CMJ New Music Report - March 2012 - Tasting Grace

ALEX WINSTON 

BOWERBIRDS 

LUSHLIFE 

OBERHOFER 

MARCH 12, 2012 1237 NEW MUSIC REPORT 

Visions’ Quest 

New Music FroM NZ 

No. 1 

DR. DOG 

Fills The Void 

REVIEWS 

LADyHAWkE 

SPIRITUALIZED 

NITE JEWEL 

LISSy TRULLIE 

CEREmONy 

y LA BAmBA 

BOLA 

ITAL 

and more 

GRIMES 

RegisteR Now 

OCTOBER 16-20

SEE KIMBRA 

PERFORMING AT 

SXSW 2012 

MARCH 14-17! 

rEcorD sTorE DaY EXcLusiVE 

SETTLE DOWN EP 

aVaiLabLE aPriL 21, 2012 

kimbramusic.com 

ON TOUR THIS SPRING WITH GOTYE: 03.22 Washington, DC 03.23 Philadelphia 03.25 New York 

03.27 New York 03.29 Boston 03.30 Montreal 03.31 Toronto 04.02 Ann Arbor, MI 04.03 Chicago 

04.04 Minneapolis 04.06 Denver 04.08 Vancouver 04.10 Seattle 04.11 Portland 04.12 San Francisco

©2012 Hanesbrands Inc. All rights reserved. 

Champion is a proud partner of the 

CMJ 2012 Music Marathon & Film Festival

Grab our monthly mixtape 

NITE JEWEL 

Featuring songs from 

YUKON BLONDE 

DELTA SPIRIT 

NITE JEWEL 

and more 

cmj.com/freeplay 

YUKON BLONDE 

editorial 

Publisher Robert K. Haber 

Editor-In-Chief Lisa Hresko 

Managing Editor Christine Werthman 

Assistant Editor Dan Jackson 

Art Director Jeremy Phillips 

Data Manager Carrie Brothers 

Contributing Writers Kristen Bayusik, Elissa Stolman 

Editorial Interns Willie Almack, Zoe Camp, Sean Flack, 

Laura Pulgarin, Brandon Specktor, Maria Sullivan 

Art Intern David Velasquez 

CMJ TV Intern Abby Devora 

CMJ NetWorK, iNC. 

Robert K. Haber 

Joanne Abbot Green 

CMJ NetWorK 

Founder & CEO Robert K. Haber 

Founder & Executive Producer, 

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival Joanne Abbot Green 

Senior Vice President, Artists & Events Matt McDonald 

Marketing Director Amy Hintz 

Director, Community Engagement Jessie Goldbas 

Office Manager Erica Rand 

Follow us at 

twitter.com/cmjnetwork 

facebook.com/cmjnetwork 

Cover photo by Raphael Ouellet 

Right: Photos (clockwise) by Michelle Ford, Tommy 

Chase Lucas, Amanda Cerini, D.L. Anderson and Guy 

Eppel. 

CMJ New Music Report (ISSN 0890 0795) is published weekly online and quarterly 

in print by CMJ Network, Inc. with offices at 1201 Broadway, Suite 706; 

New York, NY 10001. 

Subscription rates are $395.00 for one year; $655.00 for two years. Sorry, no refunds. 

Subscription offices: 1201 Broadway, Suite 706; New York, NY 10001. Tel 

212.277.7120. 

CMJ New Music Report is copyright ©2012 by CMJ Network, Inc. all rights reserved; 

nothing may be reproduced without written consent of publisher. Unless indicated otherwise, 

all letters sent to CMJ are eligible for publication and copyright purposes, and 

are subject to CMJ’s right to edit and comment editorially. Unsolicited manuscripts, 

photos and artwork are welcome; please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope 

to facilitate return. 

Postmaster send address changes to CMJ New Music Report, 1201 Broadway, 

Suite 706; New York, NY 10001.

6 REVIEWS 

8 ESSENTIALS 

10 QUICK PICKS 

14 NEW zEALAND mUSIC 

NeW MUSIC RePoRT 

CONTENTS 

11 

12 

13 

16 

18 

FEATURES 

OBERHOFER 

The solitary singer forms a band and 

conducts experiments in pop-rock alchemy. 

ALEx WINSTON 

Welcome to her weird world of blood-puking 

cats and velvet Elvis paintings. 

LUSHLIFE 

Hip-hop intellectual Raj Haldar maps outs 

the culture of cloud-rap over tea. 

GRImES 

Spiral into the uncanny valley of Claire 

Boucher’s subterranean nerd-wave. 

BOWERBIRDS 

Phil Moore and Beth Tacular break up, 

make up, try it again and produce their 

best album yet. 

OBERHOFER 

5 

20 

23 

24 

25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 

31 

CHARTS 

RADIO 200 

RADIO SELECT 

HOT AIR 

ISSUe No. 1237 

MaRCh 12, 2012 

LOUD ROCK /LOUD ROCK 

SELECT ALBUmS 

RPm 

HIP-HOP/HIP-HOP 

SELECT ALBUmS 

JAzz 

NEW WORLD 

TRIPLE A /ñ ALTERNATIVE / 

SELF-RELEASED 

TOP ADDS 

LUSHLIFE 

GRImES ALEx WINSTON BOWERBIRDS

eVieWS 

CereMoNY 

Zoo Matador 

On Rohnert Park, the 

third LP from California 

punks Ceremony, singer 

Ross Farrar made a 

detailed list of everything 

he was sick of, which 

included “fun,” “living” 

and “mankind.” With a title like Zoo, you might 

expect the new album to be a continuation of 

this animalistic rage, but instead it’s a posthardcore 

record with equal parts reverence for 

the past, disdain for the present and cautious, 

measured hope for the future. Stark, bludgeoning 

slabs of circle-pit-ready beef sip from the same 

trough as lumbering, sad-eyed beasts sporting 

Unknown Pleasures T-shirts, and Farrar stands 

at the center of it all, crying out at one point, 

“I’ll never be pure/I’ll always be loved.” Sick, 

but still standing. DJ 

releaSe date: out now 

radio: hector Montes, hectormontes@beggars.com 

Web: ceremonyhc.com 

riYl: Fucked Up, Black Flag, Wire 

KeY traCKS: “hysteria,” “Brace Yourself,” “Nosebleed” 

of Note: The Ceremony website very emphatically states, 

“We do not have a Twitter, Myspace or Facebook.” Very punk. 

88 

TC 

88 

We got the balls 

to go to China. 

ladYhaWKe 

Anxiety Casablanca 

Singer/guitarist Pip 

Brown tags Anxiety 

as a synth-free album, 

but you’d never guess it 

from the lush ordnance 

of guitar tones that frizz, 

blip, sparkle and crunch 

in manicured clamor across 10 radio-ready 

pop-rock nuggets. Uplifted from the synthetic 

disco sludge that dampened Ladyhawke’s debut, 

Anxiety is pop that actually pops: a tight string 

of hooky riffs, pulse-setting percussion and 

crowd-commanding vocals all balanced on 

basslines sturdy enough for Brown to hang her 

flannels from. Brown can namedrop Nevermind 

all she wants; you’ll know from the first play 

through that Ladyhawke’s second egg of solid 

pop is really absolute Garbage. BS 

Do you? 

Your music in China. 

Go to www.88tc88.com 

releaSe date: May 2012 

radio: Robb haagsman, robb@aaminc.com 

Web: ladyhawkemusic.com 

riYl: Garbage, Yelle, Franz Ferdinand 

KeY traCKS: “Sunday Drive,” “Blue eyes,” “Cellophane” 

of Note: Brown recorded the album with producer Pascal 

Gabriel, whose cred includes tracks by Goldfrapp and Kylie 

Minogue, in France and New Zealand. 

Nite JeWel 

One Second Of Love Secretly Canadian 

Past album covers for 

L.A.’s ’80s-revivalist Nite 

Jewel have featured the 

young singer alternately 

out of focus, looking off 

camera and amid an 

attack of narcolepsy. The 

sleeve of her new LP marks a departure from those 

avoidant images with a smoky, head-on gaze. 

Thankfully, the songs too bespeak a confidence 

absent from Nite Jewel’s earlier work. Ditching 

cassette fidelity was an excellent move, as the 

synth arrangements here are lucid, intricate 

and memorable. Still, her vocals, while strong, 

lack singularity, aping at turns a variety of ’80s 

songstresses and Beach House-style contralto. 

But there are still enough bona fide songs on 

the album to keep it from feeling as ephemeral 

as its title suggests. WA 


radio: hannah Carlen, hannah@jagjaguwar.com 

Web: nitejewel.com 

riYl: Geneva Jacuzzi, Class actress, Twin Shadow 

KeY traCKS: “one Second of Love,” “She’s always Watching 

You,” “autograph” 

of Note: Nite Jewel’s husband and producer is Cole M. 

Greif-Neill, member of ariel Pink’s haunted Graffiti.

liSSY trullie 

Lissy Trullie Downtown 

On Lissy Trullie’s first 

full-length, the New 

York-based singer isn’t 

interested in standing 

still. Trullie screeches like 

Karen O on one track and 

then channels the low, 

haunting voice of Nico on the next. This effort 

initially feels a bit unfocused, but Trullie has 

the musical chops and unblinking confidence to 

pull it off. Lissy Trullie is not only a vocal résumé 

showcasing Trullie’s versatility, but it’s also a 

love letter to her musical influences. Trullie has 

an apparent adoration for New Wave, modern 

indie rock and upbeat, clapping tempos. “A big 

heart makes a big sound,” Trullie belts on “Heart 

Sound,” and she proves her statement by filling 

this album with lyrics of love and loss and plenty 

of big sounds to go around. SF 

releaSe date: april 10 

radio: amanda Suriani, 

amandasuriani@downtownmusic.com 

Web: trullie.com 

riYl: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Camera obscura, Land of Talk 

KeY traCKS: “Rules We obey,” “Spit You out,” “Caring” 

of Note: one of the producers on the album is TV on The 

Radio’s Dave Sitek. 

djcorps 

.com 

ViJaY iYer trio 

Accelerando ACT 

Recording Artists 

• direct-to-DJ song delivery 

• immediate DJ feedback 

• real-time airplay tracking 

In his 1998 dissertation 

for U.C. Berkeley, pianist 

Vijay Iyer argued “that 

rhythm perception and 

production involve a 

complex, whole-body 

experience.” Accelerando 

is Iyer’s evidential case in point: The ESP shared 

by Iyer, bassist Stephan Crump and drummer 

Marcus Gilmore makes musical calculus register 

at gut level. It’s jazz for the 21st century: chaotic, 

fast-paced and liberal with the low-end. The 

album combines original compositions with 

covers ranging from Ellington to Ellison (aka 

Flying Lotus). Through this spicy mélange of 

source material, all translated into Iyer’s groovyyet-angular 

idiom, the trio reminds us that music 

is a universal tongue, one that seamlessly unites 

body and mind. WA 


radio: Matt Merewitz, matt@fullyaltered.com 

Web: vijay-iyer.com 

riYl: Thundercat, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk 

KeY traCKS: “The Star of a Story,” “human Nature,” 

“accelerando” 

of Note: Iyer co-produced the track “Free Jazzmataz” with 

Das Racist on its 2010 mixtape, Sit Down, Man. 

