What music are the campuses of Princeton Review’s Top 20 Best College Radio Stations in 2008 buzzing about? New Music Nation surveys radio station and newspaper Web sites for these schools every week to find out. (Note: If the list skips a school it is because there was no Web site for the radio station or newspaper or no applicable content on either Web site.)

With many schools winding down for the academic year, the noise-punk band No Age gets noticed by Carleton College and Swarthmore College for their upcoming release, Nouns. Jamie Lidell continues to get college radio love for his third album, Jim; this week from DePauw University.

2. Emerson College
New Music Forecast: Eli Paperboy Reed Roll With You

New Music Forecast: Tobias Froberg Turns Heads

3. DePauw University
Review: Jamie Lidell Jim

4. Ithica College
Review: Lettuce Rage!

Review: Madonna Hard Candy

Show Review: Toots and the Maytals

5. Brown University
New Music: 1. Panic at the Disco “Nine in the Afternoon” Pretty. Odd.

7. Seton Hall University
Artist of the Week: Metallica

11. Carleton College
MP3 Blog: No Age Nouns

MP3 Blog: Foals Antidotes

Straight from the Racks (Record Library Album of the Week): Page France Hello, Dear Wind

13. The Evergreen State College
Top 30 Music Chart: 1. The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride

17. Swarthmore College
Top Artists and Tracks

Review: No Age Nouns

Artist Interview: Yo La Tengo

20. Denison University
Review: Alkaline Trio Agony and Irony (EP)