Host Picks (2009)

Bob Bumbera

News & Sports Director, XPN Morning Show

• Songs
• Son Volt - Down to the Wire
• Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
• Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
• U2 - Magnificent
• Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun
• East Hundred - Passenger
• Monsters of Folk - Say Please
• Phish - Backwards down the Number Line
• Moby - Pale Horse
• Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out

• Albums
• Son Volt - American Central Dust
• Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
• Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
• U2 - No Line on the Horizon
• Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky
• East Hundred - Slow Burning Crimes
• Monsters of Folk - S/T
• Phish - Joy
• Moby - Wait for Me
• Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

John Diliberto

Host of Sleepy Hollow, Sundays and Echoes

• Songs
• Moby - Wait for Me
• Loner - Already Numb
• Morgan Doctor - Show Me How
• IAMX - Think of England
• Horrors - Do You Remember
• Inbar Bakal - Song of Songs
• Mandrake Project - And Five Makes Twenty
• Baaba Maal - Tindo Quando
• Decemberists - The Rake's Song
• Great Northern - Houses

• Albums
• Moby - Wait For Me
• Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
• Bill Frisell - Disfarmer
• Loner - Western Sci-Fi
• Solar Fields - Movements
• IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
• Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze - Sira
• Phil Keaggy & Jeff Johnson - Frio Suite
• Mandrake Project - A Miraculous Container
• Aerosol - Airborne

David Dye

Host of World Cafe and Funky Friday

• Songs
• Bell X1 - The Great Defector
• The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
• Glasvegas - Geraldine
• Miike Snow – Animal
• Camera Obscura – French Navy
• Wilco – You and I
• Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band
• Roman Candle - Eden Was a Garden
• Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move
• Freelance Whales - Hannah

• Albums
• Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
• Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears –
  Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
• Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
• Eels - Hombre Lobo
• Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
• The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
• Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi
• Silversun Pickups - Swoon
• Staff Benda Billili - Tres Tres Fort

• Bubbling Under
• Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
• Fanfarlo - Reservoir
• Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
• Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
• The Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
• Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
• Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly
• Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
• Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway

Dan Gutierrez

Weekend Host

• Songs
• Sun Volt - Down to the Wire
• Meat Puppets - Sown Together
• Major Lazer - Hold the Line
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
• K'Naan - Wavin' Flag
• Phoenix - Lisztomania
• Diane Birch - Fire Escape
• Dinosaur Jr. - Pieces
• Pete Bjorn & John - It Don't Move Me
• Brendan Benson - A Whole Lot Better

• Albums
• Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
• The BPA - I Think We're Are Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
• Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
• Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros -
  Up From Below
• Dead Weather - Horehound
• Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11
• McCoy Tyner - Solo: Live from San Francisco
• Bob Dylan - Together through Life

Josh T. Landow

Host, Y-Rock on XPN

• Songs
• Silversun Pickups - It's Nice To Know You Work Alone
• Muse - Uprising
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
• The Prodigy – Omen
• The Big Pink – Dominos
• Foo Fighters – Wheels
• Art Brut – DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake
• Lily Allen – Everyone's At It
• Peter Bjorn & John – Nothing To Worry About
• Smashing Pumpkins – LAN

• Albums
• Silversun Pickups - Swoon
• Muse - The Resistance
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
• Art Brut – Art Brut Vs. Satan
• Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You
• Miniature Tigers – Tell It To The Volcano
• Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
• Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
• Electric Six – Kill
• Julian Casablancas –
  Phrazes For The Young

Helen Leicht

Host of XPN Midday, Leicht Lunch and XPN Local

• Songs
• Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
• Death Cab for Cutie - Meet Me on the Equinox
• Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, in Disrepair
• A.C. Newmann - The Palace at 4 AM
• Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons - Born Again
• James Maddock - When You Go Quiet
• Pearl Jam - Amongst the Waves
• Bat for Lashes - Daniel
• Bell X1 - The Great Defector
• Phoenix - 1901

• Albums
• Moby - Wait for Me
• Rosanne Cash - The List
• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
• Serena Ryder - Is it OK
• James Maddock - Sunrise on Avenue C
• The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
• Various Artists - The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack
• Fanfarlo - Reservoir
• Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
• Gomez - A New Tide

