New songs added to heavy & medium rotation! (2022, part 11)

A playlist of what songs get added to heavy & medium rotation is available on Spotify here: WXCI New Music Monthly
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This is our ELEVENTH monthly post of 2022 to show what new songs we are digging and adding to heavy & medium rotation. Enjoy!

Week of 11/1/2022

HEAVY
Alvvays: “Velveteen” (Polyvinyl)
Arctic Monkeys: “Perfect Sense” (Domino)
Divino Nino: “I Am Nobody” (Winspear)
Drugdealer: “Madison” (Mexican Summer)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: “Gondii” (KGLW)
Pinkshift: “I’m Not Crying You’re Crying” (Hopeless)
Sobs: “Air Guitar” (Topshelf)
Sudan Archives: “Home Maker (Radio/Clean Edit)” (Stone Throw Records)
The Shatterheads: “Julie I’m Sure (Radio Edit)” (Fierce Panda)
Whitmer Thomas: “Most Likely (Clean Edit)” (Hardly Art)

MEDIUM
Quasi: “Queen of Ears” (Sub Pop)
OrangeG: “A Song About Kung Fu (Radio Edit)” (Self-Released)
Julie Odell: “People Cheering” (Frenchkiss)
Gold Star: “Cherry Red” (Self-Released)
Andrew Bird: “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)” (Wegawam)
De Lux: “What’s Life” (Innovative Leisure)
Indigo Sparke: “Pluto” (Sacred Bones)
Vieux Farka Touré et Khruangbin: “Diarabi” (Dead Oceans)
Jerry Only: “Snake Eyes” (Misfits)
Jobber: “Heel Turn” (Exploding in Sound)
Blame My Youth: “They Only Love You When You’re Dead” (Big Loud Rock)
Hundred Reasons: “Glorious Sunset” (SO Recordings / Silva Screen Records)
Young The Giant: “Wake Up” (Jungle Youth/AWAL)
The 1975: “Oh Caroline” (Dirty Hit)
Winter: “kind of blue” (Bar/None)
Shygirl: “Woe (Clean Edit)” (Because Music)
The Prodigy: “Breathe (Mefjus & Camo & Krooked Remix)” (XL)
Dead Kennedys: “California Über Alles (2022 Mix)” (Decay, Manifesto)
Stuck: “Do Not Reply (feat. Miranda Winters)” (Born Yesterday)
Archers of Loaf: “Saturation and Light” (Merge)
POM: “Just (Good) Enough” (Mattan)
Les Shirley: “Cold Turkey” (Self-Released)
The Cribs: “Melmac (College Sessions 2001)” (Kill Rock Stars)

Week of 11/8/2022

HEAVY
Yo La Tengo: “Fallout (Radio Edit)” (Matador)
Pale Moon: “Dopamine” (AU!)
Plains: “Hurricane” (Anti-)
Bad River: “Petrol Head” (Self-Released)
Abraxas: “Monte Carlo” (Suicide Squeeze)
De Lux: “Time To Say Goodnight” (Innovative Leisure)
“Weird Al” Yankovic: “I Love Rocky Road (2022 Version)” (Ear Booker/Sony)
Night Gallery: “Rest Easy” (Independent)
En Attendant Ana: “Principia” (Trouble in Mind)
Samia: “Mad At Me (feat. papa mbye) (Radio Edit)” (Grand Jury)

