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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week, 11/10/11

1. Future Islands – On The Water (Thrill Jockey)

2. Zola Jesus – Conatus (Sacred Bones)

3. Widowspeak – Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)

4. Young Man – Ideas of Distance (Frenchkiss)

5. The Field – Looping State Of Mind (Kompakt)

6. Class Actress – Rapproacher (Carpark)

7. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)

8. Megafaun – Megafaun (Hometapes)

9. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum)

10. Sugarplum Fairies – The Images We Get (M-M)

11. Various Artists – GRPTPS Vs. PTLCK (Grip Tapes)

12. Viva Voce – The Future Will Destroy You (Vanguard)

13. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti)

14. Wild Flag – Wild Flag (Merge)

15. Mandolin Orange – Haste Make/Hard Hearted Stranger (Self-Released)

16. Icebird – The Abandoned Lullaby (RJ’s Electrical Connections)

17. Real Estate – Days (Domino)

18. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)

19. Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes To Town (Drag City)

20. Wavves – Life Sux (Ghost Ramp)

21. Mike Doughty – Yes And Also Yes (Megaforce-Snack Bar)

22. High Places – Original Colors (Thrill Jockey)

23. Jens Lekman – An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian)

24. Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me (Deathwish)

25. Donora – Boyfriends, Girlfriends (Rostrum)

26. Phantogram – Nightlife (Barsuk)

27. Jono McCleery – There Is (Counter)

28. Patti Smith – Outside of Society (Columbia)

29. Hella – Tripper (Sargent House)

30. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (L Y F)

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 11/1/11

1. Absu – Abzu (Candlelight)

2. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

3. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor And Tie)

4. Machine Head – Unto The Locust (Roadrunner)

5. Warbringer – Worlds Torn Asunder (Century Media)

6. Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)

7. Cradle Of Filth – Evermore Darkly (Nuclear Blast)

8. Iced Earth – Dystopia (Century Media)

9. Anvil – Monument Of Metal: The Very Best of Anvil (The End)

10. Hull – Beyond the Lightless Sky (The End)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week, 10/25/11

1. I Break Horses – Hearts (Co-op)

2. Cant – Dreams Come True (Terrible)

3. Widowspeak – Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)

4. Alias – Fever Dream (Anticon)

5. Various Artists – GRPTPS vs. PTLCK (Grip Tapes)

6. Young Man – Ideas of Distance (Frenchkiss)

7. Soley – We Sink (Morr)

8. Sugarplum Fairies – The Images We Get (M-M)

9. Sleep Over – Forever (Hippos in Tanks)

10. Zola Jesus – Conatus (Sacred Bones)

11. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls (Slumberland)

12. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)

13. Weekend – Red (Slumberland)

14. Memoryhouse – The Years (Sub Pop-Arcade Sound)

15. Fool’s Gold – Leave No Trace (Iamsound)

16. Megafaun – Megafaun (Hometapes)

17. Drums – Portamento (Frenchkiss)

18. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum)

19. Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)

20. Body Language – Social Studies (Om)

21. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti)

22. Wild Flag – Wild Flag (Merge)

23. Patti Smith – Outside of Society (Columbia)

24. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (LYF)

25. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing (Sub Pop)

26. Scott Solter – One River (Hidden Shoal)

27. Apparat – The Devil’s Walk (Mute)

28. Pack A.D. – Unpersons (Mint)

29. Neon Indian – Era Extrana (Mom and Pop)

30. Exitmusic – From Silence (Secretly Canadian)

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 10/11

1. Absu – Abzu (Candlelight)

2. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

3. Nachtbult – Antik (Napalm)

4. Mastodon – The Hunter (Reprise)

5. Thulcandra – Under a Frozen Sun (Napalm)

6. Machine Head – Unto the Locust (Roadrunner)

7. Warbringer – Worlds Torn Asunder (Century Media)

8. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor and Tie)

9. Hatesphere – The Great Bludgeoning (Napalm)

10. Chimaira – The Age of Hell (eOne)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 10/4

1. Various Artists – GRPTPS vs. PTLCK (Grip Tapes)

2. Cant – Dreams Come True (Terrible)

3. Mogwai – Earth Division (Sub Pop)

4. Sleep Over – Forever (Hippos in Tanks)

5. Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls (Slumberland)

