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Asheville FM Charts for the Week Ending 01/28/2012

Asheville FM Top 30 Charts:

1. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP (IN THE RED)
2. Jason Urick - I Love You (THRILL JOCKEY)
3. The Spits – s/t (V) (IN THE RED)
4. V/A - Bollywood Bloodbath (FINDERS KEEPERS)
5. Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010 (GONER)
6. Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door (SACRED BONES)
7. David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (PIAS)
8. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
9. Zombie Season – Our Living Funeral (self-released)
10. Fennesz/Sakamoto - Fluminia (TOUCH)
11. Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (DELMARK)
12. Reigning Sound - Abdication… (SCION A/V)
13. Cruddy – Negative World (12XU)
14. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – So Many Things (GONER)
15. V/A - Rahgarang (VAMPISOUL)
16. Black Truth Rhythm Band - Ifetayo (SOUNDWAY)
17. Magnetix – Drogue Electrique (SLOVENLY)
18. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Soul Time! (DAPTONE)
19. Alaric - Alaric (20 Buck Spin)
20. Carolee – EP1 (12XU)
21. Mark Sultan – Whatever, Whenever (IN THE RED)
22. Velvet Elvis – Favorite Horses (self-released)
23. Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra - The Sound of a Dream (META)
24. Organs – Get It Right (KILLER DILLER)
25. The Dead Milkmen – The King In Yellow (self-released)
26. Jeff The Brotherhood – Whatever I Want/Everything I Need (THIRD MAN)
27. Chihei Hatakeyama - Mirror (ROOM 40)
28. Gringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars (GIGANTIC)
29. Suzi Quatro – In the Spotlight (101)
30. Pterodactyl – Spills Out (BRAH)

Asheville FM Top 30 Adds:

- Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life (KANINE)
- A Place To Bury Strangers – Onwards To the Wall (DEAD OCEANS)
- Drunken Prayer – Into the Missionfold (FLUFF & GRAVY)
- Francois & The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love (DOMINO)
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks (POLYVINYL)

Asheville FM Jazz Chart:

1. Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (Delmark)
2. Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra - The Sound of a Dream (Meta)
3. Ran Blake - Grey December, Live in Rome (Tompkins Square)
4. Nils Petter Molvaer - Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear)
5. Trevor Watts/Veryan Weston - 5 More Dialogues (Emanem)
6. Denman Maroney - Double Zero (Porter)
7. Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
8. Chicago Trio - Velvet Songs To Baba Fred Anderson (RogueArt)
9. Nate Wooley - The Almond (Pogus)
10. Scoolptures - White Sickness (Leo Records)

Asheville FM World Chart:

1. V/A - Bollywood Bloodbath (FINDERS KEEPERS)
2. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
3. V/A - Rahgarang (VAMPISOUL)
4. Black Truth Rhythm Band - Ifetayo (SOUNDWAY)
5. V/A - The Original Sound of Cumbia (SOUNDWAY)
6. Novalima – Karimba (ESL MUSIC)
7. TriBeCaStan – New Deli (EVERGREEN MUSIC)
8. Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort (CRAMMED DISCS)
9. The Cambodian Space Project - 2011: A Space Odyssey (METAL POSTCARD)
10. Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. - Area 52 (ATO/RED)

Asheville FM World Adds:

- Various Artists - Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics (Nublu)

Asheville FM Loud Rock Chart:

1. Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
2. Alaric - Alaric (20 Buck Spin)
3. The Spits - S/T (In The Red)
4. Alter of Plagues - Mammal (Candlelight)
5. Wolves In the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)

Asheville FM Loud Rock Adds:

- Alcest - Les Voyages de L'Ame (Prophecy)
- Dark Suns - Orange (Prophecy)
- Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees (Relapse)
- Metallica - Beyond Magnetic EP (Warner Brothers)
- Tenhi - Saivo (Prophecy)

Asheville FM Formless/Contemporary/Classical Chart:

1. Jason Urick - I Love You (Thrill Jockey)
2. Fennesz/Sakamoto - Fluminia (Touch)
3. AELAB - Riding (Dragon's Eye)
4. Chihei Hatakeyama - Mirror (Room 40)
5. Bee Mask - Elegy for Beach Friday (Spectrum Spools)

AFM Monthly Meeting Saturday, January 28th, Noon @ The DeSoto Lounge

Folks, it's a new year, and it's time for new things at AshevilleFM! We're going to start the year with a fun experiment, and I hope you will rise to the challenge...

