Top Charts

AshevilleFM 103.3 Top 30 New Spins June, 2022

 

1. Matmos   Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer   (THRILL JOCKEY)

2. Coil   Musick To Play In the Dark²   (DAIS)

3. Angel Olsen   Big Time   (JAGJAGUWAR)

4. Tony Rolando   Breakin’ Is a Memory   (IMPORTANT)

5. Pearly   Silver of the Mirror   (ETO ANO)

6. The Dream Syndicate   Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions   (FIRE)

7. 700 Bliss   Nothing to Declare   (HYPERDUB)

8. MJ Lenderman   Boat Songs   (DEAR LIFE)

9. Darkher   The Buried Storm   (PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS)

10. DJ Travella   Mr. Mixondo   (NYEGE NYEGE TAPES)

 

11. Perfume Genius   Ugly Season   (MATADOR)

12. Anteloper   Pink Dolphins   (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)

13. Screensaver.   Expressions of Interest   (HEAVY MACHINERY)

14. Dehd   Blue Skies   (FAT POSSUM)

15. Animal Collective   Time Skiffs   (DOMINO)

16. Silvia Tarozzi   Mi specchio e rifletto   (UNSEEN WORLDS)

17. Weird Nightmare   Weird Nightmare   (SUB POP)

18. ADULT.   Becoming Undone   (DAIS)

19. Kee Avil   Crease   (CONSTELLATION)

20. Merzbow & Lawrence English   Eternal Stalker   (DAIS)

 

21. Letting Up Despite Great Faults   IV   (P-VINE)

22. Clara Engel   Their Invisible Hands   (SELF-RELEASED)

23. Lisa Leblanc   Chiac Disco   (BONSOUND)

24. Brett Naucke   Mirror Ensemble   (AMERICAN DREAM)

25. Sun’s Signature   Sun’s Signature   (PARTISAN)

26. Julian Sartorius   Mux   (MARIONETTE)

27. Glenn Jones   Vade Mercum   (THRILL JOCKEY)

28. Jazz Sabbath   Vol. 2   (BLACKLAKE)

29. Dana Fuchs   Borrowed Time   (RUF RECORDS GMBH)

30. Wednesday   Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’em Up   (ORDINAL)

Asheville FM LOCAL music SCENE chart, spring 2021

1) MJ Lenderman _ Ghost of Your Guitar Solo (Dear Life)

2) Thom Nguyen _ Exits (Sige) … Thom Nguyen plays June 24 @ Black Mountain College online; MANAS plays July 22 @ Citizen Vinyl w/Wednesday

3) Wes Tirey _ The Midwest Book of the Dead (Dear Life)

4) Fortezza _ Windmill (s/r) … Fortezza plays June 17 @ Gas Hill Drinking Room in Winston-Salem

5) Graham Sharp _ Truer Picture (Yep Roc) … Graham Sharp plays June 18 (Friday) @ The Orange Peel

6) Angel Olsen _ Song of The Lark and Other Far Memories  / Whole New Mess / Like I Used To single w/Sharon Van Etten (Jagjaguwur)

7) Hustle Souls _ Daydream Motel EP (s/r) … Hustle Souls plays June 19 @ The Backstreet Pub in Beaufort, NC; June 25 @ Tod Down in Green Mountain, NC; July 10 @ Salvage Station w/Kendall Street Company

8) Rhinestone Pickup Truck _ Happily in Dismay / Sobbing in the Moshpit / Pandemic Recordings / Covers EP (Sockhead)

9) Tongues of Fire _ Third Album (s/r) … Tongues of Fire inferno: June 25 @ Lilly’s in Boone, NC; June 26 @ Willow’s Dream Roof; July 2 @ Curiosity Coffee Bar in Columbia, SC; July 3 @ Chapel Hill; July 7 @ Richmond, Virginia; July 10 @ yard; July 25 @ The Milestone in Charlotte, NC

10) Harriers of Discord _ Plague of the Planet (Deactivist Studios) … Harriers of Discord plays June 26 @ The Orange Peel (w/Sang Sarah)

11) Aaron Price _ Voyager (s/r)

12) Colin Miller _ Hook EP (Oof) 

13) Fantomex _ Consent Agenda (s/r) 

