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Top 50 for the Week of 2-18-2014

  1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  2. Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  3. Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  4. Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair (Carpark)
  5. Bil Vermette - Katha Visions (Permanent)
  6. Broken Bells - After the Disco (Columbia)
  7. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
  8. Temples - Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
  9. The Autumn Defense - Fifth (Yep Roc)
  10. Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
  11. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (Bloodshot)
  12. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)
  13. Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  14. The Thons - Thirty Foot Snake (self-released)
  15. St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock)
  16. Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt (Kanine)
  17. Del the Funky Homosapien - Iller Than Most (self-released)
  18. Julie Byrne - Rooms with Walls and Windows (Orindal)
  19. PYPY - Pagan Day (Slovenly)
  20. The Casket Girls - True Love Kills the Fairy Tale (Graveface)
  21. Thumpers - Galore (Sub Pop)
  22. The Damn Choir - Creatures of Habit (self-released)
  23. Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
  24. Flesh Panthers - Flesh Panthers (Dumpster)
  25. Clearance - Greensleeve (Microluxe)
  26. Death Vessel - Island Intervals (Sub Pop)
  27. Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot (self-released)
  28. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
  29. The Fat Babies - 18th and Racine (Delmark)
  30. Dog Bite - Tranquilizers (Carpark)
  31. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  32. Pontiak - Innocence (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Twinkie Jiggles Broken Orchestra - Too Big to Fail (self-released)
  34. Ari Brown - Groove Awakening (Delmark)
  35. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  36. Yellow Ostrich - Cosmos (Barsuk)
  37. Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights (Lester)
  38. Illum Sphere - Ghosts of Then and Now (Ninja Tune)
  39. Black & White Years - Strange Figurines (Modern Outsider)
  40. Derek Nelson - Missouri (self-released)
  41. Habibi - Habibi (Burger)
  42. Warpaint - Warpaint (Rough Trade)
  43. Martin Van Ruin - Every Man a King (self-released)
  44. Leo Welch - Sabougla Voices (Fat Possum)
  45. Water Liars - Water Liars (Fat Possum)
  46. Marissa Nadler - July (Sacred Bones)
  47. The Flowers - Songs By... (self-released)
  48. Mozes & the Firstborn - Mozes and the Firstborn (Burger)
  49. Hot Bagels - Toasted (Be Happy)
  50. Supersuckers - Get the Hell (Acetate)

This week's adds

  • Bike for Three! - So Much Forever (Fake Four Inc.)
  • Com Truise - Wave 1 (Ghostly International)
  • Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us (Season of Mist)
  • D. Charles Speer & the Helix - Doubled Exposure (Thrill Jockey)
  • Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit (GBV Inc.)
  • Jack Name - Light Show (God?)
  • Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
  • Lionize - Jetpack Soundtrack (Weathermaker)
  • Mark McGuire - Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
  • Maurice Brown - Maurice Vs. Mobetta (Brown)
  • Nothing - Guilty of Everything (Relapse)
  • The Notwist - Close to the Glass (Sub Pop)
  • Supreme Cuts - Divine Ecstasy (Dovecote)
  • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
  • Tinariwen - Emmaar (ANTI-)
  • The Tower of Light - The Tower of Light (Felte)
  • White Rainbow - THRU.U (White Rainbow)
  • Young Fathers - Dead (Anticon.)

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Top 50 for the Week of 2-11-2014

