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WXDU, as a member of the Duke University Union, exists to inform, educate, and entertain both the students of Duke University and the surrounding community of Durham through quality progressive alternative radio programming. WXDU seeks to give its staff the freedom to pursue their personal aesthetic within the framework of a cohesive format. WXDU aims to provide the listener with an alternative viewpoint untainted by commercial interests. WXDU resolves to maintain good relations with the music industry without compromising its integrity and nationally recognized commitment to quality programming. WXDU resolves to remain a laboratory where all members are free to make and learn from their mistakes.
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Mystery Show November 15, 2009...WTF?

Tonight's mystery show theme is a simple one: WTF? The song, artist or album title will have the F-bomb. In the mix we'll have gentle indie rock, haunting pitch-shifted noise/drone, abstract hip hop, wonky, expansive ambient and many more. tune in. 10-11PM on WXDU 88.7FM in Durham or wxdu.org online

 

Azucar y Candela featured album: CALLE REAL

AZUCAR y CANDELA (W 6-8p) Featured Album, 11/11/09:  CALLE REAL, "Me Lo Gané"

BEST timba album from Sweden this year--and yes, there has been more than one! The land of ice and snow is quite the "home away from home" for this hot Havana dance rhythm. With only one Cuban in the band (conguero Rickard Valdes, son of Bebo and brother of Chucho) CALLE REAL is made up of mostly Swedes--although singer Thomas Eby just might fool you into thinking otherwise, with his mastery of Cuban accent and colloquialisms. READ MORE>>>

 

Azucar y Candela featured album: ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

AZUCAR y CANDELA every Wednesday 6-8 pm. Join Santa Salsera on Facebook for album reviews and more!

11/4/09 Featured Album:  ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ, Timba Talmud

Called "Latin klezmer," Roberto Rodriguez Sextet's 4th dazzling album (executive produced for Tzadik by John Zorn) barrels straight out of the Cuban rhythm canon.  Percussionist Rodriguez, a Cuban Jew, displays all the cardinal virtues of "not having to choose" among his musical heritages...READ MORE>>>

 

Top 88.7 Charts

November 15, 2009

1.    13...Shipwrecker...s/t ep...s/r
2.    13...Soft Company...EP...s/r
3.    13...Birds and Arrows...Starmaker...307 Knox
4.    12...Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts...Girl of the Century...Bloodshot
5.    12...Jonny Trunk...Scrapbook...Trunk
6.    11...AT...s/t...Corleone
7.    11...Inspector 22...Hey Man, I Understand...Odessa
8.    11...Polynya...Crop Rotation...Childhood Pet
9.    10...Various Artists...Tumbele!: Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean 1963-74...Soundway
10.    10...Mission of Burma...The Sound the Speed the Light...Matador
11.    9...Ceu...Vagarosa...Six Degrees
12.    9...Russian Circles...Geneva...Suicide Squeeze
13.    9...Devil Eyes...s/t...Signed By Force
14.    9...Finn Riggins...Vs Wilderness...Tender Loving Empire
15.    9...Kurt Vile...Childish Prodigy...Matador
16.    9...CoCoComa...Things Are Not All Right...Goner
17.    9...The XX...s/t...XL
18.    9...Times New Viking...Born Again Revisited...Matador

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DJ of the Month!

MARCO

 

Title of Show: The Hour of Power Hour (Thurs. 9-11pm)

Top 5 Albums of 2008:

Good Luck- 'Into Lake Griffy'

The Bananas- 'New Animals'

Algernon Cadwallader- 'Some King of Cadwallader'

Mouthbreather- 'Thank You for Your Patience'

Nobunny- 'Love Visions'