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Holiday of the Day: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has officially proclaimed today, July 22, “Bon Iver Day” in honor of lead singer Justin Vernon’s Badger State roots.
“WHEREAS, Bon Iver’s music embraces Justin Vernon’s Wisconsin heritage,” states the proclamation, “as he has become an international ambassador for both Milwaukee and Wisconsin, while they travel across the world playing music and interact with national media.”
How does one go about celebrating Bon Iver Day? Mope around, brood for a while, then miss someone a whole lot.
For the past few weeks WMSC has been compiling the amount of plays our rotational albums have been getting. While it’s not really the “most played”, with many albums having the same amount of plays as each other, we use a special formula and a series of tie-breakers to see which has more weight or whatever buzzword you want to use.
Our most recent chart:
1. Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
2. Givers - In Light
3. In One Wind - How Bright a Shadow!
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
5. YACHT - Shangri-La
6. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
7. Friendly Fires - Pala
8. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
9. Dawes - Nothing is Wrong
10. R.E.M. - Life’s Rich Pageant 25th Anniversary Edition
11. Memory Tapes - Player Piano
12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
13. Foster the People - Torches
14. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
15. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
16. Radical Dads - Mega Rama
17. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age Reissue
18. Battles - Gloss Drop
19. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
20. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
21. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
22. Jeff the Brotherhood - We are the Champions
23. Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
24. Cults - Cults
25. Washed Out - Within and Without
26. Zomby - Dedication
27. EMA - Milkman single
28. Zola Jesus - Vessel single
29. Com Truise - Galactic Melt
30. Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure
The Arctic Monkeys have been absolutely dominant on the chart. For the past three weeks, the Sheffield, UK band has occupied the top spot and spent a combined four weeks at the spot, being briefly knocked off by fellow Brits Wild Beasts.
Past No. 1:
6/8-6/14 - Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
6/15-6/21 - Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
6/22-6/28 - Wild Beasts - Smother
6/29-7/19 - Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and See
Tune in next week to see who will top the chart.
Edwyn Collins – Bowery Ballroom – 3/14
Hard Weekend – Terminal 5 – 3/18
Matt Pond/Rocky Votolato – Bowery Ballroom – 3/19
Alexi Murdoch – Williamsburg - 3/24
A new documentary on the late Jay Reatard is coming soon. There will be piss.
Members of Sonic Youth and Nirvana, drunk and hanging out together.
Kim puts makeup on Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain.
fuuh:
Video: Destroyer Play Fallon - “Downtown”
In which Dan Bejar and friends perform the smooth, saxophone/trumpet-laced Kaputt jam “Downtown” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, proving once and for all that the magic of this late ’70s/ early ’80s-inspired gem isn’t limited to the studio. Some late-night appearances feel a bit distracted by the format and occasionally less inspired, but Destroyer’s television debut is not one of them. Watch the surreal — for longtime Bejar fans like myself — clip above (thanks to the Audio Perv).
UGH I am so in to Destroyer lately
(Source: twentyfourbit)
Deerhunter live on David Letterman (2-22-11)
Also Obligatory of the Day: Thom Yorke’s herky-jerky dance moves in the “Lotus Flower” video lend themselves quite readily to a bit of the ol’ song switcheroo. For instance: Slip in some “Single Ladies,” and watch it make sense.
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Radiohead released their new album The King of Limbs a day early. Also, a new video for the song “Flying Lotus”.
So here’s Cut Copy’s bizzare video for their excellent new track “Need You Now”. SPORTS.
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