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Hex Enduction Hours

Mar 3, 2022 10:00 PM – 11:55 PM

Music

With Julio Peña

A weekly mix of punk, post-punk, noise rock and more!

Do You Remember College Radio?

Going for that aEsThEtIc tonight.

9:59 PM		The Fall Mansion This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985 Hello again or
10:02 PM		Cloakroom Lost Meaning N Dissolution Wave Relapse Records 2022 Opening cut to the newest LP from the Northwest Indiana shoegaze inspired trio. A concept album of sorts (when incorporating the insert/cover/back) focused on a future wiped out from a tragic physics accident.
10:06 PM		My Bloody Valentine Only Tomorrow m b v Domino Recording Co 2013 Following an over two decade hiatus, shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine released their third studio LP in 2013, though Kevin Shields had been working on initial compositions that would make up most of this release since 2006. Much mellower sound than previous recordings.
10:13 PM		Boris The Fallen N W Sacred Bones Records 2022 Latest 27th release (or so) from the experimental Japanese noise rock legends. Much more contemplative side of the band, the work itself a reflection on the state of the world making its way through this pandemic.
10:17 PM		Creative Adult Control My Eyes Psychic Mess Run For Cover Records 2014 From Northern California, Creative Adult delivered a vlast of Sonic Youth inspired noisy post-punk on this LP, produced by Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
10:25 PM		Sonic Youth 100% Dirty Geffen 2015 Speak of the devil...
10:27 PM		Nicfit Human Inane N Fuse Upset The Rhythm 2022 Debut LP from this Japanese art-punk band. Nicfit has been active for close to a decade but didn't release its first LP until early 2022!
10:31 PM		Flood Twin Control N Flood Twin Flood Twin 2021 Debut LP from this Atlanta-based post-punk trio, drawing from such 80s post-punk influences as Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd., Wire, and Killing Joke. My sleeper record of 2021. Highly recommended!
10:34 PM		The Jesus Lizard Nub Goat (Remaster / Reissue) Touch and Go Records 2009 Influential release from this Chicago0based noise-rock band. The lyrics tell the story of a boy who stuck his hand out a school bus window and lost his arm. So don't stick your hands out of moving vehicles!
10:37 PM		Gang of Four To Hell With Poverty Solid Gold EMI 1981 Sophomore release the English post-punk band that probably inspired you to start a band (like The Velvet Underground did years before). Lyrics much more politically charged compared to the debut Entertainment!.
10:45 PM		Collate Who Cares About Tradition? Liminal Concerns Collate 2018 Debut LP from this Portland, OR, post-punk band. Its got that bouncy post-punk vibe I love so much.
10:47 PM		Liars Mr You're On Fire Mr They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top Mute 2002 Debut LP from this (at the time) Boorklyn-based arty post-punk revival band. Remember that post-punk dance-punk revival that exploded in the early aughts. Wild times.
10:50 PM		The Fall Return (SINCD8 Single) Code: Selfish UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2007 14th studio LP from Mark E. Smith and company, originally released in 1992, then re-released and re-mastered with bonus cuts and extensive liner notes in 2007.
10:54 PM		Stranded Crossed Lines N Midnight Sun Double Phantom 2021 Solo project from Atlanta-based musician David Mansfield. Do I hear some Krautrock influence throughout?
10:57 PM		XL Capris World War Where Is Hank? Axle 1981 Early 80s post-punk from Australia. Song title totally not selected because of ongoing current events in Eastern Europe. I pinky swear.
11:04 PM		Broken Baby Hand Heat N Late Stage Optimism Poor Man Records 2021 Los Angeles based punk band Broken Baby is actress/singer Amber Bollinger and musician/producer Alex Dezen. Dezen fronted indie band The Damnwells and has written material for Justin Beiber, Robin Thicke, and others.
11:07 PM		Pixies I Bleed Doolittle 4AD 1989 Pixies will be playing at the Rialto Theatre Tuesday, March 15th!
11:10 PM		Protomartyr Machinist Man No Passion All Technique Domino Recording Co 2019 Debut LP from this Detroit post-pun outfit, originally released in 2012. Heavily influenced by The Fall. The original LP pressing was released in limited quantities and increased in price to just over triple digits on the secondary market. Domino re-released the album in 2019. Hope you didn't buy the original at over $100!
11:12 PM		Shame Born in Luton N Drunk Tank Pink Dead Oceans 2021 English post-punk band. Heralded on numerous Best Of lists as another top release from 2021.
11:21 PM		Interpol My Blue Supreme El Pintor Soft Limit 2014 Interpol will be playing at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe on April 28th. Slated to release a new album later this year.
11:24 PM		Pop. 1280 Cyclotron The Horror Sacred Bones Records 2012 Debut LP from this NYC synth-punk band. We've heard (and will continue to hear) cuts from thier latest Museum On the Horizon. It all started here.
11:29 PM		Slug Guts Chrome Crucifix Howlin' Gang Sacred Bones Records 2011 From Australia, Slug Guts rightfully pull from the jangly post-punk sound molded by Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave, and other Birthday Party musicians.
11:32 PM		Age of Apocalypse Grim Wisdom N Grim Wisdom Closed Casket Activities 2022 Latest release from this NYC-based hardcore punk band.
11:36 PM		Cherubs So Jellified 2 Ynfynyty Brutal Panda Records 2015 Austin-noise rock band. Released this album after a two decade hiatus. One of my Top Ten releases from 2015. Read more about it (and the others) at https://kxci.org/2015/12/hex-enduction-hours-best-...
11:45 PM		Cows Terrifique Cunning Stunts Amphetamine Reptile Records 1992 Minneapolis noise-rock band. The cover to this - the band's fifth studio LP - is their direct take on Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch! cover, that being a great slice of avant-garde jazz.
11:48 PM		Drain Martyr's Road Pick Up Heaven Trance Syndicate 1992 Drain was the 90s noise-rock project of Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey, this being Drain's debut LP.
11:50 PM		Friction Gapping Replicant Walk TOKUMA JAPAN COMMUNICATIONS 1988 Experimental Japanese noise-rock band formed in 1971 (under a different name). Founding members Reck (bassist) and Chico Hige (saxophonist) would relocate to NYC in later years and form Teenage Jesus and the Jerks alongside Lydia lunch and James Chance before returning to Friction.

