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New songs added to heavy & medium rotation! (2023, part 1)

January 31, 2023 | By DJ AC

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A playlist of what songs get added to heavy & medium rotation is available on Spotify here: WXCI New Music Monthly
* updated at the end of every month, so save your faves! *

This is our FIRST monthly post of 2023 to show what new songs we are digging and adding to heavy & medium rotation. Enjoy!

Week of 1/3/2023

MEDIUM
BlueRaspberry: “My Brain Is Not a Part of My Heart” (Crow’s Nest)
Weezer: “Iambic Pentameter” (Crush/Atlantic)
Billy Changer: “Mumbles” (Self-Released)
Pile: “Poisons” (Exploding in Sound)
Dinosaur 94: “Going Nowhere” (Self-Released)
Hutch Harris: “I Will Find My Way” (Self-Released)
Lung Leg: “Previous Condition” (Self-Released / Last Night from Glasgow)
Rehash: “PANIK” (Unwanted)
Agnes Blue: “Best Life [clean]” (Self-Released)
Magon: “To Be Me” (T.Rex Recordings / December Square)
Pearl & The Oysters: “Pacific Ave” (Stones Throw)
Christine & The Queens: “Looking for Love” (Because Music)
Ezra Collective: “Victory Dance (Radio Edit)” (Partisan)
Halo Maud: “Bright Was The Embrace” (Heavenly/PIAS)
BROCKHAMPTON: “Take it Back (Clean Edit)” (RCA)
The Backseat Lovers: “Follow The Sound” (Capitol)
Honey Harper: “Reflections” (ATO)
more*: “Really Want To See You Again” (Warner)

Week of 1/10/2023

HEAVY
Day Wave: “Linger (The Cranberries cover)” (PIAS)
Jess Paternoster: “Convivial” (Self-Released)
Hey Thanks!: “The Part I Call Myself” (Iodine)
Wet Leg: “Chaise Lounge (Unknown Mortal Orchestra Remix)” (Domino)
Jigsaw Youth: “Deeper” (Self-Released)
Seun Kuti & Black Thought: “African Dreams (Remix)” (SKE80)
The Manatees: “The Sound” (Fierce Panda Records)
Somebody’s Child: “I Need Ya” (Frenchkiss Records)
thin ears: “Cardinal” (Silent Stereo)
SZA: “Forgiveless (feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard) (Clean)” (RCA)

MEDIUM
LOUD HOUND: “Monday Morning (Clean Edit)” (Pendant Music)
Oh Bummer!: “Beautiful Day (Radio Edit)” (If This Then Records)
Rocket Coma: “The End” (Self-Released)
The Pelicans: “Summer Jingle” (Mint 400)
Sunnsetter: “Float in Circles” (Paper Bag)
Bleach Lab: “If You Only Feel It Once” (Nettwerk)
The Hold Steady: “Sideways Skull (Time Edit)” (Thirty Tigers)
Thee Sacred Souls: “Love Is The Way” (Daptone)
Little Simz: “Silhouette (Clean Edit)” (Forever Living Originals/AWAL)
Anti-Flag: “NVREVR (feat. Stacey Dee from Bad Cop Bad Cop) (Clean Edit)” (Spinefarm)
Richard Dawson: “Thicker Than Water” (Domino)
Rejectionist Front: “Could Have Been Me” (MRI)
Death and Vanilla: “Looking Glass (Radio Edit)” (Fire Records)

Week of 1/17/2023

HEAVY
The New Pornographers: “Really Really Light” (Merge)
Yo La Tengo: “Aselestine” (Matador)
Rosi Plain: “Agreeing For Two” (Memphis Industries)
The Allergies: “Treat You Right” (Jalapeno)
Fly Anakin: “Blicky Bop (Clean Edit)” (Lex)
GRMLN: “Goner” (Spirit Goth)
CIVIC: “Blood Rushes” (ATO)
The Strokes: “The Modern Age (Rough Trade Version)” (RCA)
BlueRaspberry: “Sword of Wonder” (Crow’s Nest)
M83: “Oceans Niagara” (Mute)

MEDIUM
Belle and Sebastian: “I Don’t Know What You See In Me” (Matador)
Lonnie Holley: “Oh Me Oh My (feat. Michael Stipe)” (Jagjaguwar)
King Tuff: “Tell Me (feat. SASAMI)” (Sub Pop)
Danny Dwyer: “Summertime” (Nettwerk)
Billy Nomates: “balance is gone” (Invada Records)
Dana Buoy: “Fear From Mind” (Everloving, Inc.)
Leland Whitty: “Silver Rain” (Innovative Leisure)
River Sinclaire: “Driving” (Guilt Ridden Pop)
Parannoul: “We Shine at Night” (POCLANOS)
Idris Muhammad: “Could Heaven Ever Feel Like This (Walker & Royce & Chris Lorenzo Remix) (Extended Mix)” (Epic/Ultra)
Daniel Madeson: “Along The Interstate” (Self-Released)
Quasi: “Nowheresville” (Sub Pop)
NOFX: “Three Against Me” (Fat Wreck)
Anna Tivel: “Black Umbrella” (Mama Bird)
Taali: “It Comes For You” (Rainbow Blonde)
Lung Leg: “Right Now Baby” (Last Night from Glasgow)
Fantasydub: “Rêvasser (feat. Rachel Fannan)” (Self-Released)
Oracle Sisters: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (22TWENTY)
Ari Roar: “Opened Up” (Self-Released)
Razor Braids: “Buddy Holly (Weezer cover)” (Self-Released)
White Reaper: “Pink Slip” (Elektra)
knitting: “throwaway year” (sleepwalk)
The Nude Party: “Ride On” (New West)
Teleman: “Good Time/Hard Time” (Moshi Moshi)
Miss Grit: “Lain (phone clone)” (Mute Artists Ltd.)
Young Fathers: “Rice” (Ninja Tune)
The Rills: “Falling Apart” (Nice Swan Recordings)
Yot Club: “down bad (fanclubwallet, preloved Remix)” (Amuseio AB)
Amy O: “Strategies of Self” (Winspear)

