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CHIRP Radio Charts

Top 50 for the Week of 11/21/2016

  1. Common – Black America Again (Def Jam)
  2. Sad13 – Slugger (Carpark)
  3. Mint Mile – The Bliss Point (Comedy Minus One)
  4. Lambchop – FLOTUS (Merge)
  5. Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component (Free Nation)
  6. Strawberry Jacuzzi – Watch the Clock (Some Weird Sin)
  7. Fake Limbs – Matronly (Don Giovanni)
  8. Vaudevileins – Magician (self-released)
  9. Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit (Torn Clean)
  10. Saba – Bucket List Project (self-released)
  11. The Flat Five – It's a World of Love and Hope (Bloodshot)
  12. American Football – American Football (Polyvinyl)
  13. Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
  14. The Limiñanas – Malamore (Hozac)
  15. Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)
  16. A$AP Mob – Cozy Tapes Vol. 1 Friends (RCA)
  17. The Sueves – Change Your Life (Hozac)
  18. Xylouris White – Black Peak (Bella Union)
  19. Nocturnal Habits – New Skin for Old Children (Glacial Pace)
  20. Luke Winslow-King – I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (Bloodshot)
  21. Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing (Little Idiot)
  22. Papa M – Highway Songs (Drag City)
  23. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  24. STRFKR – Being No One, Going Nowhere (Polyvinyl)
  25. Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds (Astral Spirits)
  26. James Chance & The Contortions – The Flesh Is Weak (True Groove)
  27. Dark Blue – Start of the World (12XU)
  28. Danny & the Darleans – Bug Out (In the Red)
  29. Kristin Hersh – Wyatt At The Coyote Palace (Omnibus Press)
  30. Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night (Big Crown)
  31. Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep (Maximum Pelt)
  32. Gramps the Vamp – The Cave of 10,000 Eyes (self-released)
  33. Axis:Sova – Motor Earth (God?/Drag City)
  34. We Are Imaginary – Death to Romanticism (Wide Eyed)
  35. C.A.M.P.O.S. – Miracles & Criminals (Peace & Rhythm)
  36. Smokin' Ziggurats – Smokin' Ziggurats (self-released)
  37. Planes Mistaken for Stars – Prey (Deathwish, Inc.)
  38. Steve Hauschildt – Strands (Kranky)
  39. Letters to Cleo – Back to Nebraska EP (self-released)
  40. Tyvek – Origin of What (In the Red)
  41. Blues Control – OLDENUFF2KNOBETTA: The Mixtape (self-released)
  42. Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Madjafalao (Because Music)
  43. Tony Molina – Confront the Truth (Slumberland)
  44. Yishak Banjaw – Love Songs Vol. 2 (Teranga Beat)
  45. Major Stars – Motion Set (Drag City)
  46. Sonic Avenues – Disconnector (Dirtnap)
  47. Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (Slumberland)
  48. Black Marble – It's Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  49. BROOKZILL! – Throwback to the Future (Tommy Boy)
  50. Fujiya & Miyagi – EP2 (Impossible Objects of Desire)

This week's adds

  • A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (Epic)
  • Body/Head – No Waves (Matador)
  • Chore – The Coastaline Fire (Label Obscura)
  • Dungen – Häxan (Mexican Summer)
  • His Name Is Alive – Patterns of Light (London London)
  • Hooton Tennis Club – Big Box of Chocolates (Heavenly/PIAS)
  • Justice – Woman (Ed Banger)
  • Lala Lala – Sleepyhead (self-released)
  • LITE – Cubic (Topshelf)
  • Nest – Mother's Knife (self-released)
  • Ruin – He-Ho/Fiat Lux (Southern Lord)
  • The Wedding Present – Going, Going . . . (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
  • Thee Oh Sees – An Odd Entrances (Castle Face)
  • Tommy Jay – Tommy Jay's Tall Tales of Terror (Assophon)
  • WAH – Travellers Station (Assophon)

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Charts for CHIRP Radio 11-14-16

