Welcome to summer, KZSC-ers
They’re not quite coming from the beyond the grave; these are our charts from last Tuesday. Next Wednesday will bring new joys, but until them, check out this greatness:
Rock music wins:
Top 5 adds:
Soundtrack to your Motel Motel raptor battle adventure
1 Motel Motel – “New Denver” – We’re messy kids listening to The Walkmen, taking them by storm, upping the pop and having way too much Coffee Cigarette fun. By far one of my favorite new indie rock bands, Motel Motel are doing it right. (The songs “Coffee” and “Cigarettes” are by far some faves)
This is your Neon Graveyard. Love, Gobble Gobble.
2 Gobble Gobble – “Neon Graveyard” – Pop music made on an acoustic guitar by a solemn boy run through a room full of vocal filters, chopped and cut for glitch effect, added blips and spilled out onto a CD. Some songs (esp. “Meteor Eschat”) are incredibly compelling. Honest and intimate despite the amount of sonic experimentation going on.
We believe in indie rock, you can too: You Can Be a Wesley
3 You Can Be a Wesley – “Heard Like Us” – Okay, let me be honest here. I’ve become disillusioned with this so called “indie rock” banner that us kids have been carrying for so long. That “sound” (you know, the classic one, the one that Spoon stands for) had eluded me, and experimental music took over my heart. Well, until now. Starting this week with Motel Motel and held up halfway by You Can Be a Wesley, my heart is now achingly happy about our genre. This band has enough upbeat pop sensibilities to keep your ADD-kid leg a-hoppin’ and enough indie rock sound to not make you sick from pop-cleanliness. (Listen to “Stuck in a Battle”, please, for the goodness of your own happiness)
Japandroids will set us all on fire.
4 Japandroids – “Post-Nothing” – We’re alive and well, we listen to Rock and Roll and as much as Los Angeles has made apathy hang on our lips like bummed cigarettes, we still believe in fun. We still have an ounce of hope and with that ounce we’re going to dance around and have fun. Go it? Good. Rock music is still alive, don’t forget. (“Young Hearts Spark Fire” is the soundtrack to this scene, to your new life. Get up, friends.)
KZSC Radio 200 (Top 30 Rock Spins)
| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | User Supplied Version |
| 1 | UUVVWWZ | UUVVWWZ | Saddle Creek | |
| 2 | BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW | Eating Us | Graveface | |
| 3 | BOWERBIRDS | Upper Air | Dead Oceans | |
| 4 | FALCAO AND MONASHEE | Falcao And Monashee | Borne | |
| 5 | WILCO | Wilco (the Album) | Nonesuch | |
| 6 | GANGLIANS | Monster Head Room | Woodsist | |
| 7 | FIERY FURNACES | The End Is Near | Thrill Jockey | |
| 8 | EELS | Hombre Lobo | Vagrant | |
| 9 | CHURCH | Song Force Crystal | Tender Loving Empire | |
| 10 | MEGAFAUN | Gather, Form, And Fly | Hometapes | |
| 11 | PEGGY SUE | Lover Gone [EP] | Yep Roc | |
| 12 | CASS MCCOMBS | Catacombs | Domino | |
| 13 | GREGORY PEPPER AND HIS PROBLEMS | With Trumpets Flaring | Fake Four Inc.-Fake Four | |
| 14 | EUGENE MCGUINNESS | Eugene McGuinness | Domino | |
| 15 | REGINA SPEKTOR | Far | Sire | |
| 16 | PORTUGAL. THE MAN | The Satanic Satanists | Equal Vision | |
| 17 | SUMMER CATS | Songs For Tuesdays | Slumberland | |
| 18 | TALBOT TAGORA | Lessons In The Woods Or A City | Hardly Art | |
| 19 | I FIGHT DRAGONS | Cool Is Just A Number [EP] | Self-Released | |
| 20 | DEERHUNTER | Rainwater Cassette Exchange | Kranky | |
| 21 | DEAD WEATHER | Horehound | Third Man | |
| 22 | BOOGIE BOARDER | Pizza Hero | Famous Class | |
| 23 | DIRTY PROJECTORS | Bitte Orca | Domino | |
| 24 | GRASS WIDOW | Grass Widow [12-Inch] | Make A Mess | |
| 25 | MAGIC CASTLES | Dreams Of Dreams Of Dreams | Self-Released | |
| 26 | PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT | The Thao And Justin Power Sessions | Kill Rock Stars | |
| 27 | EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS | Up From Below | Vagrant | |
| 28 | THOSE DARLINS | Those Darlins | Oh Wow Dang | |
| 29 | HERMIT THRUSHES | Slight Fountain | Joyful Noise Recordings | |
| 30 | CLUES | Clues | Constellation |
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.