Introducing 

YelloW oStriCh 

Strange Land Barsuk 

After releasing his debut 

full-length as Yellow 

Ostrich in 2010, Alex 

Schaaf moved to New 

York City, gained two 

additional band members 

and started making music 

in the studio instead of his bedroom. The band’s 

latest has a much fuller sound. The Brooklynbased 

trio has perfected catchy, clean indie rock 

that would fit right on a Strokes album. But that 

style doesn’t rule the record as the band also 

adds the occasional trumpet or goes for slower, 

more introspective pieces like “I Got No Time 

For You.” Schaaf’s boyish vocals complement 

his ruminations about life and relationships, 

switching between a guy in love and a guy having 

an existential crisis. But don’t worry: It’s still 

an upbeat affair. SF 


radio: Christine Sanley, christine@distillerpromo.com 

Web: yellowostrich.com 

riYl: Strokes, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians 

KeY traCKS: “elephant King,” “Marathon Runner,” “Wear Suits” 

of Note: Like Yellow ostrich’s previous album, this one is 

also self-produced. 

DJ Corps 

Member DJs 

• early access to new releases 

• get paid for your opinion 

• free membership for limited time 

sign up: www.djcorps.com • contact: Patrick Rule info@djcorps.com 646 797 2769

eSSeNtialS 

TRIPLE A 

dar WilliaMS 

In The Time Of Gods Razor And Tie 

With a career spanning 

nearly two decades, Dar 

Williams has nothing 

to prove. However, she 

continues to explore new 

territory as a songwriter on 

her latest album, In The 

Time Of Gods. Williams manages to contrast 

contemporary topics with tales of ancient Greek 

mythology. Although many of the lyrics focus on 

turbulence and chaos in the world, the musical 

arrangements are layered simply, allowing the 

richness of the instruments to shine through. 

In only 10 tracks, the Gods shows Williams as 

a strong singer and songwriter who has yet to 

stop evolving. KB 


radio: Kurt Steffek, ksteffek@razorandtie.com 

Web: darwilliams.com 

riYl: Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, ani DiFranco 

KeY traCKS: “I am The one Who Will Remember everything,” 

“You Will Ride With Me Tonight,” “Summer Child” 

of Note: In The Time Of Gods is Dar Williams’s first album 

of original material in four years. 

NEW WORLD 

bola 

Volume 7 Awesome Tapes From Africa 

Bola is a singer/songwriter 

of Northern Ghana whose 

music forces a collision 

between traditional folk 

and avant-garde jams. 

The kologo—a twostringed 

lute that features 

heavily in Ghanaian music—provides the 

springy, syncopated canvas painted a vivid red 

by the 27-year-old Bola’s raspy, hypnotic shouts. 

Tracks like “Yine Mmema” and “Makamiba” are 

spiraling displays of passion and percussion, 

their closest (albeit distant) American parallels 

being the jam-inflected roots groups of the 

’70s. Volume 7 has a deep connection to the 

storytelling tradition, but Bola’s addition of 

synthesizers and drum machines brings the 

classic kologo-based sounds into the present. ZC 


radio: Brian Shimkovitz, awesometapesfromafrica@gmail.com 

Web: awesometapes.com 

riYl: haruna Ishola and his apala Group, Jagwa Music, 

Professor Jay 

KeY traCKS: “Makamiba,” “Yine Mmema,” “abayetidu Ma” 

of Note: In Ghana, kologo performances typically happen 

at bars, weddings, funerals and anywhere else that 

serves pito, a local beer. 

ñ ALTERNATIVE 

Y la baMba 

Court The Storm Tender Loving Empire 

Taking cues from the 

Mexican heritage of vocalist 

Luz Elena Mendoza, 

Portland, OR’s Y La Bamba 

has made a mariachiinspired 

art-folk album. 

Mendoza’s strong, husky 

voice stars against a backdrop of violin, guitar, 

soft drumming and accordion. Songs are sung 

in both Spanish and English, but the language 

variation doesn’t detract from the cohesiveness 

of the album. Lyrics about making the most out 

of life, escaping souls and Guadalajara bars are 

at the heart of Court The Storm, and Mendoza 

shares them passionately, never losing the role 

of storyteller as the songs waltz along. LP 


radio: Jennifer Daunt, dauntless2@earthlink.net 

Web: ylabamba.com 

riYl: Laura Gibson, Typhoon, Local Natives 

KeY traCKS: “Bendito,” “Michoacan,” “Squawk” 

of Note: “Squawk,” the opening track of Court The Storm, 

features vocals from Neko Case. 

RPM 

ital 

Hive Mind Planet Mu 

Ital opens Hive Mind with an 

isolated Lady Gaga sample 

that builds up meaning and 

power with each repetition, 

like a Buddhist mantra. She 

gibbers over a dark house 

clomp and through a thicket 

of vocoder effects until the isolated phrase— 

“Doesn’t matter if you love him”—becomes at once 

a declaration of nihilism and an element of a dance 

track that is almost too heady to move to. Almost. 

Hive Mind straddles the isolation of headphone 

listening and the communalized experience of the 

dance floor by mutating elements of dance music. 

Gliding synths die off in mechanic breakdowns in 

“First Wave,” and the pound of an 808 drowns 

out the words of someone explaining, “I got kids, 

man” in “Israel.” ES 


radio: Gamall awad, g@backspinpromo.com 

Web: myspace.com/itallive 

riYl: Blondes, Burial, Jackie o Motherfucker 

KeY traCKS: “Doesn’t Matter (If You Love him),” “Israel,” 

“First Wave” 

of Note: Daniel Martin-McCormick was a member of 

the band Mi ami and the sole member of his project 

Sex Worker. 

8 

LOUD ROCK 

CorroSioN of CoNforMitY 

Corrosion Of Conformity Candlelight 

Corrosion Of Conformity’s 

last release came in 

2005, making this 

self-titled album highly 

anticipated. And 2012 is 

a good time for the band’s 

return as it coincides with 

its 30th anniversary. On its latest, Corrosion 

Of Conformity takes the best of all of its 

influences, from the thrash-punk drums to 

complex jazz and funk guitar work. The range 

of different elements on this record, held 

together by catchy riffs, makes it appealing 

to a greater audience than just metal fans, 

but it will also satisfy those who’ve followed 

the band for decades. KB 


radio: The Syndicate, hardrock@thesyn.com 

Web: coc.com 

riYl: alice In Chains, Clutch, Pantera 

KeY traCKS: “Psychic Vampire,” “The Doom,” “Time of Trials” 

of Note: on this record, Corrosion of Conformity returns to the 

lineup last seen on 1985’s Animosity, featuring vocals from 

bassist Mike Dean, rather than from guitarist Pepper Keenan. 

REISSUE 

PerSOnAL SPACe: 

eLeCTrOnIC SOuL 1974-1984 

Various artists 

Chocolate Industries 

The obscure electronic 

soul of the ’70s and ’80s 

surfaces in Personal Space, 

a collection of underground, 

self-produced tunes 

compiled by DJ Dante Carfagna. Keyboardbased 

tracks with heavy synth and simple 

drums make for a jazz-inspired sound that 

leads to outer space. Soulful vocals are 

featured in several of the songs delivering 

spark to tracks that were ahead of their 

time. Carfagna curated Personal Space so 

that even if each track is by a different 

artist, they all transition into each other in 

an album that digs up several dusty gems 

and once again makes them shine. LP 


radio: Chocolate Industries, info@chocolateindustries.com 

Web: chocolateindustries.com 

riYl: Shuggie otis, Flying Lotus, Janelle Monae 

KeY traCKS: “I Finally Found The Love I Need,” “are You 

Ready To Come?”, “Love Vibrator” 

of Note: Personal Space’s artwork features aerial photography 

by NaSa astronaut Donald Pettit.

QuiCK PiCKS 

aMadou aNd MariaM 

Folila Because/Nonesuch 

The West African husband-andwife 

duo, self-dubbed the Blind 

Couple From Mali, releases its 

latest disc of global blues-rock, 

with contributions from Santigold, 

TV On The Radio, Nick 

Zinner and Theophilus London. 

aNdreW bird 

Break It Yourself Mom + Pop 

On his sixth studio album, 

Andrew Bird mixes his notorious 

whistling with raw dulcet 

harmonies on guitar and violin. 

Bird’s lyrics remain ingenious 

and frank as he shares a more 

veracious, welcoming side. 

JuStiN toWNeS earle 

nothing’s Gonna Change The Way 

You Feel About Me now Bloodshot 

For his fourth LP, Justin Townes 

Earle opts for a little less country, 

a little more rock ’n’ soul than 

his previous work without losing 

the intimacy as he reflects on 

old loves. 

MiiKe SNoW 

Happy To You Downtown/Universal 

Savvy Swedish producers and 

their golden-voiced Manhattan 

mate drop an ultra-lush sophomore 

album that unites clean 

keys, extraterrestrial synth and 

campfire sing/clap/whistlealong 

harmonies. 

