POP GOES EVERYTHING: With the exception of The Veils great new song making it to #6, and Paul Czekaj's ode to New Jersey's recovery from Superstorm Sandy storming onto the Top 20 at #15 (thereby passing both his "My Home New Jersey" songs, as well as After The Reign's "Jersey Strong" peak position), it's pretty much a pop world this week. It's been awhile since I've been into a Rihanna song, but "Stay" is a slower ballad-like song that has me adding the song this week. Kelly Clarkson's "People Like Us" is an OK song, although not her best.
LET'S ROCK: But don't slight the alternative rock. Behind Rihanna and Clarkson, as well as the Top Debut Rachel Allyn's second track from Do It Yourself, "October" at #50, comes a band called The Black Angels, which is a Tremor at #101 this week. There seems to be slim pickings of really good music, psychedelic rock in particular (The Veils, and Golden Void are two great ones, but they're nowhere near to getting any appreciable airplay). Thanks to my friend Brian Sniatkowski making this his Song of the Week recently, I was introduced to this quartet from Austin, Texas. They are, by no means, new, having released four albums since 2005, with a couple of them making Billboard's album chart. "Don't Play With Guns", from their latest, Indigo Meadow, echoes more of the punk / new wave of the late 1970's than the psychedelia of the decade before that. Tour wise, they won't be in the east coast anytime soon, as they're heading west, then overseas, but it's still worth following them.
FREEDOM: I wanted to mention the passing of folk-rock legend Richie Havens a couple weeks ago. Although his biggest hit came in the spring of 1971 with a cover of George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" (a great version of it, I may add), he's probably more known for his performance at the original Woodstock festival in 1969, performing the song "Freedom" which launched the three day festival on the folk-rock Friday evening portion. Coming up in the same Greenwich Village folk scene as Bob Dylan, he was always associated with this area, having most recently lived in Jersey City, and performing at nearby Hoboken's Art and Music festival, which I had the pleasure of seeing back in 2002. He will definitely be missed.
DELAYED AGAIN: It's no secret that I am once again behind. At this writing it's a week and a half. I still contemplate the future, but at any rate, I will be going on vacation in Ireland for a week. Therefore, I will freeze the chart for two weeks, encompassing the weeks of May 4 and 11. Hopefully I'll be back in sync on the 18th. Thus, Pink will have three weeks at #1 under her belt.
Scenes 'n' Soundwaves 100
April 27, 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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4
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NUMBER ONE:
P!NK featuring Nate Ruess
"Just Give Me A Reason"
Album: The Truth About Love
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8
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2
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1
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Lana Del Ray - Ride
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12
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3
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2
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Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League
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11
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4
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3
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Vicci Martinez f. Cee Lo Green- Come Along
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12
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5
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5
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Leila - Monday
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8
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6
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8
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The Veils - Through the Deep Dark Wood
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4
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7
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10
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Calvin Harris f. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing
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4
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8
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7
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Maroon 5 - Daylight
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18
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9
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6
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Leagues - Spotlight
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13
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10
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9
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Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute
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10
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11
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18
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Golden Void - Shady Grove
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7
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12
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15
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Depeche Mode - Heaven
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9
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13
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13
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Django Django - Hail Bop
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10
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14
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16
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
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10
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15
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34
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TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
PAUL CZEKAJ
"Even Better Than Before"
(single only)
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3
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16
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12
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Rachel Allyn - Do It Yourself
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12
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17
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21
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Phoenix - Entertainment
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9
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18
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11
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Pageants - Musing of the Tide
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14
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19
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14
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Fun - Carry On
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26
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20
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28
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Dawes - From A Window Seat
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8
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21
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22
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Avett Brothers - February Seven
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14
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22
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17
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Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - They Told Me
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11
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23
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23
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Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone
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11
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24
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31
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New Politics - Harlem
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9
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25
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37
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Hanson - Get the Girl Back
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4
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26
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33
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Pure X - Things In My Head
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10
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27
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20
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Paramore - Now
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12
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28
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29
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Golden Void - The Curve
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28
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29
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35
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Wild Belle - Keep You
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8
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30
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19
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Train - Mermaid
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15
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31
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27
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The Strokes - All the Time
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11
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32
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24
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Veronica Falls - Teenage
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15
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33
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40
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Serena Ryder - Stompa
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7
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34
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36
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Alabama Shakes - Hang Loose
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5
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35
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32
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Lifehouse f. Natasha Bedingfield - Between the Raindrops
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15
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36
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30
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Bon Jovi - Because We Can
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12
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37
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39
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The Satelliters - Gonna Get Away
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4
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38
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25
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Two Door Cinema Club - Sun
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14
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39
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26
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Wild Nothing - Shadow
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14
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40
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38
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Palma Violets - Last of the Summer Wine
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5
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41
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50
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Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
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5
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42
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45
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Watch the Duck - Poppin Off
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13
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43
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67
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Pageants - August Moon
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2
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44
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48
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Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - We The Common
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8
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45
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52
