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Top 50 for the Week of 9/1/15

  1. Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  2. Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge)
  3. WHITEGOLD – WHITEGOLD (self-released)
  4. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  5. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color (Light in the Attic)
  6. Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty (Whistler)
  7. Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  8. HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  9. Tomorrow the Moon – Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  10. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
  11. Bubbles Brown – Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  12. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  13. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
  14. Myrkur – M (Relapse)
  15. FKA twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  16. Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino)
  17. Phylums – Phylum Phyloid (Dirtnap)
  18. The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  19. Dr. Dre – Compton (Aftermath/Interscope)
  20. The Hussy – Galore (Southpaw)
  21. Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes (Trouble In Mind)
  22. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  23. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  24. Qwanqwa – Volume 2 (FPE)
  25. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
  26. Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (Strange Loop)
  27. The Sword – High Country (Razor & Tie)
  28. Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  29. Midnight – Into the Night (Drag City)
  30. Various Artists – Mongol Metal (Mongol Metal)
  31. La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  32. Briana Marela – All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
  33. Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
  34. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (Astralwerks)
  35. Ego – Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  36. Modern Convenience – Fuck With Fire (Maximum Pelt)
  37. Gardens & Villa – Music for Dogs (Secretly Canadian)
  38. Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop)
  39. Various Artists – PDX Pop Now! 2015 (self-released)
  40. Spray Paint – Punters on a Barge (Homeless)
  41. John Vernon Forbes & Velcro Lewis Group – Seismic Alphabet (self-released)
  42. Ben Folds – So There (New West)
  43. The Wytches – Thunder Lizard's Reprive EP (Scion A/V)
  44. Gospel Machine – Your Holy Ghost (self-released)
  45. Holy Sons – Fall of Man (Thrill Jockey)
  46. California Wives – Heavy EP (HOMHOMHOM)
  47. Hurry Up – Hurry Up (Army of Bad Luck)
  48. Mas Ysa – Seraph (Downtown)
  49. Vamos – Spiderbait (Maximum Pelt)
  50. Stirrup – A Man Can't Ride on One (Whistler)

This week's adds

  • Roommate – Make Like (Strange Weather)
  • Barry Phipps – The Town (Tight Ship)
  • Advance Base – Nephew in the Wild (Orindal)
  • Botany – Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw (Western Vinyl)
  • Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
  • Ghetto Ghouls – Collisions (Monofonus Press)
  • Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista)
  • Jerusalem in My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If (Constellation)
  • k-os – Can't Fly without Gravity (Dine Alone)
  • Le Tour – Terra Eyes (Berserk)
  • Lou Barlow – Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise)
  • Omar Souleyman – Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown)
  • Reatards – Grown Up Fucked Up (Goner)
  • Social Studies – Wake (Aerobic International)
  • Tarnation – Cheating to Lose (1980 Records)
  • Toro y Moi – Samantha (self-released)
  • Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)
  • Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
  • Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8/25/15

  1. Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  2. FKA twigs – M3LL155X (Young Turks)
  3. Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  4. The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  5. La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  6. Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino)
  7. Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes (Trouble In Mind)
  8. Bubbles Brown – Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  9. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  10. Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino)
  11. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
  12. The Hussy – Galore (Southpaw)
  13. Dr. Dre – Compton (Aftermath/Interscope)
  14. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  15. HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  16. Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
  17. WHITEGOLD – WHITEGOLD (self-released)
  18. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
  19. Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
  20. Qwanqwa – Volume 2 (FPE)
  21. Barrence Whitfield & the Savages – Under the Savage Sky (Bloodshot)
  22. Hums + Haws – Wondering Home (1980 Records)
  23. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (Astralwerks)
  24. Vamos – Spiderbait (Maximum Pelt)
  25. Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  26. Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
  27. Tunde Olaniran – Transgressor (Quite Scientific)
  28. Ego – Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  29. B. Dolan – Kill the Wolf (Strange Famous)
  30. The Blind Shake – Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)
  31. Holy Sons – Fall of Man (Thrill Jockey)
  32. Gardens & Villa – Music for Dogs (Secretly Canadian)
  33. John Vernon Forbes & Velcro Lewis Group – Seismic Alphabet (self-released)
  34. Ratatat – Magnifique (XL)
  35. Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc)
  36. Stolen Jars – Kept (self-released)
  37. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  38. Jessie Jones – Jessie Jones (Burger)
  39. Myrkur – M (Relapse)
  40. Mas Ysa – Seraph (Downtown)
  41. California Wives – Heavy EP (HOMHOMHOM)
  42. Peacers – Peacers (Drag City)
  43. Sweet Cobra – Earth (Magic Bullet)
  44. Midnight – Into the Night (Drag City)
  45. MS MR – How Does it Feel (Columbia)
  46. Murder Vibes – Murder Vibes (self-released)
  47. Jason James – Jason James (New West)
  48. Thayer Sarrano – Shaky (The Guildwater Group)
  49. Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
  50. Stirrup – A Man Can't Ride on One (Whistler)

