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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 06/26/2023

  1. Captain PlanetSounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz)
  2. CuspYou Can Do It All (self-released)
  3. Killer MikeMichael (Loma Vista/Concord)
  4. OK Coolfawn (Take A Hike)
  5. The AcesI've Loved You For So Long (Red Bull Records)
  6. Nana Benz du TogoAGO (Komos)
  7. Christine and The QueensPARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because)
  8. Jayda GGuy (Ninja Tune)
  9. McKinley DixonBeloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang )
  10. PinksqueezeBe Gay Have Fun (self-released)
  11. WITCHZango (Desert Daze/Partisan)
  12. SuperKnovaSuperuniverse (self-released)
  13. The Wedding Present24 Songs (HHBTM/Clue)
  14. Karate School DropoutWelcome to the Dojo (self-released)
  15. Jenny LewisJoy'all (Bluenote/Capitol)
  16. BullyLucky For You (Sub Pop)
  17. TEKE::TEKEHagata (Kill Rock Stars)
  18. Decisive PinkTicket to Fame (Fire)
  19. Beach FossilsBunny (Bayonet)
  20. Juan WautersWandering Rebel (Captured Tracks)
  21. ProtomartyrFormal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
  22. The Baby MagicRough Dance (self-released)
  23. Kari FauxREAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE (drink sum wtr)
  24. Kevin MorbyMore Photographs (A Continuum) (Dead Oceans)
  25. Dream WifeSocial Lubrication (Lucky Number)
  26. Youth LagoonHeaven Is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)
  27. Chain of FlowersNever Ending Space (Alter)
  28. Arlo ParksMy Soft Machine (Transgressive/PIAS)
  29. p. a. pritchettFEVER DREAM (self-released)
  30. AssassinsThe Year That Never Came (Machines Make Us)
  31. StuckFreak Frequency (Born Yesterday)
  32. Go Time!Anything Could Happen (Sound Gypsy)
  33. Big BloodFirst Aid Kit (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  34. Love InterestMotherwound (Council)
  35. Sigur RósÁtta (BMG)
  36. Ben FoldsWhat Matters Most (New West)
  37. King KruleSpace Heavy (Matador)
  38. Pere UbuTrouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red )
  39. Jess WilliamsonTime Ain't Accidental (Mexican Summer)
  40. AndreaDue in Color (Ilian Tape)
  41. Doe StStepping Stones (Legless)
  42. Helen Kelter SkelterChroma Crawl (Horton)
  43. Anna St. LouisIn the Air (Woodsist)
  44. Jimmy WhispersThe Search for God (Carpark)
  45. Miss EspañaNiebla Mental (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  46. Louise PostSleepwalker (El Camino)
  47. Tombstones In Their EyesSea of Sorrow (Kitten Robot)
  48. Mega BogEnd of Everything (Mexican Summer)
  49. Namian SidibéNamian Sidibé (Sahel Sounds)
  50. PoziSmiling Pools (PRAH)

This week's adds

  • Arthur RussellPicture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)
  • Asher WhiteNew Excellent Woman (Ba Da Bing)
  • Angelo de AugustineToil and Trouble (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Black DuckBlack Duck (Thrill Jockey)
  • Cable TiesAll Her Plans (Merge)
  • CorvairBound to Be (Paper Walls)
  • Creep ShowYawning Abyss (Bella Union / PIAS)
  • Croatian AmorA Part of You in Everything (Posh Isolation)
  • Deer TickEmotional Contracts (ATO)
  • Die Letzten EckenTalisman (Static Age)
  • Divide and DissolveSystemic (Invada)
  • Faizal MostrixxMutations (Glitterbeat)
  • feeble little horseGirl With Fish (Saddle Creek)
  • Geese3D Country (Partisan)
  • High PriestInvocation (Magnetic Eye)
  • Joanna SternbergI've Got Me (Fat Possum)
  • La SécuritéStay Safe! (Mothland)
  • M. WardSupernatural Thing (Anti-)
  • Man on ManProvincetown (Polyvinyl)
  • Martin FrawleyThe Wannabe (Trouble in Mind)
  • Meat Beat Manifesto & DHSMan from Mantis EP (Love Love)
  • Militarie GunLife Under the Gun (Loma Vista)
  • MotorbikeMotorbike (Feel It)
  • NickodemusSoul & Science (Wonderwheel)
  • Pearl EarlIt's Dread (Green Witch)
  • Portugal. The ManChris Black Changed My Life (Atlantic)
  • Secret Night GangBelongs on a Place Called Earth (Brownswood)
  • SunYearsCome Fetch My Soul! (Yep Roc)
  • The ShallowsWave States (Mint 400)
  • TREEFREE TREE (self-released)
  • Velvet VisionTogether (self-released)
  • WireheadsPotentially Venus (Tenth Court)

