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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
January 17, 2010

1.    16...Various Artists...Fire In My Bones: Raw Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007...Tompkins Square
2.    16...Love...Love Lost...Sundazed
3.    14...Jezabels...She's So Hard...Waterfront
4.    14...Various Artists...Forge Your Own Chains...Now Again
5.    13...Retribution Gospel Choir...2...Sub Pop
6.    12...Quiero Club...Nueva America...Nacional
7.    12...Laura Viers...July Flame...Raven Marching Band Records
8.    12...Various Artists...Lost Souls Vol. 2...Psych of the South
9.    11...Betty Davis...Is It Love or Desire...Light in the Attic
10.    10...Mance Lipscomb...Best of Mance Lipscomb...Arhoolie
11.    10...Matias Aguayo...Ay Ay Ay...Kompakt
12.    10...King Khan & BBQ Show...Invisible Girl...In the Red
13.    9...Tommy T...Prester John Sessions...Easy Star
14.    9...His & Her Vanities...The Mighty Lunge...Science of Sound
15.    9...Rumel Fuentes...Corridos of the Chicano Movement...Arhoolie
16.    9...Sun Ra and his Arkestra...Rocket Ship Rock...Norton

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
January 10, 2010

1.    20...Love ...Love Lost...Sundazed
2.    20...Various Artists...Fire In My Bones: Raw Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007...Tompkins Square
3.    18...Various Artists...Forge Your Own Chains...Now Again
4.    15...Dam Funk...Toeachizown...Stones Throw
5.    14...Mance Lipscomb...Best of Mance Lipscomb...Arhoolie
6.    13...Sun Ra and his Arkestra...Rocket Ship Rock...Norton
7.    13...Sounds of Liberation...s/t...Porter
8.    12...Various Artists...Shadow Music of Thailand...Sublime Frequencies
9.    11...Betty Davis...Is It Love or Desire...Light in the Attic
10.    10...Home Blitz...O.ut o.f P.hase...Richie
11.    10...Miguel Zenon...Esta Plena...Marsalis
12.    10...Matias Aguayo...Ay Ay Ay...Kompakt
13.    10...Trayer...One Over Zero...Porter
14.    10...Various Artists...Lost Souls Vol. 2...Psych of the South
15.    10...Nana Grizol...Ruth...Orange Twin
16.    9...Pere Ubu...Long Live Père Ubu!...Hearpen
17.    9...King Khan & BBQ Show...Invisible Girl...In the Red

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
January 3, 2010

1.    12...Betty Davis...Is It Love or Desire...Light in the Attic
2.    10...Real Estate...s/t...Woodsist
3.    9...Various Artists...Lost Souls Vol. 2...Psych of the South
4.    9...Sounds of Liberation...s/t...Porter
5.    9...Michael & the Mumbles...s/t...De Stijl
6.    9...Various Artists...Psychedelic Super Piotr Soundtrack...Past & Present
7.    8...Trayer...One Over Zero...Porter
8.    8...Various Artists...Shadow Music of Thailand...Sublime Frequencies
9.    8...Pere Ubu...Long Live Père Ubu!...Hearpen
10.    8...King Khan & BBQ Show...Invisible Girl...In the Red
11.    8...Annie...Don't Stop...Totally/Smalltown Supersound
12.    8...Various Artists...Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blues, 1968-81...Soundway
13.    8...Various Artists...Daptone Gold...Daptone
14.    8...Wembley...Keywords for Robots...s/r
15.    7...Diego Bernal...For Corners...Exponential
16.    7...Animal Collective...Fall Be Kind EP...Domino

