Altrok Thursday: All The New Tracks At 11:30am ET On The FM Showcase.

It's Thursday, and that means something a little special...

Tune in at 11:30am or 9:00pm Eastern US Time for the Altrok Radio FM Showcase, our collection of what makes sense this week in Altrok Radio's world of music. There's always unreleased tracks and demos featuring edge-skating sounds that made us sit up and listen, along with a few of the classic tracks that inform today's new releases (and tomorrow's.) Sean Carolan is your host, and he's been doing this a while (since 1982, in fact) so, y'know, be gentle.

Beyond that, there's another whole new selection of songs - eight hours worth starting right this moment (whenever this moment happens to be) over and above the tracks in the FM Showcase - pulsing from our servers in CD Quality MP3 Pro, at Altrok Radio.

Got a slow connection? We've put it up for you in glorious mono as well - check the "slower connections" link on the right of the page.

The bands for today (6/27/2007) are:

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!!! A Flock Of Seagulls, The Adored, Altered Images, The Answering Machine, The Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, Art Brut Babyshambles, Karl Bartos, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blood Red Shoes, The Bluebells, Broadcast, The Broken West, Bromheads Jacket Captain, The Chameleons, The Clash, Club 8, Jarvis Cocker, Cold War Kids, The Cribs, CSS Datarock, Depeche Mode, Devo, Jonathan Donaldson And The Colorforms, Duels Esiotrot Field Music, The Fountains Of Wayne, John Foxx, Scott Free Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gang Of Four, Jigs Giglio, The Go! Team, Good Shoes, The Good The Bad And The Queen, The Gossip Juliana Hatfield, Holloways, Miles Hunt Interpol The Jam, JoBoxers, Howard Jones Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons, The Kooks Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Lismore, Love & Rockets, Love Ends Disaster Matt Pond PA, Malcom Middleton, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Minipop, Mr. Hudson & The Library, My Federation, My Teenage Stride, Mystery Jets The Nails, The National, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Needles, New Order, The New Pornographers, The New York Dolls, New Young Pony Club, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana The Outside PacoVolume, Candie Payne, Jack Penate, Polytechnic, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Psychedelic Furs R.E.M., The Rakes, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reverend And The Makers, Stan Ridgeway The Sammies, Seems So Bright, The Shins, The Shout Out Louds, Sir Salvatore, The Sound, Spoon The Teardrop Explodes, The The, The Thermals, They Might Be Giants, Trembling Blue Stars, TV On The Radio Ultravox, UNKLE Laura Veirs The Walkmen, The Wedding Present, White Rabbits, The Wombats X, Xerox Teens, XTC You Remind Me Of Rasputin 

Altrok Wednesday: We Are So Very Back.

It's Wednesday, our Day Of Silence is over (but we aren't out of the woods yet - here's details, but it still means there's a pile of great tracks up for your listening pleasure at Altrok Radio. (Of course, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mean that, too, but since it's Wednesday, there's no reason we shouldn't emphasize it for this day specifically. We're belt-and-suspenders types, don't'cha know.)

Got a slow connection? We've put it up for you in glorious mono as well - check the "slower connections" link on the right of the page.

The bands for today (6/27/2007) are:

