Highlights on this week's show include BRAIDS, Joywave, and Pitchfork Music Festival artist Waxahatchee. I'm particularly excited for this week's Big Beat Chicago Artist of the Week Ratboys who's album Printer's Devil is out on Friday and they're playing two sold out shows in town to celebrate. Details and this week's entire playlist are below.
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I host two new music shows each week where I get to play some of the sounds I've been into for you. Check out New Noise at Nine every Thursday night at 9:00 pm and The Big Beat every Monday night at 11:00 pm. I always welcome suggestions on what to keep an ear out for so connect with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. My handle on all three of 'em is RyanArnoldRocks.
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- The Midnight Club - "Love Yourself"
- Waxahatchee - "Lilacs" *Catch her at Pitchfork on Friday July 17. GA and Pitchfork Plus passes are on sale now.
- Moaning - "Ego"
- Yoke Lore & Jax Anderson - "Sensitive Heart"
- Hamilton Leithauser - "Here They Come"
- Purr - "Avenue Bliss"
- ***Big Beat Chicago Artist of The Week: Ratboys - "Alien In A Sleep Mask" from Printer's Devil due February 28. Pre-order here. They play Lincoln Hall on Friday and Hideout on Saturday. Check out Leor Galil's piece on Ratboys in last Friday's Chicago Reader.
- The Antagonists - "Paper Planes"
- Early Eyes - "I'm Enough"
- BRAIDS - "Young Bucks" from Shadow Offering due April 24. Pre-order here.
- Larkins - "Hit And Run"
- Ezra Furman - "I'm Coming Clean" from the Netflix series Sex Education featuring original along with LCD Soundsystem and The Clovers covers.
- Joywave - "Half Your Age" from the album Possession out March 13. Pre-order here.