  1. Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  2. Del the Funky Homosapien - Iller Than Most (self-released)
  3. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  4. Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
  5. The Autumn Defense - Fifth (Yep Roc)
  6. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
  7. Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  8. Leo Welch - Sabougla Voices (Fat Possum)
  9. Habibi - Habibi (Burger)
  10. Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  11. Martin Van Ruin - Every Man a King (self-released)
  12. Warpaint - Warpaint (Rough Trade)
  13. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon)
  14. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  15. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What they Want (Daptone)
  16. Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  17. Ari Brown - Groove Awakening (Delmark)
  18. The Thons - Thirty Foot Snake (self-released)
  19. Nick Waterhouse - Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  20. Marissa Nadler - July (Sacred Bones)
  21. The Hidden Cameras - AGE (Evil Evil)
  22. Supersuckers - Get the Hell (Acetate)
  23. Gem Club - In Roses (Hardly Art)
  24. The Flowers - Songs By... (self-released)
  25. Hot Bagels - Toasted (Be Happy)
  26. Dog Bite - Tranquilizers (Carpark)
  27. Flesh Panthers - Flesh Panthers EP (Dumpster)
  28. Clearance - Greensleeve EP (Microluxe)
  29. Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)
  30. The Damn Choir - Creatures of Habit (self-released)
  31. The Black & White Years - Strange Figurines (Modern Outsider)
  32. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian)
  33. The Fat Babies - 18th and Racine (Delmark)
  34. Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)
  35. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador)
  36. Scott H. Biram - Nothin' But Blood (Bloodshot)
  37. Reverend Horton Heat - REV (Victory)
  38. Tara Jane O'Neil - Where Shine New Lights (kranky)
  39. TOY - Join the Dots (Heavenly)
  40. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes (Northern Spy)
  41. Spirit Kid - Is Happening (self-released)
  42. Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot EP (self-released)
  43. Twinkie Jiggles Broken Orchestra - Too Big to Fail (self-released)
  44. Mozes & the Firstborn - Mozes and the Firstborn (Burger)
  45. Painted Palms - Forever (Polyvinyl)
  46. Murmur - Murmur (SOM Underground Activists)
  47. Pixies - EP2 (self-released)
  48. Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts (Polyvinyl)
  49. Step Brothers - Lord Steppington (Rhymesayers)
  50. Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (Southern Lord)

This week's adds

  • Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
  • Bil Vermette - Katha Visions (Permanent)
  • Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt (Kanine)
  • Broken Bells - After the Disco (Columbia)
  • The Casket Girls - True Love Kills the Fairy Tale (Graveface)
  • Death Vessel - Island Intervals (Sub Pop)
  • Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
  • Grand Magus - Triumph and Power (Nuclear Blast)
  • Hollow & Akimbo - Hollow and Akimbo (Quite Scientific)
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (ATO)
  • Illum Sphere - Ghosts of Then and Now (Ninja Tune)
  • Jupe Jupe - Crooked Kisses (self-released)
  • Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else (Bloodshot)
  • Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights (Lester)
  • Pontiak - Innocence (Thrill Jockey)
  • PYPY - Pagan Day (Slovenly)
  • Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair EP (Carpark)
  • St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock)
  • Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
  • Temples - Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
  • Thumpers - Galore (Sub Pop)
  • Thunders - Weird Spines White Trash Whatever (Maximum Pelt)
  • Tree - The @MCTREEG EP (Scion AV)
  • Water Liars - Water Liars (Fat Possum)
  • Yellow Ostrich - Cosmos (Barsuk)

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Top 50 for the Week of 2-4-2014

  1. Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  2. The Autumn Defense - Fifth (Yep Roc)
  3. Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
  4. Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Reverend Horton Heat - REV (Victory)
  6. The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  7. Hot Bagels - Toasted (Be Happy)
  8. TOY - Join the Dots (Heavenly)
  9. I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)
  10. Supersuckers - Get the Hell (Acetate)
  11. The Flowers - Songs By... (self-released)
  12. Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  13. Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)
  14. The Limi–anas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  15. Bibio - The Green EP (Warp)
  16. Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot EP (self-released)
  17. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  18. The Fat Babies - 18th & Racine (Delmark)
  19. Dog Bite - Tranquilizers (Carpark)
  20. Step Brothers - Lord Steppington (Rhymesayers)
  21. Warpaint - Warpaint (Rough Trade)
  22. Nick Waterhouse - Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  23. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon)
  24. Julie Byrne - Rooms with Walls and Windows (Orindal)
  25. Scott H. Biram - Nothin' But Blood (Bloodshot)
  26. Twinkie Jiggles Broken Orchestra - Too Big to Fail (self-released)
  27. Habibi - Habibi (Burger)
  28. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What they Want (Daptone)
  29. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador)
  30. Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  31. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
  32. Be Forest - Earthbeat (We Were Never Being Boring)
  33. Clearance - Greensleeve EP (Microluxe)
  34. Martin Van Ruin - Every Man a King (self-released)
  35. Flesh Panthers - Flesh Panthers EP (Dumpster)
  36. Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  37. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes (Northern Spy)
  38. Pixies - EP2 (self-released)
  39. Spirit Kid - Is Happening (self-released)
  40. Basic Cable - I'm Good to Drive (Permanent)
  41. Murmur - Murmur (SOM Underground Activists)
  42. Milosh - Jetlag (Deadly)
  43. Xiu Xiu - Nina (Graveface)
  44. Derek Nelson - Missouri EP (self-released)
  45. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - South (File Under: Music)
  46. The Black and White Years - Strange Figurines (Modern Outsider)
  47. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)
  48. The Rebel Set - How to Make a Monster! (Burger / Silver Hornet)
  49. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical (Vagrant)
  50. Kyle Woods - Mornings EP (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)
  • Ari Brown - Groove Awakening (Delmark)
  • Del the Funky Homosapien - Iller Than Most (self-released)
  • Gem Club - In Roses (Hardly Art)
  • Is/Is - Is/Is (Manimal)
  • Leo Welch - Sabougla Voices (Fat Possum)
  • Marissa Nadler - July (Sacred Bones)
  • Mozes and the Firstborn - Mozes and the Firstborn (Burger)
  • Peggy Sue - Choir of Echos (Yep Roc)
  • Slough Feg - Digital Resistance (Metal Blade)
  • Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (Southern Lord)
  • Tara Jane O'Neil - Where Shine New Lights (kranky)
  • Tempel - On the Steps of the Temple (Prosthetic)
  • The Bellicose Minds - The Buzz or Howl Sessions (A389)
  • The Damn Choir - Creatures of Habit (self-released)
  • The Hidden Cameras - AGE (Evil Evil)
  • The Mast - Pleasure Island (Channel A)
  • The Thons - Thirty Foot Snake (self-released)
  • Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Polyvinyl)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1-28-2014

