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Friday, August 07, 2009

Today On Altrok: Good Things, Plus The Daily Retro At 11:30am

As always, there's an eight-hour pile of tracks for you today. Here's how it breaks down:

- Six songs get repeated in that eight hours, so it's four hours between plays for those six songs. They're the ones in "The Grinder", in case you're wondering what I mean by that when I say it on the FM Showcase (which, by the way, is on 90.5 The Night tonight at 10pm.)

- The rest of the songs are set up so that there's one song per band - you don't have to worry about us oversaturating you with Green Day or what have you. (You might actually hear Green Day, mind you; they're a great band, but you'll only hear them once in eight hours if you hear them at all.)

- About a third of the songs are retro alternative classics - the rest is new stuff that gets us as excited as the old stuff did when it came out, and in the same ways.

So, apart from the bands on today's Daily Retro (a two-hour block which starts at 11:30am Eastern) here's who we're playing:

!!!

120 Days

A Blind Dog Stares, Adam and the Ants, Air, Air Traffic, Altered Images, An Angle, The Answering Machine, The Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Joseph Arthur And The Lonely Astronauts, Autokat, Aztec Camera

The B-52's, B-Movie, The Bangles, Chris Barron, Bauhaus, Beat Radio, The Bees, Best Fwends, The Bird And The Bee, Bjork, Black Kites, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Frank Black, Blancmange, Bloc Party, Blondie, Blood Red Shoes, The Bluebells, The Bluetones, Blur, Bockman, The Bongos, David Bowie, Bromheads Jacket, Buzzcocks

CSS, Cabaret Voltaire, Cajun Dance Party, Cake, Camouflage, The Cat Empire, The Chameleons, Chemical Brothers, The Chiara L's, Chow Chow, The Church, The Clash, Cloud Cult, Club 8, Jarvis Cocker, Lloyd Cole, The Comsat Angels, The Concretes, Bobby Cook, Julian Cope, Elvis Costello, The Cribs, The Cure

The Dance Party, Dave Dark & The Sharks, Datarock, Department S, Depeche Mode, The Descendents, The Detroit Cobras, Devo, Digitalism, Dirty On Purpose, Dogs, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Thomas Dolby, Doves

Earlimart, Echo & The Bunnymen, Editors, Electrelane, The Electric Soft Parade, Val Emmich, The Enemy, Esiotrot

The Fall, Arlan Feiles, Feist, Field Music, Fields, Flesh For Lulu, The Fountains Of Wayne, John Foxx, Frank Smith, Adam Franklin, Franz Ferdinand, The Front

Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Gas, The Go! Team, Ben Godwin, Good Shoes, GoodBooks, Martin Gore, Grammatics, Grinderman

Hadouken!, Calvin Harris, Harrisons, Billy Harvey, Juliana Hatfield, Health, Help She Can't Swim, John Hiatt, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, The Hold Steady, The Holloways, The Hoodoo Gurus, Hot Hot Heat, The Hours, The House Of Love, Husker Du

IO Perry, Idlewild, Interpol, Isa And The Filthy Tongues, Islands Lost At Sea, Its A Buffalo

Joe Jackson, The Jam, James, Japan, Joy Division

Kaiser Chiefs, Tommy Keene, Paul Kelly, Killing Joke, Klaxons

LCD Soundsystem, The Law, Peggy
Lee (Vs. Iggy Pop), Left Right + Centre, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Let's Active, Letters & Colours, The Lightning Seeds, Lismore, The Long Blondes, The Longcut, The Lords Of The New Church, Los Campesinos!, The Loungs, Love & Rockets, Love Of Diagrams, Nick Lowe

The Maccabees, Madness, Maldroid, Manic, Maritime, Maximo Park, Medium Medium, Malcolm Middleton, Midnight Oil, The Mighty Lemon Drops, Minipop, Ministry, Mission Of Burma, Modest Mouse, The Monolators, Morrissey, Mr Derry, Mr. Hudson & The Library, Peter Murphy, My Federation, Mystery Jets

Kate Nash, The National, The Needles, New Musik, New Order, The New Pornographers, Nine Inch Nails, Noisettes

Brendan O'Shea, The Octopus Project, Of Montreal, The Outside

Graham Parker, Parts & Labor, Passion Puppets, Candie Payne, Peelgreems, Jack Penate, Pete And The Pirates, The Pigeon Detectives, The Pixies, Poison Control Center, The Police, The Polyphonic Spree, Polytechnic, The Ponys, Pop Will Eat Itself, Popup, Pray For Hayden, Primal Scream, The Psychedelic Furs, Pull Tiger Tail, Josh Pyke

The Rakes, The Ramones, The Rapture, The Replacements, Reverend And The Makers, Stan Ridgway, Robbers On High Street, Mark Ronson, Roxy Music, The Rumble Strips

Sahara Hotnights, The Sammies, Satellite Party, Saturna, Scissors For Lefty, Sea Wolf, Seems So Bright, The Selecter, Sex Pistols, The She Beats, Pete Shelley, The Shins, The Shout Out Louds, Silversun Pickups, Simian Mobile Disco, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Sir Salvatore, The Sisters Of Mercy, Skidmore Fountain, Sky Parade, The Slickee Boys, The Smithereens, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Sound, Soup Dragons, The Specials, Split Enz, Spoiler NYC, Spoon, Squeeze, St. Vincent, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stone Roses, The Stranglers, The Suburbs, Sunscreem

Talking Heads, The Teardrop Explodes, Telograph, The The, They Might Be Giants, The Three O'Clock, Tilly & The Wall, Tones On Tail, Too Much Joy, Translator, The Transmissions, Travis, Trembling Blue Stars, The Trudy, The Twilight Sad

U2, UNKLE

VHS or Beta, Ed Vallance, The Valley Arena, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Vapors, Laura Veirs, The View, Vincent Vincent & The Villains, Violent Femmes, Visage, Viva Voce, Voltage Union, Von Sudenfed

Wait Think Fast, Washington Social Club, We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It, The Wedding Present, White Rabbits, The White Stripes, Wild Carnation, The Wild Deer, Amy Winehouse, Wire, The Wombats

X, XTC

Yazoo, Yello, You Say Party! We Say Die!


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