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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 15 January 2016

January 15, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hinds, Mediazoic, Top 11

We’re starting to see more new releases for 2016. Here are some tracks that might gain traction in the coming

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 11 December 2015

December 11, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animal Collective, Banks, boots, Boots for Dancing, CHVRCHES, Dave Wave, Deerhunter, Killers, Majical Clouds, Playlist, Practical Lovers, Top 11, We Are the City

Just because I’ve been at the NE Caribbean Command Centre all this week doesn’t excuse me from issuing my weekly

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 26 June 2015

June 26, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Disturbed, Fews, Gaz Whelan, Interrobang?!, Julian Taylor, LunarTheory, Makthaverskan, Oscar, Sleaford Mods, Standstills, The Big Moon, The Lovely Eggs, Top 11

Last Friday I spent a good deal of time browsing through the Rough Trade store in Notting Hill. The result

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 19 June 2015

June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments And So I Watch You from Afar, Baio, Beck, C0ndu!t, Chastity Belt, Day Wave, Girl Group, Glorious Sons, health, No Joy, Songs of Water, Top 11

Live from London, England this week. Anything here capture your imagination? Thanks to Mediazoic for the hosting.

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 29 May 2015

May 29, 2015May 29, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Chunk! No Captain Chunk!, Darkness, Helio Sequence, Jooj, New Pornographers, San Fermin, Strung Out, Suicide Machines, Tanlines, Thee Oh Sees, Top 11, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Sorry it’s a few hours late. I was somewhere over the north Pacific heading home from Tokyo. Thanks to Mediazoic

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 22 May 2015

May 22, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments A Tribe Call Red, Ben Khan, Ceremony, Courtney Barnett, Django Django, Fucked Up, Jenny Vee, Kopecky, Lykke Li, Roger O'Donnell, Slow Club, Top 11

This week’s Top 11 comes from Singapore–not that there’s anything particularly Singaporean about this list. It’s just where I happen

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 20 March 2015

March 20, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Beans on Toast, Daniel Isaiah, Sun K, Top 11

There was plenty to sort through this week, including a bunch of Canadian stuff. Anything here that makes you tingle?

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 05 December 2015

December 5, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Ariel Pink, Clark, Cult of Youth, Dean Blunt, Grouper, Hookworms, Museum of Youth, Nots, Obliterations, Oozing Wound, Top 11, Trash Kit

I’m heading to the NE Caribbean Command Outpost tonight, so I wanted a list that I could listen to whilst

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 31 October 2014

October 31, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Andrew Austin, Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band, D.D. Dumbo, FKA Twigs, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Led Zeppelin, Magnets & Ghosts, Megan Lane, Nothing More, Slim Twig, The Lazys, Top 11

Since I’ve already posted a bunch of Halloween-related tracks elsewhere on this site over the past week, I thought it

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 03 October 2014

October 3, 2014October 3, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Julian Casablancas, Nick Mulvey, Olde Worlde, Ron Decoup, Sir Sly, Son Wolf, The Ghost Inside, Top 11, White Arrows, Yelawolf

Despite all kinds of travelling this week, I still managed to put together a Top 11 list. Thanks to Mediazoic

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This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 15 August 2014

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bear Hands, Elizabeth Shepherd, Grimes, JPN, Mozart's Sister, Olde World, Panama Wedding, Say Yes, The Town Heroes, Top 11, Worth Taking, X Ambassadors

Halfway through August?  The CNE starts today?  WTF?  Best just lean back and discover some of these new tunes.  Your

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