14) Feminazgul _ Awenden / Feminazgul split (Tridroid) 

15) Reigning Sound _ A Little More Time With Reigning Sound (Merge)

16) Wolf Laurel _ Animal Intent (s/r)

17) Broken Family _ The Broken Family Album (s/r)

18) Carpal Tuller _ Ore (s/r) 

19) Slow Packer _ This Life and the Next EP (s/r)

20) The Get Right Band _ Itchy Soul (Head Heart and Hips) … Get Right Band plays June 25 w/Cracker @ The Senate in Columbia, SC; July 3 @ Grove Winery & Vineyards in Altamahaw, NC

21) Tin Roof Echo _ Mornings Are For Singing / Lost Gems & False Starts (s/r)

22) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (s/r) … Firecracker Jazz Band plays June 20 matinee (Sunday) @ The Grey Eagle

23) Bleedseason _ Afterbirth (s/r) … Bleedseason plays July 3 w/Strange Gods, Thieves of Always @ Capone’s in Johnson City, TN

24) The Jangling Sparrows _ Boostraps and Other American Fables (s/r) … Jangling Sparrows Duo plays July 8 @ 185 King Street in Brevard, NC

25) Dave Desmelik _ Afterthoughts (s/r)

26) Lo Wolf _ Singe (s/r) … Lo Wolf plays June 30 @ The Grey Eagle patio

27) Modern Strangers _ Dangerous Fiction (s/r) … Modern Strangers play Oct. 22 The Rocky Horror Picture Show @ Asheville Music Hall

28) Savannah Hatfield _ Liminal (s/r)

29) Eleanor Underhill _ Land of the Living (s/r) … Eleanor Underhill and Friends play June 25 @ The Orange Peel w/Chilltonic

30) Bonny Dagger _ Good Enough / Testing Ladders / Rockets Set, Go! / Nothing to See / Shake Up singles (s/r)

31) Bless Your Heart (feat. Lo Wolf) _ Bills and Hell to Pay single (s/r) 

32) Dude Babe _ My Special Place / Clean singles (s/r)

33) Valravne _ Some Kind of Vampire (s/r)

34) Good Trauma  _ 25 Years (s/r)

35) Pleasure Chest _ Blood Runs Cold / Gonna Be Alright (Girth)

36) Frances Eliza _ Selkirk single (s/r) 

37) Gold Rose _ Dust (s/r)

38) Julia Sanders _ Jersey Girl (s/r) … Julia Sanders plays June 26 @ Fleetwood’s w/Ashes By Now

39) Kathryn O’Shea _ January 9th (s/r)

40) Ouroboros Boys _ Broken Road / Only You Will Know split w/Bad Molly (s/r)

41) The 40,20,10’s _ Escenas EP (s/r)

42) Krave Amiko _ Before the Words (s/r)

43) Random Animals _ The Climb (s/r) … Random Animals play July 23 @ Mills River Brewing; July 29 @ One World Brewing West

44) Eat the Label _ The Honey Bear in Dreams (s/r) 

45) Call the Next Witness _ Monsters (s/r)

46) Cold Choir _ Paper Flowers single (s/r)

47) Fashion Bath _ defundamentals (s/r)

48) John Kirby and the New Seniors _ various singles (s/r) … John Kirby and the New Seniors play July 17 and August 13 @ The Greenhouse Moto Cafe w/We Have Ignition in Mills River, NC

49) Day & Dream _ Rabbit Hole single (s/r)

50) Secret Shame _ Dissolve / Pure single (s/r) … Secret Shame play August 13, 2021 w/NAW, Tears for the Dying @ Flicker Theatre & Bar in Athens, GA

51) Steep Canyon Rangers _ Arm in Arm (Yep Roc)

52) Shutterings _ How to Drown (s/r)

53) Ray Lark _ Take Me Away in the Night single (Crooked Ghost)

54) SHUN _ Shun (s/r) … SHUN plays June 26 w/Witchpit and FireNest @ GroundZero in Spartanburg, SC

55) The Resonant Rogues _ Autumn of the World (s/r) … Resonant Rogues play June 16 (Wednesday) @ The Grey Eagle patio

