WHUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH, just when you think things can't get any stranger, 2020 comes through with another zinger. Fortunately, we're still standing strong amidst the madness and misery, doing our part to keep hope alive with another spate of INCOMING delights. Today we played:

IDLES - Mr. Motivator

Reptaliens - Venetian Blinds

Black Mountain - Future Shade

Preservation ft. Quelle Chris - Rose Royce

Covet - nero

SLIFT - Ummon

CEREMONY - From Another Age

Ethicist - Psalm

The Murlocs - Manic Candid Episode

Archers of Loaf - Talking Over Talk

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The Who - The Real Me

Kelley Deal 6000 - Future Boy

Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire

Mr. Bungle - Carry Stress in the Jaw

The Specials - A Message To You Rudy

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Mrs. Piss - Downer Surrounded By Uppers

The Garden - Kiss My Superbowl Ring

TFS Band - Suburbiopia

Trash Talk - Something Wicked

Green Druid - The End of Men

Thee Oh Sees - Psy-Ops Dispatch

Los Bitchos - Frozen Margarita

Khemmis - Rainbow in the Dark

R.A.P Ferreira - LAUNDRY

Squid - Broadcaster

Thelma and the Sleaze - Pain

As always, be sure to tune in this Friday for our weekly FEMME FRIDAY show, featuring music from projects led exclusively by female, femme and non-binary artists, only at radioartifact.com (worldwide), 91.7 FM HD2 (Cincinnati) and the WVXU mobile app. In the meantime, be good to each other, keep fighting the good fight AND NEVER GIVE UP!!!

After last week's show, in solidarity with the protests that have been sweeping the globe, I realized I'd made an egregious oversight; while the show stood in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, only about half of the featured artists were black. So for today's show, we've curated a selection of music from projects led exclusively by black artists, across a wide range of genres. Here's what we played:

Fil Smif (Eugenius) - I have built myself a tomb

Yves Tumor - Super Star

Terrace Martin, Denzel Curry, Kamasi Washington, G Perico & Daylyt - Pig Feet

Knxwledge - makeitliveforever

Armand Hammer - War Stories

Thundercat & Zack Fox - Overseas

Jlin - Black Origami

Booker T Jones - Born Under A Bad Sign

Tosin Abasi - Archetype

Matana Roberts - Piddling

Little Simz - damn right

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Bad Brains - Sailin' On

Roberta Flack - River

Fela Kuti - Buy Africa

Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic - Wars of Armageddon

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DEBBY FRIDAY - Good and Evil

Run The Jewels ft. 2 Chainz - Out of Sight

KOKOROKO - Carry Me Home

JJ Doom (MF DOOM) - Guv'nor

Sampa The Great - Final Form

Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Cut 'Em Loose

JPEGMAFIA - CUTIE PIE!

Young Fathers - Wow

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib - Kali Yuga

Teebs - Mirror Memory

Spellling - Haunted Water

Jamila Woods - Eartha

Busdriver/ - Im from a different time

In case you forgot what we're fighting for here, hopefully today's show was a helpful reminder. Our exclusive collection of songs of revolution and solidarity (and some other, tangentially-related bops) featured:

Flesh Mother - Eyes Opened To Sickness

SNAPPED ANKLES - Skirmish in the Suburbs

Death Grips - The Fear

Major Kong - The Takeover

Filmmaker - Malleable Reality

Clipping. - Nothing Is Safe

Machine Girl - Fortress Destroyer

Durand Jones & The Indications - Morning in America

HEALTH - Slaves of Fear

Cave In - Night Crawler

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Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Public Enemy - Fight The Power

Rick James - Mr. Policeman

Rage Against The Machine - Calm Like A Bomb

Woody Guthrie - We Shall Be Free

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Lightning Bolt - USA Is A Psycho

Here Lies Man - Man Falls Down

Run The Jewels - Don't Get Captured

Street Sects - Tomorrow Is A Trap

Dawn Ray'd - Soon Will Be The Age Of Lessons Learnt

Helms Alee - Beat Up

Eye Flys - Not Ready For Tomorrow

The Coup - The Guillotine

Gee Tee - Fantasy Cops

DISPOSSESSED - Warpath Never Ended

Open Mike Eagle - Beatdown City (We Gon' Whoop Yo Ass!)

Show Me The Body - Badge Grabber

Divide and Dissolve - Resistance

Redbait - Forever Ends Now

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH - Tear It Down

Be there for each other, keep fighting the good fight and don't let the bastards get you down. We're all in this together. We'll be back next week for a week of music from exclusively black artists, only at radioartifact.com (worldwide), 91.7 FM HD2 (Cinci) and the WVXU mobile app.