  1. Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
  2. Lambchop – FLOTUS (Merge)
  3. Strawberry Jacuzzi – Watch the Clock (Some Weird Sin)
  4. STRFKR – Being No One, Going Nowhere (Polyvinyl)
  5. Saba – Bucket List Project (self-released)
  6. Nocturnal Habits – New Skin for Old Children (Glacial Pace)
  7. Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component (Free Nation)
  8. American Football – American Football (Polyvinyl)
  9. Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night (Big Crown)
  10. Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep (Maximum Pelt)
  11. Fujiya & Miyagi – EP2 (Impossible Objects of Desire)
  12. The Flat Five – It's a World of Love and Hope (Bloodshot)
  13. Blues Control – OLDENUFF2KNOBETTA: The Mixtape (self-released)
  14. Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds (Astral Spirits)
  15. Xylouris White – Black Peak (Bella Union)
  16. Fake Limbs – Matronly (Don Giovanni)
  17. Letters to Cleo – Back to Nebraska EP (self-released)
  18. Danny & the Darleans – Bug Out (In the Red)
  19. Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)
  20. Luke Winslow-King – I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (Bloodshot)
  21. The Limiñanas – Malamore (Hozac)
  22. Dark Blue – Start of the World (12XU)
  23. NxWorries – Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)
  24. Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing (Little Idiot)
  25. The Sueves – Change Your Life (Hozac)
  26. Sims – More Than Ever (Doomtree)
  27. Kristin Hersh – Wyatt At The Coyote Palace (Omnibus Press)
  28. The Blind Shake – Celebrate Your Worth (Goner)
  29. Sea Lanes – II (self-released)
  30. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  31. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  32. Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)
  33. Steve Hauschildt – Strands (Kranky)
  34. Camberwell Now – The Ghost Trade (Modern Classics Recordings)
  35. American Monoxide – Web Content (PIAPTK/Lazy Boy)
  36. Tyvek – Origin of What (In the Red)
  37. Tony Molina – Confront the Truth (Slumberland)
  38. Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
  39. Shana Falana – Here Comes The Wave (Team Love)
  40. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Time (Glassnote)
  41. Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (Slumberland)
  42. GOAT – Requiem (Sub Pop)
  43. Glass Mountain – Restless Mind (self-released)
  44. Thigh Master – Early Times (Bruit Direct)
  45. Tycho – Epoch (Ghostly International)
  46. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  47. A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  48. Fever High – All Work EP (Sire)
  49. Sonic Avenues – Disconnector (Dirtnap)
  50. Planes Mistaken for Stars – Prey (Deathwish, Inc.)

This week's adds

  • A$AP Mob – Cozy Tapes Vol. 1 Friends (RCA)
  • C.A.M.P.O.S. – Miracles & Criminals (Peace & Rhythm)
  • Common – Black America Again (Def Jam)
  • James Chance & The Contortions – The Flesh Is Weak (True Groove)
  • Major Stars – Motion Set (Drag City)
  • Mint Mile – The Bliss Point (Comedy Minus One)
  • Papa M – Highway Songs (Drag City)
  • Sad13 – Slugger (Carpark)
  • Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit (Torn Clean)
  • Smokin' Ziggurats – Smokin' Ziggurats (self-released)
  • The Micronaut – Forms (Acker)
  • The Silence – Nine Suns, One Morning (Drag City)
  • Vaudevileins – Magician (self-released)
  • We Are Imaginary – Death to Romanticism (Wide Eyed)
  • Whores. – Gold. (eOne)
  • Yishak Banjaw – Love Songs Vol. 2 (Teranga Beat)
  • Kestrels – Kestrels (Sonic Unyon)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-7-16

