Altrok Radio Music Update #157

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like...

Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week...

And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.)

As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties.

But for now - we've got songs to let you know about.

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

- Ted Leo + Pharmacists
- The Rapture
- The Longcut
- Maximo Park
- Art Brut
- The Shins

Plus we've got newly-added music:

- Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker
- Jarvis Cocker - Dont Let Him Waste Your Time
- Feist - I Feel It All
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We Sing
- Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays
- My Federation - Honey Bee
- Mystery Jets - Diamonds In The Dark
- The National - Mistaken For Strangers
- The Needles - Girl I Used To Know
- Graham Parker - Stick To The Plan
- Jack Penate - Spit At Stars
- Saturna - Pop Rocks
- Sir Salvatore - Hooray This Projector
- Laura Veirs - Phantom Mountain

Our Newly-Added Classics:

- Blur - Girls & Boys
- Lloyd Cole - Speedboat
- The Cure - A Forest
- The Detroit Cobras - Heartbeat
- Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Tommy Keene - My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe
- Midnight Oil - Read About It
- Pete Shelley - Homosapien
- Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

As always, thanks for listening!

- Sean Carolan
Altrok Radio
On your computer right now at http://www.altrokradio.com

On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night

Altrok Radio Music Update #156

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that.

And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Now then, to be clear: Altrok Radio is free to listen to, and will be for as long as I can manage it.

But if you'd like to listen without advertising (we'll interrupt occasionally to tell you what's coming up on the station) there's a VIP program run by Live365. When you're a VIP, you get access to the commercial-free version of the station, plus all the ads on their website go away. Cost is actually pretty reasonable; the roughly-$15-every-three-months plan seems to be the most popular option. Here's the link if you're interested:

http://www.live365.com/rewards/pm?tag=muddychannel

And yes, we get a small kickback on that - $1.50 when you sign up, and a penny or so about every three hours you listen. Not much, but we're a pretty lean operation; we'll take what we can get.

So much for the sales pitch - here's what you're in for, whether you sign up or not...in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like...

Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week...

And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.)

As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties.

All that said, bet you're wondering what those new songs we've added are...

This week our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

• Mark Ronson
• Malcolm Middleton
• Minipop
• Bjork
• Amy Winehouse
• The Holloways

Plus we've got newly-added music:

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon Of Choice
• The Bluetones - Baby Back Up
• Bromheads Jacket - Fight Music For The Fight
• The Concretes - Keep Yours
• Electrelane - To The East
• Fields - Charming The Flames
• The Hours - Love You More
• The Law - Milk And Honey
• Love Of Diagrams - Pace Or the Patience
• The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
• Saturna - Roll Down
• Sea Wolf - Black Dirt
• The Shins - Australia
• The View - The Don

Our Featured Classics:

• Frank Black - Los Angeles
• Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling
• Cabaret Voltaire - I Want You
• Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins
• John Hiatt - The Tiki Bar Is Open
• The Police - So Lonely
• The Replacements - Alex Chilton
• The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World
• The Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
• Yello - The Evening's Young

As always, thanks for listening!

Altrok Radio Music Update #155

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like...

Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week...

And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.)

As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties.

But for now - we've got songs to let you know about.

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

• The Arcade Fire
• The National
• The Chiara L's
• The Sammies
• Maldroid
• Datarock

Plus we've got newly-added music:

• Arctic Monkeys - Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend (feat. Dizzee Rascal)
• Art Brut - Pump Up The Volume
• Bjork - Earth Intruders
• Cloud Cult - Chemicals Collide
• Fountains Of Wayne - Someone To Love
• The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You
• The Longcut - Idiot Check
• Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars
• Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
• Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies
• Mark Ronson - Stop Me (feat. Daniel Merriweather)
• The She Beats - Dirty Secret
• The Twilight Sad - Walking For Two Hours
• Laura Veirs - Don't Lose Yourself
  

Our Featured Classics:

• Buzzcocks - Are Everything
• The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
• Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop (Discotheque)
• The Jam - That's Entertainment
• Japan - Still Life In Mobile Homes
• Joy Division - Interzone
• Soup Dragons - Head Gone Astray
• The The - Perfect
• Wire - I Don't Understand
• X - We're Desperate

As always, thanks for listening!