SPiritualized 

Sweet Heart Sweet Light Fat Possum 

After some rough health years, 

Jason Spaceman returns with 

Spiritualized’s seventh album, 

a 10-song psych-rock romp 

with contributors ranging 

from Dr. John to Spaceman’s 

11-year-old daughter. 

10 

Web: amadou-mariam.com 

riYl: Manu Chau, Gorillaz, angelique Kidjo 

KeY taCKS: “Dougou Badia,” “Wily Kataso,” “oh amadou” 

tour diarY: The group will mostly be touring europe before touching down on american shores in 

late July for shows in Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco. 

hoMetoWN adVaNtage: Folila’s tracks were initially laid down in New York but were fully 

fleshed out in the Bamako, the capital of amadou and Mariam’s native Mali. 

fuN faCt: The couple met as teenage students at a school for the blind in Bamako in 1974. 


radio: Graham MacRae, graham@amanaplanacanal.com 

Web: andrewbird.net 

riYl: Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Laura Marling 

KeY traCKS: “eyeoneye,” “Lusitania,” “hole In The ocean Floor” 

tour diarY: andrew Bird will be touring North america from March 15 through May 12. 

hoMetoWN adVaNtage: The album was produced by Bird and was recorded in his Illinois barn. 

aS SeeN oN: a special package of Break It Yourself features a DVD with behind-the-scenes 

footage of Bird’s recording process. 


radio: Robb haagsman, robb@aaminc.com 

Web: justintownesearle.com 

riYl: a.a. Bondy, Townes Van Zandt, William elliott Whitmore 

KeY traCKS: “Maria,” “Down on The Lower east Side,” “Unfortunately, anna” 

MooNlightiNg: Besides having a flair for music, earle also has an eye for fashion: he 

was named one of GQ’s Most Stylish Men In The World in 2010. 

NaMe droPPiNg: Singer/violinist amanda Shires joins in on fiddle throughout the album. 

fuN faCt: The album was recorded live with no overdubs over a four-day period at an old 

converted church recording studio in asheville, NC. 

releaSe date: March 27 

radio: Joe Swank, joeswank@bloodshotrecords.com 

Web: miikesnow.com 

riYl: M83, Gotye, any Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix remixes 

KeY traCKS: “Devil’s Work,” “Bavarian #1 (Say You Will),” “Pretender” 

MooNlightiNg: as Bloodshy and avant, the band’s Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg 

have done production for J-Lo, Kylie and even Britney. You can thank them for “Toxic.” 

fuN faCt: “Miike” is a tribute to prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike. Watch his gory 

assassin flick Ichi The Killer if you want to be scarred for life. 

aS SeeN oN: In the band’s video for “Paddling out,” a crappy hangover escalates into 

magical dancing-shoe mayhem and intergalactic chainsaw surgery. 

releaSe date: March 27 

radio: The Syndicate, college@thesyn.com 

Web: spiritualized.com 

riYl: My Bloody Valentine, Super Furry animals, arctic Monkeys 

KeY traCKS: “hey Jane,” “Freedom,” “Mary” 

tour diarY: Spiritualized heads out on a North american tour this May that ends in Vancouver. 

hoMetoWN adVaNtage: Sweet Heart Sweet Light was recorded in Wales, Los angeles and 

Reykjavik and was mixed for a whole year by Spaceman in the confines of his own home. 

fuN faCt: Spiritualized took its name from a variation of text on the back label of a 

bottle of Pernod liquor. 


radio: ellena osis, ellena_osis@redmusic.com

CoinCidenCe 

Photo by Tommy Chase Lucas 

ChanCe steers Brad ObERhOfER’s 

deBut alBum 

by Brandon speCktor 

Brad Oberhofer is comfortable 

living by coincidence. Chance encounters 

and happy accidents have always yielded more 

exciting results than any inflexible plans he’s made. 

For example, there was no way he could’ve predicted 

that by moving from Tacoma, WA, to Brooklyn, NY, in 

2008, he would end up in a band with the guy who 

taught him exactly one guitar lesson when they were 

both 16-year-old kids in Washington state. Things 

just happen, often for the best. 

I recently met up with Oberhofer on New York City’s 

Lower East Side. Barely 21, Oberhofer cuts a tranquil 

figure in his Tacoma-thrift wolf-print sweater, skinny 

jeans and wispy tuft of dark brown hair that bobs 

joyously when I mention I’ve already heard his debut 

album, Time Capsules II. He sits across from me at a 

wobbly table, nursing a whole-wheat bagel and small 

drip coffee at the Cake Shop venue. It’s all silent but 

for the Talking Heads soundtrack, the occasional fliff 

of readers turning pages and our quiet conversation 

that has recently turned to debate over the highs 

and lows of Watch The Throne. 

Oberhofer came to New York City in 2008 to study 

music composition at NYU, but he says he feels more 

like a student now, with fans and critics on the Internet 

giving him more feedback than his professors ever 

did. Today he and three friends, two fellow Tacoma 

natives, play lush pop-rock arrangements all under 

the name Oberhofer. But the band’s namesake has 

another way of describing the band’s style. 

“It’s really just a combination of fuck-ups that 

coincidentally sounds pleasant,” he says. 

Oberhofer calls his craft “coincidence pop”—an 

improvised patchwork of brainstorms, experiments 

and mistakes that occasionally come together in 

thrilling, accidental harmony. While recording Time 

11 

PoP 

Capsules II, mostly by himself in U2 producing 

legend Steve Lillywhite’s studio, Oberhofer tested 

the limits of every instrument (and implement) at 

his disposal. The resonant ping of a metal column in 

the tracking room becomes a glockenspiel stand-in. 

The tinny plunk of a toy piano becomes softer and 

more innocuous when flipped upside-down. In the 

right context, even a bandmate’s huffy outburst 

becomes another part of the symphony. 

“It’s buried, but you can hear our drummer [Pete 

Sustarsic] scream and slam the door shut in ‘Haus,’” 

Oberhofer says. “Pete is super talented, by the way. 

I just work better alone when recording.” 

Oberhofer’s dual role as coincidence seeker and 

solitary experimenter casts him as a sort of mad artful- 

pop alchemist. For a first creation, Time Capsules II is 

a beautifully portioned chemistry of guitar, bass, piano, 

percussion, violin, xylophone, Theremin, accordion 

and just enough metal-tracking-room-column to 

leave room for Oberhofer’s commanding vocals. His 

lyrics range from pure hooky gibberish built to unite 

festival audiences in a chorus of oohs and ahs to 

deeply personal remembrances of the fleeting love 

that inspired him to sit down and write four years 

ago (“All that I wanted was a little bit of heart/ I gave 

you my love and you tore it apart”). The result is 

tender bedroom pop put on blast by studio shine. 

It is material that sounds perfectly comfy alongside 

the sing-along guitar-and-vocal hooks of Tapes ’N 

Tapes or the hyper-produced glitz of Neon Indian; 

Oberhofer has opened gigs for both. 

The next few steps in Oberhofer’s ongoing, 

coincidental journey through space-time include 

rehearsing a live show in support of the album, 

tweaking the 50-some demos he’s already recorded 

for what will inevitably become a sophomore release 

(Time Capsules III?) and playing Coachella in April. 

Oberhofer has never attended the festival as a civilian, 

and now his first experience there will involve being 

on the same bill as Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. 

“It’s weird,” he says. “Well, it’s not weird. It’s just…new.”

THE GREAT 

PRETEndER 

Role-playing with Alex Winston 

Alex Winston would like to clear something up. “First, I would like to say that 

I’m not an Elvis-obsessed person,” she says. It’s an assumption people might 

have made after seeing her in a white studded jumpsuit or after hearing her 

threaten to “Kill the bitch that bats an eye at Elvis” on her Velvet Elvis EP. 

Winston says the King only indirectly inspired the EP’s title track. The idea 

for that song came from the documentary Married To The Eiffel Tower, which 

is about objective sexuals or “people who fall in love with inanimate objects.” 

Winston’s inanimate object of inspiration? A velvet Elvis painting she saw in a 

second-hand store in her hometown of Detroit. “In the ’70s, if some girl who 

was an objective sexual saw this painting, she would definitely fall in love.” 

OK, Winston is not an Elvis fanatic. But is she a Mormon? 

by Christine Werthman 

It’s a fair question after listening to the song “Sister Wife,” where, amid layers 

of chiming synths, tinkling bells and puffing percussion, Winston sings about 

vying for the attention of a shared Mormon husband. She doesn’t have a 

polygamy fascination, but she is interested in the idea of “feeling like you have 

a sister wife because you have to share something that you love and don’t want 

to share.” Instead of embodying the people in the songs on her EP and her 

debut album, King Con, Winston is simply finding inspiration in role-playing. 

So if she’s not an Elvis maniac or a competitive Mormon, who is Alex Winston? 

Winston is a 24-year-old singer/songwriter who lives in Brooklyn but grew up in 

the suburbs of Detroit. Her dad owns a scrapyard there, but music has always 

been his passion. Winston remembers him dragging her to guitar conventions 

when she was only 5. “He wanted me to start playing [guitar] when I was 7. I 

was like, ‘No way, you’re crazy. I can barely read.’” At the age of 10, she started 

playing guitar and taking opera lessons, lessons she pursued for a decade. 

12 

Winston still appreciates opera, but in terms of her own frolicking, Kate Bush- 

styled pop music, “It’s not like Puccini inspires my songs,” she says. 

Winston played in bands in high school, but it wasn’t until she was 18 that 

her songwriting skills started to congeal. She made demos of her original 

material on her computer and shared them with other artists and producers 

in Detroit, but many of them were more interested in reshaping her sound 

rather than working with what she was offering. She found a better fit in the 

New York-based producers and DJs of the Knocks, whom she met through a 

friend. “What I really liked about them was that they weren’t trying to change 

me,” she says. Feeling a little stunted in Detroit and wanting to be closer to 

her team, Winston moved to New York. 

Winston wrote the King Con songs over the last two years, and she recorded 

most of them at Brooklyn’s Mission Sound. The first time she played her 

material live was during CMJ 2010 at Public Assembly. “I ended up showing 

up to the venue at 1 o’clock, and we weren’t playing till about 6. So I thought, 

‘I’ll calm my nerves, I’ll have a couple drinks, whatever,’” she says. “By the 

time we started playing, I was a little drunk. [That] was not a good show, but 

I definitely learned a lesson.” 

