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Top 50 for the Week of 4-29-2014

  1. De La Soul - Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released)
  2. Verbal Kent - Sound of the Weapon (Mello Music Group)
  3. Paul Cary & the Small Scarys - Coyote (Candy Dinner)
  4. Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)
  5. Woods - With Light and with Love (Woodsist)
  6. Pink Mountaintops - Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  8. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
  9. Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)
  10. White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
  11. Denney & the Jets - Mexican Coke (Burger)
  12. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing (ATO)
  13. Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  14. Metá Metá - MetaL MetaL (Mais Um Discos)
  15. Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  16. Faint - Doom Abuse (SQE)
  17. NE-HI - Ne-Hi (Manic Static)
  18. OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice)
  19. Adanowsky - ADA (Everloving)
  20. Royal Pines - Three Sheets (Grey Chord)
  21. Emily Jane Powers - Part of Me (self-released)
  22. Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4Eva (self-released)
  23. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
  24. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Mom + Pop)
  25. Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  26. Jackie Onassis - Holiday EP (Sony)
  27. The Main Chance - Lunagraphy (Pandarosa)
  28. Fujiya & Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc)
  29. The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun (Chimera)
  30. Teebs - E s t a r a (Brainfeeder)
  31. Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
  32. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (Razor and Tie)
  33. Teen - The Way and Color (Carpark)
  34. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
  35. Dorval & Devereaux - Dorval and Devereaux (Moon Glyph)
  36. The Skull Defekts - Dances in the Dreams of the Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)
  37. Cheetah Chrome - Solo EP (Plowboy)
  38. White Hinterland - Baby (Dead Oceans)
  39. Woodrow Hart & The Haymaker - Woodrow Hart and the Haymaker (self-released)
  40. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Intergalactic Beings (FPE)
  41. Death - III (Drag City)
  42. Landmarks - Landmarks EP (Manic Static)
  43. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House (Domino)
  44. Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast (Sub Pop)
  45. The Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  46. Vermont - Vermont (Kompakt)
  47. Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden - The Shape The Color The Feel (Red Valise)
  48. The Spits - Kill the Kool (In the Red)
  49. Dead Rider - Chills on Glass (Drag City)
  50. The Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon Ventures)

This week's adds

  • City States - Geography (self-released)
  • Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
  • Dwellers - Pagan Fruit (Small Stone)
  • Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger (Goner)
  • Fear of Men - Loom (Kanine)
  • Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Trouble in Mind)
  • Liam Finn - The Nihilist (Yep Roc)
  • Nat Baldwin - In the Hollows (Western Vinyl)
  • School of Language - Old Fears (Memphis Industries)
  • Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (Secret Stash)
  • Survival Knife - Loose Power (Glacial Pace)
  • Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
  • Tourist - Patterns (Monday)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4-22-2014

  1. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (Razor and Tie)
  2. Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)
  3. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
  4. Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
  5. NE-HI - Ne-Hi (Manic Static)
  6. The Faint - Doom Abuse (SQE)
  7. Landmarks - Landmarks EP (Manic Static)
  8. Emily Jane Powers - Part of Me (self-released)
  9. The Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon Ventures)
  10. OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice)
  11. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House (Domino)
  12. Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4Eva (self-released)
  13. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing (ATO)
  14. Death - III (Drag City)
  15. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast (Sub Pop)
  16. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Mom + Pop)
  17. Royal Pines - Three Sheets (Grey Chord)
  18. Sun Araw - Belomancie (Sun Ark)
  19. Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  20. Busman's Holiday - A Long Goodbye (Joyful Noise)
  21. Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  22. Fujiya & Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc)
  23. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Intergalactic Beings (FPE)
  24. Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  25. Dead Rider - Chills on Glass (Drag City)
  26. Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International)
  27. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
  28. White Hinterland - Baby (Dead Oceans)
  29. Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  30. Liars - Mess (Mute)
  31. The Spits - Kill the Kool (In the Red)
  32. Adanowsky - ADA (Everloving)
  33. Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone (Ubiquity)
  34. Denney & the Jets - Mexican Coke (Burger)
  35. Jackie Onassis - Holiday EP (Sony)
  36. Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  37. Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
  38. Le1f - Hey EP (Terrible)
  39. Withered Hand - New Gods (Slumberland)
  40. Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  41. She Speaks In Tongues - gloria,GUITAR (Notes + Bolts)
  42. Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (Mom + Pop)
  43. Koen Holtkamp - Motion (Thrill Jockey)
  44. Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  45. Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden - The Shape The Color The Feel (Red Valise)
  46. Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed (Slumberland)
  47. Pure X - Angel (Fat Possum)
  48. Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe (Brick Lane)
  49. Cheetah Chrome - Solo (Plowboy)
  50. Teebs - E s t a r a (Brainfeeder)

