Sunday, December 13, 2020

The New Shit Radar: December Drops Edition

Why oh why must end-of-year list season only come but once a year?

We remember back when the EOYs were all posted post-Christmas. But not anymore! No surprises here: So far we're seeing lots of extra early, extra rushed, and extra extra boring bullshit.

We had a 2 hour drive earlier today, and so we said fuck it and breezed through P4k's "100 Best Songs of 2020" playlist. The process of wading through 20-ish songs we already knew and another 80-ish hookless plods generated some legit anxiety. It would be nice if any of them eventually built to a chorus or included something memorable. But no. Nothing. There was plenty of hot fire throughout 2020, and no big surprises here -- pitchfork ignored literally all of it. Even the Earl Sweatshirt deep cut bored us.

Anyway, mid-December seems like as good a time as any for a crescent fresh edition of The New Shit Radar, since listicle season succeeds in burying the December drops year after year. Here's some recent non-holiday-related stuff we're actually excited about:

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Covers Cranberries Song That We Forgot Existed
Oh yeah, that one. At the time, we didn't think much of it because it really does sound like "Zombie II: The Return Of Zombie," but in hindsight, and within this context, it's now probably one of our favorite tracks of the year.


MF Doom Spits Bars Of Fire On New GTA
DOOM's 2020 worldly contributions seemed to kick some ass across the board.


Def Lep's One-Armed Drummer Voted Best In The World
Maybe the voters were super bummed about the Def Lep / Motley Crue tour getting postponed once again. Rick Allen was the only one-armed drummer to make the cut, as far as we could tell. Three-armed drummer Tommy Lee placed in the top 10. Read the results here: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/def-leppards-rick-allen-named-best-rock-drummer-in-the-world

The Gagmen Release First LP
Andrew WK, Aaron Dilloway, and current Wolf Eyes dudes formed a weirdo supergroup. Good album!


Stove's Surprise Bandcamp-Day Drop Is V.Nice
We probably shouldn't be referring to the project as "Stove" since that is technically a full band, but yeah. This was a nice surprise drop for sure. Catch it:


Editrix Drop "Chelsea" Ahead of Feb Release on EIS
Wendy Eisenberg's new band prepares to melt brains in 2021.


Glitterer's New Song Sounds Like Glitterer Except Newer
Are you sure?


Bee Gees Documentary Coming To HBO
Actually it already is on HBO now as of last night. Whoops. Our 30 day HBO Max subsription ends tomorrow at 9PM so I guess we better get on this. https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/the-bee-gees-hbo-documentary-review.html

Eyehategod Return With "High Risk Trigger"
New album coming in the Spring!


Somerset Thrower Drop 2nd LP
We are feeling this one. Grungey emocore.

After Hours Top 10 Most Played -- Week Of December 1st
Probably the final After Hours FM weekly list of 2020. The end of year results will be tallied and posted next week. In the meantime, here's the songs with the most plays from last week:


WXCI AFTER HOURS TOP 20 (Week of 12/1/2020)
This week ARTIST Title Links
1 MINDFORCE Reign Of Terror bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/
track/reign-of-terror
2 DAVID NANCE My Love, The Dark, And I davidnance.bandcamp.com/
track/my-love-the-dark-and-i
3 EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & THOU Into Being thou.bandcamp.com/
track/into-being
4 SOMERSET THROWER Say Hello bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/
track/say-hello
5 FUMING MOUTH Master Of Extremity bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/
track/master-of-extremity
6 MR. BUNGLE Eracist mrbungle.bandcamp.com/
track/eracist
7 SYSTEM OF A DOWN Protect The Land systemofadown.bandcamp.com/
track/protect-the-land-2
8 ADRIANNE LENKER Anything adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/
track/anything
9 SYSTEM OF A DOWN Genocidal Humanoidz systemofadown.bandcamp.com/
track/genocidal-humanoidz-2
10 GUM COUNTRY Tennis (I Feel Ok) gumcountry.bandcamp.com/
track/tennis-i-feel-ok-2
11 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER I Don't Love Me Anymore oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp
.com/track/i-don-t-love-
me-anymore
12 DEFTONES Urantia Youtube
13 MEET ME AT THE ALTER Garden mmata.bandcamp.com/
track/garden
14 MR. BUNGLE Methematics mrbungle.bandcamp.com
track/methematics
15 OMERTA Garbage ihateomerta.bandcamp.com/
track/garbage
16 DISCLOSURE f/ KELIS Watch Your Step disclosureuk.bandcamp.com/
track/watch-your-step
17 MISTER GOBLIN Punk Band mistergoblin.bandcamp.com/
track/punk-band
18 BLINKER THE STAR Cairo blinkerthestar.bandcamp.com/
track/cairo
19 SUPERCRUSH Get It Right supercrush.bandcamp.com/
track/get-it-right-2
20 SWEEPING PROMISES Hunger For A Way Out sweepingpromises.bandcamp
.com/track/hunger-for-a-way-out

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