If the buzz on Winston began that CMJ, it escalated considerably in 2011 with 

the release of her music video for “Sister Wife.” Most directors pitched her 

polygamy-themed ideas, but none of these compared to the winning treatment. 

“The first thing I read is ‘cat puking blood,’” she says, “and I was like, ‘Of course!’” 

The final video was based off of a 1970s Japanese horror film called House, a 

gory flick where cats do indeed puke blood. “We were trying to capture that, but 

I don’t think a lot of people got it. They were just like, ‘This is fucking weird.’” 

Photo by Guy Eppel

Photo by Amanda Cerini 

LUSH FOR LIFE 

by dan JaCkson 

“There are artists whose bread and butter is just making music 

that sounds verifiably like it came somewhere out of 1994,” 

says Philadelphia rapper Lushlife, aka Raj Haldar. He’s having 

a cup of tea at Atlas Café in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hours 

before playing a show at the Knitting Factory a few blocks away. 

“And, as much as my own music is informed by that era, I feel 

like I want to try to take some step forward without losing sight 

of the groundwork behind me. It’s like, ‘Come on, we all loved 

the ’90s. Let’s get over it.’” 

This is a funny thing to hear from an MC whose dense, polysyllabic rhymes 

are often compared to Illmatic-era Nas and whose list of hip-hop reference 

points—Black Moon, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, 

Gangstarr—barely make it past Y2K. But the beats Lushlife raps over in his 

gruff, rat-a-tat flow are aggressively contemporary, almost to a degree that 

suggests calculation: His last mixtape, No More Golden Days, featured Haldar 

rapping over blissed-out, ethereal concoctions by producers like Clams Casino 

and slowed-down, blown-out versions of recent indie-rock staples like Gang 

Gang Dance’s “Adult Goth” and Fleet Foxes’ “Mykonos.” His new full-length, 

Plateau Vision, jettisons some of the blog-bait for more even weirder, spacier, 

synth-snarled New Age boom-bap and hiccupped psych-rock. Is it chillwaverap? 

Cloud-rap? Trillwave? Self-aware-post-chillwave? Does any of this matter? 

When asked if he’s frustrated by these genre classifications, Lushlife is more 

amused than anything, perhaps excited that people finally know how to 

classify a soft-spoken, self-effacing rapper who went on a juice fast, often 

name-checks the Smiths and looks like he might volunteer at a library. “In 

13 

Raj Haldar’s 

heady hip-hop 

2009, I put out a record called Cassette City, and there are tracks on there 

in hindsight that I feel like they could fit in the ‘chillwave’ or ‘cloud-rap’ 

categories,” says Lushlife. “I just think there wasn’t a way to process them 

neatly at the time. But maybe I’m just giving myself a pat on the back.” 

Far from being a trend-hopper, Haldar has been developing his aesthetic for 

a long time. Born in New Jersey, he started DJing at the age of 10, teaching 

himself how to cut and scratch, and scrounging record stores for obscure 

Smoothe Da Hustler singles. After a brief stint studying jazz composition at 

Rutgers, a lost year at NYU and a few years abroad in England, Haldar has 

made Philly his home for the last seven years. Having recently turned 30, 

he’s something of a hip-hop academic, and his lyrics, packed full of literary, 

spiritual and musical allusions, confirm that. 

With guest verses from Bad Boy and Ruff Ryder alum Styles P, Das Racist’s 

Heems, conscious Canadian Shad and Memphis cloud-classicist Cities Aviv, 

Plateau Vision feels liberated from regional geography and history. “In some 

weird sense, from the lyrical standpoint, the narrative of Plateau Vision is 

somehow about this idea of anthropology,” he explains. “How it relates to 

the advent and growth of hip-hop culture and seeing B-boy nostalgia culture 

through the lens of classic anthropological tropes.” But for such heady 

material, the buoyant, contemplative album never feels like a term paper. 

“I like to think that my music has a broad appeal,” he says, finishing up his tea. 

“I don’t know right now whether that’s come to fruition yet. I think right now, to 

be very honest, it’s just this subset of people who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s 

and have extremely broad tastes. That’s the best way I can explain it, since 

I don’t have a lot of ways of getting a broad understanding of who’s listening 

and who’s not. But I’m glad that anyone is listening.”

NEW ZEALAND 

NEW MUSIC REPORT 

YOUR GUIDE TO THE 

NZ@SXSW CD 

LADYHAWKE BLACK WHITE & BLUE 

Following on from her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut 

album, we are buzzing with joy to announce that LADYHAWKE is set to release 

her second album, ‘Anxiety’ this coming May on Modular Recordings. 

The new album was recorded in New Zealand and France earlier this year by 

producer and long-time collaborator Pascal Gabriel and features ten new songs 

including her new single ‘Black White & Blue’ where Ladyhawke plays lead guitar, 

bass and drums as well as performing vocal duties. 

CAIRO KNIFE FIGHT THE VIOLENCE OF ACTION 

Cairo Knife Fight, New Zealand’s electrifying power rock duo, makes an 

intergalactic impact on US ground as they announce the arrival of their sonic 

sound to this year’s 2012 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. Cairo Knife Fight, who 

released their second EP “II” via Liberation Music in August 2011, is comprised of 

drummer / lead vocalist Nick Gaffaney and Aaron Tokona on guitar and 

effects. Cairo Knife Fight’s music whips up a melodic storm of riff-fired power 

that takes your mind, body and soul on a hallucinatory rock ‘n’ roll ride. Think: 

Radiohead meets Kyuss meets Sigur Ros. Recorded on Roundhead Studio’s Neve 

desk, the console custom-built for The Who, “II” contains four tracks, all epic 

journeys into CKF’s sonic universe. “The first EP was just a taste,” says Tokona. 

“This one sounds like we are on our way somewhere - we’re taking more risks and 

we are way more fearless.” 

CAIRO 

KNIFE 

FIGHT 

COCO SOLID ARCHITECTURE 

Architecture is the bold new track from Coco Solid and her long-time collaborator 

Tim 'Jizmatron' Checkley. ‘Architecture’ is a dark pop turn and a cryptic tribute 

to Depeche Mode and New Order among others. 

Inspired by the idea of her antithesis and opposite, Coco's British sci-fi villain gives 

us an avant-garde take on power. An excessive ride through the dark psyche, 

'Architecture' is a towering tribute to power and excess of the 80s - and today. 

Taken from Coco Solid's 30 minute Pacific Rims mixtape, the relentless synth and 

speech on the track is complimented by a vivid (and somewhat shocking) Liam 

Bachler directed video. It has stayed on college radio charts for months after release. 

Coco Solid & Jizmatron are set to release a full album together in 2012. 

ZOWIE SMASH IT 

Zowie gears up to her debut long-player, due mid-2012, with 'Smash It'. Co-written 

with Jimmy Harry (who snagged a Golden Globe for Madonna's 'Masterpiece'), 

'Smash it' was featured on the hit US TV show Pretty Little Liars. Perez Hilton 

decrees 'Smash It' "An undeniable hit... We hope this goes Top 10 all over the 

world!", and Arjan Writes comments "Zowie once again moves to the beat of her 

own drum on her excellent new single". Zowie's energetic live show has seen her 

tour with Katy Perry and Mark Ronson & The Business Intl in 2011 as well as 

playing key festival slots for La De Da, Rhythm & Vines, and Homegrown in New 

Zealand. Her album fuses her canny knack for beats and playground chants with 

innovative production and programming. "Wowie, Zowie, is all I can say about this 

dynamite down under wonder, who really ought to become a superstar on this side 

of the equator soon." Yahoo Music US. 

KIMBRA SETTLE DOWN 

Spending her early years gigging around her native New Zealand, it was only once 

Kimbra borrowed a small eight-track recorder from her school’s musical department 

that her song writing blossomed in earnest. This new tool opened up a new perspective, 

leading to a flurry of tracks that featured her signature layered vocals, including the 

inkling that became ‘Settle Down’ the lead single off her debut album, VOWS. 

‘Settle Down’ still remains the perfect introduction to Kimbra, taking out the top 

position in the Pop Category of the International Song-writing Competition. 

The track is a rhythmic assembly of vocal and funk-indebted textures, handclaps, jazzy 

flourishes and a ballooning song structure with escapist lyrics about domesticity. 

In fact, the song lyrics, “I wanna raise a child / won’t you raise a child with me?” 

cleverly question the idea of “laying your life on this illusive ideal of married life,” 

while also introducing the main themes of Vows concerning promises and attachment. 

KIMBRA 

LADI 6 LIKE WATER 

Ladi6 is an internationally award winning hip-hop/ soul artist described by Music 

Week as “Stratospherically that good”. 

Sharing stages with legendary artists such as Gil Scott Heron and Erykah Badu, 

performing festival shows such as Glastonbury and playing over 50 club shows a 

year in Europe, Ladi6 is proving why London’s Metro describes her as one to watch. 

Like Water is the Number 1 platinum selling single off Ladi6’s sophomore album 

“The Liberation Of...” 

AVALANCHE CITY LOVE LOVE LOVE 

Avalanche City is the brain child of Dave Baxter, a musician whose background 

stretches across many genres and influences culminating in a sound that is 

impressive and eclectic. The depth and perspective create a dynamic atmosphere 

that is rich and raw all at once. With a brilliant collection of folk pop songs, which 

use the banjo, accordion, violin and acoustic guitar the band has struck their own 

sound. The first single Love Love Love debuted #1 in New Zealand selling double 

platinum and has recently reached gold status in Australia. The United States will 

be releasing an EP and the UK the album in the coming months. 

BIC RUNGA HELLO HELLO 

Bic Runga is one of just a handful of New Zealand artists who have truly earned 

the term ‘iconic’. She has been awarded almost every musical honor in the country, 

and her songs are etched into the nation’s consciousness. 

