Artist · chart history
Dynamite Hack
Band Formed 1997
Dynamite Hack formed in 1997. Dynamite Hack has 25 chart appearances on 25 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Boyz-N-The Hood”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Dynamite Hack most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Dynamite Hack took their name from Caddyshack, from the scene where Bill Murray's groundskeeper Carl Spackler shows off his weed to Chevy Chase, which tells you plenty about the sense of humor in this Austin, Texas, alt-rock outfit, together since 1997.
The joke that made them was "Boyz-N-The Hood": Eazy-E's rap single recast as a gentle acoustic strum, every hard word landing softly over a campfire-folk arrangement. It was the first single from Superfast, an album they first put out locally in January 2000 before Universal remixed it for a national release that summer, and it turned up on the rock tribute to rap Take a Bite Outta Rhyme.
Mark Morris and Mike Vlahakis kept the band going long after the novelty faded. The "lost" second album, How to Break Up a Band, was slated for 2011, and its single "Sunshine" came out that summer; a country EP called Beardsley Mitchell arrived in 2015, and Loaded with Cobras followed in 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dynamite Hack on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boyz-N-The Hood | 20 | #16 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | Boyz in Da Hood | 3 | #28 | – | – | |
| 3 | Boys in the Hood | 1 | #44 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | Boys in Da Hood | 1 | #2002 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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