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
December 13, 2009

1.    14...King Khan & BBQ Show...Invisible Girl...In the Red
2.    12...Various Artists...Speaking My Mind: New Rubble Vol. 2...Past & Present
3.    12...Vitalic...Flashmob...Pias
4.    12...CFCF...Continent...Paper Bag
5.    12...Pants Yell!...Received Pronounciation...Slumberland
6.    12...Budos Band...s/t EP...Daptone
7.    11...Real Estate...s/t...Woodsist
8.    11...Slavic Soul Party!...Taektron...Barbès
9.    11...Annie...Don't Stop...Totally/Smalltown Supersound
10.    11...Various Artists...Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blues, 1968-81...Soundway
11.    10...Jookabox...Dead Zone Boys...Asthmatic Kitty
12.    10...MV & EE...Barn Nova...Ecstatic Peace
13.    10...Various Artists...Daptone Gold...Daptone
14.    9...Chuck Prophet...¡Let Freedom Ring!...Yep Roc
15.    9...Espers...III...Drag City
16.    9...Pens...Hey Friend! What You Doing?...De Stijl
17.    8...Jackson Conti...Sujinho...Mochilla

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
December 6, 2009

1.    16...Various Artists...Daptone Gold...Daptone
2.    12...Slavic Soul Party!...Taektron...Barbès
3.    12...Annie...Don't Stop...Totally/Smalltown Supersound
4.    11...Various Artists...Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blues, 1968-81...Soundway
5.    11...Pants Yell!...Received Pronounciation...Slumberland
6.    10...CFCF...Continent...Paper Bag
7.    10...Cold Cave...Love Comes Close...Matador
8.    10...Pens...Hey Friend! What You Doing?...De Stijl
9.    10...Budos Band...s/t EP...Daptone
10.    9...Gus Gus...24/7...Kompakt
11.    9...Cave Singers...Welcome Joy...Matador
12.    9...Various Artists...Everybody Jive to the London Rock...Psychic Circle
13.    9...Wu-Tang Clan...Enter the Dubstep...Frank Radio
14.    9...Johnny Paycheck...Nowhere to Run: the Little Darlin' Years 1966-1970...Omni
15.    8...Very Best...Warm Heart of Africa...Green Owl
16.    8...Moebius/Plank/Neumeier...Zero Set...Bureau B

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 29, 2009

1.    12...Pens...Hey Friend! What You Doing?...De Stijl
2.    11...Dynamite Brothers...Again...s/r
3.    10...Gods Gift...Pathology...Hyped 2 Death
4.    10...Soft Company...EP...s/r
5.    10...Various Artists...Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Ghanaian Blues, 1968-81...Soundway
6.    10...Various Artists...Daptone Gold...Daptone
7.    9...Disco Doom...Dream Electric...Cargo
8.    9...Johnny Paycheck...Nowhere to Run: the Little Darlin' Years 1966-1970...Omni
9.    9...Mulatu Astatke...New York - Addis - London: the Story of Ethio Jazz, 1965-75...Strut
10.    9...OOIOO...Armonico Hewa...Thrill Jockey
11.    9...Pants Yell!...Received Pronounciation...Slumberland
12.    8...Budos Band...s/t EP...Daptone
13.    8...Cold Cave...Love Comes Close...Matador
14.    8...Househearts...Live at Comfest '83...Old 3C
15.    8...On Fillmore...Extended Vacation...Dead Oceans
16.    8...Polynya...Crop Rotation...Childhood Pet
17.    8...Roman Candle...Oh Tall Tree in the Ear...Carnival Recordings

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 22, 2009

1.    14...Various Artists...Everybody Jive to the London Rock...Psychic Circle
2.    13...Johnny Paycheck...Nowhere to Run: the Little Darlin' Years 1966-1970...Omni
3.    13...Wembley...Keywords for Robots...s/r
4.    13...Simian Mobile Disco...Temporary Pleasure...Wichita
5.    12...Various Artists...Kitsune Masion Compilation 8...Kitsune
6.    11...Cave Singers...Welcome Joy...Matador
7.    11...Noiseshaper...Satellite City...Cat'n'Hoof
8.    11...Shipwrecker...s/t ep...s/r
9.    10...Mulatu Astatke...New York - Addis - London: the Story of Ethio Jazz, 1965-75...Strut
10.    10...Dynamite Brothers...Again...s/r
11.    10...Soft Company...EP...s/r
12.    9...Spiral Stairs...The Real Feel...Matador
13.    9...Various Artists...Singapore A-Go-Go...Sublime Frequencies
14.    9...CoCoComa...Things Are Not Right...Goner
15.    8...On Fillmore...Extended Vacation...Dead Oceans
16.    8...Lightning Bolt...Earthly Delights...Load
17.    8...Cold Cave...Love Comes Close...Matador

