Tuesday, April 14, 2015

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/10/15 - AMERICAN SCARECROWS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/10/15
GUESTS :: AMERICAN SCARECROWS

HOUR 1

THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
CLUTCH - "unto the breach" // earth rocker
MASTODON - "the motherload" // once more round the sun
STONE SOUR - "we die young" // meanwhile in burbank
ALICE IN CHAINS - "it ain't like that" // facelift
KOO KOO KANGA ROO - "who farted" // gross - ep

CHILDREN 18:3 - "hold your breath" // come in
DROPPING DAYLIGHT - "apologies" // brace yourself
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "devil on my shoulder" // yesteryear
PAY ATTENTION - "stuck in the mud" // pay attention - ep
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "the peak" // yesteryear
SOUL ASYLUM - "misery" // black gold: the best of soul asylum

HOUR 2
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
GOODNIGHT RITUAL - "hits the spot" // trade mark
JACK WHITE - "the lemon song" // live at bonnaroo 2014
FOUR YEAR STRONG - "we all float down here" // four year strong
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
KATATONIA - "evidence" // sanctitude

ANTHRAX - "nobody knows anything" // we've come for you all
THE END - "throwing stones" // elementary
GEMINI SYNDROME - "falling apart" // lux
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "knight boat" // the old ones are and forever shall be
THE HOT ROD HEATERS - "scorelord" // volume one: intake
STONE SOUR - "love gun" // meanwhile in burbank
OPETH - "would?" // burden - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to SETH from AMERICAN SCARECROWS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! AMERICAN SCARECROWS’ new album “Yesteryear” is out now!

AMERICAN SCARECROWS will be at the Mankato Event Center in Mankato on Thursday (4/16) and Whiskey Bones Roadhouse in Rochester on Friday (4/17) with SOUL ASYLUM, JOHN MARK NELSON and CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER!





MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/03/15 - 36 CRAZYFISTS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 04/03/15
GUESTS :: 36 CRAZYFISTS

HOUR 1

DEAD SARA - "L.A. city slum" // pleasure to meet you
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
ARROWS AT DAWN - "dead in the water" // no place to hide
ARSON RIVER - "chemicals" // any given day
COLD KINGDOM - "crash poet" // the moon and the fool
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "cheshire" // yesteryear

JACK WHITE - "that black bat liquorice" // lazaretto
SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
ALL THE WAY RIDER - "I always" // floyd
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
AEOUS - "us against the world" // the same light you've always had
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

HOUR 2
ROYAL THUNDER - "the line" // crooked doors
KATATONIA - "the one you are looking for is not here" // sanctitude
NIGHTWISH - "weak fantasy" // endless forms most beautiful
36 CRAZYFISTS - "also am I" // time and trauma

36 CRAZYFISTS - "sorrow sings" // time and trauma
36 CRAZYFISTS - "swing the noose" // time and trauma
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "pretty disaster" // new world disaster
REAPING ASMODEIA - "indwelling" // poison of the earth
REAPING ASMODEIA - "convalescent alignment" // poison of the earth

**SPECIAL THANKS to BROCK from 36 CRAZYFISTS for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! 36 CRAZYFISTS’ new album “Time and Trauma” is out now via Spinefarm!




Saturday, March 28, 2015

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/27/15 - SELF-EVIDENT

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/27/15
GUESTS :: SELF-EVIDENT

HOUR 1

VIA - "closets" // sanitize this
KICK - "electric love" // away from the world
EMERGENT - "erode" // emergent
CHILDREN 18:3 - "hold your breath" // come in
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "intoxicate" // reveal
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
FRAMING HANLEY - "collide" // the sum of who we are

SELF-EVIDENT - "house" // the traveler
SELF-EVIDENT - "swell" // the traveler
SELF-EVIDENT - "loaded down with static" // the traveler
REDOVERLUNAR - "the wringer" // theo's revenge
ANGRY WATERS - "bad moon rising" // the tequila incidents - ep

