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Top 50 for the Week of 5-20-2013

  1. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (self-released)
  2. Savages - Silence Yourself (Matador)
  3. Mikal Cronin - MCII (Merge)
  4. Deerhunter - Monomania (4AD)
  5. Shuggie Otis - Wings of Love (Epic)
  6. Bibio - Silver Wilkinson (Warp)
  7. Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - Twelve Reasons to Die (Wax Poetics)
  8. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (XL)
  9. Neon Neon - Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex)
  10. ADULT. - The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
  11. She & Him - Volume 3 (Merge)
  12. The Thermals - Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
  13. RP Boo - Legacy (Planet Mu)
  14. Rollin Hunt - The Phoney (Moniker)
  15. !!! - Thr!!!er (Warp)
  16. Dungeonesse - Dungeonesse (Secretly Canadian)
  17. Magic Milk - Magic Milk & the Goons (Jeffrey Drag)
  18. Various Artists - Sub Pop 1000 (Sub Pop)
  19. Alice Russell - To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
  20. No Joy - Wait to Pleasure (Mexican Summer)
  21. The Uncluded - Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers)
  22. Phoenix - Bankrupt! (Glassnote)
  23. Pure X - Crawling Up the Stairs (AcŽphale)
  24. Man or Astroman? - Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 (Communicating Vessels)
  25. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  26. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors (De Stijl)
  27. Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
  28. Charli XCX - True Romance (IAMSOUND)
  29. Alpine - A is for Alpine (Votiv)
  30. k-os - BLack on BLonde (Nettwerk)
  31. Karl Hyde - Edgeland (UMe)
  32. Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost (Nonesuch)
  33. Classixx - Hanging Gardens (Innovative Leisure)
  34. Small Black - Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
  35. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control (Metal Blade)
  36. Glenn Jones - My Garden State (Thrill Jockey)
  37. Fielded - Ninety-Thirty-Thirty (Captcha)
  38. Coliseum - Sister Faith (Temporary Residence)
  39. Akron/Family - Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
  40. Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) - The Low Highway (New West)
  41. Zomes - Time Was (Thrill Jockey)
  42. Dirty Fences - Too High to Kross (Volcom)
  43. Life Coach - Alphawaves (Thrill Jockey)
  44. Nynke - Alter (Crammed Discs)
  45. Lilacs & Champagne - Danish & Blue (Mexican Summer)
  46. Guided By Voices - English Little League (GBV Inc.)
  47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito (Interscope)
  48. Murph Law - Music & Madness (self-released)
  49. The Belle Game Ritual Tradition Habit (Boompa)
  50. Alessi's Ark - The Still Life (Bella Union)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-14-2013

