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Top 50 for the Week of 07/29/2024

  1. Brijean – Macro (Ghostly International)
  2. Combo Daguerre – Fracassines (Barbès )
  3. Los Campesinos! – All Hell (Heart Swells)
  4. Lupe Fiasco – Samurai (1st and 15th Too/Thirty Tigers)
  5. Oneida – Expensive Air (Joyful Noise)
  6. Previous Industries – Service Merchandise (Merge)
  7. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
  8. Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
  9. Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  10. Font – Strange Burden (Acrophase)
  11. Asher White – Home Constellation Study (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  12. Rui Gabriel – Compassion (Carpark)
  13. Boulevards – Carolina Funk: Barn Burner on Tobacco Road (Normaltown/New West)
  14. This Is Lorelei – Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)
  15. wht.rbbt.obj – Romeo Bravo Bravo Tango (self-released)
  16. Raveena – Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (Empire)
  17. Sham Family – A Deaf Portrait of Peace (Wavy Haze)
  18. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir (High Top Mountain)
  19. OutPastMidnight – Super Stereo Bros. (self-released)
  20. Sonic45 – Supersonic (Cheap Kiss)
  21. Mabe Fratti – Sentir que no sabes (Unheard of Hope)
  22. CRUMBS – You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  23. Girl Ultra – blush (Big Dada)
  24. Clairo – Charm (Virgin)
  25. Toe – NOW I SEE THE LIGHT (Topshelf)
  26. Liana Flores – Flower of the Soul (Verve)
  27. Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  28. Parlor Greens – In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  29. KOKOKO! – BUTU (Transgressive/PIAS)
  30. klark sound – What Is Music (Public Access Group)
  31. The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
  32. Acoqui – Drive by Dream (Gradual Ego)
  33. 潘PAN – Pan the Pansexual (Transgressive)
  34. The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise)
  35. Been Stellar – Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  36. Angélica Garcia – Gemelo (Partisan)
  37. Guided by Voices – Strut of Kings (GBV Inc.)
  38. Storefront Church – Ink & Oil (self-released)
  39. Staples Jr. Singers – Searching (Luaka Bop)
  40. Zsela – Big For You (Mexican Summer)
  41. Greenlights Music – 3AM Smoke (self-released)
  42. Wilco – Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm)
  43. Steve Dawson – Ghosts (Pravda)
  44. NxWorries – Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  45. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I'm Called (Fat Possum)
  46. Bad Breeding – Contempt (One Little Independent)
  47. Kaycie Satterfield – Rosie (Earth Libraries)
  48. Caleb Veazey – Movie Stars & Politicians (SADFAM)
  49. Loma – How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  50. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)

This week's adds

  • Alex Izenberg - Alex Izenberg & the Exiles (Domino)
  • Crack Cloud - Red Mile (Jagjaguwar)
  • Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 (Loma Vista/Concord)
  • Joe Di Zillo - Bringing It Back (self-released)
  • Lava La Rue - STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
  • ORB - Tailem Bend (Fuzz Club)
  • This House is Creaking - This House is Creaking (THiC)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/22/2024