Michaela Majoun

Host of the XPN Morning Show

• Songs
• Melody Gardot - Who Will Comfort Me
• Shemekia Copeland - Never Going Back
  to Memphis
• Rosanne Cash - Heartaches by the Number
• Moby - Pale Horses
• One Eskimo - Kandi
• Wilco - You Never Know
• Dan Auerbach - My Last Mistake
• Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
• Bell X1 - Great Defector
• Bob Dylan - It's All Good
• Levon Helm - When I Go Away

• Albums
• Melody Gardot - My One And Only Thrill
• The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
• Leonard Cohen - Live in London
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11
• Rosanne Cash - The List
• Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead
• Moby - Wait for Me
• Shemekia Copeland - Never Going Back
• Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway
• Birdie Busch - Pattern of Saturn

Jonny Meister

Host of The Blues Show and Blues and Beyond

• Songs
• Elizabeth & The Catapult - Taller Children (Taller Children)
• Joe Louis Walker - If There's A Heaven (Between A Rock And The Blues)
• Shemekia Copeland - Broken World
  (Never Going Back)
• Linda Waterfall - Welcome To The Dark (Welcome To The Dark)
• Maia Sharp - Death By Perfection (Echo)
• Lynn Biddick - Devil's Lake
  (Ghost In The Bed)
• Guy Davis - Words To My Mama's Song (Sweetheart Like You)
• Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me (Revolution)
• Quintus McCormick Blues Band - There Ain't No Right Way To Do Wrong (Hey Jodie!)
• Johnnie Bassett - Nice Guys Finish Last
  (The Gentleman Is Back)

• Albums
• Samuel James - For Rosa Maeve & Noreen (NorthernBlues)
• Shemekia Copeland - Never Going Back (Telarc)
• Joe Louis Walker - Between A Rock And The Blues (Stony Plain)
• Boo Boo Davis - Ain't Gotta Dime
  (Black & Tan)
• Blackburn - Brotherhood (Make It Real)
• Saffire The Uppity Blueswomen - Havin' The Last Word (Alligator)
• Zora Young - The French Connection (Delmark)
• Guy Davis - Sweetheart Like You
  (Red House)
• Rick Estrin & The Nightcats - Twisted (Alligator)
• Various Artists - Chicago Blues: A Living History (Raisin' Music)

Joey O.

Host, Y-Rock on XPN

• Songs
• Metric – Gimme Sympathy
• Art Brut – DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
• Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
• Wilco – You Never Know
• Spinnerette – Ghetto Love
• Pearl Jam – The Fixer
• Metric – Sick Muse
• Spoon – Got Nuffin
• Muse – Uprising

• Albums
• Metric - Fantasies
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
• Silversun Pickups - Swoon
• Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
• Art Brut – Art Brut Vs. Satan
• Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
• Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
• Rancid – Let the Dominoes Fall
• Muse – The Resistance
• Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You

Kathy O'Connell

Host, Kids Corner

• Kids/Family Albums
• They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science
• Lunch Money - Dizzy
• Peter Himmelman - My Trampoline
• Yosi & the Superdads - Super Kids Rock!
• King Pajama - Something Sweet
• Rocknoceros - Pink
• Hullabaloo - High Roller
• Billy Jonas - Happy Accidents
• Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Go Waggalo
• Ziggy Marley & Friends - Family Time

• Non-Kids & Family CDs
• Jill Sobule - California Years
• Hoots and Hellmouth - The Holy Open Secret
• John Flynn - America's Waiting
• Rosanne Cash - The List
• Susan Werner - Classics
• Barbara Cook - The Essential Barbara
  (boxed set)
• Los Lobos - Los Lobos Goes Disney
• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
• Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill
• Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones

• Songs
• Hoots & Hellmouth - Root of the Industry
• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home
• John Flynn - The Passunder (New Orleans)
• Jill Sobule - Mexican Pharmacy
• Christine Lavin - Attractive Stupid People
• Moby - Pale Horses
• Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple
• Erin McKeown - Santa Cruz
• Langhorne Slim - Say Yes
• Zee Avi - Poppy

Dan Reed

WXPN Music Director; Host, Afternoons and Highs in the Seventies

• Songs
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart -
  Everything With You
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
• Monsters of Folk - Dear God
  (Sincerely M.O.F.)
• Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
• Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears -
  Get Yo Shit
• Girls - Lust for Life
• Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double Or Triple
• Lissie - Little Lovin'
• Mos Def - Life In Marvelous Times
• Stephaniesid - Bullet Train

