Give me a ticket!Fucking bloody hell. I can't seem to get any tickets lately. My favourite Canadian band finally decides to come to town and I miss out AGAIN. Grrr....a quick ebay UK tout scan(tm) came up with nothing so I can't point the fingers at those cretins (yet).

Meanwhile you can all get your arcade fire fix here.

p.s I'm an angry man. :-(

…because terrestrial radio is shit. 45 minutes of new and old independent music with as little talk as possible. This week’s tracklisting (33mb):

1. Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive Theme
   
2. The Magic Numbers - Untitled (NEW)
   
3. Nina Gordon - Straight Outta Compton (NEW)
   
4. The Church - Under the Milky Way Tonight
   
5. Interpol - Obstacle One (Arthur Baker Remix)
   
6. The Bravery - Fearless (NEW)
   
7. The Dandy Warhols - Crack Cocaine Rager (UNRELEASED)
   
8. Garageland - Come Back
   
9. Cabbage Boy - We are the Monks
   
10. Hexstatic - Perfect Bird
    
11. Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
    
12. Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (12")

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If you can't find the remix you want why not just do it yourself? From the flipswitch DJs who brought you the DIY remix album of the Prodigy's latest work comes their attempt at some DIY remixes of the new Chemical Brothers album 'Push the Button'. It seems their site's already getting swamped. Judge for yourself.

I'm all for empowering people with music. 'Everyone deserves music' is a new club night in London where YOU send in your mix and they'll play it on the night to the crowds. Great idea. Gotta dig out those old Barry Manilow records....

Nina Gordon in awkward indie guitar poseNina Gordon (ex Veruca Salt) has just done a cover of NWA's 'Straight outta Compton'. You can download it here. Needless to say it's very, very nifty.

MC Hawking (minus the bling)MC Hawking's latest release direct from his Cambridge Crib.

 

Tried to get tickets to a QOTSA gig at the Camden Koko / Underworld this morning. Spent 45 minutes multi-tasking 3 websites and two direct dial lines with little avail. Tickets were going for £19 and are now available on eBay for the wonderful price of £175 for two! Ahh the joys of a modern market economy.

I love touts - you love 'em too?

Well about time I got the second show up and running. Feedback has been great and there’s been a lot of interest with downloads in the hundreds. I’m now taking a more obscure tack with the show and I’ll be boosting the amount of unsigned bands (mostly british) and odd curiosities that I’ve come across during my travels in the music world. This show includes tracks from the Love Gods, David Shrigley and the Go! Team.

There are two ways to play it.

1. Direct download to your PC from here.

2. Play it in Quickstream via your browser from here

3. Use iPodder by either pressing ‘refresh’ (if you already have it) or cutting and pasting my RSS feed into it:

http://marenco.libsyn.org/rss

Beware of the Hasselhoffian Recursion. It may kill you.

Righto.  Here it is. The first in what I hope will be a series of broadcasts showcasing alternative music (both old and new). There won't be as much prattle as some of the other podcasts out there and I hope to have spankingly brand new music as well - stuff that may not necessarily have been officially released yet. The show is now part of the international Podcast network and I hope over time that people will start to discover it. I hope you enjoy it and feel free to give me some feedback.

Remember to load the XML feed into iPodder if you have an iPod. That way it will automatically download the show into iTunes once a new becomes available. Instructions can be found on the left hand side.

I’ve found a very nifty plugin for iTunes called Audioscrobbler. When you play tracks it uploads their details to the Audioscrobbler site which then shares my dubious tastes in music with the rest of the world. Worth a download.

My profile is here

MKWell maybe. It's almost done. The essential structure is in place. I've got the RSS feed from working from Arts & Letters Daily and more importantly the podcast RSS feed is now love so iPodder will find my show. Now it's time to create the show and I'll leave that till next weekend. Had a bit of a bender in the Medicine Bar in Angel last night so not feeling too fresh. While I'm at it - here's a blatant plug for my mate's site - Fluid Foundation. Keep up the good work Dunc.