  1. Font – Strange Burden (Acrophase)
  2. Lupe Fiasco – Samurai (1st and 15th Too/Thirty Tigers)
  3. KOKOKO! – BUTU (Transgressive/PIAS)
  4. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
  5. klark sound – What Is Music (Public Access Group)
  6. wht.rbbt.obj – Romeo Bravo Bravo Tango (self-released)
  7. Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  8. Wilco – Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm)
  9. Asher White – Home Constellation Study (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  10. Previous Industries – Service Merchandise (Merge)
  11. Sonic45 – Supersonic (Cheap Kiss)
  12. 潘PAN – Pan the Pansexual (Transgressive)
  13. Raveena – Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (Empire)
  14. Rui Gabriel – Compassion (Carpark)
  15. CRUMBS – You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  16. O. – WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
  17. Acoqui – Drive by Dream (Gradual Ego)
  18. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir (High Top Mountain)
  19. Liana Flores – Flower of the Soul (Verve)
  20. OutPastMidnight – Super Stereo Bros. (self-released)
  21. Heaven For Real – Hell's Logo's Pink (Mint)
  22. Bad Breeding – Contempt (One Little Independent)
  23. Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  24. NxWorries – Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  25. Big Bill – Strawberry Seed (Spaceflight)
  26. Kaycie Satterfield – Rosie (Earth Libraries)
  27. Toe – NOW I SEE THE LIGHT (Topshelf)
  28. MILLY – Your Own Becoming (Dangerbird)
  29. Redd Kross – Redd Kross (In the Red)
  30. Boulevards – Carolina Funk: Barn Burner on Tobacco Road (Normaltown/New West)
  31. Pepe Delux̩ РComix Sonix (Catskills)
  32. Islands – What Occurs (ELF)
  33. Greenlights Music – 3AM Smoke (self-released)
  34. Steve Dawson – Ghosts (Pravda)
  35. Mabe Fratti – Sentir que no sabes (Unheard of Hope)
  36. Bonny Light Horseman – "Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free",Jagjaguwar" (6)
  37. Storefront Church – Ink & Oil (self-released)
  38. The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise)
  39. death's dynamic shroud.wmv – Before The Killing Spree (Ghost Diamond)
  40. This Is Lorelei – Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)
  41. John Grant – The Art of the Lie (Bella Union/PIAS)
  42. The Dead Tongues – Body of Light (Psychic Hotline)
  43. Brett Ratner – Cityscapes (self-released)
  44. The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
  45. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I'm Called (Fat Possum)
  46. talker – I'm Telling You The Truth (self-released)
  47. Fax Gang & Parannoul – Scattersun (Topshelf)
  48. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  49. Jess Cornelius – CARE/TAKING (Tender Loving Empire)
  50. John Cale – POPtical Illusion (Double Six/Domino)

This week's adds

  • Brijean – Macro (Ghostly International)
  • Clairo – Charm (Clairo)
  • Combo Daguerre – Fracassines (Barbès)
  • Dr. Dog – Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
  • Girl Ultra – Blush (Big Dada)
  • Los Campesinos! – All Hell (Heart Swells)
  • Oneida – Expensive Air (Joyful Noise)
  • Parlor Greens – In Green We Dream (Colemine)
  • Sham Family – A Deaf Portrait of Peace (Wazy Haze)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/15/2024

  1. Raveena – Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (Empire)
  2. KOKOKO! – BUTU (Transgressive/PIAS)
  3. OutPastMidnight – Super Stereo Bros. (self-released)
  4. Greenlights Music – 3AM Smoke (self-released)
  5. Finom – Not God (Joyful Noise)
  6. Wilco – Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm)
  7. Rui Gabriel – Compassion (Carpark)
  8. The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
  9. The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise)
  10. klark sound – What Is Music (Public Access Group)
  11. CRUMBS – You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  12. Man Man – Carrot On Strings (Sub Pop)
  13. Asher White – Home Constellation Study (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  14. Big Bill – Strawberry Seed (Spaceflight)
  15. Liana Flores – Flower of the Soul (Verve)
  16. O. – WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
  17. Angélica Garcia – Gemelo (Partisan)
  18. Charli XCX – brat (Atlantic)
  19. La Luz – News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  20. NxWorries – Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  21. Guided by Voices – Strut of Kings (GBV Inc.)
  22. Fax Gang & Parannoul – Scattersun (Topshelf)
  23. Been Stellar – Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  24. Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  25. Goat Girl – Below The Waste (Rough Trade)
  26. Justice – Hyperdrama (Ed Banger/Because Music )
  27. Mabe Fratti – Sentir que no sabes (Unheard of Hope)
  28. talker – I'm Telling You The Truth (self-released)
  29. Redd Kross – Redd Kross (In the Red)
  30. Cola – The Gloss (Fire Talk)
  31. Habibi – Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
  32. Steve Dawson – Ghosts (Pravda)
  33. Acoqui – Drive by Dream (Gradual Ego)
  34. Maggie Gently – Wherever You Want To Go (self-released)
  35. MILLY – Your Own Becoming (Dangerbird)
  36. Caleb Veazey – Movie Stars & Politicians (SADFAM)
  37. This Is Lorelei – Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)
  38. Brett Ratner – Cityscapes (self-released)
  39. Bonny Light Horseman – "Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free" (Jagjaguwar)
  40. Pepe Deluxé – Comix Sonix (Catskills)
  41. John Grant – The Art of the Lie (Bella Union/PIAS)
  42. Jess Cornelius – CARE/TAKING (Tender Loving Empire)
  43. Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Below Dawn (Tru Thoughts )
  44. Flavia Coelho – Ginga (Le Label/PIAS)
  45. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (Verve)
  46. The Marias – submarine (Atlantic)
  47. DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy/Concord)
  48. Mandy – Lawn Girl (Exploding in Sound)
  49. Queen of Jeans – All Again (Memory)
  50. Storefront Church – Ink & Oil (self-released)

