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Top 50 for the Week of 9-16-2014

  1. Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World (Last Gang)
  2. Banks - Goddess (Capitol)
  3. Interpol - El Pintor (Matador)
  4. Karen O - Crush Songs (Cult)
  5. Helado Negro - Double Youth (Asthmatic Kitty)
  6. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (Pax Am)
  7. Blonde Redhead - Barrag‡n (Kobalt)
  8. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  9. Motel Beds - These Are the Days Gone By (Misra)
  10. Tennis - Ritual in Repeat (Communion)
  11. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  12. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  13. J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
  14. JJ - V (Secretly Canadian)
  15. Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas (Drag City)
  16. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose (Barsuk)
  17. Half Japanese - Overjoyed (Joyful Noise)
  18. Homeboy Sandman - Hallways (Stones Throw)
  19. Pink Guys - 2343 (self-released)
  20. Sinkane - Mean Love (DFA)
  21. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  22. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun (Innovative Leisure)
  23. Literature - Chorus (Slumberland)
  24. Pere Ubu - Carnival of Souls (Fire)
  25. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  26. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  27. Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  28. FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  29. Castanets - Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty)
  30. Cassie Ramone - The Time Has Come (Loglady)
  31. Souls of Mischief - Adrian Younge Presents: Souls of Mischief - There is Only Now (Linear Labs)
  32. The Bug - Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
  33. Sean Rowe - Madman (Anti-)
  34. Various Artists - Take Me to the River (Stax)
  35. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  36. Naomi Punk - Television Man (Captured Tracks)
  37. Adebisi Shank - This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
  38. David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)
  39. Lia Ices - Ices Out (Jagjaguwar)
  40. Rick Ulfik - Street Trash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Lunaris)
  41. Royal Blood - Royal Blood (Warner Bros)
  42. Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity (Mute)
  43. Mark Alan Lofgren - The Past Perfect (self-released)
  44. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.2 (Hyperdub)
  45. Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  46. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)
  47. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold (Sub Pop)
  48. Sims - Field Notes (Doomtree)
  49. Connections - Into Sixes (Anyway)
  50. Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)

This week's adds

  • Broncho - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman (Dine Alone)
  • Busdriver - Perfect Hair (Big Dada)
  • Electric Youth - Innerworld (Secretly Canadian)
  • Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers (Merge)
  • Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will (Relapse)
  • J Fernandez - Memorize Now EP (Atelier Ciseaux)
  • Lemonade - Minus Tide (Cascine)
  • Love Inks - Exi (Republic of Music)
  • Matchess - Seraphastra (Trouble in Mind)
  • Melkbelly - Pennsylvania (Automatic)
  • Moonface - City Wrecker EP (Jagjaguwar)
  • My Brightest Diamond - This is My Hand (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Myrkur - Myrkur (Relapse)
  • Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl (Anti-)
  • Sondre Lerche - Please (Mona)
  • The Juan Maclean - In a Dream (DFA)
  • Zammuto - Anchor (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

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Top 50 for the Week of 9-9-2014

  1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose (Barsuk)
  2. Pink Guys - 2343 (self-released)
  3. Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid (Thirty Tigers)
  4. Motel Beds - These Are the Days Gone By (Misra)
  5. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold (Sub Pop)
  6. Cassie Ramone - The Time Has Come (Loglady)
  7. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  8. Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas (Drag City)
  9. Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity (Mute)
  10. Half Japanese - Overjoyed (Joyful Noise)
  11. Sinkane - Mean Love (DFA)
  12. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  13. JJ - V (Secretly Canadian)
  14. Castanets - Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty)
  15. FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  16. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)
  17. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun (Innovative Leisure)
  18. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  19. Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  20. Sims - Field Notes (Doomtree)
  21. The Bug - Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
  22. Adebisi Shank - This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
  23. Bishop Allen - Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
  24. Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)
  25. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  26. Lia Ices - Ices Out (Jagjaguwar)
  27. Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1-2 (2 disc) (Madlib Invazion)
  28. Mozart's Sister - Being (Asthmatic Kitty)
  29. A Shoreline Dream - The Silent Sunrise (Latenight Weekend)
  30. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  31. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  32. David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)
  33. Homeboy Sandman - Hallways (Stones Throw)
  34. Literature - Chorus (Slumberland)
  35. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  36. Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  37. The Abigails - Tundra (Burger)
  38. The Koreatown Oddity - 200 Tree Rings (New Los Angeles)
  39. The Miami Dolphins - Becky (FPE)
  40. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  41. Botanist - VI: Flora (The Flenser)
  42. Celebration - Albumin (Bella Union)
  43. Chris Staples - American Soft (Barsuk)
  44. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  45. Mark Alan Lofgren - The Past Perfect (self-released)
  46. Opeth - Pale Communion (Roadrunner)
  47. Set and Setting - A Vivid Memory (Prosthetic)
  48. Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless (Moshi Moshi)
  49. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  50. Anthony D'Amato - Shipwreck from the Shore (New West)

