the jane bradfords - judical duel

The Anthemic Judicial Duel debuted in the Doha Chart on the 17th of May , Spent 18 weeks in the Top 40 reaching the Top 3.

Finally Judicial Duel is unleashed to the world on November 22nd. You can download it from all the usual digital outlets but TJB’s prefer if you used their bandcamp (works out cheaper for you and ...Them!). The single is accompanied by 3 wonderful remixes by ESAD, WWAHP and Nik Muzka.

The Digital Single & Remixes are
1. JUDICIAL DUEL
2. JUDICIAL DUEL (We Will Always have Paris Mix)
3. JUDICIAL DUEL (ESAD Mix)
4. JUDICIAL DUEL (Muzka Mix)
buy them here
http://thejanebradfords.bandcamp.com/album/judicial-duel

In the meantime check out this wonderful Video recorded and directed by the FABULOUS Will McConnell from Bandwidth Films.

4 hour non-stop mix (15/11/2010)

Eid Holiday is here..(15/11/2010)The Alt Rock Top 40 takes a break...but i'll be leavening you with a 4 hour non-stop mix listed below...enjoy

1st Hour 9:05 – 10:00 PM

1- Ida Maria –Bad Karma
2- Two Door Cinema Club – Kids
3- Yodelice – Breathe In
4- Oh No Oh My – Walking into me
5- Miike Snow - The Rabbit (Request)
6- Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
7- The Charlatans – When I Wonder
8- Jenny & Johnny - Scissor Runner
9- Chance – Over My Head
10- No Joy – Pacific Pride
11- Kieren Smith - The Better Life
12- The Script – For the First Time (Request)
13- Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices
14- Blonde Redhead - Black Guitar
15- Dean & Britta - I'll Keep it With Mine

2nd Hour 10:00 – 11:00 PM

16- No Doubt – Underneath it all (Request)
17- Tiger Riot – Time is on your Side (Request)
18- States – Anxious
19- Shannon Wright – Fractured
20- Esben and the Witch – Marching Song
21- The Alexandria Quartet – Yesteryear
22- Broken Records – The Motorcycle Boy Reigns
23- Goddamn Electric bill – Pull the Lever
24- The Wombats – Tokyo (vampires and wolves)(Request)
25- Melissa Auf der Maur – Follow The Map
26- The Hoosiers – Choices
27- Crocodiles – Mirrors
28- Jets To Zurich – No Alternative
29- Jets To Zurich –Crimson Tide
30- The Dead Weather - Hustle and Cuss

3rd Hour 11:00 – 12:00 Midnight

31- David Bowie – Station To Station
32- Deerhunter – Helicopter
33- Linkin Park - Waiting For The End (Request)
34- Now, Now Every Children – Rebuild/Giants
35- Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
36- Klaxons – Echoes
37- The National – Anyone’s Ghost
38- Wavves – King of the Beach
39- The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
40- Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
41- Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Live)
42- Patti Smith Group - Because The Night
43- Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
44- XTC - Senses Working Over Time
45- Department S - Is Vic There

4th Hour 12;00 Midnight – 1:00 AM

46- Veil Veil Vanish – Change in the Neon light
47- Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
48- The Radio Dept. – Bus
49- The Radio Dept. – Never Follow Suit
50- Voxhaul Broadcast – Leaving On The 5th
51- Red Rockers – China
52- The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
53- The Au Pairs – diet
54- Draz – Sunday rain
55- The Format - On Your Porch
56- Ash – Insects (Request)
57- Devendra Banhart – Freely
58- Wilco – Solitaire
59- The Sisters of Mercy – Black Planet

The Wedding Present - Why are you being so reasonable Now?

The Wedding Present are a British indie Rock group based in Leeds,England , formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie Rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall,Buzzcocks  and Gang of Four to more varied forms. Throughout their career, they have been led by vocalist and guitarist David Gedge, the band's only constant member.

