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Check out these brilliant Alternative bands poised to BREAKOUT BIG in 2017: Billie Eilish, Girl Pool, Bonzai, Sorority Noise, Nadia Rose, Fickle Friends and Gaelic Storm.

When WCRS returns to the FM radio early in 2017, I'll launch a new program on Sunday morning entitled "Classic Marat," offering the very finest in Alternative Classic, Chorale, Opera and Jazz music. This week please enjoy "Requiem Da Camera" by Gerald Finzi. This hidden masterpiece, begun in 1924 and only finished in 1990, is his lamentation for those brave men and women, of all nations, who fell during the "Great War" (1914-1918). With social conflict all around us (Iraq, Syria, etc), this requiem (musical composition in remembrance of the dead) is as pertinent today as it was then. The opening track is JS Bach's, "The Little Fugue in G Minor."

MGMT (Electric Feel) and The Cars. Psychedelic Alt Pop meets 80’s Next Wave and the result is GLORIOUS.

Moby Lives. Check out tracks from "These Systems are Failing" and "Last Night." Moby. Yeah.

They say this album helped to launch the "ambient" music crazy in the 1990's. Hmmm . . .

JP Marat interviews Joe Demare, Ohio Green Party Candidate for US Senate . . . Set list includes REM, Joe Demare (Green Party Candidate for US Senate from Ohio), Blondie, George Harrison, Howard Jones, Bruce Springsteen and Fannie Lou Hammer.

Each band plays two songs. Why not ?

Black British Singer Songwriter, Benjamin Clementine KILLS with this Mercury Award winning album. Easily one of my favorite releases of the year. I doubt if you've heard anything like it.