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Air Traffic, The Answering Machine, The Arcade Fire, Art Brut, Autokat The B-52's, Bastards Of Melody, Bauhaus, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blur, The Bongos, Bow Wow Wow, The Bravery, The Bureau Cajun Dance Party, The Capes, Chemical Brothers, The Cinematics, The Concretes, Julian Cope, Hugh Cornwell, The Cure The Dance Party, Datarock, The Dears, Desperate To Impress, The Detroit Cobras, dEUS, Dirty On Purpose, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Dukes Of Stratosphear Echo & The Bunnymen, Editors, Electrelane, The Electric Soft Parade The Fall, Feist, Fischerspooner, Forward Russia!, Frank Smith Dave Gahan, The Go! Team, GoodBooks, Gorillaz Harrisons, Head Like A Kite, The Holloways Interpol, Its A Buffalo The Jam, James, The Jesus and Mary Chain Killing Joke, KillRadio, Kubichek! Ladytron, The Law, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, The Long Blondes M.A.S.S., Madness, Maximo Park, Malcolm Middleton, Modest Mouse, The Monolators, Mr. Hudson & The Library, Mystery Jets The National, Noisettes, Gary Numan Brendan O'Shea, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Others, Otherside Jack Penate, Polytechnic, The Ponys, Pop Levi, Josh Pyke R.E.M., Razorlight, Reverend And The Makers, Romeo Void, The Rumble Strips Sahara Hotnights, Sea Wolf, Shade, Shivaree, Sky Larkin, Spearmint, The Specials, The Spinto Band, Spiraling, Spoon, The Stone Roses, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Talking Heads, Then Jerico, Tokyo Police Club, Tsar Ultravox! Ed Vallance, Laura Veirs, Voxtrot Washington Social Club, White Rabbits, The Wild Deer, Amy Winehouse, The Wombats Xerox Teens, XTC Yello, Pete Yorn Zen Boy & Karma Girl 

Hey, That's Weird...We're On The Air.

...but that doesn't mean we don't support the Day Of Silence...we do. (I'm just surprised we're not, and it'll take more effort to fix the fact that we're on the air, but...meh, whatever.)

Click this banner for more info. Or we really will go silent. (Real silent.)

Altrok Is Silent. Tune In To Find Out Why

It's Tuesday, June 26, 2007.

Today's the Internet Radio Day Of Silence, so we're off the air.

Here's why. (Or just tune in to find out.)

We'll be back at midnight, but if you don't act now, we may not be back for long.

As for today's bands: There are none.

(Apparently, the record industry likes it that way. Funny, that.)

If you'd like to hear new music in a venue that the recording industry hasn't figured out how to shut down yet, check out Ready Steady Go at Marita's in New Brunswick, NJ tonight (details below.) But that's all I can do for you right now...

Okay, actually, when we start up again at midnight (or if you're running a VIP stream or connecting directly using an MP3 player) here's what you'll hear...

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Afghan Whigs, The Answering Machine, The Apples in Stereo, The Apples In Stereo, Architecture In Helsinki, The Automatic Bauhaus, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, The Blue Van, Bockman, David Bowie, Bromheads Jacket, David Byrne The Chiara L's, Chin Up Chin Up, China Crisis, The Church, The Clash, Club 8, Billy Corgan, Elvis Costello, CSS, Jill Cuniff, The Cure Dave Dark & The Sharks, Datarock, The Decemberists, Division of Laura Lee, The Dukes Of Stratosphear Elephants, The Enemy, The English Beat, Esiotrot Fanfarlo, Fields, Figures On A Beach, Foals, Former Miss America The Go! Team, Good Shoes, Grammatics Calvin Harris, P.J. Harvey, Juliana Hatfield, Hindu Love Gods, Holloways Interpol The Jam Kasabian The La's, Land Of Talk, Lemuria, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Letters & Colours, Jeffrey Lewis M, The Maccabees, Milburn, Mr. Hudson & The Library, My Teenage Stride, Mystery Jets The Needles, The New Pornographers, Nine Inch Nails, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Noisettes, Gary Numan Candie Payne, The Perfects, Persil, The Pigeon Detectives, Pitty Sing, Polytechnic, The Pretenders, The Producers, Psychic TV, Ltd. Public Image Reverend And The Makers, Mark Ronson, The Rumble Strips Tim Scott, Seedling, Seems So Bright, The She Beats, Shiny Toy Guns, The Shout Out Louds, The Singles, Sky Larkin, The Slip, Split Enz, Spoon, Squeeze, The Sun And The Moon Talking Heads, Teddybears, That Petrol Emotion, The The, The Thermals, Too Much Joy, Trembling Blue Stars, tvfordogs UNKLE The Video Nasties, The View, Vive La Fête, Von Sudenfed White Flag, White Rabbits, White Rose Movement, Wicked Automatic, Keller Williams, The Wombats Pete Yorn

