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Top 50 for the Week of 3-25-2014

  1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
  2. Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
  4. The Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
  5. Hologram Kizzie - Hug Life (Bonafyde)
  6. She Speaks in Tongues - Gloria (Notes + Bolts)
  7. Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  8. Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
  9. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
  10. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
  11. Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  12. The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
  13. Bummer - Bummer EP (Toblerone Sunrise)
  14. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
  15. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
  16. Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  17. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  18. Sidewalk Chalk - Leaves (self-released)
  19. Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  20. Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)
  21. Mahayla - Electricspaceagesweetheart (Serial Lover)
  22. The Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  23. Cherry Glazerr - Haxel Princess (Burger)
  24. Kevin Drew - Darlings (Arts & Crafts)
  25. The Men - Tomorrow's Hits (Sacred Bones)
  26. Ava Luna - Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl)
  27. Davidge - Slo Light (The End)
  28. DVA - Nipomo (Northern Spy)
  29. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord)
  30. Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
  31. Linda Perhacs - The Soul of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)
  32. ONO - Diegesis (Moniker)
  33. Peter Clementi - The Incredible Light (self-released)
  34. Phantogram - Voices (Barsuk)
  35. Ages and Ages - Divisionary (Partisan)
  36. Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves (Burger)
  37. New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room (Drag City)
  38. Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
  39. Trin Tran - Far Reaches EP (Castle Face)
  40. Twilight - III: Beneath Trident's Tomb (Century Media)
  41. Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)
  42. Crosses - Crosses (Sumerian)
  43. Alsarah & The Nubatones - Silt (Wonderwheel)
  44. Fenster - The Pink Caves (Morr Music)
  45. The Royal Oui - The Royal Oui (File Under: Music)
  46. Vertical Scratchers - Daughter of Everything (Merge)
  47. Warm Soda - Young Reckless Hearts (Castle Face)
  48. Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
  49. Dry Heeves - Boogie TIll Ya Puke (self-released)
  50. Iska Dhaaf - Even the Sun Will Burn (Brick Lane)

This week's adds

  • Alias - Indiiggo (anticon.)
  • Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe (Brick Lane)
  • Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
  • Grieves - Winter and The Wolves (Rhymesayers)
  • Hew Time - Hew Time (Joyful Noise)
  • Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone (Ubiquity)
  • Le1f - Hey EP (Terrible)
  • Liars - Mess (Mute)
  • Owls - Two (Polyvinyl)
  • Pilgrim - II (Metal Blade)
  • Pure X - Angel (Fat Possum)
  • S. Carey - Range of Light (Jagjaguwar)
  • Shrine - Bless Off (Tee Pee)
  • Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (Mom + Pop)
  • Tycho - Awake (Ghostly International)
  • Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles (Numero Group)
  • Welcome - Weeknights (self-released)
  • Wen - Signals (Keysound Recordings)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3-18-2014

  1. The Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
  2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
  3. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord)
  4. Sidewalk Chalk - Leaves (self-released)
  5. Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  6. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
  7. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
  8. Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  9. The Men - Tomorrow's Hits (Sacred Bones)
  10. Hologram Kizzie - Hug Life (Bonafyde)
  11. Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)
  12. Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
  13. ONO - Diegesis (Moniker)
  14. Mount Salem - Endless (Metal Blade)
  15. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  16. New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room (Drag City)
  17. Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  18. Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
  19. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
  20. Supreme Cuts - Divine Ecstasy (Dovecote)
  21. Bil Vermette - Katha Visions (Permanent)
  22. Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  23. Tree - The @MCTREEG EP (Scion AV)
  24. Total Slacker - Slip Away (Black Bell)
  25. Vertical Scratchers - Daughter of Everything (Merge)
  26. Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
  27. Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)
  28. Iska Dhaaf - Even the Sun Will Burn (Brick Lane)
  29. Peter Clementi - The Incredible Light (self-released)
  30. Warm Soda - Young Reckless Hearts (Castle Face)
  31. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
  32. Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
  33. Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves (Burger)
  34. Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit (GBV Inc.)
  35. Phantogram - Voices (Barsuk)
  36. Sally Seltmann - Hey Daydreamer (Arts and Crafts)
  37. Christina Vantzou - No. 2 (kranky)
  38. Dry Heeves - Boogie TIll Ya Puke (self-released)
  39. patten - ESTOILE NAIANT (Warp)
  40. Ages & Ages - Divisionary (Partisan)
  41. DVA - Nipomo (Northern Spy)
  42. Young Fathers - Dead (Anticon.)
  43. Trust - Joyland (Arts and Crafts)
  44. Linda Perhacs - The Soul of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)
  45. Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailor (Sargent House)
  46. Bike for Three! - So Much Forever (Fake Four Inc.)
  47. Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
  48. Alsarah & The Nubatones - Silt (Wonderwheel)
  49. Davidge - Slo Light (The End)
  50. Solids - Blame Confusion (Fat Possum)