ARE YA THIRSTY? Y'all really need to stay better hydrated. In the meantime, here's this week's opening selection of iNCOMING goodies to quench your thirst:

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

Ministry - Alert Level (Quarantined Mix)

The Budos Band - Maelstrom

inglewoodSiR - John Redcorn

Los Bitchos - Pista (Great Start)

Dead Ghosts - In and Out

Mrs. Piss- Knelt

POW! - Scissors

ENDON - Boy Meets Girl

Alien Nosejob - Weight of the World

Navajo Witch - The Crossover

MICHAEL MANRING - By Fives

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Flipper - Life is Cheap

ZZ Top - Waitin for the Bus

Funkadelic - Funky Dollar Bill

Devo - Explosions

Swervedriver - Last Train to Satansville

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X the Band - I Gotta Fever

Zeal & Ardor - Fire of Motion

Gumm - No Sense Of Self

INTER ARMA - Southern Man

Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 - Ouchi Time

Cornelius - Not Bad, This Feeling

Xibalba - Años en Infierno

Danny Brown ft. Blood Orange - Shine

Willie Nelson - I'm The Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised

IRON REAGAN - Paper Shredder

Swans - Some New Things

CEREMONY - From Another Age

And once again, we encourage you to tune in on Friday for our weekly FEMME FRIDAY show, featuring music from projects led exclusively by female, femme and non-binary artists! Only at radioartifact.com (worldwide), 91.7 FM HD2 (Cincinnati) and the WVXU mobile app!!!

DON'T GET A BIG HEAD, let go of your ego and bask in the humble warmth of our INCOMING selections. This week's show featured:

Brutus - Sand

Jay Som - Can't Sleep

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - So.Incredible.pkg

Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Heaven Torn Low II (The Toll)

Midwife - S.W.I.M

Black Moth Super Rainbow - New Breeze

Post Animal - In A Paradise

Emma Ruth Rundle - Darkhorse

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Little Richard (RIP) - Long Tall Sally

Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin'

Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly

Gravediggaz - 1-800-Suicide

Cynic - How Could I

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Protomartyr - Worm in Heaven

Igorrr - Parpaing

Covet - Parachute

Puscifer - Apocalyptical

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - My Friend's A Liquid

Mdou Moctar - Ibitlan

Earth - Exaltation of Larks

SASAMI - Mess

Mars Red Sky - Hollow King

METZ - Call of the Wighat

Blues Lawyer - I Owe Money All Over Town

And remember, tune in this Friday for our weekly FEMME FRIDAY show, featuring music from projects led exclusively by female, femme and non-binary artists, only at radioartifact.com (worldwide), 91.7 FM HD2 (Cinci) and the WVXU mobile app!!

SLATHER UP, winter may be coming in here in OZ, but in the US, summer has only just begun!! And with it, many more opportunities to catch a sunburn while isolating on your roof/in your backyard/around your pool. Hopefully, today's batch of goodies got you in the mood for what looks to be a particularly apocalyptic summer. Here's what we played:

Lightning Bolt - All Insane

Ghost Bath - Calling

Yves Tumor - Medicine Burn

Denmark Vessey & Soul Theory Beats - Give Them Hell

Black Belt Eagle Scout - Run It To Ya

PARTY DOZEN - The PDD

Battles - Juice B Crypts

Dehd - Happy Again

Oranssi Pazuzu - Ilmestys

The Cowboys - Martian Childcare

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The Cramps - Human Fly

Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle

Slant 6 - Don't Censor Me

Lou Reed - I'm So Free

The Pretty Things - Roadrunner

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Khruangbin - Time (You and I)

Full of Hell - Armory of Obsidian Glass

Zelooperz - Tryna Figure Out Where My Phone At?

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Plastic Boogie

Shadow Show - Glass Eye

Earth Tongue - Astonishing Comet

BAD BREEDING - Clear Blue Water

The Machine - Crack You

Necrowretch - Darkness Supreme

USA Nails - Work Drinks

Plini - Birds

All Them Witches - 1st vs 2nd

And as always, be sure to tune in this Friday for our weekly FEMME FRIDAY show, featuring music from projects led exclusively by female, femme and non-binary artists, only at radioartifact.com (worldwide), 91.7 FM HD2 (Cincinnati) and the WVXU mobile app!!!!