The lead single from Bic’s fourth studio album ‘Belle’, ‘Hello Hello’ was co-written 

with Dan Hume of Evermore. ‘Belle’ also features a collaboration with James 

Milne (Laurence Arabia), and tracks written with Ruban and Kody Nielson (The 

Mint Chicks/Unknown Mortal Orchestra). The album was produced by Kody 

Nielson and mixed by Justin Gerrish (Vampire Weekend), Tom Rothrock (Beck, 

Foo Fighters) and Kody Nielson. 

Bic will be travelling extensively to support the rollout of ‘Belle’ in several 

international territories during 2012.

RUBY FROST WATER TO ICE 

Auckland-based pop starlet Ruby Frost has a penchant for both sequins and soaring 

melodies, looking to the likes of Bjork and Bowie for inspiration. Combine Frost’s 

fascination with Tokyo, an obsession with Korean soap operas, and the ability to 

tailor her own theatrical costumes, not to mention her brilliantly arresting voice 

and onstage charisma - and the world has itself a mesmerizing new star. In 2010 

Frost picked up the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, 

and has spent the past two years writing her debut album - the forthcoming 

VOLITION. Having already released the singles ‘Moonlight’, ‘Odyssey’ and 

‘Porcupine’ in her native New Zealand, Frost describes her new track 'Water To 

Ice' as a song about "overcoming doom and darkness, with creativity." 

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE THEY DON’T WANT 

Developing their own twist on modern hip hop, psychdelic and soul Electric Wire 

Hustle's sound challenges genre boundaries & preconceptions. 

Since forming in 2007 EWH have experienced an outstanding response to their 

music. Their strong live show has seen them perform all over the world and in the 

U.S. they were noted as the "CMJ Highlight" by the Revivalist/ Okayplayer after 

their performance at the New York festival in 2010 as part of their first U.S. tour. 

Their debut self titled album was released internationally on BBE Records and has 

received love from many of the world's top DJs and selectors including UK BBC 

Radio 1 DJs Benji B and Gilles Peterson who selected the track 'They Don't Want' 

as a top track of 2009 and featured it as the opening track on his infamous 

Brownswood Compilation – Bubblers 5. EWH are now working on their sophmore 

album. 

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE 

FUNKOMMUNITY PASS IT ON 

Funkommunity is the collective formed by producer and trumpet player Isaac 

Aesili and vocalist Rachel Fraser following the completion of their debut album 

‘Chequered Thoughts’. Australasian press applauded the release of Chequered 

Thoughts in New Zealand and Australia in 2011, comparing the duo to their fellow 

Kiwi Soul ambassadors Fat Freddy’s Drop and Electric Wire Hustle. German label 

Melting Pot Music and Japanese label Wonderful Noise have scheduled the 

worldwide album release on CD, Vinyl and Digital for March 2012. Aesili and 

Fraser are taking their 5 piece Future Soul band to Europe between June and 

September 2012 to tour and promote the album. After a busy festival season 

downunder the Funkommunity band are vibing and ready to hit the northern 

hemisphere. International attention is already building thanks to shining reviews 

of Funkommunity's first single "Pass it On" from online tastemakers such as 

Soulbounce and Okayplayer. 

SOLA ROSA TURN IT AROUND 

2011 was the year that Sola Rosa went international. A gold selling, award winning, 

festival mainstay in their home country the band internationally released their last 

album “Get It Together” to critical acclaim and strong radio airplay and followed 

this with a successful world tour that took in both Europe and the United States. 

Sola Rosa’s track Turn Around featured on a highly visible and long-running TV 

commercial for Molson’s M beer. 2012 will continue to ramp up Sola Rosa’s global 

impact as they seize the moment with the release of their new album and follow 

up North American tour, both of which are scheduled for this summer. 

THE CHECKS READY TO DIE 

The Checks erupted onto the scene at the start of the millennia while they were 

all still in high school. Spewing pure energy with gritty guitars and an outrageous 

live show their notoriety threw them on tour with ACDC, Oasis, REM, The Hives, 

Muse, Jet and more. Originally pure 60's Rock n Roll their sound is evolving with 

Psychedelic, Punk, Dub, Hip Hop, and Blues influences. Now with an average age 

of 24 with 3 albums & 9 years of touring under their collective belts, The Checks 

are just warming up…. 

CUT OFF YOUR HANDS HOLLOWED OUT 

Sounding like a mouthful of marsh mellows while getting an oily rubdown from 

a Swedish goddess, Hollowed Out is the [almost] title track off the latest Cut Off 

Your Hands drop, 'Hollow'. The band takes a plunge into power pop territory on 

‘Hollow’, having especially rooted in breakout ‘60s artists like The Byrds and Bob 

Dylan. Not to mention all the Kiwi pop and paisley underground acts that ran with 

those very same influences in the ‘80s and ‘90s, including such fellow countrymen 

as The Bats and Bird Nest Roys. "I can see it in your eyes/you’ve been hollowed out 

inside/you’ve been cut down to size/you’ve been howling at the sky/you’ve been 

pleading for a muse/but you still can’t make no sense/and you know this world’s 

an awful mess/if you’re really honest" (Hollowed Out). 

THE GOLDEN AWESOME HIGH LIFE 

Signed by Brooklyn/NYC’s M’Lady’s Records late last year, the Golden Awesome 

are currently promoting the worldwide release of their debut album “Autumn”. A 

celebration of dreamy-yet-mighty shoegaze psychedelia, this LP/CD/MC has 

already been attracting rave reviews from the likes of allmusic.com and 

popmatters.com, with critics praising the band’s genuine songcrafting passion and 

the musical tension between singer Stef Animal’s floating harmonies and the 

group’s wall-of-distortion riffing. Following a successful tour of the US East Coast 

last year, culminating in highlight CMJ performances, the Golden Awesome are 

set to return to the US later this year. “High Life”, a majestically melancholic pop 

epic, is the group’s first single and video, and quickly became a favorite on NZ’s 

student radio circuit. The Golden Awesome are one of New Zealand’s most exciting 

new bands, and certainly one to look out for on the international stage. 

LIAM FINN JUMP YOUR BONES 

A self described veteran up and comer, bearded nomad, King of the lesbians, theatre 

narcoleptic, transcendental meditator, lightning eventually, Neil Young worshipping 

analogue junky, sweaty maniac, anxious treble clef, Greenpoint resident. 

Described by others as a rock'n'roll caveman, indie wunderkid, singlehandedly 

keeping the pop rock genre alive, NZ rock royalty, Australian born functional 

stoner, Ryan Dunn (RIP)/Zach Galifianakis, faux hipster, studio rat, hirsute 

songsmith, mad scientist, best sex ever.... "Jump Your Bones" is taken from Liam's 

sophomore solo release "FOMO". 

NZ@SXSW 2012 

THURSDAY MARCH 15 TH 

BRUSH SQUARE PARK 

GATES OPEN 5 PM 

5.45 PM - ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE 

6.30 PM - CAIRO KNIFE FIGHT 

7.15 PM - AVALANCHE CITY 

RSVP to: party@nzmusic.org.nz 

www.outwardsoundnz.com

In An 

Altered 

ZonE 

by LISA HRESKO 

16 

Grimes 

Is A Trip

Photo by Michelle Ford 

Photo by Amanda Cerini 

Claire Boucher’s electronic bohemia is colored black. 

There is no golden-hearted hooker and wistful romance, 

no Moulin Rouge can-cans. Just Harkonnens and 

darkness. Boucher, aka Grimes, stepped into music just 

three years ago and came of age in the Montreal DIY 

loft scene. She’s now calling from her parents’ home in 

Vancouver. Wipe your mind of all images of Mom doing 

your laundry and making you a wholesome egg-and- 

bacon breakfast while you loaf about and watch cable. 

Boucher’s home away from home is a dank basement 

without sunlight. But she has all the creature comfort she 

needs: a mattress on the floor. 

“I like the basement here because it’s dark. It’s perpetually night. There 

are no windows. I don’t like daylight. I just—it’s unproductive.” In self- 

imposed exile in a similar land-of-always-night, her newest album, Visions, 

was born. “I blacked out the windows and did tons of amphetamines and 

stayed up for three weeks and didn’t eat anything. I definitely can’t make 

music in the daytime.” 

There’s a subtle beauty to Grimes’s tracks. Lyrically, Visions is a thunderous 

bastion of glossolalia, an echo chamber of angelic babbling. Grimes’s vocals 

are silky, her pop gothic. “This record is a sci-fi record—a sci-fi R&B record,” 

she jokes. But the jest rings true. An elfin crust-punk with a dignified stage 

presence, Grimes personifies her sound as a retro-future science fiction 

villain. “I like the bad guys!” she laughs. Her previous album was explicitly 

named for Dune’s post-industrial waste planet, Giedi Prime, from Frank 

Herbert’s iconic novel Dune (and an added “s” had the album title rhyme 

with Grimes). The theme continues on Visions, with beats equally as Bell Biv 

DeVoe as the lyrics are Mordor. 

While channeling crystal-worshipping New Age synths on “Genesis” and 

industrial thumps with “Colour Of Moonlight,” Grimes throws a bone to 

a well-known Pokémon tune on “Vowels = Space And Time.” “I always 

thought Jigglypuff’s song was so beautiful and kind of iconic,” she says. 

Although this is her third solo album, Grimes only entered the world of 

music in 2009 when she learned to record samples of herself attempting 

different instruments. She started mixing them on GarageBand and 

hasn’t stopped since. 

Dismissed from McGill University for truancy, the 23-year-old’s hobbies in 

the past few years have been anything but pedestrian (or legal). In 2009 

she drifted down the Mississippi River on a poorly constructed shantyboat 

17 

stacked with potatoes and live chickens. In 2011 she and fellow Montrealer 

d’Eon spent a week playing shows and doing acid in Mexico City: “The 

promoters were these really cool, really amazing crew of super intellectual 

lesbians who had this insane hairless dog, and they did acid all the time,” 

Boucher says. “Every day we would wake up and come downstairs, and 

they’d have filled this bowl of weed for us. We’d smoke and go to the 

Museum Of Natural History.” 

In the interim, Grimes played a pivotal role in organizing illegal loft shows 

in Montreal. The space was soon laden with about $6,000 in fines and 

forced to shut its doors. The collective of people who ran the art space 

didn’t try to reinstate it after the closure. “It wasn’t worth it especially 

because the fines were mostly from the bar, and if you can’t have the 

bar, then you can’t make up the fines,” Boucher says. “It just became 

economically not viable at a certain point.” 

