 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
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 THE BANDANA SPLITS Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits
saccharine doo-wop from three cute girls; sounds like a mix of camera obscura and she & him. check out: ‘sometimes’, ‘my love’, and ‘you don’t have to be a baby to cry’.
2 FALL ON YOUR SWORD Another Earth: Music From the Motion Picture
3 RADIATION CITY The Color of Industry (Single)
understated indie pop with vocals that sound like a sleepy feist, and harmonies straight out of bitte orca.
4 HUDSON MOHAWKE Satin Panthers Warp
5 ARMY NAVY The Last Place Self-Released
-devra freelander
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
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