All weekend, we've got the stellar tunes, packed in right up to the last second. This weekend we're celebrating new sounds from Blue Honey, Glixen, Slowdive, In Retrospect PH (pictured above), Cosmicdust, Emma Anderson, Mad Honey, Haemi, Sea Lemon, Pia Fraus, Cigarettes for Breakfast, Marlène Chiapas, Waves of Dread, Francis of Delirium, ... the headliners will blow the doors off your moving automobile. And we won't stop there. We're also […]
This albums chart is specific: rated only by number of total spins from an album on our air. It's an imperfect methodology, punishing those releases in the latter half of the year, but... it's also the easiest to prove, with a spin count to back it up. So, it's raw data that can be trusted, even if it does favor early-year releases. The only exception to the accuracy of this […]
This albums chart is specific: rated first by number of album tracks graduating to long-term rotation, second by total spins. And there's a methodology to that madness: many crucial albums unleashed in the latter half of the year. Those LPs, solid as they may be, would suffer under a "total spins" criteria, because there was less of a year to spin them in. This specific chart helps level the playing […]
Eighty tracks in all, sorted and rotation weighted for airplay. And it's not even a Bandcamp Friday. Our headliners should be obvious: both album covers display above. Cosmicdust's TACHYON is a brilliant return of near twenty-year veterans of the Japanese shoegaze scene, and they've ripped the rule book and rewritten it. Somwhere between Swirlies and MBV, this album is a perfect sweet spot between the most excellent output of both […]
It takes some chutzpah to configure and boot up a full New Tracks Weekend program after 36 hours of "stuttering" audio. One of our station taglines is "barely listenable noise", but that noise wasn't listenable at all. All our connections tested, all thoroughput solid, problem was definitely on broadcast distribution server. And their solution was to wait for self-correction. Welp, we waited as long as could, before taking matters into […]
