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Top 50 for the Week of 1-14-2014

  1. Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  2. The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  3. Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  4. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  5. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  6. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  7. Basic Cable - I'm Good to Drive (Permanent)
  8. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  9. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  10. Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  11. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  12. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  13. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)
  14. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  15. Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing (BLVD)
  16. Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  17. Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer (Fire)
  18. KILN - meadow:watt (Ghostly International)
  19. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  20. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  21. Michelles - Michelles (self-released)
  22. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  23. Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  24. One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)
  25. The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  26. The Symposium - Brain Jail EP (self-released)
  27. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  28. Aaron Freeman - Gener's Gone: The Final Demo Recordings of Gene Ween (2009-2011) (self-released)
  29. Burial - Rival Dealer EP (Hyperdub)
  30. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  31. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  32. Kyle Woods - Mornings EP (self-released)
  33. Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  34. Polly Scattergood - Arrows (Mute)
  35. Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  36. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  37. Tim Kinsella - Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (Joyful Noise)
  38. Various Artists - I Need You Bad (Polyvinyl)
  39. Alarms & Controls - Clovis Points (Dischord)
  40. bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  41. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  42. Melt-Banana - fetch (A-Zap)
  43. Sandrider - Godhead (Good to Die)
  44. Tidal Arms - Tidal Arms (Black Numbers)
  45. Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus (Fire)
  46. Blurry - Lulls (Butterscotch)
  47. Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  48. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  49. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Two (Asthmatic Kitty)
  50. Logos - Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)

This week's adds

  • Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  • Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes (Northern Spy)
  • d. stine - White Creek's Glacial Origins (self-released)
  • HeadShy - La Belle Epoque (Medicina)
  • James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical (Vagrant)
  • Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)
  • Milosh - Jetlag (Deadly)
  • Nick Waterhouse - Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  • Painted Palms - Forever (Polyvinyl)
  • Paul Ruske - Uncertain Times (self-released)
  • Pixies - EP2 (self-released)
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What they Want (Daptone)
  • Spirit Kid - Is Happening (self-released)
  • Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador)
  • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon)
  • TOY - Join the Dots (Heavenly)
  • Various Artists - L.I.E.S. Presents Music for Shut-Ins (L.I.E.S.)
  • Xiu Xiu - Nina (Graveface)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12-17-2013

  1. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)
  2. Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  3. Michelles - Michelles (self-released)
  4. Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  5. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  6. Andrew Bird - I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Grimsey)
  7. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  8. Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  9. Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  10. Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer (Fire)
  11. Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  12. Tim Kinsella - Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (Joyful Noise)
  13. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  14. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  15. Polly Scattergood - Arrows (Mute)
  16. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  17. Eef Barzelay - So Down We Go (self-released)
  18. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Two (Asthmatic Kitty)
  19. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  20. Matt and Kim - Lightning Remixes (Fader Label)
  21. The Limi–anas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  22. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  23. bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  24. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  25. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  26. Sebastien Tellier - Confection (Record Makers)
  27. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  28. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  29. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  30. Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  31. Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  32. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  33. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  34. Various Artists - I Need You Bad (Polyvinyl)
  35. Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  36. Conway - Big Talk (Columbia)
  37. ERAAS - Initiation (Felte)
  38. Melt-Banana - fetch (A-Zap)
  39. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  40. Zigtebra - The Pink Line (FPE)
  41. Blurry - Lulls (Butterscotch)
  42. Ghost B.C. - If You Have Ghost EP (Loma Vista)
  43. Mount Eerie - Pre-Human Ideas (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  44. The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  45. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  46. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  47. Logos - Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)
  48. Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - Second Cities: Vol. 1 (482 Music)
  49. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond (Other Music)
  50. One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Basic Cable - I'm Good to Drive (Permanent)
  • Burial - Rival Dealer EP (Hyperdub)
  • Connections - Body Language (Anyway)
  • Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance (Peaceville)
  • Inter Arma - Sky Burial (Relapse)
  • J.J. Hrubovcak - Death Metal Christmas: Hellish Reditions of Christmas Classics (Independent)
  • Jagwar Ma - Howlin' (Marathon Artists)
  • Jai Paul - Jai Paul (self-released)
  • Kate Nash - Have Faith With Kate Nash This Christmas (Have 10p)
  • Kyle Woods - Mornings EP (self-released)
  • Overseas - Overseas (Undertow)
  • Pat Hull - Shed Skin (self-released)
  • Sean Nelson - Make Good Choices (Really)
  • The Luck of Eden Hall - Victoria Moon (The Luck of Eden Hall)
  • Vic Mensa - INNANETAPE (self-released)
  • Voice of Addiction - Modern Day Meltdown EP (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12-10-2013

  1. The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  2. Andrew Bird - I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Grimsey)
  3. Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer (Fire)
  4. Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  5. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  6. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  7. Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  8. One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)
  9. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  10. Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  11. Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  12. Various Artists - I Need You Bad (Polyvinyl)
  13. Zigtebra - The Pink Line (FPE)
  14. La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  15. Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - Second Cities: Vol. 1 (482 Music)
  16. Sun & Sail Club - Mannequin (Satin)
  17. bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  18. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  19. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  20. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Two (Asthmatic Kitty)
  21. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  22. M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  23. Polly Scattergood - Arrows (Mute)
  24. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  25. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  26. Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  27. The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  28. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  29. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  30. Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus (Fire)
  31. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  32. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  33. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  34. Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing (BLVD)
  35. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  36. Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  37. Robert Pollard - Blazing Gentlemen (GBV Inc.)
  38. Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  39. Audacity - Butter Knife (Suicide Squeeze)
  40. Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  41. Conway - Big Talk (Columbia)
  42. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  43. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  44. Logos - Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)
  45. Seacats - Seacats (Fin)
  46. Tal National - Kaani (Fat Cat)
  47. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  48. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  49. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  50. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)

