer then die" // demo

FIRST AGAINST THE WALL - "we're all dead" // first against the wall
INCITE - "up in hell" // up in hell
THE HAUNTED - "cutting teeth" // exit wounds
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
THE CONTORTIONIST - "primordial sound" // language
TUESDAY NIGHT DANCE FIGHT - "childhood spaceship" // terantism

**SPECIAL THANKS to DAVID from GOING TO THE SUN for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! GOING TO THE SUN’s self titled debut is out now!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/29/14 - CARLA HARVEY (BUTCHER BABIES)

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/29/14
GUESTS :: CARLA HARVEY (BUTCHER BABIES)

HOUR 1
SLIPKNOT – “the devil in I” // .5: the grey chapter
ECHO EFFECT – “face of the girl” // the beauty in disaster
REVILWEN – “one more yesterday” // the script
BROTHER ALI – “lookin’ at me sideways” // the undisputed truth
DOOMTREE – “.38 airweight” // .38 airweight – single
THE USUAL THINGS – “staring down the morning” // home sweet alone
3 PILL MORNING – “rain” // black tie love affair

NEW MEDICINE – “like a rose” // breaking the model
BOBAFLEX – “I’m glad you’re dead” // charlatan’s web
COLD KINGDOM – “let it burn” // let it burn – single
ROYAL BLOOD – “you can be so cruel” // royal blood
GOING TO THE SUN – “new year” // going to the sun
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “devil on my shoulder” // yesteryear
CRASH CUDDLE – “owning the bull” // crash cuddle – ep
THE ODD LIFE – “retrace my steps” // time machine

HOUR 2
REAPING ASMODEIA – “indwelling” // poison of the earth
IN FLAMES – “rusted nail” // siren charms
BUTCHER BABIES – “I smell a massacre” // goliath
BUTCHER BABIES – “axe wound” // goliath
BUTCHER BABIES – “magnolia blvd” // goliath

BUTCHER BABIES – “dead poet” // goliath
AFTER THE BURIAL – “a wolf amongst ravens” // wolves within
WOVENWAR – “profane” // wovenwar
ENEMY X – “sacrificial burning” // the ends of the earth (2014)
WARROOSTER – “hyperdrive” // demo
SLIPKNOT – “the negative one” // .5: the grey chapter

**SPECIAL THANKS to CARLA HARVEY from BUTCHER BABIES for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! Carla’s book Death and Other Dances is available now from http://carlaharvey.bigcartel.com. Butcher Babies’ new EP “Uncovered” is out Sept 30 on Century Media Records!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/22/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/22/14

HOUR 1
KAT PERKINS - "fearless" // fearless - single
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
THROW THE FIGHT - "not so Hollywood" // what doesn't kill us
THROW THE FIGHT - "bloodshot eyes" // what doesn't kill us
THROW THE FIGHT - "the wreckage" // in pursuit of tomorrow
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade part 1 - ep

COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
EMPERORS AND ELEPHANTS - "who you are" // devil in the lake
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script - ep
ANGRY BURKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you - ep
SKYWIND - "lamhaj" // O 2
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide - ep
NEW MEDICINE - "one too many" // breaking the model
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // marmozets - ep

HOUR 2
OTHERWISE - "darker side of the moon" // peace at all costs
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth
CWN ANNWN - "seasons" // metamorphosis
ELUVEITIE - "the call of the mountains" // origins
WITHIN TEMPTATION feat HOWARD JONES - "dangerous" // hydra
AMARANTHE - "splinter in my soul" // amaranthe (special edition)
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red

OPETH - "voice of treason" // pale communion
MACHINE HEAD - "darkness within" // unto the locust
CHILDREN OF BODOM - "I'm shipping up to Boston" // holiday at lake bodom
INCITE - "up in hell" // up in hell
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/15/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/15/14

HOUR 1
KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
BOBAFLEX - "bad man" // charlatan's web
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear media winter sampler 2013
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
LA MADNESS - "been waiting" // chances are
CRASH CUDDLE - "owning the bull" // crash cuddle - ep

ROYAL BLOOD - "out of the black" // out of the black - ep
KOO KOO KANGA ROO feat P.O.S - "shake it well" // whoopty whoop
THE ODD LIFE - "retrace my steps" // time machine
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side - ep
QUIETDRIVE - "sleazy" // up or down
TW - "masked" // destined to be real

HOUR 2
BRING THE SUN - "vestige" // death piegon - ep
SIMS - "uh huh" // field notes
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "wait so long" // motion city soundtrack/trampled by turtles - split
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "go down in history" // go down in history
FOZZY - "lights go out" // do you want to start a war
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
OPETH - "river" // pale communion

IN FLAMES - "everything's gone" // siren charms
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
REAPING ASMODIEA - "bodies in barrels" // poison of the earth
TEXAS IN JULY - "C4" // texas in july
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
KING 810 - "fat around the heart" // memoirs of a murderer

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/08/14 - COLD KINGDOM and FOUR LETTER LIE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/08/14
GUESTS :: COLD KINGDOM and FOUR LETTER LIE

HOUR 1
SLIPKNOT - "the negative one" // the negative one - single
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
SCARLET HAZE - "reach down" // one bad bitch
SIMS - "uh huh" // field notes

COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
COLD KINGDOM - "resolution" // resolution - single
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent
LA MADNESS - "she's a devil" // chances are
FRNKIERO ANDTHE CELLABRATION - "weighted" // weighted - single
THE INTERRUPTERS feat TIM ARMSTRONG - "family" // the interrupters

HOUR 2
WOVENWAR - "profane" // wovenwar
KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
FOUR LETTER LIE - "speak for yourself" // like structures
FOUR LETTER LIE - "waiting" // like structures

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "grace" // epicloud
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "tooth and claw" // the joys of motion
INCITE - "up in hell" // up in hell
GEMINI SYNDROME - "falling apart" // lux
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
CWN ANNWN - "seasons" // metamorphosis

**SPECIAL THANKS to DANI, EVAN, PAT, JASON, AARON from COLD KINGDOM and BRIAN from FOUR LETTER LIE for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!

Catch COLD KINGDOM at Busters in Mankato on Sept 6 with EMPERORS AND ELEPHANTS!

FOUR LETTER LIE’s new EP “Like Structures” is out now via The Artery Foundation!**

Post by Four Letter Lie.

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/01/14 - MARMOZETS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 08/01/14
GUESTS :: MARMOZETS

HOUR 1
DOOMTREE - ".38 airweight" // .38 airweight - single
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
FLYLEAF - "set me on fire" // between the stars
HARAKIRI - "c'est la vie" // harakiri
LAKE AVENUE - "passing through" // you can't take it with you
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun

WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in - single
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // marmozets - ep
MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me" // marmozets - ep
MARMOZETS - "born young and free" // marmozets - ep

HOUR 2
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // marmozets - ep
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
ISLANDER - "counteract" // violence and destruction
WOVENWAR - "tempest" // wovenwar
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
NUSIANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
GEMINI SYNDROME - "basement" // lux

SOULFLY - "rise of the fallen" // omen
KILLER BE KILLED - "wings of feather and wax" // killer be killed
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer
CWN ANNWN - "seasons" // metamorphosis
ELUVETITE - "the call of the mountains" // origins
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
MACHINE HEAD - "be still and know" // unto the locust

**SPECIAL THANKS to BECCA from MARMOZETS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! MARMOZETS' new EP is out now on Roadrunner Records. Their full length will be out this fall!!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/25/14 - LA MADNESS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/25/14
GUESTS :: LA MADNESS

HOUR 1
ANBERLIN - "dissenter" // lowborn
ANBERLIN - "losing it all" // lowborn
KOO KOO KANGA ROO feat P.O.S - "shake it well" // whoopty whoop
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
JACK WHITE - "three women" // lazaretto
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // marmozets - ep

LA MADNESS - "got me wrong" // chances are
LA MADNESS - "she's a devil" // chances are
LA MADNESS - "been waiting" // chances are

HOUR 2
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "what's in the box?" // go down in history
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "go down in history" // go down in history
FILTER - "jurassitol" // the crow: city of angels - soundtrack
HELMET - "milktoast" // the crow - soundtrack
NEW MEDICINE - "one too many" // breaking the model
3 PILL MORNING - "I want that for you" // black tie love affair
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars

ELUVEITIE - "the call of the mountains" // origins
WOVENWAR - "moving up" // wovenwar
WOVENWAR - "profane" // wovenwar
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
REAPING ASMODEIA - "bodies in barrels" // the moribund resurrection
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a steady decline" // this life is all we have - ep
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal

**SPECIAL THANKS to KURT from LA MADNESS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! LA MADNESS' album "Chances Are" is out now! Catch LA MADNESS opening for 311 on Aug 10 at Mill City Nights in Minneapolis and on Aug 17 for a free show at Mayo Park in Rochester with J. Roddy Walston and the Business!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/18/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/18/14

HOUR 1
NEW MEDICINE - "one too many" // breaking the model
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
ANBERLIN - "self starter" // vital
BAYSIDE - "time has come" // cult
CLOSE YOUR EYES - "frame and glass" // line in the sand
K.FLAY - "fever" // life of a dog

THE INTERRUPTERS feat TIM ARMSTRONG - "family" // the interrupters
SLEEPWAVE - "through the looking glass" // broken compass
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "tread lightly" // go down in history
ICON FOR HIRE - "cynics and critics" // icon for hire
ECHOSMITH - "come together" // talking dreams
THE SUMMER SET - "boys you do (get back at you)" // love like this
THIS WILD LIFE - "concrete" // clouded
WE ARE THE IN CROWD - "attention" // weird kids

HOUR 2
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // marmozets - ep
MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me" // marmozets - ep
EVERY TIME I DIE - "overstayer" // from parts unknown
EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
BEARTOOTH - "beaten in lips" // disgusting
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA - "martyrs" // 8:18
FOR TODAY - "fearless" // immortal
FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING - "crosses" // incomplete me

CHELSEA GRIN - "clockwork" // ashes to ashes
BORN OF OSIRIS - "divergency" // tomorrow we die alive
STRAY FROM THE PATH - "badge and a bullet" // anomoyous
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precendence
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/11/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/11/14