56) Cloud City Caskets _ Lowbrow Art and Petty Crime (s/r) … Cloud City Caskets plays June 19 (Saturday) @ Sly Grog Lounge w/The Shrünken Heads, Silver Tongue Devils

57) The Shrünken Heads _ Raw ‘n’ Dirty (s/r) … The Shrünken Heads play June 19 (Saturday) @ Sly Grog Lounge w/ Silver Tongue Devils, Cloud City Caskets

58) Hit Dogs _ Summon the Shaman (s/r)

59) GÄK _ We Want More single (Murder Brain) … GÄK plays June 18 (Friday) @ Fleetwood’s w/Bad Vibes, Night Beers

60) Thieves Like Us _ 17 Sisters (s/r) … Thieves Like Us play June 19 ( Saturday) @ Fleetwood’s w/ Darby Wilcox

61) Vaden Landers _ Broken Down and Honky Tonk Bound (Big Tone) …. Vaden Landers plays June 19 @ Pukkett’s in Pigeon Forge, TN; June 20 (Sundays, 3pm @) Asheville Club; July 3 @ Big Pillow Brewing in Hot Springs, NC

62) Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats _ Always With You single / Cabin Fever (s/r) … Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats play June 19 (Saturday) @ The Orange Peel

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(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Hip Hop, World, Electronic, HEAVY/LOUD o))), Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, spring 2021

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Hip Hop

1 SCOTCH ROLEX _ Tewari (Hakuna Kulaa)

2 FREDDIE GIBBS _ “Big Boss Rabbit” [Single] (s/r)

3 OUI ENNUI _ L’esprit De L’escaliar (s/r)

4 KOTA THE FRIEND _ To Kill a Sunrise (Fltbys LLC)

5 BENNY THE BUTCHER _ The Plugs I Met 2 (Black Soprano Family)

6 BROCKHAMPTON _ ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE (Question Everything/RCA)

7 J COLE _ The Off-Season (Dreamville) 

8 OPEN MIKE EAGLE _ Anime, Trauma And Divorce (Auto Reverse)

9 GOTHAM (TALIB KEWLI AND DIAMOND D) _ Gotham (Dymond Mine)

10 SHABAZZ PALACES _ “20 Gear Science” [Single] (Sub Pop)

(Hip Hop compiled by Donovan Quixote)

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World Music

1. WAU WAU COLLECTIF – Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)

2. ELECTRIC JALABA – El Hal – The Feeling (Strut)

3. DJ BLACK LOW – Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

4. V/A – SATURDAY NIGHT: SOUTH AFRICAN DISCO POP HITS 1981-1987 (Cultures Of Soul)

5. FRENTE CUMBIERO – Cera Perdida (Biche)

6. HAILU MERGIA AND THE WALIAS BAND – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

7. AFROSOUND – La Danza De Los Mirlos (Vampisoul)

8. V/A – EDO FUNK EXPLOSION VOL 1 (Analog Africa)

9. MDOU MOCTAR – Afrique Victime (Matador/Beggars Group)

10. EVA QUARTET – Minka (Riverboat)

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Electronic

1. OUI ENNUI – L’esprit De L’escalier (Self-Released)

2. KRAAK AND SMAAK – Pleasure Centre Remixed (Boogie Angst) 

3. MOUSE ON MARS – AAI (Thrill Jockey)

4. BIOTA – Sistema Organico (Tropical Twista) 

5. DJ BLACK LOW – Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

6. ISHTAR SR – Divine Ecdysis (Grimalkin)

7. NUMA GAMA – Memorias De Oneyda (Self-Released) 

8. MYD – Born A Loser (Because/Ed Banger)

9. HALAL SOL – Dijamin (Darker Than Wax)

10. ANCHORSONG – Mirage (Tru Thoughts)

(World and Electronic compiled by Marissa)

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Experimental music Top Ten

1. Yoshi Wada _ “The Appointed Cloud” (Saltern)

2. Only Now X Orogen _ “Avuls” (Sucat Tapes)

3. Masma Dream World _ “Play at Night” (Northern Spy)

4. Roomful of Teeth _ “Just Constellations” (New Amsterdam)

5. Jennifer Walshe _ “A Late Anthology of Early Music, Vol 1: Ancient to Renaissance” (Tetbind)

6. People Like Us _ “Welcome Abroad”-(FREE MUSIC ARCHIVES)

7. Kaki King _ “Modern Yesterdays” (CANTALOUPE)

8. Thor & Friends _ “3” (JOYFUL NOISE)

9. Carl Stone _ “Stolen Car” (UNSEEN WORLDS)

10. Birthday Ass _ “Head of the Household” (RAMP LOCAL)

(Experimental compiled by Dogeye)

