The fall semester is just underway over in these parts. Our team of music directors are back at the station, ready for some new music. Here are the Top 30 for the week, enjoy!

TOP 30
1 Purity Ring/Shrines/4AD
2 Dirty Projectors/Swing Lo Magellan/ Domino
3 Yppah/ Eighty One/ Ninja Tune
4 Body Parts/ On Purpose/ Self-Released
5 Yeasayer/ Fragrant World/ Secretly Canadian
6 King Tuff /King Tuff/ Sub Pop
7 Killer Mike/ R.A.P. Music/ Williams Street Records
8 Grimes/ Visions/ 4AD
9 Twin Shadow/ Confess/ 4AD
10 Ty Segall Band/ Slaughterhouse/ In the Red
11 Happy Hands Club/ Parking Lot/ Luxury
12 Slugabed/ Time Team/ Ninja Tune
13 Zammuto/ Zammuto/ Temporary Residence
14 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti/ Mature Themes/ 4AD
15 Deep Time/ Deep Time/ Hardly Art
16 Jukebox the Ghost/ Safe Travels/ Yep Roc
17 The Orwells/ Remember When /Autumn Tone
18 The Mountain Goats/ The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp/ Shrimper
19 Holiday Friends/ Chicks/ Self-Released
20 Caught a Ghost/ Caught a Ghost/ Self-Released
21 Violens/ TRUE/ Slumberland
22 Maps and Atlases/ Beware and Be Grateful/ Barsuk
23 Grass Widow/ Internal Logic/ HLR
24 Electric Guest/ Mondo /Downtown Records
25 The Driftwood Singers /The Driftwood Singers /Trailer Fire
26 Los Straitjackets/ Jet Set/ Yep Roc
27 Tallest Man on Earth/ There’s No Leaving Now/ Dead Oceans
28 Shintaro Sakamoto/ How to Live With a Phantom/ Other Music Recording Co.
29 Popular Culture/ Episode /Sparrowsongs
30 Japandroids/ Celebration Rock/ Polyvinyl

Hey everyone,

Coming in this morning and putting together my last table of charts was not the most gut-wrenching part of leaving KSPC for a semester to go abroad, but it did come close! In a few weeks Amaru will take over as Music Director while I’m about frolicking in Europe…. but thanks to those of you who kept up with the blog and kept checking in on our new music!
This week Grimes is #1 on our Top 30… check out their music video for Genesis off of their album Visions. 

