MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/17/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/17/25

HOUR 1
THROW THE FIGHT - "obey" // strangeworld
BEULAH RUE – “hospital bed" // aftermath
DOROTHY – “down to the bottom" // down to the bottom - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES – “rabbit hole” // rabbit hole - single
ANXIETY SOCIETY – “you want it” // you want it - single
MYLES KENNEDY – “show me a sign" // the art of letting go
TREMONTI – “one more time” // the end will show us how
FLESHWATER – “linda claire" // we're not here to be loved

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – “nightlife" // home
RAD OWL – “growl" // rage gracefully
EXACTLYNO – “red line city" // red line city
CRASH CUDDLE – “owning the bull" // klaxan
XAETO – “amalgam" // amalgam - single
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY – “living the meme" // living the meme - single
NONPOINT - "alive and kicking" // to the pain
COAL CHAMBER - "loco" // coal chamber

HOUR 2
ARCHITECTS – “blackhole" // the sky, the earth and all between
COHEED AND CAMBRIA – “someone who can" // vaxis III: the father of make believe
TAKING BACK SUNDAY – “quit trying" // 152
MASTODON – “fallen torches" // medium rarities
PERIPHERY – “facepalm mute" // periphery II
EVERNOIR – “spiral" // spiral - single
GHOST – “square hammer" // popestar

DEADLANDS – “villain" // villain - single
GORE. – “pray" // a bud that never blooms
LOATHE – “aggressive evolution" // I let it in and it took everything
KERRY KING – “idle hands” // from hell I rise
BLEEDING THROUGH – “dead but so alive” // nine
MACHINE HEAD feat IN FLAMES, LACUNA COIL, UNEARTH – “these scars won’t define us” // these scars won't define us - single
PLAGUE OF STARS – “Gods of old” // extinction
TURNSTILE - "big smile" // time and space

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/10/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/10/25
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2025 part 1

HOUR 1
ANXIETY SOCIETY - "you want it" // you want it - single (Live debut next Sat at Rendevous in Annandale)
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES - "sleepless nights" // sleepless nights - single (Live next Sat at Rendevous in Annandale)
BUELAH RUE - "hospital bed" // aftermath (Live next Sat at the Hook and Ladder Theater in Mpls)
MYLES KENNEDY - "say what you will" // the art of letting go (Live next Sat at the Varsity Theater in Mpls)
MADAM DRIVER - "through the trees" // negative ghostrider (Live Jan 25 at The Blue Moon in Kasota)
ANGRY WATERS - "the heist" // the ghosts we chase (Live Jan 25 at The Blue Moon in Kasota)
MOLS - "not impressed" // not impressed - single (Live Jan 25 at The Blue Moon in Kasota)
TOO LATE BUT STILL - "live more tilapia" // rewrite the story (Live Feb 15 at Zhora Darling in Mpls)

SLDG - "1000 yard stare" // predicaments (Live Saturday night at Kato Ballroom in Mankato)
BETTER BROKEN - "queensbury" // tundra (Live Saturday night at Kato Ballroom in Mankato)
STICK TO YOUR GUNS - "severed forever" // keep planting flowers (out today)
TREMONTI - "I'll take my chances" // the end will show us how (out today)
CAVE IN - "jupiter" // jupiter (25th anniversary edition) (out today)
AUGUST BURNS RED - "your little suburbia is in ruins" (2025) // thrill seeker (20th anniversary edition) (Jan 24)
ALL THAT REMAINS - "divine" // antifragile (Jan 31)
PLAGUE OF STARS - "Gods of old" // extinction (Jan 31) (CD release party Feb 22 at Zhora Darling in Mpls)

HOUR 2
JINJER - "kafka" // duel (Feb 7)
PLUSH - "hope it hurts" // find the beautiful (Live USA 24 out Feb 7)
LACUNA COIL - "gravity" // sleepless empire (Feb 14)
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "forever aligned" // this consequence (Feb 21)
SILVERSTEIN - "skin and bones" // antibloom (Feb 21)
ARCHITECTS - "whiplash" // the sky, the earth and all between (Feb 28)
SPIRITBOX - "soft spine" // tsunami sea (March 7)

COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "searching for tomorrow" // vaxis III: the father of make believe (March 14)
ARCH ENEMY - "blood dynasty" // blood dynasty (March 28)
GOJIRA - "vacuity" // the way of all flesh
DEFTONES - "swerve city" // koi no yokan
FEAR FACTORY - "disruptor" // aggression continuum
AFTER THE BURIAL - "anti-pattern" // wolves within
REAPING ASMODEIA - "shattered leviathan" // shattered leviathan - single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/03/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/03/25
BEST ALBUMS OF 2024

HOUR 1
GOJIRA, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne - "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" // Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) - single
STATIC-X - "zombie" // project regeneration vol 2
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - "buried in code" // phantoma
KITTIE - "eyes wide open" // fire
THE BLACK CROWES – “wanting and waiting" // happiness bastards
INTERLOPER - "a forgotten loss" // a forgotten loss

HOT WATER MUSIC – “remnants" (feat Turnstile) // vows
JERRY CANTRELL - "vilified" // I want blood
KUBLAI KHAN TX – “low tech" // exhibition of prowess
MAKE THEM SUFFER – “epitaph" // make them suffer
AMIRA ELFEKY - "save yourself" // skin to skin
GORE. - "babylon" // a bud that never blooms

HOUR 2
NOTHING MORE - "freefall" // carnal
RAD OWL – “always eyes" // rage gracefully
KNOCKED LOOSE - "suffocate" (feat Poppy) // you won't go before you're supposed to
KNOCKED LOOSE – “the calm that keeps you awake" // you won’t go before you’re supposed to
JUDAS PRIEST - "the serpent and the king" // invisible shield
KITTIE – “I still wear this crown" // fire

KERRY KING - "idle hands" // from hell I rise
BETTER LOVERS – “love as an act of rebellion" // highly irresponsible
BETTER LOVERS - "lie between the lines" // highly irresponsible
THE WARNING – “automatic sun" // keep me fed
THE WARNING - "apologize" // keep me fed

ZIS' TOP 10 of 2024

1. BETTER LOVERS - "highly irresponsible"
2. KERRY KING - "from hell I rise"
3. JUDAS PRIEST - "invisible shield"
4. KNOCKED LOOSE - "you won't go before you're supposed to"
5. NOTHING MORE - "carnal"
6. MARILYN MANSON - "one assination under God"
7. JERRY CANTRELL - "I want blood"
8. INTERLOPER - "a forgotten loss"
9. KITTIE - "fire"
10. STATIC-X - "project regeneration vol 2"


NICK's TOP 10 of 2024

1. THE WARNING - "keep me fed"
2. BETTER LOVERS - "highly irresponsible"
3. KITTIE - "fire"
4. KNOCKED LOOSE - "you won't go before you're supposed to"
5. RAD OWL - "rage gracefully"
6. MAKE THEM SUFFER - "make them suffer"
7. KUBLAI KHAN TX - "exhibiton of prowess"
8. HOT WATER MUSIC - "vows"
9. THE BLACK CROWES - "happiness bastards"
10. UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - "phantoma"

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/27/24

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/27/24

HOUR 1
RAD OWL – “happy sad day" // fest 21 promo (Doughboys)
HOT WATER MUSIC - "fazer" // Hot Water Music/Quicksand split (Quicksand)
HOUSTON - "limelight" // live on fish island (Rush)
THE DONNAS - "strutter" // the early singles (Kiss)
ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES - "good 4 u" // me first and the gimmie gimmies blow it (Olivia Rodrigo)
DIVIDE THE FALL - "right now" // right now - single (Fire From the Gods)
ELECTRIC CALLBOY - "everytime we touch" // everytime we touch - single (Cascada)
SKYWIND - "another brick in the wall" // O 2 (Pink Floyd)

