Alternative Friday

helping to spread the word about impressive new & under the radar musicians

Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant
Reverend & the Makers – Heavyweight Champion of the World
Inspiral Carpets – Uniform
Race Horses – Sisters
Pop Will Eat Itself – Chaos & Mayhem
The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink
Jack Penate – Run for your Life
The Killers – Change your Mind
Great Pagans – Teenage Silhouettes
The Soup Dragons – I’m Free
The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
Concrete Knives – Youth Compass
Of Monsters & Men – Your Bones
The Alice Kona Band – Bad Dreams
Al Wilson – The Snake
DC Fontana – Snake Charmer
Benjamin Schoos (featuring Laetitia Sadier) – Je Ne Vois Que Vous
Jack White – I’m Shakin’
Angelic Upstarts – The Murder of Liddle Towers
World Party – Ship of Fools
Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstickmen
The Tuesday Club – She Splayed My Teeth
Kartica – Don’t You Think So
Squeeze – Cool For Cats
Billy Ocean – Red Light Spells Danger
Madness – Dust Devil
Paul Weller – Be Happy Children
The Rolling Stones – Fool To Cry
The Church – Under the Milky Way

Categories: Misc

Spector – Friday Night, Don’t Ever Let it End
Blur – For Tomorrow
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Violet Bones – Chemicals
Carter USM – The Only Living Boy in New Cross
Penetration – Don’t Dictate
John Wean – New York Doesn’t Love You
Visage – The Damned Don’t Cry
Dennis Brown – Money In My Pocket
Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
Bleech – Adrenaline Junkie
Two Door Cinema Club – Someday
Adam Ant – Desperate but not Serious
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Red Light Company – Meccano
Shed Seven – Where Have You Been Tonight
SULK – Wishes
Metric – Speed the Collapse
Hard Fi – Television
The Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales of San Francisco
The Specials – Rat Race
The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather
I Am Arrows – No Wonder
Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
The Damned – Danger To Yourself
Big Country – Chance
Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life
Johnno Casson – Disguised as Love
Gene – O’ Lover
Let’s Wrestle – My Schedule

Categories: Misc

The Smiths – What Difference Does it Make
The Charlatans – The Only One I Know
The Cure – Friday I’m in Love
Big Wave – Dying on the Vine
The King Blues – We Are What We Own
Kasabian – Days are Forgotten
Ultravox – The Man Who Dies Every Day
Manic Street Preachers – Some Kind of Nothingness
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Plan B
Best Coast – When I’m With You
Your Explosion My Mind – Eyeball Kick
Tim Burgess – The Economy
The Buzzcocks – What Do I Get
Blondie – Hanging on the Telephone
Burning Shapes – Bad Karma
Stevie Wonder – I Wish
Brendan Benson – Here in the Deadlights
Freddie Notes & the Rudies – Montego Bay
The Mock Turtles – Can You Dig It
Graham Coxon – Bittersweet Bundle of Misery
De Gaulle – Is This Love
White Lies – Death
The The – The Beaten Generation
The Waterboys – Church Not Made With Hands
Electric Guest – Awake
Section 60 – Is This Our Day in the Sunshine
Spector – Lay Low
David Bowie – Changes
Tom Hickox – The Pretty Pride of Russia

Categories: Misc

The Killers – Bones
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Albert Goes West
The Undertones – Jimmy Jimmy
Two Wounded Birds – To Be Young
The Walkmen – The Rat
High Flying Birds – Everybody’s On The Run
Pure Love – Handsome Devil’s Club
Race Horses – Nobody’s Son
The Bluetones – Bluetonic
Andy Lewis – Complexity
Iggy & the Stooges – Gimme Some Skin
The Breeders – Cannonball
Hard Fi – Fire in the House
The Neighbourhood – Female Robbery
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Let The Journey Begin
The Heavy – What Makes a Good Man
The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen in Love
Theatre Royal – 100 Thousand Tears
Toots & the Maytals – 54-46 Was My Number
Deep Sea Arcade – Girls
Jarvis Cocker – Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time
MGMT – Kids
Richard Hawley – I’m Looking for Someone to Find Me
Arrows of Love – Song One
Florence & the Machine – No Light, No Light
Drewvis – Drunken Words N Dub
Tennis – Origins
July Days – Can You See
New Model Army – God Save Me