KSPC TOP 30

1          Grimes Visions 4AD

2          Zammuto          Zammuto          Temporary Residence

3          The Deadly Syndrome  All In Time       Self-Released

4          Dirty Ghosts     Metal Moon     Last Gang Records Inc.

5          Humans            Traps   Hybridity

6          Nick Waterhouse         Time’s All Gone            Innovative Leisure

7          Nu Sensae        Sundowning      Suicide Squeeze

8          Psychic Ills       Hazed Dream   Sacred Bones

9          Squarepusher   Ufabulum          Warp

10        Vacationer        Gone    Downtown

11        The XX            Coexist Young Turks

12        “1,2,3″ New Haven      Frenchkiss

13        Black Dice       Mr. Impossible Ribbon Music

14       Antonyand the Johnsons          Cut the World Secretly Canadian

15        The Dumb Easies          Love! Love! Love!       Cytoblast

16        Dunes   Noctiluca          PPM

17        The Orwells      Remember When          Autumn Tone

18        The Sugarman Three     What the World Needs Now    Daptone

19        Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse In the Red

20        Warm Ghost    Narrows           Partisan

21        M. Ward          A Wasteland Cmpanion            Merge

22        The Funkees     Dancing Time   Soundway

23        Zulus    Zulus    AAGOO

24        Japandroids      Celebration Rock         Polyvinyl

25        The Intelligence Everybody’s Got it Easy But Me           Soundway

26        Justin Townes Earle      Nothing’s Gonna Change          Bloodshot

27        Lampchop        Mr. M  Merge

28        Lettuce Fly       Velour

29        Can      The Lost Tapes            Spoon/Mute

30        Dicks   These People    Alternative Tentacles

RPM

1          Grimes Visions 4AD

2          Zammuto          Zammuto          Temporary Residence

3          Humans            Traps   Hybridity

4          Squarepusher   Ufabulum          Warp

5          The XX            Coexist Young Turks

6          Casiokids         Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen         Polyvinyl

7          Die Zorros        Future  Voo Doo Rhythm

8          Geographer      Myth    Modern Art

9          Black Dice       Mr. Impossible Ribbon Music

10        Apparat            The Devil’s Walk          Mute

Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions From Mars by Winona

Finnish band “Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions From Mars” has something to say. What exactly it is, I don’t know. I can barely understand the lead singer, Ray Katz, over the grungy guitars, Drano-laced vocals, and chunky chords. In a post-Stooges universe, “Electric Blue,” as I’ll henceforth refer to them, is made up of a little bit of Big Black, a pinch from The Flesh Eaters, and a very weird fascination with the Beatles.

Give me a moment to digress. Alternative Finnish rockers are very near and dear to my heart (well one alternative Finnish rocker). On a balmy night during my wild high school days, I made my way down to Whiskey A Go Go club in Hollywood for an all-ages night of Finnish fun. As usual, in the hi-octane crowd situation I was amazingly crushed, so I sought refuge in the very back of the venue and watched a Finnish band called The Rasmus sweat and sometimes shred on-stage. It was cool, but I was far away and with a friend and wearing colors that were much too bright, and generally felt terribly out of place. After the show I lingered for a while, letting the crowd clear, when I noticed the band standing to my right, ordering a few beers. They saw me and smiled, somehow they had slipped away from the crowd unnoticed. They said they liked my shirt or something, and proceeded to introduce themselves in very, very limited English. They were the kind of band that used more eyeliner than was really appropriate, but hell, they were the nicest group of people I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. We spent about 15 more minutes chatting or trying to and they gave me a free shirt, told me to come to Finland, and went on their way.

First impression? Finnish bands are really freaking nice.

So I noticed Electric Blue’s album, featuring a Great White Shark on the cover, and lay it down on the turntable to one track described as “Ya ya!” in the review.

“Right Feel” by Electric Blue 

And here’s a photo to set your peepers on:

The first 10 seconds of this song start like a weird They Might be Giants track (the guitar riff and playful vibe n all).  But then Katz’s vocals come in, all screech and lighter fluid and what have you, and take this somewhere else. It’s fun, it’s kind of exotic, it’s weird as hell. The repetitive guitar and steady beat make the outlandish vocals sound even more defiant against such a controlled backdrop. It’s a short and sweet song that oscillates between “fuck you” and “let’s dance,” and that sounds really great in the context that this is a band that worships the Beatles (their title “Revolutionion” a conscious play on the Beatles “Revolution”) and makes music that sounds like gristle. They’re definitely not the Rasmus, but maybe the next best thing.

Richard Hell by Joseph 

I’m not very punk rock. Right now I’m wearing khaki pants and grass-stained Asics sneakers. My hair is neat if unshowered. I smell like stale air and sitting sweat. Richard Hell is punk rock. He wore torn shirts. He spiked his hair. He dropped out of high school to write poetry in New York City. Shit, Richard Hell did Sid Vicious before Sid Vicious did Sid Vicious. Of course, the aesthetic doesn’t make the movement, as much as some people seem to think, but Richard Hell also literally started punk rock. He was in the first iteration of Television. He played at CBGB in the ‘70s. To quote LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, he “was there.” He was right there at that time in that place with all those people.

I didn’t start listening to punk until college and I’m still very unknowledgeable about the genre and its history. In high school, I primarily bumped Andrew Bird and the Decemberists. The record Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids literally couldn’t have existed in my reality then. If someone had played me this record, a black hole would have sucked up my hometown with the quiet whoosh of a thousand suburbanites’ repressed screams.

I’m still not punk rock and chances are I’ll never be. I’m a cautious person. I keep diligent To Do lists. That being said, it’s Friday. It’s 6:26 PM and I’m still at work writing this. I’m tired and I have a headache. My eyes are dry because I drank too much coffee today. So if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna throw this song on and crash into the weekend.