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 15, 2009

1.    13...Shipwrecker...s/t ep...s/r
2.    13...Soft Company...EP...s/r
3.    13...Birds and Arrows...Starmaker...307 Knox
4.    12...Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts...Girl of the Century...Bloodshot
5.    12...Jonny Trunk...Scrapbook...Trunk
6.    11...AT...s/t...Corleone
7.    11...Inspector 22...Hey Man, I Understand...Odessa
8.    11...Polynya...Crop Rotation...Childhood Pet
9.    10...Various Artists...Tumbele!: Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean 1963-74...Soundway
10.    10...Mission of Burma...The Sound the Speed the Light...Matador
11.    9...Ceu...Vagarosa...Six Degrees
12.    9...Russian Circles...Geneva...Suicide Squeeze
13.    9...Devil Eyes...s/t...Signed By Force
14.    9...Finn Riggins...Vs Wilderness...Tender Loving Empire
15.    9...Kurt Vile...Childish Prodigy...Matador
16.    9...CoCoComa...Things Are Not All Right...Goner
17.    9...The XX...s/t...XL
18.    9...Times New Viking...Born Again Revisited...Matador

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 8, 2009

1.    13...Mission of Burma...The Sound the Speed the Light...Matador
2.    11...Various Artists...Tumbele!: Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean 1963-74...Soundway
3.    11...Roberto Rodriguez...Timba Talmud...Tzadik
4.    11...Birds and Arrows...Starmaker...207 Knox
5.    11...Black Hollies...Softly Towards the Light...Ernest Jenning
6.    11...Mountain Goats...The Life of the World to Come...4AD
7.    10...Thomas Function...In the Valley of Sickness...Fat Possum
8.    10...Jonny Trunk...Scrapbook...Trunk
9.    10...Kurt Vile...Childish Prodigy...Matador
10.    10...Various Artists...Hear Here: The Triangle...Terpsikhore
11.    9...Finn Riggins...Vs Wilderness...Tender Loving Empire
12.    9...James Hand...Shadow on the Ground...Rounder
13.    8...AGF...Einzelkampfer (Lone Warrior)...AGF Productions
14.    8...Atlas Sound...Logos...Kranky/4AD
15.    8...Oi Va Voi...Travelling the Face of the Globe...Liason
16.    8...Waitiki 7...Adventures in Paradise...Pass Out

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 1, 2009

1.    13...Mission of Burma...The Sound the Speed the Light...Matador
2.    10...CoCoComa...Things Are Not Right...Goner
3.    10...Mountain Goats...The Life of the World to Come...4AD
4.    10...Various Artists...Hear Here: The Triangle...Terpsikhore
5.    10...The XX...s/t...XL
6.    9...Kurt Vile...Childish Prodigy...Matador
7.    9...Atlas Sound...Logos...Kranky/4AD
8.    9...Karl Blau...Zebra...K
9.    9...Girls...Album...True Panther
10.    9...Clientele...Bonfires on the Heath...Merge
11.    8...Waitiki 7...Adventures in Paradise...Pass Out
12.    8...Various Artists...D-Funk: Funk, Disco, & Boogie Grooves from Germany 1972-2002...Marina
13.    8...Times New Viking...Born Again Revisited...Matador
14.    8...Tinariwen...Imidiwan:Companions...World Village
15.    8...Turbo Fruits...Echo Kid...Fat Possum
16.    8...Vampires of Dartmoore...Dracula's Music Cabinet...B-Music
17.    8...Big Star...Keep an Eye on the Sky...Rhino/Ardent