Many of the artists exiled from the art space, including Grimes, found a 

home on local label Arbutus. After two successful albums on Arbutus 

(and a split EP with d’Eon released on Hippos In Tanks), Boucher soon 

received calls from other labels looking to sign her. She declines to speak 

too in-depth about the negotiations, but she mentions that “there was a lot 

of drama” in the process of leaving Arbutus, which has released Visions 

in Canada. “There were a lot of tears to leave the label that basically built 

my career,” she says. This winter, though, she settled on 4AD for the non- 

Canadian release, and she says the label is “chill with a whole bunch of stuff 

that most labels aren’t chill with.” It’s a natural fit, as Boucher’s Tank-Girlin-space 

act fits perfectly into a catalog defined by the Cocteau Twins’ quirk 

and the Breeders’ sugar-sweet vocal charm. 

In just a few months, Boucher’s daily routine has changed immensely. 

Her art and photographs have made her an ideal postergirl for DIY 

counterculture, and the fashion community has embraced her look of 

combat boots, flowing skirts and a strategically shaved head. The doe-eyed 

pixie was featured on Style.com and was seen traipsing about Lincoln Center 

during New York Fashion Week. Boucher welcomes the new experiences, 

but they’ve made some hurdles higher and harder to leap. “You know, 

there’s all this bureaucracy now,” she says. “I am not responsible for my 

own shit anymore.” 

Boucher prefers shows happening at “3 in the morning at some crazy place” 

to performances at established venues, but that was before she had a 

booking agent. Now, Boucher is adjusting to life as a touring artist. She’s lost 

the autonomy to book shows on a whim and much of the social atmosphere 

that comes with independent booking. But she is both a producer and a 

musician, and to continue forward, some sacrifices are necessary. “I’m 

trying to organize what I want as a career, which is sort of hard to figure out,” 

she says. “Not that this is a career, but whatever the fuck it is.”

fly TOGEThER 

bowerbirds reunites and steps into The Clearing 

by dan JaCkson 

Some questions are unpleasant. “I remember, 

maybe in 2007, when we first started being 

a band,” says Bowerbirds’ Phil Moore, “and we 

had an interview with somebody—I forget who— 

and they asked us, ‘What will the band be if you 

two break up?’ And I was like, ‘It probably won’t. 

I can’t really see it being a band at all.’” 

18 

The annals of pop music are filled with great breakup records but not 

many reconciliation albums. Sure, “Breaking up is hard to do,” as 

the song goes, but calling it quits and then getting back together can 

be much, much harder, and the complex emotional transactions and 

personal concessions involved—forgiving each other, admitting one’s 

own fears, learning to live with another person’s faults—aren’t exactly 

the type of dramatic scenarios that lend themselves to pop songs, 

even within the self-styled “literary” world of folk music. There’s a 

reason Shoot Out The Lights, Richard and Linda Thompson’s famous 

last album as a married couple, wasn’t followed by another record 

titled Let’s Go Buy Some New Lights Cause We Shot The Old Ones 

Out. Blood usually stays on the tracks.

Photo by d.L. Anderson 

This makes The Clearing, the third LP from the Bowerbirds, a thematic 

rarity, a truly odd bird. 

Moore and Beth Tacular began the Bowerbirds together, and their 

relationship has always been central to the band’s music and 

public identity: two young people in love, singing beautiful pastoral 

folk songs, living off the land in a cabin, serving as a gentle sonic 

reminder that occasionally we should stop and smell the bark. “We 

do get pigeonholed as this folk activist band,” says Moore from his 

home in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Not activist even, but like folk, 

green, hippy band or whatever. And I feel, personally, it’s not as if 

I don’t believe in all those causes, I just think it’s hard to relate to 

being called a folk musician now.” 

The group released its debut, Hymns For A Dark Horse, in 2007 and 

soon began work on the follow-up album, Upper Air, writing half 

of the songs in one session and then going on a three-month tour. 

Moore and Tacular drifted apart during this time, eventually ending 

their relationship. “That was really difficult,” says Moore. “To be 

on the road together and constantly having to make decisions and 

having to play shows and putting yourself out there. It really took its 

toll on the relationship.” 

The pair wrote the second half of Upper Air upon returning from 

the tour, which makes Upper Air at least half of a breakup record 

or, perhaps, a record of broken people. “We didn’t really make a big 

deal of it on [Upper Air] because we were still in that really vulnerable 

spot where we didn’t want to share that kind of information,” explains 

Moore. “We actually had to release the album and play that whole 

album while being broken up for a year, and we didn’t really want 

to answer questions like that at the time. We were on stage singing 

breakup songs about our breakup.” 

At the midpoint of the song “This Year,” one of the standout tracks 

off of the new album, Moore sings, “On and on goes the long winter/ 

My eyes now fixed to the stars/We’ve been there before and I’m fairly 

sure we’ll find a clearing/In the forest of our hearts.” It’s a stirring 

moment. Moore’s dewey, Terrence Malick-like transcendentalism 

colliding with the plainspoken truth that, all poetics aside, life sucks 

and pain is cyclical. Notice that Moore says he’s “fairly sure” they’ll 

find refuge. There are no guarantees. 

It turns out the couple found its clearing. “We moved apart for 

19 

a while, and then that was really good for our relationship even 

though it really sucked at the time,” says Moore. “Eventually we 

started hanging out and dating again without the band happening. I 

realized all the stress of touring was the main cause of the breakup, 

and it had a lot less to do with how we felt about each other.” 

Though Moore and Tacular were back together, there were still changes 

to be made within the band. The recording sessions for The Clearing 

saw Tacular assuming a greater creative role, contributing more vocals 

and lyrics as the group worked on the new songs at home and later 

recorded tracks in Wisconsin at Justin Vernon’s April Base studio. 

“We talked it out, and we just had to let go of some things and allow 

each other to be who we set out to be in the pinnacle of our dreams,” 

says Moore. “We had to hold onto our dreams and really allow each 

other to grow and change in the midst of writing the album. And, I 

think we—it sounds kind of vague, I guess—I feel like we kind of 

gave each other more space this time around because we figured 

out it wouldn’t work if we didn’t.” 

That space is felt throughout The Clearing, which is both cavernous 

and intimate. Given the luxury of time, the arrangements are more 

adventurous than their previous work, incorporating ominous, 

swirling post-rock textures that Moore explored in his previous band, 

Ticonderoga. By expanding beyond the group’s original template of 

accordion, bass drum and loud string guitar, the songs now conjure 

the same sense of awe elicited by the seas, forests and skies described 

in the lyrics. 

Dead Oceans, the band’s label, recently released a six-minute mini- 

documentary on the making of The Clearing. In the video Moore 

and Tacular discuss their breakup and show us around the cabin 

they’re building—Moore’s hair tucked back in a ponytail, Tacular’s 

now streaked gray. They look tired. 

The two sit on an old couch and take turns speaking to the camera. 

“We wanted to try to make the album as beautiful as we can and 

have it contain all the darkness that we have in our minds on a daily 

basis,” says Tacular, Moore’s arm around her as he gazes off. “The 

things we’re worried about—our relationship, the state of the world, 

the environment or our dog that’s on a chain—[we wanted the album 

to] contain that but also contain all the amazingness and beauty 

and wonder that we have, and try to make the wonder win.”

ChaRTS radio 

radio 

Top Five 

dr. dog 

blaCK KeYS 

teNNiS 

Cloud NothiNgS 

of MoNtreal 

Top 200 

TW LW 2W PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE LABEL 

1 3 6 1 4 DR. DOG Be The Void NEW AT No. 1 Anti 

2 1 1 1 10 BLACK KEYS El Camino No. 1 TRIPLE A Nonesuch 

3 5 63 3 4 TENNIS Young And Old Fat Possum 

4 2 2 2 6 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory Carpark 

5 4 3 3 5 OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl 

6 7 8 6 4 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp Jagjaguwar 

7 8 13 7 4 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune EMI 

8 6 4 4 6 FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar Wichita 

9 24 123 9 3 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar Slumberland 

10 10 17 10 4 SHEARWATER Animal Joy Sub Pop 

11 15 27 11 4 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow Partisan 

12 18 – 12 2 ISLANDS A Sleep And A Forgetting Anti 

13 – – 13 1 FUN. Some Nights ToP DEBuT Fueled By Ramen 

14 11 11 9 6 BIG PINK Future This 4AD 

15 9 5 3 8 NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy Barsuk 

16 16 18 16 5 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Stranger 

17 83 – 17 2 GRIMES Visions 4AD 

18 96 – 18 2 MEMORYHOUSE The Slideshow Effect Sub Pop 

19 20 28 19 5 CHAIRLIFT Something Columbia 

20 14 14 12 6 BIG DEAL Lights Out Mute 

21 12 10 6 7 PORCELAIN RAFT Strange Weekend Secretly Canadian 

22 111 – 22 2 YELLOW OSTRICH Strange Land Barsuk 

23 23 32 23 3 YOUNG MAGIC Melt Carpark 

24 31 31 24 6 POLICA Give You The Ghost Totally Gross National Product 

25 40 – 25 2 CURSIVE I Am Gemini Saddle Creek 

26 19 16 15 6 HOSPITALITY Hospitality Merge 

27 38 77 27 3 DAMIEN JURADO Maraqopa Secretly Canadian 

28 13 7 2 8 GUIDED BY VOICES Let's Go Eat The Factory GBV 

29 25 26 22 4 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Onwards To The Wall Dead Oceans 

30 17 9 8 8 ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On Righteous Babe 

31 30 29 29 4 BLACK BELLES The Black Belles Third Man 

32 34 30 10 10 GOTYE Making Mirrors Universal Republic 

33 32 20 17 6 ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR Out Of Frequency BMG 

34 43 78 34 4 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Stage Whisper Elektra-Because 

35 27 25 21 6 BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite Noise Company 

