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Top 88.7 plays on WXDU for the week ending

Posted on June 30, 2008 at 05:34 PM by music director
rank - plays - artist - title - label

WXDU Charts –June 29, 2008
Top 88.7


1. 13...Various Artists...Bearded Ladies vol.1 ...Finders Keepers/Bird/B-Music
2. 12...Dino Felipe...No Fun Demo...No Fun
3. 11...Wooden Shjips...Vol. 1...Holy Mountain
4. 11...The Ex-Monkeys...s/t...s/r
5. 11...Goner...Rock 'n' Roll Always Forgets...Bifocal Media
6. 11...Various Artists...Love Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music...Normal
7. 11...Health...Disco...Lovepump United
8. 10...Pinker Tones...Wild Animals...Nacional
9. 10...Steinski...What Does It All Mean? : 1983-2006 Retrospective...Illegal Art
10. 10...Ladytron...Velocifero...Nettwerk
11. 10...Notwist...The Devil, You & Me...Domino
12. 10...Ron House...Obsessed...Moses Carryout Records
13. 10...Orchestra Baobab...Made in Dakar...Nonesuch
14. 10...Bonnie "Prince" Billy...Lie Down in the Light...Drag City
15. 10...Various Artists...Bookor Beats...Otrabanda
16. 9...Fleet Foxes...s/t...Sub Pop
17. 9...James McMurtry...Just Us Kids...Lightning Road Records
18. 9...Make a Rising...Infinite Ellipse and Head with Open Fontanel...High Two
19. 9...Juno Reactor...Gods and Monsters...Metropolis
20. 9...Various Artists...Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986...Strut
21. 9...Bitter:Sweet...Drama...Quango
22. 9...Benga...Diary of an Afro Warrior...Tempa
23. 8...the War on Drugs...Wagonwheel Blues...Secretly Canadian
24. 8...Alejandro Escovedo...Real Animal...Back Porch/Manhattan
25. 8...La India Canela...Merengue Tipico from the Dominican Republic...Smithsonian Folkways
26. 8...Flying Lotus...Los Angeles...Warp
27. 8...Krzystof...Jajouka...Small Doses
28. 8...Jews and Catholics...Inside...s/r
29. 8...Various Artists...In-Kraut Vol. 3 (Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany 67-74)...Marina
30. 8...Free Kitten...Inherit...Ecstatic Peace!
31. 7...Jason Webley...The Cost of Living...11 Records
32. 7...Markus James...Snakeskin Violin...Firenze
33. 7...Charlemagne Palestine...From Etudes to Cataclysms...Sub Rosa
34. 6...Dave Insley...West Texas Wine...s/r
35. 6...Cool Kids...The Bake Sale...Chocolate Industries
36. 6...Jackson Conti...Sujinho...Mochilla
37. 6...Presto...State of the Art...Concrete Grooves
38. 6...Marc Rossi Group...Hidden Mandala...Gravity
39. 6...Dry Heathens...First Contact With Ground...Churchkey
40. 6...Resist Not...Durham!...s/r
41. 6...Orlando "Puntilla" Rios y El Conjunto Todo Rumbero...A Tribute to Gonzalo Asencio: Tio Tom, 1919-1991...Smithsonian Folkways
42. 5...The New Familiars...The Storm + Mill's River b/w My Girl CD Single...s/r
43. 5...Hearts by Darts...s/t...Peapod
44. 5...Shearwater...Rook...Matador
45. 5...Bird Names...Open Relationship...Unsound
46. 5...Various Artists...Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria...Soundway
47. 5...Black Skies...Hexagon...s/r
48. 5...Gal Costa...Gal...Dusty Groove/Philips
49. 5...The Graves of Fairmount...Calendars and Casualties EP...s/r
50. 5...The Hub...Boundary Layer...Tzadik
51. 5...Scott Dubois ...Banshee...Sunnyside
52. 5...Jeremy Jay...A Place Where We Could Go...K
53. 4...James Pants...Welcome...Stones Throw
54. 4...Young Knives...Superabundance...RYKO
55. 4...Jamie Baum Sextet...Solace...Sunnyside
56. 4...Double Negative...Raw Energy EP...Sorry State
57. 4...Various...Radio Myanmar...Sublime Frequencies
58. 4...Kaydi Johnson...Peasant of the Wreck...Fifty Fifty
59. 4...Mute Socialite...More Popular than Presidents & Generals...DKM
60. 4...Lee Renaldo...Maelstron from Drift...3 Lobed
61. 4...The Pneurotics...Forty...Rich McLaughlin Music
62. 4...Bellafea...Cavalcade...Southern
63. 4...Jenks Miller...Approaching the Invisible Mountain...Holidays for Quince Records
64. 3...Hayes Carl...Trouble in Mind...Lost Highway
65. 3...Glinkowski Staton Sparacino...Trio slicnaton...slicnaton publishing
66. 3...Apparat...Things to be Frickled: Parts & Remixes...Shitkatapult
67. 3...Mudhoney...The Lucky Ones...Sub Pop
68. 3...Lydia Mendoza...The Best of Lydia Mendoza...Arhoolie
69. 3...Bobby Previte & the New Bump...Set the Alarm for Monday...Palmetto
70. 3...Jef Stott...Saracen...Six Degrees
71. 3...Sally Shapiro...Remix Romance Vol. 1...Paper Bag
72. 3...Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens...Ready Everyday...Delmark
73. 3...Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter...Opulence...ugEXPLODE
74. 3...DJ Frane...Journey to the Planet of the Birds...S/R
75. 3...Stairwell Sisters...Get Off Your Money...Yodel-Ay-Hee
76. 3...Spires That in the Sunset Rise...Curse of the Traced Bird...Secret Eye
77. 3...Dream Bitches...Coke-and-Spiriters...Recommended If You Like Records
78. 3...Various Artists...Bollywood Steel Guitar...Sublime Frequencies
79. 3...Sammy Rimington......Visits New Orleans...Arhoolie
80. 2...Firewater...The Golden Hour...Bloodshot
81. 2...Various Artists...Thank You Friends: the Ardent Records Story...Big Beat
82. 2...Blues Addicts...s/t...Shadoks
83. 2...Lily and Maria...s/t...Sunbeam
84. 2...Bark Haze ...One for Merz...Three Lobed
85. 2...Brad Goode...Nature Boy...Delmark
86. 2...DJ Scotch Egg...Drumized...RPM
87. 2...Feufollet...Cow Island Hop...Valcour
88. 2...Bardo Pond...Batholith...3 Lobed
88.7. 1...Lars Hollmer...Viandra...Cuneiform


