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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
September 6, 2009

1.    14...O.V. Wright...The Bottom Line...Hi/Fat Possum
2.    12...24-Carat Black...Gone: the Promises of Yesterday...Numero Group
3.    12...Ann Peebles...The Handwriting is on the Wall...Hi/Fat Possum
4.    12...Generationals...Con Law...Park the Van
5.    11...Blues Control...Local Flavor...Siltbreeze
6.    11...The Clean...Mister Pop...Merge
7.    11...Reigning Sound...Love and Curses...In the Red
8.    11...Mayer Hawthorne...A Strange Arrangement...Stones Throw
9.    10...Nicola Cipani...The Ill-Tempered Piano...Long Song
10.    10...Jesse Fuller...Move on Down the Line...Fled
11.    9...Various Artists...Loving Takes This Course...Chapter
12.    9...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
13.    9...Various Artists...Women Blue...Past & Present
14.    9...Megafaun...Gather, Form & Fly...Hometapes
15.    8...Various Artists...Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes...Numero Group
16.    8...Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg...Saints & Tzadiks...World Village

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
August 30, 2009

1.    15...The Clean...Mister Pop...Merge
2.    13...Various Artists...Loving Takes This Course...Chapter
3.    12...Generationals...Con Law...Park the Van
4.    12...Jay Reatard...Watch Me Fall...Matador
5.    12...Reigning Sound...Love and Curses...In the Red
6.    11...Sir Lord Von Raven...Throw Me Back in the Ocean...Happy Parts
7.    10...Depedro...s/t...World's Fair
8.    10...Sally Shapiro...My Guilty Pleasure...Paper Bag
9.    10...Red Fox Chasers...I'm Going Down to North Carolina...Tomkins Square
10.    10...Pisces...A Lovely Sight...Numero Group
11.    10...Midtown Dickens...Lanterns...self-released
12.    10...Bert Jansch...L.A. Turnaround...Drag City
13.    10...Falcao and Monashee...s/t...s/r
14.    9...Tooth/The Claw...Split 12"...Church Key
15.    8...Sleepy Sun...Embrace...All Tomorrow's Parties
16.    8...Various Artists...Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns 2...Psychic Circle
17.    8...Oumou Sangare...Seya...Nonesuch/World Circuit

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
August 23, 2009

1.    13...Bert Jansch...L.A. Turnaround...Drag City
2.    13...Various Artists...Wednesday Morning Dew: Realistic Patterns 2...Psychic Circle
3.    12...Ill Wind...Flashes...Sunbeam
4.    12...Wye Oak...The Knot...Merge
5.    12...Various Artists...Vile Vinyl Volume 1...Past & Present
6.    11...Reigning Sound...Love and Curses...In the Red
7.    11...Blank Dogs...Under and Under...In the Red
8.    11...Magnolia Electric Co....Josephine...Secretly Canadian
9.    11...Various Artists...Modesty Blaise: Cheesy Pop for the Connoisseur...Past & Present
10.    10...Midtown Dickens...Lanterns...self-released
11.    10...Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies...EP II...Color Wheel
12.    10...Los Amigos Invisibles...Commercial...Nacional
13.    9...Pisces...A Lovely Sight...Numero Group
14.    8...Bill Frisell...Disfarmer...Nonesuch
15.    8...God Help the Girl...s/t...Matador
16.    7...Betse Ellis...Don't You Want to Go?...Free Dirt
17.    7...Klang...Tea Music...Allos Documents