This week's adds

  • Baby Money - In Memory of John Doe (self-released)
  • Bummer - Bummer EP (Toblerone Sunrise)
  • Chicago Underground Duo - Locus (Northern Spy)
  • The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Fenster - The Pink Caves (Morr Music)
  • Hayley Reardon - Wayfindings (Kingswood)
  • Kevin Drew - Darlings (Arts and Crafts)
  • Mahayla - Electricspaceagesweetheart (Serial Lover)
  • Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
  • Psalm Zero - The Drain (Profound Lore)
  • Sabers - Sic Semper Sabers (self-released)
  • She Speaks in Tonges - Gloria (Notes + Bolts)
  • Sisyphus - Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Trin Tran - Far Reaches EP (Castle Face)
  • Twilight - III (Century Media)
  • The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3-11-2014

  1. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
  2. The Men - Tomorrow's Hits (Sacred Bones)
  3. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
  4. Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
  5. Sidewalk Chalk - Leaves (self-released)
  6. Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
  7. The Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
  8. Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  9. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Phantogram - Voices (Barsuk)
  11. ONO - Diegesis (Moniker)
  12. Ages & Ages - Divisionary (Partisan)
  13. Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)
  14. Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
  15. Supreme Cuts - Divine Ecstasy (Dovecote)
  16. The Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  17. Vertical Scratchers - Daughter of Everything (Merge)
  18. Cherry Glazerr - Haxel Princess (Burger)
  19. Total Slacker - Slip Away (Black Bell)
  20. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
  21. Broken Bells - After the Disco (Columbia)
  22. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
  23. Thumpers - Galore (Sub Pop)
  24. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (Bloodshot)
  25. Hologram Kizzie - Hug Life (Bonafyde)
  26. Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
  27. Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves (Burger)
  28. Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
  29. Ume - Monuments (Dangerbird)
  30. White Rainbow - THRU.U (White Rainbow)
  31. Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
  32. Tinariwen - Emmaar (ANTI-)
  33. Sally Seltmann - Hey Daydreamer (Arts and Crafts)
  34. Ava Luna - Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl)
  35. Mark McGuire - Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
  36. Water Liars - Water Liars (Fat Possum)
  37. Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair EP (Carpark)
  38. Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
  39. Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt (Kanine)
  40. Solids - Blame Confusion (Fat Possum)
  41. PYPY - Pagan Day (Slovenly)
  42. Tree - The @MCTREEG EP (Scion AV)
  43. Temples - Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
  44. Jupe Jupe - Crooked Kisses (self-released)
  45. Pontiak - Innocence (Thrill Jockey)
  46. The Tower of Light - The Tower of Light (Felte)
  47. Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailor (Sargent House)
  48. Carla Bozulich - Boy (Constellation)
  49. Trust - Joyland (Arts and Crafts)
  50. Alsarah & The Nubatones - Silt (Wonderwheel)

This week's adds

  • Christina Vantzou - No. 2 (kranky)
  • Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
  • Dry Heeves - Boogie TIll Ya Puke (self-released)
  • DVA - Nipomo (Northern Spy)
  • Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord)
  • Iska Dhaaf - Even the Sun Will Burn (Brick Lane)
  • Linda Perhacs - The Soul of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Mount Salem - Endless (Metal Blade)
  • Netherfriends - P3ACE (self-released)
  • New Bums - Voices in a Rented Room (Drag City)
  • Peter Clementi - The Incredible Light (self-released)
  • Prizehog - Re-Unvent the Whool (Eolian Empire)
  • Secret Colours - Positive Distractions Part I (self-released)
  • Warm Soda - Young Reckless Hearts (Castle Face)
  • Will Phalen - The Dirt and the Air and the Grass (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 3-4-2014

  1. Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
  2. Hologram Kizzie - Hug Life (Bonafyde)
  3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
  4. Phantogram- Voices (Barsuk)
  5. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  7. Sidewalk Chalk - Leaves (self-released)
  8. St. Paul and The Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock)
  9. Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
  10. Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailor (Sargent House)
  11. ONO - Diegesis (Moniker)
  12. Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights (Lester)
  13. Broken Bells - After the Disco (Columbia)
  14. patten - ESTOILE NAIANT (Warp)
  15. Total Slacker - Slip Away (Black Bell)
  16. Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
  17. Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit (GBV Inc.)
  18. Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
  19. Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair EP (Carpark)
  20. Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt (Kanine)
  21. Tinariwen - Emmaar (ANTI-)
  22. The Thons - Thirty Foot Snake (self-released)
  23. Young Fathers - Dead (Anticon.)
  24. The Damn Choir - Creatures of Habit (self-released)
  25. Supreme Cuts - Divine Ecstasy (Dovecote)
  26. Mark McGuire - Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
  27. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)
  28. Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  29. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
  30. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
  31. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (Bloodshot)
  32. Bil Vermette - Katha Visions (Permanent)
  33. Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)
  34. Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot EP (self-released)
  35. Temples - Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
  36. Tree - The @MCTREEG EP (Scion AV)
  37. Maurice Brown - Maurice Vs. Mobetta (Brown)
  38. Com Truise - Wave 1 (Ghostly International)
  39. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  40. Yellow Ostrich - Cosmos (Barsuk)
  41. Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)
  42. Be Forest - Earthbeat (We Were Never Being Boring)
  43. Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  44. Hamell on Trial - The Happiest Man in the World (New West)
  45. Death Vessel - Island Intervals (Sub Pop)
  46. Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  47. Julie Byrne - Rooms with Walls and Windows (Orindal)
  48. Alsarah & The Nubatones - Silt (Wonderwheel)
  49. Fossils - Flesh Hammer (Indisciplinarian)
  50. Dog Bite - Tranquilizers (Carpark)