Hey everybody!

It has been scientifically proven that KSPC DOES in fact beat the heat. So what are you waiting for! Tune in, turn it up, and check out our TOP 30 for the week ending August 6th. Toppin’ things off we have Antony and the Johnsons with the live album “Cut the World.” What follows is my favorite track on the album, a spoken word piece called “Future Feminism.”

KSPC TOP 30

1          Antony and the Johnsons          Cut the World  Secretly Canadian

2          Alabama Shakes           Boys & Girls    ATO

3          Bear In Heaven            “I Love You, It’s Cool” Dead Oceans

4          Electric Guest   Mondo Downtown

5          Jimmy Cliff       Rebirth Sunpower

6          The Mallard      Yes on Blood   Castle Face

7          Crocodiles        Endless Flowers           Frenchkiss Records

8          The Deadly Syndrome  All in Time        Self Released

9          Dent May         Do Things         Paw Tracks

10        Dirty Projectors            Swing Lo Magellan       Domino

11        The Funkees     Dancing Time   Soundway

12        Hanni El Khatib            Will the Guns Come Out           Innovative Leisure

13        Herzog Cartoon Violence         Exit Stencil

14        The Hundred In the Hands        Red Night         WARP

15        Japandroids      Celebration Rock         Polyvinyl records

16        Jen Schende     19 Songs for and Inspired by Valencia  Self-Released

17        John Maus        A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material      Ribbon Music

18        King Tuff          King Tuff          Sub Pop Records

19        Princeton          Remembrance of Things to Come         Princeton

20        Radar Eyes       Radar Eyes       HoZac Records

21        The Sandwitches          Mrs. Jones’ Cookies     Empty Cellar Records

22        Sleigh Bells       Reign of Terror Mom & Pop

23        Wizards of Time           Will the Soft Curse Plague On? Hidden Shoal Recordings

24        Various Artists  The Sultans of Soul       Wind Hit

25        Veronica Falls  Veronica Falls  Slumberland

26        Those Lavender Whales           Tomahawk of Praise     Fork & Spoon Records

27        Xiu Xiu Always Polyvinyl records

28        Beachwood Sparks      The Tarnished Gold      Sub Pop Records

29        Caged Animals This Summer-EP          Lucky Number

30        Dicks   Kill From the Heart       Alternative Tentacles
AMERICANA
1    Those Lavender Whales    Tomahawk of Praise    Fork and Spoon Records
2    Various Artists    The Sultans of soul    Wind Hit
3    Beachwood Sparks    The Tarnished Gold    Sub Pop
4    Daniel Rossen    Silent Hour/Golden Mile    Warp Records
5    Laura Marling    All my Rage    Ribbon Music
6    Lettuce    Fly    RED
7    Nick Waterhouse    Time’s All Gone    Innovative Leisure
8    The Tallest Man on Earth    There’s No Leaving Now    Dead Oceans
9    Various Artists    Tunes for Babboons    CJSW
10    Justin Townes Earle    Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now    Bloodshot

RPM/ELECTRONIC       
1    Bear In Heaven    “I Love You, It’s Cool”    Dead Oceans/Hometapes
2    The Hundred in the Hands    Red Night    Warp
3    Body Language    Social Studies    Lavish Habit
4    Daniel Maloso    Hijos de Jose    Comeme
5    Die Zorros    Future    Voodoo Rhythm
6    Grimes    Visions    4AD
7    Geographer    Myth    Modern Art
8    Tanliens    Mixed Emotions    True Panther Sounds
9    Tycho    Dive    Ghostly International
10    Zammuto    Zammuto    Temporary Residence

We are right in the middle of summer, the days feel long, but that doesn’t mean the music stops! Thanks to lots of hours from tireless volunteers, KSPC has a ton of new music being played and replayed by our Summer DJs. Check out thee albums and artists that round out the Top 30 this week.

Leading the pack is Jaill with his newest album, Traps.

