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our music programming
During much of the week our regular playlist is played, but on the weekends and at certain times during the week we have blocks of time that focus on a certain genre or set of related genres.
Top 88.7 plays on WXDU for the week ending
WXDU Charts – 4 September 2008 (Week ending 31 August 2008)
Top 88.7
1. 17...Stereolab...Chemical Chords...4AD
2. 14...Various Artists...Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat, Highlife and Afro-Funk...Strut
3. 12...Billy Bragg...Mr. Love & Justice...Anti-
4. 12...The Donkeys...Living on the Other Side...Dead Oceans
5. 12...Eddie Floyd...Eddie Loves You So...Stax
6. 11...The Herbaliser...Same As It Ever Was...!K7
7. 11...Brazilian Girls...New York City...Verve Forecast
8. 10...Embarrassing Fruits...First Time...Trekky
9. 10...Jay Reatard...7"s...Matador
10. 9...Daedelus...Love To Make Music To...Ninja Tune
11. 9...Burning Spear...Jah is Real...Burning Spear Music
12. 9...Various Artists...Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted--Baghdad, 1925-1929...Honest Jon's
13. 9...Uz Jsme Doma...Cod Liver Oil...Skoda
14. 8...Various Artists...You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts vol. 5...Ninja Tune
15. 8...Pan/Tone...Skip the Foreplay...Cereal/Killers
16. 8...Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere...Nudge it Up a Notch...Stax
17. 8...Arctic Hospital...Neon Veils...Lantern
18. 8...Lyrics Born...Everywhere At Once...Anti-
19. 8...Oxford Collapse...BITS...Sub Pop
20. 7...Apollo Sunshine...Shall Noise Upon...Headless Heroes
21. 7...Music Tapes...Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes...Merge
22. 6...Fucked Up...Year of the Pig...Matador
23. 6...Josephine Foster...This Coming Gladness...Bo Weavil
24. 6...King Khan & the Shrines...Supreme Genius of King Kahn & the Shrines...Vice
25. 6...Trilobite...Silver Skin...Eigenhyme
26. 6...Kayahan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider...Silent City...Harmonia Mundi/World Village
27. 6...Sitaar Tah!...semimimimimim...Archive
28. 6...Who Is Your Favorite Son, God...Out of Body Diva...Holy Mountain
29. 6...The Bug...London Zoo...Ninja Tune
30. 5...The Avett Brothers...The Second Gleam...Ramseur
31. 5...Ego Summit...The Room Isn't Big Enough...Old 3C
32. 5...Pram...The Moving Frontier...Domino
33. 5...Orlando Julius...Super Afro Soul...Vampisoul
34. 5...Bowery Boy Blue...Stalk That Myth...Space Photo
35. 5...Eddie Tigner...Slippin' In...Music Maker
36. 5...Hercules and Love Affair...S/T...Mute
37. 5...Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh...s/t...Drag City
38. 5...Natural Food...S/T...Porter
39. 5...Joshua Marcus...Reverse the Charges...Contraphonic/High Two
40. 5...Matt Ulery's Loom...Music Box Ballerina ...Woolgathering Records
41. 5...Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali...Going to the Ritual...Porter
42. 5...Pornopop...And the Slow Songs......Dynamophone
43. 4...Jessica Lea Mayfield...With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt...Polymer Sounds
44. 4...Various Artists...Total 9...Kompakt
45. 4...Bulbs/Wobbly...Split 7"...Ache
46. 4...Abbasi Brothers...Something Like Nostalgia...Dynamophone
47. 4...Buika...Mi Nina Lola...Casa Limon
48. 4...Chapinlandia...Marimba Music of Guatemala...Smithsonian Folkways
49. 4...Silver Jews...Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea...Drag City
50. 4...Experimental Dental School...Jane Doe Loves Me...Cochon
