Monthly Archives: April 2010

WPRB Top 30 Charts- Week Ending 4/30

Celebrate the end of April showers with the top thirty albums at WPRB this week! Does WPRB’s Top Ten Show put you in the right mood for the coming weekend? Does it brighten your Friday? Become a fan on Facebook!

Now, without further ado, we present the WPRB Top 30:

1 GORILLAZ Plastic Beach Virgin
2 APPLES IN STEREO Travellers In Space And Time Yep Roc
3 JONSI Go XL
4 HOME BLITZ Perpetual Night 7-inch
5 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS I Learned The Hard Way Daptone
6 BONOBO Black Sands Ninja Tune
7 TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt Dead Oceans
8 CARIBOU Swim Merge
9 SERENA-MANEESH Abyss in B Minor
10 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
11 RUBY SUNS Fight Softly SUB POP
12 FREE ENERGY Stuck On Nothing DFA-Astralwerks
13 MI AMI Steal Your Face Thrill Jockey
14 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop
15 BROKEN BELLS Broken Bells Columbia
16 WHITE STRIPES Under Great White Northern Lights Warner Bros.
17 BILLY GREEN Stone finders keepers
18 SHE AND HIM Volume Two Merge
19 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days Infinity Cat
20 LOVE IS ALL Thousand and Ten Injuries
21 DR. DOG Shame, Shame Anti
22 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor XL
23 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nigeria Afrobeat Special: New Explosive Soundway
24 FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Winter Of Mixed Drinks Fat Cat
25 BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Black Diamond Fabric
26 ENT Welcome Stranger N5MD
27 BLACK TAMBOURINE Black Tambourine Slumberland
28 LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You!
29 GIL SCOTT-HERON I’m New Here XL
30 JACK ROSE Luck In The Valley Thrill Jockey

Wed 4/28, 8PM: Detention live on WPRB

Listen to 103.3 fm WPRB on Wednesday, April 28th at 8:00 pm ET as Jon Solomon welcomes legendary New Jersey jokecore band Detention to his show.

Back together for the first time in two decades, Detention’s appearance on WPRB is just their second show since their heyday. The band can be seen live one more time, at The Record Collector in Bordentown, NJ on Saturday, May 1st.

Listen to the band’s bile-coated 1983 single “Dead Rock N Rollers”:

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Here’s a brief video preview of Wednesday night’s session:

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WPRB Top 30 Charts- Week Ending 4/16

Rolling around just in time to envelop you in a sonic landscape of good music and get you excited for the weekend, WPRB gives you the top thirty albums at the station this week! Love the Top Ten Show? Become a fan on Facebook!

1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, And Psych Of The 60s And 70s B-Music
2 GORILLAZ Plastic Beach Virgin
3 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop
4 JJ Jj No. 3 Secretly Canadian
5 SHOUT OUT LOUDS Work Merge
6 BLACK TAMBOURINE Black Tambourine Slumberland
7 RUBY SUNS Fight Softly SUB POP
8 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor XL
9 SHE AND HIM Volume Two Merge
10 FOUR TET There Is Love In You Domino
11 THESE NEW PURITANS Hidden Domino
12 LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance Is Boring Arts And Crafts
13 PANTHA DU PRINCE Black Noise Rough Trade
14 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Heavy Days Infinity Cat
15 MEBUSAS Blood Brothers Academy
16 PIERCED ARROWS Descending Shadows Vice
17 BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Black Diamond Fabric
18 JOANNA NEWSOM Have One On Me Drag City
19 YEASAYER ODD BLOOD Secretly Canadian
20 MORNING BENDERS Big Echo Rough Trade
21 TOM WAITS Glitter And Doom Live Anti
22 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL
23 QUASI American Gong Kill Rock Stars
24 LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You Domino
25 TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark
26 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Happy Birthday Sub Pop
27 JAVELIN No Más Luaka Bop
28 GOLDEN TRIANGLE Double Jointer Hardly Art
29 BROKEN BELLS Broken Bells Columbia
30 LOVE IS ALL Two Thousand And Ten Injuries Polyvinyl

WPRB Top 30 Charts- Week Ending 4/9

Here are the top thirty albums spinning at WPRB this week, representing the latest and greatest in grooves and tunes. Do you love the way the Top Ten Show kicks off your weekend? Become a fan on Facebook!