This week's adds

  • Crosses - Crosses (Sumerian)
  • Ages & Ages - Divisionary (Partisan)
  • Ava Luna - Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl)
  • The Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
  • Carla Bozulich - Boy (Constellation)
  • Cherry Glazerr - Haxel Princess (Burger)
  • Damaged Bug - Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
  • Davidge - Slo Light (The End)
  • The Men - Tomorrow's Hits (Sacred Bones)
  • Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves (Burger)
  • Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
  • Sally Seltmann - Hey Daydreamer (Arts and Crafts)
  • Solids - Blame Confusion (Fat Possum)
  • St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
  • TacocaT - NVM (Hardly Art)
  • Trust - Joyland (Arts and Crafts)
  • Untold - Black Light Spiral (Hemlock)
  • Vertical Scratchers - Daughter of Everything (Merge)

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Top 50 for the Week of 2-25-2014

  1. The Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  2. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Temples - Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
  4. Broken Bells - After the Disco (Columbia)
  5. Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
  6. Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
  7. Bil Vermette - Katha Visions (Permanent)
  8. St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock)
  9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
  10. Supreme Cuts - Divine Ecstasy (Dovecote)
  11. Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  12. Young Fathers - Dead (Anticon.)
  13. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
  14. The Casket Girls - True Love Kills the Fairy Tale (Graveface)
  15. Com Truise - Wave 1 (Ghostly International)
  16. The Damn Choir - Creatures of Habit (self-released)
  17. Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  18. Mark McGuire - Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
  19. The Thons - Thirty Foot Snake (self-released)
  20. Tinariwen - Emmaar (ANTI-)
  21. Tree - The @MCTREEG EP (Scion AV)
  22. Ari Brown - Groove Awakening (Delmark)
  23. D. Charles Speer & the Helix - Doubled Exposure (Thrill Jockey)
  24. Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  25. Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights (Lester)
  26. Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair EP (Carpark)
  27. Tara Jane O'Neil - Where Shine New Lights (kranky)
  28. Death Vessel - Island Intervals (Sub Pop)
  29. Del the Funky Homosapien - Iller Than Most (self-released)
  30. Guided By Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit (GBV Inc.)
  31. Martin Van Ruin - Every Man a King (self-released)
  32. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
  33. White Rainbow - THRU.U (White Rainbow)
  34. Bellicose Minds - The Buzz or Howl Sessions (A389)
  35. Bike for Three! - So Much Forever (Fake Four Inc.)
  36. Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt (Kanine)
  37. Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot (self-released)
  38. Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  39. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)
  40. Jack Name - Light Show (God?)
  41. Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
  42. Mast - Pleasure Island (Channel A)
  43. Thumpers - Galore (Sub Pop)
  44. Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)
  45. Flowers - Songs By... (self-released)
  46. Gem Club - In Roses (Hardly Art)
  47. Hidden Cameras - AGE (Evil Evil)
  48. Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
  49. Illum Sphere - Ghosts of Then and Now (Ninja Tune)
  50. Julie Byrne - Rooms with Walls and Windows (Orindal)

This week's adds

  • Alana Amram & The Rough Gems - Spring River (Kingswood)
  • Alsarah & The Nubatones - Silt (Wonderwheel)
  • Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
  • Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
  • Fossils - Flesh Hammer (Indisciplinarian)
  • Gordon Ashworth - S.T.L.A. (Orindal)
  • Hamell on Trial - The Happiest Man in the World (New West)
  • Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailor (Sargent House)
  • Hologram Kizzie - Hug Life (Bonafyde)
  • Lushes - What Am I Doing (Felte)
  • ONO - Diegesis (Moniker)
  • patten - ESTOILE NAIANT (Warp)
  • Phantogram - Voices (Barsuk)
  • Sidewalk Chalk - Leaves (self-released)
  • The Royal Oui - The Royal Oui (File Under: Music)
  • Total Slacker - Slip Away (Black Bell)
  • Ume - Monuments (Dangerbird)
  • Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)

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