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Top 50 for the Week of 10-2-2012

  1. The Soft Pack - Strapped (Mexican Summer)
  2. Band of Horses - Mirage Rock (Columbia)
  3. He's My Brother She's My Sister - Nobody Dances In This Town (Park The Van)
  4. How To Dress Well - Total Loss (Acephale)
  5. Django Django - Django Django (Ribbon)
  6. Tilly and the Wall - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
  7. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
  8. Frank Turner - Last Minutes and Lost Evenings (Epitaph)
  9. Brother Ali - Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color (Rhymesayers)
  10. The Sea and Cake - Runner (Thrill Jockey)
  11. Mucca Pazza - Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell)
  12. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)
  13. California Wives - Art History (Vagrant)
  14. Seapony - Falling (Hardly Art)
  15. Firewater - International Orange! (Bloodshot)
  16. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home (Bathetic)
  17. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4AD)
  18. Grizzly Bear - Shields (Warp)
  19. Bettye LaVette - Thankful N' Thoughtful (ANTI-)
  20. El Ten Eleven - Transitions (Fake Record Label)
  21. The xx - Coexist (Young Turks)
  22. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone (Mom+Pop)
  23. The Raveonettes - Observator (Vice)
  24. Calexico - Algiers (ANTI-)
  25. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
  26. Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)
  27. Jason Collett - Reckon (Arts & Crafts)
  28. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (ANTI-)
  29. Jonny Greenwood - The Master: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Nonesuch)
  30. Stars - The North (Arts & Crafts)
  31. Allah-Las - Allah-Las (Innovative Leisure)
  32. Woods - Bend Beyond (Woodsist)
  33. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
  34. Invisible Things - Home IS The Sun (Porter)
  35. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
  36. Taken By Trees - Other Worlds (Secretly Canadian)
  37. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP (In the Red)
  38. Bob Mould - Silver Age (Merge)
  39. Souljazz Orchestra - Solidarity (Strut)
  40. Kendra Morris - Banshee (Wax Poetics)
  41. Matthew Dear - Beams (Ghostly International)
  42. KLANG - Brooklyn Lines....Chicago Spaces (Allos Documents)
  43. Various Artists - Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)
  44. Crypts - Crypts (Sargent House)
  45. Robert Pollard - Jack Sells the Cow (GBV Inc.)
  46. The dB's - Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
  47. MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds (Ultra)
  48. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
  49. Silent Rider - Silent Rider (self-released)
  50. Bailterspace - Strobosphere (Fire)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09-25-2012

  1. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP (In the Red)
  2. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
  3. Dan Deacon - America (Domino)
  4. Woods - Bend Beyond (Woodsist)
  5. Stars - The North (Arts & Crafts)
  6. The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance (Kemado)
  7. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (Interscope)
  8. The Helio Sequence - Negotiations (Sub Pop)
  9. Bloc Party - Four (Frenchkiss)
  10. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
  11. Kingdom Crumbs - Kingdom Crumbs (Cloud Nice)
  12. Poor Moon - Poor Moon (Sub Pop)
  13. Junk Culture - Wild Quiet (Illegal Art)
  14. Deep Time - Deep Time (Hardly Art)
  15. Ry Cooder - Election Special (Nonesuch)
  16. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (P. W. Elverum & Sun)
  17. The xx - Coexist (Young Turks)
  18. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
  19. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4AD)
  20. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)
  21. Teengirl Fantasy - Tracer (True Panther Sounds)
  22. Dylan LeBlanc - Cast the Same Old Shadow (Rough Trade)
  23. Ondatropica - Ondatropica (Soundway)
  24. Souljazz Orchestra - Solidarity (Strut)
  25. Kendra Morris - Banshee (Wax Poetics)
  26. Thavius Beck - The Most Beautiful Ugly (Plug Research)
  27. JJ DOOM - Key to the Kuffs (Lex)
  28. Dark Time Sunshine - ANX (Fake Four Inc.)
  29. Shuttle - Halo EP (Ninja Tune)
  30. Fred Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens - Gather (Delmark)
  31. Josh Berman & His Gang - There Now (Delmark)
  32. Rob Mazurek - Pulsar Quartet Stellar Pulsations (Delmark)
  33. Menomena - Moms (Barsuk)
  34. Rupa and the April Fishes - Build (Electric Gumbo Radio Music)
  35. Field Report - Field Report (Partisan)
  36. Staff Benda Bilili - Bouger le Monde! (Crammed Discs)
  37. Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang - En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
  38. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Antibalas (Daptone)
  39. Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City)
  40. The Limiñanas - Crystal Anis (HoZac)
  41. Helvetia - Nothing in Rambling (Joyful Noise)
  42. Dreamscape - La-Di-Da Recordings (kranky)
  43. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
  44. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice (Merge)
  45. Redd Kross - Researching the Blues (Merge)
  46. The dB's - Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
  47. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
  48. Swans - The Seer (Young God)
  49. Holy Other - Held (Tri Angle)
  50. The-Drum - Sense Net EP (Mishka)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09-18-2012

