Bob Bumbera, News & Sports Director, XPN Morning Show
Top Ten Albums
1. Joe Jackson - Rain
2. Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
3. R.E.M. - Accelerate
4. Donovan Frankenreiter - Pass It Around
5. The B-52s - Funplex
6. Amos Lee - Last Days at the Lodge
7. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
8. The Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete
9. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
10. Duffy - Rockferry
John Diliberto, Producer/Host of Echoes
Top Ten Albums
Digitonal - Save Your Light For Darker Days
Sumner McKane - What A Great Place to Be
Alu - Lobotomy Sessions
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Holon
Saul Stokes - Villa Galaxia
Niyaz - Nine Heavens
Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide
Beck - Modern Guilt
Dandy Warhols - Earth to Dandy Warhols
Qntal - Translucidia
Top Ten Songs
Alu - "Circus Cosmos" (Lobotomy Sessions)
Digitonal - "93 Years On" (Save Your Light For Darker Days)
Beck - "Chemtrails" (Modern Guilt)
Dandy Warhols - "The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers"
(Earth to Dandy Warhols)
Goldfrapp - "Little Bird" (Seventh Tree)
MGMT - "Time To Pretend" (Oracular Spectacular)
Lights Out Asia - "Radars Over the Ghosts of Chernobyl"
(Eyes Like Brontide)
Mariee Sioux - "Buried In Teeth" (Mariee Sioux)
Gnarls Barkley - "Surprise" (The Odd Couple)
Sumner McKane - "After the Fireworks We Walked to the Ropeswing"
(What A Great Place to Be)
Top Ten Albums
1. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
6 The Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
7. The Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation
8. The Walkmen - You and Me
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
10. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Top Ten Songs
1. The Felice Brothers - "Frankie's Gun"
2. Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
3. The Hold Steady - "Constructive Summer"
4. MGMT - "Time To Pretend"
5. Raphael Saadiq - "100 Yard Dash"
6. Death Cab For Cutie - "I Will Posess Your Heart"
7. Vampire Weekend - "Walcott"
8. Kathleen Edwards - "I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory"
9. Coldplay - "Viva La Vida"
10. Hayes Carll - "Drunken Poet's Dream"
Chuck Elliot, Host of Sleepy Hollow, Saturdays
Top Ten Albums
Keola Beamer - The Coming of the Snow
Flutar - Encantada (Philly Local)
Jeb Loy Nichols - Days are Mighty
Tony Trishka - Territory
Jake Shimabukuro - My Life
Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin'
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - self-titled
Charlie Haden - Rambling Boy
Venissa Santi - Bienvenida
Janet Reno, et al (multiple producers) - Songs of America Anthology
Top Ten Songs
Lisa Wildman - "September in the Rain" (Philly Local)
Linda Cohen - "Waltz for William" (Philly Local)
Artese 'n Toad - "Willie's Old Guitar" (Philly Local)
Jonathan Dichter - "Sleepwalk" (featuring newly written vocals) (Philly Local)
Joan Baez - "Day After Tomorrow"
Jefferson Starship Medley - "Imagine"
Bettye - "Streets of Philadelphia"
Ana Egge - "Wastin' My Time"
Irma Thomas - "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"
Erik Friedlander - "Night White"
Dan Gutierrez, Weekend Host
Top Ten Albums
1. Santogold - Santogold
2. Firewater - The Golden Hour
3. Delta Spirit - Ode to Sunshine
4. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen today
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. The Verve - Forth
7. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
8. Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. Beck - Modern Guilt
Top Ten Songs
1. Shugo Takumaru - "Parachute"
2. Raphael Saadiq - "100 Yard Dash"
3. Ben Folds/Regina Spector - "You Don't Know Me"
4. McCoy Tyner - "Blues On The Corner"
5. Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss a Beat"
6. Beck - "Orphans"
7. The Ting Tings - "Great DJ"
8. Mutlu - "Livin' It"
9. David Byrne & Brian Eno - "Strange Overtones"
10. Hiromi - "My Favorite Things"
Roger Lamay, General Manager
Top Ten Albums
1. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
2. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
3. Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
4. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
5. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks (2007 release but XPN airplay in 2008)
6. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
7. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
8. Joan Osborne - Little Wild Thing
9. Joseph Arthur - Temporary People
10. Susan Tedeschi - Back To The River
Top Ten Songs 1. Yeasayer - "2080" (2007 release but XPN airplay in 2008)
2. Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce"
3. The Ting Tings - "Shut Up And Let Me Go"
4. Kathleen Edwards - "I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory"
5. Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
6. Kate Nash - "Foundations"
7. Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"
8. Alejandro Escovedo - "Always a Friend"
9. The Felice Brothers - "Frankie's Gun"
10. Sharon Little - "Follow that Sound"
Ten Ten Albums
1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Santogold - Santogold
3. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
4. Ben Folds - Way To Normal
5. Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
6. We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
7. Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
8. Electric Six - Flashy
9. Bloc Party - Intimacy
10. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
Top Ten Songs
(that aren't on his top ten albums list)
1. Nine Inch Nails - "Discipline"
2. MGMT - "Time To Pretend"
3. The Verve - "Love Is Noise"
4. The Ting Tings - "Shut Up And Let Me Go"
5. The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution"
6. Kate Nash - "Foundations"
7. Oasis - "The Shock of The Lightning"
8. The Kooks - "Always Where I Need To Be"
9. Kings of Leon - "Crawl"
10. The Wombats - "Kill The Director"
Helen Leicht, Host of XPN Midday, Leicht Lunch and Philly Local
Top Ten Albums
(in no particular order)
Various Artists - XPN Local CD Vol #2
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Ray Lamontagne - Gossip in the Grain
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Joe Jackson - Rain
Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinolgy
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
David Ford - Songs for the Road
Top Ten Songs
Elbow - "Grounds for Divorce"
Yeasayer - "2080" (2007 release but XPN airplay in 2008)
The Killers - "Human"
Amos Lee - "Listen"
Santogold - "Lights Out"
Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
The Ting Tings - "Great DJ"
Duffy - "Mercy"
Dr Dog - "The Ark"
Sharon Little - "Follow that Sound"
Helen's Best of XPN Local
(in no particular order)
Amos Lee - Last Days at the Lodge
Sharon Little - Perfect Time for a Breakdown
Matt Duke - Kingdom Underground
Andrew Lipke - Mother Pearl and Dynamite
Farewell Flight - Sound.Color.Motion
Perkasie - Little Pony
Mutlu - Livin' It
Dr Dog - Fate
Phil Roy - The Great Longing
Jim Boggia - Misadventures in Stereo
Top Ten Albums
1. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
2. Jonatha Brooke - The Works
3. Sheryl Crow - Detours
4. Joe Jackson - Rain
5. Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
6. Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
7. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
8. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
10. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
Top Ten Songs
1. Duffy - "Mercy"
2. Sheryl Crow - "Shine On Babylon"
2. Old 97's - "Dance With Me"
3. Jonatha Brooke/Woody Guthrie (with Eric Bazilian) - "There's More True Lovers Than One"
4. Melody Gardot - "Worrisome Heart"
5. Raphael Saadiq - "100 Yard Dash"
6. The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name"
7. Joe Jackson - "Invisible Man"
8. Alejandro Escovedo - "Sister Lost Soul"
9. Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
10. Elbow - "Grounds For Divorce"
11. Ani DiFranco - "Smiling Underneath"
Jim McGuinn, Program Director, Y-Rock on XPN and Host of XPN Afternoons
Top Ten Albums
1. MMJ - Evil Urges
2. Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
7. Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. Santogold - Santogold
10. Dr. Dog - Fate
Top Ten Songs
1. Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"
2. Ting Tings - "Great DJ"
3. TV on the Radio - "Golden Age"
4. Elbow - "Grounds For Divorce"
5. Spiritualized - "Soul On Fire"
6. The Hold Steady - "Sequestered In Memphis"
7. MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
8. Firewater - "Borneo"
9. MMJ - "Thank You Too"
10. Los Campesinos - "You! Me! Dancing!"
Jonny Meister, Host of The Blues Show and Blues and Beyond
Top Ten Blues Show Albums
1. John Lee Hooker, Jr. - All Odds Against Me (Steppin' Stone)
2. Super Chikan - Sum' Mo' Chikan (Vizztone)
3. Mac Arnold & Plate Full O'Blues - Backbone & Gristle (PFOB)
4. V. A. - M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace Of The Blues soundtrack (Broke & Hungry)
5. Buddy Guy - Skin Deep (Silvertone)
6. B.B. King - One Kind Favor (Geffen)
7. Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Full Tilt (Alligator)
8. Eddy Clearwater - West Side Strut (Alligator)
9. Mavis Staples - Live: Hope At The Hideout (Anti)
10. Kenny Neal - Let Life Flow (Blind Pig)
Top Ten Blues Show Songs
1. John Lee Hooker, Jr. - "The People Want A Change" from All Odds Against Me (Steppin' Stone)
2. Super Chikan - "Crystal Ball Eyes" from Sum' Mo' Chikan (Vizztone)
3. Wesley Jefferson Blues Band - "The Wolves Are Howling" from M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace Of The Blues (Broke & Hungry)
4. Byther Smith - "Blues On The Moon" from Blues On The Moon (Delmark)
5. B.B. King - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" from One Kind Favor (Geffen)
6. Buddy Guy - "Out In The Woods" from Skin Deep (Silvertone)
7. Mississippi Heat - "Nature Is Cryin'" from Hattiesburg Blues (Delmark)
8. Mac Arnold - "Things I Don't Need" from Backbone & Gristle (PFOB)
9. John Lee Hooker, Jr. - "Old School" from All Odds Against Me (Steppin' Stone)
10. Homemade Jamz Blues Band - "Who Your Real Friends Are" from Pay Me No Mind (NorthernBlues)
Blues & Beyond: "Beyond Top Ten" Albums
1. McCoy Tyner - Guitars (Half Note)
2. Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Beyond Standard (Telarc)
3. Lionel Loueke - Karibu (Blue Note)
4. Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: The Cusp Of Magic (Nonesuch)
5. Catherine Russell - Sentimental Streak (World Village)
6. Lyambiko - Saffronia (Sony/Classical)
7. Jamshied Sharifi - One (Ceres)
8. Ursula Rucker - Ruckus Soundsysdom (Rucker)
9. S. M. V. - Thunder (Heads Up)