MEDIUM
Cheekface: “Headache” (Self-Released)
Spoon: “The Devil & Mister Jones (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)” (Matador)
Julie Odell: “Moments Later” (Frenchkiss)
NOFX: “Punk Rock Cliché” (Fat Wreck Chords)
Young The Giant: “Tomorrow” (Jungle Youth/AWAL)
Drugdealer: “Hard Dreaming Man” (Mexican Summer)
Sobs: “Friday Night” (Topshelf)
Bleach Lab: “Take It Slow” (Nettwerk)
Beth Orton: “Weather Alive” (Partisan)
Dan Mangan: “Fire Escape” (Arts & Crafts)
Low Island: “Robin” (Emotional Interference)
Quaker Gun Club: “Soylent Green” (Admirable Traits)
Indigo Sparke: “Golden Ribbons” (Sacred Bones)
Daniel Madeson: “The Moaka Costa” (Self-Released)
Dead Kennedys: “Chemical Warfare (2022 Mix) (Clean Edit)” (Decay/Manifesto)
Gladie: “Born Yesterday” (Plum)
The Memories: “Iced Oatmilk Latte” (Gnar Tapes)
Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson: “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young cover)” (Polyvinyl)
TV Party: “Motorbike Libido (She Loves The Beatles)” (Outro)
The Croakes: “All the Words You Say” (Malachi Hannula)
Alvvays: “Bored in Bristol” (Polyvinyl)
Disq: “If Only” (Saddle Creek)
Brothertiger: “Be True” (Satanic Panic)

Week of 11/15/2022

HEAVY
Softcult: “Drain” (Easy Life)
Phantogram: “Voices” (Barsuk)
The Greeting Committee: “Hopscotch (Clean Edit)” (ONErpm)
Me Like Bees: “Animal” (Honey Pit)
Ezra Collective: “Life Goes On (feat. Sampa The Great) (Radio Edit)” (Partisan)
Spoon: “The Hardest Cut (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)” (Matador)
Weyes Blood: “Children of the Empire” (Sub Pop)
STONE: “Money (Hope Ain’t Gone)” (Universal)
The Arcs: “Heaven Is A Place” (Easy Eye/Concord)
Depeche Mode: “Precious (Michael Mayer Balearic Mix)” (Sire)

MEDIUM
Ziggy Alberts: “CAMPFIRE” (Commonfolk)
Elsewhere: “Life… is a Fraction: 1. Restless” (Dark Spark)
Personal Trainer: “The Lazer” (The Industry)
The Backseat Lovers: “Snowbank Blues” (Capitol)
Show Me The Body: “We Came To Play” (Loma Vista / Concord)
Kennebec: “Tall Tales (feat. Hemlock Ernst & Sudan Archives)” (Night Time Stories)
Daniel Avery: “Wall of Sleep (feat. HAAi)” (Mute Records)
Surf Curse: “Arrow” (Atlantic)
Plains: “Last 2 On Earth” (Anti-)
1st Base Runner: “In The Neighborhood” (Self-Released)
Low Hummer: “Panic Calls” (Dance to the Radio)
Hot Mass: “Remember, the Nearest Exit May Be Behind You [clean]” (Self-Released)
Movulango: “Through the Motions” (DEEWEE)
flowerovlove: “Out for the Weekend” (Self-Released)
Ainsley Farrell: “So Small” (Self-Released)
Miss Grit: “Follow the Cyborg” (Self-Released, Mute Artists Ltd.)
Tegan and Sara: “I Can’t Grow Up” (Mom + Pop)
Enjoyable Listens: “Dead Frozen” (Fierce Panda Records)
Frankie Cosmos: “Fruit Stand” (Sub Pop)
OrangeG: “Sepia Dreams” (Self-Released)
Zach Pietrini: “What Are We Now” (Self-Released)
Run The Jewels: “caminando en el nieve (feat. Akapellah, Apache & Pawmps) (Orestes Gomez & Nick Hook’s version) (Clean Edit)” (Jewel Runners/BMG)
Puscifer: “The Mission” (Self-Released)
Bill Nace: “Boil First” (Drag City)
Jobber: “Hell In A Cell” (Exploding in Sound)
Whitmer Thomas: “Rigamarole (Clean Edit)” (Hardly Art)

