Am sure most of you know already.... but worth mentioning news about this year's Choice Music Prize.

 

Happening this Sunday November 29th, oh ya!

Two hours of music as chosen by you so get your requests in early to alison@todayfm.com

 

 

It can be anything you just really really want to hear it on the radio.

 

 

All Request show this Sunday night! Alison@todayfm.com 

This Sunday night November 22 I have a great prize for Volta fans, tickets to their gig at the Olympia in Dublin December 10th, their new album Octahedron and some tee's! Sweet

 

 

Tune in from 8PM to win

21 of the Best Albums from the past 12 months to be given away to one lucky winner!

 

Up for grabs in no particular order….

 

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz

Florence and the Machine – Lungs

Pearl Jam – Back Spacer

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

The Dead Weather – Horehound

Hockey – Mind Chaos

Noah and the Whale – First Days of Spring

Doves – Kingdom of Rust

Ian Brown- My Way

La Roux – La Roux

The Low Anthem – Oh My God Charlie Darwin

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Greatest Hits

Fever Ray – Fever Ray

Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

The Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Wilco – Wilco

Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

Delorentos – You Can Make Sound

Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew

Gossip – Music for Men

 

 

To be in with a chance to win this lovely end of year pack all you have to do is email me your name and postal address to Alison@todayfm.com and I will be doing the draw live on air Sunday December 13^th

 

If you go to rollingstone.com right now there is a sneak peak at ...

Grunge: Mohawks, Flannel and Loud Guitars

Trace the rise of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and more in Michael Lavine's photographs. Its a great collection of photography.

 

Here are some of the highlights

Nirvana

Hole

Sonic Youth

 

Smashing Pumpkins

Courtney and Kurt

The Breeders

 

 

 

This Sunday night November 7th I will be taking an in depth look at Nirvana's debut album 'Bleach'. Released in June 1989 but not appreciated by a much larger fan base until after the release of the band's landmark album Nevermind two years later, this debut still sounds brilliant.