6. Megafaun – Megafaun (Hometapes)

7. Drums – Portamento (Frenchkiss)

8. Weekend – Red (Slumberland)

9. Memoryhouse – The Years (Sub Pop-Arcade Sound)

10. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)

11. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti)

12. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing (Sub Pop)

13. Apparat – The Devil’s Walk (Mute)

14. Toro y Moi – Freaking Out (Carpark)

15. Neon Indian – Era Extrana (Mom and Pop)

16. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To the Mountain (L Y F)

17. Wild Flag – Wild Flag (Merge)

18. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador)

19. Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)

20. CSS – La Liberacion (V2-Downtown-Cooperative)

21. Tasseomancy – Ulalume (Out Of This Spark)

22. Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)

23. I Break Horses – Hearts (Co-op)

24. Iceage – New Brigade (Dais-What’s Your Rupture)

25. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical (Self-Released)

26. Hella – Tripper (Sargent House)

27. Jens Lekman – An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian)

28. Pepper Rabbit – Red Velvet Snowball (Kanine)

29. Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (Hardly Art)

30. Mister Heavenly – Out of Love (Sub Pop)

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/27

1. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

2. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor and Tie)

3. Absu – Abraxas Connexus (Candlelight)

4. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

5. Chimaira – The Age Of Hell (eOne)

6. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

7. Hatesphere – The Great Bludgeoning (Napalm)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Kyng – Trampled Sun (ILG)

10. Slot – Break the Code (Neurodisc)

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/20

1. Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)

2. Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor and Tie)

3. Absu – Abraxas Connexus (Candlelight)

4. Arkona – Solvo (Napalm)

5. Chimaira – The Age of Hell (eOne)

6. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

7. Mastodon – Black Tongue (Reprise)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

10. Dirge Within – Absolution (Big Time)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 9/13

1. Heads on Sticks – Brutish and Short

2. Tinariwen – Tassili (Anti)

3. Tasseomancy – Ulalume (Out Of This Spark)

4. Little Gold – Weird Freedom (Loud Baby)

5. Wooden Shjips – West (Thrill Jockey)

6. Stepkids – Stepkids (Stones Throw)

7. War On Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)

8. Gold Leaves – The Ornament (Hardly Art)

9. Implodes – Black Earth (Kranky)

10. Black Lips – Arabia Mountain (Vice)

11. Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)

12. Toro y Moi – Freaking Out (Carpark)

13. Zomby – Dedication (4AD)

14. Fruit Bats – Tripper (Sub Pop)

15. Portugal. The Man – In The Mountain In The Cloud (Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic)

16. Yacht – Shangri-La (DFA)

17. Woods – Sun And Shade (Woodsist)

18. Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)

19. Collections of Colonies of Bees – Giving (Hometapes)

20. Pepper Rabbit – Red Velvet Snowball (Kanine)

21. Hercules and Love Affair – Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)

22. Lanie Lane – Ain’t Hungry

23. Moonface – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)

24. White Denim – D (Downtown)

25. Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)

26. Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (Hardly Art)

27. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador)

28. CSS – La Liberacion (V2-Downtown Cooperative)

29. Black Milk – Brain/Royal Mega (Third Man)

30. Iceage – New Brigade (Dais-What’s Your Rupture)

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CMJ RPM from WKNC Afterhours 9/13

1. Zomby – Dedication

2. SBTRKT – SBTRKT

3. Yacht – Shangri-La

4. Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear

5. Com Truise – Galactic Melt

6. Wallpaper – #STUPiDFACEDD

7. Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man

8. Crookers – Dr. Gonzo: Bust Em Up

9. Borgore – Delicious

10. Glitch Mob – We Can Make the World Stop

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CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw 9/13

1. Arkona – Solvo (Napalm)

2. Textures – Dualism (Nuclear Blast)

3. Revocation – Chaos of Forms (Relapse)

4. Opeth – Heritage Sampler (Roadrunner)

5. Mastodon – Black Tongue (Reprise)

6. Chimaira – The Age of Hell (eOne)

7. Monstro – MonstrO (Vagrant)

8. Kittie – I’ve Failed You (eOne)

9. Dir En Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End)

10. iwrestledabearonce – Ruining It For Everybody (Century Media)