CBGF Chart
1. 9...James McMurtry...Just Us Kids...Lightning Road Records
2. 8...Alejandro Escovedo...Real Animal...Back Porch/Manhattan
3. 7...Markus James...Snakeskin Violin...Firenze
4. 6...Dave Insley...West Texas Wine...s/r
5. 5...The New Familiars...The Storm + Mill's River b/w My Girl CD Single...s/r
6. 4...Kaydi Johnson...Peasant of the Wreck...Fifty Fifty
7. 3...Hayes Carl...Trouble in Mind...Lost Highway
8. 3...Stairwell Sisters...Get Off Your Money...Yodel-Ay-Hee
9. 2...Lily and Maria...s/t...Sunbeam
10. 2...Feufollet...Cow Island Hop...Valcour

Jazz Chart
1. 6...Marc Rossi Group...Hidden Mandala...Gravity
2. 6...Jackson Conti...Sujinho...Mochilla
3. 5...Scott Dubois ...Banshee...Sunnyside
4. 4...Jamie Baum Sextet...Solace...Sunnyside
5. 3...Glinkowski Staton Sparacino...Trio slicnaton...slicnaton publishing
6. 3...Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens...Ready Everyday...Delmark
7. 3...Sammy Rimington......Visits New Orleans...Arhoolie
8. 3...Bobby Previte & the New Bump...Set the Alarm for Monday...Palmetto
9. 3...Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter...Opulence...ugEXPLODE
10. 2...Brad Goode...Nature Boy...Delmark

