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Hex Enduction Hours

May 25, 2023 10:00 PM – 11:55 PM

Music

With Julio Peña

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

We Don't Want No Gang Boss

We want to equalize

Hex Enduction Hours
10:02 PM
The Fall - Mansion
The Fall Mansion
This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985
10:04 PM
Cherubs - Stag Party
Cherubs Stag Party
Heroin Man Trance Syndicate 1994

90s noise rock fans often note this second Cherubs release as being one of the staples within the genre. After a nearly two decade hiatus, Cherubs reunited for a series of shows and eventually new albums.

10:07 PM
Pissed Jeans - No Convenient Apocalypse
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No Convenient Apocalypse - Single Sub Pop 2023

New single from the Pennsylvanian noise-rock band. Originally recorded for the Cyberpunk 2077 video game soundtrack, this marks the first new Pissed Jeans recording since their 2017 LP Why Love Now.

10:10 PM
Closet Goth - Tucson, Bridge City
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All Wrestlers Die Closet GOth 2023

Latest release from this genre-bending Tucson band. Record release party Friday, May 26th, at Groundworks!

10:13 PM
Saccharine Trust - A Human Certainty
Saccharine Trust A Human Certainty
Paganicons SST Records 1981

Debut EP from this Los Angeles punk band influenced to perform by the Minutemen, who had only been active for six months at that point. Alongside legendary SST producer SPʘT, Minutemen bassist Mike Watt and Saccharine Trust share production credit on the EP.

10:22 PM
The Drin - Eyes Only for Space
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Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom Feel It Records 2023

Latest release from this Cincinnatti-based post-punk band, drawing heavy stylistic influences from the likes Public Image Ltd. and CAN.

10:26 PM
The Clash - The Equaliser
The Clash The Equaliser
Sandinista! Sony Music UK 2013

The Clash made no secret of the heavy influence dub and reggae played on its sound. They explored all that (and more!) on their sprawling 1980 triple LP.

10:33 PM
The Pop Group - We Are Time
The Pop Group We Are Time
Y Freaks R Us 2017

Mark Stewart, vocalist and founding member of the English post-punk band The Pop Group, passed away April 23rd at the age of 62. With The Pop Group, Stewart and company incorporated elements of punk, funk, dub, reggae with politically charged messaging. Y was released in 1979. This debut LP influenced artists such as Nick Cave, Mike Watt, and Sonic Youth.

10:42 PM
The Fall - Victrola Time
The Fall Victrola Time
Re-Mit Esoteric / Antenna 2013

29th (!) studio LP from Mark E. Smith and company, notable for being the fourth consecutive release with the same line-up, rare for the bandleader known to fire musicians on a whim.

10:46 PM
The Raincoats - Off Duty Trip
The Raincoats Off Duty Trip
The Raincoats We ThRee 2009

Classic 1979 post-punk debut LP from this English band, best known for the cover of "Lola" by The Kinks.

10:49 PM
Fugazi - Strangelight
Fugazi Strangelight
The Argument Dischord 2001

ARE THEY EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER!?!?

10:55 PM
SQÜRL - The End of the World
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Silver Haze Sacred Bones 2023

Full length debut album from Jim Jarmusch (director of Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes among many other films) and Carter Logan (film composer), with contributions from Charlotte Gainsbourg and more. Given their film background, the cuts on Silver Haze maintain a heavy cinematic element.

11:03 PM
Mogwai - Hunted By a Freak
Mogwai Hunted By a Freak
Happy Songs for Happy People [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue 2003

Opening cut to the Scottish post-rock band's fourth studio LP. Mogwai guitarist Barry Burns is heard here with a vocoder, one of two tracks on the album ("Killing All the Flies") were he employs such vocals.

11:07 PM
Cloakroom - Dottie-back Thrush
Cloakroom Dottie-back Thrush
Dissolution Wave Relapse Records 2022

Third studio LP from this self-described "stoner emo" band. The band describes this album as "a concept - a space western in which an act of theoretical physics—the dissolution wave—wipes out all of humanity’s existing art and abstract thought. In order to keep the world spinning on its axis, songsmiths must fill the ether with their compositions."

11:12 PM
Ocean Void - Bellerophon
Ocean Void Bellerophon L
Earth Divides Ocean Void 2015

Full-length studio debut from this Tucson band, influenced by shoegaze as much as post-rock, noise-rock and other genres.

11:15 PM
Lush - Desire Lines
Lush Desire Lines
Split 4AD 1994

English band frequently labled as shoegaze, though their compositions were poppier compared to other bands of the genre.

11:26 PM
Joy Division - The Eternal
Joy Division The Eternal
Closer (Collector's Edition) London Records 2007

Second and final studio LP from the iconic English post-punk band. The album was released two months after the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis, with the band slated to tour the US for the first time. You can read more about the billed American shows HERE

11:33 PM
HEALTH - FEEL NOTHING
HEALTH FEEL NOTHING
VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR Loma VIsta Recordings 2019

One of the best noise rock releases of 2019 from this Los Angeles band. More subdued and cinematic than the band's initial sound.

11:36 PM
Mandy, Indiana - Injury Detail
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I've Seen a Way Fire Talk 2023

Debut LP from this Manchester-based punk band, with many lyrics sung in French, as vocalist Valentine Caulfield is... French.

11:43 PM
The Soft Moon - Become the Lies
The Soft Moon Become the Lies
Exister Sacred Bones Records 2022

The Soft Moon is the solo musical project of California-based singer-songwriter Luis Vasquez, steeped in heavy post-punk and industrial influence.

11:47 PM
ACTORS - Killing Time (Is Over)
ACTORS Killing Time (Is Over)
Acts of Worship Artoffact Records 2021

Canadian post-punk act with their latest and second studio LP. Nothing we haven't heard before, but they do it so dang well.

11:51 PM
Ritual Howls - Barely a Shadow
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Virtue Falters felte 2023

Latest release from this Detroit band, self-described as "death jangle". Sisters of Mercy fans will love this one!