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Top 50 for the Week of 06/06/2022

  1. DEHD – Blue Skies (Fat Possum)
  2. Ravyn Lenae – Hypnos (Atlantic)
  3. Daniel Villarreal – Panamá 77 (International Anthem)
  4. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm – Carry Me Home (ANTI-)
  5. Wilco – Cruel Country (dBpm)
  6. Just Mustard – Heart Under (Partisan)
  7. Spread Joy – II (Feel It)
  8. Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)
  9. John Doe – Fables in a Foreign Land (Fat Possum)
  10. Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky (Secretly Canadian)
  11. Stars – From Capelton Hill (Last Gang)
  12. Kevin Morby – This is a Photograph (Dead Oceans)
  13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)
  14. Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  15. The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)
  16. Rose Mercie – ¿Kieres Agua? (Celluloid Lunch)
  17. Joe Rainey – Niineta (37d03d)
  18. Jean Carne, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jean Carne JID012 (Jazz Is Dead)
  19. Lalalar – Bi Cinnete Bakar (Bongo Joe/Dunganga)
  20. Jordana – Face The Wall (Grand Jury)
  21. Diane Coffee – With People (Polyvinyl)
  22. MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs (Dear Life)
  23. Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)
  24. Best Bets – On an Unhistoric Night (Meritorio)
  25. Toro Y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
  26. Gentle Heat – Sheer (Flesh and Bone)
  27. Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left (Damnably)
  28. Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive / PIAS)
  29. Delta Spirit – One Is One (New West)
  30. Brandon Coleman – Interstellar Black Space (Brainfeeder)
  31. Brian Jackson – This is Brian Jackson (BBE)
  32. Tess Parks – And Those Who Were Seen Dancing (Fuzz Club)
  33. Blunt Chunks – Blunt Chunks (Telephone Explosion)
  34. Craig Finn – A Legacy of Rentals (Thirty Tigers)
  35. Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son (Alligator)
  36. Arcade Fire – WE (Columbia)
  37. Cyrus Pireh – Still Here, Still Ripping (Astral Editions)
  38. Leyla McCalla – Breaking The Thermometer (Anti- )
  39. Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL )
  40. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
  41. Hater – Sincere (Fire)
  42. Magi Merlin – Gone Girl (Bonsound)
  43. Cola – Deep in View (Fire Talk)
  44. Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
  45. Pusha T – It's Almost Dry (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam)
  46. Kate Bollinger – Look at It in the Light (Ghostly International)
  47. Congotronics International – Where's The One? (Crammed Discs)
  48. Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
  49. Forever Era – Forever Era (File 13)
  50. Brian Case – Tropics (Trouble in Mind)

This week's adds

  • Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodélicos (ATO)
  • Andrew Bird – Inside Problems (Loma Vista/Concord)
  • Angel Olsen – Big Time (Jagjaguwar)
  • Drive-By Truckers – Welcome 2 Club XIII (ATO)
  • Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
  • Long Odds – Fine Thread (self-released)
  • Marina Herlop – Pripyat (PAN)
  • Medicine – Drugs (self-released)
  • Panda Riot – Extra Cosmic (self-released)
  • Phil Angotti – Once Around Again (self-released)
  • POLIÇA – Madness (Memphis Industries)
  • Sonny Singh – Chardi Kala (self-released)
  • The Frightnrs – Always (Daptone)
  • Ufomammut – Fenice (Neurot)
  • ONYON – ONYON (Trouble in Mind)
  • The Stroppies – Levity (Tough Love)

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Top 50 for the Week of 05/30/2022