Loud Rock Chart

1. 12...Dino Felipe...No Fun Demo...No Fun
2. 11...Wooden Shjips...Vol. 1...Holy Mountain
3. 5...Black Skies...Hexagon...s/r
4. 4...Double Negative...Raw Energy EP...Sorry State
5. 4...Mute Socialite...More Popular than Presidents & Generals...DKM
6. 4...Lee Renaldo...Maelstron from Drift...3 Lobed
7. 2...Bark Haze ...One for Merz...Three Lobed
8. 2...Bardo Pond...Batholith...3 Lobed
9. 1...Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast...Split 12"...Not Not Fun
10. 1...Boris...Smile...Southern Lord

RPM Chart

1. 11...Health...Disco...Lovepump United
2. 11...The Ex-Monkeys...s/t...
3. 10...Notwist...The Devil, You & Me...Domino
4. 10...Ladytron...Velocifero...Nettwerk
5. 10...Steinski...What Does It All Mean? : 1983-2006 Retrospective...Illegal Art
6. 9...Benga...Diary of an Afro Warrior...Tempa
7. 9...Various Artists...Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986...Strut
8. 9...Juno Reactor...Gods and Monsters...Metropolis
9. 8...Flying Lotus...Los Angeles...Warp
10. 4...James Pants...Welcome...Stones Throw

World Chart
1. 10...Pinker Tones...Wild Animals...Nacional
2. 10...Orchestra Baobab...Made in Dakar...Nonesuch
3. 10...Various Artists...Bookor Beats...Otrabanda
4. 8...La India Canela...Merengue Tipico from the Dominican Republic...Smithsonian Folkways
5. 6...Orlando "Puntilla" Rios y El Conjunto Todo Rumbero...A Tribute to Gonzalo Asencio: Tio Tom, 1919-1991...Smithsonian Folkways
6. 5...Gal Costa...Gal...Dusty Groove/Philips
7. 5...Various Artists...Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria...Soundway
8. 4...Various...Radio Myanmar...Sublime Frequencies
9. 3...Jef Stott...Saracen...Six Degrees
10. 3...Various Artists...Bollywood Steel Guitar...Sublime Frequencies

Top 88.7 plays on WXDU for the week ending

Posted on June 24, 2008 at 06:29 PM by music director
rank - plays - artist - title - label

