It's a rough week to be promoting new music. Imagine waking up and finding you have three times the normal raft of quality submissions to program. This is that week. We could have any of multiple headliners this weekend, each deserving of your full and undivided listening attention. That we have this many world class artists releasing this week is just testament to how amazing a year this will be […]
We've not been slack during the holiday week! We've packed in a full slate of shiny for your weekend, including the shimmering Ghost Lake, sure to make a few Top Ten lists before the year is wrapped. Plus the new long players from Bedroom Eyes and Ringo Deathstarr, the new single from High Fantasy, recent classics from Pretty City, Simmer, and The City Gates, tonight?, Sway (not that one, nor […]
NEW TRACKS WEEKEND. We're ready. We're premiering the first two singles from Wray's spectacular Hypatia LP, due in January. We'll be pushing them for two months, so get used to the awesome. We're also catching up with The Dagger Complex. New to us, and terribly embarrassed to have missed this. Making up for it now. Plus new music from South Carolina's exquisitely textured Lightness, worth your attention. New earworms from […]
Ultimately, this is what we care about. You may have a well-regarded LP or EP, but this is radio, and we don't play LPs. Here, it's all about the songs. You either have it, or you do not. There is no in between. And, yes, we take this list more seriously than any other. Listed below, the top 50 songs for the year based strictly on direct listener feedback, total […]
1. Ringo Deathstarr: God's Dream 2. Casket Girls: True Love Kills the Fairytale 3. Cheatahs: Cheatahs 4. Soft Science: Detour 5. Roku Music: Collider 6. Nothing: Guilty of Everything* 7. Delay Trees: Readymade 8. Bleeding Rainbow: Interrupt 9. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete: Chambers* 10.Be Forest: Earthbeat * new to rotation this week Soft Science - Feel from Test Pattern on Vimeo. Top Ten calculated by 1) most tracks in rotation, […]
So, wish us luck. Prior New Tracks Weekend programs have been fully "scripted" in advance, and we'd always known what to expect. Now with our live-to-air and live-to-automation-to-air systems, we have none clue how this will come out. Hard cues for top of the hour, artist and track separation rules, it's enough to give a team ulcers. If we wind up off air in the middle of the night, you'll […]
