Alt Nation
Broadcast area |
United States Canada |
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Slogan | New Alternative Rock |
Frequency |
Sirius XM Radio 36 Dish Network 6036 |
Format | Alternative rock |
Class | Satellite Radio Station |
Owner | Sirius XM Radio |
Website | SiriusXM: Alt Nation |
Alt Nation is an alternative rock radio station on Sirius XM Radio channel 36 and on Dish Network channel 6036.
Alt Nation was formed in 2002, when Sirius Satellite Radio launched. Some 1970s songs were played on the channel, such as AC/DC's "Highway To Hell", until February 2009, when the playlist was reduced to 1990s/2000s alternative rock. However, since the spring of 2009, Alt Nation dropped most of the 1990s alternative rock, leaving most of the 1990s playlist to Lithium. The only 1990s song remaining on Alt Nation's playlist is "Stellar" by Incubus, from their 1999 album Make Yourself.
Recently, Alt Nation has become increasingly known for breaking new bands into the alternative rock radio scene. For example, Alt Nation was the first alternative-rock station to play Phoenix's "1901" and Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks", both of which went to No. 1 on the Alternative Rock chart.
Radio Shows
- The Alt-18 Countdown is a countdown of the week's most requested music played on Alt Nation since 2009. It airs on every Saturday at 1 pm ET, and rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 pm ET, Sundays at 4 pm ET and 10 pm ET, and Mondays at 10 am ET and 3 pm ET.
- The Advanced Placement is a preview of what is to come with new music from bands you probably recognize or ones you never heard of. It airs on every Thursday at 3 pm ET, and rebroadcasts on Thursdays at 10 pm ET, Fridays at 11 am ET and 8 pm ET, Saturdays at 11 am & pm ET, and Sundays at 2 pm ET and 8 pm ET
All Alt-18 No. 1's
- Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
- Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
- Phoenix - 1901
- Metric - Help I'm Alive
- The Limousines - Very Busy People
- Kings of Leon - Notion
- Muse - Uprising (Best of 2009)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
- Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
- Silversun Pickups - Substitution
- Mutemath - Electrify
- Phoenix - Lisztomania
- Muse - Resistance
- Metric - Gold Guns Girls
- Silversun Pickups - The Royal We
- Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun
- The Black Keys - Tighten Up (Best of 2010)
- Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
- Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
- A Silent Film - You Will Leave a Mark
- Phoenix - Lasso
- Kings of Leon - Radioactive
- Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
- The Limousines - Internet Killed the Video Star
- Mumford & Sons - The Cave
- The Black Keys - Howlin' For You
- Cage the Elephant - Shake Me Down
- Arcade Fire - We Used to Wait
- The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
- Foo Fighters - Rope
- The Naked and Famous - Young Blood
- The Airborne Toxic Event - Changing
- Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist
- Grouplove - Colours
- The Black Keys - Next Girl
- Foster the People - Helena Beat (Best of 2011)
- The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream
- Young the Giant - Cough Syrup
- The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
- Atlas Genius - Trojans
- Grouplove - Tongue Tied
- Gotye/Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
- fun./Janelle Monae - We Are Young
- Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
- The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
- The Wombats - Jump Into the Fog
- Walk the Moon - Anna Sun
- Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)
- Passion Pit - Take A Walk (Best of 2012)
- The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
- Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound
- Muse - Madness
- Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
- Capital Cities - Safe & Sound
- Blondfire - Where the Kids Are
- Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
- Bad Books - Forest Whitaker
- Passion Pit - Carried Away
- The Neighbourhood - Female Robbery
- Dan Croll - From Nowhere
- The Mowgli's - San Francisco
- The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
- Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
- Daft Punk/Pharrell - Get Lucky
- Atlas Genius - If So
- Bastille - Pompeii (Best of 2013)
- Grouplove - Ways to Go
- The Neighbourhood - Afraid
- Smallpools - Dreaming
- Cage the Elephant - Come A Little Closer
- CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
- Lorde - Team
- Wild Cub - Thunder Clatter
- Bastille - Bad Blood
- Big Data/Joywave - Dangerous (Best of 2014)
- Foster the People - Coming of Age
- Magic Man - Paris
- Grouplove - Shark Attack
- The Black Keys - Fever
- Sleeper Agent - Waves
- Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
- Foster the People - Best Friend
- Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
- Vampire Weekend - Step
- Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
- Vance Joy - Riptide
- The Griswolds - Beware the Dog
- Knox Hamilton - Work It Out
- Young the Giant - Mind Over Matter
- Alt J - Left Hand Free
- The Kooks - Bad Habit
- George Ezra - Budapest
- Walk the Moon - Shut Up & Dance
- Milky Chance - Flashed Junk Mind
- Alt J - Every Other Freckle
- Vance Joy - Mess is Mine
- Modest Mouse - Lampshades on Fire
- Night Riots - Contagious
- Matt & Kim - Get It
- Saint Motel - My Type
- Elle King - Ex's & Oh's
- X Ambassadors - Renegades
- Twenty One Pilots - Tear in My Heart
- Cold War Kids - First (Best of 2015)
- Coin - Run
- Coleman Hell - 2 Heads
- Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out
- Foals - Mountain at my Gates
- Saint Motel - Cold Cold Man
- The Wombats - Give Me A Try
- Declan McKenna - Brazil
- Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
- The Lumineers - Ophelia
- Fitz & the Tantrums - HandClap
- Young the Giant - Something to Believe In
- Glass Animals - Life Itself
- Bastille - Good Grief
- Coin - Talk Too Much
- Saint Motel - Move
- The 1975 - Somebody Else (Current #1)