Alternative Airwaves

Alternative Airwaves

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Alternative Airwaves episodes

  • #85 - Growing Old Sucks

    In today's episode of Alternative Airwaves, we get TWO brand new tracks - from I Am Not Lefthanded and the Urban Canals!  Plus plenty of other eclectic music that (mostly) fits together.  Ottawa Comic Con is discussed briefly, and I also complain about what may or may not be a cold or allergies.  Exciting stuff!


    1. Louis Lingg and the Bombs - No One's Illegal
    2. Floppy Dee - Homesick
    3. Welcome to Ashley - I Love Monday Mornings
    4. Asleep in the Park - Lies
    5. Lawrence Beamen - Round and Round
    6. Slim - Heathrow
    7. Brynn - Apart
    8. I Am Not Lefthanded - Stateline
    9. Hello Citizen - The Brave Worms of the Future
    10. Josh Woodward - Goodbye to Spring
    11. Rontgenschall - Your Glamorous Life
    12. The New Economy - A New Morning
    13. Urban Canals - Generations
    Links:Ottawa Comic ConWil Wheaton's HefeWheatonI Am Not Lefthanded Patreon

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    1 hr 2 min
  • #84 - Three Out of Four Ain't Bad
    A short episode today, fueled by an Amsterdam Brewery 9% Imperial Stout and 3 out of 4 wins in Curling this week.  Featured songs include a recommendation from a fellow Redditor, an Ottawa band I just discovered this weekend, and a new tune from Great White Buffalo - all that music and some cool things the Free Music Archive is doing.  Tune in and enjoy!




    • Great White Buffalo - Detroit
    • The Dunder Chiefs - Busker Blues
    • The Monsierus - Shadow/At The Hop/Dirty Ratt
    • Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
    • Grieg - In The Hall of the Mountain King
    • adcBicycle- The Hill It Has Already Gone Away Ottawa band!
    • SK - Pennies For My Thoughts
    • The Love Me Nots - Alley
    • SuperMarket - Ghost
    • The Ionics - He Said Ah
    • My Morning Jacket - Benny & The Jets

    Links
    It's About Time Podcast (via /u/redbirdjr)Free Music Archive - Who Will Remaster The Masters?Free Music Archive - Masters RemasteredFree Music Archive - MicroSongsong contest

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    47 min
  • #83 - There's Something Wrong

    Back with a vengeance!  Enjoy this 60+ minute podcast in lieu of two 30-minute podcasts this month.  Some great tracks from the likes of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, David Rovics, and Brad Sucks - including new stuff from The Dada Weatherman.  Also some podcast recommendations, and CURLING!  All that and more in today's episode.

    1. Builders - Elliott
    2. Mr & Mrs Smith - Records On a Dirty Shelf
    3. Marcus Allen Banks - Rags to Riches
    4. Bellevue - Gates
    5. Captain Stu - Han Solo
    6. Shearer - Overstock
    7. David Rovics - Tunisia 2011
    8. Boogie Belgique - Smile
    9. Tigerberry - In Your Eyes
    10. Norval & Alix - Dark Country Road
    11. Reptar - Stuck In My Id - Suggested by /u/TheSerialHobbyist  
    12. Broke For Free - Night Owl
    13. Darren Click and the Social Norm - Change Your Mind
    14. The Dada Weatherman - Human Light
    15. The Windy City - Games
    16. Brad Sucks - There's Something Wrong
      17. Links
      • The Benchcast
      • ThoughtFuel
      • A Cast of Kings
      • David Rovics Wikipedia Entry
      • Reptar Wikipedia Entry
      • So long, Big Yellow Man (via bradsucks.net)
      • Canadian Curling Association YouTube Channel

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        1 hr 11 min
      • #82 - Mid-Winter Podcast
        Time for another (short) podcast!  Most the songs on this list are new releases, plus I have the latest official single from I Am Not Lefthanded.  I talk about Serial Podcast again, the 2015 NHL All-Star Game, and Project 52.

