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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
February 23, 2014

1. 14...Sun Kil Moon...Benji...Caldo Verde
2. 13...Dr. Feelgood...All Through the City (with Wilko 1974-77)...EMI
3. 12...Tinariwen...Emmaar...Anti-
4. 11...Angel Olsen...Burn Your Fire For No Witness...Jagjaguwar
5. 11...Dum Dum Girls...Too True...Sub Pop
6. 9...Secret Boyfriend...This Is Always Where You've Lived...Blackest Ever Black
7. 9...Lilac Shadows...No Dark/No Light...s/r
8. 9...Spiritual Front...Open Wounds...Mannequin
9. 9...Bill Callahan...Have Fun with God...Drag City
10. 9...Warpaint...Warpaint...Rough Trade
11. 8...New Light Choir...Volume II...ACO Recordings
12. 8...Curtis Eller's American Circus...How to Make It in Hollywood...self-released
13. 8...Monoshock...Walk to the Fire...S-S
14. 8...Killing Sound...Killing Sound...Blackest Ever Black
15. 8...Hospitality...Trouble...Merge
16. 8...Speedy Ortiz...Real Hair EP...Carpark
17. 8...Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen...Hot Licks, Cold Steel, and Truckers Favorites...Raven
18. 8...The Hidden Cameras...Age...EvilEvil
19. 7...Shipwrecker...Shipwrecker...s/r
20. 7...Hiss Golden Messenger...Bad Debt...Paradise of Bachelors
21. 7...Sultan Bathery...Sultan Bathery...Slovenly
22. 7...Blevin Blectum...Emblem Album...Aagoo

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
February 9, 2014

1. 17...Dum Dum Girls...Too True...Sub Pop
2. 17...Hospitality...Trouble...Merge
3. 13...Blood Orange...Cupid Deluxe...Domino
4. 13...Selda...Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi...Pharaway Sounds
5. 13...Cibo Matto...Hotel Valentine...Chimera Music
6. 12...Lilac Shadows...No Dark/No Light...s/r
7. 12...Traps...Boom Pow Awesome Wow...Castle Face
8. 12...Mogwai...Rave Tapes...Sub Pop
9. 11...Shipwrecker...Shipwrecker...s/r
10. 11...Flesh World...Flesh World...La Vida Es Un Mus
11. 11...Various Artists...Feral Grind...Submit
12. 11...Jack Name...Light Show...GOD?
13. 11...Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks...Wig Out at Jagbags...Matador
14. 10...Blevin Blectum...Emblem Album...Aagoo
15. 10...Toy...Join the Dots...Heavenly Recordings
16. 9...POW!...Hi-Tech Boom...Castle Face
17. 8...Astro Children...Proteus...Muzai
18. 8...Xiu Xiu...Nina...Graveface
19. 8...First Base...First Base...HoZac
20. 8...Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra...Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything...Constellation
21. 8...Boardwalk...Boardwalk...Stones Throw
22. 8...The Autumn Defense...Fifth...Yep Roc
23. 7...Ant Parade/No Milk...Retrospective...Hot Releases
24. 6...Mark Banning...Journey to the Light...Students of Decay

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
February 2, 2014

1. 15...Doug Paisley...Strong Feelings...No Quarter
2. 13...Hiss Golden Messenger...Bad Debt...Paradise of Bachelors
3. 13...Frank Fairfield...Duncan & Brady/Devil's Dream Medley...Third Man
4. 13...Mogwai...Rave Tapes...Sub Pop
5. 13...Cibo Matto...Hotel Valentine...Chimera Music
6. 11...Various Artists...Feral Grind...Submit
7. 11...Lubomyr Melnyk...Three Solo Pieces...Unseen Worlds
8. 11...Sapphire Slows...Allegoria...Not Not Fun
9. 11...Blood Orange...Cupid Deluxe...Domino
10. 10...Guardian Alien...Spiritual Emergency...Thrill Jockey
11. 10...Kelley Stoltz...Double Exposure...Third Man
12. 10...Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks...Wig Out at Jagbags...Matador
13. 10...The Autumn Defense...Fifth...Yep Roc
14. 9...Kaleidoscope Death...Rest of the Drum Tracks/Dead Drum...Uuhngreh Schpuggenuh
15. 9...Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra...Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything...Constellation
16. 9...Cloud Becomes Your Hand...Rocks or Cakes...Northern-Spy
17. 9...Bottle Rockets...Bottle Rockets/The Brooklyn Side...Bloodshot
18. 8...Davidians...2014 Demos...self-released
19. 8...Solar Halos...Solar Halos...Devouter
20. 8...Glow God...House of Distractions...Play Pinball!