  1. Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  2. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  3. Hot Bagels - Toasted (Be Happy)
  4. Habibi - Habibi (Burger)
  5. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What they Want (Daptone)
  6. The Autumn Defense - Fifth (Yep Roc)
  7. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  8. Andrew Bird - I Want to See Pulaski at Night (Grimsey)
  9. Flesh Panthers - Flesh Panthers EP (Dumpster)
  10. Nick Waterhouse - Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  11. Step Brothers - Lord Steppington (Rhymesayers)
  12. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon)
  13. Milosh - Jetlag (Deadly)
  14. Warpaint - Warpaint (Rough Trade)
  15. Michelles - Michelles (self-released)
  16. Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)
  17. Pixies - EP2 (self-released)
  18. Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  19. d. stine - White Creek's Glacial Origins (self-released)
  20. Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  21. Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  22. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador)
  23. TOY - Join the Dots (Heavenly)
  24. The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  25. Xiu Xiu - Nina (Graveface)
  26. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes (Northern Spy)
  27. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  28. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)
  29. The Fat Babies - 18th & Racine (Delmark)
  30. Basic Cable - I'm Good to Drive (Permanent)
  31. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical (Vagrant)
  32. Paul Ruske - Uncertain Times (self-released)
  33. Tim Kinsella - Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (Joyful Noise)
  34. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)
  35. bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  36. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - South (File Under: Music)
  37. Gap Dream - Shine Your Light (Burger)
  38. Indian - From All Purity (Relapse)
  39. Mount Eerie - Pre-Human Ideas (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
  40. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  41. The Black and White Years - Strange Figurines (Modern Outsider)
  42. The Gories - The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88 (Third Man)
  43. Various Artists - L.I.E.S. Presents Music for Shut-Ins (2-disc) (L.I.E.S.)
  44. Various Artists - Coyote Kings (Coyote)
  45. Headshy - La Belle Epoque (Medicina)
  46. Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  47. Painted Palms - Forever (Polyvinyl)
  48. Black Dirt Oak - Wawayanda Patent (MIE Music)
  49. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  50. Eef Barzelay - So Down We Go (self-released)

This week's adds

  • Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
  • Be Forest - Earthbeat (We Were Never Being Boring)
  • Bibio - The Green EP (Warp)
  • Careful Q - Maybe Just a Little Bit a Lot EP (self-released)
  • Clearance - Greensleeve EP (Microluxe)
  • Derek Nelson - Missouri (self-released)
  • Dog Bite - Tranquilizers (Carpark)
  • Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
  • Gardens & Villa - Dunes (Secretly Canadian)
  • Guardian Alien - Spiritual Emergency (Thrill Jockey)
  • Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
  • I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)
  • Julie Byrne - Rooms with Walls and Windows (Orindal)
  • Martin Van Ruin - Every Man a King (self-released)
  • Murmur - Murmur (SOM Underground Activists)
  • Reverend Horton Heat - REV (Victory)
  • Scott H. Biram - Nothin' But Blood (Bloodshot)
  • Supersuckers - Get the Hell (Acetate)
  • The Flowers - Songs By... (self-released)
  • The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)
  • The Twinkie Jiggles Broken Orchestra - Too Big to Fail (self-released)

