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Top 50 for the Week of 10/5/15

  1. U.S. Girls – Half Free (4AD)
  2. Luggage – Sun (self-released)
  3. Soddy Daisy – Trashtopia (self-released)
  4. Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
  5. Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful (Domino)
  6. Ryan Adams – 1989 (Pax-AM)
  7. The Tarts – The Tarts (self-released)
  8. Protovulcan – Stakes is Low (Paribus)
  9. Guilty Simpson – Detroit's Son (Stones Throw)
  10. Stereophonics – Keep the Village Alive (Stylus)
  11. Public Image Ltd – What the World Needs Now (PiL Official)
  12. JR JR – JR JR (Warner Bros.)
  13. Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
  14. Various Artists – Daptone Gold II (Daptone)
  15. Ought – Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
  16. The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat )
  17. Nick Mazzarella Trio – Ultraviolet (International Anthem)
  18. Telekinesis – Ad infinitum (Merge)
  19. Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (Sideonedummy)
  20. The Decemberists – Florasongs [EP] (Capitol)
  21. Youth Lagoon – Savage Hills Ballroom (Fat Possum)
  22. The Intelligence – Vintage Future (In the Red)
  23. Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary (Drag City)
  24. Yawn – Day Trip EP (Old Flame)
  25. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  26. Superhumanoids – Do You Feel Okay? (Innovative Leisure)
  27. Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  28. Beirut – No No No (4AD)
  29. Various Artists – Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1953-83 (Soul Jazz)
  30. Pony Time – Rumours 2: The Rumours are True (self-released)
  31. Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey )
  32. ProbCause – Drifters (self-released)
  33. The Persian Leaps – High & Vibrate [EP] (Land Ski)
  34. Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  35. Diane Coffee – Everybody's a Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
  36. Cold Beat – Into the Air (Crime on the Moon)
  37. Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  38. Sink Tapes – Window Unit Blues (Mint 400/Sniffling Indie Kids)
  39. Omar Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown)
  40. Heat Dust – Heat Dust (The Flenser)
  41. Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
  42. Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty (Whistler)
  43. Dan Melchior's Broke Revue – Lords of the Manor (In the Red)
  44. Ben Folds – So There (New West)
  45. Robert Forster – Songs to Play (Tapete)
  46. Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)
  47. Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
  48. Steven A Clark – The Lonely Roller (Secretly Canadian)
  49. Helen – The Original Faces (Kranky)
  50. FIDLAR – Too (Mom+Pop)

This week's adds

  • Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino)
  • The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Harmlessness (Epitaph)
  • Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
  • Deafheaven – New Bermuda (ANTI-)
  • Chvrches – Every Open Eye (Glassnote)
  • Obnox – Wiglet (Ever Never)
  • Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season of Mist)
  • Destruction Unit – Negative Feedback Resistor (Sacred Bones)
  • Baudelaire in a Box – The King of Rain (self-released)
  • Kurt Vile – b'lieve i'm goin down... (Matador)
  • PIGS – Wronger (Solar Flare)
  • Small Black – Best Blues (Jagjaguwar)
  • Wavves – V (Ghost Ramp/WBR)
  • Big Grams – Big Grams EP (Epic)
  • Ms. John Soda – Loom (Morr Music)
  • Spike & The Sweet Spots – Strange Breed (Randy)
  • Silversun Pickups – Better Nature (New Machine Recordings)
  • New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
  • Here We Go Magic – Be Small (Secretly Canadian)

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TOP 50 FOR WEEK OF 09/28/2015

