TOP OF THE PSEUDO-POPS: I have a new number 1 song, and it's a record of sorts. "Musing of the Tide', the first official single release from L.A. outfit Pageants, hits the top spot after only five weeks. The band is centered around Rebecca Coleman, who sings lead vocals and plays guitar. This is her new project since leaving Avi Buffalo, which had a five week run at #1 in the Fall of 2010. Thus, she is the first person to hit my top spot with two different bands. For more information on this band, please check this link:
Pageants
Anyway, Pink holds at #2, while two songs from the recent ski weekend in Vermont are at 3 and 4...fun.'s "Carry On" and Bruno Mars "Locked Out of Heaven", the former dropping after a two week stint at the top. Another song from that weekend, "Spotlight" by Leagues, makes an impressive jump from 30 to 15. But it's two newers songs that shake the Top 20....Rachel Allyn's title track from her new album "Do It Yourself" up from 30 to 15, and especially the new Fitz & the Tantrum's "Out of My League" with a big jump from 37 to 7. It has a great shot of hitting the top next week; that would tie The Killers' "I Feel It In My Bones" for the quickest ascent to #1. Maroon 5's latest, "Daylight", and Wild Nothing's second Top 20, "Shadow" also enter the top echelon.
SONG OF MANY WEEKS: So far this year, I've pretty much ignored my friend Brian Sniatkowski's Song of the Week designation, only because I've been too busy trying to play catch-up here. I still really haven't found my groove in 2013, and have just scratched the surface in discovering new stuff this year. Much of Brian's picks have been established artists like David Bowie, but he also recently picked Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's "Holy Roller" (#11 after a few weeks in the Top 10). But now I'm back to monitoring his choices, and most recently it comes from a female-led band we have heard before, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which debut at #79 with "Sacrilege".
Although it enters behind two bands follow-ups to SNS top 10's (Django Django's "Hail Bop" (#73) and Grizzly Bears top debut with "Sleeping Ute" at #64 which was actually the first single before their #1 "Yet Again"), I'll focus this week on the three-piece indie rock band from New York City that first formed in 2000. Led by "Karen O", who met member Brian Chase at a college in Ohio back then, they have released three albums so far, plus three EP's. We first heard them in 2004, when their first full-length Fever To Tell was released. The track "Maps" hit the top 10 on the alternative chart, and the song also appeared on the Billboard Hot 100. They've subsequently hit the alternative chart a couple more times. "Sacrilege" is the first single from their fourth full-length album Mosquito, due in April.
A mid-tempo soulful chugger, the song is very catchy and a good progression from their prior stuff. Nice guitar work as well with some feedback as well. It's pretty haunting as well, and I think it's same to say it's by favorite by them so far. The song winds down into a gospel-like chant. Nice stuff. April 7th at New York's Webster Hall is where you can catch this great band.
HARLEM STYLE: I just want to point out a couple more items on the chart. By now, you've heard about this new dance "craze" (if you can call it that), the "Harlem Shake". I still really don't know what exactly it is....it appears to just be people spazing out. Unlike the sixties and seventies, it seems the latest craze comes about every 7 or 8 years or so. Haven't suffered...er...experienced "Gangnam Style", it was thought to be the end of it for a while. Wrong!
The problem is, that a recording of "Harlem Shake" by an act called Baauer, debuted at NUMBER ONE. That is higher than "Gangnam Style" ever got (#2). So there it is in the history books. As I would like my chart to at least reflect the current times (as much as it can, since I'm not really fond of most of the pop stuff out there), I entered the song at #92. To be honest (and humorous, the best video I've seen of this was the song set to scenes from A Charlie Brown Christmas when the gang was dancing at the Christmas pageant. Unless I go to a key event with friends who do this or at least listen to it, (which propelled Psy's craze into my top 10), don't count on this getting much higher than that. Then again, I could get used to it, and prove myself wrong. Ah, perished THAT thought.
SECOND LOOK: Two more song doing well on the charts and on the radio that I overlooked originally have re-entered my list. The Script, featuring Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, which lasted only four weeks and got only as high as #90, is being played on many Adult Top 40 formatted stations, so I'm giving it another crack. And coming back at #100 after a 12 week run and a peak at #65 is "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, a fixture on Alternative radio for months. It's about time for another listen.
