Most Frequently Played New Music at KALX

...the radio station

KALX Top 100 New Releases for the month of
October 2008

  1. Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Subpop)
  2. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  3. All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking Into It (S/R)
  4. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (Atlantic)
  5. TV On the Radio - Dear Science, (Interscope)
  6. The Ettes - Look At Life Again Soon (Walking Around Sense)
  7. Antony And The Johnsons - Another World (Secretly Canadian)
  8. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (Columbia)
  9. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  10. Calexico - Carried To Dust (Quarter Stick)
  11. Koushik - Out My Window (Stones Throw)
  12. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles ‘08 (Matador)
  13. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
  14. Musee Mecanique - Hold This Ghost (Frog Stand)
  15. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
  16. Lulu - Something to Shout About (Rev-Ola)
  17. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
  18. El Guincho - Alegranza (XL Recordings)
  19. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
  20. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Constellation)
  21. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs (Deaf, Dumb and Blind)
  22. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
  23. Passion Pit - Chunk of Change (French Kiss)
  24. Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead (Anti-)
  25. Bostich + Fussible - Tijuana Sound Machine (Nacional)
  26. Cyro Baptista - Banquet Of The Spirits (Tzadik)
  27. Moondoggies - Don’t Be a Stranger (Hardly Art)
  28. Little Teeth - Child Bearing Man (Absolutely Kosher)
  29. Mexican Institute of Sound - Pinata (Nacional)
  30. Mission Of Burma - VS. [Deluxe] (Matador)
  31. Apollo Sunshine - Shall Noise Upon (Headless Heroes)
  32. Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Why Is Bear Billowing? (Carpark)
  33. Marnie Stern - This Is It... (Kill Rock Stars)
  34. High Decibels - HD (Rolling Jack)
  35. Aufgehoben - Khora (Holy Mountain)
  36. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner)
  37. gilberto gil - expresso 2222 (water)
  38. Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
  39. Mavis Staples - Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti)
  40. Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino)
  41. Golden Smog - Stay Golden, Smog (Rhino)
  42. Stereolab - Spool of Collusion (4ad)
  43. Music Tapes - Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes (Merge)
  44. Various Artists - CALYPSOUL70 (Strut)
  45. Polysics - We Ate The Machine (S/R)
  46. Miles Davis - Muted Miles (Prestige)
  47. CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
  48. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin (Matador)
  49. Hexen - State Of Insurgency (Old School Metal)
  50. Eddy Current Supression Ring - Primary Colours (Goner)
  51. Jorge Ben - S/T (Dusty Groove america)
  52. Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun (Epitaph)
  53. Dub Specialist - Dub (HeartBeat)
  54. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality (Record makers)
  55. Burning Spear - Jah is Real (Burning Music)
  56. Setting Sun - Children of the Wild (Young Love)
  57. Pop Levi - Never Never Love (Counter )
  58. David Axelrod - Seriously Deep (Dusty Groove America)
  59. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
  60. Starfucker - S/T (Badman)
  61. Wire - Object 47 (Cargo)
  62. Dorothy Ashby - The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby (Dusty Groove)
  63. Scott Walker - Til The Band Comes In (water)
  64. Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby - S/T (Stiff)
  65. Raashan Ahmad - The Push (Om hiphop)
  66. Robyn Hitchcock & The New Egyptians - Luminous Groove (Sampler) (Yep Roc)
  67. Japanese Motors - S/T (Vice)
  68. Man/Miracle - Pushing and Shoving / You’ve Got A Hold On Me (S/R)
  69. Sonny J - Disastro (Astralwerks)
  70. Dressy Bessy - Holler And Stomp (Transdreamer)
  71. Nightmares on Wax - Thought so... (Warp)
  72. Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo (Shorthand)
  73. Fred Frith - To Sail, To Sail (Tzadik)
  74. Jon Langford and Kat Ex - Kat Jon Band (Carrot Top)
  75. Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious (Sub Pop)
  76. Ramp - Come into Knowledge (Verve)
  77. Bart Davenport - Palaces (Antenna Farm)
  78. The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
  79. Night In The Box - Write A Letter (Afternoon)
  80. Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt (K)
  81. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk)
  82. The Streets - Everything is Borrowed (Vice)
  83. Ligeti, Lukas - Afrikan Machinery (Tzadik)
  84. Gal Costa - Gal (Dusty Groove America)
  85. Taj Mahal - Maestro (Heads Up)
  86. Women - S/T (Jagjaguwar)
  87. Alias - Resurgam (Anticon)
  88. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Scratch Came Scratch Saw Scratch Conquered
  89. Lambchop - Damaged (Merge)
  90. Soundpool - Dichotomies & Dreamland (Aloft Records)
  91. Little Jackie - The Stoop (S-curve)
  92. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme (New West)
  93. Terry Lynn - Kingstonlogic 2.0 (Last Gang)
  94. Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart (Warp)
  95. Metallica - Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
  96. Various Artists - YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! (Ace)
  97. Broken West - Now Or Heaven (Merge)
  98. Axton Kincaid - Silver Dollars (Free Dirt)
  99. Dungen - 4 (Kemaldo)
  100. Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
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