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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 03-10-2015

  1. Daniel Knox - Daniel Knox (Carrot Top)
  2. Purity Ring - Another Eternity (4AD)
  3. Colleen Green - I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
  4. Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl)
  5. The O'My's - Keeping the Faith EP (self-released)
  6. In Tall Buildings - Driver (Western Vinyl)
  7. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer (Domino)
  8. Lala Lala - Have a Good Day (Manic Static)
  9. Father John Misty - "I Love You, Honeybear" (Sub Pop)
  10. The Juliana Hatfield Three - "Whatever, My Love" (American Laundromat)
  11. Sonny and the Sunsets - Talent Night at the Ashram (Polyvinyl)
  12. Various Artists - Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party (Numero Group)
  13. Screaming Females - Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni)
  14. Treasure Fleet - The Sun Machine (Recess)
  15. Diamond Rugs - Cosmetics (Sycamore/Thirty Tigers)
  16. Pops Staples - Don't Lose This (dBpm)
  17. Doe - First Four (Specialist Subject)
  18. Ibeyi - Ibeyi (XL)
  19. The Kandinsky Effect - Somnambulist (Cuneiform)
  20. Kate Pierson - Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow)
  21. Ricked Wicky - I Sell the Circus (GBV Inc.)
  22. The Dodos - Individ (Polyvinyl)
  23. Björk - Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
  24. Doomtree - All Hands (Doomtree)
  25. Dream Version - Beginners (self-released)
  26. Various Artists - Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (Strut)
  27. Axis: Sova - Early Surf (God?)
  28. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood (Domino)
  29. Keath Mead - Sunday Dinner (Company)
  30. ONO - Ennui (Priority Male)
  31. Darlings - Feel Better (Wild Canary)
  32. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Frankie and the Witch Fingers (Permanent)
  33. Buxton - Half a Native (New West)
  34. Ty Segall Band - Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  35. Various Artists - Monster Compilation Vol. 1 (Dumpster Tapes)
  36. Mourn - Mourn (Captured Tracks)
  37. Mount Eerie - Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  38. Sir Richard Bishop - Tangier Sessions (Drag City)
  39. A Place to Bury Strangers - Transfixiation (Dead Oceans)
  40. Danny Kroha - Angels Watching Over Me (Third Man)
  41. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2 EP (Warp)
  42. The Thons - Hot Fun (self-released)
  43. Young Buffalo - House (Votiv)
  44. John Till - John Till (self-released)
  45. Rats Rest - Permanent Catastrophe EP (Erste Theke Tonträger)
  46. The Amazing - Picture You (Partisan)
  47. Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland)
  48. Cody & the Gateway Drugs - Songs for the New Depression (self-released)
  49. Ghastly Menace - Songs of Ghastly Menace (The Record Machine)
  50. Boduf Songs - Stench of Exist (The Flenser)

This week's adds

BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul (Lex)
Bombadil - Hold On (Ramseur)
Cannibal Ox - Blade of the Ronin (IGC)
Crown Larks - Blood Dancer (Spacelung/Landbreathing)
Drug Cabin - Yard Work (401K Music Inc.)
EULA - Wool Sucking (Mirror Universe)
Fairmont - 8 1/2 (Mint 400)
Houndstooth - No News from Home (No Quarter)
Keiya - Work EP (self-released)
Marika Hackman - We Slept at Last (Dirty Hit)
Petite Noir - The King of Anxiety EP (Domino)
Radical Dads - Universal Coolers (Old Flame)
Raymond Abercrombie - "Key, White" (Posture)
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)
Shana Falana - Set Your Lightning Fire Free (Team Love)
THEESatisfaction - EarthEE (Sub Pop)
Will Butler - Policy (Merge)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03-10-2015