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HEAVY / LOUD chart

1) Here Lies Man _ Ritual Divination (RidingEasy)

2) Tunic _ Exhaling (Artoffact)

3) Feminazgul _ Awenden / Feminazgul split (Tridroid)

4) Terminal Bliss _ Err/ata (Relapse)

5) Hammerhedd _ Grand Currents (s/t)

6) Genghis Tron _ Dream Weapon (Relapse)

7) Mannequin Pussy _ Perfect EP (Epitaph)

8) Children With Dog Feet _ Curb Your Anarchy (Toxic State)

9) Mister _ Espejismo EP (Not Normal)

10) Fairytale _ Fairytale EP (Desolate)

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Seasonal Top 30 Chart for plays from March 2021 through first week of June 2021

1) Adrian Younge _ The American Negro (Jazz Is Dead)

2) MJ Lenderman _ Ghost of Your Guitar Solo (Dear Life)

3) Camera _ Prosthuman (Bureau B)

4) Lukas Ligeti _ That Which has Remainded…That Which Will Emerge… (Col Legno)

5) Thom Nguyen _ Exits (Sige)

5) Dinosaur Jr. _ Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)

6) Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders _ Promises (feat. London Symphony Orchestra) (Luaka Bop)

7) Dry Cleaning _ New Long Leg (4 AD)

7) Toshiyuki Hiraoka _ Waterphone II (Edgetone)

7) Birthday Ass _ Head of the Household (Ramp Local)

7) Carl Stone _ Stolen Car (Unseen Worlds)

8) Bobby Ramone _ Rocket to Kingston (Guerilla Asso)

8) The Notwist _ Vertigo Days (Morr Music)

8) Spiritualized _ Lazer Guided Melodies (Fat Possum)

8) Mogwai _ As the Love Continues (Temporary Residence Limited)

9) Here Lies Man _ Ritual Divination (RidingEasy)

9) Reigning Sound _ A Little More Time with Reigning Sound (Merge)

9) John Bence _ Love (Thrill Jockey)

9) Sink Tapes _ Like Snakes on Sandpaper (a Collection 2010-2020) (Mint 400)

10) Fake Fruit _ Fake Fruit (Rocks in Your Head)

10) Tele Novela _ Merlynn Belle (Kill Rock Stars)

11) Alice Phoebe Lou _ Glow (s/r)

11) Blood Lemon _ Blood Lemon (s/r)

11) Wes Tirey _ The Midwest Book of the Dead (Dear Life)

11) Katy Kirby _ Cool Dry Place (Keeled Scales)

11) The Fall _ Live At St Helens Technical College ’81 (Castle Face)

11) Colin Cannon _ Mcgolrick (Infrequent Seams)

11) Juliana Hatfield _ Blood (American Laundromat)

12) Angel Olsen _ Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories (Jagjaguwar)

12) Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio _ I Told You So (Colemine)

12) Grave Flowers Bongo Band _ Strength of Spring (Castleface)

12) John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez _ Moon-Drenched (Castleface) 

12) Jon Mueller _ Family Secret (American Dreams)

12) Linda Smith _ Till Another Time: 1988-1996 (Captured Tracks)

12) Pardoner  _ Came Down Different (Bar/None)

12) Thor and Friends _ 3 and 4 (Joyful Noise)

13) CLAMM _ Beseech Me (Meat Machine)

13) Cloud Nothings _ The Shadow I Remember (Carpark)

13) Field Music _ Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries)

13) Front Line Assembly _ Mechanical Soul (Metropolis)

13) Godspeed You! Black Emperor _ G_d’s Pee At State’s End! (Constellation)

13) New York Disco Orchestra _ Reverie (Espacial) 

13) Sun June _ Somewhere (Run For Cover)

13) The Besnard Lakes _ The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)

13) The Fleshtones _ Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)

13) The Kills _ Little Bastards (Domino)

13) The Pink Stones _ Introducing… the Pink Stones (Normaltown)

14) CHAI _ Wink (Sub Pop)

14) Gary Numan _ Intruder (BMG)

14) Guided By Voices _ Earth Man Blues (GBV Inc.)

