Here’s our festive selection of music to help your Christmas and New Year go with a bang.
The full list of the tracks we played on our seasonal special edition is:

Eugene McGuinness – White christmas
Vessels – On Monos
Blank Realm – Falling Down The Stairs

Christmas Countdown
5 Warpaint – Love is to Die
4 St Vincent – Birth in Reverse
3 Against Me! – Unconditional Love
2 Seafood – Beaty Heart
1 Alt-J – Every Other Freckle

Louis Armstrong – Zat You Santa Claus?
Rattlesnake Shake – Some Like it Hot
Cate Le Bon – I Can’t help You
Embrace – In The End
Maximo Park – Give Get Take
Eugene McGuinness – In The Bleak Midwinter

You can listen again by clicking here and the show is being repeated from 8pm – 9pm on New Year’s Day

The festive season is in full swing – and here’s part three of our annual Christmas Countdown of the Top 20 tracks of the year.
The full tracklisting for our most recent show was as follows:

Biscuithead and the Badgers – Snow
Thurston Moore – The Best Day
The Delvaux – Spider’s Bride

Christmas Countdown:
10 – Parquet Courts – Black and White
9 – New Pornographers – Dancehall Domine
8 – The Bohicas – Swarm
7 – Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
6 – Archie Bronson Outfit – Two Doves On A Lake

Zed – White Knuckle Ride
Mini Mansions – Death is A Girl
Eugene McGuinness – Christmas in Killarney
Mark Heslop – Song for the City Gent
Jed’s Blues Band – Dirty Water
Lone Lady – Groove It Out

You can listen again by clicking here – and don’t forget the Top 5 will be part of Bradford Beat from 8pm to 9pm on Christmas Day.

We’re now halfway through this year’s rundown of the best 20 tracks of the past 12 months.

Here’s a full list of the tracks we played on this week’s Bradford Beat:

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Christmas Eve
Embrace – Quarters
Gorgeous – The Chill
Marika Hackman – Drown

Christmas Countdown
15 Superfood – Right On Satellite
14 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Coming Down
13 Blank Realm – Bulldozer Love
12 Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus/Oh The Joy
11 Tune-Yards- Water Fountain

The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree
Thurston Moore – The Best Day
Vessels – On Monos

You can listen again by clicking here.

The latest edition of Bradford Beat saw us kick off a rundown of our favourite tracks of the last 12 months.

Here’s a full list of what we played on the show:

Nadine Shah – Stealing Cars
Manchester Orchestra – Girl Harbor
Champion Jack Dupree – Third Degree

Christmas Countdown:
20 Slow Club – Everything is New
19 Prince – Pretzel Body Logic
18 Phox – Kingfisher
17 Stand Alone – Easier Said Than Done
16 The Delvaux – At The Jeunesse Doree

Girlpool – Blah Blah Blah
Lisa Marie Glover – Mad Mary
Cheap Girls – Style
Wind up Birds – Working Christmas Day
Thumpers – Devotee
Jude Brown Band – Green Light

The Top 20 continues throughout December with the top 5 being revealed on Christmas Day.

You can listen again here.

Pre-festive frivolities are officially underway – as Bradford Beat prepares to embark on its 10th annual Christmas Countdown.

This Thursday (4 Dec) from 8pm-9pm we’ll be playing the first part of our seasonal chart of our favourite tracks of the year.

To whet your appetite, here are the previous number ones:

2013
Simon Crabtree – The Spirit of Bradford City

2012
Whiter Than – Note To Self

2011
The Wind Up Birds – Meet Me At The Depot

2010
Divine Comedy – Indie Disco

2009
Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams

2008
Jonjo Feather – I Suppose

2007
Sky Larkin – Summit

2006
iLiKETRAiNS – The Beeching Report

2005
Beck – Girl

It was Boxing Day and boy, did we have a party.

Not just a stockingful of alternative festive tunes but also the final part of this year’s Christmas Countdown.

Here was what we played in full:

The Wind Up Birds – Working Christmas
City and Colour – Harder Than Stone
Poppy Factory – 7×7
Electric Soft Parade – Mr Mitchell

Christmas Countdown Top 5
5 The Seven Inches – Cashback
4 Steve Mason – Oh My Lord
3 Ron Sexsmith – Nowhere To Go
2 Polyphonic Spree – You Don’t Know Me
1 Simon Crabtree – The Spirit of Bradford City

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – Holly Roller
Mongol Horde – How The communists Ruined Christmas
Larry and his Flask – Closed Doors
Red Paintings – Wasps
Velvet Underground – I Can’t Stand It

The good news is you can listen again by clicking here.

And we’ll be repeating the whole kaboodle for good measure on Thursday 2 January from 8pm to 9pm.