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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 10/17/2022

  1. AlvvaysBlue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  2. NNAMDïPlease Have A Seat (SOOPER/Secretly Canadian)
  3. Nora O'ConnorMy Heart (Pravda)
  4. Meat WaveMalign Hex (Swami)
  5. Titus AndronicusThe Will To Live (Merge)
  6. DaphniCherry (Jiaolong)
  7. Divino NiñoLast Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  8. Danielle PonderSome Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  9. The BethsExpert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  10. PixiesDoggerel (BMG)
  11. The ClaudettesThe Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  12. DisqDesperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek)
  13. Buddy GuyThe Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  14. Indigo SparkeHysteria (Sacred Bones)
  15. Annie FishWeird Like Me (self-released)
  16. The Comet Is ComingHyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
  17. LYZZAMOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  18. JockstrapI Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  19. Makaya McCravenIn These Times (International Anthem)
  20. Kenny BeatsLOUIE (XL)
  21. Scone Cash PlayersBrooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  22. Say She ShePrism (Colemine)
  23. Yeah Yeah YeahsCool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  24. SuedeAutofiction (BMG)
  25. Blood OrangeFour Songs (RCA)
  26. Dendrons5-3-8 (Innovative Leisure)
  27. LambchopThe Bible (Merge)
  28. No AgePeople Helping People (Drag City)
  29. CourtingGuitar Music (Play It Again Sam)
  30. Air WavesThe Dance (Fire)
  31. MamalarkyPocket Fantasy (Fire Talk)
  32. The MurlocsRapscallion (ATO)
  33. Peel Dream MagazinePad (Slumberland)
  34. BjörkFossora (One Little Independent)
  35. A Shoreline DreamLoveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  36. Butcher BrownButcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  37. Built to SpillWhen The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  38. Soft and DumbSoft and Dumb (self-released)
  39. WhitneySpark (Secretly Canadian)
  40. Vieux Farka Touré et KhruangbinAli (Dead Oceans)
  41. Jesca HoopOrder of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  42. Plates Of CakeGot a Feeling That I Live Here (Western Revisions )
  43. Katie KimHour of the Ox (I Actually Like Music)
  44. Beth OrtonWeather Alive (Partisan)
  45. Sampa The GreatAs Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  46. Sudan ArchivesNatural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  47. Bleach PartyAcrylic Blends (self-released)
  48. AggiAggi Hates You (Completely) (Jigsaw)
  49. The Soft MoonExister (Sacred Bones)
  50. SEEKERSINTERNATIONALDub Displacement Dynamite! (Notype)

This week's adds

  • 1-800-MIKEY1-800-MIKEY (Erste Theke Tontrager)
  • Alien NosejobStained Glass (Total Punk)
  • Bill CallahanYTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City)
  • Black LipsApocalypse Love (Fire)
  • Comet GainThe Misfit Jukebox Vol. 3: Museum of Snarling Flowers (self-released)
  • Courtney Marie AndrewsLoose Future (Fat Possum)
  • Eerie WandaInternal Radio (Joyful Noise)
  • FazerdazeBreak! (section1)
  • Shabason & KrgovichAt Scaramouche (Idee Fixe)
  • Lucrecia Dalt¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
  • Marina AllenCentrifics (Fire)
  • MightmareCruel Liars (Kill Rock Stars)
  • PalmNicks and Grazes (Saddle Creek)
  • Pete AstorTime on Earth (Tapete)
  • PlainsI Walked With You A Ways (Anti-)
  • Push PuppetsAllegory Grey (Waterweight)
  • Rina SawayamaHold the Girl (Dirty Hit)
  • ShygirlNymph (Because)
  • SkullcrusherQuiet the Room (Secretly Canadian)
  • SloanSteady (Yep Roc)
  • Sol MessiahGOD CMPLX (Rhymesayers)
  • SorryAnywhere But Here (Domino)
  • SpartaSparta (Dine Alone)
  • THUS LOVEMemorial (Captured Tracks)
  • The Mars VoltaThe Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
  • TSHACapricorn Sun (Ninja Tune)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10/10/2022

