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A Reason to Wake Up - March 21, 2025

Tracklist: 1. The Zebras - Worry a Lot 2. High Places - You In Forty Years 3. Here We Go Magic - Tokyo London US Korea 4. High Places - The Tree With the Lights In It 5. Death of the Neighbourhood - And the Children Sang a Song That Never Ended 6. Hyperjinx Tricycle - Face Your Doom 7. DJ Format - Participation Prerequisite 8. Adem - These Lights Are Meaningful 9. Tiger Force - Tiger Force Anthem 10. The Eccentronic Research Council - You Ruined My Chippy Thursday (Should of Gone to Codrophenia) 11. Tetra Splendour - Mr. Bishi 12. Jonquil - Pencil, Paper 13. Deep Country - I Love You Brad 14. Lee Hazlewood - Nothing 15. United States Three - Lemonade (he announced “Morning Break”) 16. Dananananaykroyd - All Us Authors 17. Willy Mason - Where the Humands Eat 18. Tobias Fröberg - Don’t Worry About a Thing 19. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me 20. Tapes ‘n Tapes - Headshock 21. Mazarin - I’m With You and the Constellations 22. Scout Niblett - Moon Look 23. Yonlu - Qtip 24. The Bell Parade - A Shirt That I Once Wore 25. Animal Collective - Grass 26. Danielson - Five Stars and Two Thumbs Up 27. Money Can’t Buy Music - After We Were Drunk, But Before We Were Dead 28. My Friend The Chocolate Cake - The Gossip

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 20, 2025

Tracklist: 1. The Album Leaf - Window (Mixed) 2. Trashcan Sinatras - It’s a Miracle 3. Fibrotown - Some Boys Don’t Dance 4. Casiotone of the Painfully Alone - Natural Light 5. Bon Iver - Towers 6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Hot Body Rub 7. Wheedle’s Groove & Broham - Everything Good is Bad 8. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round 9. Stephin Merritt - Forever and a Day 10. Polar Bear & Sebastian Rochford - Of Hi Lands 11. Annie Hayden - Hip Hurray 12. Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker 13. Dale Winton introducing a sketch 14. Chris Chapple - It’s A Love Song 15. Joe Gideon & The Shark - Poor Born (he announced “Snake Candy”) 16. Nathan Bowles - Moonshine is the Sunshine 17. Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles 18. Sparklehorse - Shade and Honey 19. Rabbit Season - Ready Set Fire 20 Still Corners - Submarine 21. Bright Eyes - Method Acting 22. McClusky - Rice Is Nice 23. McClusky - Joy 24. Skeletons - More Than the One Thing 25. Jarvis Cocker - Baby’s Coming Back To Me 26. Concrete Knives - Roller Boogie 27. Great Lake Swimmers - When It Flows

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 19, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal 2. Lykke Li - Get Some 3. Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats - Always Thinking of You 4. Juliana Barwick - Flown 5. Pavement - In the Mouth of Desert 6. The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - The Beard Is Immortal 7. The Shins - Australia 8. The Robot Heart - Crossing the Desert in a Taxi 9. Jim White - When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name 10. The Concretes - Oh Baby 11. Jeffrey Lewis - Everyone’s Honest 12. The Dodos - Eyelids 13. Loney Dear - Sinister In a State of Hope 14. Tame Impala - It Is Not Meant to Be 15. Róisin Murphy - Whatever 16. Field Music - I’m Tired 17. Meursault - Payday 18. Clogs - Fiddlegree 19. Nathan Fake - Bumblechord 20. Thom Yorke - Atoms for Peace 21. Neko Case - Bracing for Sunday 22. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Sailor’s Grave a Sea of Sheep 23. Tender Trap - 6 Billion People 24. Grandaddy -Skateboarding Saves Me Twice

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 18, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Jens Lekman - I Saw Her In the Anti-War Demonstration 2. Electric Guest - Awake 3. Tracey Thorn - Oh, the Divorces! 4. Clogs - No. 6 5. Clogs - Who’s Down Now 6. Field Music - Sorry Again, Mate 7. Sky Larkin - Coffee Drinker 8. Lee Dorsey - Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further 9. Sodastream - Keith and Tina 10. Foster the People - I Would Do Anything for You 11. Jack Adapter - If I Was More Versatile 12. Jack Adapter - A Crystal Beamer 13. Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin 14. Jim James - Here in Spirit 15. Richmond Fontaine - Angus King Tries to Leave the House 16. Mirah & Spectatrone International - Luminescence 17. Lonely Dear - I Fought the Battle of Trinidad and Tobago 18. Islands - Rough Gem 19. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Demon Dance 20. Crayon Fields - Choir of Tiny Boys 21. John Martyn - Cocain 22. Hanne Hukkelberg - Break My Body 23. BC Camplight - I’ve Got a Bad Cold 24. The Motifs - Diagonal 25. Jack Lewis and the Cutoffs - The Unicef Box 26. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring 27. Andrew Bird - Don’t Be Scared 28. Eleanor Friedberger - Are We Good? 29. Leftfield & Tunde Adebimpe - Bad Radio