  1. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4AD)
  2. Bob Mould - Silver Age (Merge)
  3. California Wives - Art History (Vagrant)
  4. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)
  5. Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
  6. Bob Dylan - Tempest (Columbia)
  7. Stars - The North (Arts & Crafts)
  8. The Helio Sequence - Negotiations (Sub Pop)
  9. The Raveonettes - Observator (Vice)
  10. The Sea and Cake - Runner (Thrill Jockey)
  11. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
  12. Josephine Foster - Blood (Rushing Fire)
  13. Menomena - Moms (Barsuk)
  14. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP (In the Red)
  15. Bailterspace - Strobosphere (Fire)
  16. The Orb featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry - The Orbserver in the Star House (The End)
  17. Deerhoof - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
  18. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
  19. The dB's - Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
  20. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
  21. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
  22. Swans - The Seer (Young God)
  23. Teengirl Fantasy - Tracer True (Panther Sounds)
  24. Calexico - Algiers (ANTI-)
  25. Karriem Riggins - Alone Together (Stones Throw)
  26. Kendra Morris - Banshee (Wax Poetics)
  27. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
  28. Mucca Pazza - Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell)
  29. Lymbyc Systym - Symbolyst (Western Vinyl)
  30. Josh Berman & His Gang - There Now (Delmark)
  31. Panoramic & True - Wonderlust (Raymond Roussel)
  32. Matthew Dear - Beams (Ghostly International)
  33. Sleep Out - Black Cat Found (self-released)
  34. Serengeti - C.A.R. (Anticon)
  35. Field Report - Field Report (Partisan)
  36. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
  37. Catherine Irwin - Little Heater (Thrill Jockey)
  38. The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance (Kemado)
  39. Helvetia - Nothing in Rambling (Joyful Noise)
  40. The Orwells - Remember When (Autumn Tone)
  41. Bonde do Role - Tropicalbacanal (Mad Decent)
  42. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Antibalas (Daptone)
  43. The Limiñanas - Crystal Anis (HoZac)
  44. This is Cinema - Cycles EP (Whistler)
  45. Ry Cooder - Election Special (Nonesuch)
  46. Rangda - Formerly Extinct (Drag City)
  47. The Sometimes Family - Fun With Heartbreak EP (self-released)
  48. Fergus & Geronimo - Funky was the State of Affairs (Hardly Art)
  49. Fred Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens - Gather (Delmark)
  50. Shuttle - Halo EP (Ninja Tune)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09-11-2012