        Check out I Am Not Lefthanded’s video for Spark on their Patreon page.
        View my Project 52 Flickr page.
        Song List

        1. Fallen to Flux - From the Outside, Looking In
        2. Neon NiteClub - I Want You
        3. Builders - Paperback Bible
        4. Jens-Ulrik Kleemeyer - Maybe Some Time From Now
        5. The Dimes - Stars and the Moon
        6. Jeffrey Philip Nelson - Seventeen
        7. I Am Not Lefthanded - Spark

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          34 min
        8. #81 - Best of 2014
          Kicking off 2015 with a somewhat lazy look at 2014; most of these tracks were taken from Jamendo’s Best of 2014 playlist, with a few exceptions.  I’m going to try to keep up with the podcast on a more regular basis in 2015 as well.  In today’s episode I mostly talked about random things.  Apologies for some of the music hiccups!  My intention today was just to get a podcast released.  Stay tuned to the end of the episode & hear some podcast recommendations.
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          Song List
          1. The Easton Ellises - Falcon 69
          2. ProleteR - April Showers
          3. Chaz Robinson - Love Will Come Back Again
          4. The Kendallz - Hockey Player Haircut
          5. InShape - Engine
          6. Final Round - Spark
          7. Julie Haltigan - All I Can Think of Is You
          8. YP & Pork - Söndagsångest
          9. YP & Pork - Inga Problem
          10. Kaptain Bigg - No Fun
            Links
            Jamendo’s Best of 2014 Playlist
            Radio Free Burrito (hosted by Wil Wheaton)
            Serial Podcast
            The Booth at the End (TV Series)
            Black Mirror (TV Series)

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            48 min
          11. #80 - Saturday Afternoon's OK for Music

            It's Saturday afternoon, and now's as good a time as any to release a podcast!  I had no central theme today - just thought I'd find some cool Creative Commons music and string together a show.  Still, I seem to have gravitated to a mostly Punk-themed selection but there should be a little bit for everyone (except maybe the hip hop crowd).

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            1. Valery ft. The Greedies - “She-Wolf” (Re-edition 2014)
            2. The Freak Fandango Orchestra  - “Requiem For a Fish”
            3. Hot Fiction - “When Nothing Mattered”
            4. Ex-Hex - “Beast”
            5. The NUNCHAKS - “My Girlfriend is Catwoman”
            6. Crystal Castles - “Vietnam (Midnight Conspiracy Remix)”
            7. NITCH - “Time Machine”
            8. Tequila Mockingbird - “Luck and Trouble”
            9. Twin Berlin - “You’re a Problem”
            10. NO/NO - “Mistakes”
            11. Old Man Wizard - “Highwayman”
            12. Avenue - “Rudolph”
            13. Fiction Family - “I Don’t Need No Santa Claus”
            14. Mirva - “This Is How We Stand”
            15. Arkells - “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Stevie Wonder Cover)"

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              1 hr 8 min
            16. #79 - Everybody Wants to Rule The World

              Hey everyone!  Sorry for the delay between shows.  Hopefully the AWESOME music I've included in today's podcast will more than make up for it.  Enjoy!

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              1. STEEP - New Horizons
              2. Sunken Monkey - This Town's Too Big (For the Both of Us)
              3. Toussaint Morrison & Dr. Wylie - A 2nd Devil
              4. Traveling in Stereo - BarMade
              5. Miracles of Modern Science - Dear Pressure
              6. Lorenzo's Music - Low
              7. Lum - In Luv
              8. Gill Bondy - 12 Days
              9. frontRegen - arms
              10. Kellee Maize - In The Night (Game of Thrones Remix)
              11. The Impossebulls - The More Things Change
              12. STEEP - Shiver
              13. Golden Apes - The Archers
              14. Bear Mountain - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
                15. Links:
                Watch Jimmy McNichol on Oprah's Network (Kellee Maize's birth father)
                Bedroomer Recording Collective
                netBloc 47
                And in progress...http://www.alternativeairwaves.tk.

