RTP-area local music and culture

[streib <ampm328 AT gmail.com>]

Hey Ross this is Dan from Resist Not, just curious if you got our recent cd
"Just Walking Away" that i put in the mail for you.

Also we would still be interested in the sunday show if you want and need
some one

Dan

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:45 PM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Today I went through the first half of my WXDU 2008 Top-66 local
> releases (the second half, 33 - 1, will be on next Sunday from 4 - 6).
> Some of these actually came out in late 2007 but didn't chart at WXDU
> during that year:
>
> 34      Cantwell Gomez Jordan - Hot Licks & Rhetoric
> 35      Transportation - Daydreams
> 36      Gambling the Muse - self-titled
> 37      Violet Vector - EP I
> 38      Beloved Binge - Blender Theory
> 39      Ex-Monkeys - self-titled
> 40      Sweater Weather: Now Everyone Can Sing
> 41      Fortress of Swatches - It's a Battle
> 42      Monsonia - Growler
> 43      Black Skies - Hexagon
> 44      Strugglers - Latest Rights
> 45      Krzysztof - Jajouka
> 46      Project Bluebird - s/t
> 47      Brett Harris - Yesterday's News
> 48      Valient Thorr - Immortalizer
> 49      Caltrop - World Class
> 50      Maple Stave - EP 3
> 51      Resist Not - Durham!
> 52      Evil Weiner - Evil Wiener Xmas EP
> 53      Glissade - Further
> 54      Ponchos from Peru - Friendship and other Mistakes
> 55      Dawn Chorus - Florida St. Serenade
> 56      Eberhardt - Curse EP
> 57      Sequoya - Sleep and Dream of Fire
> 58      Stella By Starlight - s/t
> 59      Double Negative - Raw Energy EP (
> 60      Megafaun - Bury the Square
> 61      Potpie - Plays the Classics
> 62      Lost in the Trees - All Alone in an Empty House
> 63      Waumiss - self-titled
> 64      Savage Knights - The Martian Demos
> 65      Old Ceremony - Remixed
> 66      Citified - The Meeting After the Meeting
>
> Since the WXDU list is built by adding up all the plays each record got
> in its first 8 weeks at the station, it's not necessarily representative
> of MY personal faves, locally. So I put together this other list of
> moments that I enjoyed in 2008 (not in order):
>
> * Midtown Dickens / Tooth double bill at Troika Festival, especially
> when J-Me Guptill, midway through Tooth's brutal set, said "how bout
> Midtown Dickens?" and a massive roar went up from the crowd
> * Noncanon - 5-song sampler
> * Superchunk for Obama, and again for Cy (live set on CyTunes.org!)
> * Double Negative - every time I saw them, plus live set from cytunes.org
> * Portastatic - Some Small History, and their live set at Sarah P. Duke
> Gardens in the rain (as well as the rest of Duke Performances' awesome
> "Music in the Garden" series this summer)
> * Cantwell Gomez Jordan - Hot Licks and Rhetoric
> * Motherfucking Polvo reunion!!!!!
> * Le Weekend - Suite
> * Yard Work (live at BCHQ, and their self-titled EP):
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/trianglerock/3105170542/
> * Aimee / Evan / Noah version of des_ark
> * Evil Wiener Xmas EP reissue
> * Beloved Binge - Blender Theory, plus hitting the road for a year in an
> 80s-vintage VW Westfalia Vanagon
> * Seth Kauffman - Research
> * Megafaun: every time I saw them, but especially inside at BCHQ on
> August 2, and outside at the Obama rally at UNC
> * Caltrop - World Class
> * Wigg Report - Live on WXDU November 2nd, which turned out so well they
> released it as part of "Like Blammo Fast" a week later
> * Dirty Little Heaters - Fatty Don't Feel Good
> * Dry Heathens - "Splendid Little War", one of the few overtly political
> songs to come out around here, and a doozy
> * Flat Duo Jets - Two Headed Cow soundtrack
> * Krzysztof - Jajouka / Potpie - Plays the Classics -- New Orleans
> ex-pat moves to Asheville and fucks shit up with serious noise
> * Lud - V & the accompanying spate of live shows
> * Wembley - "Moon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEOuGlX0MQ&fmt=18
> * Jenks Miller - Approaching the Invisible Mountain
>
>
> -- Ross
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
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>



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