Altrok Radio Music Update #163

NOTE: Tomorrow, we - and almost all of the Internet Radio community - will participate in a protest over the record industry's attempt to shut down our station. The Day Of Silence will last pretty much all day, and you'll hear what the issues are and what you can do to help.

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Folks,

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.

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:

- The Go! Team
- White Rabbits
- Reverend And The Makers
- Mr. Hudson & The Library
- The Answering Machine
- Spoon

Plus we've got newly-added music:

- Autokat - Seven Years
- Chemical Brothers - Do it Again
- The Dance Party - Lipstick
- Dirty On Purpose - Car No Driver (Cassettes Won't Listen Remix)
- GoodBooks - The Illness
- Its A Buffalo - Somewhere In Range
- James - Who Are You
- Brendan O'Shea - Smoke
- Jack Penate - Torn On The Platform
- The Rumble Strips - Motorcycle
- Sahara Hotnights - Cheek To Cheek
- The Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It
- Trembling Blue Stars - November Starlings
- Washington Social Club - Bigger Than Your Boyfriend

Our featured Classics:

- B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
- Bjork - Hyper-ballad
- The Church - Almost With You
- The House Of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You
- Paul Kelly - Dumb Things
- Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry
- Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
- New Musik - They All Run After The Carving Knife
- The Vapors - Trains
- The Wedding Present - I'm From Further North Than You

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

Stiffy Says Go See the Psychedelic Furs on 7/9!

It's been awhile but here's something for July. The Psychedelic Furs are playing at Jenkinson's Club on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant on July 9th. Stiffy Biceptz is planning on being there, and I hope all of you can join me. The Psych Furs are one of the greatest bands from the eighties and are not to be missed live. And here they are right in our back yard, in a small intimate environment. Let's create some magic like we did back in the day of the Green Parrot.

I saw the Furs three years ago in Philly at the Hard Rock Cafe and they were amazing. Richard Bulter's voice is as remarkable as always and they hadn't lost any of their magic. So make plans to join me that night. The Alarm and The Fixx are also playing, not a bad triple bill at all.

Email me at sbiceptz@verizon.net if you can make it and I'll see you there!

Today: All Our Newest Tracks On The FM Showcase

It's Thursday, and that means something a little special...

Tune in at 11:30am or 9:00pm Eastern US Time for the Altrok Radio FM Showcase, our collection of what makes sense this week in Altrok Radio's world of music. There's always unreleased tracks and demos featuring edge-skating sounds that made us sit up and listen, along with a few of the classic tracks that inform today's new releases (and tomorrow's.) Sean Carolan is your host, and he's been doing this a while (since 1982, in fact) so, y'know, be gentle.

Beyond that, there's another whole new selection of songs - eight hours worth starting right this moment (whenever this moment happens to be) over and above the tracks in the FM Showcase - pulsing from our servers in CD Quality MP3 Pro, at Altrok Radio.

Got a slow connection? We've put it up for you in glorious mono as well - check the "slower connections" link on the right of the page.

Altrok Tuesday: We're Set For Ready Steady Go Tuesday!

It'sTuesday, and that means there's a pile of great tracks up for your listening pleasure at Altrok Radio. (Of course, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mean that, too, but since it's Tuesday, there's no reason we shouldn't emphasize it for this day specifically. We're belt-and-suspenders types, don't'cha know.)

Got a slow connection? We've put it up for you in glorious mono as well - check the "slower connections" link on the right of the page.

And if you're in central NJ and you're looking for new music, and a place to listen to it while drinking the libation of your choice, we've got it. (You already know about the new music part, 'cause you're reading this, right?) Soooo... come out and show some support.

