August means getting ready to start another year of academics at our fine University. It’s been a wild summer at The Great 88 with stacks of knockout new releases hitting the airwaves. Right now, Nashville’s favorite bros Jeff the Brotherhood are on top. This garage rock duo’s latest release paired them with producer Dan Auerbach to put out their raddest album yet. Here’s our Top 30 indie rock list at KZSC in early August (artist, title, label):
1 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Hypnotic Nights Warner Brothers-Infinity Cat
2 DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan Domino
3 INTELLIGENCE Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me In The Red
4 PEAKING LIGHTS Lucifer Mexican Summer
5 PASSION PIT Gossamer Columbia
6 DIIV Oshin Captured Tracks
7 METRIC Synthetica Mom And Pop-MMI
8 HOT PANDA Go Outside Mint
9 MISSION OF BURMA Unsound Fire
10 LIARS WIXIW Mute
11 FLAMING LIPS The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends Warner Brothers
12 JAILL Traps SUB POP
13 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Worship Dead Oceans
14 SHONEN KNIFE Pop Tune Good Charamel
15 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Here Vagrant
16 AUDIAFAUNA Grow Down Self-Released
17 ECHO LAKE Wild Peace Slumberland
18 FANG ISLAND Major Sargent House
19 JEN SCHANDE 19: Songs For And Inspired By Valencia Chapter 19 Self-Released
20 HERE WE GO MAGIC A Different Ship Secretly Canadian
21 WOODPECKER Thanks Anyway Self-Released
22 DEEP TIME Deep Time Hardly Art
23 TWERPS Twerps Chapter-Underwater Peoples
24 MAGIC TRICK Ruler Of The Night Hardly Art
25 ERIC COPELAND Limbo Underwater Peoples
26 DENT MAY Do Things Paw Tracks
27 WALKMEN Heaven Fat Possum
28 INFANTREE Hero’s Dose Vapor
29 LOST SOUNDS Lost Lost Goner
30 JEANS WILDER Totally Everloving