 The Top 30 is a weekly section of the WOBC blog where we highlight the 30 most-played new albums each week. Check out what our DJs are spinning!
1 XIU XIU Always 2 GRIMES Visions 3 BEACH HOUSE “Myth” [Single] 4 DANIEL ROSSEN Silent Hour/Golden Mile 5 M. WARD A Wasteland Companion 6 THEESATISFACTION AwE NaturalE 7 JULIA HOLTER Ekstasis 8 PERFUME GENIUS Put Your Back N 2 It 9 LOWER DENS Brains/Propagation 10 WIDOWSPEAK Widowspeak 11 LOWER DENS Brains/Propagation 12 CHEER ACCIDENT No Ifs, Ands Or Dogs 13 LA SERA Sees The Light 14 TY SEGALL Singles 2007-2010 15 ANDREW BIRD Break It Yourself 16 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 17 OBERHOFER Time Capsules II 18 TANLINES Mixed Emotions 19 NITE JEWEL One Second Of Love 20 POOR MOON Illusion [EP] 21 POND Beard, Wives, Denim 22 ESPERANZA SPALDING Radio Music Society 23 LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS Faithful Man 24 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar 25 SHINS Port Of Morrow 26 MAGNETIC FIELDS Love At The Bottom Of The Sea 27 AVA LUNA Ice Level 28 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Stage Whisper 29 CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS Rhine Gold 30 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow  Katie Buono - Down By the Riverside Every week, WOBC compiles a list of the top 30 new albums played on air that week and sends it to CMJ, where it factors into the College Radio Top 200 Lists. These albums represent the general vibes of the station each week, so click on an artist to check out their music and see what all the buzz is about~ 1 KATIE BUONO Down by the Riverside 2 GRIMES Visions 3 LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS Faithful Man 4 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory 5 HUNX Hairdresser Blues 6 NITE JEWEL One Second Of Love 7 BLINK 182 Neighborhoods 8 CHEER ACCIDENT No Ifs, Ands Or Dogs 9 OBERHOFER Time Capsules II 10 ANDREW BIRD Break It Yourself 11 MAGNETIC FIELDS Love At The Bottom Of The Sea 12 PERFUME GENIUS Put Your Back N 2 It 13 TOPS Tender Opposites 14 LOWER DENS Twin-Hand Movement 15 LANA DEL REY Born To Die 16 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune 17 WILEY Evolve Or Be Extinct 18 TENNIS Young And Old 19 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp 20 PORCELAIN RAFT Strange Weekend 21 LA SERA “Break My Heart” [Single] 22 M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 23 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Stage Whisper 24 FEIST Metals 25 MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO Weather 26 TY SEGALL Singles 2007-2010 27 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar 28 DIRTY PROJECTORS AND BJORK Mount Wittenberg Orca 29 OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks 30 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror  Grimes - Visions Every week, WOBC compiles a list of the top 30 albums played on air that week and sends it to CMJ, where it factors into the College Radio Top 200 Lists. These albums represent the general vibes of the station each week, so click on an artist to check out their music and see what all the buzz is about~ 1 GRIMES // Visions // our number one artist this week is grimes, a sleepy lady casting devotion spells with her music-mouth; a tasteful melange of haunting vocals a la juliana barwick and underwater echo-house via d’Eon. check out ‘be a body’ or ‘genesis’ for nice moments of lovely things. 4 ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA // Out of the Blue // i know this album is from 1977 but do yourself a favor and just listen to ‘wild west hero’ because it charted and it is great~ 6 FLEETWOOD MAC // Rumours // we love fleetwood mac!! did u know wobc loves fleetwood mac??? 10 GROUPER // AIA: Dream Loss/Alien Observer 30 LOWER DENS // Nootropics // sounds like ‘real estate’ on cough syrup vibes; playing the sco on monday, march 5th!! 
