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Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
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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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* | Olekranon | Alinea | Helminth | Inam | drone/rhythm/swooning sonics on a 3" CD. New. | ||
Swans | Song For A Warrior | The Seer | Young God | Karen O. on the vocal here. This was the #1 album on WXDU's 2012 countdown. | |||
* | Ralph White | When I'm Gonna Learn | The Cuckoo | Ack! Ack! Ack! | New solo material from ex-Bad Livers guy. | ||
* | The Lloyd Pack | Me And Rowley Bantam | Know Your Lloyd Pack 7" | Siltbreeze | oddball stream-of-consciousness stuff from Dan & Letha Melchior & Russell Walker | ||
* | Delicate Cutters | Warm Day In April | Ring | Skybucket | New from Alabama. | ||
Rhyton | Stone Colored | Rhyton | Thrill Jockey | Among my favorites from 2012. Lovely gift from my sister-in-law Lori. | |||
Kraftwerk | Atem | Kraftwerk 2 | Crown | 1970 | |||
Devo | Be Stiff | Hardcore Devo vol. 2 1974-1977 | Rykodisc | early version, quicksand slow | |||
The Slits | Liebe And Romanze (Slow Version) | Cut | Universal | 1979 | |||
* | Noize MC | Pesnya Dlya Radio | (VA) Lunapark: The Sound of Russia Today | Eastblok Music | New comp that ranges from piano to rock to electroClash to this hip hop | ||
* | Cut Hands | Witness The Spread Of The Dream / Black Mamba | Black Mamba | Very Friendly | new "afro-noise" project from William Bennett | ||
* | Port St. Willow | Amawalk | Holiday | self-released | New from Portland OR's Nick Principe. Pitchfork sez his voice meanders through thick "aquatic guitar fog" | ||
D. Charles Speer & The Helix | Alamoosook Echoes | Leaving The Commonwealth | Thrill Jockey | 2011 | |||
* | MEM1 + Stephen Vitiello | Paleophaedon | Age of Insects | Dragon's Eye Recordings | new; sonic tribute to extinct insects | ||
The Books | Smells Like Content | Lost and Safe | Tomlab | 2005 | |||
Be/Non | Good N' Salty | Meet The Person Most Responsible For Your Safety | Turnbuckle | Lawrence, KS, 1998. | |||
The Ladybug Transistor | Like A Summer Rain | The Albemarle Sound | Merge | 1999 | |||
* | Bodo | Real Deal | Hits Internationales | Shadoks | 1969 debut from German-born Mexico-based guitarist. He covers and covers and covers on this album somewhat unendingly. Nina Simone song here. | ||
The Human Instinct | Stand Up | Pins In It | Sunbeam | New Zealand, 1971 | |||
* | The Clean | Getting Older | Odditties | Five Four-O | New Zealand, c. 1980-82. New double LP collecting early recordings. Prev. only on cassette. | ||
* | Squarehead | More Quickly | Out Of Season (split album with So Cow) | Inflated | new from Ireland. | ||
Holy Wave | Arab Spring | Knife Hits | self-released | El Paso guys now based in Austin. WXDU's #65 album of 2012. | |||
* | Scott & Charlene's Wedding | Every Detail | Para Vista Social Club | Critical Heights | From Melbourne, Australia. 2010 release there but only out in 2012 in the U.S. Lovely slacker pop. | ||
* | Blank Realm | The Crackle pt. 1 & 2 | Go Easy | Siltbreeze | New from Brisbane, Australia.... three siblings & another dude | ||
* | Scientists | Tiger Tiger | Rubber Never Sleeps | Bang! | Demos 'n' live tracks from 70s-80s Australian blues-punk-mudsters. Reissue of a cassette-only collection. | ||
The Beets | Wipe It Off | Let The Poison Out | Hardly Art | 2011 | |||
* | Steve Hauschildt | Sequitur | Sequitur | Kranky | New synth-driven psych by SH of Emeralds | ||
* | Forma | Off | Off/On | Spectrum Spools | new space-synth from Brooklyn |