KALX 90.7FM Berkeley

waiting ...

Recent Playlist

View Schedule
Donate
--/--/--
-:--:-- --

Top 35 Albums of the Week

Week of April 16th, 2012

by

  1. Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral (4AD)
  2. Bassnectar | Vava Voom (Amorphous)
  3. A Place to Bury Strangers | Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
  4. Black Belles | S/T (Third Man)
  5. AFRICAN BLUES | Various Artists (Putmayo)
  6. Funk Ark | High Noon (ESL)
  7. Vulcanus 68 | Contours And Colours (Gigante)
  8. Strawberry Whiplash | Hits in the Car (Matinee)
  9. BEAT FRAULEINS | Various Artists (Grosse Freiheit)
  10. Lee Fields & the Expressions | Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  11. The Men | Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
  12. Twilight Sad | No One Can Ever Know (Fatcat)
  13. Nite Jewel | One Second of Love (Secretly Canadian)
  14. Ursula 1000 | Remixes EP! (ESL)
  15. Isaac Allen | Don't Smoke (Horizon)
  16. Young Prisms | In Between (Kanine)
  17. Caetano Veloso and David Byrne | Live At Carnegie Hall (Nonesuch)
  18. JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound | Want More (Bloodshot)
  19. Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
  20. Ceremony | Zoo (Matador)
  21. Burnt Ones | Black Teeth & Golden Tongues (Roaring Colonel)
  22. Brooklyn Rider | Seven Steps (S/R)
  23. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  24. Moon Hooch | S/T (S/R)
  25. Mallard | Yes on Blood (Castle Face)
  26. Ketamines | Spaced Out (Southpaw)
  27. BEAT FRAULEINS | Various Artists (Grosse Freiheit)
  28. THEESatisfaction | awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
  29. HIGHLIFE TIME VOL. 2 | Various Artists (Vampi Soul)
  30. Black Belles | S/T (Third Man)
  31. Carolina Chocolate Drops | Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
  32. Esperanza Spalding | Radio Music Society (Heads Up International)
  33. Mazzy Star | Common Burn (Rhymes of an Hour)
  34. Gentleman Jesse | Leaving Atlanta (Douchemaster)
  35. BRAVE NEW SURF | Various Artists (Double Crown)

Week of April 9th, 2012

by

  1. Robert Glasper Experiment | Black Radio (Blue Note)
  2. Young Prisms | In Between (Kanine)
  3. Hunx | Hairdresser Blues (Hardly Art)
  4. Sonic Avenues | Television Youth (Dirtnap)
  5. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  6. Thomas Carnacki | Oar of Panmuphle (Alethiometer)
  7. Lee Fields & the Expressions | Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  8. Charlotte Gainsbourg | Stage Whisper (Because)
  9. Burnt Ones | Black Teeth & Golden Tongues (Roaring Colonel)
  10. Chairlift | Something (Columbia)
  11. Truckstop Honeymoon | Steamboat in a Cornfield (Squirrel)
  12. Pepe Deluxe | Queen of the Wave (Asthmatic Kitty)
  13. Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
  14. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  15. CHIMES OF FREEDOM: THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN | Various Artists (Amnesty)
  16. La Sera | Sees the Light (Hardly Art)
  17. Moon Hooch | S/T (S/R)
  18. Funk Ark | High Noon (ESL)
  19. Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch)
  20. Scorched Transmissions | S/T (S/R)
  21. Shotgun Wedding Quintet | Tales from the Barbary Coast (Jazz Mafia)
  22. Soul Rebels Brass Band | Unlock Your Mind (Rounder)
  23. Guilty Pleasures | Summer Strange (Dusty Medical)
  24. Eux Autres | Sun Is Sunk (Bons Mots)
  25. Wax Idols | No Future (HoZac)
  26. Sleigh Bells | Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop)
  27. Thomas Carnacki | Oar of Panmuphle (Alethiometer)
  28. Gorillaz | The Singles Collection 2001-2011 (EMI)
  29. Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
  30. Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself (Mom and Pop)
  31. Erkin Koray | Mechul (Sublime Frequencies)
  32. Gentleman Jesse | Leaving Atlanta (Douchemaster)
  33. Balkan Beat Box | Give (Nat Geo)
  34. Black Belles | S/T (Third Man)
  35. Grouper | Wide (Weird Forest)

