Alas, it has happened. Woods have reached the top of the KZSC charts. Woods are Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere (and others) and they sing into a pair of headphones and an old bullet microphone. It is gorgeous sun-drenched psych-folk from Brooklyn that I cannot recommend enough. With releases on their own label Woodsist and Mike Sniper’s Captured Tracks, you can’t go wrong. The b-side of the Captured Tracks single, “The Dark”, is one of the best 2 minute nuggets of pop this year.
There are plenty of other releases on Woodsist worth checking out. The new single from Real Estate from New Jersey is a wonderful piece of pop, with a little more of an indie rock bend than the rest of Woodsist’s releases. Definitely draws from earlier Yo La Tengo (like Painful or And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out) but mixes the dreamy pop with a bit of a garagey stomp. Recommended.
Crystal Stilts‘ first EP, the new 12″ EP from Sacramento’s own Ganglians, a summer record if you want to have a really weird psychedelic summer that normalizes at points and then slaps you across the face, and the new single from the ever reliable Thee Oh Sees are all things that I recommend.
Radio 200 Charts:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | WOODS | Songs Of Shame | SHRIMPER | |
| 2 | CLUES | Clues | Constellation | |
| 3 | COMET GAIN | Broken Record Prayers | What’s Your Rupture? | |
| 4 | CRYPTACIZE | Mythomania | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| 5 | FRESH AND ONLYS | The Fresh And Onlys | Castle Face | |
| 6 | DERADOORIAN | Mind Raft | Lovepump United | |
| 7 | HIGH STRUNG | Ode To The Inverse Of The Dude | Park The Van | |
| 8 | MICACHU AND THE SHAPES | Jewellery | Rough Trade | |
| 9 | HANDS AND KNEES | Et Tu, Fluffy? | ||
| 10 | ST. VINCENT | Actor | 4AD | |
| 11 | AKRON/FAMILY | Set Em Wild, Set Em Free | Dead Oceans | |
| 12 | AU REVOIR SIMONE | Still Night Still Light | Our Secret Record Company | |
| 13 | BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW | Eating Us | Graveface | |
| 14 | CAMERA OBSCURA | My Maudlin Career | 4AD | |
| 15 | BLAKE MILLER | Burn Tape | Exit Stencil | |
| 16 | LIECHTENSTEIN | Survival Strategies In A Modern World | Slumberland | |
| 17 | KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES | What Is?! | Vice | |
| 18 | STARFUCKER | Jupiter | Badman | |
| 19 | STRANGE BOYS | And Girls Club | In The Red | |
| 20 | GRANDCHILDREN | Cold Warrior | Self-Released | |
| 21 | A CAMP | Colonia | Nettwerk | |
| 22 | WOODEN BIRDS | Magnolia | Barsuk | |
| 23 | SIR LORD VON RAVEN | Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean | HappyParts Recordings | |
| 24 | MIKA MIKO | We Be Xuxa | Post Present Medium | |
| 25 | SCREAMING FEMALES | Power Move | Don Giovanni | |
| 26 | BILL CALLAHAN | Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | Drag City | |
| 27 | DESOLATION WILDERNESS | No Tomorrow | K | |
| 28 | JEFFREY LEWIS AND THE JUNKYARD | ‘Em Are I | Rough Trade | |
| 29 | PEEKERS | Life In The Air | Park The Van | |
| 30 | MARK SULTAN | Hold On [7-Inch] | SUB POP |
Radio 200 Adds:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | GRIZZLY BEAR | Veckatimist | Warp | |
| 2 | WAND | Hard Knox | Ecstatic Peace | |
| 3 | PHOENIX | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Glassnote | |
| 4 | DIRTY PROJECTORS | Stillness Is The Move | Domino | |
| 5 | VIVA VOCE | Rose City | Barsuk |
Hip-Hop Charts:
| ank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | METHOD MAN AND REDMAN | Blackout 2 | Def Jam | |
| 2 | CAM’RON | Crime Pays | Asylum | |
| 3 | JADAKISS | The Last Kiss | Def Jam | |
| 4 | BICASSO | Rebel Musiq | ||
| 5 | DJ VADIM | U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun | BBE | |
| 6 | KEELAY AND ZAIRE | Ridin High | MML | |
| 7 | ROOTBEER | Pink Limousine [EP] | Park The Van | |
| 8 | SADAT X | Brand New Bein’ | Ground Original | |
| 9 | ZION I | The Takeover | Gold Dust | |
| 10 | P.O.S. | Never Better | Rhymesayers |
Jazz Charts:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | MELODY GARDOT | My One And Only Thrill | Verve | |
| 2 | DEE ALEXANDER | Wild Is The Wind | Blujazz | |
| 3 | KENDRA SHANK | Mosaic | Challenge | |
| 4 | JEANNIE TANNER | Promise Me The Moon | ||
| 5 | JACK DEJOHNETTE | Music We Are | Golden Beams | |
| 6 | ALLEN TOUSSAINT | The Bright Mississippi | Nonesuch | |
| 7 | WYNTON MARSALIS | He And She | ||
| 8 | RAQUEL BITTON | Boleros | ||
| 9 | FAREED HAQUE AND THE FLAT EARTH ENSEMBLE | Flat Planet | Owl Studios | |
| 10 | MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD | Radiolarians II | Indirecto |
Jazz Adds:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA | Master Musicians Of Jajouka Live Volume 1 | Jajouka | |
| 2 | ED PALERMO BIG BAND | Eddy Loves Frank | Cuneiform | |
| 3 | HARRY SKOLER | Two Ones | Soliloquy | |
| 4 | CHARNETT MOFFETT | The Art Of Improvisation | Motema | |
| 5 | ORAN ETKIN | Kelenia | Motema |
RPM Charts:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | BALKAN BEAT BOX | Nu Made Remixes | JDub | |
| 2 | EAR PWR | Super Animal Brothers III | Carpark | |
| 3 | CRYSTAL METHOD | Divided By Night | Tiny E | |
| 4 | PEACHES | I Feel Cream | XL | |
| 5 | FISCHERSPOONER | Entertainment | spectre-FS Studios | |
| 6 | DAN DEACON | Bromst | Carpark | |
| 7 | JON HOPKINS | Insides | Domino | |
| 8 | NITE CLUB | My Tronic | Tape Theory | |
| 9 | JUNIOR BOYS | Begone Dull Care | Domino | |
| 10 | PROFESSOR LACROIX | Discodic [EP] | TBM |
RPM Adds:
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | SPANISH DANCER | “Snoozer Hotel” [Single] | Magistrate of Christ | |
| 2 | MISS KITTIN AND THE HACKER | Two | Nobody’s Bizzness | |
| 3 | DEASTRO | Moondagger | Ghostly International | |
| 4 | NICKODEMUS | Sun People | ESL |
About the author
Music Director - Our music director takes more dance classes than academic classes, collects noisemakers, sups on soup in the wintertime, and still finds time to read Susan Stryker's "Transgender History" to KZSC's pet seahorse.
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