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ABFM Radio

ABFM was a music podcast produced by content creators Beetle Vale between 2008 and 2015 (podcasting before everyone else had a podcast).

With the tagline "Look outside your FM dial" the show aimed to broaden listeners musical horizons. Whilst the majority of the content could broadly be described as Rock or Indie no genre was ever discounted. Country, Metal, Electronic, Hip Hop, Folk, Chiptune, A Capella, K-Pop, Punk... As long as it was believed to sound good it would get played.

Alongside the generic "music that sounds good but you probably wouldn't hear on the radio" ABFM also featured the occasional "special". These explored a specific genre or event such as music found in TV, Film and Games or festival specials playing music from bands appearing at various festivals, such as the iconic South By South West.

This radio station is all of the songs played on all episodes except for the Christmas specials. Due to the eclectic nature of the show some of the content does contain explicit language, adult themes and portions are loud. The below playlist is in alphabetical order:

3 Colours Red - Desensitise
65DaysOfStatic - Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
65DaysOfStatic - Retreat! Retreat!
88 Fingers Louie - All I Want For Christmas Is You
A Love Like Pi - Innocent Man
Accidental Superhero - Hurt Me Badly
Ace Hood - Bugatti
Aeroplane Pageant - Stars Still Pretty
Air Review - Young
Allister - Scratch
Amarna Reign - Black Christmas
Anamanaguchi - Densmore
Anamanaguchi - Fast Turtle
Anamnesis - Gangnam Style (Metal As ♥♥♥♥)
AnBerlin - A Whisper And A Clamour
And I Looked And Beheld A Pale Horse... - From Here I Can See The Stars
And I Looked And Beheld A Pale Horse... - The Sarcasm They All Hate
Arms & Sleepers - Butterflycatcher
Ashes Divide - The Stone
Astronautilis - Dimitri Mendeleev
Asylum Street Spankers - Leaf Blower (Live)
Baz Luhrman - Everybodys Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Birds Of Wales - Cinderella (Has Nothing On You)
Cage The Elephant - Psycho Killer
Camera Obscura - Suspended From Class
CarboHydrom - Penguin Cap
Caribou - Odessa
Chikinki - Drink
Cloud Cult - When Water Comes To Life
Come On Gang! - Coffee Shop
Come On Gang! - Wheels
David Sugar - Totally On
Dels - Trumpalump
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is.
Digits - Lost Dream
Dirt Bike Annie - Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Discovery - Orange Shirt
DJ Antrack - Jingle Bells
Dj Cutman - Strike The Earth
Dlugokecki - Barricades
Do Kashiteru - Chairman Of The Board
Doomtree - Flex
edIT - Twenty Years
Electric President - Insomnia
Emie - My Thoughts
Excision - X Rated
Finger Eleven - Good Times
Finger Eleven - One Thing
Firebrand Boy - The End
Five Knives - All Fall Down
Foot Patrol - Such A Pity
Fun - We Are Young
Gabrielle Aplin - Please Don't Say You Love Me
Gangstagrass - On The Run
Gay For Johnny Depp - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Isn't Cheating
Girl Talk - Jump On Stage
Glowbug - Go Easy
God Is An Astronaut - The End Of The Begining
Gramaphonzie - Why Don't You
Halfnoise - Free The House
HeeHaa HooHaa - Whiskey
Hello Venus - Venus
Helsinki Dub - Feel The Light
Hockey - Song Away
Hurts - Wonderful Life
Hypercrush - Lady Friend
Inkwell - Ecuador Is Lovely This Time Of Year
Institute - Bullet Proof Skin
Intellectual Ancestors - Focus On Center
Iron Lung Corp. - Metal (Remix)
Jim's Big Ego - The Ballad Of Barry Allen
Kathleen Edwards - Hockey Skates
Kid Dakota - 10'000 Lakes
Knife City - Slam Dunk Lifestyle
Lazyboy - Underwear Goes Inside The Pants
Leila Arab - Underwater (One For The Kenai)
Liam Lynch - My United States Of Whatever
Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive
Lonely The Brave - Black Saucers
LoveLikeFire - William
Maybeshewill - Co-Conspiritors
Mesu Kasumai - After Mars
Miike Snow - Animal
Mollies Way - The Great Deciever
Moving Mountains - Where Two Bodies Lie
Mr Spastic - Uber l33t n00b br34k5
My Dear Disco - White Lies
Natalie Portmans Shaved Head - Slow Motion Tag Team
Nathan Fake - You Are Here (FortDax Remix)
Neil Voss - End If
Neko Case - Things That Scare Me
Nerf Herder - I Got A Boner For Christmas
Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
Nullsleep - Silent Night
Oh Atoms - Sugar Mouse
Oh No! Oh My! - Walk In The Park
One Eskimo - Amazing
Pagan Wanderer Lu - Memorial Hall
PicturePlane - Goth Star
Pink Nasty - BTK Blues
Quiet Drive - Rise From The Ashes
Radical Face - Welcome Home
Radio Spectacular - You Light Me Up
Reggie And The Full Effect - Apocalypse Wow
Ricardo Autobahn - The Golden Age Of Video
RushJet1 - Our Revolution
Say Hi To Your Mother - Lets Talk About Spaceships
Seventh Epic - Pipes
Skindred - Jungle Bells
Sonic Boom Six - Piggy In The Middle
Sort Sol - Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
Spy - 31 Seconds
Stars Of The Search Party - See You In Strasbourg
T & The Wonder - Pettaquamscutt Narragansett
Taken By Trees - Sweet Child 'O Mine
Tech N9ne - The Beast
Teen Top - Snow Kisses
Terrorvision - Come Home Beanie
The 88 - At Least We Were Here
The Ataris - Radio #2
The Birthday Massacre - Control
The Bloody Beetroots - Butter
The Blow - Parentheses
The Butterfly Effect - The Window And The Watcher
The Chap - Proper Rock
The Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia
The Death Set - Negative Thinking
The Depreciation Guild - Stuck Pig
The Egg - Nothing
The Fiery Furnaces - Benton Harbour Blues
The FlyFox - Scarlett Thirteen (Ft. Eight)
The Glitch Mob - A Dream Within A Dream Vs Trifonic
The Graceful Slicks - Jalapeno
The Idiot Rate - Believe In The Power Of Laughter
The J. Arthur Keenes Band - Cluck
The Joy Formidable - Austere
The Locust - We Have Reached An Official Verdict, Nobody Gives A ♥♥♥♥
The Lost Bayeux Ramblers - Cote Gelee
The Lucky Nine - The Light From Passing Cars
The Mitchell Brothers - She's Got It All Wrong
The Mother Truckers - Dynamite
The Mountain Goats - Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle
The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 To 20
The Pictish Trail - I Don't Know Where To Begin
The Rez - Liquid Sunset
The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside
The Unwinding Hours - There Are Worse Things Than Being
The Vaccines - Wrecking Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
The Whigs - So Lonely
TheHELL - It's The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hell (You ♥♥♥♥)
Thrift Store Cowboys - Dirtied Your Knees
Treble Charger - Brand New Low
Tristan Prettyman - Newsoul
TRUSTCompany - Figure 8
Tugboat - She's A Doll
Twilight Electric - True Fidelity
Vaeda - Jesus Rides The Subway
Vendetta Red - Shatterday
Vim - When A Child Is Born
Way Yes - Holy Drop
What Made Milwaukee Famous - Blood, Sweat & Fears
Woodkid - Run Boy Run

In case you're interested ABFM is probably still available to stream/download on iTunes. Also there are a few extra spoof commercials thrown in to reduce the amount of repetition!