DOWN AND ABOVE - "digging in the dirt" // vena cava (Peter Gabriel)
DOWN AND ABOVE - "joga" // anodyne (Bjork)
DOWN AND ABOVE - "the highwayman" // hold your breath for the rising tide (The Highwaymen)
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "loud love" // other worlds (Soundgarden)
DREAMS ASIDE - "the distance" // the distance - single (Cake)
SLASH feat CHRIS STAPLETON - "oh well" // orgy of the damned (Fleetwood Mac)

HOUR 2
BROOKS AND DUNN & HALESTORM - "boot scootin' boogie" // reboot II (Brooks and Dunn)
DESTROPHY - "army of me" // army of me - single (Bjork)
INCUBUS - "let's go crazy" // momuments and melodies (Prince)
35 INCH MUDDER - "when doves cry" // when doves cry - single (Prince)
ZAKK SABBATH - "fairies wear boots" // doomed forever/forever doomed (Black Sabbath)
SEVENDUST - "inner city blues" // best of (chapter one 1997-2004) (Marvin Gaye)
GWAR - "if you want blood (you got it)" // the blood of gods (AC/DC)

TYPE O NEGATIVE - "summer breeze" (Rick Rubin mix) // bloody kisses (30th anniversary) (Seals and Croft)
TYPE O NEGATIVE - "cinnamon girl" // october rust (Neil Young)
TRIVIUM - "I don't wanna be me" // I don't wanna be me - single (Type O Negative)
SHADOWS FALL - "bark at the moon" // retribution (deluxe edition) (Ozzy Osbourne)
EVERY TIME I DIE - "youth overrided" // Every Time I Die / Cave In split (Cave In)
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "holy diver" // as daylight dies (special edition) (Dio)

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/20/24

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/20/24

HOUR 1
AUGUST BURNS RED – “all I want for Christmas is you” // all I want for Christmas is you - single
BUSS - "radar" // low noise/high density
SUNSET BLACK - "slumber" // demo
PLUSH – “hope it hurts" // find the beautiful
SILVERSTEIN - "confession" // antibloom
DROPPING DAYLIGHT - "apologies" // brace yourself
AMERICAN SCARECROWS - "Snoopy's Christmas" // Snoopy's Christmas - single
WEEKEND PICNIC - "deck the halls" // a weekend picnic Christmas

MADAM DRIVER - "crossroads" // negative ghostrider
ARROWS AT DAWN - "save love" // save love - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES - "sleepless nights" // sleepless nights - single
JOHNNYROOK - "hot tubs (don't just walk away)" // from remorse we learn
MYLES KENNEDY - "say what you will" // the art of letting go
TREMONTI - "just too much" // the end will show us how
B ! - "higher" // degenerator
FIRST TO ELEVEN - "like it's Christmas" // a first to eleven Christmas 2023

HOUR 2
KAT PERKINS - "santa baby" // a kat perkins Christmas vol 2
LEMMY KILMISTER, DAVE GROHL, BILLY GIBBONS - "run rudolph run" // we wish you a metal Christmas
ELECTRIC CALLBOY & BABY METAL – “ratatata” // ratatata - single
BLOODYWOOD & BABY METAL – “bekhauf" // bekhauf - single
HANABIE – “Osaki Ni Shitsurei Shimasu" // reborn superstar
STATIC-X – “get to the gone" // machine
GWAR – “madness at the core of time" // battle maximus
ICE NINE KILLS – “rainy day" // the silver scream 2: welcome to horrorwood

AUGUST BURNS RED - "waltz of the flowers" // waltz of the flowers - single
TWISTED SISTER - "O come all ye faithful" // a twisted Christmas
BRUTUS - "brave" // unison life
AFTER THE BURIAL - "behold the crown" // evergreen
TURNSTILE - "real thing" // time and space
KUBLAI KHAN TX - "low tech" // exhibiton of prowess
KNOCKED LOOSE feat POPPY - "suffocate" // you won't go before you're supposed to
POPPY - "the center's falling out" // negative spaces
ARCH ENEMY - "breaking the law" // covered in blood

