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WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 6/7

Another week, another Top 30 hits from your friendly daytime music director, Michael Jones.

Artist Album Label
#1 Austra Feel It Break Domino
#2 Donkeys Born With Stripes Dead Oceans
#3 Thao and Mirah Thao and Mirah Kill Rock Stars
#4 Love Inks E.S.P. City Slang
#5 tUnE-YArDs Whokill 4AD
#6 Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad Slumberland
#7 Girl Names Dead To Me Slumberland
#8 Amor De Dias Street Of The Love Of Days Merge
#9 Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia
#10 Rosebuds Loud Planes Fly Low Merge
#11 Those Darlings Screws Get Loose Oh Wow Dang
#12 Generationals Actor-Caster Park The Van
#13 Dodos No Color Frenchkiss
#14 My Morning Jacket Circuital ATO
#15 Foster the People Torches Columbia
#16 Wild Palms Until Spring One Little Indian
#17 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. It’s A Corporate World Quite Scientific
#18 Seapony Go With Me Hardly Art
#19 Matt Pond PA Spring Fools Altitude
#20 Black Lips Arabia Mountain Vice
#21 Friendly Fires Pala XL
#22 Antlers Burst Apart Frenchkiss
#23 Okkervil River I Am Very Far Jagjaguwar
#24 Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts Domino
#25 Sam Roberts Band Collider Rounder
#26 I’m From Barcelona Forever Today Mute
#27 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop
#28 Wombats This Modern Glitch Bright Antenna
#29 Dan Sartain Legacy Of Hospitality One Little Indian
#30 Vetiver The Errant Charm Sub Pop

 

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WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 5/31

The Top 30 artists and albums of this week, as compiled by Daytime Music Director Michael Jones.

Artist Album Label
#1 Austra Feel It Break Domino
#2 Thao And Mirah Thao And Mirah Kill Rock Stars
#3 Girls Names Dead To Me Slumberland
#4 Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad Slumberland
#5 tUnE-YArDs Whokill 4AD
#6 Wild Palms Until Spring One Little Indian
#7 Love Inks E.S.P. City Slang
#8 Rosebuds Loud Planes Fly Low Merge
#9 Shannon and the Clams Sleep Talk 1-2-3-4 Go!
#10 Chad Van Gaalen Diaper Island Sub Pop
#11 Those Darlings Screws Get Loose Oh Wow Dang
#12 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop
#13 Man Man Life Fantastic ANTI-
#14 Amor De Dias Street Of The Love Of Days Merge
#15 Friendly Fires Pala XL
#16 My Morning Jacket Circuital ATO
#17 Generationals Actor-Caster Park The Van
#18 Dodos No Color Frenchkiss
#19 Antlers Burst Apart Frenchkiss
#20 Matt Pond PA Spring Fools Altitude
#21 Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia
#22 Wombats This Modern Glitch Bright Antenna
#23 Donkeys Born With Stripes Dead Oceans
#24 Wild Beasts Smother Domino
#25 Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts Matador
#26 Times New Viking Dancer Equired Merge
#27 Obits Moody, Standard And Poor Sub Pop
#28 Maritime Human Hearts Danger Bird
#29 Foster the People Torches Columbia
#30 Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Temporary Residence
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5/31 Chainsaw Metal Weekly Top Ten Albums

Here are the chainsaw top ten, as compiled by Chainsaw Music Director, Cory Slep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rank Artist Recording Label
#1 AMON AMARTH Surtur Rising Metal Blade
#2 BELPHEGOR Blood Magick Necromance Nuclear Blast
#3 SEPTICFLESH The Great Mass Season Of Mist
#4 TYR The Lay Of Thrym Napalm
#5 HAEMORRHAGE Hospital Carnage Relapse
#6 AUTOPSY Macabre Eternal Peaceville
#7 KAMPFAR Mare Napalm
#8 BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE Celestial Completion Solid State
#9 CANNIBAL CORPSE Evisceration Plague Metal Blade
#10 ANAAL NATHRAKH Passion Candlelight
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WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 5/24

Each week, WKNC’s music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top lists to College Music Journal. Here are the top 30 indie rock albums on WKNC reported to CMJ’s Top 200 chart by Music Director Michael Jones.