  1. !!! - Thr!!!er (Warp)
  2. Major Lazer - Free the Universe (Secretly Canadian)
  3. Deerhunter - Monomania (4AD)
  4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito (Interscope)
  5. Savages - Silence Yourself (Matador)
  6. Alice Russell - To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
  7. She & Him - Volume 3 (Merge)
  8. Shuggie Otis - Wings of Love (Epic)
  9. Phoenix - Bankrupt! (Glassnote)
  10. Har Mar Superstar - Bye Bye 17 (Cult)
  11. RP Boo - Legacy (Planet Mu)
  12. Various Artists - Sub Pop 1000 (Sub Pop)
  13. Rollin Hunt - The Phoney (Moniker)
  14. ADULT. - The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
  15. No Joy - Wait to Pleasure (Mexican Summer)
  16. The Thermals - Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
  17. The Uncluded - Hokey Fright (Rhymesayers)
  18. Magic Milk - Magic Milk & the Goons (Jeffrey Drag)
  19. Fielded - Ninety-Thirty-Thirty (Captcha)
  20. James Blake - Overgrown (Republic)
  21. Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die (Fat Possum)
  22. The Belle Game Ritual Tradition Habit (Boompa)
  23. Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
  24. Small Black - Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
  25. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control (Metal Blade)
  26. Advance Base - The World is in a Bad Fix Everywhere EP (Ordinal)
  27. The Growl - What Would Christ Do?? (self-released)
  28. Life Coach - Alphawaves (Thrill Jockey)
  29. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
  30. Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost (Nonesuch)
  31. Classixx - Hanging Gardens (Innovative Leisure)
  32. Dead Confederate - In the Marrow (Spiderbomb)
  33. Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation (Magic Marker)
  34. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  35. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors (De Stijl)
  36. Coliseum - Sister Faith (Temporary Residence)
  37. The Flaming Lips - The Terror (Warner Bros.)
  38. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
  39. Young Man - Beyond Was All Around Me (Frenchkiss)
  40. k-os - BLack on BLonde (Nettwerk)
  41. Broadheds - Broadheds (Dangerbird)
  42. Coma - In Technicolor (Kompakt)
  43. Junip - Junip (Mute)
  44. Glenn Jones - My Garden State (Thrill Jockey)
  45. Pale Horseman - Pale Horseman (self-released)
  46. Bleached - Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  47. The Shivas - Whiteout! (K)
  48. Hockey - Wyeth Is (Forever Racing)
  49. Pan American - Cloud Room, Glass Room (kranky)
  50. Lilacs & Champagne - Danish & Blue (Mexican Summer)

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Top 50 for the Week of 5-7-2013

  1. Shuggie Otis - Wings of Love (Epic)
  2. Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die (Fat Possum)
  3. !!! - Thr!!!er (Warp)
  4. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
  5. Alice Russell - To Dust (Tru Thoughts)
  6. No Joy - Wait to Pleasure (Mexican Summer)
  7. The Thermals - Desperate Ground (Saddle Creek)
  8. Bleached - Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  9. Magic Milk - Magic Milk & the Goons (Jeffrey Drag)
  10. Fielded - Ninety-Thirty-Thirty (Captcha)
  11. Rollin Hunt - The Phoney (Moniker)
  12. Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost (Nonesuch)
  13. Akron/Family - Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
  14. The Shivas - Whiteout! (K)
  15. Major Lazer - Free the Universe (Secretly Canadian)
  16. Generationals - Heza (Polyvinyl)
  17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito (Interscope)
  18. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze (Matador)
  19. Phoenix - Bankrupt! (Glassnote)
  20. Classixx - Hanging Gardens (Innovative Leisure)
  21. Har Mar Superstar - Bye Bye 17 (Cult)
  22. Wire - Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
  23. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light (Constellation)
  24. James Blake - Overgrown (Republic)
  25. The Flaming Lips - The Terror (Warner Bros.)
  26. The Veils - Time Stays, We Go (Pitched Beast)
  27. Charli XCX - True Romance (IAMSOUND)
  28. Bored Nothing - Bored Nothing (Spunk/Cooperative Music)
  29. White Fence - Cyclops Reap (Castle Face)
  30. Dead Confederate - In the Marrow (Spiderbomb)
  31. Junip - Junip (Mute)
  32. Pale Horseman - Pale Horseman (self-released)
  33. Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) - The Low Highway (New West)
  34. Alessi's Ark - The Still Life (Bella Union)
  35. k-os - BLack on BLonde (Nettwerk)
  36. Milk Music - Cruise Your Illusion (Fat Possum)
  37. Tullycraft - Lost in Light Rotation (Magic Marker)
  38. Meat Puppets - Rat Farm (Megaforce)
  39. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual (2 disc) (Mute)
  40. Coliseum - Sister Faith (Temporary Residence)
  41. Nynke - Alter (Crammed Discs)
  42. Young Man - Beyond Was All Around Me (Frenchkiss)
  43. Broadheds - Broadheds (Dangerbird)
  44. Lilacs & Champagne - Danish & Blue (Mexican Summer)
  45. Bombino - Nomad (Nonesuch)
  46. Implodes - Recurring Dream (kranky)
  47. Black Bug - Reflecting the Light (HoZac)
  48. The Belle Game Ritual Tradition Habit (Boompa)
  49. The Luxury Liners - They're Flowers (Western Vinyl)
  50. Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl)