HOUR 1
PROJECT 86 - "fall, goliath, fall" // wait for the siren
CHILDREN 18:3 - "LCM" // children 18:3
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // single
ICON FOR HIRE - "watch me" // icon for hire
ECHOSMITH - "safest place" // talking dreams
CLOSE YOUR EYES - "frame and glass" // line in the sand
BOBAFLEX - "I'm glad you're dead" // charlatan's web
LA MADNESS - "got me wrong" // chances are

ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade vol 1
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // marmozets - ep
AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus
RED - "release the panic" // release the panic
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion

HOUR 2
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
AUGUST BURNS RED - "empire" // leveler
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
IN FLAMES - "rusted nail" // siren charms
REAPING ASMODIEA - "bodies in barrels" // the moribund resurrection
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single

SUICIDE SILENCE feat GREG PUCIATO - "monster within" // you can't stop me
EVERY TIME I DIE - "exometrium" // from parts unknown
BEARTOOTH - "beaten in lips" // disgusting
CONVEYER - "what's inside" // worn out
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
'68 - "track two" // in humor and sadness
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/04/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 07/04/14

HOUR 1
SHOOTER JENNINGS - "4th of July" // put the O back in country
ATMOSPHERE - "sunshine" // sad clown bad summer
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live 45
WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1
ARROWS AT DAWN - "something more" // out of touch
THROW THE FIGHT - "not so hollywood" // what doesn't kill us
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate

DOOMTREE - "fresh new trash" // no kings
LIZZO - "batches and cookies" // lizzobangers
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // single
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
ANBERLIN - "feel good drag" // new surrender

HOUR 2
WE ARE THE IN CROWD - "the best thing (that never happened)" // weird kids
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "tread lightly" // go down in history
EVERY TIME I DIE - "floater" // hot damn
EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay

IN FLAMES - "rusted nail" // siren charms
IN FLAMES - "everything's gone" // siren charms
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
INDEX CASE - "I, insist" // augustagein
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
KILL SWITCH - "rebuild" // what doesn't kill us
DISKORD - "dead to me" // limberdink road ep
BABES IN TOYLAND - "bruise violet" // fontanelle

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/27/14 - THE ODDFATHERS and DEAD HORSE TRAUMA

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/27/14
GUESTS :: THE ODDFATHERS and DEAD HORSE TRAUMA

HOUR 1
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "tread lightly" // go down in history
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // marmozets - ep
FLIPP - "oh yea" // volume
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live 45

THE ODDFATHERS - "8 track stereo" // part I
THE ODDFATHERS - "shake you up" // part I
THE ODDFATHERS - "whisper in my ear" // part I

HOUR 2
FLIPP - "I wish I was a planet" // flipp
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "the peak" // yesteryear
EVERY TIME I DIE - "decaying with the boys" // from parts unknown
SONIC SYNDICATE - "before you finally break" // sonic syndicate
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "psycho" // kill the precedence
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "ricochet" // kill the precedence

DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
STRAIGHT LINE STITCH - "laughing in the rearview" // the fight of our lives
FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING - "crosses" // incomplete me
MASTODON - "the motherload" // once more 'round the sun
EVERY TIME I DIE - "exometrium" // from parts unknown
EVERY TIME I DIE - "pelican of the desert" // from parts unknown

**SPECIAL THANKS to the legendary BRYNN ARENS from THE ODDFATHERS (new EP "Part 1" is out now!) and SETH PETERS from DEAD HORSE TRAUMA (new album "Kill the Precedence" is out now!) for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/20/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/20/14
HOUR 1
MASTODON - "tread lightly" // once more 'round the sun
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // move, shake, hide - single
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear
THE ODDFATHERS - "shake you up" // part I
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // single

MASTODON - "the motherload" // once more 'round the sun
CHILDREN 18:3 - "even sleeping" // children 18:3
SKYWIND - "deep blu" // O 2
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
ICON FOR HIRE - "watch me" // icon for hire

HOUR 2
MASTODON - "ember city" // once more 'round the sun
SONIC SYNDICATE - "black hole halo" // sonic syndicate
NUSIANCE - "priapism" // kill the silence
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "disbelief" // tellus hodiernus caducus
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
GEMINI SYNDROME - "resurrection" // lux

MASTODON - "halloween" // once more 'round the sun
SUICIDE SILENCE - "cease to exist" // you can't stop me
AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within
CROWBAR - "walk with knowledge wisely" // symmetry in black
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
NORMA JEAN - "if you got it a five, you got it at fifty" // wrongdoers

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/13/14 - AMERICAN SCARECROWS & DEVIL YOU KNOW

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/13/14
GUESTS :: AMERICAN SCARECROWS & DEVIL YOU KNOW

HOUR 1
ANBERLIN - "hearing voices" // lowborn
POLICA - "raw exit" // raw exit 10" / shulamith (deluxe)
HARAKIRI - "lorelei" // harakiri
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
PAY ATTENTION - "stuck in the mud" // stuck in the mud - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "Gods of the west" // yesteryear

AM TAXI - "central standard time" // king of the pond
AMERICAN SACRECROWS - "devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear
THE USUAL THINGS - "staring down the morning" // home sweet alone
CHILDREN 18:3 - "moment to moment" // on the run
NINE LASHES - "anthem of the lonely" // world we view
THE ODDFATHERS - "8 track stereo" // part I

