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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!

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.

Bloc. and Warp special on The Radiolab - 7.3.2011: .Tune into Monday's show to listen to the Radiolab's Alternative Electronic special where we'll be playing our favourite electronic artists.

We will be playing artists from the upcoming 'Bloc. festival' including Magnetic Man, Four Tet, Matthew Dear and Jamie XX. As well as artists from Warp Records home to some our other favourite electronic artists such as Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Autechre and Gonjasufi. But don't worry if you're not a huge fan of electronic music, we'll still be playing artists from Warp among other labels that are still of the Indie/Alternative persuasion. Expect LCD Soundsystem, Battles, !!!, Maximo Park, Jamie Lidell and Grizzly Bear.

We'll also be going through some of our regular features such as 'Nott's News', where we go through the musical goings-on in Nottingham, 'Music News', where we will give you a run down of all the latest and biggest music related news. As well as what's 'Hot Off The Press' and will be 'On Repeat' this week at the Radiolab. So remember to tune in from 11pm-1am to hear the best Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electronica and Left-field of the Alternative Persuasion.