This week's adds

  • Archie Powell & The Exports - Back in Black (Team Cool)
  • Bailiff - Remise (self-released)
  • Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
  • De La Soul - Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released)
  • Dorval & Devereaux - Dorval and Devereaux (Moon Glyph)
  • The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun (Chimera)
  • Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - Here Be Monsters (In De Goot)
  • Kelis - Food (Ninja Tune)
  • The Main Chance - Lunagraphy (Pandarosa)
  • Metá Metá- MetaL MetaL (Mais Um Discos)
  • Paul Cary & the Small Scarys - Coyote (Candy Dinner)
  • Pink Mountaintops - Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Skull Defekts - Dances in the Dreams of the Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)
  • Teen - The Way and Color (Carpark)
  • White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
  • Woodrow Hart & The Haymaker - Woodrow Hart and the Haymaker (self-released)
  • Woods - With Light and with Love (Woodsist)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4-15-2014

  1. Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
  2. Royal Pines - Three Sheets (Grey Chord)
  3. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Mom + Pop)
  4. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast (Sub Pop)
  5. Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)
  6. Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  7. The Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  8. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
  9. Adanowsky - ADA (Everloving)
  10. Withered Hand - New Gods (Slumberland)
  11. Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  12. Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  13. Liars - Mess (Mute)
  14. NE-HI - Ne-Hi (Manic Static)
  15. Emily Jane Powers - Part of Me (self-released)
  16. Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  17. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  18. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House (Domino)
  19. Dead Rider - Chills on Glass (Drag City)
  20. Busman's Holiday - A Long Goodbye (Joyful Noise)
  21. Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
  22. Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4Eva (self-released)
  23. Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)
  24. Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International)
  25. Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe (Brick Lane)
  26. Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  27. Fenster - The Pink Caves (Morr Music)
  28. Kevin Drew - Darlings (Arts and Crafts)
  29. Landmarks - Landmarks EP (Manic Static)
  30. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
  31. She Speaks In Tongues - Gloria (Notes + Bolts)
  32. The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  33. Le1f - Hey EP (Terrible)
  34. OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice)
  35. Pure X - Angel (Fat Possum)
  36. Sun Araw - Belomancie (Sun Ark)
  37. Should - The Great Pretend (Words on Music)
  38. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (Razor and Tie)
  39. Cheetah Chrome - Solo (Plowboy)
  40. Hew Time - Hew Time (Joyful Noise)
  41. Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone (Ubiquity)
  42. Bummer - Bummer EP (Toblerone Sunrise)
  43. Grieves - Winter and The Wolves (Rhymesayers)
  44. Denney & the Jets - Mexican Coke (Burger)
  45. Alias - Indiiggo EP (anticon.)
  46. Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (Mom + Pop)
  47. Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  48. Trin Tran - Far Reaches EP (Castle Face)
  49. Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden - The Shape The Color The Feel (Red Valise)
  50. Teebs - E s t a r a (Brainfeeder)

This week's adds

  • The Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest (Blue Horizon Ventures)
  • Death - III (Drag City)
  • The Faint - Doom Abuse (SQE)
  • Fujiya & Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc)
  • Jackie Onassis - Holiday EP (Sony)
  • Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing (ATO)
  • Koen Holtkamp - Motion (Thrill Jockey)
  • Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble - Intergalactic Beings (FPE)
  • The Spits - Kill the Kool (In the Red)
  • Todd Terje - It's Album Time (Olsen)
  • Verbal Kent - Sound of the Weapon (Mello Music Group)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4-8-2014

