I may not be in the office today, but it’s going to take a lot more than a thousand miles and a few torrential downpours to stop me from doing my WPRB duty: bringing you the Top 30 charts for the week ending on Friday, June 12th.
On Fridays you can always hear the best of the best during our Top Ten Show on at 5PM EDT! (Like the show? Become a fan on Facebook!)
1 SONIC YOUTH - The Eternal (Matador)
2 ART BRUT - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
3 TELEKINESIS - Telekinesis (Merge)
4 V/A - Eccentric Soul: Smart’s Place (Numero Group)
5 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade)
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS - SCORE! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers (Merge)
7 BAT FOR LASHES – Two Suns (Astralwerks)
8 DIRTY PROJECTORS - Bitte Orca (Domino)
9 KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS - The Hunchback (Richie)
10 SWAN LAKE - Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar)
11 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES - What Is?! (Vice)
12 DECEMBERISTS - Hazards Of Love (Capitol)
13 IDA MARIA – Fortress Round My Heart (Upper 11-RCA-Fontana)
14 DOUBLE DAGGER - More (Thrill Jockey)
15 THERMALS - Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
16 DEATH – For The Whole World To See (Drag City)
17 BOY LEAST LIKELY TO - The Law Of The Playground (+1)
18 DREAMDATE - Patience (Skywriting)
19 COLD CAVE - The Trees Grew Emotions And Died (Hospital Productions)
20 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Eating Us (Graveface)
21 POLLY SCATTERGOOD - Polly Scattergood (Mute)
22 V/A – The World Is Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 (Almost Ready)
23 V/A - Why Should I Care About You? (Slovenly)
24 ARBOURETUM Song Of The Pearl (Thrill Jockey)
25 BEIRUT - March Of The Zapotec/Holland (Pompeii)
26 VASELINES - Enter The Vaselines (SUB POP)
27 SUPERCHUNK - Leaves In The Gutter [EP] (Merge)
28 APOSTLE OF HUSTLE - Eats Darkness (Arts And Crafts)
29 BISHOP ALLEN – Grrr (Dead Oceans)
30 LADY SOVEREIGN - Jigsaw (Midget)
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Loud Lunch: Bonnaroo Chronicles Vol. 1
Greetings from Manchester, WPRB peeps! As many of you already know, I’ve made the journey down here to the great state of Tennessee for four days of music, mayhem, and mud at the Bonnaroo Music Festival! While there weren’t too many tunes last night, I think we kicked off the weekend with a good start.
The drive was a trek-and-a-half, spanning a thousand miles over the course of 18 hours. For the most part, the sailing was smooth, except for a few hours stretch in Virgina when we started to see the police pulling over what appeared to be any and every van with camping gear on the roof and tri-state tags.
We arrived around 8 AM Central Time, set up camp by 10, and had a solid seven hours to steep in the agonizing excitement of the festival to be, most of which was spent barbecuing, exploring, and getting to know a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of like-minded individuals that we were to spend that next few days practically on top of. One of our neighbors gave me a pretty rockin’ haircut. That’s the second time I’ve gotten a trim at a festival, and I think I may have to make a habit out of it.
The music started around 6PM, and went just up to the wee hours of the next morning. Getting around Centeroo, the non-camp hub for all the music, food, fun and festivities, was not easy, as the alternative stages are aptly named, “This Stage,” “That Stage,” and “The Other Stage.” I may have spent more time confused on the phone than I did actually getting down and the music. While I was initially very disappointed to hear that the Delta Spirit was playing a shortened set due to scheduling problems I was pleasantly surprised by the moody experimentalism of the White Rabbits in their place two stages over.
Murs killed it, and by the time The Knux had wrapped up their West Coast hip-hop, the whole Roo was ready to dance all night, which is exactly what we did during my personal favorite performance of the evening, Boston-disco-rock-awesomeness, Passion Pit. And how are you supposed to cap off a night of toe-tapping and hip shaking such as this? By giving Delta Spirit another minutes to rock out just before we all crashed and burned and walked a mile and a half barefoot in the pouring rain back to sleep in the back seat of our cars.It was a great night.
Keep checking this space for uploads of all kinds of cool pics when I can get my hands on some serious wi-fi.
WPRB Goes to Bonnaroo (Sort Of)
(Image: WFPK 91.9 FM)
Always wanted to go to Bonnaroo, the four-day outdoor music festival, but you’re (a) too broke, (b) have a job, (c) loathe camping, or (d) some other reason? Stay tuned to this blog and our Twitter feed for daily updates live from Bonnaroo, courtesy of our very own Lance Loud (Fridays 1-3 PM)!