WXDU Charts –June 24, 2008
Top 88.7

1. 12...Fleet Foxes...s/t...Sub Pop
2. 12...Alejandro Escovedo...Real Animal...Back Porch/Manhattan
3. 12...Health...Disco...Lovepump United
4. 11...Ladytron...Velocifero...Nettwerk
5. 10...Pinker Tones...Wild Animals...Nacional
6. 10...Various Artists...Love Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music...Normal
7. 10...Bonnie "Prince" Billy...Lie Down in the Light...Drag City
8. 10...Various Artists...Bookor Beats...Otrabanda
9. 9...James Pants...Welcome...Stones Throw
10. 9...Grupo Fantasma...Sonidos Gold...Arie Sol
11. 9...Blues Addicts...s/t...Shadoks
12. 9...Goner...Rock 'n' Roll Always Forgets...Bifocal Media
13. 9...Orchestra Baobab...Made in Dakar...Nonesuch
14. 9...Free Kitten...Inherit...Ecstatic Peace!
15. 9...Bitter:Sweet...Drama...Quango
16. 8...Various Artists...Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria...Soundway
17. 8...Benga...Diary of an Afro Warrior...Tempa
18. 7...Steinski...What Does It All Mean? : 1983-2006 Retrospective...Illegal Art
19. 7...the War on Drugs...Wagonwheel Blues...Secretly Canadian
20. 7...Jef Stott...Saracen...Six Degrees
21. 7...Jews and Catholics...Inside...s/r
22. 7...Make a Rising...Infinite Ellipse and Head with Open Fontanel...High Two
23. 7...Dry Heathens...First Contact With Ground...Churchkey
24. 7...Feufollet...Cow Island Hop...Valcour
25. 6...Gerard Edery & Maria Krupoves...Two Faiths, One Voice...Sefarad
26. 6...Booka Shade...The Sun and the Neon Light...Get Physical
27. 6...Justin Townes Earle...The Good Life...Bloodshot
28. 6...Young Knives...Superabundance...RYKO
29. 6...Jackson Conti...Sujinho...Mochilla
30. 6...Markus James...Snakeskin Violin...Firenze
31. 6...The Ex-Monkeys...s/t...
32. 6...Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves...Roll With You...Q-Division
33. 6...Various...Radio Myanmar...Sublime Frequencies
34. 6...Various Artists...In-Kraut Vol. 3 (Hip Shaking Grooves Made in Germany 67-74)...Marina
35. 6...Juno Reactor...Gods and Monsters...Metropolis
36. 6...Jeremy Jay...A Place Where We Could Go...K
37. 5...Dave Insley...West Texas Wine...s/r
38. 5...Lydia Mendoza...The Best of Lydia Mendoza...Arhoolie
39. 5...Various Artists...Thank You Friends: the Ardent Records Story...Big Beat
40. 5...Presto...State of the Art...Concrete Grooves
41. 5...Jamie Baum Sextet...Solace...Sunnyside
42. 5...Lily and Maria...s/t...
43. 5...Various Artists...Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru...Barbes Records
44. 5...Mute Socialite...More Popular than Presidents & Generals...DKM
45. 5...Peter Cooper...Mission Door...Red Beet Records
46. 5...Krzystof...Jajouka...Small Doses
47. 5...Stairwell Sisters...Get Off Your Money...Yodel-Ay-Hee
48. 5...Gal Costa...Gal...Dusty Groove/Philips
49. 5...The Pneurotics...Forty...Rich McLaughlin Music
50. 5...Resist Not...Durham!...s/r
51. 5...Spires That in the Sunset Rise...Curse of the Traced Bird...Secret Eye
52. 5...Sacha Silva...Anatomy of a Coup...Migrant Worker
53. 5...Various Artists... Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986...Strut
54. 4...Mudhoney...The Lucky Ones...Sub Pop
55. 4...Firewater...The Golden Hour...Bloodshot
56. 4...Robert Forster...The Evangelist...Yep Roc
57. 4...Spiritualized...Songs in A &E ...
58. 4...The Wiyos...s/t...Pie
59. 4...Bird Names...Open Relationships...Unsound
60. 4...J. Spaceman & Sun City Girls...Mister Lonely OST...Drag City
61. 4...Lee Renaldo...Maelstron from Drift...3 Lobed
62. 4...Steve Reich...Daniel Variations...Nonesuch
63. 4...Johnathan Richman...Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild...Vapor
64. 4...Pattern is Movement...All Together...Hometapes
65. 3...Janiva Magness...What Love Will Do...Alligator
66. 3...Days...s/t...Shadoks
67. 3...Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter...Opulence...ugEXPLODE
68. 3...Two Man Gentlemen Band...Heavy Petting...Serious Business
69. 3...DJ Logic and Jason Miles...Global Noize...Shanachie
70. 3...Kassin +2...Futurismo...Luaka Bop
71. 3...Revolutionary Snakes Ensemble...Forked Tongue...Cuneiform
72. 3...Dream Bitches...Coke-and-Spiriters...Recommended If You Like Records
73. 3...Various Artists...Bollywood Steel Guitar...Sublime Frequencies
74. 3...Princeton...Bloomsbury...S/R
75. 2...Joel Harrison...The Wheel...Innova
76. 2...Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast...Split 12"...Not Not Fun
77. 2...Magic Bubble...s/t...Fallout
78. 2...Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles...S/T...Kemado
79. 2...Fernando Huergo...Provinciano...Sunnyside
80. 2...DJ Frane...Journey to the Planet of the Birds...S/R
81. 2...Okay...Huggable Dust...Absolutely Kosher
82. 2...Jad Fair and Naofumi Ishimaru...Half Monster...Misc. Music
83. 2...Nicola Ratti...From the Desert Came Saltwater...Anticipate
84. 2...Charlemagne Palestine...From Etudes to Cataclysms...Sub Rosa
85. 2...Peter Broderick...Float...Type
86. 2...Robert Ashley...Concrete...Lovely Music
87. 2...The Graves of Fairmount...Calendars and Casualties EP...s/r
88. 1...Leonda...Woman in the Sun...Fallout
88.7. 1...Michael Lambert...Unclouded Day...Ayler