The particulars:

Ready Steady Go Tuesdays
Marita's Cantina
Albany St. & Easton Av., convenient to Amtrak/NJ Transit trains from NYC
21-and over, no cover
EARLY START: 9:00pm until the law says otherwise

So, as I've said: get on out there. Tuesday. TONIGHT.

No, I mean it.

Today.

The bands for today (6/19/2007) are:

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!!! The Answering Machine, The Apples in Stereo, Art Brut, The Automatic The B-52's, Bell Hollow, Bloc Party, Bromheads Jacket Cajun Dance Party, China Crisis, The Church, Club 8, Cold War Kids, The Concretes, The Cribs, Crystal Skulls, CSS, The Cure Datarock, The Dead 60s, Depeche Mode, Director, Dogs Echo & The Bunnymen, Electrelane, The Enemy, Esiotrot Feist, Fields, The Flesh, Freur Gang Of Four, Giant Sand, Good Shoes, The Gossip, Grammatics Hadouken!, Calvin Harris, Robyn Hitchcock, The Hold Steady, Holloways, The Holloways, The Horrors, Miles Hunt Icehouse, Intaferon Joe Jackson, The Jam, Howard Jones Kaiser Chiefs, The Koreans LCD Soundsystem, Leaving Isaac's Shop, Peggy Vs. Iggy Pop Lee, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Los Campesinos!, Love Of Diagrams The Maccabees, Magazine, Johnny Marr And The Healers, Martha and The Muffins, Maximo Park, Modest Mouse, Mr. Hudson & The Library, Mystery Jets, The Mystery Jets The National, Nine Inch Nails Objects, Of Montreal, Oingo Boingo Graham Parker, Parts & Labor, Candie Payne, Jack Penate, The Pigeon Detectives, The Pixies, The Pretenders, The Psychedelic Furs The Rakes, The Ramones, The Replacements, Reverend And The Makers, Rudi The Sammies, Saturna, Seesaw, William Shatner, Pete Shelley, Shriekback, The Sisters Of Mercy, Sky Larkin, Sonic Youth, The Special Relationship, Spoon, The Stranglers, The Subjects, The Sunday People Telograph, Tilly & The Wall, Tom Tom Club, Tones On Tail, The Tragically Hip, Trembling Blue Stars The Ukranians Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The View, Voltage Union White Rabbits, White Rose Movement, The White Stripes, The Wildhearts, Wire 

Altrok Radio Music Update #162

Folks,

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.

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:

- Cribs
- Holloways
- Calvin Harris
- White Rabbits
- Maximo Park
- Los Campesinos!

Plus we've got newly-added music:

- Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races
- Cajun Dance Party - The Next Untouchable
- Club 8 - Whatever You Want
- Datarock - The New Song
- Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
- Frank Smith - Throwin' Rocks
- The Go! Team - Grip Like a Vice
- The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
- The Monolators - Strawberry Roan
- The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours
- Reverend And The Makers - The Machine
- Spoon - The Underdog
- UNKLE - Burn My Shadow (feat. Ian Astbury)

Our Featured Classics:

- The Bangles - The Real World
- Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
- The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
- The Jam - A Town Called Malice
- Primal Scream - Loaded
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
- The The - Dogs Of Lust
- Tones On Tail - Twist
- Yazoo - Nobody's Diary

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

Today: Altrok's Eighties Friday - Here's The List

Today and every Friday, you'll hear a big pile of the music we had available in the 80's, all day and through the night, in CD Quality MP3 Pro, on Altrok's Eighties Friday at Altrok Radio.

Got a slow connection? We've put it up for you in glorious mono as well - check the "slower connections" link on the right of the page.