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Top 50 for the Week of 06/19/2023

  1. PinksqueezeBe Gay Have Fun (self-released)
  2. Christine and The QueensPARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because)
  3. McKinley DixonBeloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang )
  4. StuckFreak Frequency (Born Yesterday)
  5. Captain PlanetSounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz)
  6. SuperKnovaSuperuniverse (self-released)
  7. Arlo ParksMy Soft Machine (Transgressive/PIAS)
  8. Jenny LewisJoy'all (Bluenote/Capitol)
  9. Karate School DropoutWelcome to the Dojo (self-released)
  10. BullyLucky For You (Sub Pop)
  11. OK Coolfawn (Take A Hike)
  12. TEKE::TEKEHagata (Kill Rock Stars)
  13. Jayda GGuy (Ninja Tune)
  14. WITCHZango (Desert Daze/Partisan)
  15. Alison GoldfrappThe Love Invention (Skint)
  16. Beach FossilsBunny (Bayonet)
  17. Mega BogEnd of Everything (Mexican Summer)
  18. Durand JonesWait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
  19. Kari FauxREAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE (drink sum wtr)
  20. Kassa OverallANIMALS (Warp)
  21. Ben FoldsWhat Matters Most (New West)
  22. King KruleSpace Heavy (Matador)
  23. Miya FolickROACH (Nettwerk)
  24. AndreaDue in Color (Ilian Tape)
  25. Bokani DyerRadio Sechaba (Brownswood)
  26. RP BooLegacy Volume 2 (Planet Mu)
  27. Salami Rose Joe LouisAkousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
  28. Dream WifeSocial Lubrication (Lucky Number)
  29. Youth LagoonHeaven Is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)
  30. ProtomartyrFormal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
  31. Namian SidibéNamian Sidibé (Sahel Sounds)
  32. Chain of FlowersNever Ending Space (Alter)
  33. OvermonoGood Lies (XL)
  34. Hannah JadaguAperture (Sub Pop)
  35. The Baby MagicRough Dance (self-released)
  36. AssassinsThe Year That Never Came (Machines Make Us)
  37. Mike MaimoneMookie's Big Gay Mixtape (8eat8)
  38. Go Time!Anything Could Happen (Sound Gypsy)
  39. Selwyn BirchwoodExorcist (Alligator)
  40. PoziSmiling Pools (PRAH)
  41. RahillFlowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
  42. WheelUPWe Are The Magic (Tru Thoughts)
  43. The Lemon TwigsEverything Harmony (Captured Tracks)
  44. Gia MargaretRomantic Piano (Jagjaguwar)
  45. Califonevillagers (Jealous Butcher)
  46. TAFKAVinceA Problematic Opera (self-released)
  47. Helen Money / Will ThomasTrace (Thrill Jockey)
  48. ElephonicElephonic (Get Hip)
  49. Anna St. LouisIn the Air (Woodsist)
  50. Pere UbuTrouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red )

This week's adds

  1. Big BloodFirst Aid Kit (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube)
  2. Boris & UniformBright New Disease (Sacred Bones)
  3. Brandt Brauer FrickMulti Faith Prayer Room (Because)
  4. CuspYou Can Do It All (self-released)
  5. Decisive PinkTicket to Fame (Fire)
  6. Doe StStepping Stones (Legless)
  7. Hand HabitsSugar the Bruise (Fat Possum)
  8. Helen Kelter SkelterChroma Crawl (Horton)
  9. Kevin MorbyMore Photographs (A Continuum) (Dead Oceans)
  10. Killer MikeMichael (Loma Vista/Concord)
  11. Love InterestMotherwound (Council)
  12. Nana Benz du TogoAGO (Komos)
  13. p. a. pritchettFEVER DREAM (self-released)
  14. Sigur RósÁtta (BMG)
  15. The AcesI've Loved You For So Long (Red Bull Records)
  16. The Wedding Present24 Songs (HHBTM/Clue Records)
  17. Ultra QMy Guardian Angel (Royal Mountain)

