The UNHEARD Music

Episode No. 638 - New Wave, Rhythm & Tribal Beats

This week's show started with three tracks. Two were actually pretty big hits. Not Unheard. But waiting to be heard. For the first time on The Unheard Music. Those definitive new wave hits steer this entire episode.

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The Fresh is the new music companion to The Unheard Music — curated monthly & focused on emerging, independent & alternative artists carrying the spirit of the underground into the present.
New Music. Same Obsession.

S3 E5:

Dynamite Shakers - Hot Stumps
The Black Keys - She Does It Right
The Blue Stones - Your Master
Indian Askin - The Deal
Big Special - Lazarus
shishi - Dog Ok
La Se...

Episode No. 637 - The Punk, The Funk & The Underground Rock

I didn't sit down and plan this weeks show around horns and saxophone. I didn't think I set out to build an episode around a specific sound or era. I just started pulling tracks that I wanted to play and that felt right together. Then somewhere along the way I realized what was happening. When punk went funk and rock found it's groove. And what ties all these t...

Digital Mixtape No. 636 - The Birth of Modern Rock

This one is a snapshot.

A moment in time when alternative music was finding its next shape. 

This is College Rock. Indie Rock. Alternative on the verge of something different. Still Left of The Dial but leaning into it's rock side and exploring all new sounds.

Think late night on 120 Minutes. That's where this week’s show explores.

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Digital Mixtape No. 635 - Loud, Fast & Left of The Dial

This week's show is loaded with guitars and some of the most powerful female voices in punk and new wave history; the original Riot Grrrls. 

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Digital Mixtape No. 634 - Where The Dial Goes Dark

Some mixes start with a concept. This one started with a chorus.

A few weeks ago "More" by The Sisters of Mercy got stuck in my head. Specifically the chorus — "And I need all the love that I can't get too." I couldn't shake it. Didn't want to. So I dropped it into a playlist by itself and started building around it.

That's how this mix was born.

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New Music. Same Obsession.

S3 E4:

Caroline Rose - Yip Yip Yow
Lime Garden - Cross My Heart
Wargirl - Bidness
Tommy Newport - Nancy Dancing
Youth Sector - Buy For Less
The Heart Attack-Acks - Weird Guys
John Dwyer - Neighborhood Dog
Lobersterbomb - Not Again
Sweeping Promises - Shooting Shadows
Th...

Digital Mixtape No. 633 - Downtown NYC After Midnight

This mix is exactly what you were hearing at Danceteria, the Peppermint Lounge and The Mudd Club after midnight. Dance-Punk. Mutant Disco. Electro. Freestyle. No Wave. All of it colliding on the same dance floor at the same time.

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Digital Mixtape No. 632 - Dance Music For The Alternatives

From the first note to the last, this mix makes one argument — that alternative music was always dance music. Just not the kind they were playing on the radio.

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Digital Mixtape No. 631

This mix runs backwards. It opens in the late 80s with alternative rock, works its way back through mid 80s new wave, moves into early 80s post-punk, and closes out with late 70s punk. By the time it's done it has traveled about a decade in reverse without ever losing the thread.

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Digital Mixtape No. 630

From fast punk and power pop to new wave, dance rhythms, and late-night art funk — this mix never sits still.

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- Deeper than the 80's -

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Digital Mixtape No. 629

This mix moves in a few different directions without forcing anything. It starts tight and restless, opens up as it goes, and then pulls back into something more atmospheric before snapping into a direct finish. You can hear the shifts as they happen.

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Where the future of alternative lives.

S3 E3:

Social Distortion - Born To Kill

Tom A. Smith - Fashion

The Itch - No More Sprechgesang

CSS - Alala

Genesis Owusu - Stampede

Denzil - Curveball

Ouzo Bazooka - Home

Deaf Radio - Idling

Gang of Four - NO KINGS HERE!

Highly Suspect - Wasted

Fai Laci - Sarasota

Jack White - G.O.D. And The Bro...

Digital Mixtape No. 628

This mix moves a little differently. It doesn’t rush. It rides. Across these 18 tracks, groove becomes structure — and attitude becomes the throughline.

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Digital Mixtape No. 627

There’s a certain kind of energy that runs underneath this mix - the sound shifts between underground rock, early industrial textures, and synth-driven isolation. It’s not one scene exactly — but a convergence of them.

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Digital Mixtape No. 626

From art-school experimentation to early new wave eccentricity and into the sharper edges of punk, these tracks don’t just sound different — they feel different.

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Digital Mixtape No. 625

From late-70s punk through early new wave and into the first flashes of hardcore, this is the sound of momentum — songs that don’t linger, don’t drift, and don’t wait. They move.

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Each episode goes deeper than the tracklist, tracing the sounds, scenes, and shifts behind the mix.
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Where the future of alternative lives — The Fresh brings you the best new music of now.

NO MONEY KIDS - The Flame

Militarie Gun - Fill Me With Paint

Triggerfinger - Stars

BRKN LOVE - Pulling Leaches

Radium Dolls - Scorching Heat

Maura Weaver - The Face

Noah Kahn - The Great Divide

Charlie and The Moonshine - The Quest

Vundabar - Death Punch

Silent Runners - Cannot Be Undone

The Spoiled - When it Rains

Sound Of Smoke - Shadows

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Digital Mixtape No. 624

Across these 16 tracks, post-punk tension collides with widescreen ambition. What began as stripped-down experimentation starts to take on weight — emotionally, sonically, and structurally.

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