36 49 – 36 2 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos Anti 

37 33 22 16 7 JOHN K. SAMSON Provincial Epitaph-Anti 

38 28 23 10 7 LAURA GIBSON La Grande Barsuk 

39 66 – 39 2 BAHAMAS Barchords Brushfire 

40 21 12 7 7 CATE LE BON Cyrk The Control Group 

41 29 21 21 5 IMPERIAL TEEN Feel The Sound Merge 

42 76 81 42 3 PINK MINK Pink Mink Little Veronica 

43 48 192 43 3 BRIGHT MOMENTS Natives Luaka Bop 

44 44 40 37 5 CRAIG FINN Clear Heart Full Eyes Vagrant 

45 50 52 45 3 BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour Vagrant 

46 26 19 1 16 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Mute 

47 42 38 21 15 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB A Different Kind Of Fix A&M-Octone 

48 72 172 48 3 PLANTS AND ANIMALS The End Of That Secret City 

49 35 24 19 6 JEZABELS Prisoner Mom And Pop 

50 – – 50 1 JONQUIL Point Of Go Dovecote 

20 

Period ending 2/28/2012 

Contributing rePorters this Week: 329

Top 200 


Contributing rePorters this Week: 329 


51 36 39 36 4 GONJASUFI MU.ZZ.LE Warp 

52 67 – 52 2 AUDRA MAE AND… Audra Mae And… Side One Dummy 

53 22 15 13 5 TRAILER TRASH TRACYS Ester Domino 

54 68 62 54 5 CAPSULA In The Land Of Silver Souls Krian 

55 86 76 55 3 JEALOUS SOUND A Gentle Reminder Music Is Subjective 

56 64 148 56 3 SUBMARINES Shoelaces [EP] Nettwerk 

57 74 – 57 2 TWILIGHT SAD No One Can Ever Know FatCat 

58 157 – 58 2 LAMBCHOP Mr. M ToP MoVER Merge 

59 41 33 28 6 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52 No. 1 NEW WoRLD Red-ATO 

60 39 42 39 4 FOXY SHAZAM The Church Of Rock And Roll I.R.S. 

61 52 73 52 3 BALKAN BEAT BOX Give Nat Geo 

62 51 67 51 4 FRÁNCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS E Volo Love Domino 

63 45 44 44 4 MARK LANEGAN BAND Blues Funeral 4AD 

64 69 45 45 5 BUXTON Nothing Here Seems Strange New West 

65 62 57 2 16 REAL ESTATE Days Domino 

66 100 – 66 2 CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages Concord-Hear 

67 70 – 67 2 BLACK BANANAS Rad Times Xpress IV Drag City 

68 79 66 66 3 JACK WHITE "Love Interrupted" [Single] Third Man 

69 59 54 54 6 CHIMES OF FREEDOM… Various Artists Amnesty International 

70 113 – 70 2 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror Mom And Pop 

71 75 – 71 2 GOLDFRAPP The Singles EMI 

72 – – 72 1 TERRY MALTS Killing Time Slumberland 

73 46 36 36 4 ERRORS Have Some Faith In Magic Rock Action 

74 55 48 23 11 CLOUD CONTROL Bliss Release Turnout 

75 88 – 75 2 SAN CISCO Awkward Self-Released 

76 71 43 2 15 TOM WAITS Bad As Me Anti 

77 80 – 77 2 PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND Form And… Tummy Touch 

78 – – 78 1 BETH JEANS HOUGHTON AND… Yours Truly… Mute 

79 54 56 54 7 SHINS "Simple Song" [Single] Columbia 

80 99 69 69 4 GOOD FIELD Good Field Self-Released 

81 – – 81 1 PERFUME GENIUS Put Your Back N 2 It Matador 

82 53 49 4 14 ATLAS SOUND Parallax 4AD 

83 84 79 79 4 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas Columbia 

84 – – 84 1 BONOBO Black Sands Remixed Ninja Tune 

85 – – 85 1 CHIDDY BANG Breakfast Capitol 

86 161 129 86 3 LITTLE BARRIE King Of The Waves Tummy Touch 

87 110 128 87 3 PYYRAMIDS Being Human [EP] Paracadute 

88 61 96 56 7 SOUL REBELS BRASS BAND Unlock Your Mind Rounder 

89 – – 89 1 YIM YAMES/FARRAR/PARKER/JOHNSON New… Rounder 

90 47 59 47 4 TS AND THE PAST HAUNTS Gone And Goner No Sleep 

91 77 47 47 6 MELISMATICS Mania! Pravada 

92 63 58 58 4 ROYAL BATHS Better Luck Next Life Kanine 

93 56 35 15 12 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur Rounder 

94 120 161 94 3 DIRTY GHOSTS Metal Moon Last Gang 

95 78 186 78 3 DJ FOOD The Search Engine No. 1 RPM Ninja Tune 

96 37 34 30 7 DOOMTREE No Kings No. 1 HIP-HoP Doomtree 

97 60 53 53 4 HIGH HIGHS High Highs Rocket 

98 170 – 98 2 MALLARD Yes On Blood Castle Face 

99 90 65 4 18 FEIST Metals Interscope 

100 174 – 100 2 ARCHERS OF LOAF VEE VEE Alias 

21 

toP debutS 

Top Five 

JoNQuil 

beth JeaNS houghtoN 

aNd hooVeS of deStiNY 

Dr. Dog 

Foxy Shazam 

Frankie Rose 

Black Bananas 

Cloud Nothings 

Islands 

Toy Horses 

Air 

Porcelain Raft 

Chairlift 

Young Magic 

Howler 

Heartless Bastards 

Knocks 

Big Deal 

Damien Jurado 

San Cisco 

First Aid Kit 

Relationship 

Caveman 

A Place To Bury Strangers 

Coasting 

Shearwater 

Chimes Of Freedom 

Asteroids Galaxy Tour 

Of Montreal 

Band Of Skulls 

Terry Malts 

Buxton 

Isidore 

fuN. 

FEATuRED PLAYLISTS 

terrY MaltS 

PerfuMe geNiuS 

KWVA eugene WWVu Morgantown 

Memoryhouse 

Grimes 

Frankie Rose 

Shearwater 

Hospitality 

Lambchop 

Chairlift 

Sharon Van Etten 

Dr. Dog 

Polica 

First Aid Kit 

Big Pink 

Terry Malts 

Perfume Genius 

Tennis 

Air 

Mark Lanegan Band 

Bare Wires 

Comet Gain 

Black Bananas 

Isidore Life 

Cloud Nothings 

Imperial Teen 

Islands 

Young Magic 

Royal Baths 

Asteroids Galaxy Tour 

Trailer Trash Tracys 

Mallard 

Yellow Ostrich

ChaRTS radio 

Top 200 




101 125 – 101 2 BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA Sunkissed Family Tree 

102 126 113 49 13 BRITE FUTURES Dark Past Turnout 

103 150 149 103 3 WILEY Evolve Or Be Extinct Ninja Tune 

104 82 51 7 16 PHANTOGRAM Nightlife Barsuk 

105 116 138 105 3 YOU ME AT SIX Sinners Never Sleep EMI 

106 85 41 25 7 PALOMAR Sense And Antisense Self-Released 

107 115 101 95 5 WEAVER AT THE LOOM Before Now Was Then Self-Released 

108 103 84 84 4 BARE WIRES Cheap Perfume SouthPaw 

109 – – 109 1 2 BEARS Be Strong DFA 

110 97 95 95 3 ELLIOTT BROOD Days Into Years Paper Bag 

111 57 37 33 7 HOWLER America Give Up Rough Trade 

112 – – 112 1 JAMIE WOON Mirrorwriting Verve 

113 175 88 2 21 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 4AD 

114 142 110 105 5 RE:GENERATION The Re:Generation Music Project ATO 

115 – – 115 1 BUSDRIVER Beaus$Eros Fake Four 

116 93 60 4 12 THEE OH SEES Carrion Crawler/The Dream [EP] In The Red 

117 58 46 46 4 COMET GAIN Howl Of The Lonely Crowd What's Your Rupture 

118 92 89 1 20 WILCO The Whole Love Anti 

119 95 70 70 5 WE ARE THE OCEAN Go Now And Live Side One Dummy 

120 – – 120 1 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory Vagrant 

121 121 75 63 6 ADRIAN YOUNGE Something About April Wax Poetics 

122 – – 122 1 TEAM ME To The Treetops Propeller 

123 102 164 102 3 PONTIAK Echo Ono Thrill Jockey 

124 89 104 49 6 JESSIE BAYLIN Little Spark Thirty Tigers 

125 147 182 125 3 WILD NOTHING "Nowhere" [Single] Captured Tracks 

126 81 55 40 6 CLAPS Wreck Guilt Ridden Pop 

127 73 50 40 6 GRACE WOODROOFE Always Want Modular 

128 – – 128 1 BOWERBIRDS The Clearing Dead Oceans 

129 – – 129 1 MOTEL BEDS Sunfried Dreams/Tango Boys No More Fake Labels 

130 – – 130 1 PUNCH BROTHERS Who's Feeling Young Now Nonesuch 

131 – – 131 1 MENZINGERS On The Impossible Past Epitaph 

132 – – 132 1 FIELD MUSIC Plumb Memphis Industries 

133 104 114 52 6 NEVEREVER Shake-a-baby Slumberland 

134 108 150 108 3 SHIGETO Lineage Ghostly 

135 65 105 29 13 CAVEMAN CoCo Beware Magic Man 

136 112 91 54 6 RIVAL SONS Pressure And Time Earache 

137 149 – 137 2 KELLEN AND ME Kellen And Me Audiotree 

138 119 107 82 6 O' BROTHER Garden Window Triple Crown 

139 144 – 139 2 EVAN VOYTAS Feel Me Dovecote 

140 – – 140 1 PEPE DELUXE Queen Of The Wave Asthmatic Kitty 

141 – 163 120 7 ALABAMA SHAKES Alabama Shakes Self-Released 

142 140 80 44 7 RUN DAN RUN Normal Hearts And Plugs 

143 158 125 16 10 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH… Noel Gallagher's High… Island 

