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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)

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Top 30—WKNC’s Top Albums of the Week 8/16

Each week, the WKNC music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top charts to CMJ.

CMJ Top 200 from WKNC’s Daytime Indie Rock

Rank Artist Album Label
#1 SBTRKT SBTRKT XL-Young Turks
#2 MEMORY TAPES Player Piano Carpark
#3 MOTOPONY Motopony tinyOGRE
#4 BODIES OF WATER Twist Again Thousand Tongues
#5 MIDDLE EAST I Want That You Are Always Happy Missing Piece
#6 BALKANS Balkans Double Phantom
#7 TEAM ME Team Me Propeller
#8 BRILLIANT COLORS Again And Again Slumberland
#9 BANDANA SPLITS Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits
#10 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE Dirty Radio Partisan

CMJ Loud Rock from WKNC’s Chainsaw Rock

Rank Artist Album Label
#1 TOXIC HOLOCAUST Conjure And Command Relapse
#2 FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE Agony Nuclear Blast
#3 ANTHRAX Worship Music Sampler Megaforce
#4 SKALMOLD Baldur Napalm
#5 DIR EN GREY Dum Spiro Spero The End
#6 SVARTSOT Maledictus Eris Napalm
#7 EXHUMED All Guts, No Glory Relapse
#8 UNKIND Harhakuvat Relapse
#9 WORLD UNDER BLOOD Tactical Nuclear Blast
#10 DIRGE WITHIN “Absolution” [Single] Century Media

CMJ Hip-Hop from WKNC’s Underground

Rank Artist Album Label
#1 MF DOOM “Gazillion Ear” [Single]
#2 CANNIBAL OX Angels & Insects
#3 JEDI MIND TRICKS Put Em In The Grave
#4 PETE ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH “I Get Physical” [Single]
#5 ACTUAL PROOF “Get It Done” [Single]
#6 BIG L “Put It On” [Single]
#7 SHABAZZ PALACES Swerve The Reeping Of All That Is Worthwhile
#8 SHANE ELI I Can Do Better
#9 SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND Hello Cruel World  Fake Four
#10 MEDIAN Median’s Relief  Halftooth