New Year, New Things At KWVA

Hello dear readers,

It is now 2009. You may have noticed that this blog has been pretty much a desert. Expect in 2009 far more updates. 1oo times more than last year!  

Here are some new albums you may hear on the airwaves at KWVA:

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion

Animal Collective return with an album that has been one of the most anticpated albums of the year.  Taking elements familiar to Animal Collective fans and adding some new instrumentation influenced by all types of electronic music, this album is incredibly unique.

Matt & Kim-Grand

Like a lo-fi version of Mates of States, this duo delivers catchy as hell music. Synths and drums and an urge to dance fill this album from start to finish.

Andrew Bird-Noble Beast

Violionist Bird returns with a new album that has a bit more rock then previous releases. Whistling, bells, electric guitars and more, this album will have fans and new listeners soldiering on.

Cotton Jones-Paranoid Cocoon

Frontman of Page France, Michael Nau has fromed a new band. Focusing on a sound that is influenced by folk music and psychadelic rock, rather then the more whimsical sound of Page France.

Andrew Hickey

KWVA Music Director

COME ON AND VOTE PEOPLE

THIS IS LYZI DIAMOND FROM KWVA TELLING ALL OF YOU TO VOTE TODAY. IT'S IMPORTANT, PEOPLE!

And this is our chart:

1 TOBACCO Fucked Up Friends Anticon
2 OF MONTREAL Skeletal Lamping Polyvinyl
3 I'M FROM BARCELONA Who Killed Harry Houdini? Mute
4 LAKE Oh, The Places We'll Go K
5 TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science Interscope
6 COLD WAR KIDS Loyalty To Loyalty
7 MOGWAI The Hawk Is Howling Matador
8 WOMEN Women Jagjaguwar
9 SQUAREPUSHER Just A Souvenir Warp
10 FIGHT BITE Emerald Eyes Self-Released
11 ROSEBUDS Life Like Merge
12 DEERHOOF Offend Maggie Kill Rock Stars
13 BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT Motion To Rejoin Matador
14 PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS Fun DMC Gold Dust
15 MURS Murs For President Warner Bros.
16 SHUGO TOKUMARU Exit P-Vine
17 FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life Matador
18 CLASSIC CRIME The Silver Cord Tooth And Nail
19 FINAL FANTASY Spectrum 14th Century [EP] Blocks
20 JAY REATARD Matador Singles '08 Matador
21 MARNIE STERN This Is It... Kill Rock Stars
22 THIEVERY CORPORATION Radio Retaliation ESL
23 VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls In The Red
24 STREETS Everything Is Borrowed Vice
25 HERMAN DUNE Next Year In Zion Everloving
26 AUDRYE SESSIONS Audrye Sessions [EP] Black Seal
27 DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES In Ear Park 4AD
28 EL GUINCHO Alegranza! XL-Young Turks
29 THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES Tail Swallower And Dove Suicide Squeeze
30 STARFUCKER Starfucker Badman

YES.

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Okay sorry sorry I have been neglecting my duties as Music Director (at least as far as this blog goes). A show review is coming later this week, and some reviews of the new records we've been receiving, but for now you get last week's chart . . .

1 TRICKY Knowle West Boy Domino
2 DEERHOOF Offend Maggie Kill Rock Stars
3 LAKE Oh, The Places We'll Go K
4 OF MONTREAL Skeletal Lamping Polyvinyl
5 TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science Interscope
6 STARFUCKER Starfucker Badman
7 MURS Murs For President Warner Bros.
8 KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night RCA
9 LYKKE LI Youth Novels LL
10 WOMEN Women Jagjaguwar
11 JAY REATARD Matador Singles '08 Matador
12 BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT Motion To Rejoin Matador
13 TOBACCO Fucked Up Friends Anticon
14 MARNIE STERN This Is It... Kill Rock Stars
15 THIEVERY CORPORATION Radio Retaliation ESL
16 SHUGO TOKUMARU Exit P-Vine
17 VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls In The Red
18 HOT CHIP Touch Too Much/Hold On Remixes DFA-Astralwerks
19 FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life Matador
20 CLASSIC CRIME The Silver Cord Tooth And Nail
21 ELECTRIC SIX Flashy Metropolis
22 STREETS Everything Is Borrowed Vice
23 JAKE ONE White Van Music Rhymesayers
24 ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND Looking Into It AGSFB
25 KOUSHIK Out My Window Stones Throw
26 I'M FROM BARCELONA Who Killed Harry Houdini? Mute
27 MOGWAI The Hawk Is Howling Matador
28 ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS Another World [EP] Secretly Canadian
29 LENKA Lenka Epic
30 PASSION PIT Chunk Of Change Frenchkiss

KWVA Top 30!

This is KWVA's CMJ chart for the week prior to 9/9/08. These are the top 30 current records that KWVA is playing right now!

Sample:
0 BAND Album Label

1 RATATAT LP3 XL
2 BROKEN WEST Now Or Heaven Merge
3 FUJIYA AND MIYAGI Lightbulbs Deaf Dumb And Blind
4 RA RA RIOT The Rhumb Line Barsuk
5 SEBASTIEN TELLIER Sexuality Record Makers
6 WALKMEN You And Me Gigantic
7 OKKERVIL RIVER The Stand Ins Jagjaguwar
8 BECK Modern Guilt Interscope
9 MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S Daytrotter Sessions [EP] Epic
10 WAIFS Sundirtwater Jarrah
11 SOLTERO You're No Dream La Société Expéditionnaire
12 ALIAS Resurgam Anticon
13 HORSE FEATHERS House With No Home Kill Rock Stars
14 BLACK KIDS Partie Traumatic Columbia-Almost Gold
15 KIMYA DAWSON Alphabutt K
16 CSS Donkey SUB POP
17 UH HUH HER Common Reaction Nettwerk
18 BLIND PILOT 3 Rounds And A Sound Expunged
19 THE BUG London Zoo Ninja Tune
20 MOONDOGGIES Don't Be A Stranger Hardly Art
21 BURNING SPEAR Jah Is Real Burning Music
22 KISS ME AT THE GATE Tape And Scissors Superphonic
23 LYKKE LI Youth Novels LL
24 OXFORD COLLAPSE Bits SUB POP
25 POLYSICS We Ate The Machine MySpace
26 WHAT LAURA SAYS Thinks And Feels Terpsikhore
27 RAFTER Sweaty Magic Asthmatic Kitty
28 MARCHING BAND Spark Large U&L
29 STILLS Oceans Will Rise Arts And Crafts
30 DRESSY BESSY HOLLERandSTOMP Transdreamer

Yay!

This is the NEW KWVA music blog!  We are so happy to be able to connect with all of you lovely people again!  Expect frequent updates . . . in the future!