This week's adds

  1. Bad Breeding – Contempt (One Little Independent)
  2. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
  3. Common & Pete Rock – The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
  4. Font – Strange Burden (Acrophase)
  5. Heaven For Real – Hell's Logo's Pink (Mint)
  6. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I'm Called (Fat Possum)
  7. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir (High Top Mountain)
  8. Kaycie Satterfield – Rosie (Earth Libraries)
  9. Lupe Fiasco – Samurai (1st and 15th Too/Thirty Tigers)
  10. Previous Industries – Service Merchandise (Merge)
  11. Sonic45 – Supersonic (Cheap Kiss)
  12. Toe – NOW I SEE THE LIGHT (Topshelf)
  13. wht.rbbt.obj – Romeo Bravo Bravo Tango (self-released)
  14. 潘PAN – Pan the Pansexual (Transgressive)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/08/2024

  1. OutPastMidnight – Super Stereo Bros. (self-released)
  2. Greenlights Music – 3AM Smoke (self-released)
  3. CRUMBS – You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  4. Charli XCX – brat (Atlantic)
  5. The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
  6. O. – WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
  7. DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy/Concord)
  8. Rui Gabriel – Compassion (Carpark)
  9. NxWorries – Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  10. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  11. musclecars – Sugar Honey Iced Tea! (BBE Music)
  12. Wilco – Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm)
  13. Finom – Not God (Joyful Noise)
  14. Maggie Gently – Wherever You Want To Go (self-released)
  15. Man Man – Carrot On Strings (Sub Pop)
  16. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (Verve)
  17. This Is Lorelei – Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)
  18. Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  19. Mandy – Lawn Girl (Exploding in Sound)
  20. Toronzo Cannon – Shut Up & Play! (Alligator)
  21. LowDown Brass Band – $itizens of the World (DIBS)
  22. Raveena – Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (Empire)
  23. Acoqui – Drive by Dream (Gradual Ego)
  24. Big Bill – Strawberry Seed (Spaceflight)
  25. La Luz – News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  26. Boulevards – Carolina Funk: Barn Burner on Tobacco Road (Normaltown/New West)
  27. Justice – Hyperdrama (Ed Banger/Because Music )
  28. Flavia Coelho – Ginga (Le Label/PIAS)
  29. Habibi – Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
  30. John Grant – The Art of the Lie (Bella Union/PIAS)
  31. Staples Jr. Singers – Searching (Luaka Bop)
  32. Aluminum – Fully Beat (felte)
  33. Brett Ratner – Cityscapes (self-released)
  34. the temporarily hidden – Big Shiny Balls (Soundpoint)
  35. Steve Dawson – Ghosts (Pravda)
  36. Bill MacKay – Locust Land (Drag City)
  37. Bonny Light Horseman – "Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free" (Jagjaguwar)
  38. Been Stellar – Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  39. Caleb Veazey – Movie Stars & Politicians (SADFAM)
  40. Redd Kross – Redd Kross (In the Red)
  41. Loma – How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  42. death's dynamic shroud.wmv – Before The Killing Spree (Ghost Diamond)
  43. Pepe Deluxé – Comix Sonix (Catskills)
  44. John Cale – POPtical Illusion (Double Six/Domino)
  45. Mr. Sam & The People People – Again! Again! (Tape Dad )
  46. Aquaserge – La fin de l‘économie (Crammed Discs)
  47. King Hannah – Big Swimmer (City Slang)
  48. The Swabs – The Boy Flew Out The Window (self-released)
  49. Mrs. Smith and the Present – She's Right Here (Self-Released)
  50. Angélica Garcia – Gemelo (Partisan)

