Hex Enduction Hours
Feb 17, 2022 10:00 PM – 11:55 PM
Music
With Julio Peña
A weekly mix of punk, post-punk, noise rock and more!
It's Mid-February Already
Time sure flies when you're rocking out!
10:01 PM |
| The Fall Mansion This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985 Hello once again. |
10:03 PM |
| Gary Numan Intruder N Intruder BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd 2021 Despite being better known for New Wave hits "Cars" and "Are Friends Electric?", English musician Gary Numan has released a prolific body of work. On here - his 21st studio LP - Numan continues his theme about the possibility of a bleak future with a concept album primarily told from the Earth's point-of-view, decrying the ills brought on by humanity. |
10:08 PM |
| Killing Joke New Jerusalem Pylon Spinefarm Records UK 2015 Active since 1980, this English post-piunk band is set to release a new four-song EP in March with two new original cuts and two remixes from the "Pylon"-era recording sessions. |
10:14 PM |
| Machines of Loving Grace Lilith / Eve L Concentration Mammoth Records 1993 Tucson industrial band primarily active in the first half of the 90s. Scored a radio and Billboard hit with the single "Butterfly Wings" included on this, the group's second LP. |
10:18 PM |
| Lard Faith Hope & Treachery Pure Chewing Satisfaction Alternative Tentacles 1997 Lard was a multi-album collaborative effort between Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) and Al Jourgensen (Ministry), plus revolving musicians from Ministry's various incarnations. Second studio LP, with Biafra credited as an "Ayatollah" and Jourgensen as a "Reverend". |
10:26 PM |
| L.O.T.I.O.N. Ultimate Wound Kit Digital Control and Man's Obsolescence Toxic State 2015 Cyber-punk from New York. One of my Top Ten albums from 2015. Read more about this and more from my 2015 Best Of year end list at: https://kxci.org/2015/12/hex-enduction-hours-best-... |
10:28 PM |
| Gallows Austere Gallows Shock Entertainment / Halfcut Records 2012 Third studio LP from this English hardcore punk band. First with new singer Wade Macneil. |
10:31 PM |
| Every Time I Die Hostile Architecture N Radical Epitaph 2021 Latest (and now final) album from this Buffalo, NY, crossover band. Sudden legal issues splintered the band, hot on the heels of being recognized as having released a stand-out album in 2021. |
10:33 PM |
| Minor Threat Screaming at a Wall First Two Seven Inches Dischord Records 2013 Probably THE 80s Washington, D.C., hardcore punk act, with Ian Mackaye on vocals prior to fronting Fugazi. |
10:35 PM |
| Nuclear Spring Chatter Nuclear Spring Nuclear Spring 2013 NYC hardcore punk band heavily influenced by the 80s British anarcho-punk scene. |
10:37 PM |
| Vicious Circle Common Denominator Reflections CIRCLE WORK REACTOR BONER POWER IT UP 1986 Fourth studio LP from this Melbourne-based Austrlian hardcore punk band formed in 1983. |
10:43 PM |
| Turnstile BLACKOUT GLOW ON Roadrunner Records 2021 Melodic and accessible hardcore punk band from Baltimore, with their latest and third studio LP. Has appeared on several 2021 Best Of lists. |
10:46 PM |
| Strange Wilds Don't Have To Subjective Concepts Sub Pop Records 2015 Olympia, WA, punk trio clearly influenced by Nirvana, with a slight taste of the Wipers. |
10:50 PM |
| Shame Alphabet N Drunk Tank Pink Dead Oceans 2021 "Alphabet" marked the first single from this early 2021 release by the English post-punk band shame. Heralded on numerous Best Of lists as another top release from 2021. |
10:53 PM |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves The Grandmother Wolf The New Romance Matador 2003 Second studio LP from this early 2000s Seattle-based punk act. Yes, they are named after a Smiths song (BLARGH!). |
10:56 PM |
| Church Girls Undone N Still Blooms Church Girls under exclusive lic. to Anchor Eighty Four Records 2021 Latest from this Philly punk act. Big Sleater-Kinney vibes throughout. |
11:01 PM |
| Sparta Cut Your Ribbon Wiretap Scars DreamWorks 2002 El Paso punk band, and one of two bands formed following the break-up of At the Drive In (the other being The Mars Volta, heard here last week). Sparta vocalist was part of ATDI. |
11:04 PM |
| Voivod Synchro Anarchy N Synchro Anarchy Century Media 2022 Latest from the Canadian genre-bending band. Heavy sci-fi elements throughout. I maintain Voivod should have received all the fame, acclaim, and money that Canadian counterparts Rush reaped. |
11:08 PM |
| Savages City's Full Silence Yourself Matador 2013 Debut LP from this English post-punk band with a noisy edge. |
11:12 PM |
| Slow Down, Molasses Revisionists N Minor Deaths Noyes Records / Divine Schism 2021 Newest release from this Canadian band. Listen closely and you'll hear 80s Sonic Youth plus My Bloody Valentine influence all over. |
11:16 PM |
| Tar Pick One Roundhouse Chunklet Industries 2021 Debut LP from this Chicago noise-rock band, originally released in 1990. Re-released in September of 2021. |
11:24 PM |
| Angels of Light Praise Your Name New Mother Young God Records 1999 Subdued, mostly acoustic side project from Swans mastermind Michael Gira. At least the music is subdued, lyrics not so much. |
11:28 PM |
| Envy Chain Wondering Deeply A Dead Sinking Story SONZAI RECORDS 2003 Japanese punk act. Is it "screamo"? What the heck is even "screamo"? I dunno, but I like this. |
11:37 PM |
| Greys Burning Chrome Age Hasn't Spoiled You Carpark 2019 Fourth studio LP from this Canadian punk band that incorporated some noise into its sound. |
11:44 PM |
| Mission of Burma Weatherbox Vs. Matador 1997 1981 debut LP from this Boston post-punk band. Disbanded in the 80s then reunited over 30 years later, releasing several great full-length LPs, showing they still had it decades later. |
11:48 PM |
| Oneida Wild Horses Secret Wars Jagjaguwar 2004 Wait, this isn't kitchenware. Brooklyn-based experimental band active since 1997. |
11:52 PM |
| Pelican An Inch Above Sand What We All Come To Need Southern Lord 2009 Whatever post-metal is, Pelican qualifies, stretching what is possible within the genre to create a more atmospheric sound. |