  1. Daniel Knox - Daniel Knox (Carrot Top)
  2. Purity Ring - Another Eternity (4AD)
  3. Colleen Green - I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
  4. Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl)
  5. The O'My's - Keeping the Faith EP (self-released)
  6. In Tall Buildings - Driver (Western Vinyl)
  7. Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer (Domino)
  8. Lala Lala - Have a Good Day (Manic Static)
  9. Father John Misty - "I Love You, Honeybear" (Sub Pop)
  10. The Juliana Hatfield Three - "Whatever, My Love" (American Laundromat)
  11. Sonny and the Sunsets - Talent Night at the Ashram (Polyvinyl)
  12. Various Artists - Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party (Numero Group)
  13. Screaming Females - Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni)
  14. Treasure Fleet - The Sun Machine (Recess)
  15. Diamond Rugs - Cosmetics (Sycamore/Thirty Tigers)
  16. Pops Staples - Don't Lose This (dBpm)
  17. Doe - First Four (Specialist Subject)
  18. Ibeyi - Ibeyi (XL)
  19. The Kandinsky Effect - Somnambulist (Cuneiform)
  20. Kate Pierson - Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow)
  21. Ricked Wicky - I Sell the Circus (GBV Inc.)
  22. The Dodos - Individ (Polyvinyl)
  23. Bjork - Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
  24. Doomtree - All Hands (Doomtree)
  25. Dream Version - Beginners (self-released)
  26. Various Artists - Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (Strut)
  27. Axis: Sova - Early Surf (God?)
  28. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood (Domino)
  29. Keath Mead - Sunday Dinner (Company)
  30. ONO - Ennui (Priority Male)
  31. Darlings - Feel Better (Wild Canary)
  32. Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Frankie and the Witch Fingers (Permanent)
  33. Buxton - Half a Native (New West)
  34. Ty Segall Band - Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  35. Various Artists - Monster Compilation Vol. 1 (Dumpster Tapes)
  36. Mourn - Mourn (Captured Tracks)
  37. Mount Eerie - Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  38. Sir Richard Bishop - Tangier Sessions (Drag City)
  39. A Place to Bury Strangers - Transfixiation (Dead Oceans)
  40. Danny Kroha - Angels Watching Over Me (Third Man)
  41. Aphex Twin - Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP (Warp)
  42. The Thons - Hot Fun (self-released)
  43. Young Buffalo - House (Votiv)
  44. John Till - John Till (self-released)
  45. Rats Rest - Permanent Catastrophe EP (Erste Theke Tontr‰ger)
  46. The Amazing - Picture You (Partisan)
  47. Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland)
  48. Cody & the Gateway Drugs - Songs for the New Depression (self-released)
  49. Ghastly Menace - Songs of Ghastly Menace (The Record Machine)
  50. Boduf Songs - Stench of Exist (The Flenser)

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Top 50 for the Week of 03-02-2015

  1. Daniel Knox – Daniel Knox (Carrot Top)
  2. In Tall Buildings – Driver (Western Vinyl)
  3. Colleen Green – I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
  4. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop)
  5. Pops Staples – Don’t Lose This (dBpm)
  6. The Juliana Hatfield Three – Whatever, My Love (American Laundromat)
  7. Dan Deacon – Gliss Riffer (Domino)
  8. Treasure Fleet – The Sun Machine (Recess)
  9. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (The Record Machine)
  10. Darlings – Feel Better (Wild Canary)
  11. Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Frankie and the Witch Fingers (Permanent)
  12. Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance (Matador)
  13. Alex Calder – Strange Dreams (Captured Tracks)
  14. Jose Gonzalez – Vestiges & Claws (Mute)
  15. Screaming Females – Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni)
  16. Various Artists – Monster Compilation Vol. 1 (Dumpster Tapes)
  17. Dream Version – Beginners (self-released)
  18. ONO – Ennui (Priority Male)
  19. Axis: Sova – Early Surf (God?)
  20. Universal Togetherness Band – Universal Togetherness Band (Numero Group)
  21. Sonny and the Sunsets – Talent Night at the Ashram (Polyvinyl)
  22. Torche – Restarter (Relapse)
  23. John Till – John Till (self-released)
  24. The Amazing – Picture You (Partisan)
  25. The Kandinsky Effect – Somnambulist (Cuneiform)
  26. Various Artists – Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (Strut)
  27. Dengue Fever – The Deepest Lake (Tuk Tuk)
  28. Street Joy – Street Joy EP (self-released)
  29. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane (New West)
  30. Mourn – Mourn (Captured Tracks)
  31. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again (Drag City)
  32. Ty Segall Band – Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  33. Xylouris White – Goats (Other Music)
  34. Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 (Warp)
  35. Sam Prekop – The Republic (Thrill Jockey)
  36. Siskiyou – Nervous (Constellation)
  37. The Dodos – Individ (Polyvinyl)
  38. The Thons – Hot Fun (self-released)
  39. Disappears – Irreal (kranky)
  40. Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow)
  41. Exit Verse – Exit Verse (Ernest Jenning)
  42. DJ Clent – Late Bus to Lake Park (Duck N’ Cover)
  43. Murder By Death – Big Dark Love (Bloodshot)
  44. Matthew O’Neill – Campfire Cook (Lone Pine)
  45. Björk – Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
  46. Keath Mead – Sunday Dinner (Company)
  47. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom+Pop)
  48. Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers – Seasonal Hire (Thrill Jockey)
  49. Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  50. Hanni El Khatib – Moonlight (Innovative Leisure)