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
January 19, 2014

1. 14...Solar Halos...Solar Halos...self-released
2. 13...Cheap Time...Exit Smiles...In the Red
3. 12...Hiss Golden Messenger...Bad Debt...Paradise of Bachelors
4. 12...The Normals...Vacation to Nowhere...Last Laugh
5. 11...Eduard Artemiev...Solaris: Original Soundtrack...Superior Viaduct
6. 11...Various Artists...I Need You Bad...Polyvinyl
7. 10...Cottaging...Nightshading...Cult Maternal / Econore
8. 10...Damien Jurado...Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son...Secretly Canadian
9. 10...Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings...Give the People What They Want...Daptone
10. 9...Glaxo Babies...Nince Months to the Disco...Superior Viaduct
11. 8...Black Dirt Oak...Wawayanda Patent...MIE Music
12. 8...Victrola...Maritime Tatami 12"...Dark Entries
13. 8...J.T. IV...Cosmic Lightning...Drag City / Galactic Zoo Disk
14. 8...Brett Smiley...Va Va Va Voom / Space Ace 7"...Sing Sing
15. 8...Epicycle...You're Not Gonna Get It 1978-1981...HoZac
16. 8...The Whammies...Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 2...Driff
17. 8...Sapphire Slows...Allegoria...Not Not Fun
18. 8...Boardwalk...Boardwalk...Stones Throw
19. 7...The Station Embassy...From My Head to Yours...Uuhngreh Schpuggenuh
20. 7...Sagan Youth Boys...Annotated Universe...Tone-Log

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
January 12, 2014

1. 17...Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings...Give the People What They Want...Daptone
2. 14...Isaac Rother & The Phantoms...The Unspeakable Horror of...Isaac Rother & The Phantoms...Off the Hip
3. 12...Victrola...Maritime Tatami 12"...Dark Entries
4. 12...Selda...Selda...Pharaway Sounds
5. 10...Hakobune...Looping Around the Forest I Thought I Remembered...Constellation Tatsu
6. 9...The Poets of Rhythm...Anthology 1992-2003...Daptone
7. 9...Yo La Tengo...Fade Out...Matador
8. 9...Various Artists...I Need You Bad...Polyvinyl
9. 8...Sagan Youth Boys...Annotated Universe...Tone-Log
10. 8...Black Dirt Oak...Wawayanda Patent...MIE Music
11. 8...Lorelle Meets the Obsolete...Chambers...Captcha
12. 8...Foret...Foret...Simone
13. 8...Haymarket Square...Magic Lantern...Guerssen
14. 7...Geist & The Sacred Ensemble...Beyond This Vessel...Moon Glyph
15. 7...Christopher...Christopher...Out-sider
16. 7...Peter Walker...Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?...Delmore Recording Society
17. 7...Part Pelt Wild Gate...Hung on Sunday...MIE Music
18. 7...David First...Electronic Works 1976-1977...Dais
19. 7...Various Artists...Angola Soundtrack 2: Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations 1969-1978...Analog Africa

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
December 8, 2013

1. 15...Magik Markers...Surrender to the Fantasy...Drag City
2. 12...Melt-Banana...Fetch...A-Zap
3. 12...Destroyer...Five Spanish Songs...Merge
4. 12...La Luz...It's Alive...Hardly Art
5. 11...Ultra Bidé...DNA vs. DNA-c...Alternative Tentacles
6. 11...Neo Boys...Sooner or Later...K
7. 11...Mar Seck...Vagabonde - From Super Cap-Vert to Number One: Unreleased Recordings 1969-1980...Teranga Beat
8. 10...Daniel Bachman...Jesus I'm A Sinner...Tompkins Square
9. 10...Mike Donovan...WOT...Drag City
10. 10...Doris Duke...I'm A Loser...Alive Naturalsound
11. 9...Black Skies...Circadian Meditations...self-released
12. 9...The Numbers Band...Jimmy Bell's Still in Town...Exit Stencil Recordings
13. 9...Cem Karaca...Apa lar, Karda lar, Mo ollar, Ferdy Klein Orkestrası...Guerssen
14. 9...Various Artists...Longing for the Past: The 78 RPM Era in Southeast Asia...Dust-to-Digital
15. 9...Wooden Shjips...Back to Land...Thrill Jockey
16. 9...Dave Von Ronk...Down in Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection...Smithsonian Folkways
17. 9...Z.Z. Hill...The Brand New Z.Z. Hill...Alive Naturalsound
18. 8...WowolfoL...9 Songs...self-released
19. 8...Mountain Thrower...Mountain Thrower...self-released

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
December 1, 2013

13...Wooden Shjips...Back to Land...Thrill Jockey
10...Mind Spiders...Inhumanistic...Dirtnap
9...Toddlers...Toddlers...self-released
9...Magik Markers...Surrender to the Fantasy...Drag City
9...Natural Snow Buildings...Daughter of Darkness...Ba Da Bing!
9...Destroyer...Five Spanish Songs...Merge
9...Courtney Barnett...The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas...Marathon Artists / House Anxiety
9...Dresses...Sun Shy EP...Sideonedummy
9...Z.Z. Hill...The Brand New Z.Z. Hill...Alive Naturalsound
8...Black Skies...Circadian Meditations...self-released
8...Daniel Bachman...Jesus I'm A Sinner...Tompkins Square
8...Mountain Thrower...Mountain Thrower...self-released
8...La Luz...It's Alive...Hardly Art
8...The Numbers Band...Jimmy Bell's Still in Town...Exit Stencil Recordings
8...The Gories...The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88...Third Man
8...Mar Seck...Vagabonde - From Super Cap-Vert to Number One: Unreleased Recordings 1969-1980...Teranga Beat
8...Doris Duke...I'm A Loser...Alive Naturalsound
8...Dave Von Ronk...Down in Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection...Smithsonian Folkways
7...The Zoltars...Walking Through the Dark...CQ
7...Pampers...Pampers...In the Red