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Top 50 for the Week of 06/12/2023

  1. SuperKnovaSuperuniverse (self-released)
  2. BullyLucky For You (Sub Pop)
  3. PinksqueezeBe Gay Have Fun (self-released)
  4. McKinley DixonBeloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang)
  5. Kari FauxREAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE (drink sum wtr)
  6. Arlo ParksMy Soft Machine (Transgressive/PIAS)
  7. StuckFreak Frequency (Born Yesterday)
  8. Display HomesWhat If You're Right & They're Wrong? (Erste Theke Tontrager)
  9. Louise PostSleepwalker (El Camino)
  10. Go Time!Anything Could Happen (Sound Gypsy)
  11. Alison GoldfrappThe Love Invention (Skint)
  12. The Lemon TwigsEverything Harmony (Captured Tracks)
  13. TinariwenAmatssou (Wedge)
  14. ProtomartyrFormal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
  15. WITCHZango (Desert Daze/Partisan)
  16. Kassa OverallANIMALS (Warp)
  17. Salami Rose Joe LouisAkousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
  18. Alex LaheyThe Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)
  19. Avalon Emerson& the Charm (Another Dove)
  20. SparksThe Girl is Crying in her Latte (Island)
  21. The CourettesBoom! Dynamite: An Introduction to The Courettes (Damaged Goods)
  22. RancidTomorrow Never Comes (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  23. RP BooLegacy Volume 2 (Planet Mu)
  24. Jessie WareThat! Feels Good! (Interscope)
  25. Water from Your EyesEveryone's Crushed (Matador)
  26. BassKaseVery High Noon (Soundpoint)
  27. Mucca PazzaGET PUMPED (self-released)
  28. Brittain AshfordTrotter (Misra)
  29. Selwyn BirchwoodExorcist (Alligator)
  30. Jess WilliamsonTime Ain't Accidental (Mexican Summer)
  31. Tombstones In Their EyesSea of Sorrow (Kitten Robot)
  32. Durand JonesWait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
  33. Things That FlyThings That Fly EP (self-released)
  34. WheelUPWe Are The Magic (Tru Thoughts)
  35. Namian SidibéNamian Sidibé (Sahel Sounds)
  36. Bokani DyerRadio Sechaba (Brownswood)
  37. AtmosphereSo Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers)
  38. Iguana Death CultEcho Palace (Innovative Leisure)
  39. AssassinsThe Year That Never Came (Machines Make Us)
  40. Rudy De AndaCloset Botanist (Karma Chief)
  41. Greenlights MusicSolid Gold Gravy (self-released)
  42. RahillFlowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
  43. Nourished by TimeErotic Probiotic 2 (Scenic Route)
  44. PanchikoFailed at Math(s) (self-released)
  45. Miss EspañaNiebla Mental (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  46. Colin StetsonWhen We Were That What Wept for the Sea (52HZ)
  47. Miya FolickROACH (Nettwerk)
  48. Mega BogEnd of Everything (Mexican Summer)
  49. AndreaDue in Color (Ilian Tape)
  50. GotopoSac​ú​dete (Waxploitation)

This week's adds

  • Anna St. LouisIn the Air (Woodsist)
  • Beach FossilsBunny (Bayonet)
  • Ben FoldsWhat Matters Most (New West)
  • Captain PlanetSounds Like Home (Bastard Jazz)
  • Christine and the QueensPARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE (Because)
  • Dream WifeSocial Lubrication (Lucky Number)
  • ElephonicElephonic (Get Hip)
  • Jayda GGuy (Ninja Tune)
  • Jenny LewisJoy'All (Bluenote/Capitol)
  • Jimmy WhispersThe Search for God (Carpark)
  • Juan WautersWandering Rebel (Captured Tracks)
  • Karate School DropoutWelcome to the Dojo (self-released)
  • King KruleSpace Heavy (Matador)
  • Mike MaimoneMookie's Big Gay Mixtape (8eat8)
  • OK COOL fawn (Take A Hike)
  • Pere UbuTrouble on Big Beat Street (Cherry Red)
  • TEKE::TEKEHagata (Kill Rock Stars)
  • The Baby MagicRough Dance (self released)
  • The ToadsIn the Wilderness (Upset the Rhythm)
  • Vulture FeatherLiminal Fields (Felte)
  • Youth LagoonHeaven is a Junkyard (Fat Possum)

