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Top Played Artists 7/9/2013 – 7/16/2013

1 PITY SEX Feast Of Love (Run For Cover)
2 OWEN L’Ami Du Peuple (Polyvinyl)
3 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Dreams In The Rat House (Hardly Art)
4 KING TUFF Was Dead (Burger)
5 SMITH WESTERNS Soft Will (Mom And Pop)
6 PORTUGAL. THE MAN Evil Friends (Atlantic)
7 SPEEDY ORTIZ Major Arcana (Carpark)
8 SURFER BLOOD Pythons (Warner Brothers)
9 CAMERA OBSCURA Desire Lines (4AD)
10 PRIMAL SCREAM More Light (Ignition)
11 BIBIO Silver Wilkinson (Warp)
12 IRON AND WINE Ghost On Ghost (Nonesuch)
13 SALVIA PLATH The Bardo Story (Weird World)
14 MIKAL CRONIN MCII (Merge)
15 NORTHERN LIBERTIES Collaboration (Badmaster)
16 SIGUR ROS Kveikur (XL)
17 LEMURIA The Distance Is So Big (Bridge Nine)
18 SONNY AND THE SUNSETS Antenna To The Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
19 GOLD AND YOUTH Beyond Wilderness (Arts And Crafts)
20 GRANDCHILDREN Golden Age (Earnest Jenning)
21 FRONT BOTTOMS Talon Of The Hawk (Bar/None)
22 CITY AND COLOUR The Hurry And The Harm (Dine Alone)
23 LIGHT HEAT Light Heat (Domino-Ribbon)
24 ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Personal Record (Merge)
25 ROGUE WAVE Nightingale Nights (Vagrant)
26 BASS DRUM OF DEATH Bass Drum Of Death (Innovative Leisure)
27 OBLIVIANS Desperation (In The Red)
28 SOKO I Thought I Was An Alien (Community)
29 BOSNIAN RAINBOWS Bosnian Rainbows (Sargent House)
30 COOL GHOULS Cool Ghouls (Empty Cellar)

Coming Attractions: Yo La Tengo Interview on WKDU

By Nick Stropko

We’re very excited to be interviewing Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo on WKDU tomorrow, July 16. The interview will take place on master radio personality Matt Scottoline’s show, aptly titled The New Matt Show. Tune in at from 4-6pm tomorrow to hear its ON-AIR DEBUT, or if you’re one of them TiVo/Netflix types, stream it right here on Communiqué starting later in the day! We’ll probably put a transcript up at some point whenever I feel up to it.

Interview with Ted Nguyent (July 9, 2013)

By Nick Sukiennik

I went to Mad Dragon Studios to interview Travis Arterburn, vocalist and drummer for local punk outfit Ted Nguyent, about his newly formed record label and its first release, “Philadelphia Comp. 2013”

Nick Sukiennik: What is Self Help records?

Travis Arterburn: Basically at this point it’s just a name for something for me to release things under. I was working on a compilation for my senior project of 15 different Philly DIY bands. I wanted to put it on record but I didn’t have enough money. I decided that I’d put it on tape because I could duplicate it myself. Basically, I was going to release it so I figured [I should] put a name on it. I’m trying to use the money I make from that to do some other things, maybe put out some tapes for a couple other bands, and eventually put out a vinyl from Ted Nguyent. So, a small label, I guess.

NS: So where do you get your funding?

TA: So far the only funding I’ve needed was buying the 300 tapes, art and boxes and stuff, which wasn’t super cheap or super expensive. But it was just money I saved up from delivering sandwiches (laughs).

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Top Played Artists 7/2/2013 – 7/9/2013

1 KING TUFF Was Dead (Burger)

2 PITY SEX Feast Of Love (Run For Cover)

3 SONNY AND THE SUNSETS Antenna To The Afterworld (Polyvinyl)

4 NORTHERN LIBERTIES Northern Liberties (Collaborations)

5 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Dreams In The Rat House (Hardly Art)

6 PORTUGAL. THE MAN Evil Friends (Atlantic)

7 CAPITAL CITIES In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery (Capitol)

8 OWEN L’Ami Du Peuple (Polyvinyl)

9 IRON AND WINE Ghost On Ghost (Nonesuch)

10 GRANDCHILDREN Golden Age (Earnest Jenning)

11 SIGUR ROS Kveikur (XL)

12 NATIONAL Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)

13 CITY AND COLOUR The Hurry And The Harm (Dine Alone)

14 WILD NOTHING Empty Estate (Captured Tracks)

15 BIBIO Silver Wilkinson (Warp)

16 OBLIVIANS Desperation (In The Red)

17 SURFER BLOOD Pythons (Warner Brothers)

18 SHMNS Between Here And There (Self-Released)

19 MIKAL CRONIN MCII (Merge)

20 LIGHT HEAT Light Heat (Domino-Ribbon)

21 SAVAGES Silence Yourself (Matador)

22 CAMERA OBSCURA Desire Lines (4AD)

23 BIG DEAL June Gloom (Mute)

24 GRMLN Empire (Carpark)

25 POKEY LAFARGE Pokey LaFarge (Third Man)

26 PASTELS Slow Summits (Domino)

27 CHEYENNE MIZE Among The Grey (Yep Roc)

28 BASS DRUM OF DEATH Bass Drum Of Death (Innovative Leisure)

29 DAUGHN GIBSON Me Moan (Sub Pop)

30 PRIMAL SCREAM More Light (Ignition)

Cheap Girls Live @ WKDU (March 9, 2012)

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Cheap Girls is a rock band from Lansing, Michigan. Give ’em a listen if you like The Replacements, Soul Asylum, and early Smoking Popes.

Song Review: “Jessica” by Avi Buffalo

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By Nick Stropko

My story with “Jessica” began on November 2, 2009 in Long Beach, CA. In the midst of a show-filled senior year of high school, I managed to snag a pair of tickets to see Vampire Weekend at the Art Theatre–a tiny, independent movie theater–on their weird 2009 California tour of small venues (I seem to recall at least one VFW, as well as a skate park in Lake Elsinore, on the list of dates). After school, a friend and I rushed home to change out of our Catholic school uniforms (gotta look cool for the V-Dubz concert!) and made our way to Long Beach.

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