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Top 88.7
1. 13...The Black Keys...Brothers...Nonesuch
2. 13...The National...High Violet...4AD
3. 11...Sleigh Bells...Treats...Mom+Pop
4. 11...Tony Allen...Secret Agent...Nonesuch
5. 11...Caribou...Swim...Merge
6. 10...The Incredible String Band...S/T...Fledg'ling
7. 9...Robbie Fulks...Happy:  Robbie Fulks Play The Music Of Michael
Jackson...Boondoggle
8. 9...Phosphorescent...Here's To Taking It Easy...Dead Oceans
9. 9...Let's Wrestle...In The Court of the Wrestling Let's...Merge
10. 9...Charlotte Gainsbourg...IRM...Elektra
11. 9...Crystal Castles...s/t (II)...Fiction
12. 8...Nice Face...Immer Etwas...Sacred Bones
13. 8...Like Bells...Palma...Exit Stencil
14. 8...Born Ruffians...Say It...Warp
15. 8...Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang...The Wonder Show of the
World...Drag City
16. 8...Foals...Total Life Forever...Sub Pop
17. 8...Indian Jewelry...Totaled...We Are Free
18. 8...Solvent...Subject To Shift...Ghostly International
19. 8...Koes Bersaudara...Koes Bersaudara 1967...Sublime Frequencies
20. 8...Various Artists...Steppin' Through an Empty Time...Psychic Circle
21. 8...Emeralds...Does It Look Like I'm here?...Editions Mego
22. 7...Factor...Lawson Graham...Fake Four
23. 7...Sun Ra...College Tour Vol. 1:  The Complete Nothing Is…...ESP
24. 7...Sun Travellers...Excursions...S/R
25. 7...Various Artists...Local Customs:  Lone Star Lowlands...Numero Group
26. 7...BLK JKS...ZOL!...Secretly Canadian
27. 7...Janelle Monáe...The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III...Bad
Boy/Wondaland Arts Society
28. 7...Balkan Beat Box...Blue Eyed Black Boy...Nat Geo Music
29. 6...Ed Harcount...Lustre...Piano Wolf
30. 6...Damien Jurado...Saint Bartlett...Secretly Canadian
31. 6...Jerry Leake...Cubist Shapes of Sound & Time...Rhombus
32. 5...Claudia Quintet...Royal Toast...Cuneiform
33. 5...Hog...S/T...S/R
34. 5...Solex Vs. Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer...Amsterdam Throwdown,
Kingstreet Showdown!...Bronzerat
35. 5...FM Belfast...How To Make Friends...Kimi Records
36. 5...Various Artists...135 Grand Street New York 1979...Soul Jazz
37. 5...Pontiak...Living...Thrill Jockey
38. 5...UNKLE...Where Did the Night Fall?...Surrender All
39. 5...Alps...Le Voyage...Type
40. 5...Gayngs...Relayted...Jagjaguwar
41. 5...White Fence...s/t...Woodsist
42. 5...La Bien Querida...Romancero...Nacional
43. 5...Cate Le Bon...Me Oh My...Control Group
44. 4...Matthew Shipp...4D...Thirsty Ear
45. 4...Soft Machine...NDR Jazz Workshop...Cuneiform
46. 4...Jane Weaver Septieme Soeur...The Fallen By Watch Bird...Finders
Keepers
47. 4...Various Artists...Horizon Line/Ghostly By Night...Ghostly
International
48. 4...Clothesline Revival...They Came From Somewhere...Paleo
49. 4...Various Artists...Twistable Turnable Man...Sugar Hill
50. 4...Mason Lindahl...Serrated Man Sound...Porter
51. 4...Random Touch...Through the Lens of the Other Dimension...Token Boy
52. 4...Croooked Still...Some Strange Country...Signature Sound
53. 4...Raw Soul...Superman b/w Just Walk Funky 7"...Plut
54. 4...Broken Social Scene...Forgiveness Rock Record...Arts & Crafts
55. 4...Home Blitz...Perpetual Night 7"...Almost Ready
56. 3...Ideal Bread...Transmit...Cuneiform
57. 3...Graveyard Fields...Saturn's Moons...S/R
58. 3...Yuganaut...Sharks...Engine
59. 3...Black Tusk...Taste the Sin...Relapse
60. 3...Sadies...Darker Circles...Yep Roc
61. 3...Agent Side Grinder...Debut...Kill Shaman
62. 3...Pearly Gate Music...s/t...Barsuk
63. 3...Snowdrift...Starry All Over...s/r
64. 3...Samandtheplants...The Eft...Twisted Nerve/Finders Keeper
65. 3...Mick Rossi...Songs from the Broken Land...Orange Mountain Music
66. 3...Sonny Simmons...Staying on the Watch...ESP-Disk'
67. 3...Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph...Towards the Unknown...Meta
68. 3...Andre Williams...That's All I Need...Bloodshot
69. 3...Amanaz...Africa...QDK
70. 3...Trombone Shorty...Backatown...Verve Forecast
71. 3...Glenn Branca...The Ascension:  The Sequel...Systems Neutralizer
72. 3...The Dutchess and The Duke...Sunset/Sunrise...Hardly Art
73. 3...Flying Lotus...Cosmogramma...Warp
74. 3...Various Artists...Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics...Angular
75. 3...Caetano Veloso...Zii e Zie...Nonesuch
76. 3...Trans Am...Thing...Thrill Jockey
77. 3...She & Him...Volume Two...Merge
78. 2...Konitz/Cheek/Furic Leibovici...Jugendstil II...ESP
79. 2...Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones...Yeyi...Meta
80. 2...Espen Eriksen Trio...You Had Me At Goodbye...Rune Grammofon
81. 2...High On Fire...Snakes For The Divine...E1 Entertainment
82. 2...Bushman's Revenge...Jitterbug...Rune Grammofon
83. 2...Doug Burr...O Ye Devastator...Velvet Blue
84. 2...Shoes...Eccentric Breaks & Beats...Numbero
85. 2...Avi Buffalo...Bonus Goods...Sub Pop
86. 2...Coco Rosie...Grey Oceans...Sub Pop
87. 2...FNS...s/t...Miasmah
88. 2...Zeke Graves...Live at Antfarm Studios, Raleigh, NC 4/2/10...s/r
88.7. 2...Open Mike Eagle...Unapologetic Art Rap...Mush

