Sunday, January 22, 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/20/16 - DJ FILTH

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/20/16
GUESTS :: DJ FILTH

HOUR 1

BRUISE VIOLET - "nightmare" // nightmare - single
ATMOSPHERE feat PROF - "windows" // windows - single
PHANTOGRAM – “you don’t get me high anymore” // three
GONE IS GONE – “gift” // echolocation
THE GRANDE MACHINE - "better still" // another round
B ! - "dead" // degenerator

EMERGENT – “home” // home – single
THROW THE FIGHT – “drown with me” // transmissions
KYNG – “hide from you" // breathe in the water
ARROWS AT DAWN - "let live" // pieces
IRON MAIDEN – “the number of the beast" // the number of the beast
IRON MAIDEN - "can I play with madness" // seventh son of a seventh son
GHOST – “secular haze" // infestissumam

HOUR 2
BANEHINGE - "edge of ruin" // edge demo
KILL SWITCH - "rebuild" // what doesn't kill us
ALIGN - "carrying" // some breaking news
DISKORD - "dead to me" // limberdink road
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // shanaska
THE GOODBARS - "exonerated" // more than nothing

THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
ONI feat RANDY BLYTHE - "the only cure" // ironshore
SEPULTURA - "I am the enemy" // machine messiah
EVERY TIME I DIE – “I didn’t want to join your stupid cult anyways” // low teens
GOJIRA – “only pain” // magma
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “hero of the soviet union" // one of us is the killer
CODE ORANGE – “spy" // forever

**SPECIAL THANKS to DJ FILTH for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week to talk about his big birthday bash JAN 27 @ O'GARA's in St. Paul with THE GOODBARS, B !, THE MAYBERRY RIOT and THE GRANDE MACHINE (21+ show)!




MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/13/17

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/13/17

HOUR 1

BIFFY CLYRO – “wolves of winter” // ellipsis
BIFFY CLYRO - "that golden rule" // only revolutions
BIFFY CLYRO - "little hospitals" // opposites (deluxe edition)
B ! – “higher" // degenerator
POLICA - "very cruel" // shulamith
P.O.S – “wearing a bear” // chill, dummy
GONE IS GONE – “gift" // echolocation

GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "say you will" // fu kung
ANGRY WATERS – “invasive species" // hold the high ground
TONY WILLIAMS – “masked" // destined to be real
THE MISSING LETTERS - "lucille" // lucille
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "the senses" // life under the influence
DOROTHY - "kiss it" // rockisdead
ALTER BRIDGE – “addicted to pain" // fortress
IN FLAMES – “the end" // battles

HOUR 2
LEMMY - "tie your mother down" // snaggletooth: a tribute to lemmy
AUGUST BURNS RED – “back burner" // messengers
PROTEST THE HERO – “clarity" // volition
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // can't lose control - single
KILLER BE KILLED - "wings of feather and wax" // killer be killed
WOVENWAR - "lines in the sand" // honor is dead
CWN ANNWN - "stay forever" // metamorphosis

LET IT BREATHE – “second hit" // river wizard
RED FANG - "cut it short" // only ghosts
EMBRACE THE ENDING - "ghost" // inception of strength
PSYCHOSTICK – “so. heavy." // IV: revenge of the vengeance
SEPULTURA – “i am the enemy" // machine messiah
CODE ORANGE - "the new reality" // forever
WALLS OF JERICHO - "no one can save you from yourself" // no one can save you from yourself


MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/06/17 - MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES OF 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/06/17
MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES OF 2017

HOUR 1

EMERGENT - "home" // home - single
ROYAL BLOOD - "you can be so cruel" // royal blood
COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
CITY OF THE WEAK - "censor this" // censor this - single
MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me?" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
WOLF ALICE - "lisbon" // my love is cool
THE MAYBERRY RIOT - "closed out" // shanaska
PVRIS - "smoke" // white noise

DESSA - "fighting fish" // parts of speech
P.O.S - "lanes" // chill, dummy
FLOGGING MOLLY - "the seven deadly sins" // within a mile of home
DEAD SARA - "monumental holiday" // dead sara
KAT PERKINS - "drive" // kat perkins
THE LETTER BLACK - "sick charade" // rebuild
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo

HOUR 2
HALESTORM - "heathens" // reanimate 3.0 - the covers ep
LATE NIGHT FIGHTS - "galvanized" // jousthouse
THE DAMNED THINGS - "bad blood" // ironiclast
LA MADNESS - "how bad" // love for losers
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
36 CRAZYFISTS - "also am I" // time and trauma
DEMON HUNTER - "storm the gates of hell" // storm the gates of hell

