New tracks from Passion Pit and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds premiered on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured classic tracks from the late ’60s through the ’70s.

I debuted new tracks from Chromatics, Sufjan Stevens and Twin Shadow on the show this week, while the retro alternative set centered on early ’80s synthpop and New Wave in tribute to the late Steve Strange, the lead singer of Visage.

The show returned to the airwaves at WMEB after a week off due to one of our many recent snowstorms, and I debuted new tracks from Makthaverskan and Vaults among many others. The retro alternative set focused on the killer catalog of Beck in honor of his big surprise Album of the Year Grammy win.

The snowstorm and a downed transmitter prevented me from doing my show at WMEB this week, so I’m trying something new and posting up a fresh podcast recorded from home! This week I premiered new music from Operators and Indiana, while the retro alternative set focused on some unjustly forgotten Brit bands of the late ’90s and early 2000s.

New tracks from The Soft Moon and St. Vincent debuted on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured some of the best music of 1996.

I premiered new tracks from Sharon Van Etten and Waxahatchee on this week’s show, while the retro alternative set focused on the UK’s turn-of-the-’90s Madchester scene.

The BBC’s Sound of 2015 longlist inspired me to play a host of new artists on the show this week, including outstanding tracks from Years & Years, Låpsley, Rae Morris and Shura, while the retro alternative section looked back 20 years to some of the many stellar albums of 1995.

The first show of 2015 includes new tracks from The Decemberists and Springtime Carnivore, while the retro alternative section honored the 10-year anniversary of 2005 with a long set of modern rock classics from that year.

For the final show of 2014, I debuted new tracks from Little Boots and Ariel Pink, while the retro alternative set featured a collection of goth, darkwave and psychedelic rock from the early ’80s.

I premiered new tracks from The Decemberists and Springtime Carnivore on this week’s show, while the retro alternative set took one final loving look back at 1994 as we wrap up the 20th anniversary year of the peak of the Alternative Nation era. Here’s the tracklist for the full show: West Of The Fields December […]