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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Altrok's Top 50 for 2012

by Sean Carolan

We just counted down the topmost 32 on 90.5 The Night; here's the full list:

posted 12/29/2012 01:34:00 AM
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Saturday, December 08, 2012

FM Showcase Tracklisting for 12/4/2012

by Sean Carolan

Checking in once again with another fairly stellar selection of the odds and ends of pop culture - with some pretty meaty additions to the Altrok collection once again. (Remember, it's that collection that feeds the library at Altrok 90.5 HD2, which awaits the pleasure of your ears, to be all high-falutin' about it.) And thus, the latest FM Showcase, our 381st:

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posted 12/08/2012 01:00:00 AM
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Saturday, December 01, 2012

FM Showcase Tracklisting for 11/30/2012

by Sean Carolan

I've never quite nailed the end of the year in music, mostly because I naively expect that it ends on December 31. By then, in the real world of the record industry, all the top ten lists of every pundit worth their salt have been compiled, published, read, argued over, and laid to rest in the bottom of someone's birdcage. In actual fact, as far as the industry's concerned, the year ends at the beginning of December, so there's really precious little time left in 2012. Even less if you're Mayan. (That's actually a true statement - the only reason anyone thinks there's an apocalypse on the way is that the Mayans are actually switching from one calendar to the next. That's gotta be the end of a year and the beginning of another year, or whatever their equivalent of "year" was, right? Of course, their 2012 was probably about 4000 years ago, and since they didn't count the way we do, it wouldn't quite have been 2012 exactly, and ... I digress.)

Let's focus on what we played on the FM Showcase this evening, shall we?

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posted 12/01/2012 01:00:00 AM
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