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Top 50 for the Week of 10-17-16

  1. Sonny Knight and the Lakers – Sooner or Later (Secret Stash)
  2. Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (Joyful Noise)
  4. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  5. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  6. Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage (Sea Note)
  7. Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  8. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  9. Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)
  10. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  11. Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Horrible – But Is It Even Music, Really? (self-released)
  13. Stick Season – Stick Season (Cardboard Sangria)
  14. A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  15. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  16. Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)
  17. Thigh Master – Early Times (Bruit Direct)
  18. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  19. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials – The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials (Alligator)
  20. Various Artists – aka Darwin Layne (Ever/Never)
  21. Dow Jones and the Industrials – Can't Stand the Midwest 1979-1981 (Family Vineyard)
  22. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro (Control Group)
  23. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years (Sinderlyn)
  24. Ballroom Boxer – Tides (self-released)
  25. Oneida & Rhys Chatham – What's Your Sign? (Northern Spy)
  26. Tycho – Epoch (Ghostly International)
  27. Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)
  28. Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  29. Bitori – Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)
  30. Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)
  31. Jogford – Milledgeville (self-released)
  32. Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
  33. Ian Sweet – Shapeshifter (Hardly Art)
  34. Spaces of Disappearance – There Is No Loss (Walk In)
  35. Devendra Banhart – Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  36. Negative Gemini – Body Work (100% Electronica)
  37. Fake Surfers – Cheap Meat (X! Recordings)
  38. Various Artists – Continental Drift EP (Slumberland/Fortuna Pop)
  39. Ultimate Painting – Dusk (Trouble in Mind)
  40. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  41. Swimsuit Addition – Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  42. Fudge – Lady Parts (Lex)
  43. Liberation – Liberation (Night School)
  44. Impulsive Hearts – Live & Demos (Diversion)
  45. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  46. Jackson/Baker/Kirshner – The Noisey Miner (Astral Spirits)
  47. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  48. Blood Quartet – Deep Red (Feeding Tube)
  49. Various Artists – Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8: The Private Press (Tompkins Square)
  50. PUFF! – Living in the Partyzone (Slovenly)

This week's adds

  • Flesh Panthers – Willows Weep Maximum Pelt
  • GOAT – Requiem Sub Pop
  • Ablebody – Adult Contemporaries Lolipop
  • Gramps the Vamp – The Cave of 10,000 Eyes self-released
  • Jack Rose – Raag Manifestos VHF
  • Minihorse – Big Lack EP Friendship Fever
  • MX-80 Sound – So Funny Feeding Tube
  • Red Fang – Only Ghosts Relapse
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation Party Smasher
  • Glass Mountain – Restless Mind self-released
  • Hearts and Minds – Hearts and Minds Astral Spirits
  • Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters Grapefruit
  • The Baird Sisters – Until You Find Your Green Ba Da Bing
  • The Limiñanas – Malamore Hozac
  • The Terminals – Uncoffined Hozac
  • The Sueves – Change Your Life Hozac
  • Black Marble – It's Immaterial Ghostly International
  • Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then Mom + Pop
  • Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – Madjafalao Because Music
  • Lee Fields & the Expressions – Special Night Big Crown
  • Solange – A Seat at the Table Saint
  • BROOKZILL! – Throwback to the Future Tommy Boy