Explore Your Creative Side with WPRB at Art All Night Trenton 6/20-21!
Join WPRB and hundreds of artists of all ages at ART ALL NIGHT-TRENTON 2009! Art All Night-Trenton is a 24-hour long art and entertainment celebration happening at the Museum of Contemporary Science (675 South Clinton Avenue) in downtown Trenton, NJ. Art All Night-Trenton begins at 3:00 PM on Saturday 6/20, runs through the night until 3:00 PM Sunday 6/21.
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Art All Night-Trenton takes place in the Chambersburg section of Trenton in a sprawling 50,000 square foot factory building. The site of Art All Night is a former Roebling Machine Shop and played an important part in manufacturing parts to construct the Brooklyn Bridge.
What is Art All Night-Trenton? It’s a 24-hour (literally) art and entertainment event! An opportunity for four-year-old refrigerator artists, spirited novices and seasoned professionals to display one piece of art in a gallery like setting and for the public to enjoy that art in a dramatic renovated urban space.
Submitting art to and attending Art All Night-Trenton is FREE and open to the public!
Last year over 500 artists of all ages, skill levels and mediums submitted work and more than 5,000 people attended. Join in to enjoy live music on indoor and outdoor stages, interactive art, art films featuring stop motion photography, and animation, lectures about using art to revitalize cities, meaningful kids art activities, interesting food, and plenty of artful surprises!
WPRB is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s event and station DJs will be showing off their skills at the event on the indoor stage! Don’t forget to stop by the WPRB booth and say hello, too!
Saturday 6/20
03:00 PM Alaap
03:30 PM Jon Solomon
04:00 PM Maria T
11:30 PM KPC
Sunday 6/21
01:00 PM Lance Loud
01:30 PM Bene.dj.ctus
For a complete listing of the event’s music line-up, interactive art events, directions and much more, visit the Art All Night-Trenton website.
Hot Off the Presses: The WPRB Top 30!
On Fridays you can always hear the best of the best during our Top Ten Show on at 5PM EDT! (Like the show? Become a fan on Facebook!)
The Wawa may be closed (for the night due to an electrical outage – ed.), but WPRB is still rockin’ round the clock to deliver you the latest and greatest in sweet tunes. Don’t let this weather get you down: read in and enjoy this week’s Top 30!
1 EXTRA GOLDEN Thank You Very Quickly – (Thrill Jockey)
2 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Dark Days/Light Years – (Rough Trade)
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS SCORE! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers – (Merge)
4 SONIC YOUTH The Eternal – (Matador)
5 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Eating Us – (Graveface)
6 MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry – (Drag City)
7 VASELINES Enter The Vaselines – (SUB POP)
8 OBITS I Blame You – (SUB POP)
9 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Swoon – (Dangerbird)
10 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES What Is?! – (Vice)
11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples (Numero)
12 ART BRUT Art Brut Vs. Satan – (Downtown)
13 MIKA MIKO We Be Xuxa – (Post Present Medium)
14 APOSTLE OF HUSTLE Eats Darkness – (Arts And Crafts)
15 DOVES Kingdom Of Rust – (Heavenly-Astralwerks)
16 METRIC Fantasies – (Self-Released)
17 BINARY MARKETING SHOW Pattern - (S/R)
18 PJ HARVEY AND JOHN PARISH A Woman A Man Walked By - (Island)
19 DAN DEACON Bromst – (Carpark)
20 VON HAYES Quatered Lots For The Umbrella Soldier – (State Capital)
21 EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL Forest Field – (Self-Released)
22 DENGUE FEVER Sleepwalking Through The Mekong – (M80)
23 BLACK DICE Repo – (Paw Tracks)
24 VARIOUS ARTISTS Tee Pee Records Sampler – (Tee Pee)
25 ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir – (Alien 8) *
26 WOODEN SHJIPS Dos – (Holy Mountain)
27 PINK NOISE Alpha - (Almost Ready) *
28 LORDS OF ALTAMONT The Altamont Sin - (Gearhead)
29 VARIOUS ARTISTS The World Is Lousy With Ideas Volume 8 – (Almost Ready)
30 NIAGARA FALLS Sequence Of Prophets – (Honeymoon Music)
Wed 6/3, 8PM: Liechtenstein Live on WPRB!
Listen to 103.3 fm WPRB on Wednesday, June 3rd at 8:00 pm ET as Slumberland recording artist Liechtenstein visits Jon Solomon’s show to play live.
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This Swedish trio came to WPRB two weeks ago on their first tour of the United States and they’ll be playing songs from their about-to-be-released domestic debut “Survival Strategies In A Modern World.”
Watch their video for “Security By Design” while you wait for their set to start!: