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WPRB 103.3 FM TOP 30 FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 23, 2009

01 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
02 GLASVEGAS Glasvegas (Columbia)
03 LINES Flood Bank (Acute)
04 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump (Strut)
05 MATT AND KIM Grand (Fader)
06 BON VIVANTS Black Honey (Gulcher)
07 MAVIS STAPLES Live: Hope At The Hideout (Anti-)
08 LOU REED Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse (Matador)
09 HIGH DECIBELS HD (Rolling Jack)
10 TITUS ANDRONICUS The Airing Of Grievances (XL)
11 ANDREW BIRD Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
12 BPA I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Southern Fried)
13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Just Like Heaven: A Tribute To The Cure (American Laundromat)
14 CULTURE AND THE DEEJAYS At Joe Gibbs 1977-79 (17 North Parade)
15 SUN RA Some Blues But Not The Kind That’s Blue (Atavistic)
16 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The BBC Sessions ( Matador)
17 LARYTTA Difficult Fun (Creaked)
18 STARKEYS Dilmun (Tigers Against Crime)
19 CHAIRLIFT Does You Inspire You (Kanine)
20 MADE IN MEXICO Guerillaton (Skin Graft)
21 VARIOUS ARTISTS Slumdog Millionaire (Interscope)
22 LOS CAMPESINOS! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
23 CRYSTAL STILTS Alight Of Night (Slumberland)
24 DUKE SPIRIT Neptune (Shangri-La)
25 J. TILLMAN Vacilando Territory Blues (Western Vinyl)
26 MANSFIELDS Cramp Your Style (Gearhead)
27 ROSEBUDS Life Like (Merge)
28 SUPERSUCKERS Get It Together (Mid-Fi)
29 TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science (Interscope)
30 EL GUINCHO Alegranza! (XL/Young Turks)

The show is $5 and all proceeds go to support Danger Danger Gallery, which in turn is supporting an entire generation of young artists. Please come out and say hi.

Full details after the jump!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44128148801
http://www.myspace.com/dangerdangergallery

Lineup:
Seanicus (opening set 10pm)
(live set – electro-house-techno-DnB-IDM)

Altitude Sickness and Josh
(electro vs. analog synergy set)

Altitude Sickness
(live electronics, remixing)

Josh
(dj set – hiphop, pop, rock, electro)

Details:
Start Time:Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time:Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 2:00am
Location:
Danger Danger Gallery
5013 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA

10 Favorites CD’s of 2008 that were new to me (in alphabetical order)

As Human – Kilo (2008)
Larry Barbee – Cushetunk (2006)
Miles Davis – Complete On The Corner Sessions (2007)
The Four Bags – The Four Bags (2000)
Laszlo Gardony – Dig Deep (2008)
Richard Leo Johnson and Greg Bendian – Who Knew Charlie Shoe? (2007)
Rudresh Mahanthappa – Kinsmen (2008)
Microscopic Septet – Lobster Leaps In (2008)
Bobby Previte – Set The Alarm For Monday (2008)
Solar – Suns Of Cosmic Consciousness (2005)

10 Favorite songs of 2008 that were new to me (in alphabetical order)

As Human – “Fall Backwards” (2008)
Larry Barbee – “Sunrise” (2008)
Bitches Brew – “Go To Jazz” (2008)
Flemming and John – “Ugly Girl” (1999)
Rudresh Mahanthappa – “Convergence (Kinsmen)” (2008)
Jason Moran – “Arizona Landscape” (2006)
Solar – “Reincarnation 1968” (2005)
Terry Silverlight – “Do it” (2008)
Esperanza Spalding – “I Adore You” (2007)
Rob Wasserman – “Nu Ballad” (2000)

10 Favorite live gigs of 2008 (in no particular order)

Mal Stein, Robert Levin and others @ The Cupping Room in NYC (multiple occasions)
Bitches Brew @ John & Peter’s in New Hope, PA (multiple occasions)
Roswell Rudd Quartet @ The Arts Council in Princeton, NJ
Oregon @ Birdland in NYC
Return To Forever @ The Mann in Philadelphia, PA
Oliver Lake Trio @ Pettoranello Gardens in Princeton, NJ
The Claudia Quintet @ The Cornelia St. Café in NYC
Terry Silverlight @ The Cutting Room in NYC
Patrick De Caumette @ Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia, PA
Ratdog @ The Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ

WPRB & R5 Productions are proud to present, for your listening pleasure, a night with The Rosebuds, with The Love Language and National Eye. It’s going down on Thursday, 1/15 at Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave) in Philadelphia! Come out for this 21+ show! Starts at 9 PM!