  1. Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
  2. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
  3. She Speaks in Tongues - Gloria (Notes + Bolts)
  4. Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  5. Liars - Mess (Mute)
  6. Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  7. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Mom + Pop)
  8. Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4Eva (self-released)
  9. Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  10. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (Razor and Tie)
  11. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast (Sub Pop)
  12. Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  13. Emily Jane Powers - Part of Me (self-released)
  14. Grieves - Winter and The Wolves (Rhymesayers)
  15. Cheetah Chrome - Solo (Plowboy)
  16. Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  17. Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International)
  18. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
  19. Kevin Drew - Darlings (Arts and Crafts)
  20. Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone (Ubiquity)
  21. New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room (Drag City)
  22. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  23. DVA - Nipomo (Northern Spy)
  24. Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden - The Shape The Color The Feel (Red Valise)
  25. Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  26. Pure X - Angel (Fat Possum)
  27. Vermont - Vermont (Kompakt)
  28. Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion (Sumerian)
  29. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
  30. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord)
  31. Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe (Brick Lane)
  32. Wen - Signals (Keysound Recordings)
  33. S. Carey - Range of Light (Jagjaguwar)
  34. Fenster - The Pink Caves (Morr Music)
  35. Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed (Slumberland)
  36. Hew Time - Hew Time (Joyful Noise)
  37. Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (Mom + Pop)
  38. Mount Salem - Endless (Metal Blade)
  39. Iska Dhaaf - Even the Sun Will Burn (Brick Lane)
  40. Peter Clementi - The Incredible Light (self-released)
  41. Trin Tran - Far Reaches EP (Castle Face)
  42. Mahayla - Electricspaceagesweetheart (Serial Lover)
  43. Sockweb - Werewolf (Monolithic)
  44. Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  45. Various Artists - Wayfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles (Numero Group)
  46. Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)
  47. Le1f - Hey EP (Terrible)
  48. The Shrine - Bless Off (Tee Pee)
  49. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
  50. Bummer - Bummer EP (Toblerone Sunrise)

This week's adds

  • Adanowsky - ADA (Everloving)
  • Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House (Domino)
  • Busman's Holiday - A Long Goodbye (Joyful Noise)
  • Creative Adult - Psychic Mess (Run for Cover)
  • Dead Rider - Chills on Glass (Drag City)
  • Denney & the Jets - Mexican Coke (Burger)
  • Golden Retriever - Seer (Thrill Jockey)
  • Landmarks - Landmarks EP (Manic Static)
  • NE-HI - Ne-Hi (Manic Static)
  • The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  • OFF! - Wasted Years (Vice)
  • Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
  • Royal Pines - Three Sheets (Grey Chord)
  • Should - The Great Pretend (Words on Music)
  • Sun Araw - Belomancie (Sun Ark)
  • Teebs - E s t a r a (Brainfeeder)
  • White Hinterland - Baby (Dead Oceans)
  • Withered Hand - New Gods (Slumberland)
  • Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)

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Top 50 for the Week of 4-1-2014

  1. Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  2. Liars - Mess (Mute)
  3. Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
  4. Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International)
  5. Kevin Drew - Darlings (Arts and Crafts)
  6. She Speaks in Tonges - Gloria (Notes + Bolts)
  7. The Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  8. Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)
  9. Pure X - Angel (Fat Possum)
  10. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
  11. Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
  12. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
  13. Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  14. Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (Mom + Pop)
  15. Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  16. Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  17. Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  18. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
  19. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
  20. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
  21. Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  22. The Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
  23. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
  24. Cherry Glazerr - Haxel Princess (Burger)
  25. Hew Time - Hew Time (Joyful Noise)
  26. Le1f - Hey EP (Terrible)
  27. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  28. Peter Clementi - The Incredible Light (self-released)
  29. Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone (Ubiquity)
  30. Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves (Burger)
  31. Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles (Numero Group)
  32. Vertical Scratchers - Daughter of Everything (Merge)
  33. Alias - Indiiggo EP (anticon.)
  34. Ages & Ages - Divisionary (Partisan)
  35. The Shrine - Bless Off (Tee Pee)
  36. Solids - Blame Confusion (Fat Possum)
  37. Wen - Signals (Keysound Recordings)
  38. Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe (Brick Lane)
  39. Grieves - Winter and The Wolves (Rhymesayers)
  40. DVA - Nipomo (Northern Spy)
  41. S. Carey - Range of Light (Jagjaguwar)
  42. Bummer - Bummer EP (Toblerone Sunrise)
  43. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord)
  44. Dry Heeves - Boogie TIll Ya Puke (self-released)
  45. Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
  46. Trin Tran - Far Reaches EP (Castle Face)
  47. Sally Seltmann - Hey Daydreamer (Arts and Crafts)
  48. Twilight - III (Century Media)
  49. Warm Soda - Young Reckless Hearts (Castle Face)
  50. Iska Dhaaf - Even the Sun Will Burn (Brick Lane)

This week's adds

  • The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast (Sub Pop)
  • Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion (Sumerian)
  • Architecture in Helsinki - Now + 4Eva (self-released)
  • Cheetah Chrome - Solo (Plowboy)
  • Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (Mom + Pop)
  • Emily Jane Powers - Part of Me (self-released)
  • The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (Razor and Tie)
  • Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden - The Shape The Color The Feel (Red Valise)
  • Little Lapin - Little Lapin (self-released)
  • Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
  • Sockweb - Werewolf (Monolithic)
  • Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed (Slumberland)
  • Vermont - Vermont (Kompakt)

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