This week's adds

  1. Asher White – Home Constellation Study (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  2. beccs – stay moist (self-released)
  3. Guided by Voices – Strut of Kings (GBV Inc.)
  4. klark sound – What Is Music (Public Access Group)
  5. KOKOKO! – BUTU (Transgressive/PIAS)
  6. Liana Flores – Flower of the Soul (Verve)
  7. Mabe Fratti – Sentir que no sabes (Unheard of Hope)
  8. MILLY – Your Own Becoming (Dangerbird)
  9. Queen of Jeans – All Again (Memory)
  10. Storefront Church – Ink & Oil (self-released)
  11. talker – I'm Telling You The Truth (self-released)
  12. The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise)

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Top 50 for the Week of 07/01/2024

  1. Greenlights Music – 3AM Smoke (self-released)
  2. O. – WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground/PIAS)
  3. NxWorries – Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
  4. Big Bill – Strawberry Seed (Spaceflight)
  5. Justice – Hyperdrama (Ed Banger/Because Music )
  6. OutPastMidnight – Super Stereo Bros. (self-released)
  7. Angélica Garcia – Gemelo (Partisan)
  8. Boulevards – Carolina Funk: Barn Burner on Tobacco Road (Normaltown/New West)
  9. Finom – Not God (Joyful Noise)
  10. The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
  11. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (Verve)
  12. Goat Girl – Below The Waste (Rough Trade)
  13. La Luz – News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
  14. Charli XCX – brat (Atlantic)
  15. Shellac – To All Trains (Touch and Go)
  16. CRUMBS – You're Just Jealous (Skep Wax)
  17. Acoqui – Drive by Dream (Gradual Ego)
  18. Pepe Deluxé – Comix Sonix (Catskills)
  19. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound/Concord)
  20. Mandy – Lawn Girl (Exploding in Sound)
  21. Habibi – Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
  22. DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy/Concord)
  23. This Is Lorelei – Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)
  24. John Cale – POPtical Illusion (Double Six/Domino)
  25. Steve Dawson – Ghosts (Pravda)
  26. Bill MacKay – Locust Land (Drag City)
  27. Bonny Light Horseman – "Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free" (Jagjaguwar)
  28. Man Man – Carrot On Strings (Sub Pop)
  29. death's dynamic shroud.wmv – Before The Killing Spree (Ghost Diamond)
  30. Well Tempered Madness – Well Tempered Madness (Vegas)
  31. Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Below Dawn (Tru Thoughts )
  32. musclecars – Sugar Honey Iced Tea! (BBE Music)
  33. Softcult – Heaven (Easy Life)
  34. The Last Afternoons – Deadfall (self-released)
  35. Toronzo Cannon – Shut Up & Play! (Alligator)
  36. LowDown Brass Band – $itizens of the World (DIBS)
  37. Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few – The Almighty (Division 81)
  38. Loma – How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
  39. John Grant – The Art of the Lie (Bella Union/PIAS)
  40. Zsela – Big For You (Mexican Summer)
  41. Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
  42. Aluminum – Fully Beat (felte)
  43. The Swabs – The Boy Flew Out The Window (self-released)
  44. Maggie Gently – Wherever You Want To Go (self-released)
  45. Flavia Coelho – Ginga (Le Label/PIAS)
  46. Royal Trux – Twin Infinitives (Fire)
  47. Jess Cornelius – CARE/TAKING (Tender Loving Empire)
  48. Sis – Vibhuti (Native Cat)
  49. Cola – The Gloss (Fire Talk)
  50. Custard Flux – Einsteinium Delirium (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Caleb Veazey – Movie Stars & Politicians (SADFAM)
  • Raveena – Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (EMPIRE)
  • Rui Gabriel – Compassion (Carpark)
  • Fax Gang and Parannoul – Scattersun (Topshelf)
  • Been Stellar – Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  • Wilco – Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP (dBpm)
  • Redd Kross – Redd Kross (In the Red)

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