This week's adds

  • Bad Religion - Christmas Songs (Epitaph)
  • David Garza - Little Strummer Boy (self-released)
  • Eef Barzelay - So Down We Go (self-released)
  • Erasure - Snow Globe (Mute)
  • Geist & the Sacred Ensemble - Beyond This Vessel (Moon Glyph)
  • Matt and Kim - Lightning Remixes (Fader Label)
  • Michelles - Michelles (self-released)
  • Nick Lowe - Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family (Yep Roc)
  • Shannon & the Clams - ...Ruin Christmas (1, 2, 3, 4...Go!)
  • Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  • Tim Kinsella - Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (Joyful Noise)
  • Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12-3-2013

  1. Andrew Bird - I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Grimsey)
  2. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  3. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  4. Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  5. The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  6. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  7. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  8. La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  9. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  10. Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  11. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  12. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  13. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  14. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  15. Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  16. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  17. Audacity - Butter Knife (Suicide Squeeze)
  18. Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  19. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  20. Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  21. M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  22. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  23. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  24. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  25. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  26. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  27. Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing (BLVD)
  28. Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  29. One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)
  30. Ghost B.C. - If You Have Ghost EP (Loma Vista)
  31. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  32. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond (Other Music)
  33. Russian Circles - Memorial (Sargent House)
  34. Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  35. The Symposium - Brain Jail EP (self-released)
  36. Zigtebra - The Pink Line (FPE)
  37. Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus (Fire)
  38. KILN - meadow:watt (Ghostly International)
  39. Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  40. Psapp - What Makes Us Glow (State51 Conspiracy)
  41. Seacats - Seacats (Fin)
  42. Sebastien Tellier - Confection (Record Makers)
  43. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  44. Alarms & Controls - Clovis Points (Dischord)
  45. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)
  46. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)
  47. Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  48. R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die (Nature Sounds)
  49. Robert Pollard - Blazing Gentlemen (GBV Inc.)
  50. Son Lux - Lanterns (Joyful Noise)

This week's adds

  • bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  • Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Two (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer (Fire)
  • Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  • Logos - Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)
  • Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - Second Cities: Vol. 1 (482 Music)
  • Mount Eerie - Pre-Human Ideas (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  • Polly Scattergood - Arrows (Mute)
  • Sun & Sail Club - Mannequin (Satin)
  • The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  • Various Artists - I Need You Bad (Polyvinyl)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-26-2013

  1. Cut Copy - Free Your Mind (Loma Vista)
  2. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (Domino)
  3. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  4. Juana Molina - Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
  5. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  6. Blasted Diplomats - Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
  7. Sebastien Tellier - Confection (Record Makers)
  8. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (Capitol)
  9. Throwing Muses - Purgatory/Paradise (IT Books)
  10. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  11. La Luz - It's Alive (Hardly Art)
  12. Pelican - Forever Becoming (Southern Lord)
  13. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  14. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge)
  15. Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus (Fire)
  16. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum (Wichita)
  17. Elf Power - Sunlight on the Moon (Orange Twin)
  18. Fake Limbs - The Power of Patrician Upbringing (BLVD)
  19. M.I.A. - Matangi (N.E.E.T.)
  20. Robert Pollard - Blazing Gentlemen (GBV Inc.)
  21. Tennis - Small Sound EP (Communion)
  22. The Symposium - Brain Jail EP (self-released)
  23. Zigtebra - The Pink Line (FPE)
  24. Los Campesinos! - No Blues (Wichita)
  25. Polia - Shulamith (Mom+Pop)
  26. Son Lux - Lanterns (Joyful Noise)
  27. Aaron Freeman - Gener's Gone: The Final Demo Recordings of Gene Ween (2009-2011) (self-released)
  28. Glasser - Interiors (True Panther Sounds)
  29. Howe Gelb - The Coincidentalist (New West)
  30. Audacity - Butter Knife (Suicide Squeeze)
  31. Crown Larks - Catalytic Conversion (self-released)
  32. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  33. Fabie Anstee Trio - Home (self-released)
  34. Jonwayne - Rap Album One (Stones Throw)
  35. Melt-Banana - fetch (A-Zap)
  36. Mickey & The Soul Generation - Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation (Cali-Tex)
  37. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond (Other Music)
  38. Russian Circles - Memorial (Sargent House)
  39. The Stargazer Lilies - We are the Dreamers (Graveface)
  40. Beastmilk - Climax (Magic Bullet)
  41. Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
  42. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish (Western Vinyl)
  43. KILN - meadow:watt (Ghostly International)
  44. Minor Alps - Get There (Barsuk)
  45. of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (Polyvinyl)
  46. Oozing Wound - Retrash (Thrill Jockey)
  47. Seacats - Seacats (Fin)
  48. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)
  49. Big Business - Battlefields Forever (Gold Metal)
  50. Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (FatCat)

This week's adds

  • Andrew Bird - I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Grimsey)
  • Black Dirt Oak - Wawayanda Patent (MIE Music)
  • Conway - Big Talk (Columbia)
  • Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  • Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  • Espectrostatic - Espectrostatic (Trouble in Mind)
  • Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  • Ghost B.C. - If You Have Ghost EP (Loma Vista)
  • Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome (Southern Lord)
  • Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  • One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)
  • Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  • Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  • ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  • The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  • Various Artists - Rockin' Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (New West)

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