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Top 50 for the Week of 8-12-2014

  1. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  2. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
  3. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  4. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  5. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  6. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart? (Weird World)
  7. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  8. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  9. Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  10. Various Artists - Song Reader (Capitol)
  11. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  12. The Skygreen Leopards - Family Crimes (Woodsist)
  13. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  14. The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  15. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  16. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  17. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
  18. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop)
  19. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
  20. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  21. Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  22. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  23. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again (Epitaph)
  24. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  25. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (Barsuk)
  26. Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Wichita)
  27. Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  28. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.2 (Hyperdub)
  29. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)
  30. Young Liars - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)
  31. Ben Miller Band - Any Way, Shape or Form (New West)
  32. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  33. Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)
  34. BOYTOY - BOYTOY EP (Papercup)
  35. Cold Specks - Bodies at Bay EP (Mute)
  36. Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  37. Field Mouse - Hold Still Life (Topshelf)
  38. Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  39. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  40. The Phenomenauts - Escape Velocity (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club)
  41. Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  42. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  43. BPos - Positive Beings (One League Entertainment)
  44. Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! (Mint)
  45. Reigning Sound - Shattered (Merge)
  46. The Acid - Liminal (Mute)
  47. Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  48. Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  49. Cormega - Mega Philosophy (Slimstyle)
  50. EDJ - EDJ (Easy Sound)

This week's adds

  • Alison May - Loved / Dark (Misery Loves Co.)
  • Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  • Bishop Allen - Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
  • Bobby Hutcherson - Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
  • Celebration - Albumin (Bella Union)
  • Chris Staples - American Soft (Barsuk)
  • Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)
  • FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  • Floating Action - Body Questions (New West)
  • Katie Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton 2 (Lawless Inc.)
  • Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1-2 (2 disc) (Madlib Invazion)
  • Mike Doughty - Live at Ken's House (Snack Bar)
  • Mirel Wagner - When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (Sub Pop)
  • Naomi Punk - Television Man (Captured Tracks)
  • Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless (Moshi Moshi)
  • The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8-5-2014

  1. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  2. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  3. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  4. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  5. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  6. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  7. Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  8. The Miami Dolphins - Becky (FPE)
  9. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  10. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  11. Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  12. The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  13. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  14. Freeman - Freeman (Partisan)
  15. The Acid - Liminal (Mute)
  16. Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  17. Cold Specks - Bodies at Bay EP (Mute)
  18. Naomi Shelton & The Gopsel Queens - Cold World (Daptone)
  19. The Phenomenauts - Escape Velocity (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club)
  20. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
  21. Field Mouse - Hold Still Life (Topshelf)
  22. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  23. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  24. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  25. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy (Mello Music Group)
  26. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)
  27. Xeno and Oaklander - Par Avion (Ghostly International)
  28. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop)
  29. Joel Jerome - Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk (Manimal)
  30. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  31. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
  32. AroarA - AroarA EP (Club Roll)
  33. Midnight Masses - Departures (Superball)
  34. Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)
  35. Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  36. Fink - Hard Believer (R'COUP'D)
  37. Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  38. Mark Alan Lofgren - The Past Perfect (self-released)
  39. Dead Fingers - Big Black Dog (Communicating Vessels)
  40. Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven (Metal Blade)
  41. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  42. Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Wichita)
  43. Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  44. Kimekai - Coral Dreams (Hush Hush)
  45. Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  46. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (Barsuk)
  47. The Skygreen Leopards - Family Crimes (Woodsist)
  48. Guides - Guides 7" EP (self-released)
  49. Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  50. Tom Vek - Luck (Moshi Moshi)

This week's adds

  • Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  • Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  • BOYTOY - BOYTOY EP (Papercup)
  • BPos - Positive Beings (One League Entertainment)
  • Cormega - Mega Philosophy (Slimstyle)
  • EDJ - EDJ (Easy Sound)
  • Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind (Century Media)
  • Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  • Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  • Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
  • The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
  • The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  • Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  • Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.2 (Hyperdub)
  • Various Artists - Song Reader (Capitol)
  • Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 7-29-2014