Listen to this weeks Alternative Mix play-list for (Thursday 07/10/2010 & Saturday 09/10/2010)

1- Matt Costa – The Season
2- Carl Barat - Je Regrette, Je Regrette
3- The Wombats-Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves)
4- Ben Folds and Nick Hornby – Picture Window
5- Band of Horses – On My Way Back Home
6- His Clancyness - Ottawa Backfired Soon
7- Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming
8- Crocodiles – Mirrors
9- Interpol – Success
10- I Like tRAINS – Sirens
11- I like Trains – A Father’s Son
12- Killing Joke - "European Super State"
13- The Crookes – Backstreet Lovers
14- Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices
15- silversun pickups – growing old is getting old
16- Kings of Leon – Radioactive

Listen Here

Listen to this weeks Alternative Mix 
play-list for (Thursday 23/09/2010 & Saturday 25/09/2010)

1- El Guincho- Bombay
2- Kings Of Leon – Radioactive
3- Mice Parade – In Between Times
4- Unkle - The Answer (Featuring Big In Japan -Baltimore)
5- Mark Ronson - The Bike Song
6- Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
7- Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man
8- The Radio Dept. – The new improved hypocrisy
9- The Ting Tings - Hands (Low Sunday Remix)
10- Weezer – Memories
11- Jets to Zurich – Crimson Tide
12- Paul Smith – Our Lady of Lourdes
13- Procedure Club – Rather
14- Them Youth – Toothache
15- the Charlatans – When I wonder
Listen Here

A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers are burying The Thin White Duke's genius in a familiar scumf**k scuzz. I realised long ago, though, that Bowie's genius lay in his versatility. As such the covers by Vivian Girls, Warpaint, Carla Bruni, Duran Duran and others collected by Manimal Vinyl for a 42-track comp—the proceeds of which will go to War Child UK—seem more like tributes than pop treason. You only have to hear the hard 'G' APTBS put in "Suffragette City" to know the beauty of this music is that everyone finds their own way in.

A Place to Bury Strangers - Suffragette City (David Bowie Cover)

Beck’s Record Club

Beck’s Record Club  is a one of my favorite projects on the internet right now. A cast of musicians gather and record an album in a day, Annie from St. Vincent takes lead vocal on this one and gives everybody the chills with her one take rendition of the album's big hit ballad."

 Beck’s Record Club - Never Tear us Apart (INXS Cover)

4 hr playlist Monday 20th of September at 9:00pm

Hello everyone,

The Top 40 will return next Monday 27th of September at 9:00pm.

In the meantime ,here's Tonight's 4 hr playlist: enjoy

01-   Weezer – Memories
02-   AM – A complete Unknown
03-   Jets To Zurich – Crimson Tide
04-   Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
05-   Starflyer 59 – Fun is Fun
06-   The Black Keys – Tighten Up
07-   Weezer – Ruling Me
08-   Kings of Leon – Radioactive
09-   Dean & Britta – It don’t Rain in Beverly Hills
10-   Devendra Banhart – Freely
11-   Houses – Endless Spring
12-   Scouting for Girls - Don't Want to Leave You
13-   Skunk Anansie – My Ugly Boy
14-   Weezer – Trainwrecks
15-   Ash – Sky Burial (Single Y)
16-   16- Chance – Bus Stop People
17-   Veil Veil Vanish – Change in the Neon Light
18-   Tyler Jakes - South of Northern Californian Girl
19-   UNKLE - The Answer (Featuring Big In Japan-Baltimore)
20-   No Age – Glitter
21-   Mark Ronson – The Bike Song
22-   Betty And The Werewolves – Paper Thin
23-   The Ting Tings - Hands (Retro Grade Remix)
24-   I Am Austin – LAFS (HayJay Stage Fright Remix)
25-   Weezer – Unspoken
26-   Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
27-   Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
28-   Get CapeWear Cape Fly – All of this is yours (ft. Baaba Maal)
29-   procedure club – Rather
30-   Low Sea – Never Yours
31-   Wilco – Solitaire
32-   Neil Young – Someone’s Gonna Rescue You
33-   Weezer – Runaway
34-   Interpol – Success
35-   James – Tell her I said so
36-   Crocodiles – Mirrors
37-   The Charlatans – When I Wonder
38-   Moffs – Another Day in the Sun
39-   The Sisters of Mercy – Body and Soul
40-   The Sound – I Can’t Escape myself (Extended Mix)
41-   Violens – The Dawn of your Happiness is Rising
42-   Bombay Bicycle Club – Rinse Me Down
43-   Dylan LeBlanc – Emma Hartley
44-   Voxhaul Broadcast – Leaving On The 5th
45-   Wolf Parade – Yulia
46-   The Thermals - I'm Gonna Change Your Life
47-   Blonde Redhead – Black Guitar
48-   EELS - Let's Ruin Julie's Birthday
49-   Of Montreal - I Feel Ya Strutter
50-   Ange - Collines Roses
51-   Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Piedras Y Ansiedad
52-   Weezer - Viva La Vida
53-   The Coral – More than a Lover
54-   Wavves - King Of The Beach
55-   JJ - My Life
56-   Brendan Perry – Crescent
57-   Foals - Miami

Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes (Twin Shadow Remix)

When you think of Palm Beach, Florida, what comes to mind?Comprised of members JP (dubbed “The Mastermind” by the rest of the band), TJ, Thomas and Brian, Surfer Blood met one fateful night at an after party for Miami’s Ultra Festival, though they didn’t attend the festival itself (“We do not like the D’n’B,” they proclaim). After discussing music – what else? –for the remainder of the night, JP decided to recruit the other guys to perfect some songs he had been working on, and thus, the band was formed. “I knew Brian because we went to the same high school, and I had seen Tom around at a lot of shows”, JP now recalls. “Tyler and I had been playing with a few different people and nothing seemed to be working out. When Tom approached me at that party, he seemed dead serious about touring and trying to make the band work. I had seen how his previous bands had been; his old band had done a tour up to Atlanta over spring break when they were fifteen. It was exactly what Tyler and I needed. I gave him my phone number that night and he called me the next afternoon. He came by our rehearsal space and I showed him the recordings that would become “Astro Coast”. The fact that Tom and Brian believed in the music from the very beginning was a huge catalyst”.

From then on, things moved at a breakneck pace: after hearing the recordings, Tom and Brian opted not to decamp to Miami as was originally intended, JP decided not to sign up for fall classes at FAU to focus on the band, and they decided to use their college scholarship money to buy musical equipment. A mere two months after they met they started touring outside of Florida in July, up to New York in August and then to Chicago in September. On a recommendation from a friend, they started recording “Astro Coast” at a studio in Port St. Lucie Florida, but when they only finished the drums at the end of a two day session, Tyler and JP decided to take matters into their own hands, spending the next six months tracking and mixing the record in JP’s apartment in Boca Raton with a copy of Pro Tools which Tyler procured for “dirt cheap” through a community college where he was studying in Orlando. JP asserts, “It gave us the opportunity to give our album the time and thought it deserved”.

 Their live shows started coming into their own as well, with the band practicing every day and touring nonstop, their newfound energy resulting in a constant evolution and refinement of their sound. “Our live set is always changing”, JP says. “Subtle things begin to work their way into the songs and before you know it people are coming up to you after shows and telling you that the live show is a completely different experience from the record”. The tipping point for the band, of course, was last year’s CMJ Music Marathon, where they played a whopping 13 shows in 7 days, catching the eye of the likes of Interview and The New York Times in the process. With the resultant excited chatter anointing them as the band to watch bar none, and a record deal freshly inked with Kanine Records (introduced to JP through Jacob Graham of the Drums), Surfer Blood are now preparing themselves to battle through the whirlwind of hype. Their debut UK shows in February for instance, were raucous affairs, with the band playing to rowdy, expectant crowds in rammed venues. Luckily, they all have more than level heads on their shoulders. “I think the secret to longevity is not letting all of the press stuff get in your head. I’m really glad people are writing about us, but there are going to be a lot of journalists who try and pick you apart”, JP muses. “I’m not saying you should go through life with blinders on, but you have to keep moving forward to keep yourself sane”.
Even more fortuitously, in “Astro Coast”, they also have an absolute gem of an album under their belts. Indeed, it is hard to think of many recent albums that arrive sounding so urgent and fresh, so gigantic and fully-formed; with every song sounding like a classic in waiting. JP says that was the intention. “I think a lot of the melodies are catchy and timeless. I also think the album as a whole is good front to back, there isn’t a lot of filler on the record. There is a clear arc in the record, something that kind of resembles a narrative, even though the plot might not be quite as clear. I think a lot of people today get carried away with singles and don’t listen to an album all the way through...our record as a whole is stronger than the sum of its parts”.

If you’re wondering about the name, the band ain’t got no surfer blood in them, and actually denounce the surfer kids of their youth for making their high school experience miserable. As for the moniker itself, one of the band members just randomly yelled it out over the radio in the backseat of the band’s car, which is as good a naming process as any. They say that others making music is their inspiration for them to in turn pick up their instruments and see what they can create. And despite the tidal wave of buzz and acclaim, the band’s goals remain honest and simple. “We want to continue to write, record and tour for years to come”, JP says. “I want to continue to win over new, loyal fans, and I never want to be too afraid to try something new”.