14) Hypoluxo _ Hypoluxo (Broken Circles)

14) Knoxville Girls _ In A Ripped Dress (Bang!)

14) Lael Neale _ Acquainted with Night (Sub Pop)

14) Small Black _ Cheap Dreams (100% Electronica)

14) TEKE::TEKE _ Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars) 

14) The Orielles _ La Vita Olistica (Heavenly)

14) Uni _ Quaranteen EP (Chimera)

14) Vitamin _ Recordings 1981 (Don Giovanni)

15) Fana Hues _ Hues (Bright Antenna)

15) Jaimie Branch _ FLY or DIE LIVE (International Anthem)

15) Julien Baker _ Little Oblivions (Matador)

15) Marissa Nadler _ Instead of Dreaming (Sacred Bones)

15) Martin Gore _ The Third Chimpanzee EP (Mute)

15) Mouse On Mars _ Aai (Thrill Jockey)

15) Natural Information Society _ descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (feat. Evan Parker) (Eremite)

 

15) serpentwithfeet _ Deacon (Secretly Canadian) 

15) Spirit Award _ Lunatic House (Share It)

15) St. Vincent _ Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista)

15) Terry Gross _ Soft Opening (Thrill Jockey)

15) Tune-Yards _ sketchy. (4 AD)

15) Valley Maker _ When the Day Leaves (Frenchkiss)

15) Yo Kinky _ Yo Kinky EP (s/r)

16) Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy _ singles (Drag City)

16) Working Men’s Club _ Working Men’s Club (Heavenly)

16) Body Double _ Milk Fed (Zum)

16) Sharon Van Etten _ Epic Ten (Ba Da Bing!)

16) Boise Cover Band _ Unoriginal Artists (Ernest Jenning)

16) Damien Jurado _ The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania (Maraqopa) 

16) Iceage _ Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer) 

16) Jane Weaver _ Flock (Fire)

16) Lana Del Rey _ Chemtrails Over the Country Club (Polydor) 

16) Love Tractor _ Love Tractor (Hhbtm)

16) Manslaughter 777 _ World Vision Perfect Harmony (Thrill Jockey)

16) Alina Kalancea _ Impedance (Important)

16) Nick Cave & Warren Ellis _ Carnage (Goliath) 

16) Noah _ Brain Suck (Guerssen)

16) Bobby Lee _ Origin Myths (Tompkins Square)

16) Noveller _ Arrow (Ba Da Bing!)

16) Roomful of Teeth _ Michael Harrison: Just Constellations EP (New Amsterdam)

16) Teenage Fanclub _ Endless Arcade (Merge) 

16) The Body _ I’ve Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey)

16) The Chills _ Destiny (Fire) 

16) TV Priest _ Uppers (Sub Pop)

16) Visionist _ A Call to Arms (Mute)

16) Waxahatchee _ Saint Cloud +3 (Merge)

17) Cory Hanson _ Pale Horse Rider (Drag City)

17) Elsa Hewitt _ Lupa (Tompkins Square)

17) A Certain Ratio _ ACR:EPA (Mute)

17) Ken Field _ Transmitter (Neuma)

18) Plankton Wat _ Future Times (Thrill Jockey)

18) Cabaret Voltaire _ Shadow of Fear (Mute)

19) Vapor Theories _ Celestial Scuzz (Fire)

19) Coil _ Musick To Play In The Dark (Dais)

20) Flock of Dimes _  Head of Roses (Sub Pop)

21) Future Islands _ As Long As You Are (4 AD)

22) Ganser _ Just Look At That Sky (Felte)

23) Goat Girl _ On All Fours (Rough Trade) 

24) Gorillaz _ Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Warner Bros.)