Listen to a track off oft his fantastic summer release:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9yg5w922yI

KSPC TOP 30

1          Jaill       Traps   Sub Pop Records

2          Dent May         Do Things         Paw Tracks

3          Treasure Mammal         Checkognize     Kingdom Mammalia

4          Ty Segall  Band            Slaughterhouse In the Red

5          Caught a Ghost Caught A Ghost            Self-Released

6          Dirty Ghosts     Metal Moon     Last Gang Records Inc.

7          Dirty Projectors            Swing Lo Magellan       Domino

8          Electric Guest   Mondo Downtown

9          Happy Hands Club       Parking Lot      Luxury

10        Prinzhorn Dance School            Clay Class        DFA

11        S.C.U.M.         Again Into Eyes            Mute

12        Saint Motel       Voyeur On the Records

13        Sleigh Bells       Reign of Terror Mom & Pop

14        Thee Oh Sees   Carrion Crawler/The Dream     In the Red

15        Alabama Shakes           Boys & Girls    ATO Records

16        The Intelligence Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me           In the Red

17        American Gospel          Tall Tales Vol. 1           American Gospel

18        Connor Youngblood     GOLD Self Released

19        Fenster Bones   Morr Music

20        Imagine Dragons           Continued Silence EP   Kid Ina Korner/Interscope

21        Japandroids      Celebration Rock         Polyvinyl Records

22        Mondo Ray      Hypnotized 7    Windian

23        Pins of Light     II          Alternative Tentacles

24        Squarepusher   Ufabulum          WARP

25        The Magnetic Fields     Love at the Bottom of the Sea   Merge

26        Ponytail            Do Whatever You Want All the Time    We Are Free

27        Lower Dens     Nootropics       Ribbon Music

28        Herzog Cartoon Violence         Exit Stencil

29        Hank Haint       blackout           Voodoo Rhythm

30        Tender Trap     Dansette Dansette         Slumberland

“America’s Greatest Lost Band” by Winona

Growing up in Los Angeles with parents who really, really liked oldies radio, I was exposed to lots of KRTH 101.1. For those of you unfamiliar with this staple of my childhood/minor bane of my existence, KRTH is exactly the type of sugary, over-the-top kind of DJing that most Dads would like. And mine surely did. Here’s an example, featuring one of their staple DJs “Shotgun” Tom Kelly:

See? Yeah.

So for all of KRTH’s technical missteps, they did play a lot of really good music. Sure, 85% of programming would be the same song off of the Beatles’ White Album, or maybe the occasional Motown track. But every so often they’d play something unique that would segue into either an impassioned lecture from one of my parents or  a hunt on my own to find the artist and maybe some more music by them.

For all the Stones, Dylan, and McCartney I heard, I never once heard of The Remains. So when I came across a distinctly Brit-pop looking album in the KSPC library it seemed very out of place to say the least. Curiosity got the better of me so I put it on, and this is what I heard.

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My curiosity was piqued. This group sounded really good. They had a few more “punky” covers of songs (ie Hang on Sloopy, Like a Rolling Stone, etc.), but the one original track on the album (the song I linked, “Why do I cry”) was by far their best. They sounded like a hybrid between every mega band of the time, you know, the kinds that are painfully cited over and over again by people like me in relatively incompetent blog posts.

But hey! They were catchy, the guitar was awesome, and the jangly beat is something I could imagine being played over and over again on one of those oldie stations. I mean, sure, they weren’t worn and familiar sounding to me yet, but if clout in today’s radio world is measured by how quickly a band becomes disdainful through over-saturation, I could see these fellas coming out right on top. So why weren’t they big?

Turns out The Remains have a bit of a sob story, beginning with their brief taste of fame opening for THE BEATLES during their last tour. It almost sounds like it was meant to be, right? Too bad these guys couldn’t keep it together though… they broke up the summer after their opening gig on that tour and never really got off the ground again. They recorded a few cringe-worthy songs since, but have since faded into relative obscurity.

I’ll let rock journalist Mark Kemp say it, “The Remains most certainly are America’s greatest lost band.”

