Happy New Year!
Beginning at 12 a.m. Jan. 1, we're playing oldies from A-to-Z for 24 hours.
It's 500+ oldies in alphabetical order, midnight to midnight Jan. 1, 2016, at the new sound of the Mon Valley, WMCK.FM!
Better Music Tunedex for Dec. 13-26
Thank you to the Edwin R. Crawford Estate Trust for their support this week of the New Sound of the Mon Valley, WMCK.FM! And thank you all for listening.
Top songs played on WMCK.FM during the weeks of Dec. 13 and Dec. 20, 2015:
(Does not include Christmas music)
- Let it Pretend - Dirty Ghosts
- Too Tough - Bully
- Alone Again - The King Khan & BBQ Show
- S.W.I.M. - Lowly
- When I Was Done Dying - Dan Deacon
- Come On - Holly Miranda
- Planting Flowers - Shadow in the Cracks
- Seventeen - Chad Valley
- Cavalry Captain - The Decemberists
- The Woods - Drenge
- Memo 34 - Sunwolf
- New Bohemia - Transviolet
- Ch-Ching - Chairlift
- Lost at Sea - Great American Canyon Band
- Hey Everybody! - 5 Seconds of Summer
- Albatross - Foals
- Sea Calls Me Home - Julia Holter
- I Feel It - Avid Dancer
- The Chill - Coke Weed
- Quiet Day - Fort Lean
"Not Your Average" holiday cheer from WMCK.FM
McKeesport-based Internet radio station WMCK.FM has scheduled several special Christmas-themed programs for the week of Dec. 20, including a courthouse concert by musicians from McKeesport Area High School, a religious service from St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and McKeesport's Voice of Vision Ministries, and "Not Your Average Christmas Show" featuring unusual holiday rock, blues and folk songs.
Tune into WMCK.FM on Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 9 to 11 p.m. for "Not Your Average Christmas Show," hosted by Chris Stillwell.
"Not Your Average Christmas Show" features a variety of unusual holiday songs, including carols and religious music, from artists not usually associated with the Christmas season, including Yo La Tengo, John Prine, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens and Bela Fleck and the Fleck-Tones.
Pittsburgh's Joe Negri is also represented on "Not Your Average Christmas Show," as are '50s R&B artists such as Oscar McLollie And His Honey Jumpers and Motown stars like Stevie Wonder.
The show will repeat from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 and from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.
"A Courthouse Concert" --- featuring musicians from McKeesport Area High School --- will air at 12 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, and 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24.
Recorded Dec. 4 at Allegheny County Courthouse, the concert features selections performed by the McKeesport Area High School Orchestra and the MAHS Brass Ensemble.
WMCK.FM Better Music Tunedex for Nov. 29-Dec. 5
Top songs played on WMCK.FM during the week of Nov. 29, 2015:
- Golden Child - Promised Land Sound
- Unveil - Lowly
- Too Tough (Radio Edit) - Bully
- When I Was Done Dying - Dan Deacon
- Sea Calls Me Home - Julia Holter
- Made for Pleasure - The New Mastersounds
- Ch-Ching - Chairlift
- Some Kids - Dirty Ghosts
- I Don't Wanna - Homeshake
- Run This Town - Corb Lund
- Calvary Captain - The Decemberists
- At the Circle's Edge - Tommy Guerrero
- Redline - The Brainstems
- Waltz of the 101st Lightborne - Joanna Newsom
- Tearing Me Up - Bob Moses
- Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- Sinner - Arca
- One Foot - The Mynabirds
- Savior of Love - Brian Carpenter and the Confessions
- Holding On - Disclosure feat. Gregory Porter
WMCK.FM Better Music Tunedex for Nov. 22-28
- Push & Pull (All the Time) - Promised Land Sound
- Unveil - Lowly
- Sikka Takin' the Hard Way - New Beat Fund
- Slide Into My Arms - Rene Lopez
- Some Kids - Dirty Ghosts
- Memo 34 - Sunwolf
- Too Tough - Bully
- Oh Seven - Ms. John Soda
- The Chill - Coke Weed
- Alice Eyes - Corb Lund
- Birthday Boy - Drive-By Truckers
- 867 - Iration
- I Don't Wanna - Homeshake
- Planting Flowers - Shadows in the Cracks
- Love Me - The 1975
- Ch-Ching - Chairlift
- The Stranger - Danny Pynes
- Why'd You - Ellie Herring
- Lost at Sea - Great American Canyon Band
- Counterfeit Sky - Failure