51. 4...Yoon Sun Choi and Jacob Sacks...Imagination...Yeah-Yeah
52. 4...Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden...Hearts and Daggers...File Under Music
53. 4...Blevin Blectum...Gular Flutter...Aagoo Records
54. 4...Monsonia...Growler...S/R
55. 4...Heikki Sarmanto...Counterbalance...Porter Records
56. 4...Various Artists...Breaking Point: 20 Hard-Edged Beat Diamonds...Psychic Circle
57. 4...Miss Leslie...Between the Whiskey and the Wine...Zero Label Records
58. 4...Sonic Youth w/ Mats Gustafsson & Merzbow...Andre Sider af Sonic Youth...SYR
59. 3...AU...Verbs...AAGOO
60. 3...Kenny Barron...The Traveler...Sunnyside
61. 3...Eliot Lipp...the Outside...Mush
62. 3...Maurizio Bianchi...Symphony for a Genocide...Hospital
63. 3...The Kenosha Kid...Steamboat Bill, Jr....S/r
64. 3...Andrew Raffo Dewar...Six Lines of Transformation: Music for Eight Light Flutes...Porter Records
65. 3...Martin Bisi...Sirens of the Apocalypse...Black Freighter
66. 3...Sebastian Tellier...Sexuality...Record Makers
67. 3...Melvins...Nude with Boots...Ipecac
68. 3...Joe Chambers...New World...Porter Records
69. 3...Fortress of Swatches...It's a Battle...S/R
70. 3...Nomo...Ghost Rock...Ubiquity
71. 3...Pistolera...En Este Camino...Luchadora
72. 3...Yellow Swans...Deterioration...Modern Radio
73. 3...Hair Police...Certainty of Swarms...No Fun
74. 3...Racebannon...Acid or Blood...Secretly Canadian
75. 2...Odean Pope...What Went Before...Porter
76. 2...Andrian Iaies Trio and Michael Zisman...Vals de la 81st St and Coloumbus...Sunnyside
77. 2...Jandek...The Myth of Blue Icicles...Corwood
78. 2...Byard Lancaster...Personal Testimony (Then and Now)...Porter
79. 2...Hammock...Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow...Darla
80. 2...Yard Work...kinnikinnik...S/R
81. 2...Martha Wainwright...I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too...Zoe Records
82. 2...Jeff Guathier Goatette...House of Return...Crytogramophone
83. 2...Monkeywrench...Gabriel's Horn...Birdman
84. 2...Brothers and Sisters...Fortunately...Calla Lilly
85. 2...Dawn Chorus...Florida St. Serenade...Fractured Discs
86. 2...Wedding Present...El Rey...Manifesto
87. 2...Woodbox Gang...Drunk as Dragons...Alternative Tentacles
88. 2...William Parker...Double Sunrise Over Neptune...Aum Fidelity
88.7. 2...Robert Walter...Cure All...Palmetto
CBGF Chart
1. 5...Joshua Marcus...Reverse the Charges...Contraphonic/High Two
2. 5...Eddie Tigner...Slippin' In...Music Maker
3. 4...Miss Leslie...Between the Whiskey and the Wine...Zero Label Records
4. 2...Brett Ratliff...Cold Icy Mountain...June Appal Recordings
5. 1...All That the Name Implies...s/t...Fallout
6. 1...Grascals...Keep on Walkin'...Rounder
7. 1...Crooked Still...Still Crooked...Signature Sounds
8. 1...Various Artists...Moneyland...McCoury Music
9. 1...Ry Cooder...I, Flathead...Nonesuch
10. 1...Cephas & Wiggins...Richmond Blues...Smithsonian Folkways
Loud Rock Chart
1. 6...Fucked Up...Year of the Pig...Matador
2. 4...Sonic Youth w/ Mats Gustafsson & Merzbow...Andre Sider af Sonic Youth...SYR
3. 3...Racebannon...Acid or Blood...Secretly Canadian
4. 3...Hair Police...Certainty of Swarms...No Fun
5. 3...Maurizio Bianchi...Symphony for a Genocide...Hospital
6. 3...Yellow Swans...Deterioration...Modern Radio
7. 3...Melvins...Nude with Boots...Ipecac
8. 2...Heavy Winged...Alive in My Mouth...Three Lobed
9. 1...Astro Jazkamer Hair Stylistics...Motorcycle Fuck with the Ghost Rider...Archive
10. 1...Gynecologists...Hoosier Psychopaths: 1981-1994...Gulcher
Jazz Chart