“Land of the Loops” by Joseph

This week’s record caught my eye because it features cute album art. It’s as simple as that. Take a look.

In my head, the commercial opens with a medium long shot of a couple twenty-something men sitting in the back of a moving pick up truck. They are clearly bros, wearing fitted baseball caps and tanks. Several shots of trees flying by intercut with close ups of the bros laughing or looking pensive and nostalgiac. Cut to the bros hopping out of the bed of the truck with a wicker basket full of Miller Lite (this is the only time the viewer sees Miller Lite). Cut to the bros hiking in the woods. One of the bros pretends to kiss a banana slug. The other bros laugh. Cut to side shot of the bros walking across a log in single file. Cut to the bros running across an open field. This is all shot on a shaky handheld camera, by the way. Lots of sweeping shots. Lots of lens flare. The bros tumble to the ground. A few bros are lying on their backs with their eyes closed, expressing bliss on their faces. The other bros are up on their elbows. A couple close ups of bros looking down and then up shyly, a little past the camera as if at the other bros. A slow sweeping shot toward the setting sun. White out. Miller Lite.

Stung In the Heart

by Winona

In this recurring dream of mine I’m in a field of gold. I’m alone, the wind is blowing, summer wheat smell invades my senses. I’m relaxed but expectant, when, from a distance he arises like a scarecrow, gaunt and measured, from a far-off part of the field. He bats his eyelashes and lets his metaphorical hair down. We begin doing yoga as the sun sets behind us. Before we fall into a deep, smooth sleep he whispers softly in my ear, “You’re my desert rose.”

ie:
This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower

Anyways in case you couldn’t tell, I never have that dream but I do really, really, really enjoy Sting, or, referring to the good ol’ name he was born with, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (sorry to out you on such a public forum Sting but the name was just too good).

So, imagine my surprise when amongst the music that I’m not cool enough to listen to I find something, rather, someone, who really understands me. And as if it could get any better, it’s on an album that features covers of songs by Kurt Weill, a leader in the avant garde music scene in Berlin of the Twenties. I had to listen to this, and you will too:

Having little to no knowledge of Weill’s body of work, I soon learned that he was well worthy of covering and honoring, and he absolutely is revered and respected on this album with performances and covers of his songs from such superstars as Lou Reed, Tom Waits and John Zorn. Weill wrote and collaborated with Bertolt Brecht on such masterpieces as The Threepenny Opera and The Seven Deadly Sins. He scored the Broadway musicals One Touch of Venus and Lost in the Stars. Langston Hughes was even quoted as saying “Weill was a truly universal artist, who could with equal justice be claimed by Germany as German, France as a Frenchman, by America as an American, and by me as a Negro.” So this guy truly was a force to be reckoned with, a force worthy of the combination of the tooty tuba and operatic gravel of Sting’s voice that had to come together to create this fantastic ode to a fantastic man.

This song is part legend and part reality. Relatively lost in the haze of youtube videos and vinyl compilations (well, at least here at the KSPC library) I doubt it will ever get airplay, or should even be played on the air at an independent college radio station. But maybe by bringing it to light I’ll get that moment I’ve always hoped for, the moment I’ve always dreamed of when Sting one day looks me in the eye and says, “Hey kid, you done good.”

 Princess Tinymeat

By Joseph

This week’s Spin Doctors pick was not found by me.* It was found by DJ Natty, host of the wonderful KSPC program Squaremont (RIP). We were looking for Rancid records in the vinyl library when Natty pulled down a record by a band called Princess Tinymeat. Obviously, this record attracted us for the reason any of the records I write about for these posts do, it is glaringly ridiculous and baffling.

What does it mean? Who is Princess Tinymeat? Personally, I think of the Venture Brothers’ character Princess Tinyfeet, but not all people have the same level of intimacy with Adult Swim’s programming that I do, especially not PT themselves considering the album came out several decades before the show (or Adult Swim for that matter) was created. So what’re we dealing with here? Transsexual royalty with feelings of inadequacy? A small steak with a tiara? A third obvious misinterpretation? I still don’t know, but the music’s good.