This week's adds

  • Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World (Last Gang)
  • Helado Negro - Double Youth (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Interpol - El Pintor (Matador)
  • Karen O - Crush Songs (Cult)
  • Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind (Century Media)
  • Pere Ubu - Carnival of Souls (Fire)
  • Rick Ulfik - Street Trash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Lunaris)
  • Royal Blood - Royal Blood (Warner Bros)
  • Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (Pax Am)
  • Sean Rowe - Madman (Anti-)
  • Sólstafir - Ótta (Season of Mist)
  • Tennis - Ritual in Repeat (Communion)
  • The Persian Leaps - Drive Drive Delay EP (Land Ski)
  • Thurston Moore & John Moloney - Full Bleed (Northern Spy)
  • Various Artists - Take Me to the River (Stax)

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Top 50 for the Week of 9-2-2014

  1. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  2. Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid (Thirty Tigers)
  3. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  4. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)
  5. JJ - V (Secretly Canadian)
  6. Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)
  7. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  8. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  9. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  10. Castanets - Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty)
  11. FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  12. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
  13. J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
  14. Literature - Chorus (Slumberland)
  15. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  16. Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1-2 (2 disc) (Madlib Invazion)
  17. Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  18. Botanist - VI: Flora (The Flenser)
  19. Chris Staples - American Soft (Barsuk)
  20. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  21. Katie Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton 2 (Lawless Inc.)
  22. Bishop Allen - Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
  23. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  24. Adebisi Shank - This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
  25. The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  26. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun (Innovative Leisure)
  27. The Koreatown Oddity - 200 Tree Rings (New Los Angeles)
  28. Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  29. PC Worship - Social Rust (Northern Spy)
  30. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  31. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
  32. Mozart's Sister - Being (Asthmatic Kitty)
  33. Opal Onyx - Delta Sands (Tin Angel)
  34. Coachwhips - Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (Castle Face)
  35. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (Concord Music Group)
  36. Naomi Punk - Television Man (Captured Tracks)
  37. The Interrupters - The Interrupters (Hellcat)
  38. Kestrels - The Moon Is Shining Our Way EP (Sonic Unyon)
  39. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  40. The Abigails - Tundra (Burger)
  41. Mirel Wagner - When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (Sub Pop)
  42. Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless (Moshi Moshi)
  43. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
  44. Music Go Music - Impressions (Thousand Tongues)
  45. Various Artists - Song Reader (Capitol)
  46. Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  47. Ben Miller Band - Any Way, Shape or Form (New West)
  48. Dead Fingers - Big Black Dog (Communicating Vessels)
  49. Floating Action - Body Questions (New West)
  50. BOYTOY - BOYTOY EP (Papercup)

This week's adds

  • A Shoreline Dream - The Silent Sunrise (Latenight Weekend)
  • Anthony D'Amato - Shipwreck from the Shore (New West)
  • Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold (Sub Pop)
  • Bastard Sapling - Instinct is Forever (Forcefield/Gilead Media)
  • Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas (Drag City)
  • Cassie Ramone - The Time Has Come (Loglady)
  • Code Orange - I Am King (Deathwish Inc.)
  • Cooler by the Lake - Summer's Over (self-released)
  • Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose (Barsuk)
  • David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)
  • Fofoulah - Fofoulah (Glitterbeat)
  • Half Japanese - Overjoyed (Joyful Noise)
  • Homeboy Sandman - Hallways (Stones Throw)
  • Lia Ices - Ices Out (Jagjaguwar)
  • Motel Beds - These Are the Days Gone By (Misra)
  • Music Blues - Things Haven't Gone Well (Thrill Jockey)
  • Opeth - Pale Communion (Roadrunner)
  • Pink Guys - 2343 (self-released)
  • Set and Setting - A Vivid Memory (Prosthetic)
  • Sims - Field Notes (Doomtree)
  • Sinkane - Mean Love (DFA)
  • Souls of Mischief - Adrian Younge Presents: Souls of Mischief - There is Only Now (Linear Labs)
  • The Bug - Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8-26-2014

  1. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  2. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  3. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  4. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
  5. The Abigails - Tundra (Burger)
  6. FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  7. JJ - V (Secretly Canadian)
  8. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)
  9. Botanist - VI: Flora (The Flenser)
  10. J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
  11. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  12. Bishop Allen - Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
  13. Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid (Thirty Tigers)
  14. Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)
  15. Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless (Moshi Moshi)
  16. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  17. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  18. Castanets - Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty)
  19. Mirel Wagner - When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (Sub Pop)
  20. Mozart's Sister - Being (Asthmatic Kitty)
  21. Music Go Music - Impressions (Thousand Tongues)
  22. Allah-Las - Worship the Sun (Innovative Leisure)
  23. Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  24. Chris Staples - American Soft (Barsuk)
  25. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (Concord Music Group)
  26. Literature - Chorus (Slumberland)
  27. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
  28. Zig Zags - Zig Zags (In the Red)
  29. Adebisi Shank - This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
  30. Alison May - Loved/Dark (Misery Loves Co.)
  31. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  32. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  33. FaltyDL - In the Wild (Ninja Tune)
  34. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)
  35. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  36. Mike Doughty - Live at Ken's House (Snack Bar)
  37. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  38. Opal Onyx - Delta Sands (Tin Angel)
  39. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
  40. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  41. The Koreatown Oddity - 200 Tree Rings (New Los Angeles)
  42. Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  43. Bobby Hutcherson - Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
  44. Freeman - Freeman (Partisan)
  45. Katie Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton 2 (Lawless Inc.)
  46. Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1-2 (Madlib Invazion)
  47. PC Worship - Social Rust (Northern Spy)
  48. Sean Flinn & The Royal We - The Lost Weekend (Glad I Did)
  49. Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  50. The Acid - Liminal (Mute)

