top 30 is a weekly section of the blog where we share the 30 artists/albums that received the most play on WOBC this week. click on any entry to visit the myspace, last.fm, bandcamp, or website of that artist.
1 MOONFACE Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped
2 WASHED OUT Within And Without
3 PURE X Pleasure
4 BRILLIANT COLORS Again and Again
really excited about these guys from san francisco. this is their second release out on slumberland, and it sounds like a mix of best coast and new order, but on sleeping pills.
5 TORO Y MOI Saturday Love [Single]
6 REAL ESTATE It’s Real [Single]
yeah!!!! this sunny, viscous single from real estate fits right in on any muggy summer afternoon. isn’t it so nice when a band from your hometown is actually good??
7 BON IVER Bon Iver
8 MEMORY TAPES Player Piano
9 BEACH FOSSILS What A Pleasure [EP]
10 WOODS Sun And Shade
11 PICTUREPLANE Thee Physical
playing a show at the grog shop’s b-side liquor lounge on july 27, with oberlin cuties teengirl fantasy. want tickets? hit us up!!
12 JULIANNA BARWICK The Magic Place
13 HANDSOME FURS Sound Kapital
14 DESTROYER Kaputt
15 SAN CISCO Golden Revolver
16 GROUPER AIA: Dream Loss/Alien Observer
17 SELEBRITIES Delusions
18 ICEAGE New Brigade
19 BATTLES Gloss Drop
20 CULTS Cults
21 SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up
22 WHITE DENIM D
23 COM TRUISE Galactic Melt
24 CHAD VALLEY Equatorial Ultravox
25 BLACK LIPS Arabia Mountain
26 BJORK “Crystalline” [Single]
27 SONIC YOUTH The Eternal
28 NEIL YOUNG A Treasure
29 BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse
30 GIVERS In Light
and be sure to stay tuned for an upcoming review of last sunday’s moonface show at the grog shop!! spoiler alert: it was really good.
-devra freelander
