The Web Station, The FM Showcase, And The Melody Reunion
Three orders o' bizness today:
- Right this very second, you can TUNE IN and (sometime within the next eight hours) hear The Untouchables, Micachu & The Shapes, The Cure, The Subways, Sonic Youth, Field Music, La Roux, Simian Mobile Disco, Camera Obscura, White Lies, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Captain, Elvis Costello, The Drums, LCD Soundsystem, U2, Whitey and tracks from 109 more bands!
- Tonight at 10pm, you can hear the newest tracks we're adding to Altrok on our FM Showcase, over at 90.5 The Night. Off the top of my head, there's new and classic music from Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Deastro, The Damned, Arab Strap, Throw Me The Statue...and we'll hear the original Tainted Love (released the year I was born, actually, but sounding way ahead of its time) plus lots of engaging commentary from yours truly.
- And then Saturday night, it's the 2009 All-Eras Melody Bar Reunion. Go to the corner of Easton and Somerset in New Brunswick (that's the Corner Tavern) and do it early, 'cause it's gonna be tight. 9pm's probably safe, but we'll start the music as soon as we can.
Lots of stuff to do, then. Go do it!
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Welcome to Altrok.com, also available at AltrokRadio.com and AltrockRadio.com. Here's where the remaining listeners of several fine radio stations have retreated, regrouped, and built a replacement strong enough to stand on its own. It builds on the independent legacy of New Jersey's FM106.3, New York's WPIX and WLIR, Oklahoma's 105.3 The Spy, the pre-buyout mindset of KROQ, WBCN and WHFS and of every other alternative station that was destroyed at a moment's notice - not because they weren't making money, but because there was bigger money to be found elsewhere.
We've stood by as truly independent alternative rock radio died. Sure, something called "alternative" took its place, but we know for sure that anything that "tests well" with soccer moms just ain't alternative. (Even if some of us happen to be soccer moms.) So we've taken matters into our own hands.
This really is independent alternative rock radio, visible here at Altrok.com and audible at our web radio station. It has the classic music that fired our passions back in the day - or that we maybe only heard about from our elders - but it's mostly made of the new music that does precisely the same for us now. We're paying attention to scenes all over the world, watching the energy build, and waiting to see what it creates. Wherever it happens, we'll make sure you can hear about it here. We've been slowly building all this since 2001, and now that you've noticed us, we're glad you're here.
Of course, it's only here because you want it to be here, and it can only stay if you help it along - especially by checking out our advertisers (they support us) and by listening (the more that listen, the more visible we are.) Please use the "feedback" link above to let us know whether it works for you, and what you want it to be as the future unfolds. (And if you need help hearing it, let us know that, too.)
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