SCENES'N'SOUNDWAVES 100
February 23, 2013
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This Week
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Last Week
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ARTIST-Title
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Weeks on List
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1
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3
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NUMBER ONE:
PAGEANTS
"Musing of the Tide"
(single only)
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5
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2
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2
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Pink - Try
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17
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3
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1
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Fun - Carry On
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17
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4
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6
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Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven
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6
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5
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5
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The Satelliters - Shake Shake Shake
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14
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6
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7
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Veronica Falls - Teenage
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6
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7
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37
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TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
"Out of My League"
Album: More Than Just A Dream
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2
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8
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15
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Rachel Allyn - Do It Yourself
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3
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9
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4
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Runaway
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17
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10
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11
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Passion Pit - Carried Away
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11
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11
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8
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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Holy Roller
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13
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12
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10
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Golden Void - The Curve
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19
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13
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9
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Leila - Mirror Mirror
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19
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14
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13
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Churchill - Change
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23
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15
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12
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The Vaccines - I Always Knew
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14
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16
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30
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Leagues - Spotlight
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4
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17
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18
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Train - Mermaid
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6
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18
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17
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Civil Twilight - River
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18
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19
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23
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Maroon 5 - Daylight
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9
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20
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29
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Wild Nothing - Shadow
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5
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21
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22
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Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
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9
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22
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14
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Generationals - When They Fight They Fight
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17
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23
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25
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Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backward
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10
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24
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16
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Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
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21
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25
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21
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Ed Sheeran - The A Team
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17
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26
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26
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Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams
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15
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27
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28
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After the Reign - Jersey Strong
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5
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28
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33
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Two Door Cinema Club - Sun
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5
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29
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19
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Stars
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23
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30
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32
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The Mowglis - San Francisco
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10
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31
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20
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Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath
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15
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32
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24
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The Killers - I Feel it In My Bones |
11
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33
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34
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Family of the Year - Hero
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11
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34
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31
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Shinedown - Enemies
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13
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35
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36
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Foxygen - Shuggie
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6
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36
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39
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Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows
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9
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37
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35
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The Lumineers - Stubborn Love
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10
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38
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27
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Gary Clark Jr. Ain't Messin' Around
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12
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39
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43
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Lifehouse f. Natasha Bedingfield - Between the Raindrops
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6
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40
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51
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Bon Jovi - Because We Can
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3
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41
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45
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Neon Trees - Lessons In Love
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5
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42
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38
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The Satelliters - Lost in Time
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24
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43
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47
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Allen Stone - Unaware
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12
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44
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50
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Cold War Kids - Miracle Mile
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4
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45
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40
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Dinosaur Jr. - Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
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18
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46
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62
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Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - They Told Me
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2
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47
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44
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Muse - The Madness
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21
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48
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61
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Lana Del Ray - Ride
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3
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49
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46
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Child Actor - If You Loved Me
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19
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50
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53
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Yeasayer - Reagen's Skeleton
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11
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51
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41
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Alabama Shakes - I Ain't The Same
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18
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52
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52
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Mumford and Sons - Lover of the Light
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4
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53
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58
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Avett Brothers - February Seven
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5
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54
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67
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Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone
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2
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55
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72
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The Strokes - All the Time
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2
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56
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55
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Frank Ocean - Thinking About You
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9
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57
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42
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ZZ Ward - Put the Gun Down
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22
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58
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80
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MOVER OF THE WEEK:
VICCI MARTINEZ
"Come Along"
Album: Come Along
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3
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59
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71
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Paramore - Now
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3
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60
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48
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Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love
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12
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61
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49
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The Raveonettes - Curse the Night
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15
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62
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54
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Gold Fields - Dark Again
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6
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63
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60
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The Neighborhood - Sweater Weather
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6
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64
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TOP DEBUT:
GRIZZLY BEAR
"Sleeping Ute"
Album: Shields
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1
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65
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56
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The Lumineers - Ho Hey
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33
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66
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73
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Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
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28
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|
67
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63
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Deap Vally - Ain't Far
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9
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68
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64
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Mister Lie - Pupine
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5
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69
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57
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Dirty Beaches - Elizabeth's Theme
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27
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70
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59
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Willy Moon - Yeah Yeah
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13
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71
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66
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Jagwar Ma - The Throw
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3
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72
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77
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All American Rejects - Heartbeat Slowing Down
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2
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73
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65
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Alex Clare - Up All Night
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5
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74
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69
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Jake Bugg - Two Fingers
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3
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75
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Django Django - Hail Bop
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1
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76
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68
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Foals - Inhaler
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4
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77
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83
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Toby Keith - Hope on the Rocks
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2
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78
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76
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Adele - Skyfall
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19
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79
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
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1
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80
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89
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Tim McGraw - One of Those Nights
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2
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81
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78
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Airborne Toxic Event - Timeless
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4
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82
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85
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Watch the Duck - Poppin Off
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4
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83
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70
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Matt & Kim - Let's Go
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14
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84
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82
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Gin Wigmore - Man Like That
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13
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85
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88
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Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound
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32
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86
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----
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Pure X - Things In My Head
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1
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87
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87
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Royal Teeth - Wild
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3
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|
88
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75
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Phillip Phillips - Home
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38
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|
89
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79
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The 1975 - Sex
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5
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90
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----
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Fall Out Boy - My Song Knows What I Did To You In The Dark
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1
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91
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----
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Twenty-One Pilots - Holding On to You
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1
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92
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Bauuer - Harlem Shake
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1
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93
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RE ENTRY
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The Script f. will.i.am - Hall of Fame
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4
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94
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84
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Django Django - Default
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26
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95
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92
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Youth Lagoon - Dropola
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6
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96
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74
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The Killers - Miss Atomic Bomb
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14
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|
97
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81
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Ke$ha - Die Young
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11
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98
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86
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Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
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27
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|
99
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91
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Atoms for Peace - Judge, Jury and Executioner
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4
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100
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RE ENTRY
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Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
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12
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