The record, Herstory, is a 1987 compilation of PT’s various singles and EPs. Formed by experimental musician Daniel Figgis, at the time recording under the name Haa-Lacka Bintii (of fucking course), the band seemingly didn’t release much music. This compilation covers most if not all of their released songs. For the same reason I was drawn to Princess Tinymeat in the first place, the last track on the record, “Devilcock!,” immediately attracted me.

“Devilcock!” is a throbbing (heyo) cut that, to my relatively uneducated ear, falls somewhere between industrial, goth, and post-punk. The drums pound and crack. The bass bobs. Distorted washes of guitar dart in and out. Bintii’s voice is surprisingly high. I always expect the vocalist of any goth-sounding band to sound like Ian Curtis but Bintii does his own creepy and deranged thing on this song. Since these posts are first and foremost about the music, I’ll get out of the way now and let you listen for yourself.

*Actually, I initially saw this record when I was reorganizing the P section of the vinyl library a couple weeks ago. Princess Tinymeat is a great enough band name that it stuck with me even though at the time I was in a re-alphabetizing fervor and could be stopped by nothing short of a bomb threat. Even then I probably would’ve hung around a little longer to get a few more 7 inches filed and to see whether the dude even “had the balls.” It should also be mentioned that the Princess Tinymeat LP was misfiled so clearly I did a good job.

Here are our weekly charts ending 7/9. The music has been fresh and funky for the summer heat whew! So check out what’s new here and stay tuned for more new stuff. Top o’ the charts this week we have The Intelligence!

The Intelligence is a lo-fi post punk rock band from Seattle, founded by Lars Finberg, drummer of the A Frames! Check out this track, “Little Town Flirt” featuring both Shannon Shaw of Hunx/Punk and Shannon and the Clams-