  1. Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)
  2. Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component (Free Nation)
  3. Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep (Maximum Pelt)
  4. Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
  5. American Football – American Football (Polyvinyl)
  6. Sea Lanes – II (self-released)
  7. Fake Limbs – Matronly (Don Giovanni)
  8. Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night (Big Crown)
  9. The Flat Five – It's a World of Love and Hope (Bloodshot)
  10. Dark Blue – Start of the World (12XU)
  11. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  12. Sonny Knight and the Lakers – Sooner or Later (Secret Stash)
  13. Gramps the Vamp – The Cave of 10,000 Eyes (self-released)
  14. Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage (Sea Note)
  15. Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds (Astral Spirits)
  16. Luke Winslow-King – I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (Bloodshot)
  17. Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing (Little Idiot)
  18. Danny & the Darleans – Bug Out (In the Red)
  19. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  20. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  21. Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
  22. Tyvek – Origin of What (In the Red)
  23. GOAT – Requiem (Sub Pop)
  24. NxWorries – Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)
  25. Letters to Cleo – Back to Nebraska EP (self-released)
  26. Horrible – But Is It Even Music, Really? (self-released)
  27. Phone Call – Hang-Ups (Aerobic International)
  28. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Time (Glassnote)
  29. Black Marble – It's Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  30. The Limiñanas – Malamore (Hozac)
  31. Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then (Mom + Pop)
  32. Axis:Sova – Motor Earth (God?/Drag City)
  33. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  34. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  35. Lower Plenty – Sister, Sister (Bedroom Suck)
  36. The Olympians – The Olympians (Daptone)
  37. BROOKZILL! – Throwback to the Future (Tommy Boy)
  38. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  39. The Sueves – Change Your Life (Hozac)
  40. Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)
  41. Shana Falana – Here Comes The Wave (Team Love)
  42. Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (Slumberland)
  43. Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Madjafalao (Because Music)
  44. High Spirits – Motivator (High Roller)
  45. Blues Control – OLDENUFF2KNOBETTA: The Mixtape (self-released)
  46. Sam Evian – Premium (Saddle Creek)
  47. Drugdealer – The End of Comedy (Weird World)
  48. Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  49. Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)
  50. Ablebody – Adult Contemporaries (Lolipop)

This week's adds

  • Allen Tate – Sleepwalker (Votiv)
  • American Monoxide – Web Content (PIAPTK/Lazy Boy)
  • Anciients – Voice of the Void (Season of Mist)
  • Camberwell Now – The Ghost Trade (Modern Classics Recordings)
  • Feral Ohms – Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  • Fever High – All Work EP (Sire)
  • Fujiya & Miyagi – EP2 (Impossible Objects of Desire)
  • Kristin Hersh – Wyatt At The Coyote Palace (Omnibus Press)
  • Lambchop – FLOTUS (Merge)
  • Mike Mills & Robert McDuffie – Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra (Orange Mountain Music)
  • Motorama – Dialogues (Talitres)
  • Nocturnal Habits – New Skin for Old Children (Glacial Pace)
  • Planes Mistaken for Stars – Prey (Deathwish, Inc.)
  • Saba – Bucket List Project (self-released)
  • Sims – More Than Ever (Doomtree)
  • Singers & Players – Staggering Heights (On-U Sound)
  • Sonic Avenues – Disconnector (Dirtnap)
  • Steve Hauschildt – Strands (Kranky)
  • Strawberry Jacuzzi – Watch the Clock (Some Weird Sin)
  • STRFKR – Being No One, Going Nowhere (Polyvinyl)
  • Xylouris White – Black Peak (Bella Union)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 10-31-16

  1. American Football – American Football (Polyvinyl)
  2. Gramps the Vamp – The Cave of 10,000 Eyes (self-released)
  3. The Flat Five – It's a World of Love and Hope (Bloodshot)
  4. Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
  5. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  7. Sea Lanes – II (self-released)
  8. Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep (Maximum Pelt)
  9. Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing (Little Idiot)
  10. Blues Control – OLDENUFF2KNOBETTA: The Mixtape (self-released)
  11. Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds (Astral Spirits)
  12. The Limiñanas – Malamore (Hozac)
  13. Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage (Sea Note)
  14. Pansy Division – Quite Contrary (Alternative Tentacles)
  15. Nico Muhly & Teitur – Confessions (Nonesuch)
  16. Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
  17. Shana Falana – Here Comes The Wave (Team Love)
  18. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Time (Glassnote)
  19. Luke Winslow-King – I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (Bloodshot)
  20. Fake Limbs – Matronly (Don Giovanni)
  21. The Olympians – The Olympians (Daptone)
  22. Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night (Big Crown)
  23. Horrible – But Is It Even Music, Really? (self-released)
  24. Axis:Sova – Motor Earth (God?/Drag City)
  25. Sonny Knight and the Lakers – Sooner or Later (Secret Stash)
  26. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  27. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  28. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  29. Hidden Ritual – Always (Monofonus Press)
  30. Phone Call – Hang-Ups (Aerobic International)
  31. Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then (Mom + Pop)
  32. Red Fang – Only Ghosts (Relapse)
  33. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  34. Touché Amoré – Stage Four (Epitaph)
  35. A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  36. Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (Slumberland)
  37. Black Marble – It's Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  38. GOAT – Requiem (Sub Pop)
  39. Savoy Motel – Savoy Motel (What's Your Rupture?)
  40. Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Madjafalao (Because Music)
  41. Glass Mountain – Restless Mind (self-released)
  42. BROOKZILL! – Throwback to the Future (Tommy Boy)
  43. The Terminals – Uncoffined (Hozac)
  44. Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  45. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  46. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  47. Warehouse – Super Low (Bayonet)
  48. Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  49. Ghost – Popestar EP (Loma Vista)
  50. Psychic Twin – Strange Diary (Polyvinyl)