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/13/24

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/13/24

HOUR 1
WEEKEND PICNIC – “wish list” // a Weekend Picnic Christmas
WEEKEND PICNIC – “paper to a flame” // paper to a flame – single
DOWN AND ABOVE - "joga" // anodyne
GREYWIND – “antidote" // antidote ep
FORBIDDEN SEAS – “sirens” // sirens – single
RAD OWL - "always eyes" // rage gracefully
CRAZYEIGHTYEIGHT – “nightwalker” // columbarium

AUGUST BURNS RED – “up on the housetop” // up on the housetop - single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "waltz of the flowers" // waltz of the flowers - single
DIESL - "nomenclature" // the failsafe
THE PRETTY RECKLESS feat MATT CAMERON & KIM THAYIL – “only love can save me now" // death by rock and roll
COHEED AND CAMBRIA - "searching for tomorrow" // vaxis III: the father of make believe
MASTODON & LAMB OF GOD - "floods of triton" // floods of triton - single
PERIPHERY - "facepalm mute" // periphery II

HOUR 2
VENDED – “paint the skin" // vended
ODDS OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT – “where dreams go to die" // where dreams go to die
IRON MAIDEN – “the trooper" // piece of mind
ONLYTIME – “the pull" // compassion fatigue
SHADOWS FALL – “in the grey” // in the grey – single
BETTER BROKEN – “queensbury" // tundra ep
SLDG – “1000 yard stare" // predicaments ep

SOULKEEPER – “three parts disdain" // holy design
OUR COMMON COLLAPSE – “languish” // languish – single
ORBIT CULTURE – “vultures of north" // descent
REFLECTIONS – “deva" // shadow
BY THE THOUSANDS – “the flood" // the descent
REAPING ASMODEIA – “shattered leviathan" // shattered leviathan - single
ARCH ENEMY - "blood dynasty" // blood dynasty
CATEGORY 7 – “in stitches" // category 7

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/06/24

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/06/24

HOUR 1
FORBIDDEN SEAS - "sirens" // sirens - single
WEEKEND PICNIC - "paper to a flame" // paper to a flame - single
HOT WATER MUSIC - "undertow" // Hot Water Music/Quicksand split
MADAM DRIVER - "crossroads" // negative ghostrider
CRAZYEIGHTYEIGHT - "nightwalker" // columbarium
LAUREN BABIC - "breathe you in" // breathe you in - single
DEADLANDS - "villain" // villain - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES - "abandon ship" // abandon ship - single

AUGUST BURNS RED - "waltz of the flowers" // waltz of the flowers - single
THE PRETTY RECKLESS - "loud love" // other worlds
AC/DC - "shot in the dark" // power up
THE LONELY ONES - "the bottom" // the bottom - single
NEW MEDICINE - "life like this" // life like this - single
HELMET – “milquetoast" // betty
JINJER - "green serpent" // duel

HOUR 2
SHADOWS FALL – “in the grey” // in the grey – single
MAKE THEM SUFFER – “tether" // make them suffer
GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE – “get dragged" // get dragged - single
MVRROW - "thanks, I hate it" // fever dream
SPIRITBOX – “soft spine” // tsunami sea
LOATHE – “aggressive evolution" // I let it in and it took everything
DYING WISH – “watch my promise die" // symptoms of survival
GEL – “persona" // persona

ARCH ENEMY - "blood dynasty" // blood dynasty
BRUTUS - "brave" // unison life
ARCHITECTS - "whiplash" // the sky, the earth and all between
ODDS OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT - "bearer of bad news" // where dreams go to die
POPPY - "the center's falling out" // negative spaces
KNOCKED LOOSE feat POPPY – “suffocate” // you won’t go before you’re supposed to
BODY COUNT - "live forever" // merciless
BETTER LOVERS - "future myopia" // highly irresponsible