Who: Current volunteers at AshevilleFM, as well as some old and new faces!!!

What: A new approach to our General Meeting. We'll take 20 minutes to discuss important business, then just spend some time hangin out at...

Where: A new location, The Desoto Lounge 504 Haywood Road Asheville, NC

When: Saturday, January 28th at Noon

Why: Because we're doing some awesome things with some awesome folks, and we are hoping this will be an opportunity for you to bring a friend!

The DeSoto Lounge

Slice of Life Comedy from January 19...Stream it NOW!

Okay, you've waited long enough. The Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic at the Pulp Lounge on January 19th was a blast, and now you can hear it again. AshevilleFM is proud to present the rebroadcast of these performances. Stream it now!* NSFW

Be sure to check out Slice of Life on Facebook for more info on upcoming shows!

Asheville FM Charts for the Week Ending 01/14/2012

Asheville FM Top 30 Charts:

1. Reigning Sound - Abdication… (SCION A/V)
2. The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (CAPITOL)
3. Mark Sultan – Whatever, Whenever (IN THE RED)
4. V/A – Rangarang: Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Pop (VAMPI SOUL)
5. Cruddy – Negative World (12XU)
6. JC Satan – Hell Death Samba (SLOVENLY)
7. Swod – Drei (CITY CENTRE OFFICES)
8. Psychic Ills – Hazed Dream (SACRED BONES)
9. Tom Waits – Bad as Me (ANTI-)
10. Robert Rich – Medicine Box (SOUNDSCAPE PRODUCTIONS)
11. Magnetix – Drogue Electrique (SLOVENLY)
12. Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door (SACRED BONES)
13. Haunted House – Blues Ghost Blues (NORTHERN SPY)
14. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (TRUE PANTHER SOUNDS)
15. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
16. Vestiges - Vestiges/Ghaust Split (REPLINISH)
17. V/A - The Original Sound of Cumbia (SOUNDWAY)
18. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP (IN THE RED)
19. Wild Flag – s/t (MERGE)
20. Pimmon – The Oansome Orbit (ROOM40)
21. Luke Roberts – Big Bells & Dime Songs (THRILL JOCKEY)
22. Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (REPUBLIC)
23. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Soul Time! (DAPTONE)
24. Alan Wilkinson - Practice (BO WEAVIL)
25. Strange Boys – Live Music (ROUGH TRADE)
26. Dan Joseph – Tonalization (For the Afterlife) (MUTABLE)
27. Mournful Congregation - Book of Kings (20 BUCK SPIN)
28. The Dead Milkmen – The King in Yellow (self-released)
29. SunnO)) featuring Nurse with Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing (SOUTHERN LORD)
30. The Spits – s/t (IN THE RED)

Asheville FM Top 30 Adds:

- Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
- Claps – Wreck (GUILT RIDDEN POP)
- John C. Reilly – The John, Tom, and Becky Singles (THIRD MAN)
- Laura Gibson – La Grande (BARSUK)

Asheville FM Jazz Chart:

Jazz Director out this week.

