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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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Michael Chapman | It Didn't Work Out | (VA) Anthems In Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk, 1955-1978 | Castle | live recording from 1969 | |||
Sonic Youth | Massage The History | The Eternal | Matador | the new album | |||
Sonic Youth | Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn | The Eternal | Matador | " " " | |||
* | 39 Clocks | Fast Cars | Zoned: Recordings 1987-1980...rewind | De Stijl | 1983 | ||
T. Rex | Thunderwing | The Slider | Rhino | 1972 | |||
* | The Scene Is Now | Ex-Country Song | Total Jive | Lexicon Devil | 1986 album now re-released on CD | ||
* | Grizzly Bear | While You Wait For The Others | Veckatimest | Warp | new | ||
* | Birds of Avalon | All Your Downtime Is Up | Uncanny Valley | Volcom | Local. brand new & sounds great | ||
* | Dave Bixby | Morning Sun | Ode to Quetzalcoatl | Guerszen | 1969. Legendary folk record now on CD as well. | ||
* | Harbinger | Time To Clear Your Mind | Second Coming | Guerszen | Also 1969. Also Dave Bixby. | ||
* | Bowerbirds | Chimes | Upper Air | Dead Oceans | More new local music. | ||
* | Megafaun | Impressions Of The Past | Gather, Form & Fly | Hometapes | More new local music. | ||
Phosphorescent | Heartaches Of A Fool | To Willie | Dead Oceans | One of my favorite albums this year. All Willie Nelson songs but they hardly sound Willie at all... | |||
Bob Dylan | When I Got Troubles | No Direction Home: The Soundtrack | Columbia | 1959! Dylan plays Durham next Tuesday night! | |||
Bob Dylan | Pledging My Time | Blonde On Blonde | Columbia | from a classic Dylan record... | |||
Bob Dylan | Beyond Here Lies Nothin' | Together Through Life | Columbia | 2009! Fifty years of recording. Amazing. | |||
* | Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings | Crossroads | Renegades | Delmark | Stunning, bright, percussive tune from a great flutist. | ||
* | Craig Green & David King | Part 3 | Craig Green & David King | Long Song | |||
Miles Davis | Ali [take 3] | The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions | Columbia | I just watched the film "When We Were Kings" about the 1974 "Rumble In The Jungle" w/George Foreman, so got to thinking about Ali songs... | |||
Orchestre G. O. Malebo | Foreman Ali Welcome To Kinshasa | (VA) Hits & Misses: Muhammad Ali & The Ultimate Sound of Fistfighting | Trikont | ||||
Nomo | Brainwave | Ghost Rock | Ubiquity | Coming soon to Local 506. www.local506.com for info | |||
* | Casey Driessen | Ashland Breakdown | Oog | Red Shoe | creative, amazingly talented 5-string fiddle player, here w/ his new batch of enveloping-pushing roots music... | ||
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | Uncle Pen | In The Pines | County | Ashland Breakdown (see above) is a Bill Monroe song... | |||
* | The Wiyos | Roll On Down The Road | Broken Land Bell | self-released | The Wiyos, big fans of re-working 20's-30's stompin' jazzy blues stuff, open the show for Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson next Tues. at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. This one features fellow New Yorker Adam Matta as human beat-box and vocal percussionist... | ||
* | Iron & Wine | Morning | Around The Well | Sub Pop | |||
Drunken Prayer | Tramp On The Street | Drunken Prayer | self-released | Morgan Geer & co. |