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Top 50 for the Week of 1-21-2014

  1. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What they Want (Daptone)
  2. Nick Waterhouse - Holly (Innovative Leisure)
  3. Milosh - Jetlag (Deadly)
  4. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - The Feeling Kind EP (Ribbon)
  5. Michelles - Michelles (self-released)
  6. Magic Sam - Live at the Avant Garde (Delmark)
  7. Shrimpss - Shrimpss (self-released)
  8. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador)
  9. Xiu Xiu - Nina (Graveface)
  10. Various Artists - Rockin Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap (2 disc) (New West)
  11. Eiren Caffall - Slipping the Holdfast (self-released)
  12. Pixies - EP2 (self-released)
  13. Various Artists - L.I.E.S. Presents Music for Shut-Ins (2-disc) (L.I.E.S.)
  14. The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca (Trouble in Mind)
  15. TOY - Join the Dots (Heavenly)
  16. Basic Cable - I'm Good to Drive (Permanent)
  17. bEEdEEgEE - SUM/ONE (4AD)
  18. Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red)
  19. d. stine - White Creek's Glacial Origins (self-released)
  20. Headshy - La Belle Epoque (Medicina)
  21. Kevin Morby - Harlem River (Woodsist)
  22. Josephine Foster - I'm a Dreamer (Fire)
  23. Orchestra of Spheres - Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music (Fire)
  24. Cloud Becomes Your Hand - Rocks or Cakes (Northern Spy)
  25. Polly Scattergood - Arrows (Mute)
  26. ShowYouSuck - Dude Bro EP (Closed Sessions)
  27. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group)
  28. Conway - Big Talk (Columbia)
  29. One Wing Low - Little Tigers In Your House EP (self-released)
  30. Painted Palms - Forever (Polyvinyl)
  31. Shearwater - Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  32. Spirit Kid - Is Happening (self-released)
  33. The Lemons - Hello, We're The Lemons (Tripp Tapes)
  34. Black Milk - No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats)
  35. Espectrostatic - Espectrostatic (Trouble in Mind)
  36. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical (Vagrant)
  37. Paul Ruske - Uncertain Times (self-released)
  38. Tim Kinsella - Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by LeRoy Bach featuring Angel Olsen (Joyful Noise)
  39. Danny Brown - Old (Fool's Gold)
  40. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP (Merge)
  41. Eef Barzelay - So Down We Go (self-released)
  42. Robert Pollard - Blazing Gentlemen (GBV Inc.)
  43. Sebastien Grainger - Yours to Discover (Last Gang)
  44. Black Dirt Oak - Wawayanda Patent (MIE Music)
  45. Daedelus - Drown Out (Anticon)
  46. Ghost B.C. - If You Have Ghost EP (Loma Vista)
  47. Helado Negro - Island Universe Story Two (Asthmatic Kitty)
  48. Kyle Woods - Mornings EP (self-released)
  49. Logos - Cold Mission (Keysound Recordings)
  50. Magik Markers - Surrender to the Fantasy (Drag City)

This week's adds

  • Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - South (File Under: Music)
  • Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera)
  • Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian)
  • Flesh Panthers - Flesh Panthers EP (Dumpster)
  • Habibi - Habibi (Burger)
  • Hot Bagels - Toasted (Be Happy)
  • Indian - From All Purity (Relapse)
  • Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
  • Step Brothers - Lord Steppington (Rhymesayers)
  • The Autumn Defense - Fifth (Yep Roc)
  • The Black and White Years - Strange Figurines (Modern Outsider)
  • The Fat Babies - 18th & Racine (Delmark)
  • The Rebel Set - How to Make a Monster! (Burger / Silver Hornet)
  • Various Artists - Coyote Kings (Coyote)
  • Warpaint - Warpaint (Rough Trade)

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