Husband and wife duo The Rosebuds hail from North Carolina and write songs full of infectious pop will strike a chord with you. We’ve been jammin’ on their new record, Life Like (Merge Records), for a while now!

Also on the bill are The Love Language (another N.C. band) and Philadelphia’s own National Eye. Come out early and leave late — it’s a Thursday night you won’t want to miss.

Stay tuned to WPRB because we’re giving away tickets to the show!

Let us know if you’re gonna be there… stop by the WPRB booth and say hi!

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The list was calculated by collecting our weekly Top 30 charts and assigning point values to each position. Ties were broken randomly by the computer.

Thanks to all of those who tuned in, shared their thoughts (by phone or other electronic means), or checked out the live webcam!

WPRB’s 103 RELEASES OF 2008

1 HOT CHIP Made In The Dark (DFA/EMI)
2 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
3 THE DODOS Visiter (Frenchkiss)
4 HIGH PLACES High Places (Thrill Jockey)
5 RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (Self-released/XL)
6 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend (XL)
7 AWESOME COLOR Electric Aborigines (Ecstatic Peace!)
8 ENDLESS BOOGIE Focus Level (No Quarter)
9 OXFORD COLLAPSE Bits (Sub Pop)
10 RATATAT LP3 (XL)

11 STEREOLAB Chemical Chords (4AD)
12 LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
13 SEBADOH Bubble And Scrape [Reissue] (Sub Pop/Domino)
14 XIU XIU Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
15 MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
16 FUJIYA AND MIYAGI Lightbulbs (Deaf Dumb And Blind Communications)
17 DESTROYER Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
18 THROW ME THE STATUE Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)
19 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Water Curses EP (Domino)
20 THE COOL KIDS The Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)

21 BISHOP ALLEN The Broken String (Dead Oceans)
22 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES The Supreme Genius Of King Khan And The
Shrines (Vice)
23 DEERHUNTER Microcastle (Kranky)
24 THE RAVEONETTES Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
25 HEALTH Health (Lovepump United)
26 STEINSKI What Does It All Mean? 1983-2008 Retrospective (Illegal Art)
27 DAEDELUS Love To Make Music To (Ninja Tune)
28 WHITE WILLIAMS Smoke (Tigerbeat6)
29 FELIX DA HOUSECAT Virgo Blaktro And The Movie Disco (Nettwerk)
30 FLYING LOTUS Reset EP (Warp)

31 PONYTAIL Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free)
32 LADYTRON Velocifero (Nettwerk)
33 DAFT PUNK Alive 2007 (Virgin)
34 THE BLACK KEYS Attack And Release (Nonesuch)
35 EAT SKULL Sick To Death (Siltbreeze)
36 BEACH HOUSE Devotion (Carpark)
37 THE BREEDERS Mountain Battles (4AD)
38 THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive (Vagrant)
39 THE WALKMEN You And Me (Gigantic)
40 THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN We Brave Bee Stings And All (Kill Rock Stars)

41 JUANA MOLINA Un Dia (Domino)
42 THE HIGH DECIBELS The High Decibels (Rolling Jack)
43 DINO FELIPE No Fun Demo (No Fun Productions)
44 DEFIANCE, OHIO The Fear, The Fear, The Fear (No Idea)
45 RODRIGUEZ Cold Fact (Light In The Attic)
46 ELF POWER In A Cave (Rykodisc)
47 DEERHOOF Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
48 THE FAINT Fasciinatiion (Blank.wav)
49 KOUSHIK Out My Window (Stones Throw)
50 THE CUTE LEPERS Can’t Stand Modern Music (Blackheart)

51 CSS Donkey (Sub Pop)
52 GANG GANG DANCE Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry)
53 TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science (Interscope)
54 REEFER Reefer (Alphapup)
55 BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
56 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
57 PAS/CAL I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura (Le Grand Magistery)
58 HIGH PLACES 3/07- 9/07 (Thrill Jockey)
59 CLINIC Do It! (Domino)
60 FIERY FURNACES Remember (Thrill Jockey)

