Happy Leap Year!

Hey everyone,

Sorry I haven’t done an update in a few weeks, hope you weren’t clamoring for WMUA updates. I suppose everyone knows my email, any concerns send to me. I think I'll be doing an update every other week now.

We had a pretty successful first night at our first Left of the Dial Concert Series show, which featured Cadence Weapon and Born Ruffians. One of the guys from the Born Ruffians said, “We’ve never had a crowd that moved so much,” and they said it was a great way to start their tour. Here’s a copy of the flyer of the shows we will be co-presenting with Smith’s radio station, WOZQ:

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There should be a PSA for the Mountain Goats show soon so play it up. Also, a heads up for all DJ’s to look into the giveaway binder for tickets to giveaway on shows.

ALSO A BIG REMINDER! Please please please play music NOT found on top 40 commercial stations. The whole point of college radio is to spread word about musicians and other information that isn’t found in most media. NEW MUSIC is also important!!!!!! Our library is built on recordings sent from promoters. The music will be cut off if we don’t play the records we are sent. Thanks to all who continue to do this.

Here are some recommendations for this week, with accompanying myspace pages:

The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride

http://www.myspace.com/11734232

One of the best songwriters of our generation

FFO: REM, Bob Dylan, music

Playing – March 13^th at the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton– Part of the Left of the Dial Concert Series

Stephen Malkmus – Real Emotional Trash

Lead singer of legendary band Pavement

FFO: Pavement, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth

Playing at MASS MOCA – April 5

http://www.myspace.com/stephenmalkmus

Why? – Alopecia

Alternating between hip hop and rock works effectively to create a distinct style and sound

FFO: Islands, Beck, Aesop Rock, Subtle

Playing March 24 at the Iron Horse in Northampton - Part of the Left of the Dial Concert Series

Blood on the Wall – Liferz

FFO: Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pixies

http://www.myspace.com/bloodonthewall

These United States – A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate…

FFO: Andrew Bird, M Ward, Wooden Wand

http://www.myspace.com/theseunited

Apr 7 2008

8:00P

@ AS220, w/ Deer Tick, Tom Inhaler, Liz Isenberg Providence, Rhode Island

Apr 8 2008

8:00P

@ P.A.’s Lounge Somerville, Massachusetts

Panther - 14 Kt God

FFO: The Slits, A Certain Ratio, 23 Skidos, The Dirty Projectors

Playing – March 23^rd at PA’s Lounge, Boston, with White Hinterland

http://www.myspace.com/panthertouch

Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies

FFO: Aesop Rock, El-P, Def Jux, Dizzee Rascal

http://www.myspace.com/cadenceweaponmusic

Ladyhawk – Shots

FFO: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du

http://www.myspace.com/ladyhawk

The Felice Brothers – S/T

FFO: The Band, Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Wooden Wand

http://www.myspace.com/thefelicebrothers

Charts:

Rock:

1 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend XL

2 DIE! DIE! DIE! Promises, Promises S.A.F.

3 MOUNTAIN GOATS Heretic Pride 4AD

4 XIU XIU Women As Lovers Kill Rock Stars

5 WORKING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE CITY Businessmen And Ghosts Deaf Dumb And Blind

6 HOT CHIP Made In The Dark DFA-Astralwerks
7 TIMES NEW VIKING Rip It Off Matador
8 BIG SLEEP Sleep Forever Frenchkiss
9 LUPE FIASCO The Cool Atlantic-1st & 15th
10 JEFFREY LEWIS 12 Crass Songs Rough Trade
11 CAT POWER Jukebox Matador
12 MIKE LADD Nostalgialator Definitive Jux
13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Bippp: French Synth Wave 1979-1985 Everloving-BORN BAD
14 FRED THOMAS Flood Magic Marker
15 CADENCE WEAPON Afterparty Babies Anti
16 FELICE BROTHERS The Felice Brothers Team Love
17 CHRIS WALLA Field Manual Barsuk
18 KATE NASH Made Of Bricks Fiction-Geffen
19 MAGNETIC FIELDS Distortion Nonesuch
20 KING OF PRUSSIA Save The Scene Kindercore
21 RAVEONETTES Lust Lust Lust Vice
22 SCARY MANSION Every Joke Is Half The Truth ZUM
23 BURIAL Untrue Hyperdub
24 NIGHTWOUNDS Allergic To Heat Woodsist
25 VASHTI BUNYAN Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind: Singles And Demos 1964-1967 DiCristina
26 PANTHER 14kt God Kill Rock Stars
27 NO KIDS Come Into My House Tomlab
28 CRYPTACIZE Dig That Treasure Asthmatic Kitty
29 NADA SURF Lucky Barsuk
30 MACEO PARKER Roots And Grooves Head's Up-Tel Arc