1 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor XL
2 BLACK TAMBOURINE Black Tambourine Slumberland
3 JAGA JAZZIST One Armed Bandit Smalltown Supersound-Ninja Tune
4 TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS The Brutalist Bricks Matador
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nigeria Afrobeat Special: New Explosive Soundway
6 MEBUSAS Blood Brothers Academy
7 PANTHA DU PRINCE Black Noise Rough Trade
8 BONOBO Black Sands Ninja Tune
9 LET’S WRESTLE In The Court Of The Wrestling Let’s Merge
10 YEASAYER ODD BLOOD Secretly Canadian
11 ADAM GREEN Minor Love Fat Possum
12 BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Black Diamond Fabric
13 STRANGE BOYS Be Brave In The Red
14 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop
15 FANG ISLAND Fang Island Sargent House
16 MI AMI Steal Your Face
17 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Minimal Wave Tapes, Vol. 1 Stones Throw
18 XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself Kill Rock Stars
19 ELUVIUM Similes Temporary Residence
20 THESE NEW PURITANS Hidden Domino
21 JAVELIN No Más Luaka Bop
22 TORO Y MOI Causers Of This Carpark
23 GONJASUFI A Sufi And A Killer Warp
24 BASIA BULAT Heart Of My Own Rough Trade
25 JOANNA NEWSOM Have One On Me Drag City
26 HOLLY MIRANDA The Magician’s Private Library XL
27 MAGNETIC FIELDS Realism Nonesuch
28 FOUR TET There Is Love In You Domino
29 KINK GONG Electronic World Atavistic
30 POLYSICS Absolute Polysics MySpace

From WPRB News: Coverage of the Washington Security Summit

Updated: Check out Washington correspondent Walter Fick’s interview with nuclear security expert Frank von Hippel. And tune in to The Week in Review at 6:30pm EST this Monday (10/12/2010) to hear Fick’s live rundown of the day’s events.

Here’s the first post from WPRB’s new Washington correspondent, Walter Fick, who will be posting on the latest headlines in international relations and the political goings-on of DC. Check back early next week for Fick’s coverage of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Washington Convention Center.

photo credit: phogel

west bank street // photo credit: phogel

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, said in an interview today that attempts by Palestine to declare independence next year could lead Israel to revoke prior peace agreements and annex portions of the West Bank. Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has not released any official response to Lieberman’s comments, an official reportedly said that Israel’s long-standing policy is to respond unilaterally to any unilateral Palestinian actions.

Lieberman also emphasized that Israel will continue with plans to build settlements in the West Bank and lashed out at Turkey’s government. Israel and Turkey, another key US partner in the region, have strong economic and military ties but have been at odds Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan censured Israeli military actions in Gaza.

Lieberman told an Israeli newspaper that Erdogan’s actions have damaged decades of “excellent” ties between the two nations and that the Prime Minister is “slowly turning into Gadhafi or Hugo Chavez (the leaders of Libya and Venezuala).”

This latest saber-rattling comes in the midst of a well-publicized dispute between Israel and the White House. White House officials originally felt offended when Israel announced the construction of new settlements in Jerusalem during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to the country last month. Since then, relations between the two allies have reportedly been tense, although Netanyahu sat down with Obama for several hours during his visit to the United States.

Israeli newspapers report that Netanyahu will return to Washington next week to attend the Nuclear Security Summit. No plans have been announced, however, for him to meet with either Obama or Erdogan during that time. The White House has also not yet commented on Lieberman’s interview.

[Cross-posted from the WPRB News Dept.]

WPRB Top 30 Charts- Week Ending 4/2

As you enjoy the sun today, check out the top thirty albums spinning at WPRB this week! If you especially enjoyed the mix on this week’s edition of the Top Ten show and thought it provided you with an especially pleasing soundtrack to the start of your spring, become a fan on Facebook!

Without further ado:
1 BLACK TAMBOURINE Black Tambourine Slumberland
2 FOUR TET There Is Love In You Domino
3 PANTHA DU PRINCE Black Noise Rough Trade
4 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor XL
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, And Psych Of The 60s And 70s B-Music
6 TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS The Brutalist Bricks Matador
7 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop
8 FANG ISLAND Fang Island Sargent House
9 GONJASUFI A Sufi And A Killer Warp
10 MEBUSAS Blood Brothers Academy
11 PANGLOSSIA Ghana Self-Released
12 SJOB MOVEMENT A Move In The Right Direction Academy
13 THESE NEW PURITANS Hidden Domino
14 QUASI American Gong Kill Rock Stars
15 XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself Kill Rock Stars
16 YEASAYER ODD BLOOD Secretly Canadian
17 ADAM GREEN Minor Love Fat Possum
18 PHANTOGRAM Eyelid Movies Barsuk
19 COTTON CANDY Top Notch And First Rate Teenbeat
20 HIGH PLACES High Places Vs. Mankind Thrill Jockey
21 JOANNA NEWSOM Have One On Me Drag City
22 OWEN PALLETT Heartland Domino
23 HOLLY MIRANDA The Magician’s Private Library XL
24 MAGNETIC FIELDS Realism Nonesuch
25 CITAY Dream Get Together Dead Oceans
26 POLYSICS Absolute Polysics MySpace
27 FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Winter Of Mixed Drinks Fat Cat
28 ORRIN EVANS Faith In Action Positone
29 TOM WAITS Glitter And Doom Live Anti
30 JJ Jj No. 3 Secretly Canadian