  1. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  2. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  3. Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  4. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  5. Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  6. Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp)
  7. Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  8. Field Mouse - Hold Still Life (Topshelf)
  9. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  10. Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
  11. The Acid - Liminal (Mute)
  12. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  13. Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Wichita)
  14. Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  15. Daniel Bachman - Orange County Serenade (Bathetic)
  16. Naomi Shelton & The Gopsel Queens - Cold World (Daptone)
  17. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy (Mello Music Group)
  18. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  19. The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  20. Xeno and Oaklander - Par Avion (Ghostly International)
  21. Johanna Samuels - Double Bind (self-released)
  22. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  23. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop)
  24. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
  25. Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  26. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  27. Black Bananas - Electric Black Wall (Drag City)
  28. Matt Kivel - Days of Being Wild (Woodsist)
  29. My Brightest Diamond - None More than You EP (Asthmatic Kitty)
  30. OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  31. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (barsuk)
  32. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  33. The Skygreen Leopards - Family Crimes (Woodsist)
  34. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  35. Dead Fingers - Big Black Dog (Communicating Vessels)
  36. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart? (Weird World)
  37. Secret Cities - Walk Me Home (Western Vinyl)
  38. The Phenomenauts - Escape Velocity (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club)
  39. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)
  40. Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  41. Lower - Seek Warmer Climes (Matador)
  42. Midnight Masses - Departures (Superball)
  43. Drenge - Drenge (Infectious)
  44. Flashlights - Bummer Summer (Hard Rock)
  45. Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish (Crammed Discs)
  46. Kimekai - Coral Dreams (Hush Hush)
  47. Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! (Mint)
  48. Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  49. Sadistik - Ultraviolet (Fake Four Inc.)
  50. Zig Zags - Zig Zags (In the Red)

This week's adds

  • Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  • Ben Miller Band - Any Way, Shape or Form (New West)
  • Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven (Metal Blade)
  • Cold Specks - Bodies at Bay EP (Mute)
  • Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  • Freeman - Freeman (Partisan)
  • Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  • Joel Jerome - Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk (Manimal)
  • John Hiatt - Terms of My Surrender (New West)
  • Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again (Epitaph)
  • Kahoots - Take to the Fields (Telegraph Harp)
  • Kestrels - The Moon Is Shining Our Way EP (Sonic Unyon)
  • Mark Alan Lofgren - The Past Perfect (self-released)
  • The Miami Dolphins - Becky (FPE)
  • Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)

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Top 50 for the Week of 7-22-2014

  1. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  2. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  3. Naomi Shelton & The Gopsel Queens - Cold World (Daptone)
  4. Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  6. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  7. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  8. The Skygreen Leopards - Family Crimes (Woodsist)
  9. Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  10. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart? (Weird World)
  11. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  12. Xeno and Oaklander - Par Avion (Ghostly International)
  13. Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Wichita)
  14. Young Liars - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)
  15. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  16. Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  17. The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  18. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop)
  19. Zig Zags - Zig Zags (In the Red)
  20. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  21. Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  22. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  23. Johanna Samuels - Double Bind (self-released)
  24. Lust for Youth - International (Sacred Bones)
  25. Matt Kivel - Days of Being Wild (Woodsist)
  26. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  27. Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  28. Strand of Oaks - Heal (Dead Oceans)
  29. The Proper Ornaments - Wooden Head (Slumberland)
  30. Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  31. Greys - If Anything (Carpark)
  32. Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  33. Jad Fair & Danielson - Solid Gold Heart (Sounds Familyre)
  34. Lower - Seek Warmer Climes (Matador)
  35. Midnight Masses - Departures (Superball)
  36. OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  37. Reigning Sound - Shattered (Merge)
  38. Sean Flinn & The Royal We - The Lost Weekend (Glad I Did)
  39. The Acid - Liminal (Mute)
  40. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  41. Black Bananas - Electric Black Wall (Drag City)
  42. Drenge - Drenge (Infectious)
  43. Fink - Hard Believer (R'COUP'D)
  44. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
  45. My Brightest Diamond - None More than You EP (Asthmatic Kitty)
  46. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (barsuk)
  47. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)
  48. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Hunger (Castle Face)
  49. Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp)
  50. Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish (Crammed Discs)