Asheville FM World Chart:

1. V/A - Rahgarang (VAMPISOUL)
2. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
3. V/A - The Original Sound of Cumbia (SOUNDWAY)
4. Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort (CRAMMED DISCS)
5. Fauna / Super Gauchin - Para Mi (ZIZEK)
6. Novalima – Karimba (ESL MUSIC)
7. Agapi Mou - Across the Sea (s/r)
8. Above Ground - Gone Aiwa (SILTBREEZE)
9. The Cambodian Space Project - 2011: A Space Odyssey (METAL POSTCARD)
10. TriBeCaStan – New Deli (EVERGREEN MUSIC)

Asheville FM Loud Rock Chart:

1. Vestiges - Vestiges/Ghaust Split (REPLINISH)
2. Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings (20 BUCK SPIN)
3. SunnO)) featuring Nurse with Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing (SOUTHERN LORD)
4. Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness (TEMPORARY RESIDENCE)
5. Alaric - Alaric (20 BUCK SPIN)

Asheville FM Formless/Contemporary/Classical Chart:

1. Swod – Drei (CITY CENTRE OFFICES)
2. Robert Rich – Medicine Box (SOUNDSCAPE PRODUCTIONS)
3. Dan Joseph – Tonalization (For the Afterlife) (MUTABLE)
4. Sujo – Terran (INAM)
5. Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma (TOUCH)

Asheville FM DJ's Top 10 Releases Of 2011!

The highly eventful year of 2011 has come to a close with many wondering what 2012 has in store. Several of our DJ's however have recently taken a look back on the year in order to share ten reasons why 2011 was also a great year in music. Have a look!

Steven Howard (Mental Notes)
D. Charles Speer & The Helix " Leaving The Commonwealth -Thrill Jockey
Kate Bush - "50 Words For Snow" - Anti
The Beach Boys "The Smile Sessions" - Capitol
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers "Teenage and Torture" - Knitting Factory
Glenn Jones " The Wanting" - Thrill Jockey
VA I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces "Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955" - Dust-To-Digital
Bill Callahan "Apocolypse" - Drag City
Staff Benda Bilili "Tres Tres Fort" - Crammed Discs
Savaging Spires "Savaging Spires" - Critical Heights
Tom Waits "Bad As Me" - Anti

Dustin Gingrow (Ashes To Ashes)
1. Alaric - Alaric (20 Buck Spin)
2. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
3. Wye Oak - Citizen (Merge)
4. Boris - Attention Please (Sargent House)
5. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Relapse)
6. Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats - Blood Lust (Rise Above)
7. Yob - Atma (Profound Lore)
8. Swordmasters of Ginaz - Battlestar Cackalactica (Self Released)
9. Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (Profound Lore)
10. Generation Of Vipers - Howl & Filth (Red Witch)

Donnie and Casey (Straight Gaze)
Sorry we went for 15 b/c there's two of us. . .
1. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)
2. Moon Duo - Mazes (Sacred Bones)
3. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time ([PIAS])
4. The Field - Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
5. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
6. Belong - Common Era (Kranky)
7. Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries (Matador)
8. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
9. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
10. Tom Waits - Bad as Me (ANTI-)
11. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (4AD)
12. Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years (Matador)
13. Kovacs and the Polar Bear - Second Sister (Self Released)
14. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
15. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts (Matador)

Gypsy Flores (Musical Migrations)
1. I Muvrini Live Olympia AGFB 2011 Corsica
2. I Muvrini A Te Corsica AGFB 2011 Corsica
3. Stephane CasaltaFantasia Self-released 2011 Corsica
4. Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal Chamber Music Six Degrees 2011
5. Agapi Mou Across The Sea Self-released 2011 USA (Geek music)
6. Various Artists The Original Sound of Cumbia Soundway 2011 Colombia
7. The Cambodian Space Project 2011: A Space Odyssey Metal Postcard Cambodia
8. A Hawk and a Hacksaw Cervantine Self-released 2011 U.S.A.
(Balkan music)
9. Birelli Lagrene A Tribute to Django Reinhardt Jazzpont REcords 2011 France
10. Telebossa Telebossa Staubgold 2011