10. Silk Road Ensemble & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago (CSO-Resound)
Top Ten Albums
1. R.E.M. - Accelerate
2. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
3. Santogold - Santogold
4. Beck - Modern Guilt
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
7. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
8. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
9. She & Him - Volume One
10. Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Top Ten Songs
1. The Raconteurs - "Carolina Drama"
2. Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
3. R.E.M. - "Horse To Water"
4. Nine Inch Nails - "Discipline"
5. Phantom Planet - "Do The Panic"
6. The BPA feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal - "Toe Jam"
7. My Morning Jacket - "Highly Suspicious"
8. The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name"
9. Ben Folds - "You Don't Know Me"
10. The Verve - "Love Is Noise"
Kathy O'Connell, Host, Kids Corner
Favorite Non-Kids Corner Albums
1. Joan Osborne - Little Wild Thing
2. The B-52's - Funplex
3. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
4. Pete Seeger - Pete Seeger at 89
5. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
6. Dr. John - City That Care Forgot
7. She & Him - Volume One
8. Taj Mahal - Maestro
9. Mary Weiss - Dangerous Game
10. B.B. King - One Kind Favor
Kathy's Favorite Kids Corner Alubms
1. Trout Fishing in America - Big Round World
2. Lisa Loeb - Camp Lisa
3. Justin Roberts - Pop Fly
4. Gunnar Madsen - Growing Up!
5. Scribblemonster - Songs with No Character
6. Randy Kaplan - Loquat Rooftop
7. Ham & Burger - Pharm Phresh
8. Various Artists - Boo Moon
9. Ellis Paul - Dragonfly Races
10. Medeski, Martin & Wood - Let's Go Everywhere!
Top Ten Albums
1. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
5. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
6. Duffy - Rockferry
7. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
9. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
10. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Top Ten Songs
1. The Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You"
2. My Morning Jacket - "Highly Suspicious"
3. David Byrne & Brian Eno - "Strange Overtones"
4. The Kooks - "Sway"
5. The Hold Steady - "Sequestered In Memphis"
6. Duffy - "Mercy"
7. Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
8. Death Cab For Cutie - "No Sunlight"
9. Ryan Bingham - "Hard Times"
10. Friendly Fires - "In the Hospital"
Ten Top Folk Albums
(listed in no special order)
Joe Crookston - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
Kathy Mattea - Coal
Chuck Brodsky - Two Sets
Darrell Scott - Modern Hymns
Various Artists - Erik Balkey - Mission Street Project Vol. 2
Various Artists - Woody Guthrie Tribute Ribbon of Highway
Jonatha Brooke - The Works
Garnet Rogers - Get A Witness
Pat Wictor - Sunset Waltz
Red Molly - Love And Other Tragedies
Top Ten Albums (in no particular order)
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
John Legend - Evolver
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
The B-52s - Funplex
Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Joe Jackson - Rain
The Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart
Top Ten Songs (in no particular order)
G Love and Special Sauce - "Peace, Love and Happiness" Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Possess Your Heart" Death Cab for Cutie - "Cath" Duffy - "Stepping Stone" My Morning Jacket - "I'm Amazed" Ani DiFranco - "Smiling Underneath" Joe Jackson - "Invisible Man" Keane - "Spiralling" Ray Lamontagne - "You Are the Best Thing"
Mike Vasilikos, Assistant Music Director and Host, Jamnation
Ten Ten Albums
1. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
2. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
4. Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
5. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
8. Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim
9. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
10. Dr. Dog - Fate
Top Ten Songs
1. Kings of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
2. Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You"
3. Secret Machines - "Dreaming of Dreaming"
4. Langhorne Slim - "The Rebel Side of Heaven"
5. The Duke Spirit - "The Step and the Walk"
6. Atmosphere - "You"
7. The Hold Steady - "Sequestered in Memphis"
8. Death Cab for Cutie - "Cath..."
9. Jukebox the Ghost - "Hold It In"
10. MGMT - "Kids"
Bruce Warren, Program Director
Top Ten Albums
1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Lil Wayne - The Carter III
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
6. Portishead - Third
7. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
8. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
9. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
10. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Top Ten Songs
1. Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
2. Black Kids - "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You"
3. Coldplay - "Viva La Vida"
4. David Byrne and Brian Eno - "Strange Overtones"
5. The Hold Steady - "Sequestered In Memphis"
6. Kathleen Edwards - "Buffalo"
7. Menahan Street Band - "Make The Road By Walking"
8. Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
9. MGMT - "Time To Pretend"
10. Duffy - "Mercy"
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