HOUR 2
EVERY TIME I DIE - "thirst" // from parts unknown
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
OPETH - "cusp of eternity" // pale communion
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "a new beginning" // the beauty of destruction
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "shut it down" // the beauty of destruction

DEVIL YOU KNOW - "my own" // the beauty of destruction
MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER - "memories of the grove" // II
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis
BODY COUNT - "back to rehab" // manslaughter
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
ARCH ENEMY - "no more regrets" // war eternal
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

**SPECIAL THANKS to SETH from AMERICAN SCARECROWS and FRANCESCO from DEVIL YOU KNOW for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! AMERICAN SCARECROWS' new album "Yesteryear" comes out on June 19 with a big CD release party at 7th St Entry with AM Taxi and The Usual Things (18+ show)!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/06/14 - HARAKIRI

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 06/06/14
GUESTS :: HARAKIRI

HOUR 1
JACK WHITE - "that black bat licorice" // lazaretto
THE ODDFATHERS - "8 track stereo" // part I
ECHOSMITH - "safest place" // talking dreams
HARAKIRI - "lorelei" // harakiri

HARAKIRI - "c'est la vie" // midwest beatdown live acoustic performance
HARAKIRI - "I love lucy" // harakiri

HOUR 2
HARAKIRI - "apples from the tree" // harakiri
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
WHITHER THE TIDE - "look where we are" // the lunar phase vol 1
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear winter sampler 2013
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "reach and touch" // trepanation

FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
BEARTOOTH - "beaten in lips" // disgusting
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis
EVERY TIME I DIE - "thirst" // from parts unknown
TRAP THEM - "salted crypts" // blissfucker
CONVERGE - "trespasses" // all we love we leave behind
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal

**SPECIAL THANKS to JORDAN, BENNY, ALEXA, HOLLY, FRASER and GEOFF from HARAKIRI for stopping by the studio on their way home from tour! Catch HARAKIRI's CD RELEASE PARTY at STUDIO B @ SKYWAY THEATER in MINNEAPOLIS on JUNE 14 with INIRIE, FLORENCE REPUBLIC, DELTA REPEATER, SPLIMIT, PORTRAIT ON FIRE, KICK and FUN DON'T STOP (15+ show)!!**

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/30/14 - ARCH ENEMY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/30/14
GUESTS :: ARCH ENEMY

HOUR 1
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
NEW MEDICINE - "race you to the bottom" // race you to the bottom
FOUR LETTER LIE - "nothing but a ghost" // what a terrible thing to say
AND WE DANCED - "the ring" // back to the middle
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo

ROYAL BLOOD - "out of the black" // out of the black
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
BARONESS - "take my bones away" // yellow and green
INDEX CASE - "for nothing" // index case
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "what the hell is a gigawatt" // enemy of the world
BOBAFLEX - "I'm glad you're dead" // charlatan's web
MIKE MICTLAN - "dwnsze" // snaxxx

HOUR 2
WOVENWAR - "all rise" // all rise - single
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // shoot - ep
THIRA - "good morning my name is John" // vein I: varying states of decay
DEVILDRIVER - "clouds over california" // the last kind words
ARCH ENEMY - "war eternal" // war eternal

ARCH ENEMY - "you will know my name" // war eternal
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
REAPING ASMODEIA - "bodies in barrels" // the moribund resurrection

SPECIAL THANKS to ALISSA from ARCH ENEMY for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! ARCH ENEMY's new album "War Eternal" comes out June 10 on Century Media Records!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/23/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/23/14

HOUR 1
SKYWIND - "lamhaj" // O 2
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // single
3 PILL MORNING - "rain" // black tie love affair
CHILDREN 18:3 - "lost so long" // rain's a comin'
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade part 1 - ep
BRING THE SUN - "vestige" // death pigeon demo

ATMOSPHERE - "bitter" // southsiders
LIZZO - "w.e.r.k pt 2" // lizzobangers
DOOMTREE - "profit and loss" // false hopes xv
POLICA - "raw exit" // shulamith (deluxe edition)
CAROLINE SMITH - "magazine" // half about being a woman
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones and forever shall be

HOUR 2
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "sugars of someday" // shoot - ep
THIRA - "cognition: one" // vein I: varying states of decay
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
WRITE THIS DOWN - "the older I get, the better I was" // lost weekend
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
CONVEYER - "what's inside" // worn out
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "nightlife" // home
BANNER PILOT - "modern shakes" // souvenir
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
FIRST AGAINST THE WALL - "we're all dead" // first against the wall
ENEMY X - "dead end" // the ends of the earth (2014)
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
FAIL TO DECAY - "eyes of the masses" // eyes of the masses - single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/16/14 - GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/16/14
GUESTS :: GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE

HOUR 1
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade
BIFFY CLYRO - "sounds like balloons" // opposites
ANBERLIN - "stranger ways" // lowborn
TEPETRICY - "hole digger" // hole digger - single
ATMOSPHERE - "kanye west" // southsiders
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script

GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "everything is red" // everything is red
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "behind the sun" // everything is red
MOTH COMPLEX - "scar of a healed wound" // core
WHITHER THE TIDE - "say hello to this chemical" // the new chemical