This week's adds

  • All Sensory Void – Secret Truth of the Universe (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  • Roommate – Make Like (Strange Weather)
  • Blackheart Honeymoon – Mountains Speak (self-released)
  • Immortal Bird – Empress/Abscess (Broken Limbs)
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color (Light in the Attic)
  • Sea of Bees – Build a Boat to the Sun (3 Loop Music)
  • Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge)
  • OBN IIIs – Worth A Lot of Money (12XU)
  • Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop)
  • Ben Folds – So There (New West)
  • Phylums – Phylum Phyloid (Dirtnap)
  • Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty (Whistler)
  • The Sword – High Country (Razor & Tie)
  • Briana Marela – All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
  • The Wytches – Thunder Lizard's Reprive EP (Scion A/V)
  • Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (Strange Loop)
  • Slow Meadow – Slow Meadow (Hammock)
  • Tomorrow the Moon – Blow, Mind, Blow (Records Underneath)
  • Wildlights – Wildlights (Season of Mist)

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Top 50 for The Week of 08/18/2015

  1. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
  2. The Hussy – Galore (Southpaw)
  3. Dr. Dre – Compton (Aftermath/Interscope)
  4. Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes (Trouble In Mind)
  5. La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  6. Qwanqwa – Volume 2 (FPE)
  7. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
  8. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  9. Mas Ysa – Seraph (Downtown)
  10. Bubbles Brown – Mt. Gilead (self-released)
  11. Spray Paint – Punters on a Barge (Homeless)
  12. Gardens & Villa – Music for Dogs (Secretly Canadian)
  13. Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino)
  14. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  15. Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino)
  16. Vamos – Spiderbait (Maximum Pelt)
  17. Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
  18. California Wives – Heavy EP (HOMHOMHOM)
  19. White Reaper – White Reaper Does it Again (Polyvinyl)
  20. Tunde Olaniran – Transgressor (Quite Scientific)
  21. Various Artists – PDX Pop Now! 2015 (self-released)
  22. Barrence Whitfield & the Savages – Under the Savage Sky (Bloodshot)
  23. Ego – Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  24. John Vernon Forbes & Velcro Lewis Group – Seismic Alphabet (self-released)
  25. Ratatat – Magnifique (XL)
  26. Lael Neale – I'll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts)
  27. B. Dolan – Kill the Wolf (Strange Famous)
  28. Thayer Sarrano – Shaky (The Guildwater Group)
  29. Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  30. Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc)
  31. Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
  32. Peacers – Peacers (Drag City)
  33. Stirrup – A Man Can't Ride on One (Whistler)
  34. The Velvet Teen – All Is Illusory (Topshelf)
  35. Sweet Cobra – Earth (Magic Bullet)
  36. Vince Staples – Summertime '06 (Def Jam)
  37. Stolen Jars – Kept (self-released)
  38. Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (Drag City)
  39. Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (self-released)
  40. RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints (Planet Mu)
  41. Avery R. Young – Booker T. Soltreyne: A Race Rekkid (A. R-Rah International)
  42. Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop)
  43. Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed (Topshelf)
  44. Midnight – Into the Night (Drag City)
  45. MS MR – How Does it Feel (Columbia)
  46. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  47. Creeping Pink – Mirror Woods (Castle Face)
  48. The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum)
  49. Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
  50. Gel Set – Human Salad (Moniker)

This week's adds

  • Gospel Machine – Your Holy Ghost (self-released)
  • HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista)
  • Holy Sons – Fall of Man (Thrill Jockey)
  • Hurry Up – Hurry Up (Army of Bad Luck)
  • Jason James – Jason James (New West)
  • Jessie Jones – Jessie Jones (Burger)
  • Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
  • Modern Convenience – Fuck With Fire (Maximum Pelt)
  • Myrkur – M (Relapse)
  • Netherfriends – Ladyfriends (self-released)
  • Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
  • Royal Headache – High (What's Your Rupture?)
  • Telepathe – Destroyer (BZLM)
  • The Autumn Stones – Escapists (Chic Monk)
  • The Good Life – Everybody's Coming Down (Saddle Creek)
  • The Kickback – Sorry All Over the Place (Jullian)
  • Various Artists – Mongol Metal (Mongol Metal)
  • WHITEGOLD – WHITEGOLD (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8/11/15