CBGF Chart

1. 12...Alejandro Escovedo...Real Animal...Back Porch/Manhattan
2. 7...Feufollet...Cow Island Hop...Valcour
3. 6...Markus James...Snakeskin Violin...Firenze
4. 6...Justin Townes Earle...The Good Life...Bloodshot
5. 5...Dave Insley...West Texas Wine...s/r
6. 5...Stairwell Sisters...Get Off Your Money...Yodel-Ay-Hee
7. 5...Peter Cooper...Mission Door...Red Beet Records
8. 4...The Wiyos...s/t...Pie
9. 3...Two Man Gentlemen Band...Heavy Petting...Serious Business
10. 3...Janiva Magness...What Love Will Do...Alligator


Jazz Chart

1. 6...Jackson Conti...Sujinho...Mochilla
2. 5...Jamie Baum Sextet...Solace...Sunnyside
3. 3...Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter...Opulence...ugEXPLODE
4. 3...Revolutionary Snakes Ensemble...Forked Tongue...Cuneiform
5. 2...Joel Harrison...The Wheel...Innova
6. 2...Fernando Huergo...Provinciano...Sunnyside
7. 1...Bobby Previte & the New Bump...Set the Alarm for Monday...Palmetto
8. 1...Jon Irabagon's Outright!...s/t...Innova
9. 1...Chicago Luzern Exchange...Several Lights...Delmark
10. 1...Michael Lambert...Unclouded Day...Ayler

Loud Rock Chart

1. 5...Mute Socialite...More Popular than Presidents & Generals...DKM
2. 4...Lee Renaldo...Maelstron from Drift...3 Lobed
3. 2...Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast...Split 12"...Not Not Fun
4. 1...Mythical Beast/Pocahaunted...Split 12"...Not Not Fun
5. 1...Religious Knives...Resin...No Fun
6. 1...Boris...Smile...Southern Lord
7. 1...Bum Kon...Drunken Sex Sucks...Smooch
8. 1...CPC Gangbangs...Mutilation Nation...Swami
9. 1...Enos Slaughter...Beisbol...Three Lobed
10. 1...Pyramids...S/T...Hydra Head

RPM Chart

1. 12...Health...Disco...Lovepump United
2. 11...Ladytron...Velocifero...Nettwerk
3. 9...James Pants...Welcome...Stones Throw
4. 8...Benga...Diary of an Afro Warrior...Tempa
5. 7...Steinski...What Does It All Mean? : 1983-2006 Retrospective...Illegal Art
6. 6...Juno Reactor...Gods and Monsters...Metropolis
7. 6...The Ex-Monkeys...s/t...
8. 6...Booka Shade...The Sun and the Neon Light...Get Physical
9. 5...Various Artists... Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986...Strut
10. 1...Sally Shapiro...Remix Romance Vol. 1...Paper Bag

World Chart

1. 10...Pinker Tones...Wild Animals...Nacional
2. 10...Various Artists...Bookor Beats...Otrabanda
3. 9...Orchestra Baobab...Made in Dakar...Nonesuch
4. 9...Grupo Fantasma...Sonidos Gold...Arie Sol
5. 8...Various Artists...Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria...Soundway
6. 7...Jef Stott...Saracen...Six Degrees
7. 6...Various...Radio Myanmar...Sublime Frequencies
8. 6...Gerard Edery & Maria Krupoves...Two Faiths, One Voice...Sefarad
9. 5...Lydia Mendoza...The Best of Lydia Mendoza...Arhoolie
10. 5...Sacha Silva...Anatomy of a Coup...Migrant Worker