MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/24/25 - KMSU FALL PLEDGE DRIVE LIVE

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/24/25
KMSU FALL PLEDGE DRIVE

HOUR 1
LIMP BIZKIT – “making love to morgan wallen” // making love to morgan wallen - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES – “sleepless nights” // full circle
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA – “everybody knows” // flowers
MADAM DRIVER – “crossroads” // negative ghostrider
TURNSTILE – “sunshower/birds” // never enough
TWO HARBORS – “what you’re on about” (vinyl) // can’t shake this dream

MAMMOTH – “something new” // the end
JOHNNYROOK – “missing you for days” (2025) // the more things change (2025)
DIE SPITZ – “punishers” (vinyl) // something to consume
TOO LATE, BUT STILL – “gentle howls” // night songs
BIFFY CLYRO – “a little love” (vinyl) // futique
GULLY BOYS – “me and you” // gully boys

HOUR 2
SCOWL – “fantasy” // are we all angels
FIRSUN – “if we want it” // if we want it - single
ROCKET – “crossing fingers” (vinyl) // r is for rocket
EXACTLYNO – “all I need” // all I need - single
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “mi corazon” (vinyl) // the same old wasted wonderful world
SUMO CYCO – “villians” // neon void

SLDG – “crickets” // of my own design
FLESHWATER – “last escape” (vinyl) // 2000: in search of the endless sky
SOULKEEPER – “smile because it happened” // join us in creating excellence
MANY EYES – “the clock behind all other clocks” // combust
SOULFLY – “no pain = no power” // chama
ROMAN CANDLE – “fire in the night sky forever” // fire in the night sky forever - single
DYING WISH – “I brought you my soul (your world brought me despair)” // I brought you my soul - single

R.I.P. SAM RIVERS

**SPECIAL THANKS to ALL OF OUR RADIO HEROES FROM MO, IA and MN FOR THEIR PLEDGES TONIGHT DURING THE MIDWEST BEATDOWN! Your support helps KMSU stay on the air, be local and independent and ran by music lovers for music lovers of all kinds! You can still pledge your support over at http://www.kmsu.org to help us reach our $33,000 goal!

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/17/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/17/25

HOUR 1
ACE FREHLEY - "New York groove" // ace frehley
ACE FREHLEY feat MIKE McCREADY - "cold gin" // origins vol 1
ACE FREHLEY feat JOHN 5 - "parasite" // origins vol 1
THE DONNAS - "speeding back to my baby" // the early years
NEW MEDICINE & ADELITA'S WAY - "last laugh" // last laugh ep
IN THIS MOMENT - "adrenalize" // blood
DED - "purpose: be myself" // resent

THE PRETTY WILD - "button eyes" // zero.point.genesis
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY - "living the meme" // living the meme
SUMO CYCO - "shivers" // neon void
DIE SPITZ - "punishers" // something to consume
BUNNY BLOOD - "was it me?" // punktober five comp
BABES IN TOYLAND - "bruise violet" // fontanelle
EVA UNDER FIRE - "awakening" // awakening - single
NOTHING MORE - "we're in this together" // we're in this together - single

HOUR 2
THE SLAIN - "the haunted castle" // the slain
ASHES FROM STONE - "riddles and riots" // riddles and riots
AEOUS - "causality" // the light you've always had
WEEKEND PICNIC - "echo chamber" // echo chamber - single
BIOHAZARD - "strength in the face of adversity" // divided we fall
EVERNORTH - "prevailer" // silver tongue
DYING WISH - "I don't belong anywhere" // flesh stays together

ENTHEOS - "empty on the inside" // empty on the inside - single
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "broken and blind" // broken and blind - single
SABATON - "lightning at the gates" // legends
BY THE THOUSANDS - "shiver" // the descent
LIVING DEAD GIRL - "succubus" // conspiracy
TESTAMENT - "nature of the beast" // para bellum
SOULFLY feat TODD JONES - "nihilist" // chama
VEIN - "rebirth protocol" // errorzone

REST IN PEACE ACE FREHLEY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/10/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/10/25

HOUR 1
THE SLAIN - "creature of the moat" // the slain
DIVIDE THE FALL - "break free" // break free - single
THRICE - "albatross" // horizons/west
NEW MEDICINE & ADELITA'S WAY - "last laugh" // last laugh ep
AMIRA ELFEKY - "hold onto me" // hold onto me - single
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE - "meltdown" // scoring the end of the world
ROCKET - "pretending" // r is for rocket

ALTER BRIDGE - "what lies within" // alter bridge
EXACTLYNO - "all I need" // all I need - single
KILLING STARES - "teenager" // for the song you saved - a tribute to Deftones
DEFTONES - "metal dream" // private music
MADAM DRIVER - "through the trees" // negative ghostrider
SLDG - "out of here" // of my own design
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "broken and blind" // broken and blind - single
ALICE IN CHAINS - "them bones" // dirt

HOUR 2
TYPE O NEGATIVE - "summer breeze (Rick Rubin mix)" // bloody kisses (30th anniversary edition)
GORE. - "like you meant it" // if you do not fear me
DED - "eraser" // resent
DAEDRIC - "night mother" // as the light left
PLAGUE OF STARS - "false reality" // extinction
ONLY TIME - "the pull" // compassion fatigue
LIVING DEAD GIRL - "succubus" // conspiracy

TESTAMENT - "witch hunt" // para bellum
BETTER LOVERS - "don't forget to say please" // don't forget to say please - single
ORBIT CULTURE - "inferna" // death above life
BY THE THOUSANDS - "the flood" // the descent
LAMB OF GOD - "sepsis" // sepsis - single
BIOHAZARD - "eyes on six" // divided we fall
LORNA SHORE - "unbreakable" // I feel the everblack festering within me

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/03/25 - HALESTORM

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 10/03/25
GUESTS :: HALESTORM

HOUR 1
THE SLAIN - "the vampire bat" // the slain
THRICE - "holding on" // horizons/west
RAD OWL - "double play" // rad owl/quit split
SCARLET HAZE - "give me a reason" // out of the dark
ROCKET - "crossing fingers" // r...is for rocket
NEW MEDICINE - "s.o.s." // die trying: the double album
DIVIDE THE FALL - "break free" // break free - single

TOO LATE, BUT STILL - "nine years" // night songs
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" // hold the high ground
LINDSEY STIRLING & HALESTORM - "shatter me" // shatter me (deluxe edition)
HALESTORM - "fallen star" // Everest
HALESTORM - "Everest" // Everest

HOUR 2
HALESTORM - "straight through the heart" // Ronnie James Dio: this is your life
HALESTORM - "like a woman can" // Everest
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES - "complicated" // full circle
GULLY BOYS - "me and you" // gully boys
GORE. - "orbiting" // if you do not fear me
DED - "purpose: be myself" // resent

LAMB OF GOD - "sepsis" // sepsis - single
ORBIT CULTURE - "the storm" // death above life
TESTAMENT - "infanticide a.i." // para bellum
MEGADETH - "tipping point" // megadeth
DYING WISH - "moments I regret" // flesh stays together
EVERY TIME I DIE - "floater" // hot damn
ROMAN CANDLE - "fire in the night sky forever" // fire in the night sky forever - single
SOULFLY feat TODD JONES - "nihilist" // chama

**SPECIAL THANKS to AREJAY and JOSH from HALESTORM for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week before their show at Treasure Island Amphitheater in Welch, MN! HALESTORM's awesome new album "Everest" is out now!

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