Hip Hop
1 AKROBATIK Absolute Value Fat Beats-Fat Beats
2 MOE POPE AND HEADNODIC Megaphone NatAural High
3 YAK BALLZ Scifentology II Flospot
4 9TH WONDER AND BUCKSHOT The Formula Duck Down
5 ERYKAH BADU "Honey" [Single]
6 JEAN GRAE The Orchestral Files, Vol. 1
7 TOUCH AND NATO The Representatives In Intelligent Design Up In Arms
8 ONE BE LO The R.E.B.I.R.T.H. Subterraneous
9 NICOLAY AND KAY Time:Line Groove Attack

Jazz:
1 ADAM RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES Dream Garden Justin Time
2 BEN ALLISON AND MAN SIZE SAFE Little Things Run The World Palmetto
3 ED SAINDON AND DAVE LIEBMAN Depth Of Emotion World Improvised
4 CHICK COREA, GARY BURTON New Crystal Silence Concord
5 KALI Z FASTEAU, KIDD JORDAN, NEWMAN TAYLOR BAKER Live At Kerava
6 GONZALO RUBALCABA Avatar Blue Note
7 PAT METHENY Day Trip Nonesuch
8 TOM SCOTT Cannonball Reloaded Concord
9 JASON KAO HWANG Stories Before Within Innova
10 NIK BARTSCH'S RONIN Holon ECM

World:
1 SONORA PONCENA Desde Puerto Rico A Nueva York Fania
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS What's Happening In Pernambuco: New Sounds Of The Brazilian Northwest Luaka Bop
3 RAY BARRETTO The Message fania/emusica
4 CHARLIE PALMIERI AND MENIQUE Con Salsa Y Sabor Fania
5 CORTIJO Y SU COMBO La Quiniela Del Dia tico/fania/emusica
6 RAMIRO MUSOTTO Civilizacao And Barbarye Circular Moves
7 JOHNNY RAY Camino De Fama Self-Released
8 JESUS PAGAN Salsa De La Mata self released
9 JOE BATAAN Gypsy Woman fania/emusica
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS La India Canela: Merengue Tipico From The Dominican Republic Smithsonian Folkways

Loud Rock:
1 VARIOUS ARTISTS C U La Tour Sampler Self-Released
2 PRIMORDIAL To The Nameless Dead Metal Blade
3 OPETH The Roundhouse Tapes Peaceville
4 PRIMAL FEAR New Religion Locomotive
5 VESANIA Distractive Killusions Napalm
6 HORRORPOPS Kiss Kiss Kill Kill Hellcat
7 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Scream Aim Fire Zomba
8 KINGDOM OF SORROW Kingdom Of Sorrow Relapse
9 AYREON 01011001 InsideOut
10 MOONSPELL Under Satanae Steamhammer

RPM
1 HOT CHIP Made In The Dark DFA-Astralwerks
2 MIKE LADD Nostalgialator Definitive Jux
3 BOB SINCLAR Soundz Of Freedom Tommy Boy
4 DAFT PUNK Alive 2007 Virgin
5 BURIAL Untrue Hyperdub
6 CORNELIUS Gum Everloving
7 GHISLAIN POIRIER No Ground Under Ninja Tune
8 CHRIS JOSS Teraphonic Overdubs ESL Music
9 BEAT CLUB Minimalista
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS Bippp: French Synth Wave 1979-1985 Everloving-BORN BAD
10 STATIK SELEKTAH "Stop, Look, And Listen" [Single]

Spring Update

Hey everyone,

Welcome back to 91.1 WMUA. I hope you all had a great winter break and are excited for the upcoming spring semester. We have all sorts of awesome music and events coming up in the next few months. I’ll be sending out my cool update emails every week or so. Over break I added a new section to the library called "Out of the Vault at WMUA" which has a bunch of records we have tucked away so they don't get stolen by greedy little bastards. I burned copies of these classics and are available to all you DJ's out there. They include albums by Tom Waits, Beastie Boys, Velvet Underground, Gang of Four, and much more. I still have a bunch to take care of, so if you want some easy service hours come on down and burn some CD's for me. If you have any questions or concerns my email is music@wmua.org . If you want to speak with me face-to-face, my office hours are:

Monday/Wed/Fri 12-3pm

Feel free to come and help me out for service hours anytime! If you are busy during my office hours, shoot me an email and we can set up an appointment.