Artist Album Label
#1 Thao And Mirah Thao And Mirah Kill Rock Stars
#2 tUnE-YArDs Whokill 4AD
#3 Girls Names Dead To Me Slumberland
#4 Austra Feel It Break Domino
#5 Wild Palms Until Spring One Little Indian
#6 Those Darlins Screws Get Loose Oh Wow Dang
#7 Shannon and the Clams Sleep Talk 1-2-3-4 Go!
#8 Anna Calvi Anna Calvi Domino
#9 Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad Slumberland
#10 Love Inks E.S.P. City Slang
#11 Generationals Actor-Caster Park The Van
#12 Blue Sky Black Death Noir Fake Four
#13 Hooray for Earth True Loves Dovecote
#14 Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Temporary Residence
#15 Times New Viking Dancer Equired Merge
#16 Yelle Safari Disco Club Co-Op
#17 Mikey Jukebox Mikey Jukebox Young Lion Of The West
#18 Raveonettes Raven In The Grave Vice
#19 Kills Blood Pressures Domino
#20 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop
#21 Antlers Burst Apart Frenchkiss
#22 Panda Bear Tomboy Paw Tracks
#23 Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion Slumberland
#24 Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin’ On Arts And Crafts
#25 Cave Singers No Witch Jagjaguwar
#26 Bill Callahan Apocalypse Drag City
#27 Feelies Here Before Bar None
#28 J Mascis Several Shades Of Why Sub Pop
#29 Art Brut Brilliant! Tragic! The End/Cooking Vinyl
#30 Tiger Darrow You Know Who You Are Self-Released
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5/10 Chainsaw Metal Weekly Top Ten Albums

 

Artist Album Label
#1 BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues Metal Blade
#2 SEPTICFLESH The Great Mass Season of Mist
#3 ANAAL NATHRAKH Passion Candlelight
#4 SYMFONIA In Paradisum Eagle Rock
#5 SCAR SYMMETRY The Unseen Empire Nuclear Blast
#6 HATE ETERNAL Phoenix Amongst the Ashes Metal Blade
#7 AMON AMARTH Surtur Rising Metal Blade
#8 KAMPFAR Mare Napalm
#9 CHILDREN OF BODOM Relentless Reckless Forever Metal Blade
#10 ZOMBI Escape Velocity Relapse
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2/14 Top Ten albums on WKNC’s Daytime shows

Artist Album Label
#1 FORMS Derealization Ernest Jenning
#2 SMITH WESTERNS Dye It Blonde Fat Possum
#3 I WAS A KING Old Friends Sounds Familyre
#4 CHIKITA VIOLENTA Tre3s Arts and Crafts
#5 BRAIDS Native Speaker self-released
#6 APEX MANOR The Year of Magical Drinking Merge
#7 TENNIS Cape Dory Fat Possum
#8 DUCKTAILS Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics Woodsist
#9 AGESANDAGES Alright You Restless KF
#10 WHITE FENCE Is Growing Faith Daptone
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12/13 Top Ten albums on WKNC’s Daytime shows

Artist Album Label
#1 CLOUD NOTHINGS Turning On Carpark
#2 KISSES The Heart of the Nightlife Surrounded by Sound
#3 NO JOY Ghost Blonde Mexican Summer
#4 BOTANY Feeling Today Western Vinyl
#5 PARTING GIFTS Strychnine Dandelions In the Red
#6 EUX AUTRES Broken Bow Bon Mots
#7 DEMON’S CLAWS The Defrosting of… In the Red
#8 JESSICA HERNANDEZ AND THE DELTAS Weird Looking Women in to Many Cloths self-released
#9 ARTICHOKE Bees self-released
#10 PS I LOVE YOU Meet Me at the Muster Station Paper Bag
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11/8 Top Ten albums on WKNC’s Daytime shows

Artist Album Label
#1 CLOUD NOTHINGS Turning On Carpark
#2 BRENT AMAKER AND THE RODEO Please Stand By Spark and Shine
#3 BREATHE OWL BREATHE Magic Central Hometapes
#4 JESSICA HERNANDEZ AND THE DELTAS Weird Looking Women in to Many Clothes self-released
#5 ALLO DARLIN’ Allo Darlin’ Fortuna Pop
#6 HUSKY RESCUE Ship of Light Catskills
#7 GOLD PANDA Lucky Shiner Ghostly International
#8 DEMON’S CLAWS The Defrosting of… In the Red
#9 ROYAL BATHS Litanies Woodsist
#10 SHARON VAN ETTEN Epic Ba Da Bing
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11/12 Top ten albums on WKNC’s Afterhours

Artist Album Label
#1 ELECTRIC SUNSET Electric Sunset K
#2 OCTOPUS PROJECT Hexadecagon Peek-A-Boo
#3 BASSNECTAR Wildstyle [EP] Amorphous
#4 TWIN SHADOW Forget Terrible
#5 UNDERWORLD Barking V2
#6 !!! Strange Weather, Isn’t it? Warp
#7 CHROMEO Business Casual Atlantic
#8 HUNDRED IN THE HANDS Hundred in the Hands Warp
#9 BORGORE Cerulean unkown
#10 BATHS Apocalyptic Anticon
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11/12 Top Ten albums for WKNC’s Chainsaw Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 ATHEIST Jupiter Season of Mist
#2 DIO Dio at Donnington Live 1983-87 Niji
#3 POWERGLOVE Saturday Morning Apocalypse
#4 KYLESA Spiral Shadow Season of Mist
#5 BLACK ANVIL Triumvireate Relapse
#6 CRADLE OF FILTH Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa Nuclear Blast
#7 HOLY GRAIL Crisis in Utopia
#8 POWERWORLD Human Parasite SPV
#9 COUGH Ritual Abuse Relapse
#10 EVOCATION Apocalyptic