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 17, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Toumani Diabaté’s Summetric Orchestra - Mali Sadio 2. Ariel Pink - Four Shadows 3. Jeb Loy Nichols - Days Are Mighty 4. Low - You See Everything 5. Factory Floor - Meet Met at the End 6. Wooden Wand - Servant To Blues 7. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction 8. L. Pierre - Gust 9. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Live) 10. Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms (Photek Remix) 11. Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea - Better Off Dancing 12. It’s a Musical - Take Off Your T-Shirt 13. The House of Love - Love You Too Much 14. Best Coast - Let’s Go Home 15. Best Coast - Up All Night 16. Caged Animals - Stop Hurting Each Other 17. Liars - No. 1 Against the Rush 18. Sébastian Schuller - 1978 19. These Patterns - Species 20. Ben + Vesper - The Stomach

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 14, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Yesterday, Never 2. Yo La Tengo - Today Is the Day 3. Field Music - Give It Lose It Take It 4. Broadcast - Look Outside 5. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive 6. Frida Hyvönen - I Drive My Friend 7. R. Stevie Moore - Here Comes Summer Again 8. Dog Is Dead - Glockenspiel Song 9. Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags 10. Wetdog - Magnet Face 11. Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve 12. Tim Oxley - The Art of Happiness 13. The Bad Plus - This Guy’s In Love With You 14. Boards of Canada - One Very Important Though 15. Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit 16. Dntel - I’d Like to Know 17. Simple Kid - One Domestic Cat 18. The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O. 19. Sol Seppy - Move (he announced “Come Running”) 20. The Lemonheads - Rule of Three 21. Tift Merrit - Sweet Spot 22. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute 23. Daniel Johnston - Devil Town 24. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider 25. Sparklehorse - Sick of Goodbyes 26. Malcolm Middleton - We’re All Going to Die

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 13, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Herman Dune - All About You 2. Final Fantasy - Adventure.Exe 3. Lambchop - If Not I’ll Just Die (ended early for swearing) 4. Lambchop - Nice Without Mercy 5. Polyphonic Spree - Section 16 (One Man Show) 6. The Tigers - Beautiful Florist (ended early for CD being too dirty) 7. Kid Sam - Jodie Makes a Fire 8. The Lodger - Have a Little Faith in People 9. Tortoise - A Survey 10. Delta Sleep - Lake Sprinkle Sprankle 11. Memory Tapes - Humming 12. The Innoncense Mission - Stay Awake 13. Lowlakes - Replace the Face 14. DeVotchKa - Everything’s Go ‘Em 15. Nada Surf - Me and My Arrow 16. The Old Dance School - Speghetti Panic 17. Ron Sexsmith - Must Have Heard It Wrong 18. New Look - Everything 19. Califone - Ape-Like 20. Califone - A Wish Made While Burning Onions Will Come True 21. Final Fantasy - This Is The Dream Of Win & Regime 22. It’s Jo and Danny - Benbecula 23. It’s Jo and Danny - Repentant Song 24. Mount Kimbie - Southgate (DJ-Kicks) 25. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup 26. Billy Bragg - Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance 27. Jetplane Landing - Do It… Now! 28. The Sea and Cake - Skyscraper