  1. The Comet Is ComingHyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
  2. Titus AndronicusThe Will To Live (Merge)
  3. Makaya McCravenIn These Times (International Anthem)
  4. LambchopThe Bible (Merge)
  5. BjörkFossora (One Little Independent)
  6. Yeah Yeah YeahsCool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
  7. Buddy GuyThe Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  8. Divino NiñoLast Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  9. The Afghan WhigsHow Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  10. Bleach PartyAcrylic Blends (self-released)
  11. The BethsExpert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  12. Sudan ArchivesNatural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  13. Melody's Echo ChamberUnfold (Fat Possum)
  14. WhitneySpark (Secretly Canadian)
  15. LYZZAMOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  16. Danielle PonderSome Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  17. Kenny BeatsLOUIE (XL)
  18. Dendrons5-3-8 (Innovative Leisure)
  19. Vieux Farka Touré et KhruangbinAli (Dead Oceans)
  20. The ParanoydsTalk Talk Talk (Third Man)
  21. SantigoldSpirituals (Little Jerk)
  22. Alex GGod Save The Animals (Domino)
  23. The Black AngelsWilderness of Mirrors (Partisan)
  24. JockstrapI Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  25. Jesca HoopOrder of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  26. No AgePeople Helping People (Drag City)
  27. Scone Cash PlayersBrooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  28. Sampa The GreatAs Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  29. White HillsThe Revenge of Heads On Fire (Heads On Fire Industries)
  30. Beth OrtonWeather Alive (Partisan)
  31. Charles StepneyStep on Step (International Anthem)
  32. Heaven For RealEnergy Bar (Mint)
  33. Jim NothingIn the Marigolds (Meritorio)
  34. Altered ImagesMascara Streakz (Cooking Vinyl)
  35. Marlon WilliamsMy Boy (Dead Oceans)
  36. Death Cab for CutieAsphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
  37. Built to SpillWhen The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  38. The VeldtEntropy Is The Mainline To God (The Acid Test/Little Cloud)
  39. SuedeAutofiction (BMG)
  40. A Shoreline DreamLoveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  41. Rachika NayarHeaven Come Crashing (NNA)
  42. Oren AmbarchiShebang (Drag City)
  43. Annie FishWeird Like Me (self-released)
  44. Así AsíMal de Otros (Self-Released)
  45. AggiAggi Hates You (Completely) (Jigsaw)
  46. The Soft MoonExister (Sacred Bones)
  47. Julia JacklinPRE PLEASURE (Polyvinyl)
  48. The Casual DotsSanguine Truth (Ixor Stix)
  49. Butcher BrownButcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  50. Blood OrangeFour Songs (RCA)

This week's adds

  • Air WavesThe Dance (Fire)
  • altopalofrenemy (Nettwerk)
  • AlvvaysBlue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive)
  • City of CaterpillarMystic Sisters (Relapse)
  • CourtingGuitar Music (Play It Again Sam)
  • DaphniCherry (Jiaolong)
  • DisqDesperately Imagining Someplace Quiet (Saddle Creek)
  • Indigo SparkeHysteria (Sacred Bones)
  • Johanna WarrenLessons for Mutants (Carpark)
  • MamalarkyPocket Fantasy (Fire Talk)
  • Meat WaveMalign Hex (Let's Pretend)
  • NnamdïPlease Have a Seat (Sooper/Secretly Canadian)
  • Nora O'ConnorMy Heart (Pravda)
  • Peel Dream MagazinePad (Slumberland)
  • PixiesDoggerel (BMG)
  • Plates of CakeGot a Feeling That I Live Here (Western Revisions)
  • Say She ShePrism (Colemine)
  • Soft and DumbSoft and Dumb (self released)
  • The ClaudettesThe Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below)
  • The MurlocsRapscallion (ATO)
  • TOLEDOHow it Ends (Grand Jury)

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top 50 for the Week of 10/03/2022