25) Graham Sharp _ Truer Picture (Yep Roc)

26) Genghis Tron _ Dream Weapon (Relapse)

27) Iron and Wine _ Archive Series Volume, No. 5: Tallahassee Recordings (Sub Pop)

28) Japanese Breakfast _ Jubilee (Dead Oceans)

28) Jeff Rosenstock _ SKA DREAM (polyvinyl)

28) Kero Kero Bonito _ Civilisation I & II (Polyvinyl)

28) Freak Genes _ Power Station (Feel It)

28) Colleen _ The Tunnel and the Clearing (Thrill Jockey)

28) Kevin Morby _ Sundowner (Dead Oceans)

29) Lula Wiles _ Shame and Sedition (Smithsonian Folkways)

30) Mannequin Pussy _ Perfect EP (Epitaph)

30) Mdou Moctar _ Afrique Victime (Matador)

30) The Archaeas _ The Archaeas (Goner)

30) The Deathray Davies _ Time Well Wasted (We Know Better)

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, March 8-14, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
2. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
3. Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – 25 Years Under The Mountain (EDGETONE)
4. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
5. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)

6. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
7. Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
8. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
9. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
10. Frode Gjerstad / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 METAL PREYERS _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
2 CEU _ “Coreto” [Single] (Six Degrees)
3 ONIPA _ We No Be Machine (Strut)
4 OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
5 VULA VIEL _ What’s Not Enough About That? (Self-Released)

6 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
7 BUSCABULLA _ Regresa [Advance Tracks] (Ribbon)
8 EKITI SOUND _ Abeg No Vex (The Remixes Vol 1) [EP] (Crammed)
9 HAILU MERGIA _ Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
10 LIDO PIMIENTA _ Miss Colombia [Advance Tracks] (Anti-)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Mosses – T.V. Sun (ANYWAY)
2. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (TWENTY ONE EIGHTY TWO RECORDING COMPANY)
3. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Jessica Ekomane – Multivocal (IMPORTANT)
5. Negatviland – True False (SEELAND)

6. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
7. Peter Zummo – Deep Drive (TIN ANGEL)
8. Emptyset – Blossoms (THRILL JOCKEY)
9. JOYFULTALK – A Separation of Being (CONSTELLATION)
10. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, March 8-14, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Mosses _ T.V. Sun (Anyway)
2.) 16) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds / Matador)
3.) Sunn Trio _ Electric Esoterica (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)
4.) Stephen Malkmus _ Traditional Techniques (Matador)
5.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)

6.) 5) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)
7.) 6) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)

8.) 10) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

9.) 21) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)

10.) U.S. Girls _ Heavy Light (4AD) … U.S. Girls scheduled to visit May 3 @ The Grey Eagle w/Bonjay

11.) Metal Preyers _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
12.) Slander Tongue _ Slander Tongue (Slovenly Recordings)
13.) 4) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
14.) 13) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
15.) 14) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)

16.) Caribou _ Suddenly (Merge)
17.) 9) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
18.) 30) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)
19.) Jessica Ekomane _ Multivocal (Important)
20.) Vundabar _ Either Light (Gawk)

21.) 25) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

22.) 15) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)
23.) 19) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
24.) Squirrel Flower _ I Was Born Swimming (Full Time Hobby)

25.) X) 15) 26) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge) … Torres scheduled to play May 24 @ The Mothlight

26.) Shane Parish _ Death Bell Knellin’ (Weird Cry) … Asheville artist … album release show to be rescheduled

27.) 28) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
28.) SUSS _ High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
29.) XX) 7) 3) 21) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
30.) Parker Longbough _ Green and Gold / Drink the Hemlock (Wilderhood)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 23-March 7, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
2. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
3. Erroll Garner – That’s My Kick (MACK AVENUE)
4. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
5. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)

6. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
7. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
8. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
9. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
10. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 MAMMAN SANI _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2 CALIBRO 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
3 THE HELIOCENTRICS _ Infinity Of Now (Madlib Invazion)
4 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
5 SOTOMAYOR _ Ori­genes (Wonderwheel)

6 INTENTA: EXPERIMENTAL AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM SWITZERLAND 1981-93 (Bongo Joe)
7 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS 70s – 80s (Bongo Joe)
8 UZELLI ELEKTRO SAZ 1976-1984 (Uzelli)
9 EMICEDA LIBRE AND IBEYI _ AmarElo (Sterns)
10 ISLANDMAN _ Kaybola (MusicFor Dreams)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 HELIOCENTRICS, THE Infinity Of Now Madlib Invazion
2 LITTLE DRAGON “Hold On” [Single] Ninja Tune
3 VILLAELVIN Headroof Hakuna Kulala
4 PRINCESS NOKIA Everything is Beautiful Self-Released
5 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL/Beggars Group

