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Top 50 for the Week of 12-4-2012

  1. Various Artists - Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)
  2. Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  3. Andrzej Korzynski - Secret Enigma (B-Music)
  4. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  5. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  6. Various Artists - Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
  7. Clinic - Free Reign (Domino)
  8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  9. Ladyhawk - No Can Do (Triple Crown Audio)
  10. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  11. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  12. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  13. Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin')
  14. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  15. Eternal Tapestry - A World Out of Time (Thrill Jockey)
  16. The Lijadu Sisters - Horizon Unlimited (Knitting Factory)
  17. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  18. Various Artists - Rotted Tooth Flexi Series (Rotted Tooth)
  19. Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  20. Tyvek - On Triple Beams (In the Red)
  21. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2012 (PDX Pop Now!)
  22. Larry Gus - Silent Congas (DFA)
  23. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  24. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  25. Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  26. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  27. Young Rival - Stay Young (Sonic Unyon)
  28. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  29. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  30. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  31. Grape Soda - Form a Sign (Kindercore)
  32. Golden Void - Golden Void (Thrill Jockey)
  33. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  34. METZ - METZ (Sub Pop)
  35. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  36. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  37. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  38. The Riverbreaks - The Wildfire EP (self-released)
  39. A Shoreline Dream - 333 (Latenight/Weeknight)
  40. Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House)
  41. Night Moves - Colored Emotions (Domino)
  42. Ex-Cult - Ex-Cult (Goner)
  43. Kylesa - From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (Season of Mist)
  44. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  45. The Amazing - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
  46. Witchcraft - Legend (Nuclear Blast)
  47. Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
  48. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  49. Troubled Horse - Step Inside (Metal Blade)
  50. Talk Normal - Sunshine (Joyful Noise)

This week's adds

  • Crystal Castles - (III) (Casablanca)
  • Kate Nash - Death Proof EP (Have 10p)
  • Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
  • MS MR - Candy Bar Creep Show (Creep City)
  • Outer Minds - Behind the Mirror (Resurrection)
  • Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
  • Solange - True  (Terrible)
  • Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist (Mexican Summer)
  • UV Race - Racism (In the Red)
  • Various Artists - Twin Cities Funk and Soul: Lost R&B Grooves from Minneapolis/St. Paul 1964-1979 (Secret Stash)
  • Various Artists - You Turned My Head Around: The Lee Hazlewood Industries 1967 to 1970 (Light in the Attic)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-27-2012

  1. The Evens - The Odds (Dischord)
  2. The Babies - Our House on the Hill (Woodsist)
  3. Eternal Tapestry - A World Out of Time (Thrill Jockey)
  4. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  5. The Lijadu Sisters - Horizon Unlimited (Knitting Factory)
  6. Larry Gus -Silent Congas (DFA)
  7. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch ( GBV Inc. )
  8. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  9. Clinic - Free Reign (Domino)
  10. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  11. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  12. Witchcraft - Legend (Nuclear Blast)
  13. Lindstrom - Smalhans (Smalltown Supersound)
  14. Various Artists - Opal Vol. I & II (Moon Glyph)
  15. Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin')
  16. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  17. Various Artists - Rotted Tooth Flexi Series (Rotted Tooth)
  18. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  19. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
  20. Tiger High - Catacombs After Party (Trashy Creatures/Burger)
  21. Golden Void - Golden Void (Thrill Jockey)
  22. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc. )
  23. Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience for Losers (Sargent House)
  24. Nous Non Plus - Le Sexe et la Politique (Terrible Kids)
  25. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  26. Young Rival - Stay Young (Sonic Unyon)
  27. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  28. Treasure Hunt - Toys Unatic (Moon Glyph)
  29. The Barbaras - 2006-2008 (Goner)
  30. The Amazing - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
  31. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  32. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2012 (PDX Pop Now! )
  33. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  34. Absolute Monarchs - 1 (Good to Die)
  35. Solid Attitude - B.B. Gun Picnic (Rotted Tooth)
  36. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  37. Artichoke - Etchy Sketchy Skies (Green)
  38. Matthew Friedberger - Matricidal Sons of Bitches (Thrill Jockey)
  39. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  40. METZ - METZ (Sub Pop)
  41. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  42. Young Smoke - Space Zone (Planet Mu)
  43. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  44. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs (Sargent House)
  45. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Metal Blade)
  46. Birds of Chicago - Birds of Chicago (self-released)
  47. Dam Mantle - Brothers Fowl (Notown)
  48. Of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud (Polyvinyl)
  49. Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred (Vibration Vineyard)
  50. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)

