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14 August 2026 – Regulator Watts Return After Nearly 30 Years with kWh
By Editorial Team - August 14, 2026
Summary
D.C. post-hardcore trio Regulator Watts release kWh EP today, their first new music in nearly 30 years, produced by Kurt Ballou.
Key Facts
- Regulator Watts release 5-track EP 'kWh' on 14 August 2026 after nearly 30-year hiatus.
- Produced by Kurt Ballou (GodCity) and recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago.
- D.C. post-hardcore pioneers featuring dub, noise, and complex rhythmic structures.
- Entities: Regulator Watts, kWh, Kurt Ballou, Electrical Audio, Hoover, Washington D.C.
- Tags: regulator-watts, post-hardcore, kurt-ballou, electrical-audio, dc-hardcore, hoover
Washington D.C. post-hardcore trio Regulator Watts release kWh today, their first new music in almost thirty years.
Produced by Kurt Ballou and recorded partly at Electrical Audio in Chicago, the five-track EP reconnects the band's crushing rhythmic foundation with haunted guitars, unusual time signatures, dub-influenced production and ambient texture.
Regulator Watts emerged from the same fertile D.C. lineage that produced Hoover, but their music always pushed beyond straightforward hardcore.
A return after three decades could easily have become an exercise in nostalgia; kWh instead sounds like an attempt to recover the band's unresolved possibilities. For post-hardcore listeners, this is a major underground return.