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Of Monsters and Men - King & Lionheart
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5
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46
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54
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Kurt Vile - Never Run Away
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4
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47
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64
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Matthew Koma - Parachute
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2
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48
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72
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MOVER OF THE WEEK:
FOXYGEN
"San Francisco"
Album: We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic |
2
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49
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41
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Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backward
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19
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50
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TOP DEBUT:
RACHEL ALLYN
"October"
Album: Do It Yourself
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1
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51
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59
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Guards - Ready To Go
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3
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52
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42
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The Mowglis - San Francisco
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19
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53
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47
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Frank Ocean - Thinking About You
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18
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54
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44
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Churchill - Change
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32
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55
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46
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The Satelliters - Shake Shake Shake
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23
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56
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63
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Local Natives - Heavy Feet
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7
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57
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62
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Chelsea Light Moving - Groovy and Linda
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7
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58
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43
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The Lumineers - Stubborn Love
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19
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59
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51
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Runaway
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26
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60
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57
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The Features - This Disorder
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8
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61
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55
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Deap Vally - Ain't Far
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18
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62
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66
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Dan Croll - From Nowhere
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3
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63
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76
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Depeche Mode - Soothering Soul
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2
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64
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71
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Linkin Park - Castle of Grass
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3
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|
65
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58
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Mumford and Sons - Lover of the Light
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13
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66
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49
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After the Reign - Jersey Strong
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14
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67
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53
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Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven
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15
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|
68
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56
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Foxygen - Shuggie
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15
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69
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68
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Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
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5
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70
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70
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Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
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21
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71
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84
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The Law Langhorne Slim - The Way We Move
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3
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72
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69
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Johnny Marr - Sun & Moon
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9
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|
73
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75
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Mister Lie - Pupine
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14
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|
74
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88
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Goo Goo Dolls - Rebel Beat
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2
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|
75
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91
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Imagine Dragons - Demons
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2
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|
76
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80
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
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7
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|
77
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82
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Deathfix - Better Than Bad
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7
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|
78
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90
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Taylor Swift - 22
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2
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|
79
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Rihanna - Stay
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1
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|
80
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61
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Pink - Try
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26
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|
81
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83
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Youth Lagoon - Afternoon
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4
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82
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87
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The XX - Sunset
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3
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|
83
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Daft Punk - Get Lucky
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1
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84
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60
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Civil Twilight - River
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27
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|
85
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96
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The Dunwells - I Could Be A King
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2
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|
86
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73
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Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams
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24
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87
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Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
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1
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88
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Kelly Clarkson - People Like Us
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1
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|
89
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74
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Generationals - When They Fight They Fight
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26
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|
90
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81
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The Satelliters - Lost in Time
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33
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|
91
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89
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Frank Turner - Recovery
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5
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|
92
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65
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Yeasayer - Reagen's Skeleton
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20
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|
93
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----
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Jay Arner - Don't Remind Me
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1
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|
94
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RE ENTRY
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Walk of the Earth - Red Hands
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5
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95
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----
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Muse - Panic Station
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1
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|
96
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78
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Leila - Mirror Mirror
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28
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|
97
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86
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Green Day - X-Kid
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7
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|
98
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95
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Matt Hires - Restless Heart
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4
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99
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RE ENTRY
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Toby Keith - Hope on the Rocks
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10
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100
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RE ENTRY
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Matt and Kim - It's Alright
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2
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TREMORS:
101. The Black Angels, Don't Play With Guns
102. Michael Frenti & Spearhead, I'm Alive
103. Jamie N Commons, Rumble and Sway
104. Lady Antebellum, Downtown
105. Ginny Blackmore, Bones.
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