  1. Beth OrtonWeather Alive (Partisan)
  2. SuedeAutofiction (BMG)
  3. Makaya McCravenIn These Times (International Anthem)
  4. Vieux Farka Touré et KhruangbinAli (Dead Oceans)
  5. SantigoldSpirituals (Little Jerk)
  6. Divino NiñoLast Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  7. Scone Cash PlayersBrooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  8. JockstrapI Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  9. The Afghan WhigsHow Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  10. Bleach PartyAcrylic Blends (self-released)
  11. Sudan ArchivesNatural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  12. The BethsExpert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  13. Annie FishWeird Like Me (self-released)
  14. Charles StepneyStep on Step (International Anthem)
  15. Julia JacklinPRE PLEASURE (Polyvinyl)
  16. The VeldtEntropy Is The Mainline To God (The Acid Test/Little Cloud)
  17. WhitneySpark (Secretly Canadian)
  18. Danielle PonderSome Of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  19. Jesca HoopOrder of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  20. Kenny BeatsLOUIE (XL)
  21. Butcher BrownButcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  22. Blood OrangeFour Songs (RCA)
  23. StereolabPulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5) (Duophonic/Warp)
  24. Rachika NayarHeaven Come Crashing (NNA)
  25. DendronsSat May 03 2008 02:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) (Innovative Leisure)
  26. The Casual DotsSanguine Truth (Ixor Stix)
  27. Alex GGod Save The Animals (Domino)
  28. Death Cab for CutieAsphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
  29. Au SuisseAu Suisse (City Slang)
  30. Built to SpillWhen The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  31. Doleful LionsFables Of The Reincarnation (self-released)
  32. The ParanoydsTalk Talk Talk (Third Man)
  33. Rhett MillerThe Misfit (ATO)
  34. FusilierTreason (Ba Da Bing)
  35. Altered ImagesMascara Streakz (Cooking Vinyl)
  36. StarcrawlerShe Said (Big Machine)
  37. Bev Rage & The DrinksExes & Hexes (Whats For Breakfast?)
  38. Bitchin BajasBajascillators (Drag City)
  39. Ezra FurmanAll Of Us Flames (ANTI-)
  40. A Shoreline DreamLoveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  41. Eric Copeland & Josh DiamondRiders on the Storm (PPM)
  42. Marisa AndersonStill, Here (Thrill Jockey)
  43. ClutchSunrise On Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker)
  44. Sampa The GreatAs Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  45. No AgePeople Helping People (Drag City)
  46. Heaven For RealEnergy Bar (Mint)
  47. Jim NothingIn the Marigolds (Meritorio)
  48. Why Bother?Lacerated Nights (Feel It)
  49. CodeineDessau (Numero Group)
  50. CompilationAfter Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)

This week's adds

  • AggiAggi Hates You (Completely) (Jigsaw)
  • BjörkFossora (One Little Independent)
  • Buddy GuyThe Blues Don't Lie (RCA)
  • ClearedOf Endless Light (Touch)
  • Katie KimHour of the Ox (I Actually Like Music)
  • LambchopThe Bible (Merge)
  • LYZZAMOSQUITO (Big Dada)
  • Melody's Echo ChamberUnfold (Fat Possum)
  • Michael BeachEP (Goner)
  • More KlementinesWho Remembers Light (Twin Lakes / Feeding Tube)
  • Oren AmbarchiShebang (Drag City)
  • The Soft MoonExister (Sacred Bones)
  • SumerlandsDreamkiller (Relapse)
  • Titus AndronicusThe Will to Live (Merge)
  • White HillsThe Revenge of Heads On Fire (Heads On Fire Industries)
  • Yeah Yeah YeahsCool It Down (Secretly Canadian)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/26/2022

