Fresh Tracks Top 50 Albums of 2008!

Here they are! These are my favorite albums I discovered on the air this past year, doing my radio show every Tuesday. The genres are as diverse as my shows. I can't wait to see what 2009's got coming for us!

Happy New Years!

Cheers,
-Rachel
---------------------------

# Artist - Release

1 Larytta - Difficult Fun
2 Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
3 Rafter - Sweaty Magic
4 Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
5 Passion Pit - Chunk Of Change
6 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
7 Architecture In Helsinki - Like It Or Not EP
8 Michna - Magic Monday
9 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
10 Pop Levi - Never Never Love
11 Hey Willpower - P.D.A.
12 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
13 Hecuba - Sir
14 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
15 Yelle - Ce Jeu EP
16 Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
17 Nightmares on Wax - Thought So…
18 Alias - Resurgam
19 Flight of the Conchords - Flight of The Conchords
20 The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
21 Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (single)
22 No Kids - Come Into My House
23 The Smittens - The Coolest Thing About Love
24 Santogold - Santogold
25 Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
26 Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance (single)
27 Sigur Ros - Meo Suo I Eyrum
28 Tenniscoats - Tan Tan Therapy
29 AU - Verbs
30 Her Space Holiday - XOXO Panda and the New Kid Revival
31 Tilly and the Wall - O
32 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
33 Brazillian Girls - NYC
34 Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
35 Pnuma Trio - Character
36 Herman Dune - Next Year In Zion
37 Mia Doi Todd - Gea
38 Mirah - The Old Days Feeling
39 Dosh - Wolves & Wishes
40 DJ Frane - Journey to the Planet Of Birds
41 Ratatat - LP3
42 Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings And All
43 Mahjongg - Kontpab
44 Fort Knox Five - Radio Free DC
45 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
46 Joan Of Arc - Boo Human
47 Arliss Parker - Handsome Like A Lion
48 Laura Barrett - Earth Sciences
49 Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
50 Tommy Guerrero - Return Of The Bastard

Fresh Tracks Best of 2008, 12.30.08

For my last show of the year, I brought back all my favorite albums that I discovered with you on the air doing my show in 2008. Some really great albums were released this year and although a few have gone "missing" from the radio station, I was able to fit most of my favorites into the show this morning.

The show this morning covered various genres in approximately this order:
- Instrumental hip hop/electronic/beats/new-disco (6am- about 7am)
- Indie-Folk/Rock/Softer tracks (7am-7:30am)
- Boppy/dancey upbeat indie-pop and rock (7:30am-9am)

You can check out the full playlist here.

And don't forget to download the show by next Tuesday!

I've also put together a "top 50 albums of 2008" list that I'll post later today.

Cheers and Happy New Years!

-Rachel
Fresh Tracks, Tuesdays 6-9am
90.1 WRUV fm Burlington

Favorites, 12.16.08

Not a ton that was brand new this week, but definitely some good stuff!

Favorite Artists/Albums:
* Rahsaan Patterson/Wines & Spirits
* XXTeens/Welcome To Goon Island
* Quintron/Too Thirsty 4 Love