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Altrok Radio 056
by Sean Carolan

The following is the song rundown for the show that airs Tuesday, December 7 at 10AM on WRSU-FM 88.7 in New Brunswick, which you can now hear in all its streaming RealAudio glory anywhere in the world as soon as you click on this link.
 
If you'd like to get your hands on any of these records, you can help support Altrok by using this link to Amazon.com, or just by clicking the link for each (which'll work most of the time.)
 
Fair warning: the links above pop up in a new window.
 
By the way, if you happen to run a college radio station of your own, you're welcome to join our network - let us know and we'll make the arrangements.
 

Highlights:

Live Music from the Altrok Session Suite

From time to time, indie/alternative artists whose intestinal fortitude and laissez-faire attitude trumps their common sense will inevitably gravitate toward the Altrok Session Suite. This week, Spiraling inagurates Altrok's own bacchanalian grotto (at least as bacchanalian as one can get at the local supermarket.) They provided us with fine renditions of four of their very best songs, and you'll only be able to hear these unique performances at Altrok.

In The Grinder:

Altrok keeps a running list of new songs that get played heavily for a week on the Altrok Radio web stream, until we've pretty much ground them into the dirt. It's shameless, but it's honest.

• Earlimart - The Hidden Track - Treble & Tremble (Grinder 152)
• Futureheads, The - A To B - The Futureheads (Grinder 150)
• Wedding Present, The - Interstate 5 - Interstate 5 (CD Single) (Grinder 151)
• Guild League, The - The Storm - Inner North (Grinder 153)
• Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Modern Woman - Please Describe Yourself (Grinder 154)
• Faint, The - Desperate Guys - Wet From Birth (Grinder 155)

Details:

Segment 1:

• Bloc Party - Helicopter - Helicopter (CD Single)
• Chin Up Chin Up - Virginia, Don't Drown - We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers
• Spiraling - A Face For Radio - From The Altrok Session Suite
• Earlimart - The Hidden Track - Treble & Tremble (Grinder 152)
• P - Michael Stipe - P
• Razorlight - Vice - Up All Night

Segment 2:

• Futureheads, The - A To B - The Futureheads (Grinder 150)
• Smiths, The - What She Said - Meat Is Murder
• A.M. Sixty - We Belong Together - Big As The Sky
• Marwood - Soulless - Sample CD

Segment 3:

• Wedding Present, The - Interstate 5 - Interstate 5 (CD Single) (Grinder 151)
• Fall, The - Mr Pharmacist - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
• Frausdots - The Extremists - Coture, Coture, Coture
• Spiraling - Ah, Sugar - From The Altrok Session Suite
• Delgados, The - Keep On Breathing - Universal Audio
• Scott, Tim - Swear - Swear (EP)

Segment 4:

• Guild League, The - The Storm - Inner North (Grinder 153)
• Pig Bag - Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag - Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive (Expanded)
• Vines, The - TV Pro - Winning Days

Segment 5:

• Spiraling - The Girl On Top (Of The Piano) - From The Altrok Session Suite
• Art Brut - Bad Weekend - Formed A Band (7'' Single)
• Vapors, The - Jimmie Jones - Magnets
• Dreamend - Four Days In May - As If By Ghosts

Segment 6:

• Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Modern Woman - Please Describe Yourself (Grinder 154)
• Cadell, Meryn - Barbie (Radio Remix) - Promo Single
• Features, The - Me & the Skirts - Exhibit A
• Spiraling - Texas Is The Reason - From The Altrok Session Suite
• Faint, The - Desperate Guys - Wet From Birth (Grinder 155)
• Big Audio Dynamite - V. Thirteen - No. 10 Upping St.

©2004 Sean Carolan

All material ©2001,2002 Sean Carolan, except as noted.

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