- Sean Carolan
Altrok Radio
On your computer right now at http://www.altrokradio.com
On the radio Fridays at 10pm, at 90.5 The Night

Altrok Radio Music Update #154

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like...

Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week...

And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.)

As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties.

But for now - we've got songs to let you know about...

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

• The Wombats
• Bobby Cook
• Voltage Union
• Air
• The Rakes
• Kaiser Chiefs

Plus we've got newly-added music:

• Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag - It's A Bit Complicated (Unmixed Advance EP)
• The Cat Empire - The Car Song - Two Shoes
• The Chiara L's - Odio - April Mix
• Dave Dark & The Sharks - I've Resigned - Man Alone [EP]
• The Fall - Reformation Uncut - Uncut Magazine's The Playlist March 2007
• Grammatics - The Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast [CD Single]
• The Holloways - Generator - CD Single
• LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver - Sound Of Silver
• Ted Leo + Pharmacists - A Bottle Of Buckie - Living With The Living
• Maldroid - He Said She Said - Malfunction
• Minipop - Like I Do - Minipop MP3 Demo
• Ed Vallance - Deep End - Deep End [EP]

Our Featured Classics:

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop - Take Them On, On Your Own
• The Clash - Safe European Home - Give 'Em Enough Rope
• Doves - Catch The Sun - Lost Souls
• Hot Hot Heat - Get In Or Get Out - Make Up The Breakdown
• The National - Murder Me Rachael - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
• Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun - Never Mind The Bollocks
• The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
• U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One - War
• The Vapors - News at Ten (Single) - New Clear Days
• XTC - Making Plans For Nigel - Drums And Wires

Altrok Radio Music Update #153

Firstly, the important stuff:

Altrok Radio is at http://www.altrokradio.com

Please remember to tune in whenever you can - every hour you listen turns into more visibility for the station; we show up higher in search listings, and such like that. And if you'd like to help us keep the stream running, check out the advertisers if they appeal to you; your interest actually helps fund us.

Now then, in addition to the outstanding Altrok Radio music mix that got us an Editor's Pick nod at Live365 and at About.com, we've added features we know you'll like...

Thursdays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm), you get to hear Sean Carolan (often referred to in these dispatches as "me") showcase the new music we've added this week on the Altrok Radio FM Showcase. New stuff, classic stuff, and Jeff Raspe with his Altrok Radio Underground Pick Of The Week...

And on Friday, it's Altrok's Eighties Friday: music from the eighties that mattered then AND now. An eight hour playlist that features some of the best that decade had to offer, drawing from all the music that was available at the time (yes, even from the seventies.)

As if that weren't enough, Fridays at 11:30am Eastern (and repeated at 9:00pm) you'll find New York's own DJ Shred and her hand-picked set filled with classics from the darker and more challenging corners of the Eighties.

But for now - we've got songs to let you know about.

This week, our Grinders (the stuff we play heavily) include music from:

• The Needles
• The Enemy
• The Electric Soft Parade
• Arctic Monkeys
• !!!
• Modest Mouse

Plus we've got newly-added music:

• The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
• Beat Radio - People Are Talking
• Dave Dark & The Sharks - Man Alone
• Good Shoes - Small Town Girl
• Kaiser Chiefs - Heat Dies Down
• Klaxons - Totem On The Timeline
• Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going To Die
• The National - Fake Empire
• Polytechnic - Cold Hearted Business
• The Ponys - Poser Psychotic
• The Rakes - The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
• The Rumble Strips - Alarm Clock
• The Wild Deer - God's Eyes
• Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Our Newly-Added Classics:

• Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love
• The Bongos - Beat Hotel
• Martin Gore - Compulsion
• Madness - Baggy Trousers
• Peter Murphy - Final Solution
• New Order - The Perfect Kiss
• The Sound - World As It Is
• Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You
• Violent Femmes - No More Heroes