I’ve got Bieber fever!

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 @ 3:08PM

This is not pretty. Not at all.

Here is the lovely Justin Bieber Tshirt that you can win today on X96. It is from the Marci collection and looks much better on her than on me.

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Please watch this video carefully.

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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 @ 5:32AM

All of the secrets of happiness are included in this X96 Workers Union video presentation.

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My favorite album of 2010.

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 @ 4:39PM

This is Happening by LCD Soundsystem

You have to admire a band that can take elements of 80s staples like Yaz, Depeche Mode, Stephen Tin Tin Duffy, and New Order and make them sound edgy and updated. That’s exactly what James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem has done with This is Happening. This album is dance-driven rock and roll, and is engineered to make your speakers swell up and explode with every perfectly timed beat. If you’ve been into alternative music long enough, you’ll be listening to the vocals on the track “One Touch” and you’ll think to yourself, my god, is this The Human League? It isn’t, of course, because The Human League would sound old fashioned next to LCD Soundsystem. Adding to the 80s feel is the fact that several tracks are over six minutes, which, to me, is very reminiscent of 12” single dance remixes that are as brilliant as what you’d get from New Order in 1986.  In fact, the album opens with the epic “Dance Yrself Clean” that opens with a faint drum rhythm to explode into an eight-minute raging, throbbing masterpiece. When listening to this song for the very first time, I quite literally jumped when the main beats kicked in.  And this brings me back to the production and engineering of the sound on this album. It rivals the Nine Inch Nails gems that were delivered by perfectionist Trent Reznor.  Buy this album, crank it up, and you’ll love the way it sounds. It was definitely produced and recorded for audiophiles.

Lyrically, the sarcastic and sardonic lines like “Every night’s a different story / it’s a 30-car pile up with you” and “Love is a curse shoved in a hearse / Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry / and this is coming from me” make every song stand out among a lot of what you hear on dance-oriented albums.

After listening to this album several times, I’m left to wonder if LCD Soundsystem quietly and unassumingly resurrected synth music.

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New Brandon Flowers video.

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Thursday, July 8th, 2010 @ 12:53PM

"Crossfire" by Brandon Flowers

Here is a link to the video for “Crossfire” by Brandon Flowers. It features fights, and a kick ass ninja chick.

http://www.vevo.com/watch/playlist/bring-me-flowers/184090#0

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Schedule of Give me 4 for the 4th! See what we’re playing!

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Sunday, July 4th, 2010 @ 7:44AM

See the listener submitted playlists for the whole weekend!

This should have been posted on Saturday, and should have been posted by someone other than me. (Somebody’s got some explaining to do, trust me.)  But anyway, here is the whole weekend. Some listeners elected to post links to their Facebook pages, so befrend them if they had good requests!
X96 Give Me 4 for the 4th Weekend

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions for our Give Me 4 for the 4th Weekend. Here are the listeners and their requests that will be featured. Listen 10 AM to midnight Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Make sure you listen to X96 as you celebrate your independence!

Saturday, July 3
10 AM Samuel Phippen
“Camouflage” Stan Ridgeway
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” U2
“Ragged Old Flag” Johnny Cash
“99 Red Balloons” Goldfinger

11 AM Anthony Haskell
“Tighten Up” The Black Keys
“On Melancholy Hill” Gorillaz
“Little Secrets” Passion Pit
“This Ghose Inside” Broken Bells

Noon Courtney Kelly
“Bliss” Muse
“Kill All Your Friends” My Chemical Romance
“Barracuda” Heart
“I’m Your Daddy” Weezer

1 PM Joey Grines
“I Hate Everything About You” Three Days Grace
“With Arms Wide Open” Creed
“All The Small Things” Blink 182
“Lifeline” Papa Roach

2 PM Scott Warner
“Say It Ain’t So” Weezer
“Waiting For My Rucca” Sublime
“Sick Transit Gloria…Glory Fades” Brand New
“Disarm” Smashing Pumpkins

3 PM JJ Steadman
http://www.facebook.com/Studmans_Lair
“Don’t Stop” Innerparty System
“Sometime Around Midnight” The Airborne Toxic Event
“Dark Blue” Jack’s Mannequin
“Don’t Dance” 3OH!3

4 PM Brian Christian
“Kosciusko” Midnight Oil
“Radio Free Europe” REM
“Jesus Built My Hotrod” Ministry
“Who Do You Want To Be Today?” Oingo Boingo

5 PM Boofy James
“Home” Depeche Mode
“Burning Down The House” Talking Heads
“Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
“Our House” Madness

6 PM Caitlin Dart
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000525361400#!/caitlin.dart
“Lay Me Down” Dirty Heads
“Breath” Breaking Benjamin
“Change” Deftones
“The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage” Panic at the Disco

7 PM Brad Littler
http://www.facebook.com/littler
“Sam’s Town” The Killers
“Someone Must Get Hurt” She Wants Revenge
“Cruel Mistress” Flogging Molly
“Jesus Of Suburbia” Green Day

8 PM Natalie Divino
“Teardrop” Massive Attack
“Crush With Eyeliner” REM
“Stylo” Gorillaz
“Stellar” Incubus

9 PM Ashley Davies
“1901” Phoenix
“Nellie The Elephant” Toy Dolls
“Everything’s Magic” Angels and Airwaves
“The Boys of Summer” The Ataris

10 PM Laura Madsen
“Pants on Fire” Buck 65
“True Believers” Bouncing Souls
“If Work Permits” The Format
“Three Sheets to the Wind” Sage Francis

11 PM Eric Irwin
“Running Up That Hill” Placebo
“If I Was Your Vampire” Marilyn Manson
“Voices” Rev Theory
“Hey You “ The Exies

