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alloy-digest Thursday, January 20 2005 Volume 10 : Number 005
Today's Subjects:
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Alloy: Have I Mentioned The Web Radio Station? [Sean Carolan <hubcity@exi]
RE: Alloy: That's Odd... ["Robin" <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>]
RE: Alloy: That's Odd... [hubcity@exit109.com]
Re: Alloy: Have I Mentioned The Web Radio Station? ["Sally" <sally.allan@]
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:52:39 -0500
From: Sean Carolan <hubcity@exit109.com>
Subject: Alloy: Have I Mentioned The Web Radio Station?
Folks,
A little while back, I contacted Paul Baily with a tentative invitation to
check out my web radio station. (The "tentative" bit was entirely due to
my not yet having gotten the hang of telling people about this sort of
thing.) He was nice enough to listen, and nice enough to provide some kind
words as feedback. I suggested that I'd want to tell the list about what I
was doing, but I didn't want to get dismissed as a wanton spammer (at
least, as wanton as spammers go.) He thought (quoting here) "the 'Get Lost
You Spamming Miscreant!' responses would be negligible".
Besides, I have "Neon Sisters" in my "classics" rotation...
So, um, "hi". I've built a web radio station that people of a certain sort
seem to like. I strongly suspect Alloyites are exactly that sort.
Here's the story...
I was once a DJ at the best radio station in America, at least according to
Rolling Stone. (Of course, that was after I left, but it was even better
when I was there, y'know.) That'd be classic alternative rock station
FM106.3 in Central New Jersey, which fell victim to hard times and got sold
to a company whose definition of "alternative" was "Dido". (Nothing
against Dido, but...come on.)
What to do? Well, there's this here Intarweb thingy, so I created Altrok.
http://www.altrok.com
Basically, I got tired of "mainstream alternative" and decided to whine
about it on the web. But then it turned out you could do your own radio on
the web, too (courtesy Live365.) So I'm doing it:
http://www.altrok.com/streams.shtml
...and suddenly, I'm getting written up in the local paper, and chosen as a
Live365 editor's pick, and fans of other defunct classic alternative
stations (and some not so defunct) are putting links to my station on their
tribute pages, and...people are listening.
Much of what I play is brand new and may never go anywhere. Some of it is
classic and never went anywhere when it was new, but is now used in
commercials all the time...because, I suspect, everyone in the advertising
industry used to listen to stations like mine.
What I try to do is play independent alternative rock, tending (not
exclusively, but significantly) toward danceable. I just try to pick
things that aren't cliched (unless, of course, it's a cliche that I like.
That's 'cause it's my station. Neener.) You might have an alternative
station near you that does this - I'm just trying to do it better (for
limited values of "better", I suppose.)
It's difficult to describe, though, so I probably should just give you a
taste of the playlist from a few days from now. It's below. Much of it
you won't recognize on first glance, but some of you may go "ohmigod, he's
playing that? I thought only I'd heard of it..." There are some more
popular anchor songs, and some music shows up in a "power" rotation (you'll
see those songs twice on a day's playlist.) It's about 4-5 hours long
because people rarely listen for longer - plus, there's a bonus - if you
hear something you like, it'll be on again 4-5 hours later, at least until
the next day's playlist starts.
It changes every day, and it's pretty good sounding on a broadband
connection. (Unless you have an MP3 Pro decoder installed - then it sounds
*great*, as in "CD quality", on a broadband connection.)
Meanwhile, I've got a group for announcements here:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/altrok/join
(A couple of weeks ago, I gave away Erasure DVDs and, if you were in NJ,
Fishbone tickets. That's sort of an enticement...)
At any rate, I hope you can tune in. Let me know what you think, and let
me know if you need any help connecting.
- -Sean Carolan
(Here's that playlist for a few days hence...interestingly enough, on
tomorrow's playlist, the program I wrote to pull music for the station
chose to put Thomas and Lene Lovich back to back. I didn't write it to do
that sort of thing, but sometimes I guess these sorts of things just kinda
work out...)
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Bloc Party - Helicopter - Helicopter (CD Single)
Keene, Tommy - My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe - Songs From The Film
Faint, The - Desperate Guys - Wet From Birth
Miss World - For F---'s Sake - Altrok Radio Session
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UNKLE - Invasion - Never, Never, Land
Interpol - Evil - Antics
Green Day - Holiday - American Idiot
Doves - Catch The Sun - Lost Souls
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Trembling Blue Stars - The Sea Is So Quiet - The Seven Autumn Flowers
White, Andy - The Fortune Teller's Right - Boy 40
Clash, The - Police And Thieves - Sandinista!
Giant Sand - Flying Around The Sun With Remarkable Speed - Is All Over...
