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Top 50 for the Week of 1-29-2013

  1. Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey)
  2. Yo La Tengo - Fade  (Matador)
  3. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (Dull Tools)
  4. Petra Haden - Petra Goes to the Movies (ANTI-)
  5. Pillowfight - Pillowfight (Bulk)
  6. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! (Stax/Concord)
  8. Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return (Carpark)
  9. Mountains - Centralia (Thrill Jockey)
  10. Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right (Kanine)
  11. Roots Manuva - Banana Skank EP (Big Dada)
  12. Shugo Tokumaro - In Focus? (Polyvinyl)
  13. A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (RCA)
  14. Maker - Maker Vs. Now-Again 2 (Now-Again)
  15. Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)
  16. Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (Fire)
  17. Arbouretum - Coming Out of the Fog (Thrill Jockey)
  18. The Growlers - Hung at Heart (Everloving)
  19. The Capsules - Northern Lights & Southern Skies (Vespera)
  20. Myka 9 & Factor - Sovereign Soul (Fake Four Inc.)
  21. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  22. Mother Mother - The Sticks (Last Gang)
  23. Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  24. Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light (Rough Trade)
  25. Gliss - Langsom Dans (Modern Outsider)
  26. Ragged Claws - Imagined Kings (self-released)
  27. Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai (Fire)
  28. Nightlands - Oak Island (Secretly Canadian)
  29. Pile - Dripping (Exploding in Sound)
  30. Dream Boat - Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
  31. Christopher Owens - Lysandre (Fat Possum)
  32. Mystical Weapons - Mystical Weapons (Chimera)
  33. Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  34. Your Youth - Battery EP (Old Flame)
  35. Dom La Nena - Ela (Six Degrees)
  36. Verma - EXU (self-released)
  37. Clinic - Free Reign (Domino)
  38. Nosaj Thing - Home (Innovative Leisure)
  39. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  40. Tyvek - On Triple Beams (In the Red)
  41. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  42. Lamps - Under the Water Under the Ground (In the Red)
  43. Solange - True (Terrible)
  44. Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  45. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  46. MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show EP (Creep City)
  47. Fathom Lane - Down By Half (Longplayer)
  48. The Lijadu Sisters - Horizon Unlimited (Knitting Factory)
  49. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  50. UV Race - Racism (In the Red)

This week's adds

  • Ancient VVisdom - Deathlike (Prosthetic)
  • Ballaké Sissoko - At Peace (Six Degrees)
  • Big Harp - Chain Letters (Saddle Creek)
  • Dog Bite - Velvet Changes (Carpark)
  • Ducktails - The Flower Lane (Domino)
  • Ex Cops - True Hallucinations (Other Music)
  • Fear of Men - Early Fragments (Kanine)
  • FIDLAR - FIDLAR (Mom+Pop)
  • Frontier Ruckus - Eternity of Dimming (Quite Scientific)
  • Indians - Somewhere Else (4AD)
  • Mice Parade - Candela (FatCat)
  • ON AN ON - Give In (Roll Call)
  • Psychic Ills - One Track Mind (Sacred Bones)
  • Radar Bros. - Eight (Merge)
  • The Bronx - The Bronx (IV) (ATO)
  • The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (Atlantic)
  • The Lewis Connection - The Lewis Connection (Numero Group)
  • The Ruby Suns - Christopher (Sub Pop)
  • The Wonder Revolution - Firefly (Air House)
  • Widowspeak - Almanac (Captured Tracks)

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Top 50 for the week of 1-22-2013

  1. Yo La Tengo - Fade  (Matador)
  2. Maker - Maker Vs. Now-Again 2 (Now-Again)
  3. A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (RCA)
  4. Ragged Claws - Imagined Kings (self-released)
  5. Christopher Owens - Lysandre (Fat Possum)
  6. Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai (Fire)
  7. Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right (Kanine)
  8. Solange - True (Terrible)
  9. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  10. The Growlers - Hung at Heart (Everloving)
  11. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  12. Wild Yaks - Million Years (Ernest Jenning)
  13. Mystical Weapons - Mystical Weapons (Chimera)
  14. Mother Mother - The Sticks (Last Gang)
  15. Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
  16. Various Artists - Twin Cities Funk and Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/Saint Paul 1964-1979 (Secret Stash)
  17. Radiation City - Cool Nightmare EP (Tender Loving Empire)
  18. Dream Boat - Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
  19. Fred Thomas - Kuma (Ernest Jenning)
  20. Various Artists - You Turned My Head Around - Lee Hazlewood Industries 1967 to 1970 (Light in the Attic)
  21. Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  22. Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  23. Kate Nash - Death Proof EP (Have 10p)
  24. Verma - EXU (self-released)
  25. Example - The Evolution of Man (Ministry of Sound)
  26. Dom La Nena - Ela (Six Degrees)
  27. Eli Mardock - NE Sorrow is Born EP (self-released)
  28. Ethernet - Opus 2 (kranky)
  29. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  30. Dr. Dog - Wild Race EP (ANTI-)
  31. Your Youth - Battery EP (Old Flame)
  32. MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show EP (Creep City)
  33. Various Artists - Diablos del Ritmo - The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)
  34. The Moons - Fables of History (Schnitzel)
  35. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  36. Lukid - Lonely at the Top (Werkdiscs)
  37. Various Artists - Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
  38. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  39. San Cisco - Awkward EP (Fat Possum)
  40. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  41. Apache Dropout - Bubblegum Graveyard (Trouble in Mind)
  42. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  43. Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  44. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  45. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2012 (PDX Pop Now!)
  46. Troubled Horse - Step Inside (Metal Blade)
  47. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  48. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  49. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  50. Lamps - Under the Water Under the Ground (In the Red)