• Albums
• Passion Pit - Manners
• Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart -
  The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
• Mos Def - The Ecstatic
• Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion
• Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
• Them Crooked Vultures -
  Them Crooked Vultures
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

Gene Shay

Host of The Folk Show

• Folk Songs
• Carsie Blanton - Itches and Tugs
  (Buoy)
• Tom Russell - Criminology
  (The Company You Keep)
• Jonathan Byrd - Galveston
  (The Law and the Lonesome)
• Joe Crookston - Logical Song
  (Able Baker Charlie and Dog)
• Danny Schmidt - Swing Me Down
  ( Instead The Forest Rose To Sing)
• Alison Brown - Forky On The Water
  ( The Company You Keep)
• The Greencards - Crystal Merchant
  (Fascination)
• Maria Dunn - Tell Her I Was Brave
  (The Peddler)
• Antje Duvekot - Long Way
  (The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer )
• Eric Taylor - The Pomegranate Tree
  (Hollywood Pocketknife)

• Folk Albums
• Tom Russell - Blood and Candle Smoke
• Joe Crookston - Able Baker Charlie and Dog
• Tom Rush - What I Know
• Steve Martin - The Crow
• Guy Davis - Sweetheart Like You
• Alison Brown - The Company You Keep
• John Flynn - America's Waiting
• Danny Schmidt - Instead The Forest Rose To Sing
• Various Artists - Singing Through The Hard Times (Tribute to Utah Phillips)
• Antje Duvekot - The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer

Tracey Tanenbaum

Producer, A Musician's Life

• Songs
• The Swell Season - Low Rising
• Neko Case - People Got a Lot of Nerve
• Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
• Slaid Cleaves - Cry
• Mason Jennings - Pittsburgh
• Justin Townes Earle - Mama's Eyes
• John Forte - Nervous
• Cory Chisel - Born Again
• Gary Louris & Mark Olson - When the Wind Comes Up
• Tim Easton - Stone's Throw Away
• Vic Chesnutt - I Flirted with You All My Life

• Albums
• Slaid Cleaves - Everything You Love Will be Taken Away
• Tim Easton - Porcupine
• Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
• Steve Earle - Townes
• The Swell Season - Strict Joy
• Gary Louris & Mark Olson - Ready for
  the Flood
• Mason Jennings - Blood of Man
• Rosanne Cash - The List
• Joe Henry - Blood from Stars
• Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies

Lauren Valle

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• Songs
• U2 - Breathe
• The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
• Passion Pit - The Reeling
• Rickie Lee Jones - Wild Child
• Derek Trucks Band - Down In The Flood
• Pearl Jam - Amongst The Waves
• The Swell Season - Low Rising
• Teddy Thompson - In My Arms
• Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Gunpowder
• One EskimO - Kandi

• Albums
• U2 - No Line On The Horizon
• Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
• Derek Trucks Band Already Free
• Various Artists - Daptone Gold
• Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
• The Swell Season - Strict Joy
• Rickie Lee Jones - Balm In Gilead
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
• Wilco - Wilco

Mike Vasilikos

Assistant Music Director and Host, Jamnation

• Songs
• Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
• Jay Z - Empire State Of Mind
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
• Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
• Jay Z - Run This Town
• Will Hoge - Even If It Breaks Your Heart
• The Veils - The Letter
• Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
• Starsailor - Tell Me It's Not Over
• AA Bondy - When The Devils Loose

• Albums
• Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
• Jay-Z - The Blueprint, Vol. 3
• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Passion Pit - Manners
• Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
• K'Naan - Troubadour
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• Brandi Carlile - Give Up The Ghost
• Phish - Joy
• Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun

Bruce Warren

Program Director

• Songs
• Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
• The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
• Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
• Animal Collective - My Girls
• Passion Pit - Little Secrets
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
• Girls - Lust For Life
• Phoenix - Lisztomania
• Atlas Sound - Walkabout
• Monsters of Folk - Dear God

• Albums
• The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
• Passion Pit - Manners
• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
• Girls - Album
• Jay-Z - The Blueprint, Vol. 3
• Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
• The xx – XX
• Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
• The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
• The Antlers - Hospice

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