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Top8 - 05/27/24

May 26, 2024 - 04:38 PM Welcome back to Top8! I hope everyone has had a good holiday weekend. For most of my life, I haven't been lucky enough to work a job where I got any holidays off (I even used to work on Xmas). In the last few years that's changed, but I can't forget that a lot of the things we like to do on a holiday are possible because someone else didn't get that day off. Walk with kindness and compassion, kids. Tip your bartenders and baristas. I am really happy to have seen so many people out for Fife Street's second anniversary event. I am also really overjoyed to see our dear friends with Folklore Music get to celebrate their grand re-opening here in the People's Building. The amount of work......

Top8 - 05/13/24

May 13, 2024 - 01:56 AM Welcome back to Top8. It's been another whirlwind of a fortnight for me. As I write this on Sunday, I am still buzzing over seeing Some Surprises last night at The Snack Institute, and WTSQ's own Bug at Taylor Books. Too much great music to check out is a good problem to have. The Snack Institute is really a special place. I was able to take my 12 year old nephew out for a rock show where he got to see an extremely legit Seattle band and also see some other kids and weirdos. Don't sleep on The Snack. If you have to work or something, I understand. But if you can, always remember my motto – Go. To. The. Show. We have a beautiful thing happening there and it needs your love and......

Top8 - 04/29/24

April 29, 2024 - 06:08 PM Emily Beane back at you with another Top8. Since we've last caught up, I've seen some great shows, gone through the 2024 Fund Drive, and pretended to like vinyl records to appease Mya Ross during Vinylthon. We've all grown a lot as people. On Sunday, April 21 I caught Teen Suicide at Ace of Cups in Columbus. A really cool early, all ages show. I was probably the oldest person in the room, but what's important is that I didn't look like it. Also got to see the one year anniversary Mountain State Music show put on by our friends at Folklore Music. Our own Andrew Adkins played, as well as Hello June and several other great acts. Make sure you check out the next one of these. Finally,......

WTSQ 2024 Fund Drive

April 19, 2024 - 01:30 PM It's that time of year again, the WTSQ 88.1 FM Annual Fund Drive.Keep your favorite community radio station going another year - DONATE!

Top8 - 04/15/24

April 14, 2024 - 04:37 PM Controversal sweetheart Emily Beane back with another Top8. I want to say you couldn't pay me to stop doing this, but actually you probably could. Times are tough. But it would be a lot. Please direct all better offers to wtsq.org/contact I am really excited for the new John Moreland album, and I very pleasantly surprised by the new Andrew Bird single. Lots of great music coming out right now. Aluminum - Behind My Mouth Five seconds into "Behind My Mouth" I was thinking of the Madchester scene. If you're a fan of bands like The Stone Roses, you'll like this track, and this band in general. The underlying "shufflebeat" rhythm works in the same dancy repeating figures......

Top8 - 04/01/24

April 01, 2024 - 09:38 PM I want to start this off with a special shout out to all of my trans and nonbinary siblings out there. As I write this on Sunday, March 31st, it's Trans Visibility Day. We are the ones who named ourselves, and we are not going anywhere. You're not alone. Anyway, back again for another Top8. Some weeks it's a challenge to pick only 8 things. This week, I'd have really struggled to find a ninth. Maybe it's the end times. Please send all locust plagues to wtsq.org/contract. Cloud Nothings - I'd Get Along For a brief moment in the 2010s, I had given up on new punk or even punk adjacent music. It wasn't speaking to me anymore. Then I heard Cloud Nothings. This is one of those times when......

Top8 - 03/18/24

March 18, 2024 - 10:53 PM Welcome back to Top8. I hope everyone has survived the week off in the new publication schedule. It worked out to be a bit of luck for me, as I have been on vacation over the past week. While I was away, I saw Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lung, and Girl Cologne -- wildly different shows, and all really cool. I am also really excited to get into some new music with you all. Please send all suggestions related to travel or music to wtsq.org/contact. Dave Matthews - Pretty Bird People hate The Dave Matthews Band. I have been personally denigrated by mean-spirited music snobs for the fact that I don’t. That said, it’s hard to be a defender of the band in 2024. Their last really......

Top8 - 03/04/24

March 04, 2024 - 02:21 AM You know you're doing a good job at something when your boss tells you to do less of it. So yeah, Top8 is going to every other week starting with this one. Being emotional will get us nowhere. You're just lucky they didn't get ChatGPT to write this. Please send condolences to wtsq.org/contact. The full length Pissed Jeans and Mannequin Pussy albums are out. Also new stuff from local favorite Emmy Deal. One of the beautiful things about music is that, no matter when you check, someone, somewhere has just released an amazing song that will change someone's life. That's why you've got to listen to new music. St. Vincent - Broken Man I have been a fan of Anne Clark's music project......

Top8 - 02/26/24

February 26, 2024 - 04:04 AM It's been a whole week. Time is a flat circle and all that. I had this really good vegan chocolate with crushed coffee beans in it. I joined the entire city of Charleston at the Dinosaur Burps show at the Snack Institute the other night. Awesome show at a really cool venue. I don't know what else you want from me. It's really late and I've been busy. I promise to do better next time. Please send your favorite bourbon cocktail recipie to wtsq.org/contact. Velvet - FocusStarting this week off, shockingly, with a shoegaze track. Velvet is squarely in my musical tastes. Noisy shoegaze with a jagged guitar sound. On the band's first album, they offer an admittedly bog......

Top8 - 02/19/24

February 19, 2024 - 01:33 PM When they asked me to do this music blog for the station, I asked how long it should be. Chris Long said, "750 words". This week, we're at 1750 including an album review of the new Idles. Stop me before I kill again. Please send thinly veiled threats and outright lies to wtsq.org/contact DIIV - Brown Paper Bag Sometimes you see there's new music from a band you love and there's a moment where you worry — is this the album where they finally fail to deliver? I have never worried about that with DIIV. The band's new album is set to drop 05/24, and, if the new single is any indication, they have not yet jumped the shark. The dreamy, lush waves of the song run parallel to jagged......

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