Saturday, December 16, 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/15/17 - 10 YEARS

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/15/17
GUESTS :: 10 YEARS

HOUR 1

DESSA - "fire drills" // chime
KAT PERKINS - "santa baby" // a kat perkins christmas vol 2
MARMOZETS - "major system error" // knowing what you know now
AVERAGE MAMMALS - "steal me swiftly" // petrichor
THE PUSH - "controller" // oh, victory
QUICKSAND - "warm and low" // interiors

10 YEARS - "novocaine" // (how to live) as ghosts
10 YEARS - "ghosts" // (how to live) as ghosts
10 YEARS - "phantoms" // (how to live) as ghosts
STITCHED UP HEART - "monster" // never alone
A PERFECT CIRCLE - "the hollow" // mer de noms

HOUR 2
TOOL - "parabola" // lateralus
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "march of the dolls" // the ghost parade
CITY OF THE WEAK - "censor this" // censor this - single
ARCH ENEMY - "the world is yours" // will to power
RAD OWL - "aladdin's castle" // aladdin's castle ep
LET IT BREATHE - "second hit" // river wizard

COMMON CHOIR - "lower roads home" // lower roads home - single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" // sleddin' hill
BY THE THOUSANDS - "revenant" // connect
ROYAL'Z - "na na princess" // an end to anchor
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "room of nightmares" // grimmest hits
RED FANG - "cut it short" // only ghosts
COMEBACK KID feat DEVIN TOWNSEND - "absolute" // outsider
GLASSJAW - "shira" // material control
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

**SPECIAL THANKS to BRIAN from 10 YEARS for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! 10 YEARS' new album "(how to live) As Ghosts" is out now via Mascot Records! 10 YEARS will be back in the area for NORTHERN INVASION 2018 at SOMERSET AMPHITHEATER in Somerset, WI on May 12 & 13, 2018! Get your tickets and camping now!




Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The NORTHERN INVASION 2018 lineup has been announced!



What a lineup it is! This year is going to be glorious!

Headliners TOOL, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ALICE IN CHAINS and A PERFECT CIRCLE! I don't think anyone saw that coming!

Add in a newly reactivated STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, THE USED, 10 YEARS, BUTCHER BABIES, MISS MAY I, NEW YEARS DAY, MUTOID MAN and STITCHED UP HEART and you got a recipe for a great weekend!

Click the jump to go to Northern Invasion's site for tickets, camping info and everything you need to know about next year's Northern Invasion!

See you out there!


THRICE & FLIPP photos up now!

Brett Zisler's photo sets from THRICE's Dec 8 show at the Myth in Maplewood with CIRCA SURVIVE and FLIPP's Merry Flippmas show Dec 9 at the Hook and Ladder Theater in Minneapolis are up now!


Check out THRICE and CIRCA SURVIVE here!


Check out FLIPP here!


Saturday, December 9, 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST  ::  12/8/17

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST  ::  12/8/17

HOUR 1

PANTERA - "a new level" // vulgar display of power
ENEMY X - "crawl" // crawl - single
FIRE FIGHT - "white flag" // transitions
10 YEARS - "novacaine" // (how to live) as ghosts
CHEVELLE - "the clincher" // this type of thinking could do us in
THUNDERPUSSY - "velvet noose" // velvet noose - single
THUNDERPUSSY - "Christmas (baby please come home)" // Christmas (baby please come home) - single

PANTERA - "cowboys from hell" (live 1990) // cowboys from hell (deluxe edition)
ENEMY X - "fall into pieces" // fall into pieces - single
ANGRY WATERS - "dead flowers" // the tequila incidents
WARROOSTER - "hyperdrive" // demo
SELF EVIDENT – “everything all at once" // endings
REDOVERLUNAR – “theo's revenge" // theo's revenge
ALL THE WAY RIDER – “I always" // floyd

HOUR 2
ALIGN – “never less than once removed" // blue book value
GLASSJAW - "shira" // material control
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - "one of us is the killer" // one of us is the killer
PROJECT 86 - "imaginary me" // sheep amongst wolves
FLIPP - "jingle bells" // merry flippmas
FLIPP - "just let it be" // flipp (20th anniversary platnium edition)
WEATHER CHECK - "swarm in numbers" // weather check

PANTERA - "uplift" // reinventing the steel
GWAR - "i'll be your monster" // the blood of gods
ROYAL THUNDER - "anchor" // wick
BARONESS - "desperation burns" // purple
CODE ORANGE - "bleeding in the blur" // forever
MY ZERO - "can't lose control" // can't lose control - single
CONVERGE - "I can tell you about pain" // the dusk in us
CONVERGE - "arkhipov calm" // the dusk in us