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 12, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Los Campesinos! - Avocado, Baby 2. KOKOKO! - Tokolina (Citizen Boy Remix) 3. The Fiery Furnaces - Waiting To Know You 4. Grand Salvo - A History of Weakness 5. Solange - Don’t Touch My Hair (ft. Sampha) 6. Twerps - Simple Feelings 7. It’s Jo and Danny - Sweetheart (he announced the track “Adrenaline”) 8. Hudson Mohawks - Deepspace (ft. Miguel) 9. Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left 10. Spare Snare - Super Slinky 11. The Golden Palominos - A Letter Back 12. Grizzly Bear - Little Brother 13. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You 14. The Beautiful Girls - Cash Money 15. THUMPERS - Marvel 16. The Reunion Show - Stuck On You 17. Luke Doucet - Valdivostok 18. Luke Doucet - If I Drop Names of Exotic Towns That You’ll Never See, in the Songs That I Write, It’s That That’s All I Have When I Miss My Girl & You’re Taking Yours Home Tonight 19. Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax O.K. 20. Calexico - Yours and Mine (not announced) 21. Danielson - Things Against Stuff 22. Wounded Knee - My Wooden Cupboard 23. My Computer - Fill My Cup 24. Perfume Genius - Queen 25. Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 11, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough 2. Levy - On the Dance Floor 3. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Kiss Me Again 4. Beirut - Brandenburg 5. Bob Evans - My Big Mouth 6. Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions 7. Gene Defcon - I’m Not a Scoreboard 8. Preston School of Industry - Whalebones 9. Blind Pilot - Stillbeats 10. Doug Paisley - Bluebird 11. The Webb Sisters - Words That Mobilise 12. Mogwai - R U Still In 2 It 13. Amateur Best - Walk in Three 14. Whitley - Cheap Clothes 15. Michael Franti & Spearhead - We Don’t Stop 16. Eberg - I Cannot Ask You to Live in a Flat 17. James Blake - I Never Learnt to Share 18. Field Music - How Should I Know If You’ve Changed 19. Times New Viking - Teen Drama 20. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Open Your Heart 21. Remember Remember - The Dancing 22. Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook 23. Howie Beck - Don’t Be Afraid 24. 2manydjs - Dance to the Music / Oh Sheila (mixed)

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A Reason to Wake Up - March 10, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Sufjan Stevens - Now That I’m Older 2. Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races 3. Cashier No. 9 - To Make You Feel Better 4. Curse of Lono - I’d Start a War for You 5. Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern - Calling out Your Name Again 6. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix) 7. Harvey Danger - Cream and Bastards Rise 8. Röyksopp - Sparks 9. Hanne Hukkelberg - Do Not as I Do 10. Alela Diane - Clickty Clack 11. Chapel Club - Blind

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The Final Sunday Special Sunday, February 2, 2025

Pictured: John Kearns, Rosie Jones, Daniel Kitson, Jin Hao Li, Ele McKenzie, Rob Beckett.

Photo credit: Will Briggs

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 10, 2025

Tracklist: 1. King Creosote - Not One Bit Ashamed 2. The Lemonheads - Clang Bang Clang 3. Mazarin - I’ll See You In The Evening 4. Khaya - Do the Thing 5. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Yellow T-Shirt 6. Tapes ‘n Tapes - George Michael 7. My Friend The Chocolate Cake - Song From Under the Flooboards 8. Cat Power - Back of Your Head 9. Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Action 10. The Year Of - Ronnie Hawkins 11. Thomas Strønen - The Stone Carriers 12. Pip Blom - Babies Are a Lie 13. James Yuill - First In Line 14. Adam Green - Who’s Your Boyfriend 15. The Elected - A Response to Greed 16. Benjamin Shaw - Hey, Where’s My Deputy? 17. Adem - One In a Million 18. Cymbals Eat Guitars - What Dogs See 19. Konono N°1 - Thin Legs 20. Acid Casuals - Y Ferch Ar y Cei Yn Rio 21. Acid Casuals - J.T. 100% 22. Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son 23. Mary Hampton - Because You’re Young 24. Will Oldham - Gezundheit 25. Stars - Take Me To the Riot 26. Lambchop - Up With People

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 7, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain 2. Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve 3. Plaid - Tophapy 4. Bart & Friends - Come and See Me (he announced weave your name?) 5. Richmond Fontaine - We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River 6. Bart & Friends - Make You Blush 7. Josh Ritter - Right Moves 8. P.G. Six - When I Was a Young Man 9. The Fiery Furnaces - The Philadelphia Grand Jury 10. Davey Lane - Komarov 11. The Plimptons - Nobody Likes a Comedy Rock Band 12. California Snow Story - The Only One That Matters 13. Children Collide - Look Good on Paper 14. Brad Barr - Chopstick (he announced the track “Do I Have to Understand That?” but it was not that) 15. Curtis Whitefinger - A Certain Girl 16. Cryptacize - Stop Watch 17. EMA - So Blonde 18. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rockin’ Shopping Center 19. FourPlay String Quartet - Just Like U Said It Would B (he announced the track “Domino”) 20. You Already Know - This Could Last Forever 21. Horace Silver - Liberated Brother 22. Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me (live) 23. Mid-State Orange - Introduction to City Lights 24. Masters of the Hemisphere - Give Me Something Clearly