  1. Mavis Staples & Levon Helm – Carry Me Home (Anti-)
  2. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
  3. Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian)
  4. Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
  5. Ravyn Lenae – HYPNOS (Atlantic)
  6. Gentle Heat – Sheer (Flesh and Bone)
  7. Spread Joy – II (Feel It)
  8. Jean Carne, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jean Carne JID 012 (Jazz Is Dead)
  9. Hater – Sincere (Fire)
  10. Lalalar – Bi Cinnete Bakar (Bongo Joe/Dunganga)
  11. Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left (Damnably)
  12. Leyla McCalla – Breaking The Thermometer (Anti-)
  13. Craig Finn – A Legacy of Rentals (Thirty Tigers)
  14. Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
  15. Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)
  16. Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
  17. Tommaso Moretti – Inside Out (BACE)
  18. Brian Case – Tropics (Trouble in Mind)
  19. John Doe – Fables in a Foreign Land (Fat Possum)
  20. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)
  21. Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  22. Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)
  23. Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL)
  24. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  25. Toro Y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
  26. Cola – Deep in View (Fire Talk)
  27. Tess Parks – And Those Who Were Seen Dancing (Fuzz Club)
  28. Papercuts – Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
  29. Girlpool – Forgiveness (ANTI-)
  30. Ebi Soda – Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts)
  31. Diane Coffee – With People (Polyvinyl)
  32. Obongjayar – Some Nights I Dream of Doors (September)
  33. Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son (Alligator)
  34. Arcade Fire – WE (Columbia)
  35. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  36. Forever Era – Forever Era (File 13)
  37. Vince Staples – RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART (Motown)
  38. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
  39. 春ねむり Haru Nemuri – 春火燎原 Shunka Ryougen (TO3S)
  40. Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive / PIAS)
  41. Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare (Sub Pop)
  42. Kevin Morby – This Is a Photograph (Dead Oceans)
  43. Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar (Mom + Pop)
  44. Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid? (Luaka Bop)
  45. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph/PIAS)
  46. Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
  47. Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  48. Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  49. Daddy's Boy – GREAT NEWS! (self-released)
  50. Nequient – Darker Than Death Or Night (Nefarious Industries)

This week's adds

  • Brandon Coleman – Interstellar Black Space (Brainfeeder)
  • Brandon Seabrook – In the Swarm (Astral Spirits)
  • Brian Jackson – This Is Brian Jackson (BBE)
  • Cyrus Pireh – Still Here, Still Ripping (Astral Editions)
  • Daniel Villarreal – Panamá 77 (International Anthem)
  • DEHD – Blue Skies (Fat Possum)
  • Delta Spirit – One Is One (New West)
  • Joe Rainey – Niineta (37d03d)
  • Jordana – Face the Wall (Grand Jury)
  • Just Mustard – Heart Under (Partisan)
  • Magi Merlin – Gone Girl (Bonsound)
  • Mark Alan Lofgren – Moon Book 2 (self-released)
  • Roller – Offed (Radical Documents)
  • The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)
  • Spice – Viv (Dais)
  • Stars – From Capelton Hill (Last Gang)
  • Wilco – Cruel Country (dBpm)

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Top 50 for the Week of 05/23/2022

  1. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
  2. Spread Joy – II (Feel It)
  3. Forever Era – Forever Era (File 13)
  4. Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left (Damnably)
  5. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)
  6. Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Leyla McCalla – Breaking The Thermometer (Anti-)
  8. Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL)
  9. Gentle Heat – Sheer (Flesh and Bone)
  10. Lalalar – Bi Cinnete Bakar (Bongo Joe/Dunganga)
  11. Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  12. Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar (Mom + Pop)
  13. Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid? (Luaka Bop)
  14. Vince Staples – RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART (Motown)
  15. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  16. Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  17. Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)
  18. Green-House – Solar Editions (Leaving)
  19. Hater – Sincere (Fire)
  20. Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive / PIAS)
  21. Anadol – Felicita (Pingipung)
  22. Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son (Alligator)
  23. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph/PIAS)
  24. Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
  25. Girlpool – Forgiveness (ANTI-)
  26. Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  27. Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
  28. Daddy's Boy – GREAT NEWS! (self-released)
  29. 春ねむり Haru Nemuri – 春火燎原 Shunka Ryougen (TO3S)
  30. TOPS – Empty Seats (Musique Tops)
  31. Best Bets – On an Unhistoric Night (Meritorio)
  32. !!! – Let It Be Blue (Warp)
  33. Arcade Fire – WE (Columbia)
  34. Toro Y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
  35. Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  36. Defcee and BoatHouse – For All Debts Public And Private (Closed Sessions)
  37. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  38. Ebi Soda – Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts)
  39. Congotronics International – Where's The One? (Crammed Discs)
  40. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  41. Ghost Power – Ghost Power (Duophonic)
  42. Crime of Passing – Crime of Passing (Feel It)
  43. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan)
  44. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Room at the Top (CYHSY/Secretky Distribution)
  45. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  46. Angela James – Now That I Have You (self-released)
  47. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
  48. Kehlani – blue water road (Atlantic)
  49. girlhouse – the third ep (self-released)
  50. Maria Chiara Argirò – Forest City (Innovative Leisure)

