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Top8 - 01/05/25

January 06, 2025 - 02:06 PM Welcome back to Top8. I want to wish everyone a very happy new year. Although, realistically, we all know 2025 will be one of the worst years of our lives. Personally, I am hoping that the bird flu kills me before the state of WV makes it illegal for me to step outside, but hey, I guess we will all find out together. December 2024 marked the end of a personal era for me as I wrapped up my personal show, Attention Please. I am starting grad school this month and I just didn't feel like I could spend the kind of time on the show that I needed in order to feel good about it. I am planning to keep co-hosting The Crows Nest with my dear friend Andrew Adkins, as well as maintain this blog. I......

Top8 - 12/23/24

December 22, 2024 - 09:18 PM Welcome back to Top8. In keeping with a little-known Solstice celebration practice, I have lopped off part of my left index finger while chopping parsley. So, this whole blog was slightly painful to type out. But, because I love you, I did it. A few of these tracks are a little older because this is a slow time of year for new music, but they aren't from like the 70's or something. I am writing to you from the front lines of the War on Christmas. We will fight to the last gasp for freedom from holiday cheer. Send your xmas greetings to wtsq.org/contact, because god knows I don't want them. Julien Baker & Torres - Sugar in the Tank I want to start out with one of my......

Top8 - 12/09/24

December 12, 2024 - 09:13 AM Before we get into the blog this week, an apology. This article is always due on Mondays. This Monday, our website was down. Subsequently, I just forgot until Wednesday morning. And then I forgot again when I got home and made focaccia instead. Then when I tried to post the article, the damned website glitched and didn't save it. So, here we are Thursday morning. The focaccia did turn out well though. With that out of the way, welcome back to Top8. I have a new desk setup in my apartment and my lamp is kind of shining right in my eyes. It's a kind of a wonky, garbage lamp which I have just been too cheap to replace, so honestly I only have myself to blame. Metaphor, that. I continue......

Top8 - 11/25/24

November 24, 2024 - 10:48 PM Welcome back to Top8. I was starting to think that it would never get cold. I am the sort of person who enjoys this sort of weather. Not because of the holidays or any of that. Just because I am a cold hearted bitch. That said, the holidays are upon us. Holly Jolly Brawley is being set up mere feet from where I am typing this message. It's pretty and people are happy taking pictures and all that. And I am already sick to death of it all. For your sake and mine, stay out of my way when I am on my way to Taylors for coffee. Please send all original ideas for a photoshoot to wtsq.org/contact. This is one of those weeks when I found way too much cool music for one Top8. So, you're getting......

Top8 - 11/11/24

November 10, 2024 - 10:39 PM Welcome back to Top8. Hell of a week. I want everyone to know that we love you and we are on your side. I have no idea what else to say. Send hugs to wtsq.org/contacts The Cure - I Can Never Say Goodbye Well, here we are talking about The Cure again. I am really just checking in with you all to let you know that the new album, "Songs of a Lost World" is extremely legit. The band manages to do things here that you really don't expect – this is very much a Cure album, in the vein of classics Like Pornography or Disintegration. It also doesn't sound like its outtakes from previous albums. This is a band who know exactly who they are, but are not quite done figuring out all the ways......

Top8 - 10/28/24

October 27, 2024 - 08:56 PM Welcome back to Top8! I want to send a huge thank you out to everyone who supported our recent 2024 membership drive. We have brought a lot of new people onboard as sustaining members and if you're one of them, I just want to say thank you so much. We want to keep WTSQ on the air until the sun consumes the earth. Thank you for taking us one step closer. Please send all prophecies of doom to wtsq.org/contact. I am really excited to bring you all some new songs this week, so let's jump right in. Heavy Lungs - Get Out You know that Idles song Danny Nedelko? Well, it's about the dude in Heavy Lungs. The two bands come out of the Bristol, UK scene and have played shows together for......

2024 Membership drive artist: Wes Eary

October 19, 2024 - 01:46 PM WTSQ 88.1 FM is thrilled to have partnered with the incredibly talented Charleston artist Wes Eary Known for his vibrant and dynamic work. Wes has created an exclusive design for the 2024 WTSQ Sustaining Membership Drive. Members will receive perks featuring his design in: Stickers Glow-in-the-dark keychains Limited edition t-shirts Custom tarot cards WTSQ Membership Drive starts Saturday Oct 19th - Click Here to Join Now! Wes Eary is an innovative and community-driven artist from Charleston, West Virginia, known for his pioneering work with alternative mediums such as black light and recycled materials. A......

Top8 - 10/13/24

October 13, 2024 - 10:06 PM Welcome back to Top8 where we ask you to top at least 8. If you're into that anyway. This is a week where I had way more tracks that I could include in this space, so you are just getting the things I loved the most. This is the Indian curry of new music. And just like a curry, it's HOT baby! Please send all recipes to WTSQ.org/contact Before we even get started today, I want to mention WTSQ's 2024 Member Drive taking place October 19th - 26th. This year we are asking you to keep WTSQ from becoming a Spirit Halloween location by becoming a sustaining member and keeping us on the air. Sustaining members kick in just a few dollars a month. This support plus The Dare - GirlsA......

Top8 - 09/30/24

September 29, 2024 - 07:20 PM Time for another Top8. I know what you're saying to yourself – "if only I had WTSQ, but in a text format with a shitty, opinionated attitude and constant references to shoegaze". Well, here you go. I aim to please (ish). Please send all selfies taken at the Sierra Ferrell show to wtsq.org/contact. The Cure - Alone I honestly thought this day would never come. New music from The Cure. More than that, a single released ahead of a new album that comes out in only about a month. We lived to hear this. The track is called "Alone" and it's… actually really, really good. It's kind of wild to me that this is a band that last released music more than a decade and a half ago......

Top8 - 09/16/24

September 15, 2024 - 07:53 PM We are halfway through September and still trying to escape from the tyranny of summer. 85F is hot to me. 90-something can go straight to hell. I haven't wanted to leave the apartment in months. This time of year is so depressing to me. Even at night, it's humid and hateful. It's hard for me to imagine that people crossed the landbridge into Alaska, came down into this continent, went east, and stopped here. In this valley. And stayed. Maybe they knew we'd have an Aldi one day. God knows. Send your theories to wtsq.org/contact. At least WTSQ is giving you the coolest music in history to compensate. Let's get into some new stuff. Ethel Cain - For Sure (American Football......

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