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.)

New on the College Radio Buzz scene this week: Ratatat and their new album LP3. Meanwhile, colleges play catch-up with Beck’s Modern Guilt. Conor Oberst, Calexico, Fleet Foxes and Metallica continue to get some buzz, along with first-mentions for The Pink Spiders and Jonzetta. Plus, check out Dennison University’s radio bloggers’ six reviews.

1. Emerson College
Top 30 Albums of the Week:
1. Calexico Carried to Dust
2. Beck Modern Guilt
3. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
4. Brazilian Girls New York City
5. Conor Oberst Conor Oberst

Show Preview and Album Review: Ratatat LP3

3. DePauw University
MP3 Blog: Dressy Bessy Holler and Stomp

4. Stanford University
Top 30 Albums of the Week:
1. STS9 Peaceblaster
2. Michael Franti & Spearhead All Rebel Rockers
3. Coll Johnny Cash Remixed
4. Turi Fuka Taze Hitova
5. Giant Sand Provisions

Recent Album Reviews

5. Ithaca College
Artist of the Week: The Pink Spiders Sweat It Out

CD Review: Metallica Magnetic

CD Review: TV on the Radio Dear Science

7. Brown University
Show Review: The Kooks and It Was the Best of Times

Album Review: Beck Modern Guilt

Album Review: Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Show Review: The Mars Volta

9. Knox College
Album Review: Kanye West Graduation

10. Howard University
Album Launch: Dem Franchize Boyz Our World, Our Way

VH1 Celebrates the Fifth Annual Hip-Hop Honors

‘Holy Hip Hop’: Same Message, New Beat

16. The Evergreen State College
Top 30 Music Charts:
1. Ratatat LP3
2. Nightmares on Wax Thought So…
3. Ani DiFranco Red Lettert Year
4. Stereolab Chemical Chords
5. Kate Gaffney The Coachman

18. Westminster College
Album Review: Jonzetta Cruel to be Young
(page 10)

Album Review: Straylight Run Un Mas Dos
(page 10)

Album Review: Matt Wertz Under Summer Sun
(page 11)

20. Bates College
Show Preview: Yeasayer

Dennison University
(in 2008 Top 20)

Album Review: Lenka Lenka

Album Review: Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue

Album Review: The United States Crimes

Album Review: Jeremy Messersmith The Silver City

Album Review: Dr. Dog Fate

Songs Review: Rachel Yamagata