This week's adds

  • Arbouretum - Coming out of the Fog (Thrill Jockey)
  • Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! (Stax/Concord Music Group)
  • Brokeback - Brokeback and the Black Rock (Thrill Jockey)
  • Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
  • Gliss Langsom - Dans (Modern Outsider)
  • Mountains - Centralia (Thrill Jockey)
  • Myka 9 & Factor - Sovereign Soul (Fake Four Inc.)
  • Nightlands - Oak Island (Secretly Canadian)
  • Nosaj Thing - Home (Stones Throw)
  • Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory - Elements of Light (Rough Trade)
  • Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (Dull Tools)
  • Petra Haden - Petra Goes to the Movies (ANTI-)
  • Pile - Dripping (Exploding in Sound)
  • Pillowfight - Pillowfight (Bulk)
  • Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)
  • Roots Manuva - Banana Skank EP (Big Dada)
  • Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus? (Polyvinyl)
  • The Capsules - Northern Lights & Southern Skies (Vespera)
  • Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return (Carpark)
  • Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (Fire)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1-15-2013

  1. Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  2. Wild Yaks - Million Years (Ernest Jenning)
  3. Various Artists - Twin Cities Funk and Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/Saint Paul 1964-1979 (Secret Stash)
  4. Various Artists - You Turned My Head Around - Lee Hazlewood Industries 1967 to 1970 (Light in the Attic)
  5. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  6. Solange - True (Terrible)
  7. Bow Thayer - Hindsight (Tweed River Productions)
  8. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  9. Poolside - Pacific Standard Time (Poolside Music)
  10. Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  11. Radiation City - Cool Nightmare EP (Tender Loving Empire)
  12. Verma - EXU (self-released)
  13. The Moons - Fables of History (Schnitzel)
  14. Dream Boat - Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
  15. Grape Soda - Form a Sign (Kindercore)
  16. Andrzej Korzynski - Secret Enigma (B-Music)
  17. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  18. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  19. Foxtails Brigade - Time is Passed (self-released)
  20. Dr. Dog - Wild Race EP (ANTI-)
  21. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  22. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  23. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  24. Ladyhawk - No Can Do (Triple Crown Audio)
  25. Tyvek - On Triple Beams (In the Red)
  26. UV Race - Racism (In the Red)
  27. Example - The Evolution of Man (Ministry of Sound)
  28. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  29. Kate Nash - Death Proof EP (Have 10p)
  30. Artichoke - Etchy Sketchy Skies (Green)
  31. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  32. Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
  33. The Lijadu Sisters - Horizon Unlimited (Knitting Factory)
  34. Lukid - Lonely at the Top (Werkdiscs)
  35. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  36. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  37. Larry Gus - Silent Congas (DFA)
  38. Lindstrom - Smalhans (Smalltown Supersound)
  39. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  40. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  41. Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World (Paw Tracks)
  42. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  43. Your Youth - Battery EP (Old Flame)
  44. Eternal Tapestry - A World Out of Time (Thrill Jockey)
  45. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
  46. Apache Dropout - Bubblegum Graveyard (Trouble in Mind)
  47. MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show EP (Creep City)
  48. Tiger High - Catacombs After Party (Trashy Creatures/Burger)
  49. Nous Non Plus - Le Sexe et la Politique (Terrible Kids)
  50. Various Artists - Opal Vol. I & II (Moon Glyph)

This week's adds

  • A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (RCA/Polo Grounds)
  • Bleeding Rainbow - Yeah Right (Kanine)
  • Christopher Owens - Lysandre (Fat Possum)
  • Dom La Nena - Ela (Six Degrees)
  • Eli Mardock - NE Sorrow is Born EP (self-released)
  • Ethernet - Opus 2 (kranky)
  • Fred Thomas - Kuma (Ernest Jenning)
  • Maker - Maker Vs. Now-Again 2 (Now-Again)
  • Mother Mother - The Sticks (Last Gang)
  • Mystical Weapons - Mystical Weapons (Chimera)
  • Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai (Fire)
  • Ragged Claws - Imagined Kings (self-released)
  • The Growlers - Hung at Heart (Everloving)
  • Yo La Tengo - Fade (Matador)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12-11-2012

