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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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* | Colin Stetson | For Those Who Didn't Run | For Those Who Didn't Run EP | Constellation | Bass saxophonist's new EP. Sorry to have missed his show the other night... | ||
Willie Nelson | You Look Like The Devil | Shotgun Willie | Atlantic | 1973. Forever a fave. | |||
* | John Wesley Coleman III | The Howling | The Last Donkey Show | Goner | new | ||
Eula Cooper | Heavenly Father | (VA) Eccentric Soul: The Tragar and Note Labels | Numero Group | 2-disc comp in the Eccentric Soul series, this time documenting the work of a pair of Atlanta record labels. 1968 tune. | |||
* | Balkan Beat Box | Enemy In Economy | Give | Nat Geo Music | their newest | ||
* | Baloji | Karibu Ya Bintou (DeBruit Remix) | Kinshasha Succursale | Crammed Discs | Congolese-born, Belgian-raised rapper | ||
Jimmy Donley | Radio, Jukebox, and TV | (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD #13: Mississippi | Oxford American | 1958 tune. 2011 comp --- great as always!!! | |||
* | Alex Chilton | Free Again (alt. vocal) | Free Again: The "1970" Sessions | Omnivore | This is what happened with Chilton 'tween teen bubble gum Box Tops days and Big Star. | ||
* | Sonic Avenues | Fadin' Luv | Television Youth | Dirtnap | powerpop/punk from Montreal | ||
* | Gross Ghost | Lurker | Brer Rabbit | Girptapes | new, local | ||
* | Herzog | Shakespearean Actress | Cartoon Violence | Exit Stencil | poppy Who-like new release from Cleveland | ||
The Red Clay Ramblers | Literary Giant | Old North State | self-released | The story of Thomas Wolfe in his UNC days... | |||
Sex Pistols | Seventeen | Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols | Warner Bros. | 1977 | |||
Lucas Boilon | Studies of the Oak as Pertaining to Druidic Rites of Passage | (VA) Beyond Berkeley Guitar | Tompkins Square | great comp of modern acoustic Fahey-like guitar stuff | |||
Lungfish | In Praise of Amoral Phenomena | Pass and Stow | Dischord | 1994 | |||
Elvis Costello | This Year's Girl | This Year's Model | Rykodisc | 1978 | |||
Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden | King Of Swords | Bella Neurox | Winoca | 1999. Miss M on accordion (in a dark way), complimented by Haden's deep violin tones | |||
* | Samantha Glass | Dakota Shadows | Midnight Arrival | Not Not Fun | new from Madison, Wisconsin. Upbeat but broodish all at once. | ||
Samara Lubelski | Taste The Candy | Parallel Suns | The Social Registry | 2007 | |||
* | Cassis Orange | Soon | Nieces and Nephews/Cassis Orange split 12" | DiggUp Tapes | new, local | ||
* | Chuck Prophet | The Left Hand & The Right Hand | Temple Beautiful | Yep Roc | new -- an album-long ode to his native San Francisco | ||
Hunx | Hairdresser Blues | Hairdresser Blues | Hardly Art | from across the Bay in Oakland | |||
The Maybellines | Until I Met You | Chatfield Holiday | Best Friends | Denver, 2002. | |||
* | Jeff & Jane Hudson | G.S. III | Flesh | Captured Tracks/Dead Hearts | NYC synth pop couple, 1980-83. | ||
Magic Dirt | Fairy Park | Life Was Better EP | Au Go Go | Au Australia! 1995 | |||
* | Pins Of Light | Sound & Pressure | II | Alternative Tentacles | new spacerock-y tune from San Fran | ||
Apache Dropout | Run Peacock Run | Apache Dropout | Family Vineyard | Playing a WXDU-presented show at Casbah on Saturday April 7th | |||
Hurray For The Riff Raff | Calmly | Young Blood Blues | self-released | New Orleans group playing this Thurs night at Pinhook in Durham. Self-described as "melodramatic popular song / thrash / blues," and "a sound that has an innovative mixture of Appalachian old time and minor key waltzes, without losing the grittiness of DIY folk." It's a good album (2010) all the way through. | |||
Ahmad Al-Harazi | Amsi Sameer Al-Nojoom | (VA) Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen | Parlortone | Fab new comp on the vinyl-only offshoot of Dust-to-Digital. Collected & compiled by Chris Menist. | |||
Morphine | Whisper | Yes | Rykodisc | 1995 | |||
* | Michael James with Andrew Kenower | Who'll Stop The Rain | Good Morning, Africa | Bookmaker | ambient rain, synth swoops, claps, booms... Very nice. (not a CCR cover) | ||
Jeff Beck | AIR Blower | Blow By Blow | Epic | 1975 |