HOUR 2
ELUVEITIE - "a rose for epona" // helvetios
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES - "straight up" // are we not men? we are diva!
AM TAXI - "the mistake" // we don't stand a chance
*POLICA - "raw exit" // shulamith (deluxe edition)
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "wasting time (eternal summer)" // enemy of the world
WARROOSTER - "intergalactic performance review" // demo

BEARTOOTH - "beaten in lips" // disgusting
EVERY TIME I DIE - "after one quarter of a revolution" // new junk aesthetic
FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING - "once a liar (always a fake)" // outspoken
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection
OPETH - "slither" // heritage
ARCH ENEMY - "war eternal" // war eternal

SPECIAL THANKS to LINDY for calling in and CODY for stopping by the studio to talk about GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE's new EP "Everything is Red" which is out now!!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/09/14 - ANGRY WATERS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/09/14
GUESTS :: ANGRY WATERS

HOUR 1
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES - "straight up" // are we not men? we are diva!
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
STICK TO YOUR GUNS - "dog days are over" // sumerian ceremonials
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "my favorite accident" // I am the movie
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "the future freaks me out" // I am the movie
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear
7TH ASCENT - "misery loves company" // misery loves company - single
ATMOSPHERE - "camera thief" // southsiders
WEEZER - "my name is Jonas" // weezer
WEEZER - "buddy holly" // weezer

HOUR 2
WEEZER - "suzanne" // weezer (deluxe edition)
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMES - "top of the world" // are we not men? we are diva!
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "just so you know" // the war of art
BOBAFLEX - "I'm glad you're dead" // charlatan's web
SCARLET HAZE - "blame it on you" // one bad bitch
LA MADNESS - "got me wrong" // chances are
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops

DOWN - "sufferer's years" // down IV part II
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "scars" // catacombs of the black vatican
BUTCHER BABIES - "C8H18 (gasoline)" // goliath
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "shut it down" // the beauty of destruction
UPON A BURNING BODY - "lover to lover" // sumerian ceremonials
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
THIRA - "good morning my name is John" // vein I: varying states of decay
KILLER BE KILLED - "curb crusher" // killer be killed

SPECIAL THANKS to WICK from ANGRY WATERS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! ANGRY WATERS' new EP "the Tequila Incidents" is out now!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/02/14 - CITY OF THE WEAK

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 05/02/14
GUESTS :: CITY OF THE WEAK

HOUR 1
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
RED - "run and escape" // release the panic: recalibrated
CITY OF THE WEAK - "just another eulogy" // disclosure

CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
CITY OF THE WEAK - "the blame game" // disclosure
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster (City of the Weak's pick)

HOUR 2
CITY OF THE WEAK - "leech" // disclosure
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // let me in - single
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "shut it down" // the beauty of destruction

KILLER BE KILLED - "melting of my marrow" // killer be killed
KILLER BE KILLED - "curb crusher" // killer be killed
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it / sisuphys" // torch
ARCH ENEMY - "as the pages burn" // war eternal
THE AGONIST - "disconnect me" // disconnect me - single
RAMMSTEIN - "sonne" // made in Germany 1995-2011

SPECIAL THANKS to STEF, CODY, BRENT and JACKSON from CITY OF THE WEAK for stopping by the studio to talk about their new EP "Disclosure"!**

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/25/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/25/14
SPRING PLEDGE DRIVE part 1

HOUR 1
CITY OF THE WEAK - "just another eulogy" // disclosure
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
BRING THE SUN - "vestige" // demo
REVILWEN - "just breathe" // the script
REVILWEN - "lead" // the script

LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
ATMOSPHERE - "idiot" // the lake nokomis maxi single
ATMOSPHERE - "kanye west" // southsiders
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // forthcoming ep
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "breathe with me" // forthcoming ep
JACK WHITE - "lazaretto" // lazaretto

HOUR 2
KYNG - "paper heart rose" // burn the serum
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // single
COLD KINGDOM - "resolution" // single
THE END - "throwing stones" // elementary
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "shut it down" // the beauty of destruction
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "a new beginning" // the beauty of destruction

MASTODON - "high road" // once more round the sun
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
CONVEYER - "what's inside" // let go
MISS MAY I - "refuse to believe" // rise of the lion
CROWBAR - "walk with knowledge wisely" // symmetry in black
ANTI-MORTEM - "100% pure American rage" // new southern
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // the moribund resurrection

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MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/18/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/18/14
LADIES' NIGHT

HOUR 1
MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me?" // why do you hate me - single
WE ARE THE IN CROWD - "the best thing (that never happened)" // weird kids
LACUNA COIL - "victims" // black crown halo
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
LIZZO feat SOPHIA ERIS - "batches and cookies" // lizzobangers
DESSA - "warsaw" // parts of speech
ICON FOR HIRE - "watch me" // icon for hire

DEAD SARA - "whispers and ashes" // dead sara
SCARLET HAZE - "you lied" // out of the dark
CAROLINE SMITH - "half about being a woman" // half about being a woman
PHANTOGRAM - "fall in love" // voices
7TH ASCENT - "misery loves company" // misery loves company - single
ECHOSMITH - "safest place" // talking dreams
POLICA - "very cruel" // shulamith

