Prefacing this list is getting harder and harder. Mind mind is getting weaker and weaker. I can barely lift my shriveled fingers from key to key. And that’s why I’m taking a vacation this week! If you’re trying to get in touch with the Music Director before next Friday, you’re outta luck! (I’ll be checking email, but not my voicemail, and I won’t be in the office).

Until then, dig it: The Top 30…

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1 V/A The Sound of Wonder B-Music
2 TORTOISE Beacons Of Ancestorship Thrill Jockey
3 DEERHUNTER Rainwater Cassette Exchange Kranky
4 V/A Midnight Massiera Finders Keepers
5 THE EXTRAORDINAIRES Electric and benevolent Punk Rock Payroll
6 DEAD AT 24 Blast Off Motherfucker! Ride The Snake
7 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Innocents Abroad Rough Trade
8 PRE Hope Freaks Skin Graft
9 OBITS I Blame You SUB POP
10 V/A Karate Funkadelphia
11 DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca Domino
12 ST. VINCENT Actor 4AD
13 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Dark Days/Light Years Rough Trade
14 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Eating Us Graveface
15 SONIC YOUTH The Eternal Matador
16 SUMMER CATS Songs For Tuesdays Slumberland
17 MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS songs the grackles liked columbus discount
18 DOUBLE DAGGER More Thrill Jockey
19 NEW TIME An Incomplete History Cut Narrative
20 VARIOUS ARTISTS Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary Vol. 1 B Music
21 DINOSAUR JR. Farm Jagjaguwar
22 ART BRUT Art Brut Vs. Satan Downtown
23 WOODEN SHJIPS Dos Holy Mountain
24 VAGINA PANTHER Vagina Panther
25 TIGA Ciao! Last Gang
26 RONNY & RENZO Big Smack and Flies King Kung Fu
27 GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest Warp
28 ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Lord Of The Underground: Vishnu And The Magic Elixer Alien8
29 WILCO Wilco (the Album) Nonesuch
30 KASABIAN West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum RCA

It’s not exactly easy coming up with something clever to preface the Top 30 with every week, and as I’m sure many of you have already picked up on, I’m not particularly good at it. So I’m not going to beat around this bush this week. Top 30. Here it is. Dig it.

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 TORTOISE Beacons Of Ancestorship Thrill Jockey

2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary Vol. 1 B Music

3 SUMMER CATS Songs For Tuesdays Slumberland

4 MAYER HAWTHORNE A Few Tracks Stones Throw

5 RONNY & RENZO Me, Myself, Good King Kung Fu

6 BRIAN GLAZE AND THE NIGHT SHIFT Green Living World Famous In San Francisco

7 DEBBIE LEGGO Debbs Leggs Fire

8 BATS The Guilty Office Hidden Agenda

9 WIGGINS Feed The Ghost [7-Inch] Dull Knife

10 LIECHTENSTEIN Survival Strategies In A Modern World Slumberland

11 BRITISH SEA POWER Man Of Aran Rough Trade

12 BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor SILTBREEZE

13 JEREMY JAY Slow Dance K

14 CRYSTAL ANTLERS Tentacles Touch And Go

15 NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS What Have You Done, My Brother? Daptone

16 ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND When Sweet Sleep Returned Tee Pee

17 STRANGE BOYS And Girls Club In The Red

18 ST. VINCENT Actor 4AD

19 MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry Drag City

20 DOUBLE DAGGER More Thrill Jockey

21 DEAD AT 24 Blast Off Motherfucker! Ride The Snake

22 SUNSET RUBDOWN Dragonslayer Jagjaguwar

23 SPOON “Got Nuffin” [Single] Merge

24 KNOT FEEDER Light Flares File Thirteen-String And Hammers

25 DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca Domino

26 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Dark Days/Light Years Rough Trade

27 EXTRA GOLDEN Thank You Very Quickly Thrill Jockey

28 GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest Warp

29 BOB DYLAN Together Through Life Columbia/Legacy-Columbia

30 DEAD WEATHER Horehound Third Man

How cool is this: a Friday off, Independence Day on Saturday, and the WPRB Top 30!! Continue reading →