Week of 11/22/2022

HEAVY
Goings: “Red” (Refresh Records)
Sobs: “Last Resort” (Topshelf)
Pinkshift: “BURN THE WITCH” (Hopeless)
Zzzahara: “get out of la” (Lex Records Ltd)
Italia 90: “Tales from Beyond” (Brace Yourself)
Drugdealer: “To Live and Drive in LA” (Mexican Summer)
Last Dinosaurs: “Hanson Ghost (Radio Edit)” (Nettwerk)
The Real McKenzies: “Drunken Sailor” (Fat Wreck)
Andy Shauf: “Wasted On You” (Anti-)
Les Shirley: “Sayonara [clean]” (Self-Released)

MEDIUM
Jim Flannery: “Wisdom (Radio Edit)” (Self-Released)
Röyksopp: “The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp)” (Partial)
Nation of Language: “Across That Fine Line (Working Men’s Club Remix)” (Play It Again Sam)
SamWoy: “Sbwriel” (Hidden Ship)
Christine and The Queens: “rien dire” (Because Music)
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn: “Vantablack” (Merge Records)
Sunking: “…Anxiiety” (Anti-)
Garrett Saracho: “Altitude (feat. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad)” (Jazz Is Dead)
Weird Nightmare: “So Far Gone” (Sub Pop)
New Junk City: “Left Shoes Jimmy” (A-F)
Gladie: “Mud” (Plum)
STONE: “Waste” (Polydor)
The Doors: “Paris Blues” (Rhino/Warner)
BODHI: “Pretty Lies” (Self-Released)
Frankie Cosmos: “Magnetic Personality” (Sub Pop)
Weyes Blood: “Grapevine (Radio Edit)” (Sub Pop)
Bleach Lab: “Obviously” (Nettwerk)
Jenny Hval: “Buffy” (4AD)
GLOSSER: “Movies” (Self-Released)
The Science Of: “Threads” (Self-Released)
Angelo De Augustine: “27” (Asthmatic Kitty)

Week of 11/29/2022

HEAVY
The Backseat Lovers: “Close Your Eyes” (Capitol)
Bleach Lab: “I Could Be Your Safe Place” (Nettwerk)
Drugdealer: “Pictures of You (feat. Kate Bollinger)” (Mexican Summer)
Bite Me Bambi: “Mall Santa” (Self-Released)
The Snuts: “Pigeons In New York” (Elektra)
Weyes Blood: “Twin Flame” (Sub Pop)
Beachtape: “Better Luck” (Self-Released)
The Black Black: “Work” (EWEL)
Crocodylus: “Skeletoniser” (Self-Released / Sureshaker)
The Allergies: “Sometimes I Wonder” (Jalapeno)

MEDIUM
Frankie Cosmos: “Sky Magnet” (Sub Pop)
BROCKHAMPTON: “The Family (Clean Edit)” (RCA)
Foushee: “bored” (RCA)
The Jack Moves: “Seabra” (Everloving, Inc.)
Ezra Collective: “Togetherness” (Partisan)
Aoife Nessa Frances: “Chariot” (Partisan)
Adrian Quesada: “Noble Metals” (ATO)
more*: “Whose Side You’re On” (Warner)
Whitmer Thomas: “Everything That Feels Good is Bad (Clean Edit)” (Hardly Art)
Suki Waterhouse: “Valentine” (Sub Pop)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: “Exploding Suns” (KGLW)
Last Dinosaurs: “CDMX” (Nettwerk)
Quasi: “Doomscrollers” (Sub Pop)
The Brass: “Sleep, City, Sleep (Clean Edit)” (Don Giovanni)
Sprints: “Literary Mind” (Nice Swan Recordings)
Beirut: “Scenic World (BER-ABQ Version)” (Pompeii)
VOIID: “And So Two” (DAMAGED)
SEPT: “30 Minutes or Less” (Baby Jah)
Teksti TV-666: “Keimolan Tähtiportti” (Svart)
W!ZARD: “Despite” (A Tant Rêver Du Roi)
Movulango: “Too Absurd” (DEEWEE)
EggS: “Certain Smile” (Self-Released / Modulor)
Wampums: “All My Love” (Self-Released)

Category: New Music, Rotation Adds