1 AVEY TARE Down There 2 TOM WAITS Bad As Me 3 THEE OH SEES Carrion Crawler/The Dream [EP] 4 SLOW CLUB Paradise 5 BEACH BOYS The Smile Sessions 6 REAL ESTATE Days 7 M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 8 ATLAS SOUND Parallax 9 KATE BUSH 50 Words For Snow 10 NEIL YOUNG Harvest 11 DIRTY PROJECTORS AND BJORK Mount Wittenberg Orca 12 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN born in the u.s.a 13 MAGNETITIC FIELDS 69 love songs 14 JOHN MAUS We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves 15 HANK WILLIAMS lovesick blues 16 ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs 17 TYCHO Dive Ghostly 18 STILL CORNERS Creatures Of An Hour 19 WISE BLOOD These Wings [EP] 20 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost 21 JOAKIM Nothing Gold 22 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 23 R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 24 TWIN SISTER In Heaven 25 BJORK Biophilia 26 FRIENDS College Sampler 27 TY SEGALL Singles 2007-2010 28 JUSTICE Audio, Video, Disco 29 OLOF ARNALDS Olof Sings 30 SUMMER CAMP Welcome To Condale  Real Estate - Days #2 this week 1 BUILT TO SPILL There Is No Enemy 2 REAL ESTATE Days 3 TORO Y MOI Freaking Out [EP] 4 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost 5 BEACH BOYS The Smile Sessions 6 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 7 M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 8 ATLAS SOUND Parallax 9 JAMES BLAKE James Blake 10 BJORK Biophilia 11 NEIL YOUNG 12 PURE X Pleasure 13 KATE BUSH Hounds of Love 14 COCTEAU TWINS Heaven or Las Vegas 15 ZOLA JESUS Conatus 16 CANT Dreams Come True 17 WASHED OUT Within And Without 18 TWIN SISTER In Heaven 19 BEIRUT The Rip Tide 20 DUM DUM GIRLS Only In Dreams 21 FEIST Metals 22 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY Wolfroy Goes To Town 23 WISE BLOOD These Wings [EP] 24 NEON INDIAN Era Extrana 25 JOHN MAUS We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves 26 BRILLIANT COLORS Again And Again 27 ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Moment Bends 28 OTIS REDDING Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology 29 WILCO The Whole Love 30 EMMYLOU HARRIS Hard Bargain stay tuned for next week’s charts!  Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact // This Thursday at the Sco! top 30 is a weekly section of the WOBC blog where we highlight the top 30 most-played albums at the station that week. all of these albums are in the station, and most of them are on the new music shelf, so check them out!! they are good!! playing this thursday at the sco, with chart mates laurel halo. sick~ 2 GIRLS Father, Son, Holy Ghost fresh from the new music shelf, the second full-length from the first guys to capture the spirit of girlfriends, pizza, and bottles of wine does not dissapoint. 3 JOHN MAUS We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves filling the sco with dark synth arpeggios, just for you, on october 6. don’t miss this, dudes!! zach condon’s masterful blend of balkan pop has only gotten tighter over the years. we love these guys!! hazy pop-punk from san fransisco; perfect vibes. 16 MOONFACE Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped thank you to all the sex-jam r+b shows responsible for bringing d’angelo back to the charts. 28 WU LYF Go Tell Fire To The Mountain stay tuned for more charts as our broadcasting season continues!! -devra freelander 
top 5 adds is a weekly section of WOBC that displays the top 5 most played new albums at the station. each album links to the band’s myspace, last.fm, or other music player so you can check them out for yourself! 1 DIVA The Glitter End julianna barwick and grouper ran into some witches who merge-hexed them into DIVA. haunting, breathy vocals for lazy summer existentialists to vibe with. 2 EMMY THE GREAT Virtue 3 SHENANDOAH DAVIS The Company We Keep something to tide you over between joanna newsom albums; the feathery vocals immersed in fantasy are eerily reminiscent of newsom’s. 4 YOU ME AND US Paperweights fuzzy california garage pop; along the same lines as BRILLIANT COLORS. 5 DOM Family Of Love -devra freelander | |