We do it every Friday, and we do it with a lot of tracks you won't necessarily hear on your average "Eighties Rewind" special...and that's 'cause we were there, and we know the stuff that sold well wasn't necessarily the stuff that we keep going back to. "I Ran" and "I Melt With You" have been shoved out of the way to make room for some really good stuff (often including the good stuff A Flock Of Seagulls and Modern English made that got completely overshadowed by their "one hit wonders".)

The bands for today (6/15/2007) are:

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A Flock Of Seagulls, ABC, Adam and the Ants, Alphaville, Adam Ant, APB The B-52's, B-Movie, Bauhaus, Berlin, Big Audio Dynamite, Blancmange, Blondie, Blue Zoo, David Bowie, Buzzcocks Cabaret Voltaire, Camouflage, The Chameleons, The Church, The Clash, Lloyd Cole, The Colour Field, Julian Cope, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, The Cult, The Cure Dalek I Love You, The Danse Society, The Dead Milkmen, Depeche Mode, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Thomas Dolby, Dramarama Echo & The Bunnymen, The English Beat, The Europeans The Fabulous Poodles, The Fall, Figures On A Beach, The Flying Lizards, Fun Boy Three With Bananarama Gang Of Four, Gene Loves Jezebel, Martin Gore Haircut One Hundred, Happy Mondays, Heaven 17, Hilary, The Hoodoo Gurus Icehouse, The Icicle Works, Intaferon, Intro Joe Jackson, The Jam, Japan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Killing Joke The La's, Love & Rockets, Love And Rockets, Lene Lovich Madness, Magazine, Martha and The Muffins, Meat Beat Manifesto, Medium Medium, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Ministry, Moev, Morrissey, Peter Murphy New Musik, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan Oingo Boingo, OMD, Orbital, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Robert Palmer, Polecats, The Psychedelic Furs, Ltd. Public Image R.E.M., The Ramones, Lou Reed, The Replacements, Stan Ridgeway The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Scritti Politti, Sex Pistols, Shriekback, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, Sparks, The Specials, Split Enz, Squeeze, The Stone Roses, The Style Council Talk Talk, Talking Heads, The Teardrop Explodes, That Petrol Emotion, The The, Tones On Tail, Translator, Tuff Darts, tv21 U2, Ultravox, The Undertones Violent Femmes, Visage Wah!, Wire, The Woodentops XTC 

Altrok Radio Music Update #161

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.)

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

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

- Art Brut
- CSS
- LCD Soundsystem
- Viva Voce
- The Maccabees
- Field Music

Plus we've got newly-added music:

- The Answering Machine - Silent Hotels
- Bloc Party - We Were Lovers
- Datarock - I Used To Dance With My Daddy
- Esiotrot - Emily Scott
- Good Shoes - Morden
- Juliana Hatfield - Get In Line (Live)
- Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
- Mystery Jets - Zootime
- Candie Payne - All I Need To Hear
- Polytechnic - Won't You Come Around
- Seems So Bright - Red Letter Box (Paper Chalk Mix)
- White Rabbits - While We Go Dancing
- The Wombats - Kill The Director

Our Featured Classics:

- The B-52's - Party Out Of Bounds
- Gas, The - Ignore Me
- Husker Du - Friend, You've Got To Fall
- The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus
- The Selecter - Cellebrate The Bullet
- Squeeze - Up The Junction
- Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless
- Violent Femmes - Prove My Love
- Visage - The Damned Dont Cry
- We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Love Is The Slug

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

Ready Steady Go Tuesdays in New Brunswick, NJ

You're looking for new music, and we've got it. (You know that, 'cause you're reading this, right?) Soooo... come out and show some support.

The particulars:

Ready Steady Go Tuesdays
Marita's Cantina
1 Penn Plaza
Albany & Easton Streets, convenient to the Amtrak/NJ Transit trains from NYC
21-and over, no cover
10pm until the law says otherwise

So, as I've said: get on out there. Tuesday. THIS Tuesday.

No, I mean it.

Tuesday.