Erik Mattox (The UnCola)
1. Norwegian Fords-Somewhere Down the Road You'll Listen (Call Enzo)
2. The Cheeksters-The Golden Birds (Caterina Sounds)
3. Beach Boys-Smile Sessions (Capitol)
4. Geyster-Radio Geyster 1977 (Somekind)
5. Grenades For The Wall -7 (Ubetoo.com)
6. Ole Borud-Keep Movin’ (Connection)
7. Mayer Hawthorne-How Do You Do (Universal)
8. State Cows- Hard Goodbye/Center Of The Sun – 7’’ (Avenue of Allies)
9. Scritti Politti-Absolute (Virgin)
10. Fountains Of Wayne-Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc)

Kim Roney (Reel Talk/AFM News Hour)
1. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
2. Los Vigilantes - s/t (SLOVENLY)
3. Lovett - Lovett (LOVER'S LABEL)
4. Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma (SUBLIME FREQUENCIES)
5. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse (DRAG CITY)
6. Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (OH WOW DANG)
7. Madlib - Medicine Show, Vol. 12: Raw Medicine: Madlib Remixes (STONES THROW/MALIB INVASION)
8. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time ((AMERICA/SUNDAY'S BEST)
9. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime (IN THE RED)
10. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the County Gentlemen (MUTE)

Gary Strasberg (Melody In Mayhem)
1. Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
2. Evgeny Masloboew/ Anastasia Masloboeva - Russian Folksongs in the Key of Winter (Leo)
3. Chubby Wolf - Los Que No son Gentos (Dragon’s Eye)
4. Antonymes Meets Slow Dancing Society - We Don’t Look Back for Very Long (Hidden Shoals Recording)
5. Reinhold Friedl - Inside Piano (Zeitkratzer)
6. Pimmon - The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
7. Nate Wooley - The Almond (Pogus)
8. Sanso-Xtro - Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain (Digitalis)
9. Marianne Posseur - Only (Sub Rosa)
10. V/A - Experimedia Album Sampler 2011 (Experimedia)

JD Collette (Crescent Fresh Radio)
1) Electric Wizard - Black Masses (RISE ABOVE)
2) TV Ghost - Mass Dream (IN THE RED)
3) Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion (SLUMBERLAND)
4) Is/Is - This Happening?/Vowel Movement EPs (GUILT RIDDEN POP)
5) Broken Water - Peripheral Star EP (RADIO IS DOWN)
6) Landlord - Beneath the Wheel (RECESS)
7) Acid Baby Jesus - s/t (SLOVENLY)
8) Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread (DRAG CITY)
9) Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
10) Rabbits - Lower Forms (RELAPSE)

Greg Lyon (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
1. The Field – Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
2. The Skull Defekts – Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)
3. Cut Hands – Afro Noise 1 (Very Friendly, Susan Lawly)
4. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)
5. The Dirtbombs – Party Store (In the Red)
6. The Psychic Paramount – II (No Quarter)
7. Alvarius B. – Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village)
8. Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes to Town (Drag City)
9. Cruddy – Negative World (12XU)
10. Moon Duo – Mazes (Sacred Bones)

Should old aquaintance be forgot...

Thank you to The Desoto Lounge, The Vault, and all our friends who came out last night in support of local radio... we had a blast bringing in the new year with you!

2nd Annual Satellite Dance Party!

That's right, folks, New Years Eve is just around the corner! We've got your dance party covered--downtown and west-side...

9PM - close:
$10 at The Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge gets you in the door, with snacks and a champagne toast.
$5 at The Desoto Lounge covers the door to West Asheville's #1 Dive Bar!

Some of your favorite Asheville Free Media DJs will be spinning hot tunes, so come out and party with us!

