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Top 88.7
1.    13...Avett Brothers...I and Love and You...American
2.    12...Raveonettes...In and Out of Control...Vice
3.    12...Various Artists...The Sound of Wonder!...B-Music/Finders Keepers
4.    11...Various Artists...Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol.
2...Sublime Frequencies
5.    11...Yo La Tengo...Popular Songs...Matador
6.    10...Drummer...Feel Good Together...Audio Eagle
7.    10...Penelope(s)...Priceless Concrete Echoes...Citizen
8.    10...Circulatory System...Signal Morning...Cloud Recordings
9.    10...Dodos...Time to Die...French Kiss
10.    9...Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions...Through the Devil
Softly...Nettwerk
11.    9...No Age...Losing Feeling EP...Sub Pop
12.    9...A Sunny Day in Glasgow...Ashes Grammar...Mis Ojos Discos
13.    9...Twilight Sad...Forget the Night Ahead...Fat Cat
14.    9...Vivian Girls...Everything Goes Wrong...In the Red
15.    8...Shantel...Planet Paprika...Essay
16.    8...Science Fiction Corporation...Science Fiction Dance
Party...B-Music
17.    8...Hidden Cameras...Orphan...Arts & Crafts
18.    8...Wild Beasts...Two Dancers...Domino
19.    8...Bronzed Chorus...I'm the Spring...Hello Sir
20.    8...Picture Plane...Dark Rift...Lovepump United
21.    8...Oh No...Ethiopium...Stones Throw
22.    8...Iggy Pop...Preliminaires...Astralwerks
23.    8...Various Artists...Mindexpanders Vol. 2...Past & Present
24.    7...Rival Consoles...IO...Erased Tapes
25.    7...Michael Yonkers/the Blind Shake...Cold Town/Soft
Zodiac...Learning Curve
26.    7...Dislocados...La Salida...Ha Xati
27.    7...Various Artists...BaSSS Brains...Brd Basss
28.    7...Health...Get Color...Lovepump United
29.    7...Various Artists...Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae...Moll-Selekta
30.    7...Lou Barlow...Goodnight Unknown...Merge
31.    7...Amelia Curran...War Brides...Six Shooter
32.    7...Ann Peebles...The Handwriting is on the Wall...Hi/Fat Possum
33.    6...Jarvis Cocker...Further Complications...Rough Trade
34.    6...Volcano Choir...Unmap...Jagjaguwar
35.    6...Chris Smither...Time Stands Still...Signature Sounds
36.    6...Otto...Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhon Intranqulos...Nublu
37.    6...Marcel Knopf...Dusty Dance...Mo's Ferry
38.    6...Boredoms...Super Roots 10...Thrill Jockey
39.    6...Sarazino...Ya Foy!...Cumbancha
40.    6...Polvo...In Prism...Merge
41.    5...Vampires of Dartmoore...Dracula's Music Cabinet...B-Music
42.    5...Pneurotics...Second Skin...s/r
43.    5...Phil Ranelin & Tribe Renaissance...Live!...Wide Hive
44.    5...José Lugo Orchestra...Guasábara...Aminalo Discos
45.    5...Harmonic 313...When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence...Warp
46.    5...Brian Harnetty & Bonny "Prince" Billy...Silent City...Atavistic
47.    5...Alarm Will Sound...A/rhythmia...Nonesuch
48.    5...Two Man Gentlemen Band...Drip Dryin' with......Serious Business
49.    5...Grand Archives...Keep in Mind Frankenstein...Sub Pop
50.    5...Why?...Eskimo Snow...Anticon
51.    5...Blitzen Trapper...Black River Killer...Sub Pop
52.    5...Billy Sugarfix...Summer Tempests...Pox World Empire
53.    4...William Fowler Collins...Perdition Hill Radio...Type
54.    4...Rose Melberg...Homemade Ship...K
55.    4...the Bomb...Speed is Everything...No Idea
56.    4...Fay Victor Ensemble...The Freesong Suite...Green Avenue
57.    4...Daniel Meteo...Working Class...Shitkatapult
58.    4...Mathias Kaden...Studio 10...Vakant
59.    4...Pere Ubu...Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi (The Radio Play, Pt.
1)...Smog Veil/Hearthen
60.    4...Port O'Brien...Threadbare...tbd records
61.    4...Hot Club of Cowtown...Wishful Thinking...Gold Strike
62.    4...Soname...Plateau...World Village
63.    4...Slasher Risk...s/t...Obsolete Units
64.    4...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
65.    4...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
66.    3...Fonda Stevens Group...Memphis...Playscape
67.    3...Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings...Madeleine
Dreams...Firehouse 12
68.    3...New Lost City Ramblers...Where Did You Come From? Where Do You
Go?...Smithsonian Folkways
69.    3...Various Artists...Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers...Smithsonian
Folkways
70.    3...Sublamp...Breathletters...Dragon's Eye
71.    3...Os Mutantes...Haih...ou Amortecedor......Anti-
72.    3...Jaded Rakes...Three Songs...s/r
73.    3...Reverend Horton Heat...Laughin' & Cryin'...Yep Roc
74.    3...Malcolm Holcombe...For the Mission Baby...Echo Mountain
75.    3...To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie...Marlone...Kranky
76.    3...UUVVWZ...s/t...Saddle Creek
77.    3...24-Carat Black...Gone: the Promises of Yesterday...Numero Group
78.    2...Samuel L Session...The Man with the Case...Be As One
79.    2...Islands...Vapours...Anti-
80.    2...Yoga...Megafauna...Holy Mountain
81.    2...Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo...Eternal...Electrofone Music
82.    2...A Hawk and a Hacksaw...Deliverance...Leaf
83.    2...Broken Records...Until the Earth Begins to Part...4AD
84.    2...Eddy Current Suppression Ring...s/t...Goner
85.    2...Pontiak...Maker...Thrill Jockey
86.    2...Tyondai Braxton...Central Market...Warp
87.    2...All Your Science...Volume 2...s/r
88.    2...On the Take...s/t...Twin 22
88.7. 2...John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble...Eternal Interlude...Sunnyside

