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Top 88.7
1.    14...The Clean...Mister Pop...Merge
2.    11...Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo...Eternal...Electrofone Music
3.    11...UUVVWZ...s/t...Saddle Creek
4.    11...Polvo...In Prism...Merge
5.    10...A Hawk and a Hacksaw...Deliverance...Leaf
6.    10...Spits...s/t...Recess/Thriftstore
7.    10...Generationals...Con Law...Park the Van
8.    10...Fruit Bats...The Ruminant Band...Sub Pop
9.    10...Billy Sugarfix...Summer Tempests...Pox World Empire
10.    9...Kiila...Tuota Tuota...Fonal
11.    9...Calico Haunts...After All...Borderlord
12.    9...Jay Reatard...Watch Me Fall...Matador
13.    9...Tooth/The Claw...Split EP...Church Key
14.    9...24-Carat Black...Gone: the Promises of Yesterday...Numero Group
15.    9...Ann Peebles...The Handwriting is on the Wall...Hi/Fat Possum
16.    8...Alan Singly & Pants Machine...Feelin' Citrus...Bladen Country
17.    8...Black Moth Super Rainbow...Eating Us...Graveface
18.    8...Eddy Current Suppression Ring...s/t...Goner
19.    8...Various Artists...Vile Vinyl Volume 1...Past & Present
20.    8...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
21.    8...Bonsoir Catin...Vive L'Amour...Valcour
22.    7...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
23.    7...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
24.    7...Blitzen Trapper...Black River Killer...Sub Pop
25.    7...Vialka...Success Planetaire International...s/r
26.    7...Choir of Young Believers...This is For the White in Your
Eyes...Ghostly International
27.    7...Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies...EP II...Color Wheel
28.    7...Various Artists...Modesty Blaise: Cheesy Pop for the
Connoisseur...Past & Present
29.    7...Paul Burch...Still Your Man...Ramseur
30.    7...Mayer Hawthorne...A Strange Arrangement...Stones Throw
31.    7...All Your Science...Volume 2...s/r
32.    7...Jesse Fuller...Move on Down the Line...Fled
33.    7...Various Artists...Loving Takes This Course...Chapter
34.    6...Broken Records...Until the Earth Begins to Part...4AD
35.    6...Tyondai Braxton...Central Market...Warp
36.    6...Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra...Elephant Road...Looping no Budget
37.    6...Linzay Young & Joel Savoy...s/t...Valcour
38.    6...Naphta...Long Time Burning...Ruff Revival
39.    6...Various Artists...Women Blue...Past & Present
40.    6...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
41.    6...Sir Lord Von Raven...Throw Me Back in the Ocean...Happy Parts
42.    6...Whatever Brains...Saddle Up...Bull City
43.    5...To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie...Marlone...Kranky
44.    5...Unknown Instructors...Funland...Smog Veil
45.    5...Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg...Saints & Tzadiks...World
Village
46.    5...Bert Jansch...A Rare Conundrum...Drag City
47.    5...Various Artists...Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes...Numero
Group
48.    5...Sally Shapiro...My Guilty Pleasure...Paper Bag
49.    5...Antlers...Hospice...French Kiss
50.    5...Lura...Eclipse...Four Quarters
51.    5...Reigning Sound...Love and Curses...In the Red
52.    5...Midtown Dickens...Lanterns...self-released
53.    4...Nudge...As Good as Gone...Kranky
54.    4...Pontiak...Maker...Thrill Jockey
55.    4...On the Take...s/t...Twin 22
56.    4...Variant...The Setting Sun...Echospace
57.    4...O.V. Wright...The Bottom Line...Hi/Fat Possum
58.    4...Various Artists...An Anthology of Chinese Experimental
Music...Sub Rosa
59.    4...Red Fox Chasers...I'm Going Down to North Carolina...Tomkins
Square
60.    4...Blank Dogs...Under and Under...In the Red
61.    4...Oneida...Rated O...Jagjaguwar/Brah
62.    4...Los Amigos Invisibles...Commercial...Nacional
63.    4...Magnolia Electric Co....Josephine...Secretly Canadian
64.    4...Various Artists...Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009...Strut
65.    3...Greg Kowalski...Tape Chants...Kranky
66.    3...Glen Iris...Horseless/Big Hatchet 7"...Dirty Slacks
67.    3...Bicameral Mind...Quintet...Blondena Music
68.    3...Chris Pasin...Detour Ahead...H2O
69.    3...Elliott Levin...Meets the Seesaw Ensemble...Porter
70.    3...Sleepy Sun...Embrace...All Tomorrow's Parties
71.    3...Jane Bunnett...Embracing Voices...Sunnyside
72.    3...Vladislav Delay...Tummaa...Leaf
73.    3...Various Artists...Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns
2...Psychic Circle
74.    3...Pissed Jeans...King of Jeans...Sub Pop
75.    3...Horseback...The Invisible Mountain...self-released
76.    3...Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada...Coconut Rock...ESL
77.    3...Oumou Sangare...Seya...Nonesuch/World Circuit
78.    3...Wye Oak...The Knot...Merge
79.    3...Bobby Sanabria...Kenya Revisited Live!...Jazzheads
80.    3...Various Artists...Dublab Presents: Echo Expansion...Porter
81.    2...Andrew Shapiro...Numbers, Colors, and People...Airbox
82.    2...Paul Metzger...Anamnestic Tincture...Roaratorio
83.    2...Maestros del Joropo Oriental...Y Que Viva Venezuela...Smithsonian
Folkways
84.    2...Mack Allen Smith...The Early Years...Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum
85.    2...Hemispheres...Crossroads...Sunnyside
86.    2...Ill Wind...Flashes...Sunbeam
87.    2...Pisces...A Lovely Sight...Numero Group
88.    2...Noveller...Red Rainbows...No Fun
88.7. 2...Bill Frisell...Disfarmer...Nonesuch