  1. Ought – Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
  2. The Tarts – The Tarts (self-released)
  3. Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
  4. Beirut – No No No (4AD)
  5. Public Image Ltd – What the World Needs Now (PiL Official)
  6. Various Artists – Daptone Gold II (Daptone)
  7. Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)
  8. Nick Mazzarella Trio – Ultraviolet (International Anthem)
  9. Yawn – Day Trip EP (Old Flame)
  10. Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary (Drag City)
  11. Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  12. Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful (Domino)
  13. Diane Coffee – Everybody's a Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
  14. Dan Melchior's Broke Revue – Lords of the Manor (In the Red)
  15. HeCTA – The Diet (Merge)
  16. Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (Sideonedummy)
  17. FKA twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  18. The Paper Kites – Twelvefour (Nettwerk)
  19. ProbCause – Drifters (self-released)
  20. Empress Of – Me (Terrible)
  21. Pony Time – Rumours 2: The Rumours are True (self-released)
  22. Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  23. Born Ruffians – RUFF (Yep Roc)
  24. Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey )
  25. Helen – The Original Faces (Kranky)
  26. The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat )
  27. Various Artists – Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1953-83 (Soul Jazz)
  28. Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
  29. Le Tour – Terra Eyes (Berserk)
  30. Hinds – The Very Best of Hinds So Far (Mermaid Avenue/Mom + Pop)
  31. Big Air – Don't Care (Forged Artifacts)
  32. Robert Forster – Songs to Play (Tapete)
  33. Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
  34. Superhumanoids – Do You Feel Okay? (Innovative Leisure)
  35. The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily, (Nonesuch)
  36. Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty (Whistler)
  37. HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  38. Say Hi – Bleeders Digest (Barsuk)
  39. Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
  40. Omar Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown)
  41. Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  42. Tomorrow the Moon – Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  43. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  44. Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge)
  45. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
  46. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  47. Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  48. The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  49. Guides – Abstact Mind [EP] (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Defeater – Abandoned (Epitaph)
  • Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
  • Guilty Simpson – Detroit's Son (Stones Throw)
  • Heat Dust – Heat Dust (The Flenser)
  • Horisont – Odyssey (Rise Above)
  • JR JR – JR JR (Warner Bros.)
  • Luggage – Sun (self-released)
  • Pagiins – Opium Den Pool Party (Old Flame)
  • Protovulcan – Stakes is Low (Paribus)
  • Ryan Adams – 1989 (Pax-AM)
  • Serial Hawk – Searching for Light (Bleeding Light)
  • Sink Tapes – Window Unit Blues (Mint 400/Sniffling Indie Kids)
  • Soddy Daisy – Trashtopia (self-released)
  • Stereophonics – Keep the Village Alive (Stylus)
  • The Bottle Rockets – South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot)
  • The Decemberists – Florasongs [EP] (Capitol)
  • The Intelligence – Vintage Future (In the Red)
  • The Persian Leaps – High & Vibrate [EP] (Land Ski)
  • U.S. Girls – Half Free (4AD)
  • Youth Lagoon – Savage Hills Ballroom (Fat Possum)

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TOP 50 FOR WEEK OF 09/21/2015

  1. The Tarts – The Tarts (self-released)
  2. Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
  3. Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)
  4. Various Artists – Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1953-83 (Soul Jazz)
  5. Empress Of – Me (Terrible)
  6. Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary (Drag City)
  7. Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  8. Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey )
  9. Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  10. Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  11. Various Artists – Daptone Gold II (Daptone)
  12. Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
  13. Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge)
  14. Toro y Moi – Samantha (self-released)
  15. Tomorrow the Moon – Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  16. ProbCause – Drifters (self-released)
  17. Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful (Domino)
  18. Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  19. Le Tour – Terra Eyes (Berserk)
  20. Helen – The Original Faces (Kranky)
  21. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  22. Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (Sideonedummy)
  23. Pony Time – Rumours 2: The Rumours are True (self-released)
  24. Method Man – The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy)
  25. FKA twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  26. Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
  27. Tarnation – Cheating to Lose (1980 Records)
  28. Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
  29. The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  30. HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  31. FIDLAR – Too (Mom+Pop)
  32. Bubbles Brown – Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  33. WHITEGOLD – WHITEGOLD (self-released)
  34. The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat )
  35. Telepathe – Destroyer (BZLM)
  36. Telekinesis – Ad infinitum (Merge)
  37. Say Hi – Bleeders Digest (Barsuk)
  38. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  39. Phylums – Phylum Phyloid (Dirtnap)
  40. Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
  41. k-os – Can't Fly without Gravity (Dine Alone)
  42. Cold Beat – Into the Air (Crime on the Moon)
  43. Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
  44. Tommy Keene – Laugh in the Dark (Second Motion)
  45. The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily, (Nonesuch)
  46. Superhumanoids – Do You Feel Okay? (Innovative Leisure)
  47. Sarah Kirkland Snider – Unremembered (New Amsterdam)
  48. Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
  49. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)