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 17, 2013

1. 15...Mountain Thrower...Mountain Thrower...self-released
2. 15...Wooden Shjips...Back to Land...Thrill Jockey
3. 12...Toddlers...Toddlers...self-released
4. 12...Russian Circles...Memorial...Sargent House
5. 11...Circuit des Yeux...Overdue...Ba Da Bing
6. 11...The Fuzz...The Fuzz...Munster
7. 11...Abelardo Carbono...El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono: Psychedelia, Afroroots & Champeta in 1980s Barranquilla...Vampi Soul
8. 11...La Luz...It's Alive...Hardly Art
9. 11...Rodion G.A....The Lost Tapes...Strut
10. 10...The #1s...Sharon Shouldn't 7"...Sorry State / Alien Snatch!
11. 10...Buffetlibre...Songs for Elaine...Tommy Boy
12. 9...Gross Ghost...Public Housing...Odessa
13. 9...The Necks...Open...Northern-Spy
14. 9...Rhys Chatham...Hamonie du Soir...Northern-Spy
15. 9...William Winant...Five American Percussion Pieces...Poon Village
16. 9...Chris Forsyth...Solar Motel...Paradise of Bachelors
17. 9...Dreamsalon...Thirteen Nights...Captcha
18. 9...Camel Heads...Anoluz...Captcha
19. 9...Midlake...Antiphon...ATO
20. 8...Felix Obelix...The Ringtone Album...Potluck
21. 8...The Victor Dimisich Band...The Victor Dimisich Band...Siltbreeze
22. 8...Kris Davis...Massive Threads...Thirsty Ear

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
November 10, 2013

1. 13...Gross Ghost...Public Housing...Odessa
2. 13...Omar Souleyman...Wenu Wenu...Ribbon Music
3. 13...Rodion G.A....The Lost Tapes...Strut
4. 12...Felix Obelix...The Ringtone Album...Potluck
5. 10...Moonface...Julia with Blue Jeans On...Jagjaguwar
6. 10...Seasick Steve...Hubcap Music...Polydor
7. 9...Polvo...Siberia...Merge
8. 9...Forest Swords...Engravings...Tri Angle
9. 9...Bil Vermette...Katha Visions...Permanent
10. 9...David Murray Infinity Quartet...Be My Monster Love...Motema
11. 9...Cass McCombs...Big Wheel and Others...Domino
12. 8...The Pod...Faded Memory From A Dying Sun...Black Iron
13. 8...Parquet Courts...Tally All the Things That You Broke EP...What's Your Rupture?
14. 8...William Onyeabor...World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor...Luaka Bop
15. 8...Midlake...Antiphon...ATO
16. 7...Bo White...Adornment...self-released
17. 7...The Dirtbombs...Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey!...In the Red
18. 7...Elf Power...Sunlight on the Moon...Orange Twin
19. 7...Obits...Bed & Bugs...Sub Pop
20. 7...Mazzy Star...Seasons of Your Day...Rhymes of an Hour
21. 7...Running...Vaguely Ethnic...Castleface
22. 7...Bonnie Prince Billy...Bonnie Prince Billy...self-released

 

Top 88.7 Charts

WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
October 27, 2013

1. 12...The Dirtbombs...Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey!...In the Red
2. 12...William Onyeabor...World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor...Luaka Bop
3. 12...Sandra Phillips...Too Many People in One Bed...Alive
4. 11...Tim Hecker...Virgins...Kranky
5. 11...Umberto...From the Grave......Permanent
6. 10...Bo White...Adornment...self-released
7. 10...Vatican Shadow...Remember Your Black Day...Hospital Productions
8. 10...Matthew E. White...Outer Face...Spacebomb / Domino
9. 10...Mazzy Star...Seasons of Your Day...Rhymes of an Hour
10. 9...Heads on Sticks...Phantasm in Tutu...self-released
11. 9...Quasi...Mole City...Kill Rock Stars
12. 9...Bonnie Prince Billy...Bonnie Prince Billy...self-released
13. 9...Darkside...Psychic...Other People / Matador
14. 9...Wolfmoon...Wolfmoon...Alive
15. 8...Audobon Park...Crazy Crazy For Feeling...Potluck
16. 8...Roscoe Mitchell Quartet...Live at "A Space" 1975...Delmark
17. 8...Dino Valente...Dino Valente...Tompkins Square
18. 8...Various Artists...Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings, Vol. 2...Arhoolie
19. 8...Yuck...Glow & Behold...Fat Possum
20. 7...Polvo...Siberia...Merge
21. 7...Ruby Pins...Ruby Pins...M'Lady's