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 10-10-16

  1. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  2. Swimsuit Addition – Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  3. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  4. A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  5. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  6. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  7. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  8. Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)
  9. Sneaks – Gymnastics (Merge)
  10. Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (Joyful Noise)
  11. Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
  12. Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)
  13. Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  14. Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey)
  15. Lifestyles – Lifestyles (Maximum Pelt)
  16. Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  17. Opposite Sex – Hamlet (Dull Tools)
  18. Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)
  19. Touché Amoré – Stage Four (Epitaph)
  20. Ultimate Painting – Dusk (Trouble in Mind)
  21. Flock of Dimes – If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
  22. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  23. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  24. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials – The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials (Alligator)
  25. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  26. Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  27. Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
  28. Nots – Cosmetic (Goner)
  29. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
  30. De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody (A.O.I.)
  31. Stick Season – Stick Season (Cardboard Sangria)
  32. EZTV – High in Place (Captured Tracks)
  33. Jogford – Milledgeville (self-released)
  34. Various Artists – aka Darwin Layne (Ever/Never)
  35. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi (New Atlantis)
  36. The Hecks – The Hecks (Trouble in Mind)
  37. Negative Gemini – Body Work (100% Electronica)
  38. Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)
  39. Bitori – Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)
  40. Devendra Banhart – Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  41. No Sister – No Sister (self-released)
  42. Ian Sweet – Shapeshifter (Hardly Art)
  43. Graveola e o Lixo Polifônico – Camaleão Borboleta (Mais un Discos)
  44. Valery Trails – Chameleon Bones (self-released)
  45. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Anti-)
  46. Warehouse – Super Low (Bayonet)
  47. Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me (Total Treble)
  48. Jackson/Baker/Kirshner – The Noisey Miner (Astral Spirits)
  49. Pansy Division – Quite Contrary (Alternative Tentacles)
  50. The Bellicose Minds – The Creature (Black Water)

This week's adds

  • Axis:Sova – Motor Earth (God?/Drag City)
  • Blood Quartet – Deep Red (Feeding Tube)
  • Bon Iver – 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  • Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage (Sea Note)
  • Dysrhythmia – The Veil of Control (Profound Lore)
  • Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked for Death (Sargent House)
  • His Clancyness – Isolation Culture (Hand Drawn Dracula)
  • Horrible – But Is It Even Music, Really? (self-released)
  • Liberation – Liberation (Night School)
  • Oathbreaker – Rheia (Deathwish, Inc.)
  • Oneida & Rhys Chatham – What's Your Sign? (Northern Spy)
  • Purling Hiss – High Bias (Drag City)
  • Sam Evian – Premium (Saddle Creek)
  • Sonny Knight and the Lakers – Sooner or Later (Secret Stash)
  • Syrinx – Tumblers from the Vault (1970 - 1972) (RVNG Intl.)
  • Thigh Master – Early Times (Bruit Direct)
  • Tycho – Epoch (Ghostly International)

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Top 50 for the Week of 10-3-16

  1. Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)
  2. Bitori – Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)
  3. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
  4. Impulsive Hearts – Live & Demos (Diversion)
  5. Swimsuit Addition – Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  6. Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)
  7. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  8. How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  9. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  10. Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  11. Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (Joyful Noise)
  12. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials – The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials (Alligator)
  13. Jackson/Baker/Kirshner – The Noisey Miner (Astral Spirits)
  14. Various Artists – aka Darwin Layne (Ever/Never)
  15. Sneaks – Gymnastics (Merge)
  16. The Hecks – The Hecks (Trouble in Mind)
  17. Devendra Banhart – Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  18. Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey)
  19. Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me (Total Treble)
  20. Pansy Division – Quite Contrary (Alternative Tentacles)
  21. EZTV – High in Place (Captured Tracks)
  22. Ghost – Popestar EP (Loma Vista)
  23. Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  24. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro (Control Group)
  25. Jogford – Milledgeville (self-released)
  26. Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
  27. Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
  28. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi (New Atlantis)
  29. The Frightnrs – Nothing More to Say (Daptone)
  30. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years (Sinderlyn)
  31. Rebecca Schiffman – Rebecca Schiffman (Fayettenam)
  32. Okkervil River – Away (ATO)
  33. Daniel Lanois – Goodbye to Language (Anti-)
  34. Banks and Steelz – Anything But Words (Warner Bros.)
  35. Nots – Cosmetic (Goner)
  36. Teenage Fanclub – Here (Merge)
  37. Lifestyles – Lifestyles (Maximum Pelt)
  38. Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  39. The Bellicose Minds – The Creature (Black Water)
  40. Flock of Dimes – If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
  41. Hit School – Hit School (Already Dead Tapes)
  42. Chook Race – Around the House (Trouble in Mind)
  43. Spaces of Disappearance – There Is No Loss (Walk In)
  44. Camera – Phantom of Liberty (Bureau B)
  45. Health&Beauty – NO SCARE (Wichita)
  46. Tim Presley – The Wink (Drag City)
  47. Drugdealer – The End of Comedy (Weird World)
  48. Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  49. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  50. Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety)
  • Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  • A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (Radicalized)
  • Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
  • Touché Amoré – Stage Four (Epitaph)
  • Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound (4AD)
  • Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)
  • Apollo Brown & Skyzoo – The Easy Truth (Mello Music)
  • Ballroom Boxer – Tides (self-released)
  • Dow Jones and the Industrials – Can't Stand the Midwest 1979-1981 (Family Vineyard)
  • Fake Surfers – Cheap Meat (X! Recordings)
  • Fudge – Lady Parts (Lex)
  • Mariza – Mundo (Nonesuch)
  • Negative Gemini – Body Work (100% Electronica)
  • Opposite Sex – Hamlet (Dull Tools)
  • PUFF! – Living in the Partyzone (Slovenly)
  • Stick Season – Stick Season (Cardboard Sangria)
  • Ultimate Painting – Dusk (Trouble in Mind)
  • Warehouse – Super Low (Bayonet)
  • Kris Davis – Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  • Pixies – Head Carrier (PIAS)