This week's adds

  • Blunt Chunks – Blunt Chunks (Telephone Explosion)
  • Brian Case – Tropics (Trouble in Mind)
  • Cave In – Heavy Pendulum (Relapse)
  • Cola – Deep in View (Fire Talk)
  • Craig Finn – A Legacy of Rentals (Thirty Tigers)
  • Diane Coffee – With People (Polyvinyl)
  • Faye Webster – Car Therapy Sessions (Secretly Canadian)
  • Fievel Is Glauque – God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess (KIT)
  • Jean Carne, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jean Carne JID 012 (Jazz Is Dead)
  • John Doe – Fables in a Foreign Land (Fat Possum)
  • Kevin Morby – This Is a Photograph (Dead Oceans)
  • Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)
  • Mavis Staples & Levon Helm – Carry Me Home (Anti-)
  • MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs (Dear Life)
  • Modal Melodies – Modal Melodies (Anti Fade)
  • mxmtoon – rising (AWAL)
  • Obongjayar – Some Nights I Dream of Doors (September)
  • Porridge Radio – Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian)
  • Ravyn Lenae – HYPNOS (Atlantic)
  • Tess Parks – And Those Who Were Seen Dancing (Fuzz Club)
  • Tommaso Moretti – Inside Out (BACE)
  • Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare (Sub Pop)
  • Zusammen Clark – Earlier (Bruit Direct)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 05/16/2022

  1. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)
  2. Gentle Heat – Sheer (Flesh and Bone)
  3. Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
  4. Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph/PIAS)
  5. Toro Y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
  6. Pusha T – It's Almost Dry (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam)
  7. Vince Staples – RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART (Motown)
  8. Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
  9. Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  10. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  11. !!! – Let It Be Blue (Warp)
  12. Arcade Fire – WE (Columbia)
  13. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  14. Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
  15. Ebi Soda – Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts)
  16. Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  17. Kehlani – blue water road (Atlantic)
  18. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  19. Action Bronson – Cocodrillo Turbo (Loma Vista)
  20. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  21. Hater – Sincere (Fire)
  22. Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive / PIAS)
  23. Congotronics International – Where's The One? (Crammed Discs)
  24. Sault – AIR (Forever Living Originals)
  25. Girlpool – Forgiveness (ANTI-)
  26. Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
  27. Angela James – Now That I Have You (self-released)
  28. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)
  29. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  30. Tody Castillo – Old Rodriguez (Strolling Bones)
  31. Oceanator – Nothing's Ever Fine (Polyvinyl)
  32. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  33. Astrel K – Flickering i (Duophonic)
  34. Tomberlin – i don't know who needs to hear this... (Saddle Creek)
  35. Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather (Ghostly International)
  36. Lovelock – Someone (Italians Do It Better)
  37. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan)
  38. Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
  39. Tempers – New Meaning (Dais)
  40. Alabaster DePlume – GOLD (International Anthem)
  41. Defcee and BoatHouse – For All Debts Public And Private (Closed Sessions)
  42. Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  43. The Blinds – Endless Fascination (Pet Moth)
  44. Jeanines – Don't Wait for a Sign (Slumberland)
  45. The Body Electric – Presentation And Reality (Propeller/Flying Nun )
  46. SAVAK – Human Error / Human Delight (Ernest Jenning Record Co./Peculiar Works)
  47. Lucius – Second Nature (Mom+Pop)
  48. Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  49. VR SEX – Rough Dimension (Dais)
  50. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights (Static Shock)

This week's adds

  • Anadol – Felicita (Pingipung)
  • Best Bets – On an Unhistoric Night (Meritorio)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son (Alligator)
  • Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox Vol. 2: Paintbox Aliens (self-released)
  • Daddy's Boy – GREAT NEWS! (self-released)
  • Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night (Relapse)
  • Forest Management – Palm Life (Husky Pants)
  • Forever Era – Forever Era (File 13)
  • The Garbage & the Flowers – Cinnamon Sea (Fire)
  • girlhouse – the third ep (self-released)
  • Green-House – Solar Editions EP (Leaving)
  • The Head and the Heart – Every Shade of Blue (Domino)
  • Hydroplane – Hydroplane (Efficient Space)
  • Ibeyi – Spell 31 (XL)
  • Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
  • Lalalar – Bi Cinnete Bakar (Les Disques Bongo Joe/Dunganga)
  • Les Rallizes Dénudés – The OZ Tapes (Temporal Drift)
  • Leyla McCalla – Breaking the Thermometer (ANTI-)
  • Maria Chiara Argirò – Forest City (Innovative Leisure)
  • Sadurn – Radiator (Run for Cover)
  • Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left (Damnably)
  • Spread Joy – II (Feel It)
  • Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid (Luaka Bop)
  • Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar (Mom + Pop)
  • TOPS – Empty Seats (Musique TOPS)
  • Warpaint – Radiate Like This (Virgin)