Week of April 2nd, 2012

by

  1. Smoove & Turrell | Eccentric Audio (Jalapeno)
  2. BEAT FRAULEINS | Various Artists (Grosse Freiheit)
  3. Krzysztof Penderecki/Jonny Greenwood | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, etc. (Nonesuch)
  4. Suzanne Ciani | Lixiviation (Finders Keepers)
  5. Chairlift | Something (Columbia)
  6. Grimes | Visions (4AD)
  7. Joe Louis Walker | Hellfire (Alligator)
  8. Mazzy Star | Common Burn (Rhymes of an Hour)
  9. HIGHLIFE TIME VOL. 2 | Various Artists (Vampi Soul)
  10. BRAVE NEW SURF | Various Artists (Double Crown)
  11. Anna Clyne | Blue Moth (Tzadik)
  12. Funk Ark | High Noon (ESL)
  13. Bees | Every Step's a Yes (Fiction)
  14. John K. Samson | Provincial (Epitaph)
  15. Moon Hooch | S/T (S/R)
  16. Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band | Tabla Rock (Ubiquity)
  17. Royal Baths | Better Luck Next Life (Kanine)
  18. Amazing | Gentle Stream (Subliminal Sounds)
  19. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  20. 33hZ | Nightspot (Dither Down)
  21. Mind Spiders | Meltdown (Dirtnap)
  22. Dustbowl Revival | Holy Ghost Station (S/R)
  23. Truckstop Honeymoon | Steamboat in a Cornfield (Squirrel)
  24. From the Mouth of the Sun | Woven Tide (Experimedia)
  25. M. Ward | A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
  26. Shotgun Wedding Quintet | Tales from the Barbary Coast (Jazz Mafia)
  27. Lee Fields & the Expressions | Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  28. Tycho | Dive (Ghostly International)
  29. HIGHLIFE TIME VOL. 2 | Various Artists (Vampi Soul)
  30. Grimes | Visions (4AD)
  31. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  32. Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
  33. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  34. Mazzy Star | Common Burn (Rhymes of an Hour)
  35. WEST INDIES FUNK | Various Artists (Trans Air)

Week of March 26th, 2012

by

  1. Big Pink | Future This (4AD)
  2. J. Viewz | Rivers and Homes (Om)
  3. Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band | Tabla Rock (Ubiquity)
  4. Black Belles | S/T (Third Man)
  5. Chairlift | Something (Columbia)
  6. Clark | Iradelphic (Warp)
  7. Blixt | S/T (Cuneiform)
  8. Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
  9. Gentleman Jesse | Leaving Atlanta (Douchemaster)
  10. Jazz Mafia | Limited Edition Sampler (Jazz Mafia)
  11. Sharon Van Etten | Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Lambchop | Mr. M (Merge)
  13. Gonjasufi | MU.ZZ.LE (Warp)
  14. Wax Idols | No Future (HoZac)
  15. Magnetix | Drogue Electrique (Slovenly)
  16. Goldfrapp | The Singles (Astralwerks)
  17. Sola Rosa | Get It Together (Melting Pot)
  18. Tindersticks | The Something Rain (Constellation)
  19. School of Seven Bells | Ghostory (Vagrant)
  20. Heartless Bastards | Arrow (Partisan)
  21. Laura Gibson | La Grande (Barsuk)
  22. Scorched Transmissions | S/T (S/R)
  23. BRAVE NEW SURF | Various Artists (Double Crown)
  24. First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
  25. Anna Clyne | Blue Moth (Tzadik)
  26. Matthew Shipp Trio | Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
  27. WEST INDIES FUNK | Various Artists (Trans Air)
  28. Gentleman Jesse | Leaving Atlanta (Douchemaster)
  29. Grimes | Visions (4AD)
  30. HIGHLIFE TIME VOL. 2 | Various Artists (Vampi Soul)
  31. BEAT FRAULEINS | Various Artists (Grosse Freiheit)
  32. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  33. Jimmy Cliff | Sacred Fire (Collective Sounds)
  34. Ray Charles | Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (Concord)
  35. Foxy Shazam | The Church of Rock and Roll (I.R.S)

