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Now playing on WMCK.FM: "Lie Lie Lie," Metric

From Wikipedia:

Pagans in Vegas is the sixth studio album by Canadian indie rock band Metric, which was released on Sept. 18, 2015. The first single, "The Shade," was released on May 11, 2015. "Cascades" was released as the second of the album on 2 June 2015. On July 7, 2015, the band released "Too Bad, So Sad" as the third single via a new iOS and Android app it created called "Pagan Portal," which allows fans to listen to tracks off the album as they're released and read newsletters from the band.

A Canadian rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Metric is Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion). The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw with the name "Mainstream."  After releasing an EP titled Mainstream EP, they changed the band's name to Metric, after a sound that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. In 2001, Winstead and Scott-Key joined them.

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WMCK.FM Better Music Tunedex for Oct. 25-31

Top songs played on WMCK.FM McKeesport during the week of Oct. 25 to 31, 2015:

1. Corb Lund - Weight of the Gun
2. Little Dragon - Pretty Girls
3. Chet Baker - 1988
4. Foals - What Went Down
5. Ben Folds - Capable of Anything
6. Coke Weed - Dead Man Walking
7. Bring on the Horizon - Throne
8. Chad Valley - True
9. Chris Cornell - Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
10. Foo Fighters - Outside
11. Raury - Devil's Whisper (Clean Edit)
12. Lou Barlow - Redeemed
13. Randall Bramblett - Dead in the Water
14. New Found Glory - Vicious Love
15. Phil Cook - Ain't It Sweet
16. Imagine Dragons - Roots
17. Moa Holmsten - Dancing in the Dark
18. Drive-By Truckers - The Righteous Path
19. Alabama Shakes - Give Me All Your Love
20. Alex Bleeker & The Freaks - Country Agenda

(Note: There was no chart for the week of Oct. 18-24 due to a computer crash!)

Special programming for Halloween!

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Happy Halloween! If you're going to be handing out candy to trick-or-treaters, make sure to take WMCK.FM with you on Oct. 31! We'll have a full evening of special Halloween programming.

Following "Radio 9" from 12 to 3 p.m. and "Goffus' Golden Oldies" from 3 to 5 p.m., we'll have classic old-time radio shows with spooky or Halloween themes.

We'll start out with classic comedy from "Fibber McGee and Molly" and Jack Benny, followed by "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and episodes of the science fiction classics, "Suspense" and "X-Minus-One."

Then, at 10 o'clock, it's the famous October 30, 1938 episode of "The Mercury Radio Theater" which dramatized H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," and panicked thousands of people, including locally here in the Mon Valley.

If you're going trick-or-treating, or to a Halloween party, don't forget that you can take WMCK.FM with you, wherever you go, with our free Android app, or by tuning in on your smartphone using the free TuneIn app.

Approaching a normal schedule again!

Another update on our computer crash ...

We are getting back to something like a normal schedule! Thanks for your patience. Our music selection is still a bit limited, but news updates have resumed.

Make sure to listen to new episodes of "Goffus Golden Oldies" at 6 to 8 a.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Thursday and 3 p.m. Saturday; along with "Juneberry Road" with Bob Janis at 7 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Wednesday and 1 p.m. Thursday.

Bear with us

On Thursday and Friday, you may have heard two songs playing at the same time, or the stream starting and stopping. We hit a bit of a computer glitch, and we're working on fixing it.

So we're suspending our usual format for a little while and doing maintenance; right now, we're doing an oldies marathon until Sunday night, when we have our first episode of Juneberry Road with Bob Janis!

Bear with us. And thanks for supporting the new sound of the Mon Valley, WMCK.FM!