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Otter Pop Radio

catchy and fun, not awful and gross!

About Me


otter pop radio is an internet radio station (on live365) where you will hear lots of new indie and indiepop, shoegaze, and a bit of new wave and 80s / early 90s alternative (absolutely no grunge). Anything and everything that is catchy and fun , not awful and gross .
I do check out all the artists that ask to friend me, although sometimes I get very backed up. So I will listen eventually.
I won't fill your comments section with stupid images or blanket announcements. I'm only interested in having people check out otter pop radio and hear some good pop music. Having a few listeners is the only way to justify the expense of live365.
All artists currently in the otter pop radio playlist are listed below with a link to a myspace page (if possible) when you can hear more. Otherwise I'll link to info wherever I can find it. There are close to 600 songs (about 35 hours of music) in the current playlist, which songs coming and going fairly regularly.
A.D. (Melbourne, Australia)
A Classic Education (Bologna, Italy)
A Smile And A Ribbon (Sweden)
Able Tasmans (Auckland, New Zealand)
Adorable (England)
Aerial Love Feed (New York, NY)
Afternoon Naps (Cleveland, OH)
Air (France)
Air Formation (Sussex, England)
Air Miami (Washington, DC)
The Aislers Set (San Francisco, CA)
All My Friends (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Aluminum Group (Chicago, IL)
Ambulance LTD (Brooklyn, NY)
Amusement Parks on Fire (Nottingham, England)
Annemarie (Indonesia)
The Antiques (Washington, DC)
The Anyways (Oxford, England)
The April Skies (Bergen, Norway)
The Arrogants (Huntington Beach, CA)
Asobi Seksu (Brooklyn, NY)
Astrolab (Bandung, Indonesia)
Au Revoir Simone (Brooklyn, NY)
The Auteurs (England)
Autohaze (Australia)
Autour de Lucie (France)
The Autumn Leaves (Minneapolis, MN)
Aztec Camera (Glasgow, Scotland)
ballboy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Band of Horses (Mt. Pleasant, SC)
The Bartlebees (Munich, Germany)
Baskervilles (New York, NY)
The Bats (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Beat Happening (Olympia, WA)
The Beautiful South (England)
Bedroom Eyes (Ostersund, Sweden)
The Bedroom Singer (Sweden)
Belle and Sebastian (Glasgow, Scotland)
Daniel Benjamin (Stuttgart, Germany)
Bermuda Triangle (Oslo, Norway)
Biff Bang Pow! (London, England)
Big Dipper (Boston, MA)
Big Leaves (Wales)
Billie the Vision & the Dancers (Malmo, Sweden)
Bishop Allen (Brooklyn, NY)
Black Kids (Jacksonville, FL)
Black Umbrella (NY, CA)
Blackberry Wine (Carlisle, England)
Blissful (Sweden)
Blue Aeroplanes (Bristol, England)
Blueboy (England)
BMX Bandits (Bellshill, Scotland)
Boat Club (Sweden)
BOB (West Penwith, England)
The Bodines (Glossop, England)
The Boo Radleys (Liverpool, England)
Boy Genius (Brooklyn, NY)
Billy Bragg (London, England)
Brian (Dublin, Ireland)
The Bridal Shop (Sweden)
Brilliant Corners (Bristol, England)
British Sea Power (Brighton, England)
Brown Recluse Sings (Philadelphia, PA)
Bubblegum Splash (Salisbury, England)
Burgers of Beef (Perth, Australia)
Butcher Boy (Glasgow, Scotland)
Buttercup (Boston, MA)
Butterglory (Lawrence, KS)
California Snow Story (Scotland)
Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland)
Camper van Beethoven (Santa Cruz, CA)
The Cannanes (Sydney, Australia)
Cardinal (Boston, MA)
The Carrots (Austin, TX)
Cascade (Indonesia)
The Cat's Miaow (Melbourne, Australia)