Week of 1/24/2023

HEAVY
Ladytron: “City of Angels” (Cooking Vinyl)
Strawberry Fuzz: “Talk” (Candyshop Recordings)
Blair Gun: “Man of the Hour” (sonaBLAST! / Enabler No. 6)
boygenius: “$20” (Interscope)
John Cale: “MOONSTRUCK (Nico’s Song)” (Double Six/Domino)
Weyes Blood: “In Holy Flux” (Sub Pop)
Induce: “Violet (Clean Edit)” (Paradise City Records)
Fall Out Boy: “Love From The Other Side” (Self-Released)
Deerhoof: “Sit Down, Let Me Tell You A Story” (Joyful Noise)
Mac DeMarco: “Vancouver 2” (Mac’s Record Label)

MEDIUM
Arlo Parks: “Weightless (Time Edit)” (Transgressive/PIAS)
The National: “Tropic Morning News (Time Edit)” (4AD)
Sleaford Mods: “UK GRIM (Radio Edit)” (Rough Trade)
Belle and Sebastian: “Late Developers” (Matador)
Dana Why: “Mt. Misery” (Mint 400)
Kepi and Friends: “Heroes (David Bowie Cover)” (Pirates Press)
July Talk: “When You Stop” (Six Shooter)
Beddy Rays: “On My Own” (Self-Released)
Liela Moss: “Empathy Files” (Bella Union/PIAS)
Oberon Rose: “Revelation Mountain” (Thou ART)
Andy Shauf: “Telephone” (Anti-)
Dizzy: “Birthmark (Radio Edit)” (Royal Mountain)
Miriam Clancy: “Velveteen” (Self-Released)
ANIMA!: “An Old Tune” (Self-Released)
BlueRaspberry: “The Something Dance” (Crow’s Nest)
The Bouncing Souls: “Higher Ground” (Pure Noise)
Screaming Females: “Brass Bell” (Don Giovanni)
THE GOA EXPRESS: “Portrait” (Communion Group Ltd)
Gretel Hänlyn: “Wiggy” (VLF)
The Supremes: “These Boots Are Made for Walking (SILO x Martin Wave Remix)” (UMG / Motown)
WILDES: “True Love (Make Me Believe) [feat. The Flaming Lips; Edit]” (Late Night People)
Squirrel Flower: “Your Love” (Polyvinyl)
Altın Gün: “Rakıya Su Katamam” (ATO)
Frankie Rose: “Anything” (Slumberland)

Week of 1/31/2023

HEAVY
July Talk: “After This” (Six Shooter)
LOUD HOUND: “Keep Ya Head Up” (Pendant Music)
Megadose: “Pig” (Self-Released)
Gorillaz: “Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)” (Parlophone)
BODHI: “Homecoming Slumber (In Crete)” (Self-Released)
The Arcs: “Backstage Mess” (Easy Eye/Concord)
The Love Buzz: “Harp” (Self-Released)
thin ears: “Love Passenger (Single Edit)” (Silent Stereo)
Little Simz: “Angel (Clean Edit)” (Forever Living Originals / AWAL)
White Reaper: “Fog Machine” (Elektra)

MEDIUM
Bass Drum of Death: “Say I Won’t” (Fat Possum)
John Cale: “I KNOW YOU’RE HAPPY (feat. Tei Shi)” (Double Six/Domino)
Kevin Morby: “Like A Flower” (Dead Oceans)
HUNK: “Clouds” (Old Soul)
Faten Kanaan: “Florin Court” (Fire Records)
Amber Arcades: “True Love” (Fire Records)
The Moss: “Insomnia” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
Beddy Rays: “Sobercoaster” (Self-Released)
Blondshell: “Joiner” (Partisan)
Jonah Yano: “always” (Innovative Leisure)
Leland Whitty: “Awake” (Innovative Leisure)
Screaming Females: “Titan” (Don Giovanni)
Fall Out Boy: “Heartbreak Feels So Good” (Self-Released)
Guided By Voices: “Balloon Etiquette” (Self-Released)
Bonobo & Jacques Greene: “Fold” (OUTLIER)
JW Francis: “Swooning” (Sunday Best Recordings)
Bonny Doon: “Crooked Creek [clean]” (Anti)
Truth Club: “It’s Time” (Sipsman)
Guided by Voices: “Pockets” (Self-Released)
Miya Folick: “Get Out of My House” (Stop Talking, LLC / Nettwerk Music Group)
Lil Yachty: “sHouLd i B?” (Quality Control/UMG)
Slightless Pit: “Lockstep Bloodwar” (Thrill Jockey)
Oozing Wounds: “The Good Times (I Don’t Miss ‘Em)” (Thrill Jockey)
Tee Vee Repairmann: “Bus Stop” (Total Punk)