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Top 50 for the Week of 2-19-2013

  1. My Bloody Valentine - m b v (self-released)
  2. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse (Atlantic)
  3. Serengeti - Saal (Graveface)
  4. Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen (Slumberland)
  5. Eels - Wonderful, Glorious (Vagrant)
  6. Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities (Trouble in Mind)
  7. Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth (Captured Tracks)
  8. Richard Thompson - Electric (New West)
  9. Local Natives - Hummingbird (Frenchkiss)
  10. Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return (Carpark)
  11. Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Stranger in My Land (Bloodshot)
  12. Ducktails - The Flower Lane (Domino)
  13. Thao and The Get Down Stay Down - We the Common (Ribbon)
  14. The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (Atlantic)
  15. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob (Warner Bros.)
  16. Pissed Jeans - Honeys (Sub Pop)
  17. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II (Jagjaguwar)
  18. Warm Soda - Someone for You (Castle Face)
  19. Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat (kranky)
  20. Bad Indians - Are on the Other Side (CQ)
  21. Jenny O. - Automechanic (Holy Trinity)
  22. Lucrecia Dalt - Commotus (HEM)
  23. Yo La Tengo - Fade  (Matador)
  24. Hang Time - Hang Time (Kilby)
  25. The Kingston Springs - The Kingston Springs (self-released)
  26. Airstrip - Willing (Holidays for Quince)
  27. The Ruby Suns - Christopher (Sub Pop)
  28. La Luz - Damp Face EP (Burger)
  29. Fear of Men - Early Fragments (Kanine)
  30. Buke and Gase - General Dome (Brassland)
  31. ON AN ON - Give In (Roll Call)
  32. Endless Boogie - Long Island (No Quarter)
  33. Maker - Maker Vs. Now-Again 2 (Now-Again)
  34. Pillowfight - Pillowfight (Bulk)
  35. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
  36. Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right (Kanine)
  37. Big Harp - Chain Letters (Saddle Creek)
  38. Dom La Nena - Ela (Six Degrees)
  39. Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! (Stax/Concord)
  40. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (What's Your Rupture?)
  41. Darkstar - News from Nowhere (Warp)
  42. Petra Haden - Petra Goes to the Movies (ANTI-)
  43. Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)
  44. Various Artists - Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (ANTI-)
  45. Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)
  46. Dan Friel - Total Folklore (Thrill Jockey)
  47. TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0 (Sargent House)
  48. Widowspeak - Almanac (Captured Tracks)
  49. Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey)
  50. Mice Parade - Candela (FatCat)

This week's adds

  • Dead Confederate - Peyote People EP (Spiderbomb)
  • DJ Nu-Mark - Broken Sunlight (Hot Plate)
  • Foals - Holy Fire (Warner Bros.)
  • Geater Davis - Lost Soul (Luv N Haight)
  • Guards - In Guards We Trust (Black Bell)
  • Hemmingbirds - The Vines of Age (self-released)
  • Iceage - You're Nothing (Matador)
  • Jamie Lidell - Jamie Lidell (Warp)
  • Kacey Johansing - Grand Ghosts (self-released)
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  • Panda Riot - Northern Automatic Music (Saint Marie)
  • Parenthetical Girls - Privilege (Abridged) (Slender Means Society)
  • Pascal Pinon - Twosomeness (Morr Music)
  • Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Untamed Beast (Partisan)
  • Samantha Crain - Kid Face (Ramseur)
  • Seaven Teares - Power Ballads (Northern Spy)
  • STRFKR - Miracle Mile (Polyvinyl)
  • Superhuman Happiness - Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  • The Black Twig Pickers - Rough Carpenters (Thrill Jockey)
  • VYIE - Nightingale EP (Post-Echo)

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Top 50 for the Week of 2-5-2013