ROYAL'Z - "na na princess" // an end to anchor
GOOD TIGER - "where are the birds" // a head full of moonlight
MASTODON - "blood and thunder" // leviathan
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA - "left unsaid" // life
ENEMY X - "refuse to fall" // refuse to fall - single
ROYAL THUNDER - "whispering world" // CVI
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // indwelling - single


Wednesday, January 4, 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/30/16 - THE COVERS SHOW

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/30/16
THE COVERS SHOW

HOUR 1

DOWN AND ABOVE - "digging in the dirt" (Peter Gabriel) // vena cava
DOWN AND ABOVE - "joga" (Bjork) // anodyne
DOWN AND ABOVE - "the highwayman" (The Highwaymen) // hold your breath for the rising tide
CASANATRA - "rusty cage" (Soundgarden) // black days: a midwest movement tribute to soundgarden
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - "wait so long" (Trampled by Turtles) // motion city soundtrack/trampled by turtles - split
MINDRITE - "say it ain't so" (Mindrite) // DNA vol 1
FAITH NO MORE - "easy" (Faith No More) // angel dust

HOUSTON - "limelight" (Rush) // live on fish island
KAT PERKINS - "barracuda" (Heart) // fearless
QUIETDRIVE/SPOKEN - "time after time" (Cyndi Lauper) // when all that's left is you / last chance to breathe
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES - "heart of glass" (Blondie) // ruin jonny's bar mitzvah
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES - "come sail away" (Styx) // ruin jonny's bar mitzvah
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "love song" (Sara Bareilles) // pop goes punk
HOOK ECHO - "into the groove" (Madonna) // hook echo
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" (The Rolling Stones) // the tequila incidents

HOUR 2
INCUBUS - "let's go crazy" (Prince) // monuments and melodies
35 INCH MUDDER - "when doves cry" (Prince) // when doves cry - single
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "you're so vague" (Carly Simon) // rated r (deluxe edition)
SEVENDUST - "inner city blues" (Marvin Gaye) // best of (chapter one)
HALESTORM - "still of the night" (Whitesnake) // reanimate 3.0 - the covers ep
DEFTONES - "to have and to hold" (Depeche Mode) // for the masses: a tribute to depeche mode
DEFTONES - "the chauffeur" (Duran Duran) // b-sides & rarities

DEFTONES - "no ordinary love" (Sade) // b-sides & rarities
DEVILDRIVER - "sail" (Awolnation) // winter kills
DESTROPHY - "paint it, black" (The Rolling Stones) // pray
DEMON HUNTER - "snap your fingers, snap your neck" (Prong) // the triptych
MACHINE HEAD - "hostile" (Pantera) // getcha pull
EVERY TIME I DIE - "tourtettes" (Nirvana) // salem
GHOST - "if you have ghosts" (Roky Erickson) // if you have ghost
A PERFECT CIRCLE - "imagine" (John Lennon) // emotive


MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/23/16 - BEST OF 2016

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/23/16
BEST OF 2016

HOUR 1 - LOCAL

EMERGENT – “home” // home - single
FLIPP – “mr. Grinch” // merry flippmas
12. TECHNICIAN – “crimson chord” // crimson
11. AVERAGE MAMMALS – “steal me swiftly” // petrichor
10. SIMS – “what they don’t know” // more than ever
9. ANTISTAR – “vixen” // antistar
8. AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE – “drowning under everything” // tango umbrella

7. GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “march of the dolls” // the ghost parade
6. ATMOSPHERE – “ringo” // fishing blues
5. INDEX CASE – “silver” // ocean
4. POLICA – “top coat” // united crushers
3. GOODNIGHT RITUAL – “say you will” // fu kung
2. BRING THE SUN – “truth” // ghost
1. AFTER THE BURIAL – “lost in the static” // dig deep

HOUR 2 - NATIONAL
AUGUST BURNS RED – “what child is this (greensleeves)” // what child is this - single
10. HIGHLY SUSPECT – “postres” // the boy who died wolf (13 points)
9. METALLICA – “hardwired” // hardwired...to self destruct (14 points)
7. AFTER THE BURIAL – “collapse” // dig deep (15 points)
7. STITCHED UP HEART – “monster” // never alone (15 points)
6. DOROTHY – “raise hell” // rockisdead (16 points)
4. KORN – “rotting in vein” // the serenity of suffering (18 points)
4. GOJIRA – “stranded” // magma (18 points)

3. PERIPHERY – “magnolia” // periphery III: select difficulty (19 points)
2. CHEVELLE – “joyride (omen)” // the north corridor (28 points)
1. THRICE – “blood on the sand” // to be everywhere is to be nowhere (38 points)
1. THIRCE - "black honey" // to be everywhere is to be nowhere (38 points)
LEMMY & DAVE GROHL - "run, rudolph, run" // we wish you a metal Christmas
KAT PERKINS - "santa baby" // a kat perkins Christmas vol II
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill
AUGUST BURNS RED - "frosty the snowman" // sleddin' hill

**SPECIAL THANKS to ZIS, LINDSEY, DOUG, TIM from ARROWS AT DAWN, CLARK from The Mayberry Riot and Bring the Sun, ADDISON from SIN CITY ESCAPE, TRENT (ex 3 Pill Morning) and my wife for helping me out with the top 10 list this year!