Cats On Fire (Turku, Finland)
Celestial (Örebro, Sweden)
The Chameleons (Manchester, England)
Charlie Big Time (Bolton, England)
The Chesterf!elds (Yeovil, England)
The Chills (Dunedin, New Zealand)
The Church (Australia)
Cineplexx (Barcelona, Spain)
Cinnamon (Sweden)
The Clamheads (England)
The Clean (Dunedin, New Zealand)
The Clientele (Hampshire, England)
Close Lobsters (Paisley, Scotland)
Club 8 (Sweden)
Cocteau Twins (Grangemouth, Scotland)
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions (UK)
Edwyn Collins (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Concretes (Stockholm, Sweden)
Crowded House (Australia)
Crushed Stars (Dallas, TX)
Crystal Stilts (Brooklyn, NY)
The Darlings (London, England)
The Dating Pool (Seattle, WA)
Days (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Decoration (London, England)
The Dentists (Chatham, England)
The Diableros (Toronto, ON)
Disco Inferno (England)
Dislocation Dance (Manchester, England)
Douglas Heart (Gothenburg, Sweden)
East River Pipe (Astoria, Queens, NY)
Echo & the Bunnymen (Liverpool, England)
The Electric Pop Group (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Eskimohunter (Los Angeles, CA)
Eux Autres (Portland, OR)
Even As We Speak (Sydney, Australia)
Everyday Sensations (Stockholm, Sweden)
Fad Gadget (Leeds, England)
Felt (Birmingham, England)
The Field Mice (Croydon, England)
The Fine Arts Showcase (London, England)
Fireflies (Chicago, IL)
fIREHOSE (San Pedro, CA)
The Flaming Stars (London, England)
Flannel (Aichi, Japan)
The Flatmates (Bristol, England)
For Against (Lincoln, NE)
The Foundry Field Recordings (Columbia, MO)
Fra Lippo Lippi (Oslo, Norway)
Fragile (England)
The Frank & Walters (Cork, Ireland)
Friends (Stockton-on-Tees, England)
Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Georgie James (Washington, DC)
The Gist (Cardiff, Wales)
Go Sailor (Berkeley, CA)
The Go-Betweens (Brisbane, Australia)
Gold Sounds (England)
Good Shoes (England)
The Grade Grubbers (Buffalo, NY)
Grande-Marlaska (Madrid, Spain)
Pete Green (England)
The Groove Farm (Bristol, England)
The Groovy Little Numbers (Bellshill, Scotland)
Guided By Voices (Dayton, OH)
The Guild League (Melbourne, Australia)
Half Man Half Biscuit (Liverpool, England)
The Hardy Boys (Greenock, Scotland)
Hari and Aino (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Haywains (Bristol, England)
Heavenly (Oxford, England)
Heko (Sweden)
Helie & Sunshine (Portland, OR)
The Helio Sequence (Portland, OR)
Herr Nilsson (Bergen, Norway)
The Hi-Life Companion (Bristol, England)
The High (England)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 (England / Seattle, WA)
Holiday (New Haven, CT)
The Honest Johns (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England)
HoneyBunch (Providence, RI)
The Honeydrips (Göteborg, Sweden)
Horowitz (Stoke-on-Trent, England)
The Hot Toddies (Oakland, CA)
The House of Love (Camberwell, England)
The Housemartins (Hull, England)
The Hummingbirds (Australia)
The Icicle Works (Liverpool, England)
Indurain (London, England)
Inspiral Carpets (Manchester, England)
Irene (Sweden)
The Jack Rubies (London, England)
The Jam (Woking, England)
Jasmine Minks (Scotland)
Javelins (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy (Northamptonshire, England)
Je Suis Animal (Oslo, Norway)
The Jesus & Mary Chain (Scotland)
Jim Jiminee (Fleet, England)
Josef K (Scotland)
David Kilgour (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Kleenex Girl Wonder (Chicago, IL)
The La's (Liverpool, England)