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TOP 50 FOR THE WEEK OF 9-27-16

  1. Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  2. Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
  3. Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (Joyful Noise)
  4. Impulsive Hearts – Live & Demos (Diversion)
  5. Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials – The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials (Alligator)
  6. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  7. Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  8. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro (Control Group)
  9. Swimsuit Addition– Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  10. Sneaks – Gymnastics (Merge)
  11. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Lifestyles – Lifestyles (Maximum Pelt)
  13. Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)
  14. The Frightnrs – Nothing More to Say (Daptone)
  15. Various Artists – Eccentric Soul: Sitting in the Park (Numero Group)
  16. Nots – Cosmetic (Goner)
  17. De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody (A.O.I.)
  18. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi (New Atlantis)
  19. Various Artists – Craig Bell aka Darwin Layne (Ever/Never)
  20. Teenage Fanclub – Here (Merge)
  21. Daniel Lanois – Goodbye to Language (Anti-)
  22. Okkervil River – Away (ATO)
  23. Psychic Twin – Strange Diary (Polyvinyl)
  24. Local Natives – Sunlit Youth (Loma Vista)
  25. The Hecks – The Hecks (Trouble in Mind)
  26. Health&Beauty – NO SCARE (Wichita)
  27. Jogford – Milledgeville (self-released)
  28. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Light Falls (Thrill Jockey)
  29. The Tyde – Darren 4 (Spiritual Pajamas)
  30. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Anti-)
  31. Graveola e o Lixo Polifônico – Camaleão Borboleta (Mais un Discos)
  32. Thalia Zedek Band – Eve (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Valery Trails – Chameleon Bones (self-released)
  34. River Whyless – We All the Light (Roll Call)
  35. Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  36. Lydia Loveless – Real (Bloodshot)
  37. Ian Sweet – Shapeshifter (Hardly Art)
  38. Animal Eyes – Where We Go (self-released)
  39. Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  40. Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
  41. of Montreal – Innocence Reaches (Polyvinyl)
  42. Factory Floor – 25 25 (DFA)
  43. Pascal Pinon – Sundur (Morr Music)
  44. Neaux – Fell Off the Deep End (Iron Pier)
  45. Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)
  46. Chook Race – Around the House (Trouble in Mind)
  47. Tamam Shud – Evolution (Anthology Recordings)
  48. Atmosphere – Fishing Blues (Rhymesayers)
  49. Kate Jackson – British Road Movies (PIAS)
  50. Money Chicha – Echo en Mexico (Vampisoul)

This week's adds

  • Against Me! – Shape Shift with Me (Total Treble)
  • Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (Polyvinyl)
  • Bitori – Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)
  • Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years (Sinderlyn)
  • Devendra Banhart – Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  • Drugdealer – The End of Comedy (Weird World)
  • EZTV – High in Place (Captured Tracks)
  • Flock of Dimes – If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan)
  • Ghost – Popestar EP (Loma Vista)
  • High Spirits – Motivator (High Roller)
  • How to Dress Well – Care (Domino)
  • Jackson/Baker/Kirshner – The Noisey Miner (Astral Spirits)
  • Kaspar Houser – Last Ghosts (Spacesuit)
  • No Sister – No Sister (self-released)
  • Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey)
  • Pansy Division – Quite Contrary (Alternative Tentacles)
  • S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse)
  • The Bellicose Minds – The Creature (Black Water)
  • Tim Presley – The Wink (Drag City)
  • Various Artists – Basket Full of Dragons: A Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol. II (Obsolete)
  • Warpaint – Heads Up (Rough Trade)

