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Top Ten Spins for Week of August 25th, 2008

  1. Bug - Album: London Zoo
  2. Keri Hilson - “Energy
  3. Tapes N’ Tapes - “Hang Them All”
  4. Bon Iver - Album: For Emma, Forever Ago
  5. Phoenix - “Run, Run, Run” - Album: Alphabetical
  6. Television Room - ““Coffee Houses” 
  7. Thelonious Monk - “Functional” - Album: Thelonious Himself
  8. Them, Roaring Twenties - “Harry Caray Frontier Hawkeye”
  9. The Tiger Lillies - “bad” - Album: Bad Blood Blasphemy”
  10. The Superimposers - “The Northern Song”


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Top Ten Spins for the Week of June 16th, 2008

  1. Anhai - “don’t be afraid” - Album: Live Performance
  2. Someone Loves You still, Boris Yeltsin - “Modern Mystery
  3. Snow Patrol - “how to be dead” - Album: Final Straw
  4. Dennis Wilson - Album: Pacific Ocean Blue [Reissue]
  5. Fleet Foxes - Album: Sun Giant [EP]
  6. Cut Copy - Album: in Ghost Colours
  7. Devil Doll - Album: Queen of Pain
  8. Emmylou Harris - Album: All I Intended To Be
  9. Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” - Album: Overpowered
  10. Lil Wayne - Album: Tha Carter III


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Top Ten Spins for Week of May 19th, 2008

Margot

  1. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s - Album: The Dust of Retreat
  2. Mudcrutch - “Orphan of the Storm” - Album: Mudcrutch
  3. Hercules And Love Affair - Album: Hercules And Love Affair
  4. Erykah Badu - Album: New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
  5. HEALTH - Album: DISCO
  6. Crystal Stilts - ““Crippled Croon”" - Album: Crystal Stilts
  7. Cheveu - Album: Cheveu
  8. Mates Of State - Album: Re-Arrange Us
  9. Kate Bush - Album: Hounds of Love
  10. Robyn - Album: Robyn



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Artist Profile: Mamadou and Vanessa

(Music Zeitgeist) Who?

Master kamale ngoni player, Mamadou Sidibe is from the Wassoulou Region of Mali, West Africa. Twenty-five years ago Mamadou played a groundbreaking role in transforming the music of this region from its origins in hunters’ sacred melodies; played on six string donso ngoni (hunter’s harps) to a music of philosophical observations, politics and daily life, Mamadou was one of the first to expand the instrument’s range with two extra strings, creating the popular kamale ngoni.

He has recently enhanced the kamale ngoni even further, by creating 10 and 12 string kamale n