HOUR 2
NIGHTWISH - "weak fantasy" // endless forms most beautiful
AVATAR - "death of sound" // hail the apocalypse
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL - "chasing the atrophy" // new asylum
INDEX CASE - "I, insist" // augustagein
A.D.D. - "I regret" // core
NOPATHY - "steps" // nopathy - ep
FULL DEVIL JACKET - "killers" // valley of bones

AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
IMMORALIS - "burden" // burden - single
THE AGONIST - "gates of horn and ivory" // eye of providence
CROSSFAITH - "monolith" // zion - ep
AUGUST BURNS RED - "empire" // leveler
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it" // torch - ep

**SPECIAL THANKS to CONRAD from SELF-EVIDENT for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! SELF-EVIDENT’s new album “The Traveler” is available now at shows. Check out SELF-EVIDENT with CHON and NOMIA at The Neither Bar in Mill City Nights in Minneapolis on April 4 (16+ show)!




Saturday, March 21, 2015

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/15 - COAL CHAMBER

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/20/15
GUESTS :: COAL CHAMBER

HOUR 1

DEAD SARA - "something good" // pleasure to meet you
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "depending on the weather" // keep your devils around
SOUL ASYLUM - "can't even tell" // clerks - soundtrack
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money
CITY OF THE WEAK - "spit it out" // disclosure
QUIETDRIVE - "world war U" // the ghost of what you used to be
VAUDEVILLE - "where darkness lies" // masquerade vol 1 - ep

MARMOZETS - "why do you hate me" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
FOUR LETTER LIE - "inversion" // like structures
BUTCHER BABIES - "they're coming to take me away" // uncovered
AEOUS - "casualty" // the light you’ve always had
NONPOINT - "misery" // the return
36 CRAZYFISTS - "also am I" // time and trauma
EMERGENT - "out of the grey" // emergent
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "here comes the crash" // new world disaster

HOUR 2
PERIPHERY - "22 faces" // juggernaut: alpha
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
COAL CHAMBER - "I.O.U. nothing" // rivals
FILTER - "jurassitol" // the crow: city of angels - soundtrack
COAL CHAMBER - "rivals" // rivals

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "dirty" // the feeding
COAL CHAMBER - "loco" // coal chamber
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "loyalty" // catch the throne II mixtape
ANTHRAX - "soror irrumator" // catch the throne II mixtape
MASTODON - "white walker" // catch the throne II mixtape
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

**SPECIAL THANKS to DEZ from COAL CHAMBER for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!!

COAL CHAMBER destroys First Avenue on Monday (Mar 23) with FILTER, COMBICHRIST, AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE and SAINT RIDLEY! (18+ show)

COAL CHAMBER’s new album “RIVALS” comes out on May 19 via Napalm.





MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/15 - ROMANTIC REBEL

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/13/15
GUESTS :: ROMANTIC REBEL

HOUR 1

SELF-EVIDENT – “house” // the traveler
BRING THE SUN – “death pigeon” // death pigeon - ep
WARROOSTER – “save the date” // bilderberg workshop
3 YEARS HOLLOW – “for life” // the cracks
ROMANTIC REBEL – “believe” // romantic rebel
ISLANDER – “counteract” // violence and destruction

ROMANTIC REBEL – “alive” // romantic rebel
RED – “darkest part” // of beauty and rage
ROMANTIC REBEL – “sorry” // romantic rebel
BOBAFLEX – “rogue” // charlatan’s web
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "Godspeed hellbound" // order of the black
AMARANTHE - "digital world" // massive addictive
LETLIVE - "younger" // the blackest beautiful

HOUR 2
COAL CHAMBER – “I.O.U. nothing” // rivals
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “nightlife” // home
TORCHE – “blasted” // restarter
ROYAL THUNDER – “forget you” // crooked doors
SECRETLY DROWNING – “k” // the camden – ep
ATTENTION – “whatever gets you through the night” // everything takes forever
OTHERWISE – “darker side of the moon” // peace at all costs
A.D.D. – “I regret” // core

PANGAEA – “the balance” // (forthcoming disc)
LET IT BREATHE – “second hit” // river wizard
THIRA – “good morning, my name is john” // vein I: varying states of decay
DEAD HORSE TRAUMA – “psycho” // kill the precedence
GALLOWS - "outsider art" // gallows
IMMORALIS – “burden” // burden - single
COAL CHAMBER – “rivals” // rivals
EVERY TIME I DIE - "pelican of the desert" // from parts unknown

**SPECIAL THANKS to ROMANTIC REBEL for stopping by the Midwest Beatdown this week! ROMANTIC REBEL’s self titled album is out now on Pavement Entertainment!




