Most Frequently Played New Music at KALX

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KALX Top 100 New Releases for the month of
May 2008

  1. Flight Of The Conchords - S/T (Sub Pop)
  2. Portishead - Third (Mercury Records)
  3. Clinic - Do It! (Domino)
  4. Devotchka - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti- )
  5. Yelle - Pop Up (Caroline)
  6. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti-)
  7. Del the Funky Homosapien - 11th Hour (Definitive Jux)
  8. Santogold - S/T (Downtown)
  9. Beat Circus - Dreamland (Cuneiform Records)
  10. Boris - Smile (Southern Lord)
  11. Luie Luie - Touchy (Companion Records)
  12. M83 - Saturdays=Youth (S/R)
  13. Animal Collective - Water Curses (Domino)
  14. Dodos - Visiter (FrenchKiss)
  15. Port O’Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing (S/R)
  16. Lyrics Born - Everywhere at Once (Anti-)
  17. Various Artists - NIGERIA DISCO FUNK SPECIAL (Sound Way)
  18. Rusalnaia - S/T (Camera Obscura)
  19. Matmos - Supreme Balloon (Matador)
  20. Moby - Last Night (Mute)
  21. Black Keys - Attack & Release (None Such)
  22. Crystal Castles - S/T (Last Gang)
  23. No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
  24. Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go (K)
  25. The Kills - Midnight Boom (Domino)
  26. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
  27. Subtle - ExitingARM (Lex)
  28. Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
  29. De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound (Roadrunner)
  30. Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
  31. Man Man - Rabbit Habits (Anti-)
  32. Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue (Atavistic)
  33. Neon Neon - Stainless Style (Lex)
  34. The Morning Benders - Talking Through Tin Cans (Plus One)
  35. Shy Child - Noise Won’t Stop (Kill Rock Stars)
  36. Okmoniks - Party Fever!!! (Slovenly)
  37. Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD)
  38. Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
  39. Microphones - The Glow pt. 2 (K)
  40. Steve Reich - Daniel Variations (Nonesuch)
  41. Various Artists - NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL (Sound Way)
  42. Rupa and the April Fishes - Extraordinary Rendition (Cunbancha)
  43. Various Artists - CAROLINA FUNK (Jazzman)
  44. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Downtown)
  45. Auktyon - Girls Sing (s/r)
  46. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen (Young Turks)
  47. Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (XL)
  48. Various Artists - BIPPP: FRENCH SYNTH WAVE 1979-85 (Everloving Inc. )
  49. Various Artists - AMERICAN BOOGIE DOWN (BBE)
  50. Or the Whale - Light Poles and Pines (S/R)
  51. Carole King - Tapestry [Deluxe] (Legacy)
  52. Bauhaus - Go Away White (S/R)
  53. Martyr Index - Molotov Rocktail (Meter)
  54. Various Artists - MOJO PRESENTS: THE NEW DICTIONARY OF BLUES AND SOUL (Mojo)
  55. Miss Kittin - BatBox (Nobody’s Bizzness)
  56. Mary Gauthier - Between Daylght and Dark (UMG)
  57. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold (Rhymesayers)
  58. Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Periwinkle)
  59. Big Dipper - Supercluster (Anthology) (Merge)
  60. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (Domino)
  61. Thee Oh Sees - The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In (Tomlab)
  62. Pharmacy - Choose Yr Own Adventure (Don’t Stop Beliving)
  63. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, and Blue (Warp)
  64. Vampire Weekend - S/T (XL)
  65. Various Artists - VERVE REMIXED 4 (Universal)
  66. Jim Noir - S/T (Barsuk)
  67. Cowlicks - EP (S/R)
  68. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
  69. Another Cynthia - S/T (S/R)
  70. New Bloods - The Secret Life (Kill Rock Stars)
  71. Bad Dudes - Eat Drugs (Retard Disco)
  72. Blockhead - Uncle Tony’s Coloring Book (Ninja Tune)
  73. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Christmas for the Crows (Daggerman)
  74. Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat (Central Control)
  75. Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak (Matinee)
  76. Orlando Julius - Super Afro Soul (Vampi Soul)
  77. Morrissey - Greatest Hits (Decca)
  78. Gossip - Live In Liverpool (Columbia)
  79. Dosh - Wolves and Wishes (Anticon)
  80. Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark (Columbia)
  81. Heavy - Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Counter)
  82. Monotonix - Body Language (Drag City)
  83. Mochipet - Microphonepet (Daly City Records)
  84. Death Of A Party - Red Meadows (S/T)
  85. Edmund Welles - Tooth & Claw (Zeroth Law)
  86. Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunnyside)
  87. Various Artists - AMBIENT NOT NOT AMBIENT (Audio Dregs Recordings)
  88. National - The Virginia EP (Beggars Banquet)
  89. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
  90. Apostle - Lyrical Activism (Seven Soldiers)
  91. El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars (Control Group)
  92. Jail Weddings - S/T 7" (Red wine )
  93. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues and The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute)
  94. Gang Gang Dance - Rawwar (The Social Registry)
  95. Born/Dead - The Final Collpse (Prank)
  96. Birds Of Avalon - Bazaar Bazaar (Volcom Ent)
  97. Bad Chopper - S/T (ACME)
  98. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
  99. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
  100. Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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