World Chart
1.    12...Various Artists...The Sound of Wonder!...B-Music/Finders Keepers

2.    11...Various Artists...Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol.
2...Sublime Frequencies
3.    8...Shantel...Planet Paprika...Essay
4.    7...Dislocados...La Salida...Ha Xati
5.    7...Various Artists...Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae...Moll-Selekta
6.    6...Sarazino...Ya Foy!...Cumbancha
7.    6...Otto...Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhon Intranqulos...Nublu
8.    5...José Lugo Orchestra...Guasábara...Aminalo Discos
9.    4...Bomba Estereo...Blow Up...Nacional
10.    4...Soname...Plateau...World Village

Jazz Chart
1.    5...Phil Ranelin & Tribe Renaissance...Live!...Wide Hive
2.    4...Fay Victor Ensemble...The Freesong Suite...Green Avenue
3.    3...Fonda Stevens Group...Memphis...Playscape
4.    3...Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings...Madeleine
Dreams...Firehouse 12
5.    2...John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble...Eternal Interlude...Sunnyside
6.    2...Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra...Elephant Road...Looping no Budget
7.    1...Ben Allison...Think Free...Palmetto
8.    1...Elliott Levin...Meets the Seesaw Ensemble...Porter
9.    1...Nicola Cipani...The Ill-Tempered Piano...Long Song
10.    1...Dan Tepper/Lee Konitz...Duos with Lee...Sunnyside

Loud Rock Chart
1.      7...Health...Get Color...Lovepump United
2.      6...Boredoms...Super Roots 10...Thrill Jockey
3.      4...Slasher Risk...s/t...Obsolete Units
4.      2...Yoga...Megafauna...Holy Mountain
5.      2...Pontiak...Maker...Thrill Jockey
6.      1...Andrea Stroud...Trampin'...Hot Releases
7.      1...Secret Boyfriend...Broken Bleeding Earth...Hot Releases
8.      1...Landed...Liver & Lungs...Corleone
9.      1...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
10.     1...Tooth/the Claw...Split 12"...Church Key

RPM Chart
1.  8...Picture Plane...Dark Rift...Lovepump United
2.  7...Rival Consoles...IO...Erased Tapes
3.  7...Various Artists...BaSSS Brains...Brd Basss
4.  6...Boredoms...Super Roots 10...Thrill Jockey
5.  6...Marcel Knopf...Dusty Dance...Mo's Ferry
6.  5...Harmonic 313...When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence...Warp
7.  4...Daniel Meteo...Working Class...Shitkatapult
8.  4...Lusine...A Certain Distance...Ghostly International
9.  4...Mathias Kaden...Studio 10...Vakant
10.  4...William Fowler Collins...Perdition Hill Radio...Type

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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