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 6, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Camperdown & Out - Manly 2. Misty’s Big Adventure - There Is Hope 3. Shellac - Riding Bikes 4. Mice Parade - Tokyo Late Night 5. Rozi Plain - Let’s Go 6. Rozi Plain - Stolen Shark 7. Mice Parade - Recover 8. Shellac - Gary 9. Misty’s Big Adventure - Saturday Morning 10. Camperdown & Out - Hey Woman 11. Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast 12. The Hidden Cameras - Death of a Tune 13. The Apples In Stereo - Sun is Out 14. Mountaineer - Morning Mist 15. Glasser - Glad 16. Doug Paisley - Because I Love You 17. Hanne Hukkelberg - Break My Body 18. Andrew Bird - The Privateers 19. Deaf Mutes - Wild Goose Chase 20. Pedro the Lion - I Am Always the One Who Calls 21. Camera Obscura - Keep It Clean 22. Cut Copy - Strange Nostalgia for the Future 23. Cut Copy - Need You Now 24. Factory Floor - Turn It Up 25. The Sea and Cake - Weekend (he announced Car Alarm but he played Weekend) 26. Erland & The Carnival - So Tired in the Morning

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 5, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Dntel - Human Voice 2. They Might Be Giants - Judy Is Your Viet Nam 3. Larkin Grimm - Ride That Cyclone 4. Rob Longstaff - Dishpigs Lament 5. Martin Craft - You Are the Music 6. Jenny Hval - Take Care of Yourself 7. Larkin Grimm - All the Pleasures in the World 8. Fred Thomas - Little Songs 9. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart 10. Little Name - Orienteering 11. Bearsuit - Prove Katie Wrong 12. Deerhoof - O’Malley, Former Underdog 13. Bearsuit - Welcome Bearsuit Spacehotel 14. Dearhoof - Chatterboxes 15. Reel Big Fish - Jig 16. Bright Eyes - Cleanse Song 17. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart 18. Graham Coxon - Bottom Bunk 19. Jeff Hanson - Now We Knkw 20. Darwin Deez - Chelsea’s Hotel 21. Cassetteboy - Clever Girl 22. Gladys Knight & the Pips - Bourgie’ Bourgie’ 23. Art of Fighting - Busted, Broken, Forgotten 24. Thundercat - A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II) 25. Bright Eyes - Four Winds

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 4, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Guided By Voices - Useless Inventions (not “Machines” as he announced) 2. Neil Halstead - Two Stones In My Pocket 3. The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers 4. Young Black Teenagers - Punks, Lies & Video Tape 5. The Peryls - Suffer In Silence 6. Sodastream - Young and Able 7. Grand Salvo - Without His Friends 8. Philip Selway - By Some Miracle 9. Twerps - This Guy 10. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Marquis de Tren - 25 11. Primal Scream - If They Move, Kill ‘Em 12. The Peryls - You’re On Your Own 13. The Cave Singers - Dancing On Our Graves 14. Unknown Compilation - Track 1 15. Unknown Compilation - Track 5 16. Unknown Compilation - Track 4 17. Unknown Compilation - Track 6 18. The London Suede - Trash 19. Absentee - We Should Never Have Children 20. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers 21. Paul Gilbert - I’m Not Afraid of the Police 22. Retribution Gospel Choir - Can’t Walk Out 23. Richard Youngs - Nathan Rice 24. David Thomas Broughton - River Lay 25. There Will Be Fireworks - Midfield Maestro 26. Field Music - Them That Do Nothing 27. Animal Collective - Derek 28. The Curtains - World’s Most Dangerous Woman 29. Dan Sartain - Tryin’ to Say 30. Mogwai - George Square Thatcher Death Party 31. Wild Beasts - Sweet Spot

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A Reason to Wake Up - February 3, 2025

Tracklist: 1. Errors - Dance Music 2. The Divine Comedy - Love What You Do 3. I’m from Barcelona - Oversleeping 4. I’m from Barcelona - Chicken Pox 5. The Bees - This Town 6. The Bees - Sweet Like a Champion 7. Kimya Dawson - Viva La Persistence 8. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From 9. Andrew Bird - Lusitania 10. Hermitude - Get in My Life 11. Graham Coxon - Bitter Tears 12. Graham Coxon - Baby, You’re out of My Mind 13. Vivian Girls - All the Time 14. Richard Youngs, Alex Nielson - It’s All Waves 15. The Hire Wire - Pump Your Little Heart 16. Dear Nora - Living Song 17. Iron & Wine & Ben Bridwell - This Must Be the Place 18. Dear Nora - The Lonesome Border, Pt. 1 19. Dignan Porch - I Am the Hedge (Interlude) 20. Dignan Porch - I’m Certain I’ll Die 21. Aiden Smith - Early As The Trees 22. Harper Simon - All to God 23. Errors - Sorry About the Mess 24. Loch Lomond - Ghost Of An Earworm 25. Gilla Band - Texting an Alien Aidan Smith - Dental Records 26. Aidan Smith - Dental Records 27. The Go! Team - The Power Is On 28. The Low Anthem - Boring 737 29. 50 Foot Wave - Glory Weed