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WXDU 88.7 FM
PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Calico Haunts | Shallow Seas | After All | Borderlord | local, 2009. Great album! | |||
The Comas | All Over The School | A Def Needle | Yep Roc | local, ?2001-ish | |||
Radar Bros. | Painted Forest Fire | (VA) Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records | Merge | lovely 2004 comp | |||
Portastatic | Some Small History | (VA) Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records | Merge | ||||
* | American Cloud Songs | Solar Initiation | AUM | Dais | new from Daniel Higgs & Robert Ryan. Kinda meditative w/ piano and drony stuff but some strings and horns and banjo and what not as well. | ||
* | Wishgift | Pillow Is Trash Talk | Folk Twain EP | Sophomore Lounge | sludgy prog-rock-jazz carrying on | ||
* | JEFF The Brotherhood | Master Of The Universe | Upstairs At United Vol. 3 | 453 Music | Playing @ Berkeley Cafe tonight in Raleigh! Hawkwind song here on this new release. | ||
* | Dan Melchior | Done With Thingy | Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) | Kye | Check out the cover. It's a painted-over Joe Cocker record. | ||
Filthybird | Warm Womb | Southern Skies | Red Strings | 2007. Welcome to Durham, y'all. | |||
Michael Chapman | Not So Much A Garden - More Like A Maze | Rainmaker | Light in the Attic | Reissue of his 1969 classic album. Had the great pleasure of seeing him play last night at Pinhook & greeting him afterward. | |||
Fairport Convention | The Deserter | Liege & Lief | A&M | Another great English record from 1969. | |||
Megafaun | These Words | Megafaun | Hometapes | Also last night at Pinhook was Hiss Golden Messenger w/ Brad & Phil Cook in the fold. Nice. | |||
Hiss Golden Messenger | Dreamwood | Poor Moon | Paradise of Bachelors | Still haven't bought this yet but after last night's gig, it's at the top of my list. M. C. Taylor et al, Pittsboro NC. | |||
Hiss Golden Messenger | Balthazar's Song | Poor Moon | Paradise of Bachelors | ||||
* | John Fahey (performing as Blind Thomas) | John Henry | Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years (1958-1965) | Dust-to-Digital | From the new box set. | ||
John Fahey (performing as Blind Thomas) | High Hill Blues | Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years (1958-1965) | Dust-to-Digital | These two tunes records April 15, 1960 in Frederick, MD with Fonotone Records dude Joe Bussard. | |||
Taj Mahal | Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixe | Giant Step | Columbia | 1973 | |||
Taj Mahal | Take A Giant Step | Giant Step | Columbia | ||||
* | Carolina Chocolate Drops | Po' Black Sheep | Leaving Eden | Nonesuch | Their newest. Hard to believe they played in this room a few years ago in front of two of us. | ||
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals | Midnight Movie | African Dub Almighty: Chapter One & Two | Crazy Joe | mid-70s dub as good as it comes | |||
* | The New Bloods | I Found A Love/That's Where It's At | (VA) The Sultans of Soul | Wind Hit | New comp of soul & funk produced by Hadley Murrell. 1964 on this one from Phoenix. Set goes up thru late 70s. | ||
* | Crocodiles | No Black Clouds For Dee Dee | Endless Flowers | Frenchkiss | new from San Diego | ||
* | Dent May | Rent Money | Do Things | Paw Tracks | lovely new synth-loopy-beats Beach Boys-ish record | ||
Brian Wilson | Mrs. O'Leary's Cow | Smile | Nonesuch | ||||
The Old Ceremony | All At Once | Tender Age | Alyosha | Playing tonight at 7pm in Duke Gardens, rain or shine. Info at dukeperformances.org | |||
Organos | First Night | Concha | self-released | Local release from early this year by Maria Albani. Playing at Salamandra's (Hillsborough Rd., Durham) on Friday night 'long w/Airstrip. | |||
* | Wood Ear | Beastless Burden | Steeple Vultures | Churchkey | new (out yesterday) from Carrboro | ||
* | Mike Scheidt | When Time Forgets Time | Stay Awake | Thrill Jockey | new |