This week's adds

  • Ought – Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
  • Beirut – No No No (4AD)
  • Public Image Ltd – What the World Needs Now (PiL Official)
  • Nick Mazzarella Trio – Ultraviolet (International Anthem)
  • Yawn – Day Trip EP (Old Flame)
  • Diane Coffee – Everybody's a Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
  • Dan Melchior's Broke Revue – Lords of the Manor (In the Red)
  • The Paper Kites – Twelvefour (Nettwerk)
  • Born Ruffians – RUFF (Yep Roc)
  • Hinds – The Very Best of Hinds So Far (Mermaid Avenue/Mom + Pop)
  • Big Air – Don't Care (Forged Artifacts)
  • Robert Forster – Songs to Play (Tapete)
  • Guides – Abstact Mind [EP] (self-released)
  • Grave Pleasures – Dreamcrash (Metal Blade)
  • Mike Krol – Turkey (Merge)
  • Graham Repulski – Success Racist (Shorter Recordings)
  • Steven A Clark – The Lonely Roller (Secretly Canadian)

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Top 50 for the Week of 09/14/2015

  1. Low - Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
  2. Petite Noir - La Vie Est Belle/Life Is Beautiful (Domino)
  3. Meat Wave - Delusion Moon (SideOneDummy)
  4. Pony Time - Rumours 2: The Rumours are True (self-released)
  5. FIDLAR - Too (Mom + Pop)
  6. Foals - What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
  7. Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There (Matador)
  8. Beach House - Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  9. Motörhead - Bad Magic (UDR)
  10. Various Artists - Daptone Gold II (Daptone)
  11. Le Tour - Terra Eyes (Berserk)
  12. Advance Base - Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  13. Deradoorian - The Expanding Flower Planet (anticon.)
  14. Various Artists - Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1953-1983 (Soul Jazz)
  15. Superhumanoids - Do You Feel OK? (Innovative Leisure)
  16. Omar Souleyman - Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown)
  17. Lou Barlow - Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  18. Tomorrow the Moon - Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  19. FKA twigs - M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  20. Destroyer - Poison Season (Merge)
  21. Toro y Moi - Samantha (self-released)
  22. Phylums - Phylum Phyloid (Dirtnap)
  23. Mac DeMarco - Another One (Captured Tracks)
  24. The Kickback - Sorry All Over the Place (Julian)
  25. Bubbles Brown - Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  26. Ego - Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  27. Say Hi - Bleeders Digest (Barsuk)
  28. The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
  29. Method Man - The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy)
  30. Social Studies - Wake (Aerobic International)
  31. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Light in the Attic)
  32. Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker - Land of Plenty (Whistler)
  33. Cold Beat - Into the Air (Crime on the Moon)
  34. Sarah Kirkland Snider - Unremembered (New Amsterdam)
  35. Widowspeak - All Yours (Captured Tracks)
  36. Briana Marela - All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
  37. Royal Headache - High (What's Your Rupture?)
  38. Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Under the Savage Sky (Bloodshot)
  39. Bow & Spear - Into (self-released)
  40. La Luz - Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  41. Botany - Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw (Western Vinyl)
  42. WHITEGOLD - WHITEGOLD (self-released)
  43. Netherfriends - Ladyfriends (self-released)
  44. HEALTH - Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  45. Ducktails - St. Catherine (Domino)
  46. Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista)
  47. Jerusalem in My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If (Constellation)
  48. k-os - Can't Fly Without Gravity (Dine Alone)
  49. Radkey - Dark Black Makeup (Strange Loop)
  50. Ben Folds - So There (New West)

