RTP-area local music and culture

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Top 88.7 FM

1. 14...Bombino...Azel...Partisan
2. 12...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE
3. 12...John Carpenter...Lost Themes II...Sacred Bones
4. 12...Anderson .Paak...Malibu...Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE
5. 12...Holy Wave...Freaks of Nurture...Reverberation Appreciation Society
6. 12...Parquet Courts...Human Performance...Rough Trade
7. 11...Tashi Dorji & Shane Parish...Expecting...MIE Music
8. 11...Some Army...One Stone and Too Many Birds...Potluck
9. 10...Boulevards...Groove!...Captured Tracks
10. 10...Sunwatchers...Sunwatchers...Castle Face
11. 10...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group
12. 9...Eric Bachmann...Eric Bachmann...Merge
13. 9...Various...Los Alamos Grind...Numero
14. 9...J Dilla...Dillatronic...Green Streets Entertainment
15. 9...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone
16. 9...Tacocat...Lost Time...Hardly Art
17. 8...Brutus...Wandering Blind...Svart
18. 8...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy
19. 8...Hayes Carll...Lovers and Leavers...Hwy 87
20. 8...Robbie Fulks...Upland Stories...Bloodshot
21. 8...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood
22. 7...Causa Sui...Return to Sky...El Paraiso
23. 7...Dreamboat...Dreamboat...MIE Music
24. 7...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey
25. 7...Beacon...Escapements...Ghostly International
26. 6...al Riggs...Blue Mornings...self-released
27. 6...Essaie Pas...Demain est une autre nuit...DFA
28. 6...10isee Williams...Gorilla Warfare...self-released
29. 6...Birds of Chicago...Real Midnight...Five Head Entertainment
30. 6...Caleb Caudle...Carolina Ghost...This is American Music
31. 6...Various...Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary...Dust-to-Digital
32. 6...Bleached...Welcome the Worms...Dead Oceans
33. 6...Choir of Young Believers...Grasque...Ghostly International
34. 5...Rokia Traore...Ne So...Nonesuch/Rock A Sound
35. 5...Various...Yan Mari Yo: Folkloric Griots of Guinea...Psychic Sounds
36. 5...Adult Books...Running from the Blows...Lolipop
37. 5...Explosions in the Sky...The Wilderness...Temporary Residence Ltd.
38. 5...La Sera...Music for Listening to Music To...Polyvinyl
39. 5...Lifetones...For A Reason...Tone Of Life/Light in the Attic
40. 5...Mike & The Melvins...Three Men and a Baby...Sub Pop
41. 5...The Astounds...The Astounds...self-released
42. 5...Tombstoned...II...Svart
43. 5...'Thesda...Spaced Out...Left Ear
44. 5...The People’s Workshop...Houston Talent Expo...BBE
45. 4...Baris Manco and Kurtalan Ekspres...Sozum Meclisten
Disari...Pharaway Sounds
46. 4...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds
47. 4...Various...Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar...Sublime Frequencies
48. 4...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home
49. 4...Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie "Prince" Billy...Epic Jammers and
Fortunate Little Ditties...Drag City
50. 4...Blood Ceremony...Lord of Misrule...Rise Above
51. 4...Chateau...Amissus...self-released
52. 4...Humanize...Sadlands...Winsome
53. 4...Tendagruta...Ensalmo Do Sargaco...Dissociated
54. 4...The Dead Tongues...Montana...self-released
55. 4...Yuck...Stranger Things...Mame
56. 4...94 East...The Cookhouse 5...Numero Group
57. 4...Jackson Turner...The Foundation...self-released
58. 3...Amanar De Kidal...Tumastin...Sahel Sounds
59. 3...Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights...Quelbe!: Music of the U.S.
Virgin Islands...Smithsonian Folkways
60. 3...Kleptonaut...On the Up and Up...self-released
61. 3...Church of Misery...And then there were none......Rise Above
62. 3...Killer Kane Band...Mr. Cool EP...HoZac
63. 3...Psychic Blood...Alien 12"...Wharf Cat
64. 3...Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil...Wow to the Deadness...Sounds
Familyre
65. 3...The Ukiah Drag...Crypt Cruiser E.P....Wharf Cat
66. 3...Various...Psychedelic States: Florida in the 60s vol. 4...Gear Fab
67. 3...Brooklyn Blowhards...Brooklyn Blowhards...Little (i) Music
68. 3...BledJon...The Popular Loner...self-released
69. 3...Margo Price...Midwest Farmer's Daughter...Third Man
70. 3...CookBook and Evidence...A Whole New Cook...Just-Us Movement
71. 2...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nice Yillara Gulum...Pharaway Sounds
72. 2...Andreas Gehm...I Love Acid 008...I Love Acid
73. 2...Brian Kage...A White Bear's Heaven...is a Black Bear's Hell!...FXHE
74. 2...Fatima Al Qadiri...Brute...Hyperdub
75. 2...Kyle Hall...For Love...Wild Oats
76. 2...Body Games...Damager...self-released
77. 2...Graves at Sea...The Curse That Is...Relapse
78. 2...Havenaire...Tremolo...Constellation Tatsu
79. 2...Pere Ubu...Architecture of Language 1979-1982...Fire
80. 2...Raw McCartney...Midwest Eject...Goodbye Boozy
81. 2...The Body...No One Deserves Happiness...Thrill Jockey
82. 2...The Monochrome Set... Volume, Contrast, Brilliance... Unreleased &
Rare Vol.2...Tapete
83. 2...Todd W. Emmert...Devil's Return...Therapy Tapes
84. 2...Koncept & J57...The Fuel...KON57
85. 2...Richmond Fontaine...You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back
to...El Cortez/Fluff & Gravy
86. 2...Various Artists...Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music's Tormented
Testament (1952-1974)...Iron Mountain Analogue Research
87. 2...John Clifton...Let Yourself Go...Rip Cat
88. 1...A. Kostis...The Jail's a Fine School...Olvido/Mississippi
89. 1...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel

Top 10 Loud

1.       8...Brutus...Wandering Blind...Svart
2.       5...Tombstoned...II...Svart
3.       4...Chateau...Amissus...self-released
4.       4...Tendagruta...Ensalmo Do Sargaco...Dissociated
5.       4...Blood Ceremony...Lord of Misrule...Svart
6.       3...Church of Misery...And then there were none... ... Rise Above
7.       2...Graves at Sea...The Curse That Is...Relapse
8.       2...The Body...No One Deserves Happiness...Thrill Jockey
9.       2...Panopticon...Autumn Eternal...Bindrune
10.     1...Bong of Cthulu...Bong of Cthulu...self-released

Top 10 CBGF

1.      9...Walker Family Singers...Panola County Spirit...Daptone
2.      8...Johnny Rawls...Tiger in a Cage...Catfood
3.      8...Robbie Fulks...Upland Stories...Bloodshot
4.      8...Hayes Carll...Lovers and Leavers...Hwy 87
5.      7...Glenn Jones...Fleeting...Thrill Jockey
6.      6...Caleb Caudle...Carolina Ghost...This is American Music
7.      6...Birds of Chicago...Real Midnight...Five Head Entertainment
8.      6...Various Artists...Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian
Visionary...Dust-to-Digital
9.      3...Margo Price...Midwest Farmer's Daughter...Third Man
10.    2...Various Artists...Hillbillies in Hell: Country Music's Tormented
             Testament…(1952-1974)...Iron Mountain Analogue Research

Top 10 World

1. 14...Bombino...Azel...Partisan
2. 12...Debo Band...Ere Gobez...FPE
3. 8...Ravi Shankar...In Hollywood, 1971...Northern Spy
4. 5...Rokia Traore...Ne So...Nonesuch/Rock A Sound
5. 5...Various...Yan Mari Yo: Folkloric Griots of Guinea...Psychic Sounds
6. 4...Baris Manco and Kurtalan Ekspres...Sozum Meclisten Disari...Pharaway
Sounds
7. 4...Various...Nouakchott Wedding Songs...Sahel Sounds
8. 4...Various...Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar...Sublime Frequencies
9. 3...Amanar De Kidal...Tumastin...Sahel Sounds
10. 3...Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights...Quelbe!: Music of the U.S.
Virgin Islands...Smithsonian Folkways

Top 10 Hip Hop

1. 10...Mr. Lif...Don't Look Down...Mello Music Group
2. 9...J Dilla...Dillatronic...Green Streets Entertainment
3. 6...10isee Williams...Gorilla Warfare...self-released
4. 4...Jackson Turner...The Foundation...self-released
5. 3...BledJon...The Popular Loner...self-released
6. 3...CookBook and Evidence...A Whole New Cook...Just-Us Movement
7. 2...Koncept & J57...The Fuel...KON57
8. 1...Get Open...IAM Open...Overtime
9. 1...Maticulous...Bet Your Life feat. Masta Ace and Blu...Soulspazm
10. 1...shirlette ammons...Language Barrier...Churchkey/SugarQube

Top 10 RPM

1. 4...Paul Atreides...Arrakis Walk b/w Thinking Machines...Going Home
2. 3...Kleptonaut...On the Up and Up...self-released
3. 2...Andreas Gehm...I Love Acid 008...I Love Acid
4. 2...Brian Kage...A White Bear's Heaven...is a Black Bear's Hell!...FXHE
5. 2...Fatima Al Qadiri...Brute...Hyperdub
6. 2...Kyle Hall...For Love...Wild Oats
7. 1...Robert Hood...Paradygm Shift Volume 1...Dekmantel
8. 1...Ryan Huber...Kanab...Inam
9. 1...400PPM...Just-In-Time...Avian
10. 1...Nuno Canavarro...Plux Quba...Drag City



Brett Donahue and Sarah Carrier
Music Directors
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957