HOUR 2
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "heaven knows" // going to hell
BUTCHER BABIES - "axe wound" // goliath
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THE DEAD WEATHER - "the difference between us" // sea of cowards
IN THIS MOMENT - "adrenalize" // blood
KITTIE - "what I always wanted" // oracle
AMARANTHE - "electroheart" // the nexus
DELAIN - "breathe on me" // interlude

HALESTORM - "slave to the grind" // reanimate: the covers
THE AGONIST - "the tempest (the siren's song)" // lullabies for a dormant mind
ARCH ENEMY - "war eternal" // war eternal
NEW YEARS DAY - "do your worst" // victim to villain
EYES SET TO KILL - "little liar" // masks
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE - "thunder chunky" // late for nothing
HUNTRESS - "zenith" // starbound beast
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // CVI

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/11/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/11/14

HOUR 1
REVILWEN - "one more yesterday" // the script
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "until we dream" // everything is red
COLD KINGDOM - "let it burn" // let it burn - single
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
BANNER PILOT - "modern shakes" // souvenir
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "heart of darkness" // catacombs of the black vatican
STICK TO YOUR GUNS - "dog days are over" (Florence and the Machine)
FAITH NO MORE – “easy” (The Commodores)

PUSCIFER – “bohemian rhapsody” (Queen)
HOUSTON – “limelight” (Rush)
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “wait so long” (Trampled by Turtles)
WITHIN TEMPTATION – “radioactive” (Imagine Dragons)
FOUR YEAR STRONG – “love song” (Sara Barielles)
KAT PERKINS – “gold dust woman” (Fleetwood Mac)
35 INCH MUDDER – “when doves cry” (Prince)
FOO FIGHTERS – “drive me wild” (Prince)

HOUR 2
DOWN AND ABOVE – “joga” (Bjork)
DEFTONES - "to have and to hold" (Depeche Mode)
CASANATRA – “rusty cage” (Soundgarden)
GHOST – “if you have ghosts” (Roky Erickson)
COREY TAYLOR - "rainbow in the dark" (Dio)
TENACIOUS D - "the last in line" (Dio)
HALESTORM - "straight through the heart" (Dio)

MINDRITE – “say it ain’t so” (Weezer)
3 PILL MORNING – “let’s live for today”
JOHNNYROOK – “blow up the outside world” (Soundgarden)
INDEX CASE – “Jesus Christ pose” (Soundgarden)
DEVILDRIVER – “sail” (Awolnation)
MACHINE HEAD - "fucking hostile" (Pantera)
RANDY BLYTHE & SUICIDE SILENCE – “you only live once” (Suicide Silence)

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/04/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/04/14

HOUR 1
TONIGHT ALIVE - "the edge" // music from Spiderman 2
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster
NEW YEARS DAY - "angel eyes" // victim to villain
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
BROTHER ALI - "lookin' at me sideways" // the undisputed truth
RED - "release the panic" // release the panic
7TH ASCENT - "battleground" // 7th ascent

JACK WHITE - "high ball stepper" // lazaratto
TW - "masked" // destined to be real
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "karate never here" // the short side - ep
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - "shut me up" // you'll rebel to anything
WITHIN TEMPTATION - "dangerous" (feat Howard Jones) // hydra
AMARANTHE - "invincible" // the nexus
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // cheshire - single
TEN DARK YEARS - "a perfekt ten" // skin deep

HOUR 2
KILLER BE KILLED - "wings of feather and wax" // killer be killed
CHIODOS - "ole fishlips is dead" // devil
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
LACUNA COIL - "zombie" // broken crown halo
STEEL PANTHER - "you're beautiful when you don't talk" // all you can eat
COREY TAYLOR - "rainbow in the dark" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy

ARCH ENEMY - "war eternal" // war eternal
DEVILDRIVER - "ruthless" // winter kills
RED FANG - "blood like cream" // whales and leeches
FAIL TO DECAY - "eyes of the masses" // eyes of the masses - single
FIRST AGAINST THE WALL - "we're all dead" // first against the wall
CONVERGE - "trespasses" // all we love we leave behind
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "my dying time" // catacombs of the black vatican

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/28/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/28/14

HOUR 1
COREY TAYLOR, ROY MAYORGA, SATCHEL, CHRISTIAN MARTUCCI, JASON CHRISTOPHER - "rainbow in the dark" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
LACUNA COIL – “victims” // broken crown halo
KYNG – “electric halo” // burn the serum
REVILWEN – “amends” // follow the money
STEEL PANTER – “the burden of being wonderful” // all you can eat
WARROOSTER – “intergalactic performance review” // demo
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS – “das arbeislied” // the old ones are and forever shall be

HALESTORM - "straight through the heart" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
DESSA – “mineshaft" // castor the twin
MARMOZETS – “why do you hate me” // why do you hate me - single
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE – “cubicles” (demo) // may death never stop you
CITY OF THE WEAK – “white fire alarm” // white fire alarm
KICK – “electric love” // electric love - single
TEPETRICY - "hole digger" // hole digger - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT – “let me in” // demo
CHILDREN 18:3 - "LCM" // children 18:3