Sunday, March 8, 2015

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/15 - FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 03/06/15
GUESTS :: FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD

HOUR 1

COAL CHAMBER - "rivals" // rivals
HALESTORM - "mayhem" // into the wild life
ROMANTIC REBEL - "believe" // romantic rebel
THE GOODBARS - "I'm alive" // the goodbars
10 YEARS - "miscellanea" // from birth to burial
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
PIERRE - "skateboardian" // western medicine

NEW MEDICINE - "like a rose" // breaking the model
GINGERJAKE - "get it get off" // get it get off live
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "live again" // reveal
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "sink or swim" // reveal
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD - "intoxicate" // reveal

HOUR 2
KOO KOO KANGA ROO - "who farted?" // gross
PSYCHOSTICK - "so. heavy." // IV: revenge of the vengeance
BRIAN POSEHN - "more metal than you" // fart and weiner jokes
SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // screaming for silence
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
EMERGENT - "the fall" // emergent
HELMET - "milquetoast" // betty

36 CRAZYFISTS - "sorrow sings" // time and trauma
NONPOINT - "never ending hole" // the return
COLD KINGDOM - "the light" // the moon and the fool
REAPING ASMODEIA - "poison of the earth" // poison of the earth
BY THE THOUSANDS - "theopany" // by the thousands - ep
AFTER THE BURIAL - "a wolf amongst ravens" // wolves within
SCREAMING MECHANICAL BRAIN - "trogdor" // smb's museum of barnyard oddities

**SPECIAL THANKS to IAN from FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD's new album "Reveal" comes out on Pavement on Tuesday (March 10)!




Tuesday, March 3, 2015

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/27/15 - DIVIDING EDEN & FIFTH HOUR

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/27/15
GUESTS :: DIVIDING EDEN & FIFTH HOUR

HOUR 1

COLD KINGDOM - "surrender" // the moon and the fool
RED - "imposter" // of beauty and rage
MARMOZETS - "captivate you" // the weird and wonderful marmozets
DIVIDING EDEN - "hey ya (losing gravity)" // here comes the water
DIVIDING EDEN - "here comes the water" // here comes the water

GOING TO THE SUN - "new year" // going to the sun
DIVIDING EDEN - "lullaby" // here comes the water
DIVIDING EDEN - "puppets" // here comes the water
THE ODDFATHERS - "another tear goes dry" // part II
TORCHE - "blasted" // restarter

HOUR 2
NIGHTWISH - "Elan" // endless forms most beautiful
OLD TOWNE GHOSTS - "don't need it / sisyphus" // torch
FIFTH HOUR - "wait" // the line between love and hate
SCREAMING FOR SILENCE - "the king is crowned" // the king is crowned
FIFTH HOUR - "not the enemy" // not the enemy - single
EMERGENT - "dead letters" // emergent

FIFTH HOUR - "follow me" // the line between love and hate
PATHOS ETHOS - "actions fight harder than words" // demo
FIFTH HOUR - "gave it our all" // the line between love and hate
TEPETRICY - "hole digger" // hole digger - single

**SPECIAL THANKS to ELISSA and COLLIN from DIVIDING EDEN and BLAYNE from FIFTH HOUR for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week!!

DIVIDING EDEN's CD release party is next Saturday (March 7) at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis with GOING TO THE SUN, PASADENA '68 and THE ATTLEY PROJECT (18+ show)!

FIFTH HOUR's tour kick off show is next Friday (March 6) at Pov's in Spring Lake Park, MN with EMERGENT, SCREAMING FOR SILENCE and PATHOS ETHOS (18+ show)! FIFTH HOUR and SCREAMING FOR SILENCE will be at Busters in Mankato on March 12.