Hey everyone, so I've been super-busy throughout August, but me and Munsey finally got it together with charts & adds for this week. Here's the most popular music at KXUA:
1 | GNARLS BARKLEY | The Odd Couple | Downtown |
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2 | LYRICS BORN | Everywhere At Once | Anti |
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3 | BECK | Modern Guilt | Interscope |
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4 | VANCOUGAR | Canadian Tuxedo | Mint |
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5 | FUTUREHEADS | This Is Not The World | Nul |
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6 | SILVER JEWS | Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea | Drag City |
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7 | ORCHESTRA BAOBAB | Made In Dakar | Nonesuch |
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8 | SIGUR ROS | Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust | XL |
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9 | LACKTHEREOF | Your Anchor | Barsuk |
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10 | JOE STRUMMER | The Future Is Unwritten | Sony |
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11 | DR. DOG | Fate | Park The Van |
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12 | N.E.R.D. | Seeing Sounds | Star Trak-Interscope |
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13 | HOLD STEADY | Stay Positive | Vagrant |
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14 | JALEEL SHAW | Optimism | Changu |
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15 | SAM PHILLIPS | Don't Do Anything | Nonesuch |
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16 | WOLF PARADE | At Mount Zoomer | SUB POP |
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17 | BONNIE PRINCE BILLY | Lie Down In The Light | Drag City |
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18 | WITHERED | Folie Circulaire | Prosthetic |
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19 | MADE OUT OF BABIES | The Ruiner | The End |
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20 | LEVIATHAN | Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | Tumult |
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21 | DEADBIRD | Twilight Ritual | At A Loss |
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22 | PAUL WELLER | 22 Dreams | Yep Roc |
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23 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | PDX Pop Now! 2008 | Self-Released |
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24 | T. BONE BURNETT | Tooth Of Crime | Nonesuch |
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25 | BOOKA SHADE | The Sun And The Neon Light | Get Physical |
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26 | SATURDAY KNIGHTS | Mingle | Light In The Attic Records |
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27 | AWESOME COLOR | Electric Aborigines | Ecstatic Peace |
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28 | MARC RIBOT'S CERAMIC DOG | Party Intellectuals | Pi |
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29 | JACKSON CONTI | Sujinho | Mochilla |
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30 | MELVINS | Nude With Boots | Ipecac |
Lot of good music in rotation right now, so be sure to make your shifts to help out these artists. And not to nitpick, but Melvins should be way higher than #30 - try to work them in a little more if you can! Anyway, here are the adds for this week:
Heavy
Brazilian Girls - New York City
New York's premier international party band, RIYL Nouvelle Vague, Wax Poetic, Tipsy, Stereolab
Matt Ulery's 'Loom' - Music Box Ballerina
Intense interplay of complex rhythms from a World Jazz Act, RIYL Zach Brock, Jon Deitemyer, Grazyna Auguscik
Pornopop - And the Slow Songs About the Dead Calm in Your Arms
Don't let the name fool you, these Sigur Ros tour mates combine a swirling sound of punk, noise rock, shoegaze, and electronica, RIYL Portishead, Cat Power, Cowboy Junkies
Sonny J - Disastro
An eclectic album that can go from sounding like a Quentin Tarantino movie score to a Cut Chemist track, RIYL Cut Chemist, Fatboy Slim, Ruckus Roboticus
Various Artists - Electronica Sampler
Electro singles from several artists, to end off the summer. Features music from Chemical Brothers, MGMT, the Faint.
Medium Rotation
S.M.V. - Thunder
Three electric bases playing simultaneously, and it's actually good. Amazing! RIYL Jaco Pastorius, Return to Forever, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
sBACH - sBACH
Spencer Seim combines ideas from both his bands, the Advantage and Hella. RIYL Hella, Don Caballero, Slint
Mit - CODA
Those Germans know how to make electronic music. RIYL Kraftwerk, Neu!, Gary Numan
Light Rotation
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia
Ambient electronic, except it doesn't all sound the same! RIYL Ulrich Schnauss, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno
Telepathique - Last Time On Earth
Brazilian House music is getting better, and this band tries to capitalize. RIYL Bonde do Role, CSS, Ladytron
Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle
Nick Thornburn of Unicorns/Islands and Jim Guthrie make the kind of music you might expect them to make. RIYL Beach Boys, Islands
Calexico - Carried to Dust
As usual, Joey Burns is at his best when he's writing the indie rock-meets-mariachi film score to a Sergio Leone film. RIYL Ennio Morricone, Iron & Wine
OK, that's it for now. Check for New Music Show podcasts soon. Anyway, that's all we got this week, Munsey & I will talk at you all next week.

Some Dude & Munsey