This week's adds

  • Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  • Daniel Bachman - Orange County Serenade (Bathetic)
  • Dead Fingers - Big Black Dog (Communicating Vessels)
  • Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  • Field Mouse - Hold Still Life (Topshelf)
  • Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues (Tee Pee)
  • Monomyth - Saturnalia Regalia! (Mint)
  • Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
  • Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy (Mello Music Group)
  • The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  • Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  • White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)

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Top 50 for the Week of 7-15-2014

  1. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  2. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart? (Weird World)
  3. Lightfoils - Hierarchy (Saint Marie)
  4. Lust for Youth - International (Sacred Bones)
  5. Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish (Crammed Discs)
  6. Circles - Shadowgraph (Diminished Arc)
  7. Rabble Rabble - Brain Hole (Logan Hardware)
  8. Slushy - Pastime Gardens (Grabbing Clouds)
  9. Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer (Planet Mu)
  10. Young Liars - Tidal Wave (Nettwerk)
  11. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (Lefse)
  12. Black Bananas - Electric Black Wall (Drag City)
  13. Drenge - Drenge (Infectious)
  14. Johanna Samuels - Double Bind (self-released)
  15. My Brightest Diamond - None More than You EP (Asthmatic Kitty)
  16. Sadistik - Ultraviolet (Fake Four Inc.)
  17. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
  18. Eno • Hyde - High Life (Warp)
  19. The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico (HopeStreet)
  20. Beverly - Careers (Kanine)
  21. Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
  22. Jack White - Lazaretto (Columbia)
  23. Kimekai - Coral Dreams (Hush Hush)
  24. OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
  25. Say Hi - Endless Wonder (barsuk)
  26. The Antlers - Familiars (ANTI-)
  27. The Phenomenauts - Escape Velocity (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club)
  28. White Hex - Gold Nights (Felte)
  29. Many Places - Plurals (self-released)
  30. The Donkeys - Ride the Black Wave (Easy Sound Recording Company)
  31. Tom Vek - Luck (Moshi Moshi)
  32. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only Run (self-released)
  33. Clipping. - CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
  34. Douglas Dare - Whelm (Erased Tapes)
  35. Nightmares on Wax - N.O.W. Is the Time (Warp)
  36. Flashlights - Bummer Summer (Hard Rock)
  37. Jad Fair & Danielson - Solid Gold Heart (Sounds Familyre)
  38. Paul Giallorenzo's GitGo - Force Majeure (Delmark)
  39. Secret Cities - Walk Me Home (Western Vinyl)
  40. Stu Mindeman - In Your Waking Eyes: Poems by Langston Hughes (self-released)
  41. AroarA - AroarA EP (Club Roll)
  42. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (Columbia)
  43. Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
  44. Greys - If Anything (Carpark)
  45. Driftmachine - Nocturnes (Umor Rex)
  46. Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat)
  47. OBN IIIs - Third Time To Harm (Tic Tac Totally)
  48. People - 3xaWoman (Telegraph Harp)
  49. The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
  50. The Orwells - Disgraceland (Atlantic)

This week's adds

  • Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  • Dot Hacker - How's Your Process? (Work) (ORG Music)
  • Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  • Fink - Hard Believer (R'COUP'D)
  • Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  • Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  • Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  • Lower - Seek Warmer Climes (Matador)
  • Matt Kivel - Days of Being Wild (Woodsist)
  • Midnight Masses - Departures (Superball)
  • Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  • Naomi Shelton & The Gopsel Queens - Cold World (Daptone)
  • Pale Horseman - Mourn the Black Lotus (self-released)
  • Reigning Sound - Shattered (Merge)
  • Sean Flinn & The Royal We - The Lost Weekend (Glad I Did)
  • Slow Club - Complete Surrender (Wichita)
  • The Acid - Liminal (Mute)
  • The Proper Ornaments - Wooden Head (Slumberland)
  • The Skygreen Leopards - Family Crimes (Woodsist)
  • Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop)
  • Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  • Xeno and Oaklander - Par Avion (Ghostly International)
  • Zig Zags - Zig Zags (In the Red)

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