Asheville FM Charts for the Week Ending 12/10/2011

Asheville FM Top 30 Charts:

1. Reigning Sound - Abdication… (SCION A/V)
2. Carolee – EP1 (12XU)
3. Strange Boys – Live Music (ROUGH TRADE)
4. Magnetix – Drogue Electrique (SLOVENLY)
5. The Beets – Let the Poison Out (HARDLY ART)
6. Landlord – Beneath the Wheel (RECESS)
7. Cruddy – Negative World (12XU)
8. Psychic Ills – Hazed Dream (SACRED BONES)
9. PUJOL – Nasty, Brutish and Short (SADDLE CREEK)
10. Moon Duo – Mazes (SACRED BONES)
11. Scoolptures - White Sickness (LEO)
12. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams (SUB POP)
13. Sao Paulo Underground - Cabecas Loucuras (CUNEIFORM)
14. Panopticon - Social Disservices (FLENSER REC)
15. Tom Waits – Bad As Me (ANTI-)
16. The Spits – s/t (V) (IN THE RED)
17. Matt Northrup – Word Is Bond (self-released)
18. Sunshine SS – Teen Choices 7” (SACRED PLAGUE)
19. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP (IN THE RED)
20. V/A - Experimedia Sampler (Experimedia)
21. Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (REPUBLIC)
22. Organs – Get It Right (KILLER DILLER)
23. Farmers By Nature - Out of This World's Distortions (AUM FIDELITY)
24. JC Satan – Hell Death Samba (SLOVENLY)
25. The Cambodian Space Project - 2011: A Space Odyssey (METAL POSTCARD)
26. Boris Hauf/Steven Hess/Keefe Jackson/Juun - Proxemics (CREATIVE SOURCES)
27. Velvet Elvis – Favorite Horses (self-released)
28. Zola Jesus – Conatus (SACRED BONES)
29. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (MUTE)
30. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Soul Time! (DAPTONE)

Asheville FM Top 30 Adds:

- Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door (SACRED BONES)
- Odonis Odonis – Hollandaze (FATCAT)
- The Black Keys – El Camino (NONESUCH)
- V/A - The Original Sound of Cumbia (SOUNDWAY)
- Fauna / Super Gauchin - Para Mi (ZIZEK)

Asheville FM Jazz Chart:

1. Scoolptures - White Sickness (Leo Records)
2. Farmers By Nature - Out of This World's Distortions (AUM Fidelity)
3. Boris Hauf/Steven Hess/Keefe Jackson/Juun - Proxemics (Creative Sources)
4. Denman Maroney - Double Zero (Porter)
5. Boris Hauf/Steven Hess/Keefe Jackson/Juun - Proxemics (Creative Sources)
6. Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble - Inana (Pi Recordings)
7. Alan Wilkinson - Practice (Bo Weavil)
8. Nils Petter Molvaer - Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear)
9. Ran Blake - Grey December, Live in Rome (Tompkins Square)
10. Sao Paulo Underground - Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)

Asheville FM World Chart:

1. Sao Paulo Underground - Cabecas Loucuras (CUNEIFORM)
2. The Cambodian Space Project - 2011: A Space Odyssey (METAL POSTCARD)
3. Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort (CRAMMED DISCS)
4. Gularewar - Halleli N'dakarou (TERENGA BEAT)
5. El Rego - El Rego (DAPTONE)
6. Black Truth Rythm Band - Ifetayo (SOUNDWAY)
7. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
8. I Muvrini - Live Olympia (AGFB)
9. Googoosh - Googoosh (B-MUSIC)
10. Omar Souleyman - Haflat Gharbia (SUBLIME FREQUENCIES)

Asheville FM World Adds:

- V/A - The Original Sound of Cumbia (SOUNDWAY)
- Fauna / Super Gauchin - Para Mi (ZIZEK)

Asheville FM Loud Rock Chart:

1. Panopticon - Social Disservices (Flenser Rec)
2. Sunshine SS - Teen Choices 7” (Scared Plague)
3. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
4. Rosetta/Junius - Rosette/Junius Split (Translation Loss)
5. Black Tusk - Set The Dial (Relapse)

Asheville FM Formless/Contemporary/Classical Chart:

1. V/A - Experimedia Sampler (Experimedia)
2. Pimmon - The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
3. Dan Joseph - Tonalization For the Afterlife (Mutable)
4. Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
5. PS Stamps Back and Olekranon - s/t (Inam)

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