This week's adds

  • Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity (Mute)
  • Earth - Primitive and Deadly (Southern Lord)
  • Gel Set / Stacian - Voorhees EP (Moniker)
  • Huntsmen - Post War EP (self-released)
  • King Louie - Tony (Lawless Inc.)
  • Merchandise - After the End (4AD)
  • Mndsgn - Yawn Zen (Stones Throw)
  • Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Upstairs (Yep Roc)
  • Rustie - Green Language (Warp)
  • Sarah Jaffe - Don't Disconnect (Kirtland)
  • Shiloh - Last Time for Everything (Berserk)
  • The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Matador)
  • The Rentals - Lost in Alphaville (Polyvinyl)
  • Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence (Metal Blade)
  • Ty Segall - Manipulator (Drag City)
  • YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot)

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Top 50 for the Week of 8-19-2014

  1. Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
  2. Spoon - They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
  3. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi (Beat Dies)
  4. Katie Got Bandz - Drillary Clinton 2 (Lawless Inc.)
  5. The Yolks - Kings of Awesome! (Randy)
  6. Common - Nobody's Smiling (Def Jam)
  7. FKA Twigs - LP1 (XL)
  8. Braid - No Coast (Topshelf)
  9. Twin Peaks - Wild Onion (Grand Jury)
  10. Army Navy - The Wilderness Inside (The Fever Zone)
  11. Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker (ATO)
  12. Chris Staples - American Soft (Barsuk)
  13. Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers)
  14. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
  15. Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
  16. Walking Bicycles - To Him That Wills the Way (Highwheel)
  17. Zigtebra - The Brave (FPE)
  18. Energy Gown - Evening Molasses (Alona's Dream)
  19. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
  20. Madlib - Rock Konducta Vol. 1-2 (2 disc) (Madlib Invazion)
  21. Naomi Shelton & The Gopsel Queens - Cold World (Daptone)
  22. Bishop Allen - Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
  23. Haley Bonar - Last War (Graveface)
  24. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)
  25. Various Artists - Song Reader (Capitol)
  26. Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time (self-released)
  27. Alvvays - Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
  28. Celebration - Albumin (Bella Union)
  29. Field Mouse - Hold Still Life (Topshelf)
  30. Honeyblood - Honeyblood (FatCat)
  31. Mirel Wagner - When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (Sub Pop)
  32. Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless (Moshi Moshi)
  33. Woman's Hour - Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
  34. Alison May - Loved/Dark (Misery Loves Co.)
  35. The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
  36. The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
  37. Bobby Hutcherson - Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
  38. BOYTOY - BOYTOY EP (Papercup)
  39. Claire - The Great Escape (Astralwerks)
  40. Cold Specks - Bodies at Bay EP (Mute)
  41. Dirty Lungs - Dirty Lungs (New West)
  42. Floating Action - Body Questions (New West)
  43. Freeman - Freeman (Partisan)
  44. Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.2 (Hyperdub)
  45. White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
  46. Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra - Pulsion (Ubiquity)
  47. Ben Miller Band - Any Way, Shape or Form (New West)
  48. BPos - Positive Beings (One League Entertainment)
  49. Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven (Metal Blade)
  50. Huh - It's All Spectacular (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Adebisi Shank - This is the Third Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
  • Allah-Las - Worship the Sun (Innovative Leisure)
  • Botanist - VI: Flora (The Flenser)
  • Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid (Thirty Tigers)
  • Castanets - Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Coachwhips - Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (Castle Face)
  • Cory Branan - The No-Hit Wonder (Bloodshot)
  • Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (Concord Music Group)
  • FaltyDL - In the Wild (Ninja Tune)
  • J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
  • JJ - V (Secretly Canadian)
  • Literature - Chorus (Slumberland)
  • Mozart's Sister - Being (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Music Go Music - Impressions (Thousand Tongues)
  • Opal Onyx - Delta Sands (Tin Angel)
  • Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
  • PC Worship - Social Rust (Northern Spy)
  • Rabbits - Untoward (Lamb Unlimited)
  • The Abigails - Tundra (Burger)
  • The Interrupters - The Interrupters (Hellcat)
  • The Koreatown Oddity - 200 Tree Rings (New Los Angeles)

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