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                1 hr 2 min
              15. #78 - The Road Trip Special

                Not to be confused with the CBC Radio 3 Podcast Road Trip special, I've done this a couple of times in homage (read: rip off) of my favourite Canadian music podcast.  While this podcast does not feature 100% Canadian music (in fact, I think it's 0% this week!), I talk about the Trans Canada Highway and some trivia related to it.  All music today comes from Jamendo.com - check it all out below.

                Listen via Stitcher, iTunes, or archive.org!

                1. Neon Bicycles - Hard Times
                2. The Freak Fandango Orchestra - We'll Save the World
                3. Quentin Hannappe - I Wanna Be
                4. NaTtA - C'est la vie
                5. In Isolation - The Wrong Girl
                6. The Morning Light - Under My Red Carpet
                7. The Heavens - Echo Serena
                8. Welcome to Ashley - Light of Love
                9. The Windy City - Games
                10. The New Economy - A New Morning
                11. JEKK - Day Free
                12. Jason Brock - Fly On (MC Jack In The Box Edit)
                13. Karmavibe - Candy From Strangers
                14. Sam Brown - Who Cares

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                  59 min
                15. #77 - EuroMusic

                  It's only been a few months...so time for another podcast, right?  A lot of European artists in this week episode as I take a look at some of the top Jamendo artists in the EuroMusic contest.  Links are below!

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                  1. InShape - B.A.N.G. (Reversible, 2014)
                  2. LessXmorE - In My Head (LessXmorE EP, 2014)
                  3. major major - Blind (Major Major, 2008)
                  4. MyNameIsJohn - I'm Still Alive (Hello! My Name is John!, 2008)
                  5. Thoola - Heart Loss (Thoola, 2014)
                  6. Paul Klason - Black Monalisa (Single, 2014)
                  7. Emerald Park - Bergsgatan (Things EP, 2013)
                  8. Kate Orange - My Weapon (From My Soul, 2014)
                  9. Noisy Neighbours - Lonely Beer (Tales of Love & Indecision, 2013)
                  10. The Easton Ellises - Sexdrugsandrocknroll (EP:Two, 2014)
                  11. The Please & Thank Yous - The Advil Smoking Blues (The Please & Thank Yous, 2014)
                  12. Uniform Motion - Kids (Altered Covers, 2013)
                    13. Jamendo EuroMusic Contest
                    Rathole Radio

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                    56 min
                  13. #76 - The Workout Podcast

                    Drawing direct inspiration from CBC Radio 3's Sweatin' To the Indies, I present to you The Workout Podcast - Creative Commons version!  I think I've attempted this before, but this time around the music is a lot better and I did my best to edit the music together so that it flows.  Minimal interruption from the sound of my voice, wall-to-wall music...this podcast should help you when you need some high energy music during your work-out.  The full playlist is below - including download links where possible in case you want to check it out.  Thanks for listening!

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                    1. Brad Sucks - Making Me Nervous
                    2. Emerald Park - At the Mall
                    3. Soda Yells - You've Got Gasoline In Your Throat
                    4. The Dark Colours Since 1685 - The Preacher Don't Care
                    5. MoOt - I Feel Free
                    6. Chubby Checker - Move It
                    7. Fhernando - Can't Wait for Disco
                    8. Professor Kliq - Bust That Bust This
                    9. Girl Talk - Give Me a Beat
                    10. Marauders - Don't Take Your Love
                    11. Mrpontusbogren - Sisters & Brothers
                    12. Major Major - Blind
                    13. KingSizeNine - Come and Go
                    14. Fresh Body Shop - Fruit of a Bad Tree
                    15. GYAKO - World
                    16. Catrao - Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand
                    17. ProleteR - It Don't Mean a Thing
                    18. Dirty Venus - Bang Bang
                    19. 10 Code - Superman's Cape
                    20. SINGLETON - Get Out Of My Mind
                    21. The Appreciation Post - I'm No Sure Thing

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                      1 hr 24 min

                    About Alternative Airwaves

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                    There are a lot of really great artists that go unnoticed, and their music is freely and legally available online. Alternative Airwaves discovers those artists.