Jazz Chart
1.  7...Sun Ra...College Tour Vol. 1:  The Complete Nothing Is…...ESP
2.  5...Claudia Quintet...Royal Toast...Cuneiform
3.  4...Matthew Shipp...4D...Thirsty Ear
4.  4...Soft Machine...NDR Jazz Workshop...Cuneiform
5.  3...Ideal Bread...Transmit...Cuneiform
6.  3...Yuganaut...Sharks...Engine
7.  3...Mick Rossi...Songs from the Broken Land...Orange Mountain Music
8.  3...Sonny Simmons...Staying on the Watch...ESP-Disk'
9.  3...Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph...Towards the Unknown...Meta
10. 3...Trombone Shorty...Backatown...Verve Forecast

Loud Rock Chart
1. 5...Hog...S/T...S/R
2. 5...Various Artists...135 Grand Street New York 1979...Soul Jazz
3. 3...Black Tusk...Taste the Sin...Relapse
4. 3...Glenn Branca...The Ascension:  The Sequel...Systems Neutralizer
5. 2...High On Fire...Snakes For The Divine...E1 Entertainment
6. 1...Orthrelm...s/t...ugExplode
7. 1...Zs...New Slaves...The Social Registry
8. 1...Axemen...Scary! Pt. III...Siltbreeze
9. 1...Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O....Are We
Experimental?...Prophase
10. 1...Culted...Of Death and Ritual...Relapse

RPM Chart
1.  11...Caribou...Swim...Merge
2.  9...Crystal Castles...s/t (II)...Fiction
3.  8...Solvent...Subject To Shift...Ghostly International
4.  8...Emeralds...Does It Look Like I'm here?...Editions Mego
5.  5...FM Belfast...How To Make Friends...Kimi Records
6.  5...UNKLE...Where Did the Night Fall?...Surrender All
7.  4...Various Artists...Horizon Line/Ghostly By Night...Ghostly
International
8.  3...Various Artists...Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics...Angular
9.  2...Holy Fuck...Latin...XL
10.  2...Lindstrøm & Christabelle...Real Life Is No Cool...Smalltown
Supersound

World Chart
1. 11...Tony Allen...Secret Agent...Nonesuch
2. 8...Koes Bersaudara...Koes Bersaudara 1967...Sublime Frequencies
3. 7...Balkan Beat Box...Blue Eyed Black Boy...Nat Geo Music
4. 6...Jerry Leake...Cubist Shapes of Sound & Time...Rhombus
5. 5...La Bien Querida...Romancero...Nacional
6. 3...Amanaz...Africa...QDK
7. 3...Caetano Veloso...Zii e Zie...Nonesuch
8. 2...Various Artists...Nigeria Special: Volume 2...Sound Way
9. 1...Choco Orta...Ahora Mismo...Sony
10. 1...Various Artists...Excavated Shellac:Strings...Parlortone

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