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Top 88.7
1.    19...Yo La Tengo...Popular Songs...Matador
2.    15...Various Artists...Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae...Moll-Selekta
3.    12...Grand Archives...Keep in Mind Frankenstein...Sub Pop
4.    12...Os Mutantes...Haih...ou Amortecedor......Anti-
5.    12...Sarazino...Ya Foy!...Cumbancha
6.    12...Various Artists...Mindexpanders Vol. 2...Past & Present
7.    12...Vivian Girls...Everything Goes Wrong...In the Red
8.    10...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
9.    10...Iggy Pop...Preliminaires...Astralwerks
10.    10...Kiila...Tuota Tuota...Fonal
11.    10...Twilight Sad...Forget the Night Ahead...Fat Cat
12.    9...A Hawk and a Hacksaw...Deliverance...Leaf
13.    9...Why?...Eskimo Snow...Anticon
14.    8...Alan Singley & Pants Machine...Feelin' Citrus...Bladen Country
15.    8...Black Moth Super Rainbow...Eating Us...Graveface
16.    8...Blitzen Trapper...Black River Killer...Sub Pop
17.    8...Sunsest Rubdown...Dragonslayer...Jagjaguwar
18.    7...24-Carat Black...Gone: the Promises of Yesterday...Numero Group
19.    7...Amelia Curran...War Brides...Six Shooter
20.    7...Eddy Current Suppression Ring...s/t...Goner
21.    7...Malcolm Holcombe...For the Mission Baby...Echo Mountain
22.    7...Paul Burch...Still Your Man...Ramseur
23.    7...Reverend Horton Heat...Laughin' & Cryin'...Yep Roc
24.    7...The Clean...Mister Pop...Merge
25.    7...UUVVWWZ...s/t...Saddle Creek
26.    6...Billy Sugarfix...Summer Tempests...Pox World Empire
27.    6...Yoga...Megafauna...Holy Mountain
28.    6...Polvo...In Prism...Merge
29.    6...Tyondai Braxton...Central Market...Warp
30.    6...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
31.    6...Spits...s/t...Recess/Thriftstore
32.    6...Chris Pasin...Detour Ahead...H2O
33.    6...O.V. Wright...The Bottom Line...Hi/Fat Possum
34.    6...Generationals...Con Law...Park the Van
35.    5...Various Artists...Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers...Smithsonian
Folkways
36.    5...Soname...Plateau...World Village
37.    5...Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo...Eternal...Electrofone Music
38.    5...Broken Records...Until the Earth Begins to Part...4AD
39.    5...Nudge...As Good as Gone...Kranky
40.    5...Vialka...Success Planetaire International...s/r
41.    5...Pieranunzi/Johnson/Baron...Dream Dance...Cam Jazz
42.    5...Bonsoir Catin...Vive L'Amour...Valcour
43.    5...Ann Peebles...The Handwriting is on the Wall...Hi/Fat Possum
44.    4...Slasher Risk...s/t...Obsolete Units
45.    4...Unknown Instructors...Funland...Smog Veil
46.    4...All Your Science...Volume 2...s/r
47.    4...On the Take...s/t...Twin 22
48.    4...Andrew Byrne...White Bone Country...New World
49.    4...Linzay Young & Joel Savoy...s/t...Valcour
50.    4...Naphta...Long Time Burning...Ruff Revival
51.    4...Mayer Hawthorne...A Strange Arrangement...Stones Throw
52.    4...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
53.    4...Antlers...Hospice...French Kiss
54.    4...Jay Reatard...Watch Me Fall...Matador
55.    4...Reigning Sound...Love and Curses...In the Red
56.    3...Lissom...Nest of Iterations...Dragon's Eye
57.    3...Jaded Rakes...Three Songs...s/r
58.    3...Pontiak...Maker...Thrill Jockey
59.    3...To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie...Marlone...Kranky
60.    3...Elliott Levin...Meets the Seesaw Ensemble...Porter
61.    3...John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble...Eternal Interlude...Sunnyside
62.    3...Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra...Elephant Road...Looping no Budget
63.    3...Bert Jansch...A Rare Conundrum...Drag City
64.    3...Jesse Fuller...Move on Down the Line...Fled
65.    3...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
66.    3...Calico Haunts...After All...Borderlord
67.    3...Sleepy Sun...Embrace...All Tomorrow's Parties
68.    3...Lura...Eclipse...Four Quarters
69.    3...Pisces...A Lovely Sight...Numero Group
70.    3...Various Artists...Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns
2...Psychic Circle
71.    3...Pissed Jeans...King of Jeans...Sub Pop
72.    3...Horseback...The Invisible Mountain...self-released
73.    3...Bert Jansch...L.A. Turnaround...Drag City
74.    2...Greg Kowalski...Tape Chants...Kranky
75.    2...Sally Shapiro...My Guilty Pleasure...Paper Bag
76.    2...Choir of Young Believers...This is For the White in Your
Eyes...Ghostly International
77.    2...Ill Wind...Flashes...Sunbeam
78.    2...Midtown Dickens...Lanterns...self-released
79.    2...The Wrong Object...Stories from the Shed...Moonjune
80.    2...Betse Ellis...Don't You Want to Go?...Free Dirt
81.    1...Landed...Liver & Lungs...Corleone
82.    1...Maurizio Bianchi...Armaghedon 12"...Hot Releases
83.    1...Desolation Wilderness...New Universe...K
84.    1...Bicameral Mind...Quintet...Blondena Music
85.    1...Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg...Saints & Tzadiks...World
Village
86.    1...Variant...The Setting Sun...Echospace
87.    1...Various Artists...Women Blue...Past & Present
88.    1...Maestros del Joropo Oriental...Y Que Viva Venezuela...Smithsonian
Folkways
88.7. 1...Mack Allen Smith...The Early Years...Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum

RPM Chart
1.  6...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
2.  6...Tyondai Braxton...Central Market...Warp
3.  5...Nudge...As Good as Gone...Kranky
4.  4...Naphta...Long Time Burning...Ruff Revival
5.  4...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
6.  3...Lissom...Nest of Iterations...Dragon's Eye
7.  2...Greg Kowalski...Tape Chants...Kranky
8.  2...Sally Shapiro...My Guilty Pleasure...Paper Bag
9.  1...Variant...The Setting Sun...Echospace
10.  1...Maurizio Bianchi...Armaghedon 12"...Hot Releases

Loud Rock Chart

1.      6...Yoga...Megafauna...Holy Mountain
2.      4...Slasher Risk...s/t...Obsolete Units
3.      4...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
4.      3...Pissed Jeans...King of Jeans...Sub Pop
5.      3...Horseback...The Invisible Mountain...self-released
6.      1...Landed...Liver & Lungs...Corleone
7.      1...Maurizio Bianchi...Armaghedon 12"...Hot Releases
8.      1...Noveller...Red Rainbows...No Fun
9.      1...ZS...Music of the Modern White...The Social Registry
10.     1...Tooth/the Claw...Split 12"...Church Key

World Chart
1.    15...Various Artists...Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae...Moll-Selekta

2.    12...Sarazino...Ya Foy!...Cumbancha
3.    12...Os Mutantes...Haih...ou Amortecedor......Anti-
4.    10...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
5.    9...A Hawk and a Hacksaw...Deliverance...Leaf
6.    5...Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo...Eternal...Electrofone Music
7.    5...Various Artists...Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers...Smithsonian
Folkways
8.    5...Soname...Plateau...World Village
9.    3...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
10.    3...Lura...Eclipse...Four Quarters

Jazz Chart
1.    6...Chris Pasin...Detour Ahead...H2O
2.    5...Pieranunzi/Johnson/Baron...Dream Dance...Cam Jazz
3.    3...Elliott Levin...Meets the Seesaw Ensemble...Porter
4.    3...John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble...Eternal Interlude...Sunnyside
5.    3...Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra...Elephant Road...Looping no Budget
6.    2...The Wrong Object...Stories from the Shed...Moonjune
7.    1...Bicameral Mind...Quintet...Blondena Music
8.    1...Klang...Tea Music...Allos Documents
9.    1...Matt Wilson Quartet...That's Gonna Leave A Mark...Palmetto
10.    1...Nicola Cipani...The Ill-Tempered Piano...Long Song


Stephen Conrad and Dan Ruccia
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957