  1. The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (Atlantic)
  2. Yo La Tengo - Fade (Matador)
  3. Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return (Carpark)
  4. Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey)
  5. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (What’s Your Rupture?)
  6. FIDLAR - FIDLAR (Mom+Pop)
  7. ON AN ON - Give In (Roll Call)
  8. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
  9. Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  10. Mice Parade - Candela (FatCat)
  11. Big Harp - Chain Letters (Saddle Creek)
  12. Radar Bros. - Eight (Merge)
  13. Indians - Somewhere Else (4AD)
  14. The Ruby Suns - Christopher (Sub Pop)
  15. Gliss - Langsom Dans (Modern Outsider)
  16. Maker - Maker Vs. Now-Again 2 (Now-Again)
  17. Nightlands - Oak Island (Secretly Canadian)
  18. Psychic Ills - One Track Mind (Sacred Bones)
  19. Pillowfight - Pillowfight (Bulk)
  20. Ducktails - The Flower Lane (Domino)
  21. Ex Cops - True Hallucinations (Other Music)
  22. Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right (Kanine)
  23. Roots Manuva - Banana Skank EP (Big Dada)
  24. The Growlers - Hung at Heart (Everloving)
  25. A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (RCA)
  26. Petra Haden - Petra Goes to the Movies (ANTI-)
  27. Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)
  28. The Bronx - The Bronx (IV) (ATO)
  29. The Lewis Connection - The Lewis Connection (Numero Group)
  30. Dog Bite - Velvet Changes (Carpark)
  31. Widowspeak - Almanac (Captured Tracks)
  32. The Capsules - Northern Lights & Southern Skies (Vespera)
  33. Myka 9 & Factor - Sovereign Soul (Fake Four Inc.)
  34. Ballake Sissoko - At Peace (Six Degrees)
  35. Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (Fire)
  36. The Wonder Revolution - Firefly (Air House)
  37. Nosaj Thing - Home (Innovative Leisure)
  38. Ragged Claws - Imagined Kings (self-released)
  39. Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  40. Mountains - Centralia (Thrill Jockey)
  41. Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! (Stax/Concord)
  42. Shugo Tokumaro - In Focus? (Polyvinyl)
  43. Fred Thomas - Kuma (Ernest Jenning)
  44. Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai (Fire)
  45. Wild Yaks - Million Years (Ernest Jenning)
  46. Mother Mother - The Sticks (Last Gang)
  47. Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth (Captured Tracks)
  48. Arbouretum - Coming Out of the Fog (Thrill Jockey)
  49. Dream Boat - Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
  50. Dom La Nena - Ela (Six Degrees)

This week's adds

  • Bad Indians - Are on the Other Side (CQ)
  • Buke and Gase - General Dome (Brassland)
  • Cult of Luna - Vertikal (Density)
  • Darkstar - News from Nowhere (Warp)
  • Endless Boogie - Long Island (No Quarter)
  • Fierce Bad Rabbit - The Maestro & The Elephant (self-released)
  • Hang Time - Hang Time (self-released)
  • La Luz - Damp Face EP (Burger)
  • Local Natives - Hummingbird (Frenchkiss)
  • Lucretia Dalt - Commotus (Human Ear)
  • Muy Cansado - Let it Go (self-released)
  • My Bloody Valentine - m b v (self-released)
  • Oaks - Field Beat EP (self-released)
  • Pissed Jeans - Honeys (Sub Pop)
  • PVT - Homosapien (Felte)
  • Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Stranger in My Land (Bloodshot)
  • Sin Fang - Flowers (Morr Music)
  • Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob (Sire)
  • Thao and The Get Down Stay Down - We the Common (Ribbon)
  • The Como Mamas - Get An Understanding (Daptone)
  • Tom Morgan - Orange Syringe (Fire)
  • Tomahawk - Oddfellow (Ipecac)
  • TTNG - 13.0.0.0.0 (Sargent House)
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II (Jagjaguwar)

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