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Top 50 for the Week of 05/09/2022

  1. Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal (Domino)
  2. Ebi Soda – Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts)
  3. Kehlani – blue water road (Atlantic)
  4. Hatchie – Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Cisco Swank X Luke Titus – Some Things Take Time (Sooper)
  6. Angela James – Now That I Have You (self-released)
  7. Jerry Paper – Free Time (Stones Throw)
  8. 50FOOTWAVE – Black Pearl (Fire)
  9. Winged Wheel – No Island (12XU)
  10. Let's Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons (Transgressive / PIAS)
  11. Crime of Passing – Crime of Passing (Feel It)
  12. Girlpool – Forgiveness (Anti-)
  13. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Partisan)
  14. Defcee and BoatHouse – For All Debts Public And Private (Closed Sessions)
  15. King Hannah – I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
  16. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
  17. Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (Merge)
  18. Nequient – Darker Than Death Or Night (Nefarious Industries)
  19. The Singleman Affair – 4pm Sunlight (Cardboard Sangria)
  20. 春ねむり Haru Nemuri – 春火燎原 Shunka Ryougen (TO3S)
  21. Congotronics International – Where's The One? (Crammed Discs)
  22. Sault – AIR (Forever Living Originals)
  23. Calexico – El Mirador (ANTI-)
  24. The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
  25. Ghost Power – Ghost Power (Duophonic)
  26. The Body Electric – Presentation And Reality (Propeller/Flying Nun)
  27. Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve)
  28. Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (Smalltown Supersound)
  29. Jeanines – Don't Wait for a Sign (Slumberland)
  30. Tombstones In Their Eyes – A Higher Place (Kitten Robot)
  31. Bailey Bigger – Coyote Red (Madjack)
  32. Wednesday – Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up (Ordinal)
  33. Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)
  34. Catherine Campbell – Leave No Trace (self-released)
  35. Father John Misty – Chloë and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
  36. The Minders – Psychedelic Blacktop (self-released)
  37. Jon Spencer & the HITmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit (In The Red)
  38. Axons – I Object to Everything (Impossible Colors)
  39. Dangerous Chairs – Introducing Dangerous Chairs (self-released)
  40. The Avondale Ramblers – One for the Ditch (self-released)
  41. Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
  42. Astrel K – Flickering i (Duophonic)
  43. Papercuts – Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
  44. Limousine Beach – Limousine Beach (Tee Pee)
  45. Axel Boman – LUZ (Studio Barnhus)
  46. SAVAK – Human Error / Human Delight (Ernest Jenning Record Co./Peculiar Works)
  47. Caroline No – Caroline No (Grapefruit)
  48. Sly5thAve & Roberto Verástegui – Agua de Jamaica (Tru Thoughts)
  49. Comet Gain – The Misfit Jukebox Vol. 1: Somewhere to Belong (self-released)
  50. David Nance – Wet Candles (Western)

This week's adds

  • !!! – Let It Be Blue (Warp)
  • Action Bronson – Cocodrillo Turbo (Loma Vista)
  • Arcade Fire – WE (Columbia)
  • Belle & Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
  • Gentle Heat – Sheer (Flesh and Bone)
  • Hater – Sincere (Fire)
  • Pusha T – It's Almost Dry (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms (Sub Pop)
  • Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries (Dog Triumph / PIAS)
  • Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar)
  • Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
  • The Blinds – Endless Fascination (Pet Moth)
  • Tody Castillo – Old Rodriguez (Strolling Bones)
  • Tony Jay – Hey There Flower (Mt. St. Mtn.)
  • Toro y Moi – MAHAL (Dead Oceans)
  • Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Motown)

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