The Map
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Persil - Fuzzy Monday - Duotone
Last Perfect Thing - Charles - Too Much Of Anything
Communique - Evaporate - Poison Arrows
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Lyndsay Diaries - Hold - Midwestern EP
Cure, The - Shake Dog Shake - The Top
Utah Saints - Something Good - Utah Saints
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Ryan, Matthew - The Little Things - Regret Across The Wires
Jeunes, The - Never Be The Same - MP3 Demo
Thermals, The - How We Know - F---in' A
Crenshaw, Marshall - Long And Complicated - What's In The Bag
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U2 - Miracle Drug - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Libertines, The - Don't Look Back Into The Sun - I Get Along EP
Sugarcubes - Coldsweat - Life's Too Good
Ides Of Space - Draw My Eyes - Sleeping Fractures
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Records, The - Teenarama - The Records
Spiraling - The Girl On Top (Of The Piano) - From The Altrok Session Suite
Delgados, The - Keep On Breathing - Universal Audio
Smiths, The - Shoplifters Of The World - Louder Than Bombs
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Nastasia, Nina - I Say That I Will Go - Run to Ruin
Saybia - Bend The Rules - These Are The Days
Westerberg, Paul - As Far As I Know - Another Year On The Streets 3 (Comp)
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Languis - Never Now - The Four Walls
Wonder Stuff, The - Sleep Alone - Never Loved Elvis
Fairmont - Knock Me Out - Anomie
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Adams, Ryan - Nuclear - Demolition
Bloc Party - Helicopter - Helicopter (CD Single)
Sonic Youth - Stones - Sonic Nurse
Prodigy - Wake Up Call - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
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Interpol - Evil - Antics
Black, Frank - Los Angeles - Frank Black
Beep Beep - Misuse Their Bodies - Business Casual
Mekons, The - Rosanne - Punk Rock
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Beta Band, The - Assessment - Heroes To Zeroes
Trembling Blue Stars - The Sea Is So Quiet - The Seven Autumn Flowers
Richard Hell - (I Belong to The) Blank Generation - Blank Generation
Detroit Cobras, The - Cha Cha Twist - 7'' Single
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A Girl Called Eddy - The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy
Dandy Warhols, The - I Am A Scientist - Welcome To The Monkey House
Special Goodness, The - Life Goes By - Land Air Sea
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Tilly and The Wall - Reckless - Wild Like Children
Geary, Mark - Adam & Eve - 33-and-a-third Grand Street
Dramarama - It's Still Warm - Cinema Verite
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Jeunes, The - Never Be The Same - MP3 Demo
APB - Summer Love - Something To Believe In
Customers, The - When It Comes - Days For Hoisting Flags On Government
Buildings EP
Stills, The - Gender Bombs - Logic Will Break Your Heart
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Yamagata, Rachael - Worn Me Down - Happenstance
U2 - Miracle Drug - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Colder - Crazy Love - Again
Futureheads, The - Decent Days And Nights - The Futureheads
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Spiraling - The Girl On Top (Of The Piano) - From The Altrok Session Suite
Koreans, The - How Does It Feel - Demo
Razorlight - Stumble & Fall - Up All Night
Smart Remarks - Mary's Got Her Eye On Me - 7'' Single
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Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - I Love You 'Cause I Have To - Please Describe
Yourself
Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today - Machine Gun Etiquette
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Gomez - Silence - Split The Difference
Public Image, Ltd. - (This Is Not A) Love Song - This Is What You
Want...This Is What You Get
Speace, Amy - Why Not Wyoming - CD Single
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:27:55 -0500
From: "Robin" <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>
Subject: RE: Alloy: That's Odd...
Sean, it was bounced to me because it was too long. Messages of more than
7000 characters are interpreted as possible spam by our filter, and so I
need to review it. Most of these *are* spam... your message was mixed in
with nearly 20 others when I sorted through them last night. I've forwarded
yours through (I hope.. haven't had to use that code in a while!) so it
shall soon be posted if all goes well.
xx
~robin
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:47:55 GMT
From: hubcity@exit109.com
Subject: RE: Alloy: That's Odd...
Robin,
Thanks so much - it definitely went over that limit.
As luck would have it, today's the day the playlist chooser picked the
Dolby/Lovich two-fer. (I really should try to get it to do that sort of thing
deliberately...)
- -Sean
>
> Sean, it was bounced to me because it was too long. Messages of more than
> 7000 characters are interpreted as possible spam by our filter, and so I
> need to review it. Most of these *are* spam... your message was mixed in
> with nearly 20 others when I sorted through them last night. I've forwarded
> yours through (I hope.. haven't had to use that code in a while!) so it
> shall soon be posted if all goes well.
>
> xx
> ~robin
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:53:54 -0000
From: "Sally" <sally.allan@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Have I Mentioned The Web Radio Station?
Good for you - you spamming miscreant! ;-)
Sally
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