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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Baaba Mal | Call To Prayer | (VA) Passion - Sources | Real World | 1989 Peter Gabriel project. Killer North African and Arabic music survey. Recommended. Baaba Mal is from Senegal. | |||
unknown Ethiopian musicians | Tejbeit | (VA) Passion - Sources | Real World | an Ethiopian bar song... | |||
* | Group Bombino | Kamu Telyat | Guitars from Agadez vol. 2 | Sublime Frequencies | !!!!!! | ||
Devo | Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy | Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | Warner Bros. | ||||
The Johnstons | Marcie | (VA) Anthems In Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk 1955-1978 | Castle Music | Incredible box set that came out in 2005. This tune was originally on an album called Bitter Green, from 1969. | |||
Frank Zappa | Willie The Pimp | Hot Rats | Reprise | 1970. Captain Beefheart on the vocal. | |||
* | The Loners | Lo-Fi Mojo | Revolution! | Churchkey | Great new local rawk record. I. Will. Buy. It. Soon. You? | ||
* | Dan Auerbach | Heartbroken, In Disrepair | Keep It Hid | Nonesuch | New one from Black Keys guitarist & singer, focusing more on songwriting now... | ||
* | Cecil Barfield | Georgia Blues | (VA) Art of Field Recording, Vol. II | Dust-to-Digital | Bronwood, Georgia, 1987. Along with the song, some great comments about the blues in his deep, long-time-smoker voice... | ||
* | Zenlo | The Crab | Skeletal Antics | Porter | "Spaced out drum machines, instruments drenched with effects, psychedelic tribal rhythms, heavy drones...." 1983. | ||
J.E. Manier | John Henry | (VA) Soppin' Up The Gravy: A Taste of King, 1945-1954 | B.A.C.M. | 1946 recording from a nice comp by the British Archive of Country Music, documenting material from the late great King Records of Cincinnati. | |||
* | Aria Orion | Augur | Let The Sharp Stone Fly | self-released | Various guitars, percussion, upright bass, accordion, lap steel, oboe, violin.... gorgeous stuff... ?Brooklyn NY | ||
* | Dex Romweber Duo | Polish Work Song | Ruins Of Berlin | Bloodshot | New, local, good! | ||
* | Wow & Flutter | Heaven | Golden Touch | Jealous Butcher | new from Portland, OR | ||
Clem Snide | God Answers Back | End Of Love | SpinART | Clem Snide plays Local 506 tonight. Wish I could go seem 'em.... This record was a huge fave for me from 2005. | |||
Brian Wilson | Mrs. O'Leary's Cow | Brian Wilson presents Smile | Nonesuch | Beach Boy leader's post-Pet Smiles project... not completed until about 40 years later. | |||
Star Room Boys | Whiskey and You | This World Just Won't Leave You Alone | Slewfoot | Great now-defunct Athens,GA dark honky-tonk band. 2001 on this one. | |||
* | Roger Davidson & Raúl Jaurena | Milonga Del Norte | Pasión Por La Vida | Soundbrush | Tango, anyone? very nice... | ||
* | Kinky | Diablo Azul | Barracuda | Kin Kon | new from Monterrey, Mexico electro-pop-rockers | ||
Nick Lowe | I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass | Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe | Yep Roc | stellar new 2-cd set! | |||
* | Asobi Seksu | Layers | Hush | Polyvinyl | |||
Résonnance | OK Chicago | (VA) Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks 1968-1973 | Crippled Dick Hot Wax | 1973... | |||
Francais Lai | I Don't Know Why | (VA) Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks 1968-1973 | Crippled Dick Hot Wax | 1970... | |||
Thalia Zedek | Brother | Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness | Thrill Jockey | 2004 | |||
* | Night Control | Star 131 | Death Control | Kill Shaman | new from this L.A. noise-pop group... | ||
The Stepgods | The Mechanic | Get Outta Your Skin With The Stepgods | self-released | Raleigh, 2001. |