NICK's TOP 25 (because I couldn't pick 10)
1. AFTER THE BURIAL – “dig deep” (Sumerian)
2. EVERY TIME I DIE – “low teens” (Epitaph)
3. GOJIRA – “magma” (Roadrunner)
4. AMARANTHE – “maximalism” (Spinefarm)
5. THRICE – “to be everywhere is to be nowhere” (Vagrant)
6. STITCHED UP HEART – “never alone” (Another Century)
7. BIFFY CLYRO – “ellipsis” (Warner Bros)
8. PERIPHERY – “III : select difficulty” (Sumerian)
9. KYNG – “breathe in the water” (Razor and Tie)
10. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – “incarnate” (Roadrunner)
11. MESHUGGAH – “the violent sleep of reason” (Nuclear Blast)
12. AGAINST ME – “shape shift with me” (Total Treble)
13. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “dissociation” (Party Smasher)
14. POLICA – “united crushers” (Mom+Pop)
15. PHANTOGRAM – “three” (Republic) (originally scheduled for SEP 16)
16. RED FANG – “only ghosts” (Relapse)
17. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT – “transcendence” (Inside Out / Century Media)
18. ATMOSPHERE – “fishing blues” (Rhymesayers)
19. DEFTONES – “gore” (Reprise)
20. HATEBREED – “the concrete confessional” (Nuclear Blast)
21. HELLYEAH – “unden!able” (Eleven Seven)
22. LACUNA COIL – “delirium” (Century Media)
23. ANTHRAX – “for all kings” (Megaforce)
24. NORMA JEAN – “polar similar” (SolidState)
25. WALLS OF JERICHO – “no one can save you from yourself” (Napalm)

ALBUMS THAT I PLAYED A LOT THAT ANNOYED MY WIFE THE LEAST
1. PVRIS - "white noise"
2. THRICE - "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"
3. BLINK 182 - "california"
4. AARON GILLESPIE - "out of the badlands"
5. ATMOSPHERE - "fishing blues"

ZIS' TOP 10
1. GOJIRA - "magma"
2. PERIPHERY - "periphery III: select difficulty"
3. AVATAR - "feathers and flesh"
4. THRICE - "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"
5. DOROTHY - "rockisdead"
6. METALLICA - "hardwired...to self destruct"
7. CHEVELLE - "the north corridor"
8. STITCHED UP HEART - "never alone"
9. MESHUGGAH - "the violent sleep of reason"
10. KYNG - "breathe in the water"

LINDSEY's TOP 5
1. DOROTHY - "rockisdead"
2. METALLICA - "hardwired...to self destruct"
3. THRICE - "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"
4. STITCHED UP HEART - "never alone"
5. STEEL PANTHER - "live from lexxi's mom's garage"

DOUG's TOP 5
1. VOLBEAT - "seal the deal and let's boogie"
2. A DAY TO REMEMBER - "bad vibrations"
3. UPON A BURNING BODY - "straight out the barrio"
4. CHEVELLE - "the north corridor"
5. KORN - "the serenity of suffering"

TIM (ARROWS AT DAWN)'s TOP 5
1. CHEVELLE - "the north corridor"
2. THRICE - "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"
3. AGAINST ME! - "shape shift with me"
4. HIGHLY SUSPECT - "the boy who died wolf"
5. BIFFY CLYRO - "ellipsis"

CLARK (The Mayberry Riot / Bring the Sun)'s TOP 5
1. WEEZER - "weezer (the white album)"
2. DEFTONES - "gore"
3. THRICE - "to be everywhere is to be nowhere"
4. CHEVELLE - "the north corridor"
5. HIGHLY SUSPECT - "the boy who died wolf"

TRENT (ex 3 Pill Morning)'s TOP 5
1. ARCHITECTS - "all our gods have abandoned us"
2. KORN - "the serenity of suffering"
3. AVENGED SEVENFOLD - "the stage"
4. DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - "transcendence"
5. MEMPHIS MAY FIRE - "this light I hold"

ADDISON (Sin City Escape)'s TOP 8
1. ALTER BRIDGE - "the last hero"
2. WOVENWAR - "honor is dead"
3. MEMPHIS MAY FIRE - "this light I hold"
4. PERIPHERY - "periphery III: select difficulty"
5. LETTERS FROM THE FIRE - "worth the pain"
6. AFTER THE BURIAL - "dig deep"
7. HELLYEAH - "unden!able"
8. KORN - "the serenity of suffering"