Transmission's roots are in the worlds of post-punk, new wave, synth, power & dream pop, shoegaze, psych, mod, space and Krautrock.

Here's a list of artists who carry on those sounds nicely today (in no particular order). Some broke through to the masses while others are still waiting their turn.

(Don't worry, this doesn't include Transmission's choices for top local tracks...those are forthcoming!)

Top Five Singles:

Johnny Marr — "The Messenger"

(Chiming/jangly guitar, keys, disco bass-line, hand-claps ... it's the perfect recipe, and the former Smiths guitarist nails it.)

Melody's Echo Chamber — "Endless Shore"

(We sadly lost Trish Keenan of Broadcast two years ago ... this is helping me cope with that fact.)

Beach House — "Myth"

(I'm not going to write anything about this, because I won't do it justice.)

Violens — "Totally True"

(Just as the band they came from (Lansing-Dreiden) was criminally overlooked, so are Violens)

La Sera — "Please Be My Third Eye"

(Feeling a little blue? Throw this on)

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• Arial Pink's Haunted Graffiti — "Only In My Dreams"

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• Beach Fossils — "Crashed Out"

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• Belbury Poly — "Summer Round"

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• Benjamin Schoos (featuring Laetitia Sadier) — "Je Ne Vois Que Vous"

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• Chairlift — "Sidewalk Safari"

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• Chromatics — "Kill For Love"

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• Coastal Cities — "Relief"

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• Craft Spells — "Still Left With Me"

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• Crocodiles — "No Black Clouds For Dee Dee"

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• David Byrne & St. Vincent — "Who"

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• Dead Mellotron — "Stranger"

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• Death and Vanilla — "Cul-De-Sac"

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• Deep Time — "Clouds"

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• DIIV — "Doused"

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• Discoverer — "Personal Clone"

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• Divine Fits — "The Salton Sea"

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• Dum Dum Girls — "Lord Knows"

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• Errors — "Relics"

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• Eternal Summers — "You Kill"

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• Factory Floor — "Two Different Ways"

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• Frankie Rose — "Night Swim"

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• The Holiday Crowd — "Never Speak of it Again"

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• Laetitia Sadier — "Find Me the Pulse of the Universe"

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• Lower Dens — "Brains"

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• The Luyas — "Fifty Fifty"

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• Metric — "Dreams So Real"

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• Night Vision — "Keep Moving"

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• Parastatic — "Like a Fraud"

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• Pet Shop Boys — "Leaving"

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• A Place To Bury Strangers — "You Are the One"

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• Poolside — "Next To You"

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• Raveonettes — "She Owns the Streets"

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• Santigold — "Disparate Youth"

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• The Sea and the Cake — "Harps"

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• Stars — "The Theory of Relativity"

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• Strawberry Whiplash — "Now I Know It's You"

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• Tamaryn — "I'm Gone"

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• Tame Impala — "Be Above It"

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• Tan Lines — "Green Grass"

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• Tennis — "Origins"

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• Toy — "Left Myself Behind"

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• Teen Daze — "Treten"

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• Trust — "Chrissy E"

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• Twin Shadow — "Run My Heart"

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• The Walkmen — "Heaven"

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• Warm Soda — "Reaction"

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• White Rabbits — "Temporary"

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• WhoMadeWho — "Inside World"

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• Wild Nothing — "Nocturne"

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• World's Most — "Tall Shadows"

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• Young Prisms — "Runner"

Tune-in to Transmission at 10 p.m. every Thursday night. This week's episode will feature selections from this list.

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• Transmission's Top Tracks of 2012 on Spotify (created by user Phil Feller)