1. 5...Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali...Going to the Ritual...Porter
2. 5...Matt Ulery's Loom...Music Box Ballerina ...Woolgathering Records
3. 5...Natural Food...S/T...Porter
4. 4...Heikki Sarmanto...Counterbalance...Porter Records
5. 4...Yoon Sun Choi and Jacob Sacks...Imagination...Yeah-Yeah
6. 3...Andrew Raffo Dewar...Six Lines of Transformation: Music for Eight Light Flutes...Porter Records
7. 3...The Kenosha Kid...Steamboat Bill, Jr....S/r
8. 3...Kenny Barron...The Traveler...Sunnyside
9. 3...Joe Chambers...New World...Porter Records
10. 2...William Parker...Double Sunrise Over Neptune...Aum Fidelity
RPM Chart
1. 17...Stereolab...Chemical Chords...4AD
2. 11...The Herbaliser...Same As It Ever Was...!K7
3. 9...Daedelus...Love To Make Music To...Ninja Tune
4. 8...Arctic Hospital...Neon Veils...Lantern
5. 8...Pan/Tone...Skip the Foreplay...Cereal/Killers
6. 8...Various Artists...You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts vol. 5...Ninja Tune
7. 6...The Bug...London Zoo...Ninja Tune
8. 5...Hercules and Love Affair...S/T...Mute
9. 4...Various Artists...Total 9...Kompakt
10. 4...Blevin Blectum...Gular Flutter...Aagoo Records
World Chart
1. 14...Various Artists...Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump:Original Heavyweight Afrobeat, Highlife and Afro-Funk...Strut
2. 11...Brazilian Girls...New York City...Verve Forecast
3. 9...Burning Spear...Jah is Real...Burning Spear Music
4. 9...Various Artists...Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted--Baghdad, 1925-1929...Honest Jon's
5. 6...Kayahan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider...Silent City...Harmonia Mundi/World Village
6. 5...Orlando Julius...Super Afro Soul...Vampisoul
7. 4...Buika...Mi Nina Lola...Casa Limon
8. 4...Chapinlandia...Marimba Music of Guatemala...Smithsonian Folkways
9. 3...Pistolera...En Este Camino...Luchadora
10. 2...Various Artists...Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Musica Vallenata...Smithsonian Folkways
Top 88.7 plays on WXDU for the week ending
WXDU Charts – 25 August 2008 (Week ending 24 August 2008)
Top 88.7
1. 18...Various Artists...Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump:Original Heavyweight Afrobeat, Highlife and Afro-Funk...Strut
2. 14...Oxford Collapse...BITS...Sub Pop
3. 11...Brazilian Girls...New York City...Verve Forecast
4. 11...Billy Bragg...Mr. Love & Justice...Anti-
5. 10...Various Artists...Total 9...Kompakt
6. 10...Pram...The Moving Frontier...Domino
7. 10...Orlando Julius...Super Afro Soul...Vampisoul
8. 10...Sebastian Tellier...Sexuality...Record Makers
9. 10...Eddie Floyd...Eddie Loves You So...Stax
10. 9...Various Artists...You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts vol. 5...Ninja Tune
11. 9...Josephine Foster...This Coming Gladness...Bo Weavil
12. 9...Pan/Tone...Skip the Foreplay...Cereal/Killers
13. 9...Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere...Nudge it Up a Notch...Stax
14. 9...Music Tapes...Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes...Merge
15. 9...The Bug...London Zoo...Ninja Tune
16. 9...Various Artists...Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted--Baghdad, 1925-1929...Honest Jon's
17. 9...Uz Jsme Doma...Cod Liver Oil...Skoda
18. 8...Ego Summit...The Room Isn't Big Enough...Old 3C
19. 8...Eliot Lipp...the Outside...Mush
20. 8...Mirah...The Old Days Feeling...Modern Radio
21. 8...All That the Name Implies...s/t...Fallout
22. 8...Daedelus...Love To Make Music To...Ninja Tune