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Top 50 for the Week of 02-17-2015

  1. ONO – Ennui (Priority Male)
  2. Jose Gonzalez – Vestiges & Claws (Mute)
  3. Dream Version – Beginners (self-released)
  4. Universal Togetherness Band – Universal Togetherness Band (Numero Group)
  5. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop)
  6. Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Frankie and the Witch Fingers (Permanent)
  7. Twerps – Range Anxiety (Merge)
  8. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again (Drag City)
  9. Various Artists – Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (Strut)
  10. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
  11. Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow)
  12. Various Artists – Monster Compilation Vol. 1 (Dumpster Tapes)
  13. Ghastly Menace – Songs of Ghastly Menace (The Record Machine)
  14. Mourn – Mourn (Captured Tracks)
  15. The Amazing – Picture You (Partisan)
  16. Ty Segall Band – Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  17. Beardyman – Distractions (Tummy Touch)
  18. Doomtree – All Hands (Doomtree)
  19. Dengue Fever – The Deepest Lake (Tuk Tuk)
  20. Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  21. Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino)
  22. Disappears – Irreal (kranky)
  23. DJ Clent – Late Bus to Lake Park (Duck N’ Cover)
  24. The Dodos – Individ (Polyvinyl)
  25. Danny Kroha – Angels Watching Over Me (Third Man)
  26. D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah (RCA)
  27. Viet Cong – Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar)
  28. The Funs – Still Smoking (Athletic Tabes)
  29. Björk – Vulnicura (One Little Indian)
  30. Torche – Restarter (Relapse)
  31. Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance (Matador)
  32. Chimurenga Renaissance – Kudada Nekuva Munhu Mutema (self-released)
  33. The Thons – Hot Fun (self-released)
  34. Axis: Sova – Early Surf (God?)
  35. Guts Club – The Arm Wrestling Tournament (Important)
  36. The Decemberists – What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (Capitol)
  37. Matthew Melton – Outside of Paradise (Southpaw)
  38. Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers – Seasonal Hire (Thrill Jockey)
  39. Until the Ribbon Breaks – A Lesson Unlearnt (Kobalt)
  40. Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane (New West)
  41. A Place To Bury Strangers – Transfixation (Dead Oceans)
  42. Two Gallants – We Are Undone (ATO)
  43. Sam Prekop – The Republic (Thrill Jockey)
  44. The Sidekicks – Runners in the Nerved World (Epitaph)
  45. River Whyless – River Whyless EP (Backwoods Nation)
  46. Exit Verse – Exit Verse (Ernest Jenning)
  47. Geographer – Ghost Modern (Ingrooves)
  48. Atomic – Lucidity (JazzLand)
  49. Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 (Warp)
  50. Project Film – Different Rooms (Tandem Shop)

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Top 30 for the Week of 10-28-2014

1 - MUCCA PAZZAL.Y.A. (Leather Bus)
2 - ZOLA JESUS - Taiga - Mute
3 - THOM YORKE - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes - Self-Released
4 - EX HEX - Rips - Merge
5 - ANGELA JAMES - Way Down Deep - Self-Released
6 - PEAKING LIGHTS - Cosmic Logic - Weird World
7 - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - Singer's Grave a Sea of Tongues - Drag City
8 - KEVIN MORBY - Still Life - Woodsist
9 - CARIBOU - Our Love - Merge
10 - MARK LANEGAN - Phantom Radio  
11 - ICEAGE - Plowing Into the Field of Love - Matador
12 - EXCEPTER - Familiar - Blast First Petite
13 - FLYING LOTUS - You're Dead - Warp
14 - BUCK 65 - Neverlove  
15 - FOXYGEN - And Star Power - Jagjaguwar
16 - SHELLAC - Dude Incredible - Touch And Go
17 - ALT-J - This Is All Yours - Canvasback-Atlantic
18 - BRONCHO - Just Enough Hip To Be Woman - Dine Alone
19 - KING TUFF - Black Moon Spell - SUB POP
20 - BISHOP'S DAREDEVIL STUNT CLUB - Veva, Hold On! - self-released
21 - APHEX TWIN - Syro - Warp
22 - VASELINES - V For Vaselines - Rosary
23 - DOT HACKER - How's Your Process? - ORG
24 - JUAN MACLEAN - In a Dream - DFA
25 - BUSDRIVER - Perfect Hair - Big Dada
26 - S - Cool Choices - Hardly Art
27 - GODFLESH - A World Lit Only By Fire - Avalanche
28 - SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land - Young Turks
29 - ELECTRIC WIZARD - Time To Die - Spinefarm
30 - HORRENDOUS - Ecdysis - Dark Descent

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