Music Blog

Here's the weekly rundown of what we've played most on opbmusic, this past week. The PDX Pop Now! 2010 compilation owns the top spot again. The Black Keys, Blitzen Trapper, and Deer Tick are fixtures right now, and a new record of John Prine covers, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows, hits our list for the first time. (We're rich in covers now..)  Portland band And And And jumps in at the 8th spot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the list:

1. Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

2. The Black Keys/Brothers

3. Blitzen Trapper/Destroyer of the Void

4. Deer Tick/The Black Dirt Sessions

5. Stars/The Five Ghosts

6. Sea of Bees/Songs for the Ravens

7. V/A: Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows

8. And And And/A Fresh Summer with And And And

9. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

10. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti/Before Today

11. Janelle Monae/The ArchAndroid

12. The Delta Spirit/History From Below

13. Wolf Parade/EXPO 86

14. Foals/Total Life Forever

15. Here We Go Magic/Pigeons

16. The Henry Clay People/Somewhere On the Golden Coast

17. The National/High Violet

18. The New Pornographers/Together

19. The Young Veins/Take a Vacation

20. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse/Dark Night of the Soul

 

By the way, here's our list from last week:

We do love the annual compilation from PDX Pop Now! and its two big handfulls of Portland music, stylistically all over the map, some familiar and not familiar names, and always a place to hear a few surprising bands you didn't know enough about. And again it's sitting at #1 on our list of most-played records this week. Arcade Fire's The Suburbs (not out officially until August but with a couple of early singles offered for download), The Black Keys, Portlanders Blitzen Trapper, and Deer Tick round out the top 5. New, unknown, and definitely worth a listen dept:  the quirky folk-pop record from Sea of Bees, Songs for the Ravens, #8 on our list.

Here's our newest chart:

1.  Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

2. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

3. The Black Keys/Brothers

4. Blitzen Trapper/Destroyer of the Void

5. Deer Tick/The Black Dirt Sessions

6. Jamie Lidell/Compass

7. The National/High Violet

8. Sea of Bees/Songs for the Ravens

9. Foals/Total Life Forever

10. Karen Elson/The Ghost Who Walks

11. LCD Soundsystem/This is Happening

12. The New Pornographers/Together

13. Hillstomp/Darker the Night

14. Janelle Monae/The ArchAndroid

15. Nada Surf/If I Had a Hi-Fi

16. RATATAT/LP4

17. Stars/The Five Ghosts

18. The Sadies/Darker Circles

19. Typhoon/Hunger & Thirst

20. V/A - Levi's Pioneer Sessions 2010