This week's adds

  • Andrzej Korzynski - Secret Enigma (B-Music)
  • Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
  • Errors - New Relics (Rock Action)
  • Fathom Lane - Down By Half (Longplayer)
  • Kylesa - From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (Season of Mist)
  • Ladyhawk - No Can Do (Triple Crown Audio)
  • Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  • Steve Hauschildt - Sequitur (kranky)
  • Titus Andronicus - Local Business (XL)
  • Tyvek - On Triple Beams (In the Red)
  • Various Artists - Man Chest Hair (B-Music)
  • Various Artists - Diablos del Ritmo - The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-20-2012

  1. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  2. Guided By Voices - The Bears for Lunch (GBV Inc.)
  3. Various Artists - The Man with the Iron Fists (Stax)
  4. Clinic - Free Reign (Domino)
  5. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  6. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)
  7. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)
  8. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  9. The Cairo Gang - The Corner Man (Empty Cellar)
  10. Yakuza - Beyul (Profound Lore)
  11. Of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud (Polyvinyl)
  12. Golden Void - Golden Void (Thrill Jockey)
  13. Lindstrom - Smalhans (Smalltown Supersound)
  14. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  15. Tiger High - Catacombs After Party (Trashy Creatures/Burger)
  16. Maia Vidal - God is my Bike (Crammed Discs)
  17. Mazes - Mazes Blazes (Parasol)
  18. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  19. Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World (Paw Tracks)
  20. Black Forest Fire - Transit of Venus (Sedimental)
  21. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  22. San Cisco - Awkward EP (Fat Possum)
  23. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
  24. The Hood Internet - FEAT (Decon)
  25. Local H - Hallelujah! I'm a Bum (Slimstyle)
  26. Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay (Neurot)
  27. Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred (Vibration Vineyard)
  28. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  29. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  30. Main Attrakionz - Bossalinis & Fooliyones (Young One)
  31. Moon Duo - Circles (Sacred Bones)
  32. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  33. Witchcraft - Legend (Nuclear Blast)
  34. Four Tet - Pink (Text)
  35. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
  36. The Riverbreaks - The Wildfire EP (self-released)
  37. The Sword - Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)
  38. The Amazing - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
  39. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  40. A.C. Newman - Shut Down the Streets (Matador)
  41. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  42. Dan Friel - Valedictorian/Exoskeleton EP (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Absolute Monarchs - 1 (Good to Die)
  44. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement (Hardly Art)
  45. Freelance Whales - Diluvia (Mom+Pop)
  46. Homeboy Sandman - First of a Living Breed (Stones Throw)
  47. Flume - Flume (Future Classic)
  48. Daphni - JIAOLONG (Merge)
  49. Matt & Kim - Lightning (Fader)
  50. Lukid - Lonely at the Top (Werkdiscs)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-13-2012