Lacrosse (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Ladybug Transistor (Brooklyn, NY)
The Last Shadow Puppets (England)
The Legendary Bang (Hamburg, Germany)
The Legends (Stockholm, Sweden)
Jens Lekman (Sweden)
Leslies (Christianstad, Sweden)
Let's Active (Winston-Salem, NC)
Liechtenstein (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Little Name (Liverpool, England)
The Lodger (Leeds, England)
The Loft (England)
Look Blue Go Purple (New Zealand)
The Lorimer Sound (Brooklyn, NY)
Love Dance (Bergen, Norway)
The Lovekevins (Malmo, Sweden)
The Lovelies (England)
The Lucksmiths (Melbourne, Australia)
Luna (New York, NY)
Lush (England)
Magic Bullets (San Francisco)
The Manhattan Love Suicides (England)
Maps (Northampton, England)
The Mary Onettes (Torpa, Jönköping, Sweden)
Mary Queen of Scots (Birmingham, England)
Masters of the Hemisphere (Athens, GA)
Eric Matthews (Portland, OR)
The McTells (Hertford, England)
The Medalist (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Meeting Places (Los Angeles, CA)
Mellow Drunk (San Francisco, CA)
MGMT (Brooklyn, NY)
Malcolm Middleton (Falkirk, Scotland)
The Mighty Lemon Drops (Wolverhampton, England)
Mighty Mighty (Birmingham, England)
The Mixers (England)
Mobius Band (Brooklyn, NY)
Mojave 3 (London, England)
The Monochrome Set (England)
Monograph (England)
The Monophones (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Moose (London, England)
The Morning Paper (Stockholm, Sweden)
Moscow Olympics (Philippines)
My Bloody Valentine (London, England)
My Raining Stars (France)
My Teenage Stride (Brooklyn, NY)
National Pastime (Exeter, England)
Neon Neon (Cardiff, Wales / Los Angeles, CA)
Next Time Passions (Greece)
Northern Fields (Örebro, Sweden)
Northern Picture Library (London, England)
Northern Portrait (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Notwist (Wilheim, Germany)
The Occasional Keepers (France / London / Glasgow)
The Ocean Blue (Hershey, PA)
The Odd Fiddler (Sweden / London)
OMD (Wirral, England)
One Happy Island (Boston, MA)
One Night Suzan (Greece)
Orange Juice (Glasgow, Scotland)
Orange Lem (Pesaro, Italy)
The Orchids (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Owls (Minneapolis, MN)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (New York, NY)
Palomar (Brooklyn, NY)
Panda Riot (Chicago, IL)
Pants Yell! (Cambridge, MA)
Paper Moon (Winnipeg, MB)
Cloetta Paris (Stockholm, Sweden)
Paris Street (Nashville,TN)
The Pastels (Glasgow, Scotland)
Peace In Our Time (Uppsala, Sweden)
Pencil Tin (Melbourne, Australia)
people: in airports (England)
Pernice Brothers (Dorchester, MA)
Pia Fraus (Tallinn, Estonia)
Pocketbooks (London, England)
Poole (Washington, DC)
Postcards (Montreal, PQ)
The Postmarks (Miami, FL)
The Power of Dreams (Dublin, Ireland)
The Primitives (Coventry, England)
The Psychotic Reaction (Whitstable, England)
purplepaige (Singapore)
The Purrs (Seattle, WA)
The Radio Dept. (Malmö / Stockholm, Sweden)
The Railway Children (England)
Razorcuts (Oxford, England)
The Red Button (Los Angeles, CA)
Regina (Helsinki, Finland)
The Relationships (Oxford, England)
REM (Athens, GA)
The Replacements (Minneapolis, MN)
Revolver (London, England)
Jonathan Richman (Boston, MA)
Ride (Oxford, England)
Riverside (Philadelphia, PA)
Rocketship (Portland, OR)
The Ropers (Washington, DC)
The Royal We (Glasgow, Scotland)
Sad Lovers & Giants (Watford, England)
Said Liquidator (Newcastle, England)
Saint Etienne (London, England)
Sakert (Sweden)