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Charts for CHIRP Radio 9-20-16

  1. Bleach Party – Endless Bender (Tall Pat)
  2. Swimsuit Addition – Killin' Time EP (Tall Pat)
  3. Various Artists – Eccentric Soul: Sitting in the Park (Numero Group)
  4. Teenage Fanclub – Here (Merge)
  5. Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
  6. Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  7. Graveola e o Lixo Polifônico – Camaleão Borboleta (Mais un Discos)
  8. Local Natives – Sunlit Youth (Loma Vista)
  9. Ryley Walker – Golden Sings that Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)
  10. Daniel Lanois – Goodbye to Language (Anti-)
  11. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
  12. Lydia Loveless – Real (Bloodshot)
  13. Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)
  14. Spaces of Disappearance – There Is No Loss (Walk In)
  15. De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody (A.O.I.)
  16. Okkervil River – Away (ATO)
  17. Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  18. Nots – Cosmetic (Goner)
  19. Atmosphere – Fishing Blues (Rhymesayers)
  20. Sneaks – Gymnastics (Merge)
  21. of Montreal – Innocence Reaches (Polyvinyl)
  22. Field Mouse – Episodic (Topshelf)
  23. The Frightnrs – Nothing More to Say (Daptone)
  24. Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  25. Animal Eyes – Where We Go (self-released)
  26. Silver Apples – Clinging to a Dream (Chickencoop)
  27. The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi (New Atlantis)
  28. Gary Wilson – It's Friday Night with Gary Wilson (Cleopatra)
  29. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love (Anti-)
  30. Rebecca Schiffman – Rebecca Schiffman (Fayettenam)
  31. The Devil Makes Three – Redemption & Ruin (New West)
  32. Left & Right – The Yips (WarHen)
  33. Earth Girls – Wanderlust (Grave Mistake)
  34. Crystal Castles – Amnesty (I) (Republic)
  35. The Tyde – Darren 4 (Spiritual Pajamas)
  36. Jack Rose – Dr. Ragtime & His Pals (Three Lobed)
  37. Thalia Zedek Band – Eve (Thrill Jockey)
  38. Jamila Woods – HEAVN (self-released)
  39. Lifestyles – Lifestyles (Maximum Pelt)
  40. Gringo Star – The Sides and In Between (Nevado)
  41. Valery Trails – Chameleon Bones (self-released)
  42. Yeesh – Confirmation Bias (Tiny Engines)
  43. SubRosa – For This We Fought the Battle of Ages (Profound Lore)
  44. Helms Alee – Stillicide (Sargent House)
  45. Hieroglyphic Being – The Disco's of Imhotep (Ninja Tune)
  46. River Whyless – We All the Light (Roll Call)
  47. Factory Floor – 25 25 (DFA)
  48. Chook Race – Around the House (Trouble in Mind)
  49. Various Artists – Continental Drift EP (Slumberland/Fortuna Pop)
  50. NAO – For All We Know (Little Tokyo)

This week's adds

  • Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials – The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials (Alligator)
  • Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (Joyful Noise)
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies – Light Falls (Thrill Jockey)
  • Pariuh – Passed Lives' Excessive Future (Moniker)
  • Ian Sweet – Shapeshifter (Hardly Art)
  • Various Artists – aka Darwin Layne (Ever/Never)
  • Jogford – Milledgeville (self-released)
  • El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro (Control Group)
  • Psychic Twin – Strange Diary (Polyvinyl)
  • Neaux – Fell Off the Deep End (Iron Pier)
  • Hit School – Hit School (Already Dead Tapes)
  • Impulsive Hearts – Live & Demos (Diversion)
  • Frank Ocean – Blonde (self-released)
  • Tree – I.B. Tree (self-released)

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