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ATP: Nightmare Before Xmas
Last night the Radiolab brought you their officially commissioned preview show for ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties: Nightmare Before Xmas’ festival. We hope you enjoyed it, if you missed it we will be uploading the show on to the internet in the imminent future. If you want to get in contact feel free to go on our Facebook page, our Twitter page or our URN page. Until then we would like to express our sincerest thanks to everyone at All Tomorrow’s Parties who made this possible.

See you in December.

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Nightmare Before Xmas

On this coming Monday (24th October), The Radiolab will be hosting a unique After Dark show in collaboration with All Tomorrow's Parties. All Tomorrow's Parties, known colloquially as ATP, is one of the largest independent concert promoters in the UK and US, as well as having a record label and putting on several festivals annually - held at Butlins - of the same name. The festivals feature a line-up hand picked by curators, ensuring a diverse variety of artists play: previous curators have included everyone from alternative rock giants such as Portishead and Pavement to modern greats such as Animal Collective and Yeah Yeah Yeahs - even Simpsons creator Matt Groening has curated, twice in fact!

For those chilled nights in, Summer time bbqs and late night PS3 seshs. Dope
The Cookout - Chevy Woods
Free Download!
http://www.datpiff.com/Chevy-Woods-The-Cookout-mixtape.263029.html

Something completely out of the box, Snoop Dogg murking some dubstep beats
Snoop Dogg x MistaJam x DJ Battlecat - Throw Your Dubs Up. Dubstep LA Vol 2: G-Step
Free Download!
http://www.speakerboxworld.com/throwyourdubsup/

On Sunday 29th May, URN headed down to Dot to Dot to bring you news, photo and gossip fresh from the festival. We spent the day running from Rock City to Bodega to Trent and back to Stealth to see as many acts as possible. If you weren’t able to make it or want a reminder of the day we have put together a bunch of photos, reviews and videos HERE for you to check out.

Wolf Gang

We squeezed our way into the packed Rescue Rooms to get a glimpse of Wolf Gang and it was immediately clear that the lack of air was worth it! Their music was energetic and catchy and the room was filled with feet tapping and hips shaking. Their popular tracks ‘Back to Back’ and ‘Lions in Cages’ went down a storm. Along with this, their latest single ‘The King and All of His Men’ retained the band’s signature raw sound but was very accessible with the crowd chanting the lyrics. We had an all round fun half an hour watching Wolf Gang.

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran

On Monday's show we will be looking back at the first quarter of 2011 and picking out the tracks and records that we think matter the most, and that deserve your time - some of which already look like contenders for end-of-year lists.

We'll be playing big-hitters in the alternative field - think Radiohead, PJ Harvey, TV On The Radio and The Strokes; up-and-coming acts such as The Smith Westerns, James Blake, Toro Y Moi and Yuck; plus some varied, innovative sounds from the likes of Teeel, Nicolas Jaar, tUnE-yArDs and The Weeknd. Irrespective of genre or popularity, we'll be aiming to bring you the cream of 2011's crop.