This week's adds

  • Christian Mistress - To Your Death (Relapse)
  • Empress Of - Me (Terrible)
  • The Rubs - The Rubs Are Trash (Tall Pat)
  • Golden Void - Berkana (Thrill Jockey)
  • Helen - The Original Faces (kranky)
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - Automaginary (Drag City)
  • Shannon and the Clams - Gone by the Dawn (Hardly Art)
  • The Tarts - The Tarts (self-released)
  • Tommy Keene - Laugh in the Dark (Second Motion)
  • Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse)

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Top 50 for the Week of 9/8/15

  1. Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  2. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  3. WHITEGOLD – WHITEGOLD (self-released)
  4. Omar Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown)
  5. Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)
  6. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  7. Le Tour – Terra Eyes (Berserk)
  8. Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  9. Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
  10. FKA twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  11. HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  12. Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge)
  13. Tomorrow the Moon – Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  14. Bubbles Brown – Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  15. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color (Light in the Attic)
  16. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  17. Social Studies – Wake (Aerobic International)
  18. Toro y Moi – Samantha (self-released)
  19. Ben Folds – So There (New West)
  20. Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (Strange Loop)
  21. The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  22. Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  23. Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista)
  24. Gardens & Villa – Music for Dogs (Secretly Canadian)
  25. Myrkur – M (Relapse)
  26. La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  27. Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino)
  28. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  29. Tarnation – Cheating to Lose (1980 Records)
  30. Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
  31. Phylums – Phylum Phyloid (Dirtnap)
  32. Jerusalem in My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If (Constellation)
  33. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)
  34. Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
  35. Ghetto Ghouls – Collisions (Monofonus Press)
  36. k-os – Can't Fly without Gravity (Dine Alone)
  37. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
  38. Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  39. Holy Sons – Fall of Man (Thrill Jockey)
  40. Thayer Sarrano – Shaky (The Guildwater Group)
  41. The Good Life – Everybody's Coming Down (Saddle Creek)
  42. MS MR – How Does it Feel (Columbia)
  43. Telepathe – Destroyer (BZLM)
  44. Hums + Haws – Wondering Home (1980 Records)
  45. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  46. Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop)
  47. B. Dolan – Kill the Wolf (Strange Famous)
  48. Bow Thayer – Sundowser (self-released)
  49. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
  50. Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc)

This week's adds

  • Gospel Machine – Your Holy Ghost (self-released)
  • OBN IIIs – Worth A Lot of Money (12XU)
  • The Autumn Stones – Escapists (Chic Monk)
  • Cold Beat – Into the Air (Crime on the Moon)
  • FIDLAR – Too (Mom+Pop)
  • Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
  • Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
  • Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
  • Meat Wave – Delusion Moon (Sideonedummy)
  • Method Man – The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy)
  • Michael Stasis – RIP III (Arbutus)
  • Mike Edel – India, Seattle (Cordova Bay)
  • Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
  • New Boss – Twee Boogie Vol. 1 & 2 (Funny/Not Funny)
  • Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful (Domino)
  • Pony Time – Rumours 2: The Rumours are True (self-released)
  • ProbCause – Drifters (self-released)
  • Sarah Kirkland Snider – Unremembered (New Amsterdam)
  • Say Hi – Bleeders Digest (Barsuk)
  • Superhumanoids – Do You Feel Okay? (Innovative Leisure)
  • The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily, (Nonesuch)
  • Various Artists – Daptone Gold II (Daptone)
  • Various Artists – Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1953-83 (Soul Jazz)
  • Widowspeak – All Yours (Captured Tracks)

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