Sunday, July 4th
10 AM Helen Pemberton
http://twitter.com/LilPlaidDress
“Northern Downpour” Panic at the Disco
“4th of July” Soundgarden
“She’s A Rebel” Green Day
“Second Boys Will Be First Choice” The Brobecks

11 AM Adam Shurtliff
http://www.facebook.com/adamissoawesome#!/
“The Boys of Summer” The Ataris
“Welcome To Paradise” Green Day
“The Party Song” Blink 182
“Thunder” Boys Like Girls

Noon Matt Trousers
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/mhowitz
“Summer Romance” Incubus
“Ocean Avenue” Yellowcard
“Story of a Girl” Nine Days
“Lasso” Phoenix

1 PM Carlos Plazas
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=1376300965
“Smooth Criminal” Alien Ant Farm
“Girlfriends” Single File
“Human” The Killers
“Spaceman” The Killers

2 PM Sam Phippen
“Working Class Hero” Green Day
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” Green Day
“Last of the American Girls” Green Day
“21 Guns” Green Day

3 PM Tammy Guiver
“Army” Ben Folds Five
“Wonderwall” Oasis
“Everlong” Foo Fighters
“Damn It” Blink 182

4 PM Alec Jackson
“Vindicated” Dashboard Confessional
“So Whatcha Want” Beastie Boys
“Burning Down The House” Talking Heads
“Blue Monday” New Order

5 PM Steve Castleton
“Float” Flogging Molly
“Scooby Snacks” Fun Lovin’ Criminals
“Testify” Rage Against The Machine
“Dare” Gorillaz

6 PM Monica Arellano
http://www.facebook.com/kamakazi659
“High Road” Broken Bells
“Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
“Paranoid Android” Radiohead
“Letters from the Sky” Civil Twilight

7 PM Jake Brough
http://www.facebook.com/jake.brough1
“Secret Crowds” Angels and Airwaves
“Come Out And Play” The Offspring
“Feeling This” Blink 182
“Audience of One” Rise Against

8 PM Courtney Hunter
http://twitter.com/CheersCC
“15 Step” Radiohead
“Nice Guys Finish Last” Green Day
“Dare” Gorillaz
“Muscle Museum” Muse

9 PM Robby Poffenberger
http://www.facebook.com/robby.poffenberger
“The First Single” The Format
“Only One” Yellowcard
“Redundant” Green Day
“Cemetery” Say Anything

10 PM Kim Higginson
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/kimberly.higginson
“Hustle and Cuss” The Dead Weather
“Plastic Beach” Gorillaz
“White Sky” Vampire Weekend
“Kiss with a Fist” Florence and the Machine

11 PM Jordan Moss
“Schism” Tool
“Nervous Breakdown” Hawthorne Heights
“Lithium” Nirvana
“The Crimson” Atreyu

Monday, July 5th
10 AM Victoria Kearsley
“All These Things That I Have Done” The Killers
“Spaceman” The Killers
“Crossfire” Brandon Flowers
“Read My Mind” The Killers

11 AM Ryan Childs
http://www.facebook.com/ryan.childs1
“Learn to Fly” Foo Fighters
“Best of You” Foo Fighters
“Stockholm Syndrome” Muse
“Where The Streets Have No Name” U2

Noon Brighton Grimes
“When You Were Young” The Killers
“Somebody Told Me” The Killers
“In One Ear “ Cage The Elephant
“Dance, Dance” Fall Out Boy

1 PM Justin Kinsella
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100000197634182
“Bleed It Out” Linkin Park
“Brick by Boring Brick” Paramore
“Blood on My Hands” The Used
“Teenagers” My Chemical Romance

2 PM Marci’s picks
“Delicious” Catherine Wheel
“VCR” The XX
“Never Wanted to Dance” Mindless Self Indulgence
“Undisclosed Desires” Muse

3 PM Jim Smith
“Sleepyhead” Passion Pit
“Intergalactic” Beastie Boys
“Mexican Radio” Wall of Voodoo
“Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

4PM Jeremy Rudd
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Joy Division
“Just Another Day” Oingo Boingo
“Alex Chilton” The Replacements
“Big In Japan” Alphaville

5 PM Brien Terranova
http://www.twitter.com/groverules
“Such Great Heights” Postal Service
“Only a Lad” Oingo Boingo
“High Road” Broken Bells
“The Magnificent Seven” The Clash

6 PM Todd Nuke ‘Em
http://www.facebook.com/todd.noker
“Boys Don’t Cry” The Cure
“Bizarre Love Triangle” New Order
“Clumsy” Our Lady Peace
“The Mixed Tape” Jack’s Mannequin

7 PM Jonathan Allrunner
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=1372465622
“Helicopter” Bloc Party
“Time Is Running Out” Muse
“Taste of Ink” The Used
“Say This Sooner” The Almost

8 PM Chris Marsh
“At The Bottom of Everything” Bright Eyes
“Misery” Green Day
“Take Me Now” Vicious Pink
“Frontier Psychiatrist” The Avalanches

9 PM Chandler Wride
http://www.facebook.com/#!/FreeWride
“Man Overboard” Blink 182
“Rusty Cage” Johnny Cash
“Dashboard” Modest Mouse
“Large In The Margin” 311

10 PM Samuel Phippen
“Half Truism” The Offspring
“Handlebars” The Flobots
“Freedom” Rage Against The Machine
“Freedom of Choice” A Perfect Circle

11 PM Corey O’Brien
“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” The White Stripes
“My Adidas” Run DMC
“Kill All The Whiteman” NOFX
“My People” The Presets

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