This week's adds

  • Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component (Free Nation)
  • Lower Plenty – Sister, Sister (Bedroom Suck)
  • Super Unison – Auto (Deathwish, Inc.)
  • Tyvek – Origin of What (In the Red)
  • The Intended – Time Will Tell (In the Red)
  • Danny & the Darleans – Bug Out (In the Red)
  • Dark Blue – Start of the World (12XU)
  • Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)
  • NxWorries – Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw)
  • Letters to Cleo – Back to Nebraska EP (self-released)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 10-24-16

  1. Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
  2. Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep (Maximum Pelt)
  3. Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night (Big Crown)
  4. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  5. Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds (Astral Spirits)
  6. Gramps the Vamp – The Cave of 10,000 Eyes (self-released)
  7. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  8. Sonny Knight and the Lakers – Sooner or Later (Secret Stash)
  9. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  10. The Limiñanas – Malamore (Hozac)
  11. Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  13. The Sueves – Change Your Life (Hozac)
  14. Horrible – But Is It Even Music, Really? (self-released)
  15. Tycho – Epoch (Ghostly International)
  16. Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage (Sea Note)
  17. The Baird Sisters – Until You Find Your Green (Ba Da Bing)
  18. A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  19. Ablebody – Adult Contemporaries (Lolipop)
  20. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  21. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  22. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  23. BROOKZILL! – Throwback to the Future (Tommy Boy)
  24. Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then (Mom + Pop)
  25. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro (Control Group)
  26. Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Madjafalao (Because Music)
  27. Glass Mountain – Restless Mind (self-released)
  28. Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey)
  29. Thigh Master – Early Times (Bruit Direct)
  30. Swimsuit Addition – Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  31. Axis:Sova – Motor Earth (God?/Drag City)
  32. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters (Grapefruit)
  33. GOAT – Requiem (Sub Pop)
  34. Stick Season – Stick Season (Cardboard Sangria)
  35. Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  36. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  37. Daniel Lanois – Goodbye to Language (Anti-)
  38. Impulsive Hearts – Live & Demos (Diversion)
  39. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  40. Animal Eyes – Where We Go (self-released)
  41. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  42. Dow Jones and the Industrials – Can't Stand the Midwest 1979-1981 (Family Vineyard)
  43. Fake Surfers – Cheap Meat (X! Recordings)
  44. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation (Party Smasher)
  45. Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)
  46. Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)
  47. His Clancyness – Isolation Culture (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  48. Black Marble – It's Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  49. Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  50. Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)

This week's adds

  • American Football – American Football (Polyvinyl)
  • Blues Control – OLDENUFF2KNOBETTA: The Mixtape (self-released)
  • Dethbeds – Dungeon Scum (self-released)
  • Fake Limbs – Matronly (Don Giovanni)
  • Hales Corner – Garden View (Darling)
  • Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Time (Glassnote)
  • Hidden Ritual – Always (Monofonus Press)
  • Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
  • Khemmis – Hunted (20 Buck Spin)
  • Luke Winslow-King – I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (Bloodshot)
  • Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing (Little Idiot)
  • Nico Muhly & Teitur – Confessions (Nonesuch)
  • Phone Call – Hang-Ups (Aerobic International)
  • Savoy Motel – Savoy Motel (What's Your Rupture?)
  • Sea Lanes – II (self-released)
  • Shana Falana – Here Comes The Wave (Team Love)
  • Terry Malts – Lost at the Party (Slumberland)
  • The Blind Shake – Celebrate Your Worth (Goner)
  • The Flat Five – It's a World of Love and Hope (Bloodshot)
  • The Olympians – The Olympians (Daptone)
  • Tim Stine Trio – Tim Stine Trio (Astral Spirits)
  • Tony Molina – Confront the Truth (Slumberland)

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