The Salteens (Vancouver, BC)
Sambassadeur (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Sarandon (London, England)
The School (Cardiff, Wales)
Schroeder (Newark, DE)
The Sea Urchins (Birmingham, England)
See Venus (Miami, FL)
The Servants (London, England)
Ron Sexsmith (Toronto, ON)
Shack (Liverpool, England)
She, Sir (Austin, TX)
The Shining Hour (Worthing, England)
The Shop Assistants (Edinburgh, Scotland)
The Shortwave Set (London, England)
Signed Papercuts (Sweden)
The Simons! (Exeter, England)
Sing-Sing (London, England)
Singapore Sling (Reykjavik, Iceland)
The Sleepover Disaster (Fresno, CA)
Sleepy Township (Melbourne, Australia)
Slowdive (London, England)
Small Factory (Providence, RI)
The Smiths (Manchester, England)
Soda Fountain Rag (Bergen, Norway)
The Soft Boys (Cambridge, England)
Some Beans (Bristol, England)
Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Springfield, MO)
The Sound of Arrows (Stockholm, Sweden)
South Ambulance (Stockholm, Sweden)
Spearmint (London, England)
Speedmarket Avenue (Stockholm, Sweden)
Spinning Jennys (Norfolk, England)
Split Enz (New Zealand)
Spoon (Austin, TX)
Springfactory (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Springfields (Barrington, IL)
Starlet (Sweden)
Stars (Montreal, PQ)
Stars In Coma (Skåne, Sweden)
The State of Samuel (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Steinbecks (Melbourne, Australia)
Stereolab (London, England)
Sternbuschweg (Berlin, Germany)
The Stone Roses (Manchester, England)
Strange Idols (London, England)
Strawberry Whiplash (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Style Council (London, England)
The Sugargliders (Melbourne, Australia)
Summer Cats (Australia)
The Sunny Street (London, England)
Sunny Summer Day (Indonesia)
Super Furry Animals (Wales)
Surefire Broadcast (Hammonton, NJ)
Swedish Polarbears (Karlstad, Sweden)
Sweet Apple Pie (Toulouse, France)
Tafra (Stockholm, Sweden)
Tahiti 80 (Rouen, France)
Talk Talk (London, England)
Talulah Gosh (Oxford, England)
Teenage Fanclub (Bellshill, Scotland)
Television Personalities (London, England)
That Petrol Emotion (Derry, N. Ireland)
That Uncertain Feeling (England)
The The (England)
This Is Ivy League (Brooklyn, NY)
This Year's Model (Sweden)
Throwing Muses (Newport, RI)
Tiger Baby (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Tillmanns (Göteborg, Sweden)
Tokyo Police Club (Newmarket, ON)
Trembling Blue Stars (London, England)
Tsunami (Arlington, VA)
Tullycraft (Seattle, WA)
Ultra Vivid Scene (New York NY)
The Undertones (Derry, N. Ireland)
Unrest (Washington, DC)
Variable Stars (Palo Alto, CA)
Velvet Crush (Champaign, IL)
The Verlaines (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Versus (New York, NY)
Vivian Girls (Brooklyn, NY)
Voxtrot (Austin, TX)
The Vultures (Edinburgh, Scotland)
The Wake (Glasgow, Scotland)
Walker Kong (Minneapolis, MN)
The Wannadies (Skelleftea, Sweden)
The Wedding Present (Leeds, England)
The Wee Cherubs (Scotland)
Paul Weller (Woking, England)
Whipping Boy (Dublin, Ireland)
The Wild Swans (Liverpool, England)
Wire (UK)
Witch Hazel (Kent, OH)
The Wolfhounds (London, England)
The Wombats (Liverpool, England)
Wye Oak (Baltimore, MD)
XTC (Swindon, England)
Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, NJ)
The Young Untold (Baltimore, MD)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2006
Band Website: live365.com/stations/atomic_otter
Band Members: Matt
Influences: You can see all the artists in my current playlist in the bio section.