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
August 16, 2009

1.    14...Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada...Coconut Rock...ESL
2.    14...Various Artists...Vile Vinyl Volume 1...Past & Present
3.    14...Various Artists...Modesty Blaise: Cheesy Pop for the Connoisseur...Past & Present
4.    13...Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies...EP II...Color Wheel
5.    11...Hugo Filho...Paraibo...Shadoks
6.    11...Wye Oak...The Knot...Merge
7.    10...Los Amigos Invisibles...Commercial...Nacional
8.    10...Various Artists...Well Hung Vol. 1...Finders Keepers
9.    10...Oneida...Rated O...Jagjaguwar/Brah
10.    9...Falcao and Monashee...s/t...s/r
11.    9...Various Artists...ZZK Sound Vol. 2...Nacional
12.    9...Oumou Sangare...Seya...Nonesuch/World Circuit
13.    9...Various Artists...Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009...Strut
14.    8...Various Artists...Maiteí Américana: Harps of Paraguay...Smithsonian Folkways
15.    8...Blank Dogs...Under and Under...In the Red
16.    8...Sian Alice Group...59.59...Social Registry

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
August 9, 2009

1.    15...Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies...EP II...Color Wheel
2.    14...Various Artists...Well Hung Vol. 1...Finders Keepers
3.    12...Los Amigos Invisibles...Commercial...Nacional
4.    12...Hugo Filho...Paraibo...Shadoks
5.    12...Bowerbirds...Upper Air...Dead Oceans
6.    11...God Help the Girl...s/t...Matador
7.    11...Various Artists...The Present ost...Brushfire
8.    10...Silk Flowers...s/t...PPM
9.    9...Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound...When Sweet Sleep Returned...Tee Pee
10.    9...Magnolia Electric Co....Josephine...Secretly Canadian
11.    9...Various Artists...ZZK Sound Vol. 2...Nacional
12.    9...Birds of Avalon...Uncanny Valley...Volcom
13.    8...Goldmund...The Malady of Elegance...Type
14.    8...Mos Def...The Ecstatic...Downtown
15.    8...Megafaun...Gather, Form & Fly...Hometapes
16.    8...Son Volt...American Central Dust...Rounder
17.    7...Lisa o Piu...When This Was the Future...Subliminal Sounds

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
August 2, 2009

1.    16...Various Artists...Well Hung Vol. 1...Finders Keepers
2.    13...Hugo Filho...Paraibo...Shadoks
3.    13...Mos Def...The Ecstatic...Downtown
4.    12...Nickodemus...Sun People...ESL
5.    10...the Woodlands...s/t...s/r
6.    10...Various Artists...The Present ost...Brushfire
7.    10...Lisa o Piu...When This Was the Future...Subliminal Sounds
8.    10...Bowerbirds...Upper Air...Dead Oceans
9.    10...Starlight Mints...Change Remains...Barsuk
10.    9...God Help the Girl...s/t...Matador
11.    9...Various Artists...ZZK Sound Vol. 2...Nacional
12.    9...Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings...Renegades...Delmark
13.    9...Megafaun...Gather, Form & Fly...Hometapes
14.    9...Silk Flowers...s/t...PPM
15.    9...Jesse Jones Jr...The So Then Collection...L P & J Music
16.    8...J.G. Thirlwell...The Venture Brothers Soundtrack...Williams Street
17.    8...Law of the Least Effort...Library Catalog Music Series Vol. 2: Music for Measurements...Asthmatic Kitty

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
July 26, 2009

1.    12...Birds of Avalon...Uncanny Valley...Volcom
2.    12...Mos Def...The Ecstatic...Downtown
3.    12...Son Volt...American Central Dust...Rounder
4.    11...Bowerbirds...Upper Air...Dead Oceans
5.    10...Dave Bixby...Ode to Quetzalcoatl...Guerszen
6.    10...Deerhunter...Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP...Kranky
7.    10...Lemming Malloy...The Return of the Norfolk Regiment...Neckbeard
8.    10...Starlight Mints...Change Remains...Barsuk
9.    9...Megafaun...Gather, Form & Fly...Hometapes
10.    9...Oran Etkin...Kelenia...Motema
11.    9...Novalima...Coba Coba Remixed...Cumbancha
12.    9...the Latin Project...Musica de la Noche...TLP Musica
13.    9...Various Artists...(Weewerk) is 6!...(Weewerk)
14.    9...Sun Ra...Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold...Jazz
15.    9...Various Artists...Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars...Ace
16.    8...Buju Banton...Rasta Got Soul...Gargamel
17.    8...Eddie Harris/Ellis Marsalis...Homecoming...ELM