Jazz Chart
1.  6...Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra...Elephant Road...Looping no Budget
2.  3...Bicameral Mind...Quintet...Blondena Music
3.  3...Chris Pasin...Detour Ahead...H2O
4.  3...Elliott Levin...Meets the Seesaw Ensemble...Porter
5.  3...Jane Bunnett...Embracing Voices...Sunnyside
6.  2...Hemispheres...Crossroads...Sunnyside
7.  2...Bill Frisell...Disfarmer...Nonesuch
8.  2...The Wrong Object...Stories from the Shed...Moonjune
9.  1...John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble...Eternal Interlude...Sunnyside
10. 1...Pieranunzi/Johnson/Baron...Dream Dance...Cam Jazz

Loud Rock Chart
1.      10...Spits...s/t...Recess/Thriftstore
2.      9...Tooth...The Claw...Church Key
3.      8...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
4.      7...Vialka...Success Planetaire International...s/r
5.      4...Pontiak...Maker...Thrill Jockey
6.      4...Various Artists...An Anthology of Chinese Experimental
Music...Sub Rosa
7.      3...Pissed Jeans...King of Jeans...Sub Pop
8.      3...Horseback...The Invisible Mountain...self-released
9.      2...Noveller...Red Rainbows...No Fun
10.     1...Rusted Shut...Dead...Load

RPM Chart
1.  7...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
2.  6...Naphta...Long Time Burning...Ruff Revival
3.  6...Tyondai Braxton...Central Market...Warp
4.  5...Sally Shapiro...My Guilty Pleasure...Paper Bag
5.  4...Variant...The Setting Sun...Echospace
6.  4...Blank Dogs...Under and Under...In the Red
7.  4...Various Artists...An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music...Sub
Rosa
8.  3...Greg Kowalski...Tape Chants...Kranky
9.  3...Vladislav Delay...Tummaa...Leaf
10.  3...Various Artists...Dublab Presents: Echo Expansion...Porter

World Chart
11...Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo...Eternal...Electrofone Music
10...A Hawk and a Hacksaw...Deliverance...Leaf
7...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
6...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
5...Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg...Saints & Tzadiks...World Village
5...Lura...Eclipse...Four Quarters
4...Los Amigos Invisibles...Commercial...Nacional
3...Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada...Coconut Rock...ESL
3...Bobby Sanabria...Kenya Revisited Live!...Jazzheads
3...Oumou Sangare...Seya...Nonesuch/World Circuit


Stephen Conrad and Dan Ruccia
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
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