  1. The BethsExpert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  2. WhitneySpark (Secretly Canadian)
  3. Blood OrangeFour Songs (RCA)
  4. JockstrapI Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  5. Bleach PartyAcrylic Blends (self-released)
  6. Scone Cash PlayersBrooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  7. Sudan ArchivesNatural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  8. Kenny BeatsLOUIE (XL)
  9. Así AsíMal de Otros (Self-Released)
  10. The ParanoydsTalk Talk Talk (Third Man)
  11. Death Cab for CutieAsphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
  12. Ezra FurmanAll Of Us Flames (ANTI-)
  13. Rachika NayarHeaven Come Crashing (NNA)
  14. SantigoldSpirituals (Little Jerk)
  15. The Afghan WhigsHow Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  16. Bev Rage & The DrinksExes & Hexes (Whats For Breakfast?)
  17. Julia JacklinPRE PLEASURE (Polyvinyl)
  18. Au SuisseAu Suisse (City Slang)
  19. The VeldtEntropy Is The Mainline To God (The Acid Test/Little Cloud)
  20. Stella DonnellyFlood (Secretly Canadian)
  21. Built to SpillWhen The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  22. Sampa The GreatAs Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  23. CompilationAfter Dark 4 (Italians Do It Better)
  24. StereolabPulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5) (Duophonic/Warp)
  25. Charles StepneyStep on Step (International Anthem)
  26. Marlon WilliamsMy Boy (Dead Oceans)
  27. Son LittleLike Neptune (Anti)
  28. Doleful LionsFables Of The Reincarnation (self-released)
  29. Russian CirclesGnosis (Sargent House)
  30. No AgePeople Helping People (Drag City)
  31. Alhaji Waziri OshomahWorld Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (Luaka Bop)
  32. CodeineDessau (Numero Group)
  33. UnlovedThe Pink Album (Heavenly/PIAS)
  34. Cass McCombsHeartmind (ANTI-)
  35. Hot ChipFreakout/Release (Domino)
  36. DendronsSat May 03 2008 02:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) (Innovative Leisure)
  37. MoritatVermilion (self-released)
  38. Thee Sacred SoulsThee Sacred Souls (Daptone)
  39. ClutchSunrise On Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker)
  40. Miya Folick2007 (Nettwerk)
  41. MotteCold + Liquid (Ba Da Bing)
  42. PreoccupationsArrangements (self-released)
  43. Henry Franklin, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed MuhammadHenry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead)
  44. Monolithe NoirRin (Capitane)
  45. Benoit & SergioLost Decade (FourFour)
  46. GoonHour of Green Evening (self-released)
  47. Bitchin BajasBajascillators (Drag City)
  48. Nina NastasiaRiderless Horse (Temporary Residence)
  49. CanLIVE IN CUXHAVEN 1976 (Mute)
  50. The PrizeWrong Side of Town (Anti Fade)

This week's adds

  • A Shoreline DreamLoveblind (Latenight Weeknight)
  • Alex GGod Save the Animals (Domino)
  • Altered ImagesMascara Streaks (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Annie FishWeird Like Me (self-released)
  • Beth OrtonWeather Alive (Partisan)
  • The Black AngelsWilderness of Mirrors (Partisan)
  • Butcher BrownButcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz)
  • The Casual DotsSanguine Truth (Ixor Stix)
  • Danielle PonderSome of Us Are Brave (Future Classic)
  • Divino NiñoLast Spa on Earth (Winspear)
  • Ellen Arkbro & Johan GradenI get along without you very well (Thrill Jockey)
  • Eric Copeland & Josh DiamondRiders on the Storm (PPM)
  • FusilierTreason (Ba Da Bing)
  • Heaven for RealEnergy Bar (Mint)
  • Jesca HoopOrder of Romance (Memphis Industries)
  • Jim NothingIn the Marigolds (Meritorio)
  • Makaya McCravenIn These Times (International Anthem)
  • Marisa AndersonStill, Here (Thrill Jockey)
  • Rhett MillerThe Misfit (ATO)
  • SEEKERSINTERNATIONALDub Displacement Dynamite! (Notype)
  • StarcrawlerShe Said (Big Machine)
  • SuedeAutofiction (BMG)
  • Vieux Farka Touré et KhruangbinAli (Dead Oceans)
  • Why Bother?Lacerated Nights (Feel It)

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Top 50 for the week of 09/19/2022

