Jesus Vio – Debes Siempre Estar Contento Jesus
March 22, 2013
Other Favorite Albums of 2012
January 2, 2013
Other favorites of 2012!
- Deerhoof, Breakup Song
- Screen Vinyl Image, Strange Behavior
- Wire, The Black Session – Paris, 10 May 2011
- Aesop Rock, Skelethon
- Mallard, Yes On Blood
- Mode Moderne, Strange Bruises
- Chromatics, Kill For Love
- Japandroids, Celebration Rock
- Sharon Van Etten, Tramp
- Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Fetch
- Oren Ambarchi, Audience of One
- Talk Normal, Sunshine
- Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras, and the Congos, Icon Give Thank
- Berangere Maximin, No One Is An Island
- Adrian Sherwood, Survival and Resistance
- CS Yeh, Transitions
- Andy Stott, Luxury Problems
- Tame Impala, Lonerism
- Christian Loeffler, A Forest
- Alog, Unemployed
Favorite Local Albums of 2012
January 2, 2013
Another great year! I need 15 spaces for my top ten and could have easily added a few more ….
- Krill, Alam No Hris
- Autochrome, Separation Realms
- Various Artists, Boston & Beyond: SXSW 2012
- Future Carnivores, Future Carnivores
- Foolish Ida, Book II
- Dirty Dishes, Most Tarnished Birds
- Hands and Knees, Red Hot Minnow
- Milling Gowns, Something Dangerous Loves Me
- Novel Ideas, Home
- Plumerai, Mondegreen
- Avoxblue, A Place Without Time
- Mission of Burma, Unsound
- Black Fortress of Opium, Stratospherical
- Mean Creek, Youth Companion
- Exusamwa, Phase IV
WZBC Fundraiser
October 13, 2012
WZBC has a great-looking and easy-to-navigate newly-designed website. Check it out!
And, while you’re there, please consider contributing to the station’s biennial fundraiser. “Biennial” means it happens only once every two years. But listener support is essential, to help fund transmitter maintenance and repairs, provide on-line streaming and the audio archive, and facilitate every other aspect of our ability to bring you the very best music from Boston and beyond! And we have some excellent premiums there for you, too!
Ex-Magicians – California Grass
August 10, 2012
Ten songs, 22 minutes, perfection from start to finish. From Ex-Magicians.
“Obviously Girl”
“There From Here”
Tristan da Cunha – Love & Math
May 3, 2011
Members of Tristan da Cunha, one of my all-time favorite local bands, will be dropping by the WZBC studios tomorrow — Wednesday, May 4 — to discuss their farewell show this Saturday at PAs Lounge, their forthcoming lp, and assorted projects and accomplishments, past, present, future. Please join us, 1-3pm, the old-fashioned way at 90.3fm or through the world-wide internet stream!
Love and Mathematics – Other Favorite Albums of 2009
January 4, 2010
15 more favorites from last year, to go with the 10 local albums listed below.
- Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
- Sister Suvi, Now I Am Champion
- Shrag, Shrag
- Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue
- Atlas Sound, Logos
- Animal Collective, Fall Be Kind
- Maayan Nidam, Nightlong
- Abe Vigoda, Reviver
- DJ Koze, Reincarnations – The Remix Chapter 2001-2009
- God Help the Girl, God Help the Girl
- Sonic Youth, The Eternal
- Durutti Column, Love in the Time of Recession
- The Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come
- Mountains, Choral
Love and Mathematics – Favorite Local Albums of 2009
January 1, 2010
2009 was a great, great year for rock in Boston, and so I could have easily expanded this list into a top 20. But, anyway, here are my ten most favorite local recordings from the year just past.
- Old Furnace, Hidden Hills
- Pants Yell!, Received Pronunciation
- Neats, 1981-84 The Ace of Hearts Years
- Chriss Sutherland, Worried Love
- Arms and Sleepers, Matador
- Mission of Burma, The Sound The Speed The Light
- Joe Pernice, It Feels So Good When I Stop
- Technoir MA, Technoir MA
- Appletown Gun Shop, Ghosts of Green
- Animal Hospital, Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues
“A Cheapskate’s Guide to the Kissing Zone”
April 28, 2009
I’ll be hosting this week’s installment of WZBC’s Test Pattern, focusing on one of my favorite bands of all time: The Blake Babies.
Please tune in Friday, May 1, from 6 to 7pm.
Love and Mathematics – This Week’s Show
February 8, 2009
On this week’s show (Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 1-3pm), I’ll be playing the new cd “Hidden Hills” by Old Furnace as it was meant to be heard: straight through, in its entirety, starting just before 2pm and running until 2:30pm. See my review of this excellent album below.
And also as noted below, Old Furnace will be doing a live set on WMBR’s “Subject to Change” program on Saturday, February 21. For details, see this announcement on the band’s myspace page.
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