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Top 50 for the Week of 06/05/2023

  1. BullyLucky For You (Sub Pop)
  2. StuckFreak Frequency (Born Yesterday)
  3. SparksThe Girl is Crying in her Latte (Island)
  4. Mucca PazzaGET PUMPED (self-released)
  5. Kassa OverallANIMALS (Warp)
  6. Alex LaheyThe Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)
  7. Alison GoldfrappThe Love Invention (Skint)
  8. The Lemon TwigsEverything Harmony (Captured Tracks)
  9. PoziSmiling Pools (PRAH)
  10. AssassinsThe Year That Never Came (Machines Make Us)
  11. Salami Rose Joe LouisAkousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
  12. TinariwenAmatssou (Wedge)
  13. WheelUPWe Are The Magic (Tru Thoughts)
  14. Jessie WareThat! Feels Good! (Interscope)
  15. The MurlocsCalm Ya Farm (ATO)
  16. Durand JonesWait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
  17. Kelly ReedStupid Idiot (self-released)
  18. Arlo ParksMy Soft Machine (Transgressive/PIAS)
  19. Hannah JadaguAperture (Sub Pop)
  20. Display HomesWhat If You're Right & They're Wrong? (Erste Theke Tontrager)
  21. PanchikoFailed at Math(s) (self-released)
  22. Nourished by TimeErotic Probiotic 2 (Scenic Route)
  23. Avalon Emerson& the Charm (Another Dove)
  24. Skinny PelembeHardly The Same Snake (Partisan)
  25. Chain of FlowersNever Ending Space (Alter)
  26. MotoramaSleep, and I will sing (I'm Home)
  27. KVLVolume 2 (Astral Spirits)
  28. UNIFLORAFrancium (Self-released)
  29. Califonevillagers (Jealous Butcher)
  30. Helen Money / Will ThomasTrace (Thrill Jockey)
  31. Baby TeethCarry On Regardless (self-released)
  32. Wild ChildEnd of the World (Reba's Ranch)
  33. Indigo De SouzaAll Of This Will End (Saddle Creek)
  34. The F*cking ChampsIII (Drag City)
  35. Body/HeadCome On (Three Lobed)
  36. Beach HouseBecome EP (Sub Pop)
  37. Olivia JeanRaving Ghost (Third Man)
  38. lovetempolovetempo (Razor-N-Tape)
  39. Max KuklaNormal (self-released)
  40. Greenlights MusicSolid Gold Gravy (self-released)
  41. RP BooLegacy Volume 2 (Planet Mu)
  42. Baby RoseThrough and Through (Secretly Canadian)
  43. GotopoSac​ú​dete (Waxploitation)
  44. Bokani DyerRadio Sechaba (Brownswood)
  45. OvermonoGood Lies (XL)
  46. Mandy, IndianaI've Seen a Way (Fire Talk)
  47. Guardian SinglesFeed Me to the Doves (Trouble in Mind)
  48. Iguana Death CultEcho Palace (Innovative Leisure)
  49. Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed MuhammadLonnie Liston Smith JID017 (Jazz is Dead)
  50. Country WesternsForgive the City (Fat Possum)

This week's adds

  • Colin StetsonWhen We Were That What Wept for the Sea (52HZ)
  • Go Time!Anything Could Happen (Sound Gypsy)
  • JAAWSupercluster (Svart)
  • Jess WilliamsonTime Ain't Accidental (Mexican Summer)
  • Kari FauxREAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE (drink sum wtr)
  • Louise PostSleepwalker (El Camino)
  • McKinley DixonBeloved! Paradise! Jazz!? (City Slang)
  • Miss EspañaNiebla Mental (La Vida Es Un Mus)
  • PINKSQUEEZEBe Gay Have Fun (self-released)
  • ProtomartyrFormal Growth in the Desert (Domino)
  • RancidTomorrow Never Comes (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  • Selwyn BirchwoodExorcist (Alligator)
  • SuperknovaSuperuniverse (self-released)
  • Tigershark Don't QuitNoticing Nothing Particular (self-released)
  • Tombstones In Their EyesSea of Sorrow (Kitten Robot)
  • WITCHZango (Desert Daze/Partisan)
  • Wolf EyesDreams in Splattered Lines (Disciples)