HOUR 2
HELLYEAH – “cross to beir (cradle of bones)" // blood for blood
TRIVIUM – “brave this storm” // vengeance falls
EMERGENT – “the fall” // emergent
AUGUST BURNS RED - "count it all as lost" // rescue and restore
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “here comes the crash” // new world disaster
DOWN – “we knew him well” // down IV part II
DEVIL YOU KNOW – “seven years ago” // the beauty in destruction

ROB HALFORD, VINNY APPICE, DOUG ALDRICH, JEFF PILSON, SCOTT WARREN - "man on the silver mountain" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
REAPING ASMODEIA – “poison of the earth” // the moribund resurrection
CONVEYER – “what’s inside” // worn out
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “sugars of someday” // shoot - ep
MOTORHEAD and BIFF BYFORD – “starstruck” // this is your life: Ronnie James Dio
ANIMALS AS LEADERS – “lippincott" // the joy of motion
DEVILINSIDE - "dead wrong" // volume one

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/21/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/21/14

HOUR 1
MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me?" // why do you hate me - single
ICON FOR HIRE - "cynics and critics" // icon for hire
BAYSIDE - "time has come" // cult
THROW THE FIGHT - "lights out for summer" // what doesn't kill us
ECHO EFFECT - "face of the girl" // the beauty in disaster
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm
AUGUST BURNS RED - "empire" // leveler

LACUNA COIL - "I forgive (but I won't forget you)" // black crown halo
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it / sisuphys" // torch
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - "I'm not okay (I promise)" // three cheers for sweet romance
ANGRY WATERS - "ours to be had" // angry waters III
MARCATO - "rapture" // in defense of violent motion

HOUR 2
DEVIL YOU KNOW - "seven years ago" // the beauty of destruction
DOWN - "we knew him well" // down IV part II
ENEMY X - "sacrificial burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "reckoning day" // vi-ops
REFLECTIONS - "my cancer" // exi(s)t
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "mind-spun" // the joy of motion

PANTERA - "this love (live)" // far beyond driven (20th anniversary edition)
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "when I lost my bet" // one of us is the killer
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy
SPOKEN - "illusion" // illusion
DEMON HUNTER - "cross to bear" // extremist
YOUR MEMORIAL - "redirect" // redirect
EVERY TIME I DIE - "she's my rushmore" // hot damn

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/14/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/14/14

HOUR 1
TIM TIMEBOMB - "change that song mr dj" // change that song mr dj - single
RANCID - "radio" // let's go
KAT PERKINS - "gold dust woman" // gold dust woman - single
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
TAKING BACK SUNDAY - "stood a chance" // happiness is
CROSSES - "telepathy" // crosses
TEAM SLEEP - "ever (foreign flag)" // team sleep
ECHO EFFECT - "seven" // the beauty in disaster
THROW THE FIGHT - "when the world stops spinning" // what doesn't kill us

SEVENDUST - "under it all" // time travelers and bonfires
HOUSTON - "cover" // overhead
P.O.D. - "southtown" // the fundamental elements of southtown
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // cheshire - single
DROPPING DAYLIGHT - "apologies" // brace yourself
DROPKICK MURPHYS - "the boys are back" // signed and sealed in blood
FLOGGING MOLLY - "drunken lullabies" // drunken lullabies

HOUR 2
LACUNA COIL - "nothing stands in our way" // black crown halo
KYNG - "electric halo" // burn the serum
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent
ARROWS AT DAWN - "you'll never win" // no place to hide
LIZZO - "w.e.r.k. pt II" // lizzobangers
NUISANCE - "migrate" // migrate - single

DEMON HUNTER - "cross to bear" // extremist
YOUR MEMORIAL - "turn it all around" // seasons
CONVEYER - "what's inside" // worn out
PERIPHERY - "feed the ground" // clear
INDEX CASE - "for nothing" // index case
AMARANTHE - "splinter in my soul" // amaranthe - special edition
ENCROACH - "this holds true"

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/07/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/07/14

HOUR 1
ATMOSPHERE - "bitter" // southsiders
KYNG - "electric halo" // burn the serum
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - "seek advice elsewhere" // home
REVILWEN - "woodgrain" // woodgrain - single
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "let me in" // demo
ANGRY BUKOWSKI - "alligator" // find what you love and let it kill you - ep
AND WE DANCED - "way back home" // statusfear media summer sampler 2013
CITY OF THE WEAK - "white fire alarm" // white fire alarm

SEVENDUST - "black" (acoustic) // time travelers and bonfires
TAKING BACK SUNDAY - "flicker, fade" // happiness is
FLOGGING MOLLY - "don't shut 'em down" // sound of darkness
P.O.S & MIKE MICTLAN - "get down" // we don't even live here
SKINDRED - "proceed with caution" // kill the power
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "heaven knows" // going to hell
MARMOZETS - "move, shake, hide" // move, shake, hide - single
INDEX CASE - "listen" // index case

HOUR 2
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster
THIRA - "release" // the ascension construct
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "tooth and claw" // the joy of motion
AFTER THE BURIAL - "parise" // wolves within
REFLECTIONS - "vein words from empty minds" // exi(s)t
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "hero of the soviet union" // one of us is the killer