  1. Various Artists - Twin Cities Funk and Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/Saint Paul 1964-1979 (Secret Stash)
  2. Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  3. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  4. Kate Nash - Death Proof EP (Have 10p)
  5. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  6. Solange - True (Terrible)
  7. Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  8. Various Artists - You Turned My Head Around: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1967 to 1970 (Light in the Attic)
  9. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  10. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  11. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  12. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  13. Tiger High - Catacombs After Party (Trashy Creatures/Burger)
  14. Andrzej Korzynski - Secret Enigma (B-Music)
  15. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
  16. Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
  17. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (Software)
  18. Various Artists - Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
  19. UV Race - Racism (In the Red)
  20. Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin')
  21. A Shoreline Dream - 333 (Latenight/Weeknight)
  22. MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show EP (Creep City)
  23. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  24. Various Artists - Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)
  25. Grape Soda - Form a Sign (Kindercore)
  26. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  27. Fathom Lane - Down By Half (Longplayer)
  28. Flume - Flume (Future Classic)
  29. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  30. Daphni - JIAOLONG (Merge)
  31. Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  32. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  33. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  34. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  35. San Cisco - Awkward EP (Fat Possum)
  36. Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House)
  37. Night Moves - Colored Emotions (Domino)
  38. Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance (ANTI-)
  39. Artichoke - Etchy Sketchy Skies (Green)
  40. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  41. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  42. Troubled Horse - Step Inside (Metal Blade)
  43. Mayor Daley - Sand Bath (Rotted Tooth)
  44. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  45. The Riverbreaks - The Wildfire EP (self-released)
  46. Treasure Hunt - Toys Unatic (Moon Glyph)
  47. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  48. The Barbaras - 2006-2008 (Goner)
  49. Jessica Bailiff - At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky (kranky)
  50. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Metal Blade)

This week's adds

  • Bow Thayer - Hindsight (Tweed River Productions)
  • Dr. Dog - Wild Race (ANTI-)
  • Dream Boat - Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
  • Foxtails Brigade - Time is Passed (Actual Independent)
  • Jacob Morris - Moths (Cloud Recordings)
  • John Butcher - Bell Trove Spools (Northern Spy)
  • Lamps - Under the Water Under the Ground (In the Red)
  • Omar Rodríguez-López - Octopus Kool Aid (Rodriguez-Lopez Productions)
  • Wild Yaks - Million Years (Ernest Jenning)
  • Your Youth - Battery EP (Old Flame)

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Top 50 for the Week of 12-4-2012

  1. Various Artists - Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)
  2. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  3. Andrzej Korzynski - Secret Enigma (B-Music)
  4. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  5. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  6. Various Artists - Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
  7. Clinic - Free Reign (Domino)
  8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  9. Ladyhawk - No Can Do (Triple Crown Audio)
  10. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  11. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  12. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  13. Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin')
  14. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  15. Eternal Tapestry - A World Out of Time (Thrill Jockey)
  16. The Lijadu Sisters - Horizon Unlimited (Knitting Factory)
  17. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  18. Various Artists - Rotted Tooth Flexi Series (Rotted Tooth)
  19. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  20. Tyvek - On Triple Beams (In the Red)
  21. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2012 (PDX Pop Now!)
  22. Larry Gus - Silent Congas (DFA)
  23. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  24. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  25. Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  26. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  27. Young Rival - Stay Young (Sonic Unyon)
  28. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  29. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  30. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  31. Grape Soda - Form a Sign (Kindercore)
  32. Golden Void - Golden Void (Thrill Jockey)
  33. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  34. METZ - METZ (Sub Pop)
  35. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  36. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  37. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  38. The Riverbreaks - The Wildfire EP (self-released)
  39. A Shoreline Dream - 333 (Latenight/Weeknight)
  40. Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House)
  41. Night Moves - Colored Emotions (Domino)
  42. Ex-Cult - Ex-Cult (Goner)
  43. Kylesa - From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (Season of Mist)
  44. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  45. The Amazing - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
  46. Witchcraft - Legend (Nuclear Blast)
  47. Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
  48. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  49. Troubled Horse - Step Inside (Metal Blade)
  50. Talk Normal - Sunshine (Joyful Noise)

This week's adds

  • Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  • Kate Nash - Death Proof EP (Have 10p)
  • Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
  • MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show (Creep City)
  • Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  • Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
  • Solange - True  (Terrible)
  • Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (Mexican Summer)
  • UV Race - Racism (In the Red)
  • Various Artists - Twin Cities Funk and Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/St. Paul 1964-1979 (Secret Stash)
  • Various Artists - You Turned My Head Around: The Lee Hazlewood Industries 1967 to 1970 (Light in the Attic)

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