  1. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  2. Why? - Mumps, etc. (Anticon)
  3. Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay (Neurot)
  4. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)
  5. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
  6. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  7. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  8. Various Artists - PDX Pop Now! 2012 (PDX Pop Now!)
  9. Lindstrom - Smalhans (Smalltown Supersound)
  10. Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World (Paw Tracks)
  11. Of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud (Polyvinyl)
  12. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  13. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  14. Earlimart - System Preferences (The Ship)
  15. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes (Warp)
  16. Child Actor - Victory (Fake Four Inc.)
  17. Moon Duo - Circles (Sacred Bones)
  18. Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance (ANTI-)
  19. The Amazing - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
  20. El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire (The Control Group)
  21. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You (ANTI-)
  22. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  23. Denison Witmer - The Ones Who Wait (Part 2) EP (self-released)
  24. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
  25. Geronimo! - Exanimate (self-released)
  26. Flume - Flume (Future Classic)
  27. Maia Vidal - God is my Bike (Crammed Discs)
  28. METZ - METZ (Sub Pop)
  29. Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
  30. Mayor Daley - Sand Bath (Rotted Tooth)
  31. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
  32. Dan Friel - Valedictorian/Exoskeleton EP (Thrill Jockey)
  33. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
  34. Rosie Flores - Working Girl's Guitar (Bloodshot)
  35. Absolute Monarchs - 1 (Good to Die)
  36. A Shoreline Dream - 333 (Latenight/Weeknight)
  37. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement (Hardly Art)
  38. The Sword - Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)
  39. Night Moves - Colored Emotions (Domino)
  40. Sera Cahoone - Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop)
  41. Freelance Whales - Diluvia (Mom+Pop)
  42. Artichoke - Etchy Sketchy Skies (Green)
  43. The Hood Internet - FEAT (Decon)
  44. Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred (Vibration Vineyard)
  45. Frank Turner - Last Minutes and Lost Evenings (Epitaph)
  46. Mazes - Mazes Blazes (Parasol)
  47. Four Tet - Pink (Text)
  48. A.C. Newman - Shut Down the Streets (Matador)
  49. The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking (Graveface)
  50. Talk Normal - Sunshine (Joyful Noise)

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Top 50 for the Week of 11-6-2012

  1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
  2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult)
  3. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
  4. U.S. Girls - GEM (FatCat)
  5. Of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud (Polyvinyl)
  6. The Sword - Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)
  7. How to Dress Well - Total Loss (Acephale)
  8. Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
  9. Tamaryn - Tender New Signs (Mexican Summer)
  10. Earlimart - System Preferences (The Ship)
  11. Jessica Bailiff - At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky (kranky)
  12. Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred (Vibration Vineyard)
  13. Matt & Kim - Lightning (Fader)
  14. Mazes - Mazes Blazes (Parasol)
  15. Four Tet - Pink (Text)
  16. The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking (Graveface)
  17. Black Marble - A Different Arrangement (Hardly Art)
  18. Birds of Chicago - Birds of Chicago (self-released)
  19. Homeboy Sandman - First of a Living Breed (Stones Throw)
  20. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular)
  21. Absolute Monarchs - 1 (Good to Die)
  22. Typical Cats - 3 (galapagos4)
  23. Moon Duo - Circles (Sacred Bones)
  24. Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearance (ANTI-)
  25. Mark Eitzel - Don't Be a Stranger (Merge)
  26. Daphni - JIAOLONG (Merge)
  27. METZ - METZ (Sub Pop)
  28. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  29. Young Smoke - Space Zone (Planet Mu)
  30. Bettye LaVette - Thankful N' Thoughtful (ANTI-)
  31. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes (Warp)
  32. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand)
  33. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 (Atlantic)
  34. Local H - Hallelujah! I'm a Bum (Slimstyle)
  35. Mayor Daley - Sand Bath (Rotted Tooth)
  36. John Cale - Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Double Six)
  37. A.C. Newman - Shut Down the Streets (Matador)
  38. Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  39. Main Attrakionz - Bossalinis & Fooliyones (Young One)
  40. Freelance Whales - Diluvia (Mom+Pop)
  41. Geronimo! - Exanimate (self-released)
  42. The Hood Internet - FEAT (Decon)
  43. Sic Alps - Sic Alps (Drag City)
  44. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season (ANTI-)
  45. Talk Normal - Sunshine (Joyful Noise)
  46. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
  47. The Last Names - Wilderness (self-released)
  48. Rosie Flores - Working Girl's Guitar (Bloodshot)
  49. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph)
  50. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Infectious)

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