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
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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.

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