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Composer John Supko on Polyphonic Perversity 10/25

This week on Polyphonic Perveristy (Sundays noon-2pm) for an interview with composer John Supko. John is a new assistant professor of music composition at Duke, and he is having his piece "Littoral" performed on October 25 at 8pm in the Nelson Music Room on Duke's East Campus. We'll talk about his music, his impressions of the musical life of the Triangle, and various other things. Tune in!

WXDU Top 88.7 for the first half of 2009

1.    66...Animal Collective...Merriweather Post Pavilion...Domino
2.    59...Dexter Romweber Duo...Ruins of Berlin...Bloodshot
3.    55...Andrew Bird...Noble Beast...Fat Possum
4.    53...Yelle...Pop-Up...Source Etc.
5.    51...Neko Case...Middle Cyclone...Anti-
6.    51...King Kahn & the Shrines...What Is?!...Vice
7.    50...AC Newman...Get Guilty...Matador
8.    50...Menagerie...Nous Non Plus...Aeronaut Records
9.    50...Cotton Jones...Paranoid Cocoon...Suicide Squeeze
10.    49...Western Civ...Shower the People You Love with Gold...s/r

A Bit Stranger, with harpsichords, on June 3

This week on A Bit Stranger (Wednesday, June 3, 4-6pm), I'll be joined by Jessica Wood, a graduate student from the Music Department here at Duke. Her dissertation is on the harpsichord in pop culture in the 1950s-70s, and as a result she's amassed a huge collection of crazy harpsichord music. I'm talking weirdo surf, garage, exotica, psychedelia, easy listening, and beyond, all of which involves harpsichord in some way or other. You can see some of the album covers here. So we'll be spinning all kinds of fun/ridiculous stuff. Tune in!