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
July 19, 2009

1.    12...Starlight Mints...Change Remains...Barsuk
2.    11...Nickodemus...Sun People...ESL
3.    11...Various Artists...Acid Dreams - Epitaph...Past & Present
4.    10...39 Clocks...Zoned...De Stijl
5.    10...Inner Space...Agilok & Blubbo...Wah Wah
6.    10...Francoiz Breut...A l'Auvigiette...Groove Attack
7.    10...Vieux Farka Toure...Fondo...Six Degrees
8.    10...Various Artists...Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars...Ace
9.    10...Sun Ra...Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold...Jazz
10.    9...Lemming Malloy...The Return of the Norfolk Regiment...Neckbeard
11.    9...Arthur Russell...Love is Overtaking Me...Audika
12.    8...Ex-Monkeys...Being Human...s/r
13.    8...Alasdair Roberts...Spoils...Drag City
14.    8...Tyvek...s/t...Siltbreeze
15.    8...Tin Star...Bettie Lane...Fractured Discs
16.    8...Various Artists...Thai Funk ZudRangMa...ZRM
17.    8...Reigning Sound...Live at Goner 6.25.05...Goner
18.    8...The Scene is Now...Total Jive...Lexicon Devil

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
July 12, 2009

1.    12...Inner Space...Agilok & Blubbo...Wah Wah
2.    12...39 Clocks...Zoned...De Stijl
3.    12...Various Artists...Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars...Ace
4.    10...Reigning Sound...Live at Goner 6.25.05...Goner
5.    10...Tree People...Human Voices...Guerszen
6.    10...Son Volt...American Central Dust...Rounder
7.    10...Dinosaur Jr....Farm...Jagjaguwar
8.    10...Various Artists...The Electric Asylum Vol. 2...Past & Present
9.    10...Deertick...Born on Flag Day...Partisan
10.    9...Ty Segall...Lemons...Goner
11.    9...Levon Helm...Electric Dirt...Vanguard
12.    9...Francoiz Breut...A l'Auvigiette...Groove Attack
13.    9...The Field...Yesterday and Today...Kompakt
14.    8...Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers...The Disco Outlaws...Goner
15.    8...Various Artists...Thai Funk ZudRangMa...ZRM
16.    8...Wolfgang Riechmann...Wunderbar...Bureau B
17.    8...Arthur Russell...Love is Overtaking Me...Audika
18.    8...Giovanni Maier...Technicolor...Long Song

 

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WXDU Charts for the Week Ending: 
July 5, 2009

1.    15...Various Artists...Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars...Ace
2.    12...Amadou & Miriam...Welcome to Mali...Because/Nonesuch
3.    12...Vieux Farka Toure...Fondo...Six Degrees
4.    11...Francoiz Breut...A l'Auvigiette...Groove Attack
5.    11...Various Artists...Funk Mundial...Man Recordings
6.    10...Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel...s/t...s/r
7.    10...Grizzly Bear...Veckatimest...Warp
8.    10...Various Artists...Acid Dreams - Epitaph...Past & Present
9.    10...Whole World Laughing...Eight Songs for Cy...s/r
10.    9...Arthur Russell...Love is Overtaking Me...Audika
11.    9...Bibio...Ambivalence Avenue ...Warp
12.    9...Sun Ra...Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold...Jazz
13.    9...Thee Oh Sees...Help...In the Red
14.    8...Jack-O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers...The Disco Outlaws...Goner
15.    8...Portland Cello Project...The Thao & Justin Power Sessions...Kill Rock Stars
16.    8...Sonic Youth...The Eternal...Matador