61 DRY RIB Whose Last Trickle (Hyped2Death)
62 DR DOG Fate (Park The Van)
63 CYNE Pretty Dark Things (Hometapes)
64 GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree (Mute)
65 CRYSTAL STILTS Crystal Stilts EP (Woodsist)
66 BURIAL Untrue (Hyperdub)
67 BOTTOMLESS PIT Hammer Of The Gods (Comedy Minus One)
68 THE A-SIDES Silver Storms (Vagrant)
69 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Anti-)
70 ABE VIGODA Skeleton (Post-Present Medium)

71 THE TEENAGERS Reality Check (XL)
72 DENGUE FEVER Venus On Earth (M80)
73 OF MONTREAL Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
74 ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Scared Famous (Human Ear)
75 VARIOUS ARTISTS You Don’t Know: Ninja Cuts (Ninja Tune)
76 SHE AND HIM Volume One (Merge)
77 NO AGE Nouns (Sub Pop)
78 HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules And Love Affair (DFA/Mute)
79 THE CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
80 BOYS NOIZE Oi Oi Oi Remixed (Last Gang)

81 THE NOTWIST The Devil, You And Me (Domino)
82 EGO SUMMIT The Room Isn’t Big Enough (Old3C)
83 CAT POWER Jukebox (Matador)
84 BEIRUT The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)
85 TILLY AND THE WALL o (Team Love)
86 THE RUBY SUNS Sea Lion (Sub Pop)
87 PHOSPHORESCENT Pride (Dead Oceans)
88 PANDA RIOT She Dares All Things (Self released)
89 OXFORD COLLAPSE The Hann-Byrd EP (Comedy Minus One)
90 TOKYO POLICE CLUB Smith EP (Paper Bag)

91 THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Distortion (Nonesuch)
92 AU Verbs (Aagoo)
93 BLACK DICE Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
94 SBACH Sbach (Suicide Squeeze)
95 PUBLIC RECORD Public Record (High Two)
96 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Flight Of The Conchords (Sub Pop)
97 THE LINES Memory Span [Reissue] (Acute )
98 THE DANDY WARHOLS Earth To The Dandy Warhols (Beat The World)
99 BILL CALLAHAN Woke On A Whaleheart (Drag City)
100 TIMES NEW VIKING Rip It Off (Matador)

101 FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
102 SPECTRUM MEETS CAPTAIN MEMPHIS Spectrum Meets Capain Memphis (Birdman)
103 FABULOUS DIAMONDS Fabulous Diamonds (Siltbreeze)

You can view the show’s playlist here! For those curious about countdown host Maria T’s personal favorites of 2008, check the playlist here.

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See you soon and have a great New Year! Here’s to more great music in 2009!

Join WPRB 103.3 FM as we close out the year with a series of music marathons!

Jon Solomon’s 21st Annual 24-Hour Christmas Show kicks off our marathon season on December 24th, followed by Marvin Rosen’s “Viva 21st Century” marathon on December 26th; Maria T closes out 2008 with a 12-hour New Year’s Eve countdown of the top 103 releases heard on WPRB. Keep reading for full program details and additional information.

Last but certainly not least,don’t forget to stay tuned to WPRB throughout December as our on-air staff host their own “Best of 2008” programs and more! Have a wonderful holiday season! We look forward to sharing 2009 with you!

Wednesday, December 24th at 6:00 p.m.

Jon Solomon’s one man radio show runs from 6:00 p.m. ET Christmas Eve until 6:00 p.m. ET Christmas Day and has done so every year since 1988, back when he was fifteen years old. 2008 marks the 21st edition of Jon’s show – 24 hours full of rare, strange and confounding records that are all holiday-related. Over the past two decades this show has become a Delaware Valley tradition with a devoted following world-wide.

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Friday, December 26th at 6:00 a.m.

Join Marvin Rosen, the award-winning host of WPRB”s “Classical Discoveries,” for a second 24-hour marathon starting 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday, December 26th. The “Viva 21st Century” marathon will be devoted to new works composed during the last nine years and will represent composers from all over the world. To learn more about Marvin’s fantastic program, visit the Classical Discoveries website.

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Wednesday, December 31st at 12:00 p.m.

Closing out 2008 is Maria T, host of WPRB’s “Her Jazz” and Top Ten programs, with a 12-hour marathon counting down the top 103 new releases of the year. The “103 of 2008” marathon begins at 12:00 p.m. ET on New Year’s Eve and runs until the stroke of midnight.

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