Week of March 19th, 2012

by

  1. Matthew Shipp Trio | Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
  2. BRAVE NEW SURF | Various Artists (Double Crown)
  3. Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
  4. Comet Gain | Howl of the Lonely Crowd (What's Your Rupture)
  5. Grouper | Wide (Weird Forest)
  6. Lee Fields & the Expressions | Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  7. Balkan Beat Box | Give (Nat Geo)
  8. Afrolicious | A Dub for Mali (ESL)
  9. Monomono | The Dawn of Awareness (Tummy Touch)
  10. Lambchop | Mr. M (Merge)
  11. Moon Hooch | S/T (S/R)
  12. Eux Autres | Sun Is Sunk (Bons Mots)
  13. Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound | S/T (SideOneDummy)
  14. Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
  15. Heroin in Tahiti | Death Surf (Boring Machines)
  16. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  17. Radar Eyes | S/T (Hozax)
  18. Black Belles | S/T (Third Man)
  19. Charlotte Gainsbourg | Stage Whisper (Because)
  20. Novalima | Karimba (ESL)
  21. Mazzy Star | Common Burn (Rhymes of an Hour)
  22. ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE NICKEL & PENNY LABELS | Various Artists (Numero Group)
  23. Galactic | Carnivale Electricos (Anti-)
  24. Oren Ambarchi | Audience of One (Touch)
  25. Theresa Wong | The Unlearning (Tzadik)
  26. Zomby | Nothing (4AD)
  27. Fennesz + Sakamoto | Flumina (Touch)
  28. Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
  29. Balkan Beat Box | Give (Nat Geo)
  30. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  31. Lambchop | Mr. M (Merge)
  32. CHIMES OF FREEDOM: THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN | Various Artists (Amnesty)
  33. Truckstop Honeymoon | Steamboat in a Cornfield (Squirrel)
  34. BEAT FRAULEINS | Various Artists (Grosse Freiheit)
  35. The D | Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)

Week of March 12th, 2012

by

  1. Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
  2. Memoryhouse | The Slideshow Effect (Sub Pop)
  3. Frankie Rose | Interstellar (Slumberland)
  4. Lee Fields & the Expressions | Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  5. Gentleman Jesse | Leaving Atlanta (Douchemaster)
  6. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  7. Chairlift | Something (Columbia)
  8. Of Montreal | Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
  9. ORIGINAL SOUND OF CUMBIA | Various Artists (Soundway)
  10. Moon Hooch | S/T (S/R)
  11. WEST INDIES FUNK | Various Artists (Trans Air)
  12. Comet Gain | Howl of the Lonely Crowd (What's Your Rupture)
  13. Plimsouls | Beach Town Confidential (Alive)
  14. Grimes | Visions (4AD)
  15. Royal Baths | Better Luck Next Life (Kanine)
  16. Afrolicious | A Dub for Mali (ESL)
  17. School of Seven Bells | Ghostory (Vagrant)
  18. MINNESOTA BEATLE PROJECT VOL. 3 | Various Artists (Vega)
  19. Howler | America Give Up (Rough Trade)
  20. Grouper | Wide (Weird Forest)
  21. Heartless Bastards | Arrow (Partisan)
  22. Sola Rosa | Get It Together (Melting Pot)
  23. Jimmy Cliff | Sacred Fire (Collective Sounds)
  24. Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Out of Frequency (Red)
  25. Shlohmo | Bad Vibes (Friends of Friends)
  26. Jim White | Where It Hits You (Yep Roc)
  27. Air | Le Voyage dans la Lune (Astralwerks)
  28. WEST INDIES FUNK | Various Artists (Trans Air)
  29. Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
  30. Gonjasufi | MU.ZZ.LE (Warp)
  31. Black Truth Rhythm Band | Ifetayo (Soundway)
  32. Terry Malts | Killing Time (Slumberland)
  33. Jimmy Cliff | Sacred Fire (Collective Sounds)
  34. Soul Rebels Brass Band | Unlock Your Mind (Rounder)
  35. Sola Rosa | Get It Together (Melting Pot)