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We made it through another week here at the real San Francisco treat, 90.3 fm KUSF. In case you were wondering, some of the things you were likely to hear if you tuned in during the week of May 6-May 10, 2002 are listed below.

    Top 30
    1. the melvins, "hostile ambient takeover" (ipecac)
    2. tramps, "gonna get it" (s/r)
    3. the jon spencer blues explosion, "plastic fang" (matador)
    4. v/a, "ten years of noise pop" (amazing grease)
    5. captain beefheart and the magic band, "dust sucker" (milksafe)
    6. the white stripes, "white blood cells bonus tracks" (v2)
    7. crosstops, "truck & disorderly" (s/r)
    8. antipop consortium, "arrhythmia" (warp)
    9. mooney suzuki, "electric sweat" (gammon)
    10. buffalo daughter, "i" (emperor norton)
    11. acid mothers temple & the melting paradiso u.f.o., "in c" (squealer)
    12. tom waits, "blood money" (anti.)
    13. v/a, "rewind!" (ubiquity)
    14. james & bobby purify, "shake a tail feather!" (sundazed)
    15. piranhas, "the piranhas" (on/on switch)
    16. kid 606, "the action packed mentallist brings you th fucking jams" (turd)
    17. the hard feelings, "you won't like it..." (beerland/ dropkick)
    18. matmos/ j lesser, "matmos with j lesser live" (vague terrain)
    19. hella, "hold your horse is" (5rc)
    20. rock four, "another beginning" (rainbow quartz)
    21. the boggs, "we are the boggs we are" (the arena rock recording co.)
    22. tosca, "suzuki in dub" (!k7)
    23. robyn hitchcock, "robyn sings" (editions paf!)
    24. kodo, "mondo head" (red ink/ sony)
    25. the herbaliser, "something wicked this way comes" (ninja tune)
    26. the woggles, "live at the star bar" (blood red)
    27. v/a, "dipstick vs........" (weed)
    28. soledad brothers, "steal your soul and dare your spirit to move" (estrus)
    29. iron maiden, "rock in rio" (columbia)
    Local
    1. tramps, "gonna get it" (s/r)
    2. v/a, "ten years of noise pop" (amazing grease)
    3. crosstops, "truck & disorderly" (s/r)
    4. tom waits, "blood money" (anti.)
    5. kid 606, "the action packed mentallist brings you th fucking jams" (turd)
    6. matmos/ j lesser, "matmos with j lesser live" (vague terrain)
    7. v/a, "dipstick vs........" (weed)
    8. nubs, "s/t" (nubs-sf)
    9. jello biafra, "the big ka-boom, part one" (alternative tentacles)
    10. mx-80 sound, "live at the library" (gulcher)
    Hip-Hop
    1. antipop consortium, "arrhythmia" (warp)
    2. the herbaliser, "something wicked this way comes" (ninja tune)
    3. dan the automator, "wanna buy a monkey" (sequence)
    4. earl zinger's, "put your phazers on stun throw your health food skyward" (!k7)
    5. various turntablists, "global turntablists" (hip hop slam dj series)
    6. live human, "live" (c.o.d.)
    7. push button objects, "360 degrees remixes" (chocolate)
    8. supergenius, "sauron speaks" (suckadelic)
    9. x-ecutioners, "built from scratch" (loud)
    10. new flesh, "understanding" (big dada)
    Dance/ Electronica
    1. v/a, "rewind!" (ubiquity)
    2. kid 606, "the action packed mentallist brings you th fucking jams" (turd)
    3. matmos/ j lesser, "matmos with j lesser live" (vague terrain)
    4. tosca, "suzuki in dub" (!k7)
    5. tino's breaks, "volumes 1 & 2" (tino corp.)
    6. boards of canada, "geogaddi" (warp)
    7. zero 7, "anotherlatenight" (kinetic)
    8. johnny frigo, "collected works" (ubiquity)
    9. antibalas, "talkatif" (ninja tune)
    10. faust and shortee, "satisfaction guaranteed" (stray)
    World
    1. kodo, "mondo head" (red ink/ sony)
    2. v/a, "afro-rock vol. 1" (evolver)
    3. dennis brown, "in dub" (heartbeat)
    4. v/a, "head shot" (heart beat)
    5. v/a, "american polka" (trikont)
    6. ustad mohammad omar, "virtuoso from afghanistan" (smithsonian folkways)
    7. srikanth chary-veena, "tiger + silk" (dhwani)
    8. tango no. 9, "all them cats in recoleta / vintage piazzola" (spillhouse)
    9. dan cantrell, "divided loyalties sdtk" (odd shaped case/ bellowhead)
    Electronic
    1. john zorn's cobra & xu feng, "s.f. live " (promo)
    2. crib , "remnant" (true classical cds)
    3. the nels cline singers, "instrumentals" (crypto gramophone)
    4. richard devine, "aleamapper" (schematic)
    5. cray, "undo" (bip-hop)
    6. client/server, "end of client / server" (three lonely kaiju)
    7. l. stinkbug, "the allure of roadseide curios" (starlight furniture co.)
    8. iolini, "s/t" (cuneiform)
    9. jack dangers, "tape music" (flexidisc)
    10. steffen basho junghans, "waters in azure" (strange attractors)