What music are the campuses of Princeton Review’s Top 20 Best College Radio Stations in 2009 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.)
College Radio Buzz is back for the 2008-2009 school year. Princeton Review’s Top 20 College Radio Stations list had a couple changes: Standford University and Westminster College (PA) are in; Manhattanville College and Dennison University are out (however, we like Dennison’s new music blog, so if they have something worthwhile, we’ll link to it).
Just returning from summer break, there is no consensus buzz about music on the college radio radar outside of two show reviews of Radiohead and album reviews of Coldplay. Enjoy the smorgasbord – from Calexico to Ani DiFranco, from The Game to Jenny Lewis.
1. Emerson College
Album of the Month: Calexico Carried to Dust
Album Review: Calexico Carried to Dust
Album Review: Dar Williams Promised Land
Top 30 Albums of the Week: 1. Juliana Hatfield How to Walk Away
Album Review: Todd Goldstein Kids Aflame
Show Preview: Sam Phillips Don’t Do Anything
2. St. Bonaventure University
You Need to Listen To: Ra Ra Riot! The Rhumb Line
(scroll down the page a bit)
You Need to Listen To: Albert Hammond, Jr. Como Te Llama?
(scroll down the page a bit more)
Album Review: Connor Oberst Conor Oberst
Album Review: Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year
3. DePauw University
Music for everyone: Coldplay Viva La Vida, Flogging Molly Float
4. Stanford University
Top 30 Albums of the Week: 1. Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden Hearts & Daggers
Concert Review: Outside Lands featuring Radiohead and many other well-known bands
5. Ithaca College
Artist of the Week: Lykke Li Youth Novels
CD Review: The Academy Is… Fast Times at Barrington High
CD Review: Dandy Warhols Earth to the Dandy Warhols
CD Review: Cansei de Ser Sexy Donkey
CD Review: Natalie Walker With You
6. Seton Hall University
Artist of the Week: Mudvayne
Pirated Advance: Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation and Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
7. Brown University
Show Review: Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Concert Review: Paper Route, Phantom Planet, Jack’s Mannequin, Paramore
12 Cuts Above the Rest: 1. One Day as a Lion “Wild International” One Day as a Lion
Show Previews: Ben Folds, Diplo, The Kooks
16. The Evergreen State College
Top 30 Albums of the Week: 1. Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials Full Tilt
17. Swarthmore College
Show Review: RJD2 and Broken Social Scene
18. Westminster College
Top 11 Songs: 1. Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” Spirit
Show Review: Radiohead
(page 6)
Album Review: Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
(page 6)
Album Review: Norma Jean The Anti Mother
(page 6)
20. Bates College
Album Review: Coldplay Viva La Vida
Dennison University
(in 2008 Top 20)
Streaming single: Jenny Lewis “Acid Tongue”
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