TOP 30

1          The Intelligence Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me           In the Red

2          Capsula            In the Land of Silver Souls        Krian Music Group

3          Cheers Elephant           Like Wind Blows Fire   Self-Released

4          Dirty Ghosts     Metal Moon     Last Gang Records Inc.

5          Dunes   Noctiluca          PPM

6          Screaming Females       Ugly     Don Giovanni

7          Sharon Van Etten         Tramp  Jagjaguwar

8          Ty Segall  Band            Slaughterhouse In the Red

9          Crocodiles        Endless Flowers           Frenchkiss Records

10        The Deadly Syndrome  All in Time        Self-Released

11        Dent May         Do Things         Paw Tracks

12        Grass Widow   Internal Logic   HLR

13        Emily Wells      Mama  Partisan

14        Japandroids      Celebration Rock         Polyvinyl

15        King Tuff          King Tuff          Sub Pop Records

16        Here We Go Magic      A Different Ship            Secretly Canadian

17        Jonti     Twirligig           Stones Throw

18        123      New Heaven    Frenchkiss Records

19        Veronica Falls  Veronica Falls  Slumberland Records

20        Vacationer        Gone    Downtown

21        Laid Back        Cosyland          Brother

22        La Sera            Sees the Light   Hardly Art

23        Lambchop        Mr. M  Merge

24        M. Ward          A Wasteland Companion          Soundford Music Group

25        The Mallard      Yes on Blood   Castle Face

26        Sleigh Bells       Reign of Terror Mom & Pop

27        Lemonade        Diver    True Panther Sounds

28        Violens TRUE  Slumberland Records

29        Nicholas Chacon          Everything Comes Together      Self Released

30        Yellow Ostrich Strange Land    Barsuk

RPM/ELECTRONIC

1          Jonti     Twirligig           Stones Throw

2          Laid Back        Cosyland EP    Brother

3          Lemonade        Diver    True Panther Sounds

4          Ambulaunz       Vertical Mile     Ambulaunz

5          Bear In Heaven            “I Love You, It’s Cool” Dead Oceans/Hometapes

6          Body Language            Social Studies   Lavish Habit

7          Casiokids         Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen         Polyvinyl

8          Die Zorros        Future  Voodoo Rhythm

9          Doseone           G Is for Deep   Anticon

10        The Hundred in the Hands        Red Night         Warp

AMERICANA

1          Sharon van Etten          Tramp  Jagjaguwar

2          La Sera            Sees the Light   Hardly Art

3          M. Ward          A Wasteland Companion          Merge Records

4          Charles Bradley            Heartaches and Pain     Daptone

5          Cold Specks    Winter Solstice EP        Broken Hertz

6          Dan Vacon       Tunes for Babboons     CJSW

7          Daniel Rossen   Silent Hour/Golden Mile           Warp Records

8          Heartless Bastards        Arrow  Partisan

9          Infantree           Hero’s Dose     Vapor Records

10        Laura Marling   All my Rage      Ribbon Music

Hello loyal KSPC readers,

Its been a hot week but that doesn’t stop us from playing only the best and newest music down here in the basement. Leading the pack this week we have Electric Guest with their album Mondo! KSPC is always proud to see an LA based band like Mondo getting lots of airplay.

Interested in hearing what the top artist sounds like? Check out this video below, as well as our Americana and RPM charts!

TOP 30

1          Electric Guest   Mondo Downtown Records/Across the Universe

2          Yellow Ostrich Strange Land    Barsuk

3          Anthony B        Freedom Fighter           Irievibration/VP Records

4          M. Ward          A Wasteland Companion          Merge Records

5          Vacationer        Gone    Downtown

6          Caetano Veloso & David Byrne            Live at Carnegie Hall    Nonesuch Records

7          Casiokids         Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen         Polyvinyl

8          Caught a Ghost Caught a Ghost Self-Released

9          Cheers Elephant           Like Wind Blows Fire   Self-Released

10        Company         Dear America   Exit Stencil Recordings LLC

11        Dent May         Do Things         Paw Tracks

12        The Dumb Easies          Love! Love! Love!       Cytoblast

13        Emily Wells      Mama  Partisan

14        Geographer      Myth    Modern Art

15        Humans            Traps   Hybridity

16        The Hundred in the Hands        Red Night         WARP

17        La Sera            Sees the Light   Hardly Art

18        Japandroids      Celebration Rock         Polyvinyl

19        Polica   Give you the Ghost       Totally Gross National Product

20        The Magnetic Fields     Love at the Bottom of the Sea   Merge Records

21        The Men          Open Your Heart         Sacred Bones

22        Sharon Van Etten         Tramp  Jagjaguwar

23        The Tallest Man on Earth          There’s No Leaving Now          Dead Oceans

24        Yianneis           Yianneis           Soundford Music Group

25        Violens TRUE  Slumberland Records

26        Various Artists  New Zelaand @ SXSW 2012  New Zealand Music

27        Trampled by Turtles      Stars and Satellites        Thirty Tigers

28        Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs      Trouble            Polydor Ltd.

29        Various Artists  Tunes for Babboons     CJSW

30        Crocodiles        Endless Flowers           Frenchkiss Records

 
TOP 10 AMERICANA

1          M. Ward          A Wasteland Companion          Merge Records

2          Company         Dear America   Exit Stencil Records

3          La Sera            Sees the Light   Hardly Art

4          Sharon van Etten          Tramp  Jagjaguwar

5          The Tallest Man on Earth          There’s No Leaving Now          Dead Oceans

6          Trampled by Turtles      Stars and Satellites        Thirty Tigers

7          Various Artists  Tunes for Baboons       CJSW

8          Laura Marling   All my Rage      Ribbon Music

9          Lumineers         The Lumineers  Dualtone

10        The Walkmen   Heaven Fat Possum

TOP 10 RPM

1          Casiokids         Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen         Polyvinyl

2          Georgrapher     Myth    Modern Art

3          Humans            Traps   Hybridity

4          The Hundren in the Hands         Red Night         WARP

5          Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs      Trouble            Polydor Ltd.

6          Black Dice       Mr. Impossible Ribbon Music

7          Bonobo            Black Sands Remixed (Bonus Track Version)   Ninja Tune

8          Die Zorros        Future  Voodoo Rhythm

9          DJ Food           The Search Engine        Ninja Tune

10        Ear Pwr            Ear Pwr            Car Park