DEMON HUNTER - "artifical light" // extremist
ARCITECTS (UK) - "naysayer" // lost together//lost forever
GOJIRA - "l'enfant sauvage" (live) // goijra/kvelertak live split
FAIL TO DECAY - "eyes of the masses" // eyes of the masses - single
CONVEYER - "what's inside" // worn out
BEAUTIFUL CORPSE - "your blood" // demo
KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/28/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/28/14

HOUR 1
MOTORHEAD & BIFF BYFORD (SAXON) – “starstruck" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
BOBAFLEX – “I’m glad you’re dead” // charlatan’s web
ENEMY X – “all seeing eye” // the ends of the earth (2014)
CITY OF GHOSTS – “ourselves at open sea” // the calm in the current
THROW THE FIGHT – “when the world stops spinning” // what doesn’t kill us
CROSSES – “bitches brew” // crosses
ANGRY BUKOWSKI – “kitchen party” (live) // live at the what’s up lounge
ANGRY BUKOWSKI – “alligator” // find what you love and let it kill you – ep

BAYSIDE – “big cheese” // cult
FLOGGING MOLLY – “the seven deadly sins" // within a mile of home
WE ARE THE IN CROWD – “attention” // weird kids
DESSA – “call off your ghost” // parts of speech
3 PILL MORNING – “I want that for you” // black tie love affair
NINE LASHES – “break the world” // from water to war
7TH ASCENT – “how I got these scars” // 7th ascent
NUISANCE – “priapism” // kill the silence

HOUR 2
ANIMALS AS LEADERS – “tooth and claw” // the joys of motion
AFTER THE BURIAL – “anti-pattern" // wolves within
REFLECTIONS – “my cancer" // exi(s)t
THIRA – “cognition : one" // vein I: varying states of decay
IMMORALIS – “burden” // burden - single
FOR TODAY – “break the cycle" // fight the silence
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “sugars of someday” // shoot
REAPING ASMODEIA – “poison of the earth” // the moribund resurrection

BUTCHER BABIES – “I smell a massacre" // goliath
PROTEST THE HERO – “clarity” // volition
BATTLECROSS – “never coming back" // war of will
INTERVALS – “automaton" // a voice within
NIGHT VERSES – “time erases time” // lift your existence
TORCHE - "walk it off" // harmonicraft
DEATH RAY VISION - "break every chain" // we ain't leavin till you're bleedin'
HATEBREED - "last breath" // satisfaction is the death of desire
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/21/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/21/14

HOUR 1
TONIGHT ALIVE - "listening" // what are you so scared of
TONIGHT ALIVE - "breaking and entering" // what are you so scared of
PHANTOGRAM - "fall in love" // voices
WE ARE THE IN CROWD - "manners" // weird kids
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster
SEVENDUST - "broken down" (acoustic) // southside double wide acoustic live

LA MADNESS - "got me wrong" // chances are
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // double live
KICK - "electric love" // electric love - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // cheshire - single
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "my God is the sun" // like clockwork
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
DEMON HUNTER - "artifical light" // extremist
SKINDRED - "kill the power" // kill the power
BAYSIDE - "time has come" // cult
CITY OF GHOSTS - "ourselves at open sea" // the calm in the current
ADRENALINE MOB - "the mob is back" // men of honor
LETLIVE - "27 club" // the blackest beautiful

ARCHITECTS (UK) - "naysayer" // lost forever//lost together
ENEMY X - "sacrifical burning" // the ends of the earth (2014)
PERIPHERY - "feed the ground" // clear
FIRST AGAINST THE WALL - "we're all dead" // first against the wall
KYNG - "electric halo" // burn the serum
LACUNA COIL - "die and rise" // black crown halo
ADRENALINE MOB - "stand up and shout" // coverta

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/14/14

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/14/14

HOUR 1
ATMOSPHERE - "she's enough" // the family sign
ATMOSPHERE - "shoulda known" // when life gives you lemons
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // cheshire - single
DOWN AND ABOVE - "candycane" // vena cava
FAMILY FORCE 5 - "love addict" // business up front, party in the back
ALIGN - "at the basement door" // some breaking news
ATTENTION - "stand strong" // stand strong
INCUBUS - "stellar" // make yourself

DEFTONES - "digtal bath" // white pony
DEFTONES - "sextape" // diamond eyes
ECHOSMITH - "surround you" // talking dreams
THE HUSH SOUND - "you are the moon" // like vines
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "make it wit chu" // era vulgaris
FAITH NO MORE - "easy" // who cares a lot?
CAROLINE SMITH - "half about being a woman" // half about being a woman
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "the end of heartache" // the end of heartache

HOUR 2
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "flicker" // flicker - single
THE HOT ROD HEATERS - "scorelord" // volume one: intake
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR - "lady, you shot me" // bye bye 17
SKINDRED - "proceed with caution" // kill the power
LACUNA COIL - "die and rise" // black halo crown
STEEL PANTHER - "the burden of being wonderful" // all you can eat
BAYSIDE - "time has come" // cult
KYNG - "electric halo" // burn the serum

KYNG - "burn the serum" // burn the serum
BOBAFLEX - "I'm glad you're dead" // charlatan's web
7TH ASCENT - "how I got these scars" // 7th ascent
LETLIVE - "banshee (ghost fame)" // the blackest beautiful
ENEMY X - "dead end" // the ends of the earth (2014)
PRINCE - "purple rain" // purple rain