  1. Sudan ArchivesNatural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
  2. SantigoldSpirituals (Little Jerk)
  3. The Afghan WhigsHow Do You Burn? (Royal Cream/BMG)
  4. Ezra FurmanAll Of Us Flames (ANTI-)
  5. Así AsíMal de Otros (Self-Released)
  6. Rat TallyIn My Car (6131)
  7. Bleach PartyAcrylic Blends (self-released)
  8. Thee Sacred SoulsThee Sacred Souls (Daptone)
  9. Bev Rage & The DrinksExes & Hexes (Whats For Breakfast?)
  10. Charles StepneyStep on Step (International Anthem)
  11. Julia JacklinPRE PLEASURE (Polyvinyl)
  12. Built to SpillWhen The Wind Forgets Your Name (Sub Pop)
  13. Hot ChipFreakout/Release (Domino)
  14. The VeldtEntropy Is The Mainline To God (The Acid Test/Little Cloud)
  15. StereolabPulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5) (Duophonic/Warp)
  16. 8-bit crEEpsDress for the Future (self-released )
  17. The ParanoydsTalk Talk Talk (Third Man)
  18. CodeineDessau (Numero Group)
  19. Sampa The GreatAs Above, So Below (Loma Vista/Concord)
  20. Freak GenesHologram (Feel It)
  21. Dendrons5-3-8 (Innovative Leisure)
  22. Karim Nagi & EnsembleHuzam (self-released)
  23. Doleful LionsFables Of The Reincarnation (self-released )
  24. Rachika NayarHeaven Come Crashing (NNA)
  25. Au SuisseAu Suisse (City Slang)
  26. Stella DonnellyFlood (Secretly Canadian)
  27. S. RaekwonI Like It When You Smile (Father/Daughter)
  28. PreoccupationsArrangements (self-released)
  29. David NanceIf You're Hungry, You Get Fed (Western)
  30. The Soft Pink TruthWas It Ever Real? (Thrill Jockey)
  31. Sylvan EssoNo Rules Sandy (Loma Vista/Concord)
  32. Claudea lot's gonna change (American Dreams)
  33. Bitchin BajasBajascillators (Drag City)
  34. Keefe Jackson / Oscar Jan Hoogland / Joshua Abrams / Mikel Patrick AveryThese Things Happen (Astral Spirits Records)
  35. Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithLet's Turn It Into Sound (Ghostly International )
  36. Cass McCombsHeartmind (ANTI-)
  37. Terence Etc.V O R T E X (Brainfeeder)
  38. Henry Franklin, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed MuhammadHenry Franklin JID014 (Jazz Is Dead)
  39. Teddy and the Rough RidersTeddy and the Rough Riders (Appalachia/Cleft)
  40. Why Bonnie90 In November (Keeled Scales)
  41. Danger Mouse & Black ThoughtCheat Codes (BMG)
  42. Conjunto PrimitivoMorir y Renacer (Chicago Research)
  43. BastonLa Martyre (Howlin' Banana)
  44. CanLIVE IN CUXHAVEN 1976 (Mute)
  45. Yuta MatsumuraRed Ribbon (Low Company)
  46. Dane TerryI May Rail and I May Whine (self-released)
  47. The Lounge SocietyTired of Liberty (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
  48. Benoit & SergioLost Decade (FourFour )
  49. The Mountain GoatsBleed Out (Merge)
  50. Panda Bear & Sonic BoomReset (Domino)

This week's adds

  1. Alhaji Waziri OshomahWorld Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (Luaka Bop)
  2. Blood OrangeFour Songs (RCA)
  3. ClutchSunrise On Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker)
  4. Death Cab for CutieAsphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
  5. JockstrapI Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
  6. Kenny BeatsLOUIE (XL)
  7. Marlon WilliamsMy Boy (Dead Oceans)
  8. Miya Folick2007 (Nettwerk)
  9. MotteCold + Liquid (Ba Da Bing)
  10. Nina NastasiaRiderless Horse (Temporary Residence)
  11. No AgePeople Helping People (Drag City)
  12. Scone Cash PlayersBrooklyn to Brooklin (Daptone)
  13. Son LittleLike Neptune (Anti)
  14. The BethsExpert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
  15. WhitneySpark (Secretly Canadian)

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