We’re back, baby! It’s time to restart the chart machine in the new year, and I must say, the top of the list gets me all worked up in a tizzy. First, it’s always great to see a local artist (Farewell Milwaukee, in this case) atop the mountain. But, what really steams my biscuits and […]

Well, folks, this is the last Top 30 of “aught-nine,” and that makes me sad. You see, with the new year approaching, my chances to put “aught” in front of the year are dwindling quick. Of course, I’ve tossed around the idea of being a rebel (so hip!) and just saying “aught-ten”, “aught-eleven” and so […]

Hoo boy! The semester is quickly winding down, and the pressure keeps winding up, hence the lateness of this post. But it is better to be tardy than absent (unless your professor is hardcore), so here… we… GO! I was quite interested to see who would manage to take the top spot this week, given […]

Perfection is overrated. Perfection is boring. "Oh, I see you did that thing you do so well, yet again… *yawn*". That’s the problem with perfection, it turns into monotony. I, for one, am glad I am imperfect, it keeps things interesting. I am also glad, then, that Flight of the Conchords lost the top spot […]

Do you believe in miracles?! YES!   Down goes Fraizer!   I don’t believe what I just saw! Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This week, for the first time in five weeks, Flight of the Conchords is not number 1. They say the bigger one is, the harder one falls. I guess FotC isn’t […]

This week was a nice last hurrah for a few artists I had my eyes and ears on. The most notable of those would be Brother Ali and The XX, both of whom charted well in their final week at numbers 2 and 3 respectively. Props, too, to the Black Hollies (#5), Rain Machine (#9) […]

This week was, thankfully, a return to normalcy. Of course, Flight of the Conchords is still rocking our collective world here at KVSC, so much so that one of our intrepid volunteers took the time to edit some of the fine but dirty tracks. Long live our New Zealand-based overlords! What I’m most excited about, […]

Your Humble Music Director* is a sad but conflicted panda this week. On the one hand, some underappreciated artists got some love, but it came, apparently, at the cost of some deserving ones. The big loss this week was that of Del & Tame One, which netted as many plays as Brett Favre has netted […]

For the first time in my (very brief) tenure as MD here at KVSC, I can say that we’ve got a repeat Top 2 in our Top 30, and I couldn’t be happier. Not, of course, because of the consistency such an event represents: There’s nothing inherently wrong with variety from week to week. It’s […]

This week, all the happenin’ folks in the indie music scene are converging in the NYC for the big CMJ blowout party, but that won’t stop me from compiling weekly charts here at the KVSC, and what a week it was. One could call last week’s well-spread musical love an example of the slow, creeping […]