23. 8...Burning Spear...Jah is Real...Burning Spear Music
24. 8...Embarrassing Fruits...First Time...Trekky
25. 8...Various Artists...Breaking Point: 20 Hard-Edged Beat Diamonds...Psychic Circle
26. 7...Arctic Hospital...Neon Veils...Lantern
27. 6...Trilobite...Silver Skin...Eigenhyme
28. 6...Apollo Sunshine...Shall Noise Upon...Headless Heroes
29. 6...Hercules and Love Affair...S/T...Mute
30. 6...Natural Food...S/T...Porter
31. 6...Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali...Going to the Ritual...Porter
32. 6...Pistolera...En Este Camino...Luchadora
33. 6...Wedding Present...El Rey...Manifesto
34. 6...William Parker...Double Sunrise Over Neptune...Aum Fidelity
35. 6...Heikki Sarmanto...Counterbalance...Porter Records
36. 6...Pornopop...And the Slow Songs......Dynamophone
37. 5...Jessica Lea Mayfield...With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt...Polymer Sounds
38. 5...Todd Sickafoose...Tiny Resistors...Cryptogrammaphone
39. 5...The Avett Brothers...The Second Gleam...Ramseur
40. 5...Sitaar Tah!...semimimimimim...Archive
41. 5...Joshua Marcus...Reverse the Charges...Contraphonic/High Two
42. 5...Aviary Ghost...Memory is a Hallway...self-released
43. 5...Experimental Dental School...Jane Doe Loves Me...Cochon
44. 5...Gynecologists...Hoosier Psychopaths: 1981-1994...Gulcher
45. 5...Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden...Hearts and Daggers...File Under Music
46. 5...Blevin Blectum...Gular Flutter...Aagoo Records
47. 5...Brothers and Sisters...Fortunately...Calla Lilly
48. 4...Fucked Up...Year of the Pig...Matador
49. 4...Odean Pope...What Went Before...Porter
50. 4...AU...Verbs...AAGOO
51. 4...Ted Daniel Quintet...Tapestry...Porter
52. 4...Bowery Boy Blue...Stalk That Myth...Space Photo
53. 4...Martin Bisi...Sirens of the Apocalypse...Black Freighter
54. 4...Shed...Shedding the Past...Ostgut Tontrager
55. 4...Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh...s/t...Drag City
56. 4...Who Is Your Favorite Son, God...Out of Body Diva...Holy Mountain
57. 4...Hammock...Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow...Darla
58. 4...Chapinlandia...Marimba Music of Guatemala...Smithsonian Folkways
59. 4...Silver Jews...Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea...Drag City
60. 4...Yard Work...kinnikinnik...S/R
61. 4...Dawn Chorus...Florida St. Serenade...Fractured Discs
62. 4...Yellow Swans...Deterioration...Modern Radio
63. 4...Various Artists...Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Musica Vallenata...Smithsonian Folkways
64. 4...Sonic Youth w/ Mats Gustafsson & Merzbow...Andre Sider af Sonic Youth...SYR
65. 3...All Your Science ...Volume One...S/R
66. 3...Kenny Barron...The Traveler...Sunnyside
67. 3...King Khan & the Shrines...Supreme Genius of King Kahn & the Shrines...Vice
68. 3...Bulbs/Wobbly...Split 7"...Ache
69. 3...Abbasi Brothers...Something Like Nostalgia...Dynamophone
70. 3...Abe Vigoda...Skeleton...PPM
71. 3...Sidiki...Sidiki Conde...Innova
72. 3...Computer vs. Banjo...s/t...Diagram
73. 3...Matt Ulery's Loom...Music Box Ballerina ...Woolgathering Records
74. 3...Buika...Mi Nina Lola...Casa Limon
75. 3...Grascals...Keep on Walkin'...Rounder
76. 3...Yoon Sun Choi and Jacob Sacks...Imagination...Yeah-Yeah
77. 3...Ry Cooder...I, Flathead...Nonesuch
78. 3...Martha Wainwright...I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too...Zoe Records
79. 3...Los Guachos...Filtros...Sunnyside
80. 3...Brett Ratliff...Cold Icy Mountain...June Appal Recordings
81. 3...Hair Police...Certainty of Swarms...No Fun