Categories: Misc

Placebo – Nancy Boy
The Raconteurs – Steady as she goes
The Charlatans – The Only One I Know
Metric – Breathing Underwater
Airhead – Funny How
The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Reel Big Fish – Sell Out
Suede – Animal Nitrate
TOY – Motoring
Echo & the Bunnymen – Nothing Lasts Forever
Elastica – Stutter
Passion Pit – Take a Walk
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
The Alice Kona Band – Bad Dreams
Miike Snow – Devil’s Work
The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap
Pigbag – Pappa’s Got a Brang New Pigbag
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Violet Bones – Chemicals
The Mighty Lemon Drops – My Biggest Thrill
Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
Generation X – King Rocker
The Stranglers – Golden Brown
The Frank & Walters – Indie Love Song
The Ting Tings – Silence
The Side Project – From Your Smile
The Waterboys – Trumpets (remix)
Golden Fable – Sugarloaf
Chief – Breaking Walls
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole – Somwhere over the Rainbow

Categories: Misc

Some recent great tracks that have certainly made my ‘Best of 2012’ shortlist…

The Alice Kona Band – Bad Dreams

John Wean – New York Doesn’t Love You

Paul Hegley Band – Tears To Cry

Your Explosion My Mind – Eyeball Kick
[Sorry – track removed from soundcloud]

The Smiths – Handsome Devil
Blur – There’s No Other Way
PIL – Public Image
Reverend & the Makers – Bassline
Ash – Orpheus
The King Blues – Modern Life Has Let Me Down
The Specials – Gangsters
The Vaccines – Teenage Icon
Two Door Cinema Club – Someday
Editors – An End Has a Start
Eugene McGuinness – Harlequinade
Waves of Fury – Businessman’s Guide To Witchcraft
Minor Threat – Minor Threat
The King Blues – Shooting Fascists
The Damned – Help
The Good, the Bad & the Queen – The Good, the Bad & the Queen
The Cherry Boys – Kardomah Café
Bleech – Break My Nose
Guns n Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
Bob Marley & Wailers – Iron Lion Zion
Empire Affair – Tornadoes
Public Service Broadcasting – Spitfire
Pulp – Do You Remember the First Time?
Trash Monroe – Nine Day Queen
The Arctic Monkeys – A Certain Romance
Damian Dempsey – Your Pretty Smile
David Bowie – Sound & Vision
Skint & Demoralised – A Few Quiet Drinks
Gene – Sleep Well Tonight
William Shatner – Common People

Categories: Misc

Green Day – Holiday
Hard Fi – Living for the Weekend
Doves – Sky Start Falling
Howler – 14 Days
Akira The Don – Baby Doll
John Wean – New York Doesn’t Love You
Small Faces – Tin Soldier
Damian Cox – Dying with Buddy Holly
The Wedding Present – Kennedy
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Hong Kong Garden
Blondie – Atomic
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
Lush – Ladykillers
Django Django – Waveforms
Screaming Trees – Nearly Lost You
Jack Penate – Torn on the Platform
Fundamentals – Promises
Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks
Toots & the Maytals – Pressure Drop
The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
The Enemy – Saturday
Tim Burgess – White
The Stranglers – Something Better Change
Northern Portrait – I Give you 2 seconds to Entertain Me
Julian Cope – An Elegant Chaos
Snippet – Let’s Talk About Us
Jack White – Two Against One
The Killers – Sam’s Town (live)
Richard Hawley – Open Up Your Door

Categories: Misc