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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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The Electric Eels | Accident | The Eyeball Of Hell | Scat | Cleveland, early 70s | |||
Radar Eyes | Accident | Radar Eyes | HoZac | Chicago, 2012 | |||
George Jones | Accidentally On Purpose | Cup Of Loneliness | Mercury | ||||
* | The Flatlanders | I Know You | The Odessa Tapes | New West | Demos recorded by these Lubbock boyz in 1972, stuck in a closet and forgotten. Amazing clarity of sound. Flatlanders at their relaxed best. | ||
* | Family Band | Grace & Lies | Grace & Lies | No Quarter | laptop-tinged folk husband-wife duo. Sounds a bit Cowboy Junkies-ish. | ||
Cowboy Junkies | Pale Sun | Pale Sun, Crescent Moon | RCA | 1993 | |||
* | Spacin' | Empty Mind | Deep Thuds | Richie | Like Purling Hiss, Spacin' is a side project born of Philly scuzz rockers Birds of Maya. New. | ||
Cheater Slicks | In And Out | Destination Lonely | Dog Meat | 1992. From their Boston days. Now they are in Columbus Ohio. Loved them at Hopscotch. | |||
Cheater Slicks | Hear What I Say | Destination Lonely | Dog Meat | Dog Meat. It's an Australian label. | |||
Last Year's Men | I'll Be Gone | Sunny Down Snuff | Churchkey | They played last night at the Duke Coffeehouse. | |||
Charles Mingus | Tensions | Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, 1956-1961 | Rhino | ||||
Colin Stetson | For Those Who Didn't Run | For Those Who Didn't Run EP | Constellation | Bass saxophonist. Missed him at Hopscotch. Damn. | |||
* | Beaver Nelson | Plink, Plink | Macro/Micro | Freedom | interstitial bit taken from the new album | ||
* | Tyranahorse | Rumble Tumble | Garage Bears | self-released | new from Vancouver | ||
* | The Orwells | Like No One Else | Remember When | Autumn Tone | melodicgaragepop from Illinois | ||
Talking Heads | Born Under Punches | Remain In Light | Sire | Critical album, Eno-produced. 1980. I could listen to this song every day and not tire. | |||
Television | Torn Curtain | Marquee Moon | Elektra | Another crucial one. 1977. | |||
* | Hot & Cold | Test Tower | Border Area | Moniker | "synth-rock infections" from two NYC brothers who are living in Beijing. Love this. | ||
* | Cankun | Fake Mirrors | Idle | Constellation Tatsu | Cassette-only release of hazy electronic stuff with lots of layers including a deep pounding percussion. New. RIYL Animal Collective? | ||
* | Noh Mercy | Girl | Noh Mercy | Superior Viaduct | Reissue of 1979 album. From San Fransisco. That's "Esmerelda" on voice, farfisa, etc. | ||
Xiu Xiu | Beauty Towne | Always | Polyvinyl | Durham, 2012 | |||
* | Mexican Institute of Sound | El Jefe | Politico | Nacional | New from Mex City | ||
* | Craig Smith (banjo) et al | Foggy Mountain Breakdown | (VA) Foggy Mountain Special: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs | Rounder | Earl Scruggs, banjo great, passed away earlier this year. | ||
James King | Heartbreak Express | Thirty Years of Farming | Rounder | Fine bluegrass guitar picker & singer, once a member of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. | |||
Cast King | Wino | Saw Mill Man: Cast King of Old Sand Mountain, Alabama | Locust Media | Lo-fi recording of a great slow draggy tune from an Alabama octagenarian. Recorded 2003-5ish. | |||
* | Malcolm Holcombe | Twisted Arms | Down The River | self-released | new from the mtns of NC | ||
* | Death Songs | So Deadly | Death Songs EP | Post-Consumer | Not as ominous as is sounds. Acoustic with handclapped midtempo rhythm. Brothers from Portland. | ||
Caltrop | Light Does Not Get Old | Ten Million Years and Eight Minute | Holidays for Quince | 2012. Local. Why haven't I bought this yet. Chaz, I'll be by. | |||
Denis Bovell | Scientific | Decibel: More Cuts and Dubs, 1976-1983 | Pressure Sounds | WOW. | |||
Red Red Meat | Mouse-ish (dub mix) | Bunny Gets Paid (Deluxe Edition) | Sub Pop | on the bonus disc, reissue of the 1994 album. | |||
Miles Davis | Spanish Key (alternate take) | Bitches Brew | Columbia | nuther one off a bonus disc, from the reissue of the 1970 classic | |||
* | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes | Mature Themes | 4AD | New. Like. | ||
The Jesus and Mary Chain | Reverence | Honey's Dead | Blanco y Negro | Glasgow, Scotland. 1992. Really liked their set at Hopscotch. | |||
The Human Beast | Reality Presented as an Alternative | Volume One | Sunbeam | Edinburgh, Scotland. 1969. | |||
* | Purling Hiss | Paisley Dommage 2 | Paisley Montage | self-released | See above note about Spacin'. Tour-only cassette release. Not from Scotland. From Philadelphia. New. | ||
* | Hot Freak Nation | 12th of Never | Lifetime To Lifetime | Trashy Creatures/Burger | Greg Roberson of Reigning Sound & others. New. | ||
Sons & Daughters | Orion | Mirror Mirror | Domino | Back to Glasgow again. 2011. | |||
* | Trespassers William | Bells (Quiet Version) | Cast | Saint Marie | slowcore/shoegaze/dreampop | ||
* | Evan Caminiti | Symmetry | Dreamless Sleep | Thrill Jockey | new. EC is half of Barn Owl. |