Saturday, December 2, 2017

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST  ::  12/1/17 - FIRE FIGHT

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST  ::  12/1/17
GUESTS  ::  FIRE FIGHT

HOUR 1

FLIPP – “you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch" // merry flippmas
COLD KINGDOM – “the break”  //  cold kingdom
THRICE – “black honey" // to be everywhere is to be nowhere
FIRE FIGHT – “still here”  //  transitions
ANTISTAR – “tower”  //  tower - single

FIRE FIGHT – “weight of the world”  //  transitions
VIA – “appetite”  //  after you drown
FIRE FIGHT – “visions”  //  transitions
STANDING ALLIANCE – “erased" // erased - single
BIFFY CLYRO – “animal style" // ellipsis
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – “the way you used to do" // villains

HOUR 2
OF MICE & MEN – “warzone" // defy
COMMON CHOIR – “lower roads home”  //  lower roads home - single
EYES SET TO KILL – “reach" // reach
CELLAR DARLING - "hullaballoo" // this is the sound
AUGUST BURNS RED - "last Christmas" // last Christmas - single
AUGUST BURNS RED – “hero of the half truth”  //  phantom anthem
ENEMY X - "crawl" // crawl - single

ALIGN – “worth 3 scene points”  //  some breaking news
PYRALIS – “axe grind”  //  demo
KNOCKED LOOSE - "deadringer" // laugh tracks
COMEBACK KID feat DEVIN TOWNSEND - "absolute" // outsider
CODE ORANGE - "spy" // forever
TREASONS - "sense of pride" // black hearts, broken bones
EVERY TIME I DIE - "I didn't want to join your stupid cult anyways" // low teens
HATEBREED - "looking down the barrel of today" // the concrete confessional
CONVERGE - "under duress" // the dusk in us

**SPECIAL THANKS to ADDISON from FIRE FIGHT for calling in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! FIRE FIGHT's new album "Transitions" will be released next Sat (Dec 9) at the Coliseum in Hastings with special guests VIA, ANTISTAR and STANDING ALLIANCE!




Monday, November 27, 2017

ROCK ON THE RANGE ANNOUNCED!


ROCK ON THE RANGE just got announced this morning for Columbus, OH!

The 11th year of Rock on the Range pulled an excellent lineup of bands including headliners TOOL, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and ALICE IN CHAINS along with the return of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, STONE SOUR and A PERFECT CIRCLE (who we caught over the weekend at the Xcel)!

It's also great to see BARONESS, CODE ORANGE, BODY COUNT, STITCHED UP HEART among the names announced along with UNDEROATH and BABYMETAL!

If you are up for a road trip, this is a lineup to see!

What does that mean for NORTHERN INVASION? The lineup will be announced Dec 11. Who do you wanna see out there?


Picture of Lajon from Sevendust from Nothern Invasion 2016 by Brett Zisler.


MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/24/17 - BUTCHER BABIES

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 11/24/17
GUESTS :: BUTCHER BABIES

HOUR 1

QUICKSAND – “warm and low” // interiors
REDOVERLUNAR – “found” // fighting fire with gasoline
THRICE - "blood on the sand" // to be everywhere is to be nowhere
IT'S WAR - "now or never" // now or never - single
ASHES FROM STONE - "molon labe" // molon labe
DOROTHY - "down to the bottom" // down to the bottom - single
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE - "march of the dolls" // the ghost parade
BUTCHER BABIES - "lilith" // Lilith

BUTCHER BABIES - "#iwokeuplikethis" // lilith
BUTCHER BABIES - "headspin" // lilith
BUTCHER BABIES - "korova" // Lilith

HOUR 2
YOUR MEMORIAL - "steadfast" // your memorial
MACHINE HEAD - "beyond the pale" // catharsis
WAGE WAR – “stitch” // deadweight
WHITECHAPEL – “elitist ones” // mark of the blade
ENTHEOS – “the world without us” // dark future
BLUE FELIX – “hate inside” // hate inside - single
BLACK FLOOD DIESEL – “chasing the atrophy" // new asylum

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "reach and touch" // trepination
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "all wrapped up" // the war of art
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "a violent reaction" // the war of art
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "loyalty" // the feeding
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "ridicule" // the feeding
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "effigy 23" // the war of art
AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE - "to be me" // the feeding
CONVERGE - "cannibals" // the dusk in us

**SPECIAL THANKS to CARLA and HEIDI from BUTCHER BABIES for sitting down with the Midwest Beatdown this week! BUTCHER BABIES' excellent new album "Lilith" is out now via Century Media Records!