Thanks,

Corey

Of course all the weekly updates are available at:

WMUA Concert Series:

All in Northampton, MA

In conjunction with the Iron Horse Entertainment Group, I am pleased to announce the Left of the Dial Concert Series, brought to you by us (WMUA) and WOZQ (Smith College). We’ll be cross-promoting each other in all sorts of ways. It’s all the better since a lot of these bands are ‘on the rise’ and should be receiving as much help as possible. Please play these bands on their shows where appropriate. The “bands coming to the area section” located in the new music part of the library should have all these band’s records in there. DJ’s, heads up on giving away tickets, make sure you check the giveaway binder in the MCR. Also, a PSA is going to be made today for the first two shows of the series, so please play that up. Watch out for interviews or in-studios, let me know if you are interested in doing that for your show with any of these bands! Contact Sharon at publicity@wmua.org if you want to table at any of these. Contact me at music@wmua.org if you want to go to any of these shows for free and I’ll try my best. First come, first serve, of course.

Feb 28 – Cadence Weapon and Born Ruffians at the Iron Horse

March 1 – Bowerbirds and Phosphorescent at the Iron Horse

March 6 – Tigercity, Via Audio and the Thungs at the Iron Horse

March 13 – The Mountain Goats and The Moaners at the Pearl Street Ballroom

March 24 – Why? and Cryptacize (Ex-Deerhoof) at the Iron Horse

March 25 – Caribou and Fuck Buttons at the Iron Horse

April 12 – The Weakerthans and Liam Finn at the Iron Horse

April 23 – American Music Club and the Figments at the Iron Horse

May 18 – The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band at the Iron Horse

There’s a lot of really great new albums that we’ve received in the past couple weeks. There’s something for everyone, I expect these to be spun and spun proudly!

10 Recommended albums of the week:

*= playing locally, see concert listing at bottom

The Pack A. D. - Tintype
http://www.myspace.com/thepackad

For fans of: The White Stripes, The Kills, Sleater-Kinney, The Black Keys

*Jeffrey Lewis – 12 Crass Songs

http://www.myspace.com/jefflewisband

Covers of punk band Crass. FFO: The Moldy Peaches, Daniel Johnston

Mussels – Little Voices

http://www.myspace.com/mussels

Brooklyn band brings the old school indie rock

FFO: Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Superchunk

*Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers

http://www.myspace.com/xiuxiuband

FFO: The Books, Deerhoof, Joy Division, fucked up music in general

Has a cover of the Bowie/Queen cover “Under Pressure”

*The Magnetic Fields – Distortion

http://www.myspace.com/themagneticfields

One of the best bands out there. My favorite record so far this year.

Fred Thomas – Flood

http://www.myspace.com/fredthomassongs

Lead singer of pop gurus Saturday Looks Good to Me does the freak folk thing.

FFO: Animal Collective, Jonathan Richman, The Microphones

*Jason Collett – Here’s to Being Here

http://www.myspace.com/jasoncollettmusic

FFO: The Band, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Broken Social Scene

Rivers Cuomo – Alone: The Home Recordings

It’s old Weezer, so it’s pretty good, as opposed to the garbage known as new Weezer.

Baby Dee – Safe Inside the Day

http://www.myspace.com/theonlybabydee

Her backing band includes: Bonnie Prince Billy, Matt Sweeney on guitar and Andrew WK on drums. She sounds like Tom Waits!

King of Prussia – Save the Scene

http://www.myspace.com/wearekingofprussia

FFO: The Clientele, Belle and Sebastian

Mike Ladd - Nostalgilator

http://www.myspace.com/mikeladd

A genre hopping spectacle from Def Jux. In the RPM section, play it up.