  1. La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  2. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  3. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
  4. Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino)
  5. Hums + Haws – Wondering Home (1980 Records)
  6. Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  7. Vamos – Spiderbait (Maximum Pelt)
  8. Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (Drag City)
  9. Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc)
  10. Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
  11. John Vernon Forbes & Velcro Lewis Group – Seismic Alphabet (self-released)
  12. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  13. Ego – Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  14. Eternal Summers – Gold and Stone (Kanine)
  15. MS MR – How Does it Feel (Columbia)
  16. Gel Set – Human Salad (Moniker)
  17. Midnight – Into the Night (Drag City)
  18. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  19. Vince Staples – Summertime '06 (Def Jam)
  20. Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (self-released)
  21. Cold Cave – Full Cold Moon (Heartworm)
  22. Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino)
  23. Night Beds – Ivywild (Dead Oceans)
  24. Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed (Topshelf)
  25. Wume – Maintain (Ehse)
  26. Peacers – Peacers (Drag City)
  27. Pete Rock – PeteStrumentals 2 (Mello Music Group)
  28. Mas Ysa – Seraph (Downtown)
  29. Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts (Sub Pop)
  30. Jaill – Brain Cream (Burger)
  31. Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
  32. Sweet Cobra – Earth (Magic Bullet)
  33. The Cairo Gang – Goes Missing (God?)
  34. California Wives – Heavy EP (HOMHOMHOM)
  35. Murder Vibes – Murder Vibes (self-released)
  36. The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum)
  37. All Sensory Void – Secret Truth of the Universe (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  38. Ecstatic Vision – Sonic Praise (Relapse)
  39. Miguel – Wildheart (RCA)
  40. The Velvet Teen – All Is Illusory (Topshelf)
  41. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (Astralwerks)
  42. Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
  43. Ricked Wicky – King Heavy Metal (GBV Inc.)
  44. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Rock and Roll Motorcycle Dinosaur (self-released)
  45. King Tut's Tomb – Shred (1980)
  46. Stirrup – A Man Can't Ride on One (Whistler)
  47. Gossamer – Automaton (Innovative Leisure)
  48. RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints (Planet Mu)
  49. Refused – Freedom (Epitaph)
  50. Creeping Pink – Mirror Woods (Castle Face)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8/4/15

  1. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
  2. Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes (El Camino)
  3. Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
  4. Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge)
  5. Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm)
  6. The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (Astralwerks)
  7. Hums + Haws – Wondering Home (1980 Records)
  8. Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
  9. Ratatat – Magnifique (XL)
  10. MS MR – How Does it Feel (Columbia)
  11. Murder Vibes – Murder Vibes (self-released)
  12. Ricked Wicky – King Heavy Metal (GBV Inc.)
  13. Stirrup – A Man Can't Ride on One (Whistler)
  14. Miguel – Wildheart (RCA)
  15. Cold Cave – Full Cold Moon (Heartworm)
  16. Jaill – Brain Cream (Burger)
  17. John Vernon Forbes & Velcro Lewis Group – Seismic Alphabet (self-released)
  18. The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum)
  19. Sweet Cobra – Earth (Magic Bullet)
  20. Vince Staples – Summertime '06 (Def Jam)
  21. The Velvet Teen – All Is Illusory (Topshelf)
  22. The Cairo Gang – Goes Missing (God?)
  23. Failure – The Heart is a Monster (INgrooves)
  24. Dollys – Oh, Please (Mint 400/Sniffling Indie Kids)
  25. Ecstatic Vision – Sonic Praise (Relapse)
  26. Creeping Pink – Mirror Woods (Castle Face)
  27. King Tut's Tomb – Shred (1980)
  28. Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (self-released)
  29. The Mast – 1 EP (Channel A)
  30. Midnight – Into the Night (Drag City)
  31. California Wives – Heavy EP (HOMHOMHOM)
  32. Eternal Summers – Gold and Stone (Kanine)
  33. Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
  34. The Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club – Rock and Roll Motorcycle Dinosaur (self-released)
  35. Various Artists – Royal Jesters: English Oldies (Numero Group)
  36. Ego – Best of Chapters 1-4 (Maximum Pelt)
  37. Gossamer – Automaton (Innovative Leisure)
  38. Goblin Rebirth – Goblin Rebirth (Relapse)
  39. Golden Eels – Periscopes in the Air (self-released)
  40. Runner of the Woods – Thirsty Valley (self-released)
  41. Avery R. Young – Booker T. Soltreyne: A Race Rekkid (A. R-Rah International)
  42. RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints (Planet Mu)
  43. Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts (Sub Pop)
  44. Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (Drag City)
  45. Nicolas Jaar – Pomegranates (self-released)
  46. Nova Heart – Nova Heart (FakeLoveMusic)
  47. White Reaper – White Reaper Does it Again (Polyvinyl)
  48. Night Beds – Ivywild (Dead Oceans)
  49. Yonatan Gat – Director (Joyful Noise)
  50. Nervosas – Nervosas (Dirtnap)

This week's adds

  • Ego – Economy (Maximum Pelt)
  • Mas Ysa – Seraph (Downtown)
  • Peacers – Peacers (Drag City)
  • Desaparecidos – Payola (Epitaph)
  • Vamos – Spiderbait (Maximum Pelt)
  • All Sensory Void – Secret Truth of the Universe (Sniffling Indie Kids)
  • Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino)
  • Sorority Noise – Joy, Departed (Topshelf)
  • Toupee – Leg Toucher (Moniker)
  • Gel Set – Human Salad (Moniker)
  • Bow & Spear – Into (self-released)
  • La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
  • Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc)

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