Sunday, December 28, 2014

INTERVIEW ROUND UP!

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!!!**




Saturday, December 6, 2014

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.**



Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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!**