Just some of the labels currently putting out music I like or did at one time:

Australia:
Book Club
Candle
Library
Pop Boomerang
Summershine

Canada:
Endearing
Humblebee

France:
Plastic Pancake

Germany:
A Turntable Friend
Apricot
Firestation
Little Teddy
Marina
Marsh-Marigold
Schinderweis
Tapete

Greece:
This Happy Feeling

Italy:
Teen Sound

New Zealand:
Flying Nun

Norway:
Perfect Pop

Peru:
Plastilina

Singapore:
Fruit

Spain:
Bubbletone
Discos de Paseo
Elefant
Siesta

Sweden:
A West Side Fabrication
Canarie
Fraction
Labrador
North of No South

United Kingdom:
4AD
53rd & 3rd
Chapter 22
Creation
Dreamworld
El
Factory
Fire
Fortuna Pop!
Heaven
La-di-da
Letterbox
Pop Noise
Postcard
Sarah
Shinkansen
Stiff
Subway
Vinyl Japan
Waaaaaah!
Where It's At Is Where You Are

United States:
Absolutely Kosher
Asaurus
The Bus Stop Label
Clairecords
Cloudberry
Enigma
Harriet
HHBTM
K
Magic Marker
Matinee
Merge
Microindie
Minty Fresh
Rainbow Quartz
Rhino
Rollerderby
Secretly Canadian
Series Two
Shelflife
Skipping Stones
Slumberland
Sunday
Sundazed
Toy
Velvet Blue Music
Words On Music

You'll also hear plenty of selections from collections like:
Children of Nuggets
The Sound of Leamington Spa, Volumes 1-5

and so on, in that fashion.

Sounds Like: My record collection; music you can find on excellent blogs like Skatterbrain! and Indie-mp3 ; raspberry wheat ale.
Record Label: if i had one, i'd call it otter pop records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

31 hours of music

There are now 541 songs in the playlist, over 31 hours of music.  I've still a bit more room to fill, so there'll be even more shortly.  Feel free to let me know of any new tunes you have.&n...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:42:00 PST

New updates and otter pop radio news.

I've switched subscriptions on live365 and now have about twice as much capacity, so when I'm finished updating, I'll have over 600 tracks in the playlist, probably close to 40 hours of music.  T...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:16:00 PST

Finally, some new tunes on otter pop radio

I wish I could update more often, but I'm an accountant by day (yes, you are jealous), and it's tax season. Adorable - Sunshine Smile (1992)Afternoon Naps - The End Is Near (2008)All My Friends - Thin...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:17:00 PST

Finally, some new tunes on otter pop radio

I wish I could update more often, but I'm an accountant by day (yes, you are jealous), and it's tax season. Adorable - Sunshine Smile (1992)Afternoon Naps - The End Is Near (2008)All My Friends - Thin...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:17:00 PST

still adding more and more songs

I've been averaging about 10-15 new songs a day, and when I'm finished, there will be about 400 songs (about 20 hours) on otter pop radio.  Since nobody seems to, and I wouldn't expect anybody to...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:22:00 PST

over 200 new songs added this week and next! yes, 200.

Yes, it's been awhile.  Busy and all that.  Anyway, I've been working on some changes to otter pop radio.  I've decided to switch to a lower bitrate on live365 in order to fit more song...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:19:00 PST

updates, finally. 73 new tracks.

It's been so long, I decided to update about one-third of my playlist. I'm also finally catching up with emails and checking out songs by friend requests.First, the new songs (or at least, from the l...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:30:00 PST

new songs for the end of August

Aerial Love Feed - Full Tilt (2000)Apple Orchard - A Hiding Smile (2006)Bedroom Eyes - The Skywriter (2006)Billy Bragg - Help Save the Youth of America (1986)Brilliant Corners - Jim's Room (1986)Camer...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:03:00 PST

20 new tunes added on August 1. Heed what this wise man says...

Al, Marc, and Sandy - Julie Bell (2007)Beat Happening - Red Head Walking (1991)Blueboy - Cosmopolitan (1994)Broken Down Lorry - Monty (What Have You Done) (2006)Edwyn Collins - If You Could Love Me (1...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:39:00 PST

new update. sparkling new tunes

I could've updated a little sooner, but I was waiting to see if rates were going to shoot up after the 15th.  It seems there is a bit of a repreive, so otter pop radio goes on. The Blue Orchids -...
Posted by Otter Pop Radio on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:37:00 PST