Chat is archived.

So... we meet again.

Buenas noches!

Hex Enduction hours! My favorite!

Hola friendos

How's everyones nights going?

Hello Norma, good to see you!

I don't like this warm February night in the Old Pueblo. How are you?

Is it still February?!?

Oh. March. Right haha

lol

Hello Julio!

Hi, Leslie!

Ah, good to see you to Dan. Hello Leslie!

Julio, I start my Thursday at around 4:30 a.m. (because of my demanding cats, hahaha) & starting at 5:00 a.m. it is the BEST day for me on KXCI! I love Thursday!

Woohoo! I appreciate your tuning in. That goes for all of you.

Thank you Julio!

Agree. There are certain KXCI shows I don't miss and this is one of them.

Ringing endorsement by way of Alabama. I like it!

Oh, this is an interesting song. I am enjoying these heavy noises.

There some melody buried somewhere under the feedback.

Hex Enduction hours are a must listen! Always looking forward to it, it's my midweek treat that gets me through the rest of it, ha!

Y'all are too sweet. Gonna make this boy blush.

I don't want to dwell in the past too much, but I'm a little perplexed about Cloakroom. This is brand new music, and this is the first I'm hearing it. So grateful that HEH is playing it, but why not on other KXCI mixes?

I thought it was very fresh!

So funny you mentioned that about Sonic Youth because I was thinking that also & now really wanna hear some Sonic Youth!

So great! You read my mind, Julio!

Dan: likely didn't get a CD from the label here at the studio. I went out and purchased it for my own collection.

Oh man, this 6/4 feel is definitely shades of Go4. NICE.

The Flood Twin cut? The whole album is fantastic.

Yeah.

Some great contemporary stuff in this show, Julio. Nice work in putting this together.

Thanks! There's a lot of great music coming out this month that I am excited about.

Love it, and thanks!

And...not to dangle this in front of you or anything, but in 9 days I'll see Gand of Four live in Nashville.

haha, not at all. Hope it is a fantastic show!

Thanks. Me, too. SO looking forward to it. After 40 years, this is the first time I'm seeing them.

Bama Dan, so envious that you're going to see Gang of Four! I saw them at the U of A ballroom, back in 1980 something. They opened up for REM. Fabulous show! Probably one of the best shows that I have ever been to.

Sorely missed, M.E.S!

Leslie...very nice! And envious on my end! Have seen REM a couple of times but never Go4. You saw them with the core members, too. Still, I'm looking forward to it!

For sure. There is a band out of the UK, Snapped Ankles, that is a dead-ringer for The Fall. Gonna see about playing their latest single next week.

Is there some middle ground between krautrock and Jim Morrison? :-D

hahaha

Sorry...

Don't be. Always appreciate the laugh. I don't take this music stuff too seriously.

Julio, you have definitely turned me on to some really great music. You've broadened my horizons, so to speak.

After all, I brought you Bertie Higgins

Musical LSD

LOL, that has truly been my high point of listening to KXCI. :-D

hahaha awesome

I really like this trend, Julio...you playing contemporary bands that illustrate the punk/post-punk feel you are trying to highlight each week on HEH. Too often, I think of "post punk" as occupying a certain time period. But that's just not true, and it shouldn't be. You prove that it lives across decades. Very cool.

Thanks! Yes, it's refreshing to hear these contemprorary bands expand on the post-punk sound established in the 80s. I try not to fall into the trap of getting stuck in the 80s.

I respect that. Big time.

Although sometimes I just want to listen to early Killing Joke and call it a game.

LOL, I know what you mean. Can we not just end everything with the DKs?

So when was the big years of post punk? Are we in a resurgence of post punk now, or is it more that there's just music of all kinds nowadays?

I'm no music historian. For me, '79-'85 or so was the height of post-punk. Bands continue to build and re-interpret the sound. I'm also of the opinion that genre descriptors are subjective, so...

Oh, I'm into this one, very heavy

Pop. 1280? One of my fave bands going today.

Have we been listening to Zappa for the last hour?

ha, help me out that reference is going over me head

Cause I am most definitely not in it for the money

I was kidding, Julio. Just thinking about "punk" and "post punk", and what they mean, without the dates tied with them. They definitely have sounds associated with them. But what are those sounds?

Gotcha, no worries! Like I said, all subjective, right?

Funny how these questions lead to more complex things, right?

Musical LSD

LOL

Always.

Ahh, goodnight! As always, a pleasure

That's the show! Thanks as always for listening and dropping by on the chat. Catch you all next week!

Really loved the show! Thanks!