  1. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz (Domino)
  2. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
  3. Dan Deacon - America (Domino)
  4. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Dinosaur Jr. I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
  7. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP (In the Red)
  8. Mucca Pazza - Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell)
  9. Calexico - Algiers (ANTI-)
  10. The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance (Kemado)
  11. The Sea and Cake - Runner (Thrill Jockey)
  12. Cat Power - Sun (Matador)
  13. Kendra Morris - Banshee (Wax Poetics)
  14. Matthew Dear - Beams (Ghostly International)
  15. Deerhoof - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
  16. Various Artists - Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)
  17. Bloc Party - Four (Frenchkiss)
  18. TEEN - In Limbo (Carpark)
  19. Helvetia - Nothing in Rambling (Joyful Noise)
  20. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
  21. Yeasayer - Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian)
  22. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (Interscope)
  23. The Orwells - Remember When (Autumn Tone)
  24. The Orb featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry - The Orbserver in the Star House (The End)
  25. Brother George - Big Piney (self-released)
  26. Sleep Out - Black Cat Found (self-released)
  27. Serengeti - C.A.R. (Anticon)
  28. Fierce Creatures - Catacomb Party (Paper Garden)
  29. Deep Time - Deep Time (Hardly Art)
  30. Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang - En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
  31. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
  32. Nas - Life is Good (Def Jam)
  33. Bill Fay - Life is People (Dead Oceans)
  34. Ry Cooder - Election Special (Nonesuch)
  35. Field Report - Field Report (Partisan)
  36. Holograms - Holograms (Captured Tracks)
  37. Raymond Byron & The White Freighter - Little Death Shaker (Asthmatic Kitty)
  38. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar (P. W. Elverum & Sun)
  39. Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine (Century Media)
  40. Why? - Sod in the Seed EP (Anticon)
  41. Josh Berman & His Gang - There Now (Delmark)
  42. Panoramic & True - Wonderlust (Raymond Roussel)
  43. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (PIAS)
  44. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Antibalas (Daptone)
  45. The Limiñanas - Crystal Anis (HoZac)
  46. This is Cinema - Cycles EP (Whistler)
  47. The dB's - Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
  48. Fergus & Geronimo - Funky was the State of Affairs (Hardly Art)
  49. Fred Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens - Gather (Delmark)
  50. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice (Merge)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09-4-2012

  1. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP (In the Red)
  2. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Matthew Dear - Beams (Ghostly International)
  4. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jons)
  5. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)
  6. Mucca Pazza - Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell)
  7. Various Artists - Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)
  8. TEEN - In Limbo (Carpark)
  9. The Orwells - Remember When (Autumn Tone)
  10. Dan Deacon - America (Domino)
  11. The Limiñanas - Crystal Anis (HoZac)
  12. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes (4AD)
  13. Ondatropica - Ondatropica (Soundway)
  14. Bonde do Role - Tropicalbacanal (Mad Decent)
  15. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
  16. Sleep Out - Black Cat Found (self-released)
  17. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Def Jam)
  18. Two Gallants - The Bloom and the Blight (ATO)
  19. Bloc Party - Four (Frenchkiss)
  20. Bill Fay - Life is People (Dead Oceans)
  21. Redd Kross - Researching the Blues (Merge)
  22. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre is Evil (8 Ft.)
  23. Dark Time Sunshine - ANX (Fake Four Inc.)
  24. Serengeti - C.A.R. (Anticon)
  25. Fierce Creatures - Catacomb Party (Paper Garden)
  26. Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior (Kanine)
  27. This is Cinema - Cycles EP (Whistler)
  28. Deep Time - Deep Time (Hardly Art)
  29. JJ DOOM - Key to the Kuffs (Lex)
  30. Purity Ring - Shrines (4AD)
  31. Twerps - Twerps (Underwater Peoples)
  32. Ombre - Believe You Me (Asthmatic Kitty)
  33. Crypts - Crypts (Sargent House)
  34. The Sometimes Family - Fun With Heartbreak EP (self-released)
  35. Raymond Byron & The White Freighter - Little Death Shaker (Asthmatic Kitty)
  36. Various Artists - Strange Passion (Cache Cache)
  37. Sean Rowe - The Salesman and the Shark (ANTI-)
  38. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (PIAS)
  39. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Antibalas (Daptone)
  40. Yeasayer - Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian)
  41. Passion Pit - Gossamer (Columbia)
  42. Gary Sloan and Clone - Harmonitalk (Cache Cache)
  43. Holograms - Holograms (Captured Tracks)
  44. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (Interscope)
  45. Kingdom Crumbs - Kingdom Crumbs (Cloud Nice)
  46. Poor Moon - Poor Moon (Sub Pop)
  47. Royal Headache - Royal Headache (What's Your Rupture?)
  48. The-Drum - Sense Net EP (Mishka)
  49. Why? - Sod in the Seed EP (Anticon)
  50. Echo Lake - Wild Peace (Slumberland)

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