East Coast lo-fi troop and Sunderland's post-punk yelpers. This Twin Shadow remix of "Floating Vibes" kind of sounds like The Police and Everything Everything too


Floating Vibes (Twin Shadow Remix)

The Ting Tings - Hands

Pin Me Down - Curious (Co-Pilots Remix)

Pin Me Down is a musical collaboration between Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack and vocalist Milena Mepris (formerly of the electro-punk band Black Moustache).
The pair met several years ago when Milena's old band supported Bloc Party in New York. Having discovered a shared love of guitars and 80s artists such as Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper and New Order the pair decided to explore new frontiers together. Pin Me Down fuse energetic pop melodies with razor-sharp guitar sounds - creating “apocalyptic pop” as Mépris likes to call it.

It's a wonder Russell Lissack and Milena Mepris are letting you and I hear this track with our own ears and see their faces with our own eyes, given that Pin Me Down seem intent on turning themselves into the most autocratic band of all time. "Curious" is taken from the duo's eponymous debut album, which came out through their own Animalized label in April. Here, it's remixed by Co-Pilots - whose members include Jamie Ellis and, er, Russell Lissack. That curious split down the centre of their photo leads me to think they even took those shots themselves - thankfully the track here (out October 11) is far more sociable, its synths sure to trigger mass, Pavlovian euphoria, Mepris' vocal yearning for company.

Curious (Co-Pilots Remix)

Violens

Violens summon influences as diverse as 60s psych-pop, thrash metal, and Miami freestyle. Their music channels the sophistication of Roxy Music and the no-wave roar of Sonic Youth, all within the laughing nightmare spaces of Stanley Kubrick or Nobuhiko Obayashi. The New York-based 3-piece release their highly anticipated debut album Amoral November 2nd via Brooklyn label Friendly Fire Recordings and their own imprint Static Recital.

Acid Reign

Vampire Weekend – “White Sky” (Basement Jaxx Remix)

Basement Jaxx remixing Vampire Weekend’s “White Sky” , a rare and wonderful thing and we should all give thanks.Basement Jaxx keeps the record’s good parts in tact but adds a few vital dance-floor elements that make you earn for the 320kbps version.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/8005918147e2b550/

Free Energy – “Bang Pop” (Fools Gold Remix)

One of the most instantly gratifying summer anthem of 2010,Lewis Pesacov is from Fools Gold (the band) and he’s responsible for the slow-cook mix of Free Energy’s ‘Bang Pop’.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/79860637870b4f4d/

Stornoway - Watching Birds (Official video)

'Watching Birds' is released on August 23 and taken from Stornoway's debut album Beachcomber's Windowsill.

Wild Nothing - Golden Haze

Jack Tatum, formerly of Jack and the Whale and Facepaint, is essentially Wild Nothing,But he’s added band members Jeff Haley, Nathan Goodman and Michael Skattum for live shows. Wild Nothing’s jangly, warped Johnny Marr-like guitar rhythms were last heard here a few months back on the song, “Summer Holidays”. A number of Tatum’s songs are romantic and softly sweeping. Wild Nothing is following up his 12-track LP “Gemini” and 3-song EP “Evertide”, with another EP, entitled “Golden Haze”. It will be released through Brooklyn label, Captured Tracks. Apparently, the track-lists will be different depending on if you buy the LP, CD or digital download.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/797355713015136a/ 

BLONDE REDHEAD 'Not Getting There'

Having announced their return this Autumn with the release of Penny Sparkle (featured album of the week : 30/08/10), their sublime new album released on September 14th, here's another glimpse of this forthcoming record in the form of 'Not Getting There', available to download for free

http://www.zshare.net/audio/79711467a55e6bdc/

The Ting Tings - "Hands" Retro Grade Remix

Hailing from Salford, Manchester, England, The Ting Tings, one of the most credible and critically-acclaimed groups on the indie scene,are: Jules De Martino (drums, vocals) and Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drum). The band formed in 2006 when Jules and Katie began performing their infectious lo-fi DIY high-spirited sounds at private parties at the Islington Mill, a disused cotton mill where the band lives with lots of other artists (painters, photographers, underground filmmakers, etc). 
"Hands" is the first single from the band's, second album,KUNST.released on 11 October.
here's the Retro Grade Remix .   

http://www.zshare.net/audio/79708245b69dbea5/ 

Tyler Jakes 3rd Album arrives

To order the new album Burning Down The Underground CD, plus have an option for an immediate digital download , visit


http://www.tylerjakes.com/fr_preorder.cfm

Broken Records - A Leaving Song

Broken Records second album, Let Me Come Home will be released on 4AD in the UK and Europe on 25th October 2010!
Download 'A Leaving Song' the opening track from this upcoming release.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/797062877c3d2458/

The new Chance single, "Bus Stop People" arrives