82. 3...Random Touch...A Box and a Word...Token Boy
83. 2...James Jackson Toth...Waiting in Vain...Rykodisc
84. 2...Negativland...Thigmotatic...Seeland
85. 2...Rick Wade...The Good, the Bad and the Deep...Yore
86. 2...Fred Prellberg...Ten Pennies Make a Dime...Denmark Street
87. 2...Maurizio Bianchi...Symphony for a Genocide...Hospital
88. 2...Byard Lancaster...Personal Testimony (Then and Now)...Porter
88.7. 2...Joe Chambers...New World...Porter Records
CBGF Chart
1. 8...All That the Name Implies...s/t...Fallout
2. 5...Joshua Marcus...Reverse the Charges...Contraphonic/High Two
3. 3...Grascals...Keep on Walkin'...Rounder
4. 3...Brett Ratliff...Cold Icy Mountain...June Appal Recordings
5. 3...Ry Cooder...I, Flathead...Nonesuch
6. 2...Miss Leslie...Between the Whiskey and the Wine...Zero Label Records
7. 1...Crooked Still...Still Crooked...Signature Sounds
8. 1...Various Artists...Moneyland...McCoury Music
9. 1...Cephas & Wiggins...Richmond Blues...Smithsonian Folkways
10. 1...Eddie Tigner...Slippin' In...Music Maker
Loud Rock Chart
1. 5...Gynecologists...Hoosier Psychopaths: 1981-1994...Gulcher
2. 4...Fucked Up...Year of the Pig...Matador
3. 4...Sonic Youth w/ Mats Gustafsson & Merzbow...Andre Sider af Sonic Youth...SYR
4. 4...Yellow Swans...Deterioration...Modern Radio
5. 3...Hair Police...Certainty of Swarms...No Fun
6. 2...Maurizio Bianchi...Symphony for a Genocide...Hospital
7. 2...Various Artists...Asian Flashback: Underground Music from Asia...P.S.F.
8. 1...Melvins...Nude with Boots...Ipecac
9. 1...Sic Alps...A Long Way Around to a Shortcut...Animal Disguise
10. 1...Endless Boogie...Focus Level...No Quarter
Jazz Chart
1. 6...Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali...Going to the Ritual...Porter
2. 6...Natural Food...S/T...Porter
3. 6...William Parker...Double Sunrise Over Neptune...Aum Fidelity
4. 6...Heikki Sarmanto...Counterbalance...Porter Records
5. 5...Todd Sickafoose...Tiny Resistors...Cryptogrammaphone
6. 4...Ted Daniel Quintet...Tapestry...Porter
7. 4...Odean Pope...What Went Before...Porter
8. 3...Kenny Barron...The Traveler...Sunnyside
9. 3...Matt Ulery's Loom...Music Box Ballerina ...Woolgathering Records
10. 3...Los Guachos...Filtros...Sunnyside
RPM Chart
1. 10...Sebastian Tellier...Sexuality...Record Makers
2. 10...Various Artists...Total 9...Kompakt
3. 9...Pan/Tone...Skip the Foreplay...Cereal/Killers
4. 9...The Bug...London Zoo...Ninja Tune
5. 9...Various Artists...You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts vol. 5...Ninja Tune
6. 8...Daedelus...Love To Make Music To...Ninja Tune
7. 8...Eliot Lipp...the Outside...Mush
8. 7...Arctic Hospital...Neon Veils...Lantern
9. 6...Hercules and Love Affair...S/T...Mute
10. 5...Blevin Blectum...Gular Flutter...Aagoo Records
World Chart
1. 18...Various Artists...Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump:Original Heavyweight Afrobeat, Highlife and Afro-Funk...Strut
2. 11...Brazilian Girls...New York City...Verve Forecast
3. 10...Orlando Julius...Super Afro Soul...Vampisoul
4. 9...Various Artists...Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted--Baghdad, 1925-1929...Honest Jon's
5. 8...Burning Spear...Jah is Real...Burning Spear Music
6. 6...Pistolera...En Este Camino...Luchadora
7. 4...Chapinlandia...Marimba Music of Guatemala...Smithsonian Folkways
8. 4...Various Artists...Ayombe! The Heart of Colombia's Musica Vallenata...Smithsonian Folkways
9. 3...Buika...Mi Nina Lola...Casa Limon
10. 3...Sidiki...Sidiki Conde...Innova