WAY UP WE GO: Kaleo holds down the top position on the SNS 100 for a second week, we "Way Down We Go". On the national Billboard alternative chart, it is currently at #3. Fitz & the Tantrums' "HandClap" hangs tight at #2. It was at the top spot 4 weeks ago but almost retook the pole position again this week. It is also a big Alternative hit, at #5 on that Billboard chart and still gaining airplay. It recently had a six week run at the top of Sirius XM's "Alt 18". The band has had at least one song on my SNS 100 every week since February 2013. That's almost three and a half years! Quite an accomplishment. Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Dark Necessities" bullets up to #3, and it holds in the runner-up position on Billboard's alternative chart as well. Billboard's top song this week? That would be Blink-182's "Bored to Death", a nice comeback for this band that was hot in the early 2000's. On my list, it moves from 72 to 61 in its third week.
Otherwise the top 20 is pretty quiet this week, except for the rising records of Us Commoners, Paul Czekaj and the final "American Idol" winner Trent Harmon. While his song "Falling" is definitely in the blues arena, I see he is listed as a country artist; yet I don't see a hint of country in that song. Go figure.
ANOTHER REUNION: M83, the band from France that relocated to Los Angeles has the top debut with "Go". It is from their recent album Junk, their seventh effort. Their previous set, 2011's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, yielded the SNS top 30 "Midnight City" and the #2 "Reunion" which peaked around the time of my high school's "all-class" reunion four years ago!
Among the other debuts this week, Hozier is back with "Better Love", from the soundtrack to the movie Legend of Tarzan. With Pink advancing with her newest from Alice Through the Looking Glass, it seems that songs from movie soundtracks are making a comeback of sorts as it's been awhile since we've seen them.
Phoebe Ryan, the local talent who went west as has found some minor success, is back with some new product. Actually "Chronic" was released last March, when I was still on her first single "Ignition/Do You". Her first full-length album is due very soon and has a few more singles in the can. A very much pop singer, but you can still hear some rock overtones back from her days in the New York based Town Hall. Goo Goo Dolls also bids for a comeback with their latest, "So Alive". This band has been around since the early 1990's and is always refreshing to hear. The band has released steady output in the 2010's, with five previous songs making my list, but none higher than #29. They are on tour this summer and have gotten somewhat of a renewed buzz.
Also debuting are The Blossoms. No, not the Darlene Love-led girl group from the 1960's, but a new band from Manchester England, who enter with "At Most a Kiss", from their self-titled debut. Coldplay, with the follow-up to the #1 "Adventure of a Lifetime"; Chris Stapleton, the award-winning country artist, following up his "Traveller" with "Nobody to Blame", and Glass Animals, with their fourth SNS entry, "Life Itself".
ONE FINAL NOTE: I'm not sure if I will get my July 10 edition of the blog out in time, but this weekend (July 15-17) is the annual WNTI Stage festival in Columbia NJ. This year, the three-day festival will feature The Doughboys, Garland Jeffreys, and Saturday headliner Los Straitjackets. Sunday will feature Jersey legend Uncle Floyd. Followers of this blog may be interested in Paul Czekaj, who will be performing at 3:30 on Saturday. Another friend of mine, Tom Sterno, is part of the Above Ground Blues Band, which will play at 8 that evening. I've been to this in years past and had a good time doing so.
Scenes ‘n’ Soundwaves 100
July 3,
2016
| This Week | Last Week | ARTIST-Title | Weeks on List |
| 1 | 1 | NUMBER ONE:
"Way Down We Go"
Album: A/B
(2 weeks at #1)
|
15 |
| 2 | 2 | Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap | 11 |
| 3 | 6 | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | Smash Palace - My Mistake | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Rachel Allyn - Next Year's Girl | 9 |
| 6 | 9 | Paul Czekaj - That Old New Jersey | 4 |
| 7 | 11 | Us Commoners - The Hot Spot | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | Ray Lamontagne - Hey No Pressure | 14 |
| 9 | 7 | The Parlor - The Surgeon's Knife | 14 |
| 10 | 15 | The Heavy - Since You Been Gone | 9 |
| 11 | 18 | Trent Harmon - Falling | 8 |
| 12 | 14 | Young the Giant - Amerika | 8 |
| 13 | 8 | Paul Czekaj - Up In the Sky | 10 |
| 14 | 13 | Avid Dancer - I Feel It | 18 |
| 15 | 12 | Santigold - Can't Get Enough of Myself | 14 |
| 16 | 10 | Wild Belle - Throw Down Your Guns | 10 |
| 17 | 23 | TOP 20 IMPACT OF THE WEEK:
"Empty"
Album: Strange Little Birds
|
7 |
| 18 | 21 | Strumbella - Spirits | 17 |
| 19 | 22 | The Thermals - Hey You | 9 |
| 20 | 16 | Santana - Anywhere You Want to Go | 12 |
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Songs
with the greatest increase in favorite points over the prior week.
● Songs
with 25 or more plays on my iPod.
▲ Songs with 50 or more plays on my iPod. 
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