Upcoming concerts in the area:

The Magnetic Fields – Feb 11/12 – Iron Horse, Northampton

Feb 14/15 – Somerville Theater - Somerville, MA

Jeffrey Lewis – March 21 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club with the Cribs

Jason Collett – April 17 – Boston, MA – Acton, MA

Xiu Xiu - 03-20 Bennington, VT - Bennington College
03-21 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Saturday Looks Good To Me – March 2 at the Iron Horse

Breeders – June 4^th – Pearl Street

Charts:

Radio 200 (Rock)

1 MAGNETIC FIELDS Distortion Nonesuch

2 CAT POWER Jukebox Matador

3 TENDER FOREVER Wider K

4 FRED THOMAS Flood Magic Marker

5 VARIOUS ARTISTS Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro And Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986 Strut

6 LUPE FIASCO The Cool Atlantic-1st & 15th

7 HOT CHIP Made In The Dark DFA-Astralwerks

8 XIU XIU Women As Lovers Kill Rock Stars

9 KING OF PRUSSIA Save The Scene Kindercore

10 BABY DEE Safe Inside The Day Drag City

11 WILLIE NELSON Moment Of Forever Lost Highway

12 MARS VOLTA The Bedlam In Goliath Universal

13 SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME Fill Up The Room K

14 KILLS "U. R. A. Fever" [Single] Domino

15 JASON COLLETT Here's To Being Here Arts And Crafts

16 VARIOUS ARTISTS Dig For Fire: A Tribute To Pixies American Laundromat

17 WHY? The Hollows [EP] Anticon

18 GORILLAZ D-Sides Virgin

19 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY Ask Forgiveness Drag City

20 VIVA VOCE Lovers, Lead The Way!/The Heat Can Melt Your Brain Amore! Phonics

21 ANTIETAM Opus Mixtum Carrot Top

22 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Second Marriage Records Compilation Marriage

23 MUSSELS Little Voices Self-Released

24 RUCKUS ROBOTICUS Playing With Scratches Grease

25 MIKE LADD Nostalgialator Definitive Jux

26 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend XL

27 RINGS Black Habit Paw Tracks

28 WIRE Read And Burn 03 Pink Flag

29 CORNELIUS Gum Everloving

30 MOTION SICK The Truth Will Catch You, Just Wait Naked Ear

Hip Hop:

1 ONE BE LO The R.E.B.I.R.T.H. Subterraneous

2 JEAN GRAE AND 9TH WONDER Jeanius Blacksmith

3 9TH WONDER AND BUCKSHOT The Formula Duck Down

4 DJ MUGGS VS SICK JACKEN The Legend Of The Mask And The Assassin Universal Latino

5 LUPE FIASCO The Cool 1st & 15th-Atlantic

6 SPECIAL TEAMZ Long Time Comin Duckdown

7 Y SOCIETY Travel At Your Own Pace Tres

8 MC ESOTERIC Egoclapper Flycasual

9 MAIN FLOW AND 7L Forever Brick

10 J-LIVE Reveal The Secret BBE

RPM:

1 HOT CHIP Made In The Dark DFA-Astralwerks

2 CHRIS JOSS Teraphonic Overdubs ESL Music

3 DAFT PUNK Alive 2007 Virgin

4 CORNELIUS Gum Everloving

5 GHISLAIN POIRIER No Ground Under Ninja Tune

6 BONDE DO ROLE Marina Gasolina [EP] Domino

7 BEAT CLUB Minimalista

8 PAN SONIC Katodivaihe Blast First

9 UNRECOGNIZABLE NOW In A Cave Or A Coma Pehr

10 MIKE LADD Nostalgialator Definitive Jux

World:

1 SOLA AKINGBOLA Routes To Roots: Yoruba Drums From Nigeria Arc

2 KATCHAFIRE Say What You're Thinking Ohana

3 OMAR SOSA Afreecanos Ota

4 VARIOUS ARTISTS A Passion For Music Vol. 7* LP

5 LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu Heads Up

6 SACAMBAYA From The Heart Of South America Kollasuyumanta Pacha Arc

7 RAY VIERA Trombao Self-Released

8 ZON DEL BARRIO Cortijo's Tribe Protel

9 GENE PERRY Mi Tambor Lo Dice Todo Masakote

10 JOHNNY RAY Camino De Fama Self-Released

Jazz:

1 NICOLE MITCHELL'S BLACK EARTH ENSEMBLE Black Unstoppable Delmark

2 HARLEM EXPERIMENT The Harlem Experiment Ropeadope

3 CUONG VU Vu-tet Artist Share

4 ARI BROWN Live At The Green Mill Delmark

5 CARLA BLEY The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu ECM

6 GIACOMO GATES Luminosity

7 ALBERTO PINTON QUINTET Vita Paratica* Moserobie

8 HERBIE HANCOCK River: The Joni Letters Verve

9 MIKE ELLIS Chicago Spontaneous Combustion Suite AlphaPocket

10 NYNDK Nordic Disruption Jazzheads