6 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala
7 RAEKWON The Appetition [EP] Ice H20
8 ROYCE DA 5’9″ The Allegory Heaven Studios/Entertainment One
9 LIL WAYNE Funeral Republic
10 LOREN ODEN “Is There A Way?” [Single] Linear Labs

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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HEAVY top 10

1 LIGHTNING BOLT Sonic Citadel Thrill Jockey
2 HORSE LORDS The Common Task Northern Spy
3 LUSTMORD First Reformed (OST) Vaultworks
4 SIGHTLESS PIT Grave Of A Dog Thrill Jockey
5 CHELSEA WOLFE Birth Of Violence Sargent House

6 ASEETHE Throes Thrill Jockey

7 EARTH COLLIDER Twilight of Man 1626849 DK
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Really Bad Music for Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G Three One G
9 VLADISLAV DELAY Rakka Cosmo Rhythmatic
10 BAD RELIGION Age Of Unreason Epitaph

(compiled by HEAVY music director Dr. No)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
2. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
3. Land of Kush – Sand Enigma (CONSTELLATION) f
4. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church-September 3rd, 2004 (2182 RECORDINGS)
5. Brett Naucke – Electroinic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)

6. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)
7. Kink Gong/Li Daiguo – Dali China (AKUPHONE)
8. Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (BACKWARD MUSIC)
9. Yann Tiersen – Portrait (MUTE)
10. Oval – SCIS (THRILL JOCKEY)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 23-March 7, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 2) Mamman Sani _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2.) 18) 1) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
3.) Calibro 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
4.) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
5.) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)

6.) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)
7.) SUSS _ High Line (Northern Spy)
8.) 8) The Heliocentrics _ Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion)
9.) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)

10.) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … plays album release show Saturday, March 14 @ The Mothlight w/Asheville City Horns, The Screamin’ J’s

11.) Dan Deacon _ Mystic Familiar (Domino)
12.) Xx6) 5) 15) 3) Angel Bat Dawid _ The Oracle (International Anthem)
13.) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
14.) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)
15.) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)

16.) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds)
17.) X) 18) 7) 19) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
18.) Audrey Ochoa _ Frankenhorn (Chronograph Records / Fontana North)
19.) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
20.) BEX _ Don’t Mess With Bexas EP (s/r)

21.) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)
22.) Horse Lords _ The Common Task (Northern Spy)
23.) Soil & “Pimp” Sessions _ Man Steals the Stars (Red River / Victor)
24.) 11) The Thompsons _ I’ll Get Over It (BCW)
25.) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal)

26.) 3) 4) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

27.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church (Twenty One Eighty)
28.) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
29.) 6) Arbouretum _ Let It All In (Thrill Jockey)
30.) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, R&B/Soul, Hip Hop, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 16-22, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (ROGUE ART)
2. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
3. Matthew Shipp/Mark Helias/Gordon Grdina – Skin & Bones (NOT TWO)
4. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
5. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)

6. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
7. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
8. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
9. Human Feel – Gold (INTAKT)
10. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 MAMMAN SANI Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 Sahel Sounds
2 ANTIBALAS Fu Chronicles Daptone
3 SOTOMAYOR Orígenes Wonderwheel
4 VULA VIEL What’s Not Enough About That? Self-Released
5 SANGIT Librar [Advance Tracks] Cumbancha Discovery

6 OUMOU DIABATE ET KARA SHOW SOUMBA FRIFRI Music from Saharan WhatsApp 02 Sahel Sounds
7 JUNGLE FIRE Jungle Fire Nacional
8 MUTAO WITH ATILLA ENGIN Turkish Delight ARSIVPLAK
9 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS (70S – 80S) VARIOUS ARTISTS Bongo Joe
10 MOGADISCO; DANCING MOGADISHU (SOMALIA 1972-1991) VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa

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R&B/Soul Top Ten Chart
1 HELIOCENTRICS “Burning Wooden Ship” [Single] Madlib Invazion
2 THOMPSONS, THE I’ll Get Over It Brewerytown Beats
3 EPHEMERALS The Third Eye Jalapeno
4 SPARKLE Sparkle Cultures Of Soul
5 CROSS ISLAND “East of the Apple” [Single] Kalita

6 JAMES REESE AND THE PROGRESSIONS Wait For Me: The Complete Works 1967- 1972 Now-Again
7 YIA TALENT HUNT WINNERS VARIOUS ARTISTS Big Crown
8 SELECT LEVEL Select Level Wax Thematique
9 ARMED GANG, THE “All I Want” [Single] Espacial Discos
10 JAMES HUNTER SIX Nick Of Time [Advance Tracks] Daptone

(compiled by World Music & R&B/Soul director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 HELIOCENTRICS Infinity of Now Madlib Invazion
2 GANG STARR One Of The Best Yet Self-Released
3 D SMOKE “Fly” [Single] Self-Released
4 KAYTRANADA Bubba RCA
5 THUNDERCAT “Dragonball Durag” [Single] Brainfeeder

6 JAMILA WOODS LEGACY! LEGACY! Jagjaguwar
7 VILLAELVIN Headroof Hakuna Kulala
8 ROYCE DA 5′ 9″ “Black Savage” [Single] Entertainment One
9 FRED THE GODSON God Level TCF
10 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Jeff Synder – Concerning the Nature of Things (CARRIER)
2. Jessica Pavone String Ensemble – Brick and Mortar (BIRDWATCHER)
3. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow (PALILALIA)
4. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
5. Brett Naucke – Elctronic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)

6. Michael Vincent Waller – Moments (UNSEEN WORLDS)
7. Bana Haffar-Genera – Live at AB Salon, Brussels (TOUCH)
8. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
9. Horse Lords -The Common Task (NORTHERN SPY)
10. Drekka – Beings of ImberIndus (712882 Records DK)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 16-22, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Matthew Shipp / Nate Wooley – What If? (Rogue Art)
2.) Mamman Sani _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)

3.) 4) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

4.) Kedama _ The Complete Collection (Castle Face)

5.) 20) 10) 15) 5) of Montreal _ UR FUN (polyvinyl) … of Montreal plays Feb. 28 @ The Orange Peel with Lily Konigsberg

6.) Arbouretum _ Let It All In (Thrill Jockey)
7.) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
8.) The Heliocentrics _ Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion)
9.) 14) Isobel Campbell _ There Is No Other (Cooking Vinyl)

10.) Death Hags _ Big Grey Sun #1 (s/r) … Death Hags (Los Angeles) plays March 6 (a Friday)
@ Static Age w/The Cowboys (Indianapolis)

11.) The Thompsons _ I’ll Get Over It (BCW)
12.) Sotomayor _ Orígenes (Wonderwheel)
13.) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
14.) Jung Jae Il _ Parasite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sacred Bones)

15.) 26) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge) … Torres plays May 24 @ The Mothlight

16.) 2) 19) The Homesick _ The Big Exercise (Sub Pop)
17.) 16) Eldridge Rodriguez _ Slightest of Treason (Midriff)
18.) 1) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
19.) 19) 9) 13) 8) En Attendant Ana _ Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
20.) 17) Marinara _ I Feel Like Dog (s/r)

21.) 23) 17) 12) 6) Sarah Mary Chadwick _ Please Daddy (Sinderlyn)
22.) Erroll Garner _ Up in Erroll’s Room (Octave)
23.) Applesauce Tears _ Wonders (Black Cottage)
24.) 9) 5) 3) Apocalyptica _ Cell-O (Silver Lining)

25.) 25) 25) Wye Oak _ Fear of Heights [single] (Merge Records) … Wye Oak plays Feb. 27 (Thursday) @ The Mothlight w/Ohmme

26.) 12) 2) Ephemerals _ The Third Eye (Jalapeno)
27.) 8) 18) Nada Surf _ Never Not Together (Barsuk)
28.) 13) Son Little _ Aloha (Anti-)
28.) 28) X) 27) Friendship _ Dreamin’ (Orindal)
30.) MY BABY _ Live! (Prehistoric Rhythm)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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