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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Valient Thorr | Vernal Equinox | Immortalizer | Volcom Entertainment | Great local rock that just missed my top 10 list for this year. | |||
Valient Thorr | Red Flag | Immortalizer | Volcom Entertainment | " | |||
* | Pink Flag | Fight Song | Introducing Pink Flag and The Homewreckers | Break Your Heart | new local split release | ||
Johnny Otis Orchestra | Happy New Year, Baby | (VA) Blues, Blues Christmas | Document | 1947 | |||
Lonnie Johnson | Happy New Year Darling | (VA) Blues, Blues Christmas | Document | 1947 | |||
Rev. J.M. Gates | Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail? | (VA) Blues, Blues Christmas | Document | 1929 | |||
Blind Lemon Jefferson | Happy New Year Blues | (VA) Blues, Blues Christmas | Document | 1928 | |||
* | The Misled Children and Odean Pope | Uno | The Misled Children Meet Odean Pope | Porter | new, niiice | ||
Mulatu Astatqé | Yekermo Sew | (VA) Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Intrumentale 1969-1974 | Buda Musique | ||||
Ayalew Mesfin | Hasabé | (VA) Ethiopiques 8: Swinging Addis, 1969-1974 | Buda Musique | ||||
* | Sonny Rollins | Blossom | Road Shows Vol. 1 | Doxy | Recorded in Sweden, 1980 | ||
Flying Circus | Bety June | (VA) Yee-Haw! The Other Side of Country | Normal | 2001 comp. This song from 1970. | |||
* | Miss Lana Rebel | Yes Is Better Than No | All I Need | Wantage | New from Oregon. She's playing "whiskey-sippin' cowboy-kissin' classic country" now, but she used to play bass in a "sludgy, noisy math-metal band." | ||
Miss Leslie (& Her Juke Jointers) | To Get Through This Day | Between The Whiskey & The Wine | Zero Label | My favorite pure honky tonk record of the year. | |||
Liam Finn | Fire In Your Belly | I'll Be Lightning | Yep Roc | Among my top 10 albums for 2008 | |||
* | Her Space Holiday | The Truth Hurts So This Should Be Painless | XOXO, Panda and The New Kid Revival | Mush | new one | ||
* | Wembley | Crumbs | Wembley | self-released | new, local | ||
Seth Kauffman | Not Much Left To Give | Research | Park The Van | Among my top 10 albums for 2008. Seth lives in Black Mountain, near Asheville. | |||
* | Parts & Labor | The Ceasing Now | Receivers | Jagjaguwar/Brah | "...a magnificent noise-pop fireworks display" per one reviewer... | ||
* | Squarepusher | Quadrature | Just A Souvenir | Warp | new | ||
Shelby Lynne | Just A Little Lovin' | Just A Little Lovin' | Lost Highway | My favorite album all year, at least if measured by how many times I listened to it. She absolutely nails all these Dusty Springfield songs. | |||
Vetiver | Sleep A Million Years | Thing Of The Past | Gnomonsong | Among my top 10 albums for 2008. | |||
The Strugglers | The Latest Rights | The Latest Rights | Acuarela | Among my top 10 albums for 2008. The Strugglers = Randy Bickford, from Durham. | |||
* | Lud | One More Dollar | V | Fractured | More nice local music from '08. | ||
Left Lane Cruiser | Mr. Johnson | Bring Yo' Ass To The Table | Alive | Great one from 2008. Ft. Wayne, IN. | |||
* | Awesome Color | Eyes Of Light | Electric Aborigines | Ecstatic Peace | new from Michigan. Love it. | ||
Roy Milton Solid Senders | New Year's Resolution Blues | (VA) Blues, Blues Christmas | Document | 1947 again. Happy New Year, everybody. |