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Top 50 for the Week of 05/29/2023

  1. Alison GoldfrappThe Love Invention (Skint)
  2. The Lemon TwigsEverything Harmony (Captured Tracks)
  3. Baby TeethCarry On Regardless (self-released)
  4. Alex LaheyThe Answer Is Always Yes (Liberation)
  5. RP BooLegacy Volume 2 (Planet Mu)
  6. Display HomesWhat If You're Right & They're Wrong? (Erste Theke Tontrager)
  7. Jessie WareThat! Feels Good! (Interscope)
  8. Durand JonesWait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans)
  9. The Salt CollectiveLife (Propeller Sound )
  10. OvermonoGood Lies (XL)
  11. Wild ChildEnd of the World (Reba's Ranch)
  12. Greenlights MusicSolid Gold Gravy (self-released)
  13. The Bellwether SyndicateVestige & Vigil (Sett/Nexilis)
  14. Skinny PelembeHardly The Same Snake (Partisan)
  15. ENNYWe Go Again (FAMM/The Orchard)
  16. HarrisonBirds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees (Last Gang)
  17. Califonevillagers (Jealous Butcher)
  18. PanchikoFailed at Math(s) (self-released)
  19. The CourettesBoom! Dynamite: An Introduction to The Courettes (Damaged Goods)
  20. Rudy De AndaCloset Botanist (Karma Chief)
  21. TAFKAVinceA Problematic Opera (self-released)
  22. Mucca PazzaGET PUMPED (self-released)
  23. Hannah JadaguAperture (Sub Pop)
  24. RahillFlowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
  25. WheelUPWe Are The Magic (Tru Thoughts)
  26. Y La BambaLucha (Tender Loving Empire)
  27. Mandy, IndianaI've Seen a Way (Fire Talk )
  28. Indigo De SouzaAll Of This Will End (Saddle Creek)
  29. Max KuklaNormal (self-released)
  30. Helen Money / Will ThomasTrace (Thrill Jockey)
  31. These BeastsCares, Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye)
  32. The BollweevilsEssential (Red Scare)
  33. Brittain AshfordTrotter (Misra)
  34. Baby RoseThrough and Through (Secretly Canadian)
  35. Avalon Emerson& the Charm (Another Dove)
  36. WednesdayRat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
  37. KVLVolume 2 (Astral Spirits)
  38. Kelly ReedStupid Idiot (self-released)
  39. BassKaseVery High Noon (Soundpoint)
  40. No MenFear This (self-released)
  41. Jana HornThe Window Is The Dream (No Quarter)
  42. Everything But The GirlFuse (Buzzin' Fly/Verve)
  43. Body/HeadCome On (Three Lobed)
  44. Beach HouseBecome EP (Sub Pop)
  45. Seán BarnaAn Evening at Macri Park (Kill Rock Stars)
  46. Whitney's PlaylandSunset Sea Breeze (Meritorio/Paisley Shirt )
  47. Guardian SinglesFeed Me to the Doves (Trouble in Mind)
  48. Yossari BabyInferiority Complex (Alphaville)
  49. Ritual HowlsVirtue Falters (Felte)
  50. Olivia JeanRaving Ghost (Third Man)

This week's adds

  • Arlo ParksMy Soft Machine (Transgressive/PIAS)
  • AssassinsThe Year That Never Came (Machines Make Us)
  • Bokani DyerRadio Sechaba (Brownswood)
  • BullyLucky For You (Sub Pop)
  • Gia MargaretRomantic Piano (Jagjaguwar)
  • Good Looking SonConfirmed Bachelor (Feel It)
  • Gotopo (pron. Go-toe-poe)Sacúdete (Waxploitation)
  • Kassa OverallANIMALS (Warp)
  • M. SageParadise Crick (RVNG Intl.)
  • Matt EspyHawksworth (Drag City)
  • Mega BogEnd of Everything (Mexican Summer)
  • Miya FolickROACH (Nettwerk)
  • MotoramaSleep, and I will sing (I'm Home)
  • The MurlocsCalm Ya Farm (ATO)
  • Salami Rose Joe LouisAkousmatikous (Brainfeeder)
  • SparksThe Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (Island)
  • Stuck Freak Freaquency (Born Yesterday)
  • TinariwenAmatssou (Wedge)
  • Water From Your EyesEveryone's Crushed (Matador)

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