144 163 99 99 5 CARDINAL Hymns Fire 

145 – – 145 1 MUX MOOL Planet High School Ghostly 

146 – – 146 1 ARIANE MOFFATT MA Audiogram 

147 178 190 102 5 JOHN C. REILLY The John, Tom, And Becky 7-Inch Third Man 

148 114 111 6 16 DEER TICK Divine Providence Partisan 

149 124 140 124 3 DUSTIN WONG Dreams Say, View Create… Thrill Jockey 

150 132 157 63 19 BARR BROTHERS The Barr Brothers Secret City 

22 

Top 200 




151 91 90 42 7 CHARLES BRADLEY "Heartaches And Pain" [Single] Dunham 

152 137 147 129 5 FACTORIES Together Self-Released 

153 – – 153 1 MOE. What Happened To The La Las Sugar Hill 

154 87 72 7 11 TY SEGALL Singles 2007-2010 Goner 

155 109 100 100 4 ISTANBUL 70… CLASSICS Various Artists Nublu 

156 – – 156 1 YOUNG STATUES Young Statues Run For Cover 

157 128 118 63 8 LITTLE WILLIES For The Good Times Milking Bull 

158 – – 158 1 MY BEST FIEND In Ghostlike Fading Warp 

159 133 86 71 6 THE RELATIONSHIP The Relationship Golden State 

160 – 106 17 11 TYCHO Dive Ghostly 

161 – – 161 1 DUNES Noctiluca PPM 

162 200 – 162 2 TOY HORSES Toy Horses Albino Sparrow 

163 138 102 102 4 VACATIONER "Trip" [Single] Downtown 

164 – – 164 1 LOVELY BAD THINGS Shark Week + New Ghost/Old… Volcom 

165 106 68 8 10 KATE BUSH 50 Words For Snow Anti 

166 139 98 11 16 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Capitol 

167 131 152 131 4 THE KNOCKS Magic Octone 

168 143 165 143 3 A$AP ROCKY LiveLoveA$AP RCA 

169 – – 169 1 JOHN TALABOT FIN Permanent Vacation 

170 191 103 103 4 ISIDORE Life Somewhere Else Communicating Vessels 

171 182 131 99 5 BARRY ADAMSON I Will Set You Free Central Control 

172 152 134 123 5 ROCKETS Rockets Creative Vibes 

173 135 116 10 13 CASS MCCOMBS Humor Risk Domino 

174 118 178 3 20 NEON INDIAN Era Extrana Mom And Pop 

175 153 – 153 2 IMAGINARY CITIES EP Turnout 

176 94 82 13 12 THE DO Both Ways Open Jaws Six Degrees 

177 145 139 31 12 SIGUR ROS Inni XL 

178 136 87 74 7 KABBS The Kabbs Self-Released 

179 101 64 64 5 PLUG Back On Time Ninja Tune 

180 159 133 85 13 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 

181 – – 181 1 ANDREW BIRD "Eyeoneye" [Single] Mom And Pop 

182 105 85 7 16 BJORK Biophilia Nonesuch 

183 – – 183 1 SILVER SWANS Forever Twenty Seen 

184 – – 184 1 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit Rounder 

185 146 153 76 9 MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES The Magic Of Youth Big Rig 

186 155 174 139 4 VIRGIN FOREST Easy Way Out Partisan 

187 – – 187 1 MOON HOOCH Moon Hooch Self-Released 

188 – – 188 1 SHIRA GAVRIELOU Clear Vision Self-Released 

189 162 94 94 5 WOODPIGEON For Paulo Boompa 

190 – – 190 1 SMALL CITIES With Fire Princess 

191 107 108 10 12 LOS CAMPESINOS! Hello Sadness Arts And Crafts 

192 165 97 60 7 NOVALIMA Karimba ESL 

193 – – 193 1 TINDERSTICKS The Something Rain Constellations 

194 198 – 194 2 SARA RADLE Same Sun Shines Jeez Louise 

195 – – 195 1 BEACH FOSSILS "Shallow"/"Lessons" [Single] Captured Tracks 

196 156 – 148 3 SLEEPMAKESWAVES Sleepmakeswaves Bird's Robe 

197 – 142 121 4 TING TINGS "Hang It Up" [Single] Columbia 

198 – – 198 1 SKYFOX Twilight [EP] Crappy 

199 – – 199 1 POP. 1280 The Horror Sacred Bones 

200 98 61 11 10 DUKE SPIRIT Bruiser Shangri-La

Radio Select Albums 


Powered by 

TW LW 2W PK WKS SPINS ARTIST + TITLE LABEL 

1 1 1 1 17 314 BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 

2 2 7 2 3 269 DR. DOG Be The Void Anti 

3 12 37 3 4 248 TENNIS Young And Old Fat Possum 

4 3 2 2 12 220 GOTYE Making Mirrors Universal Republic 

5 4 4 4 10 193 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp Jagjaguwar 

6 36 – 6 2 173 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos Anti 

6 5 12 5 5 173 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune EMI 

8 8 8 4 5 162 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory Carpark 

9 7 5 5 5 161 CHIMES OF… Various Amnesty International 

10 9 33 9 3 159 SHEARWATER Animal Joy Sub Pop 

11 11 9 5 6 155 FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar Wichita 

12 20 22 12 4 151 POLICA Give You The… Totally Gross National Product 

13 6 3 3 8 149 NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent… Barsuk 

14 14 19 1 25 143 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Mute 

15 10 6 6 7 141 SHINS "Simple Song" [Single] Columbia 

16 13 13 1 41 128 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Torches Columbia 

17 46 – 17 2 127 ISLANDS A Sleep And A Forgetting Anti 

18 37 99 18 3 120 YOUNG MAGIC Melt Carpark 

19 26 10 10 4 119 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Stranger 

20 16 14 3 24 117 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Capitol 

21 18 18 18 5 112 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow Partisan 

22 17 11 9 6 107 PORCELAIN RAFT Strange Weekend Secretly Canadian 

23 84 – 23 2 106 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar Slumberland 

24 33 20 5 16 104 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur Rounder 

25 19 17 17 4 102 OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl 

26 21 39 21 4 100 JACK WHITE "Love Interrupted" [Single] Third Man 

27 15 16 15 6 99 CATE LE BON Cyrk The Control Group 

28 – – 28 2 98 DAMIEN JURADO Maraqopa Secretly Canadian 

28 50 25 4 26 98 FEIST Metals Interscope 

30 24 26 22 5 96 BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite Noise Company 

30 31 – 31 2 96 INTO IT. OVER IT. Proper No Sleep 

32 22 28 22 4 95 FUN. Some Nights Fueled By Ramen 

32 – – 33 1 95 GRIMES Visions 4AD 

32 25 31 14 18 95 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 

32 51 40 2 25 95 ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 4AD 

36 23 30 7 20 94 MAYER HAWTHORNE How Do… Universal Republic 

37 40 41 37 10 92 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 

38 39 24 4 19 91 REAL ESTATE Days Domino 

39 71 – 39 2 90 BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour Vagrant 

40 34 32 28 5 87 BIG PINK Future This 4AD 

41 38 42 38 4 85 TRAILER TRASH TRACYS Ester Domino 

41 30 29 23 5 85 BIG DEAL Lights Out Mute 

43 53 49 43 3 84 FOXY SHAZAM The Church Of Rock And Roll I.R.S. 

44 58 81 44 4 79 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror Mom And Pop 

45 29 60 29 3 78 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas Columbia 

46 43 21 1 33 77 WILCO The Whole Love Anti 

47 48 38 31 5 76 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52 Red-ATO 

48 28 27 18 16 75 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB A Different Kind A&M-Octone 

49 76 – 49 2 73 CHAIRLIFT Something Columbia 

49 32 15 13 6 73 LAURA GIBSON La Grande Barsuk 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums Mediaguide must have been serviced 

with all albums, EPs and singles (including remixes and edits). 

23 

Radio Select Tracks 



1 1 1 1 12 163 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know Universal Republic 

2 2 2 2 7 141 SHINS Simple Song Columbia 

3 3 3 1 17 118 BLACK KEYS Lonely Boy Nonesuch 

4 4 6 4 4 100 JACK WHITE Love Interruption Third Man 

5 6 - 5 2 96 INTO IT OVER IT Fortunate Friends No Sleep 

6 7 9 1 30 90 M83 Midnight City Mute 

7 8 10 7 4 83 DR. DOG That Old Black Hole Anti 

8 5 4 4 22 79 FUN. We Are Young Fueled By Ramen 

9 22 55 9 4 74 TENNIS Origins Fat Possum 

10 9 12 7 12 73 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling Nonesuch 

10 10 14 8 13 73 SHARON VAN ETTEN Serpents Jagjaguwar 

12 26 61 12 5 69 BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour Electric Blues 

13 57 - 13 2 68 ISLANDS Hallways Anti 

14 13 11 11 9 65 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Little Talks Universal Republic 

15 17 5 4 15 64 LANA DEL REY Video Games Interscope 

16 27 25 9 5 61 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN We Take Care Of Our Own Columbia 

17 35 16 14 5 56 DELTA SPIRIT California Rounder 

18 16 36 16 5 54 ANDREW BIRD Eyeoneye Mom And Pop 

19 30 - 19 2 53 DR. DOG Lonesome Anti 

19 12 7 7 20 53 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop Columbia 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Radio Select Tracks Mediaguide must have been serviced with all 

albums, EPs and singles (including remixes and edits). 

blaCK KeYS 

teNNiS 

SharoN VaN etteN 

radio SeleCt 

Top Five 

dr. dog 

gotYe 

Powered by

ChaRTS hot air 

What’S riSiNg 

AT RADIo 200 

fuN. 

Some Nights Fueled By Ramen 

The theatrical pop of Fun.’s sophomore LP, 

Some Nights, debuts at No. 13 at Radio 200 

(D-13). 

RADIo: Robb Haagsman, robb@aaminc.com 

griMeS 

Visions 4AD 

With her third solo album offering hook-heavy 

electro pop, cover girl Grimes moves up 66 

spots at Radio 200 (83-17). 

RADIo: Hector Montes, hectormontes@beggars.com 

MeMorYhouSe 

The Slideshow Effect Sub Pop 

The dreamy duo jumps to the No. 18 at Radio 

200 thanks to its nostalgia-laced chillwave 

debut (96-18). 

RADIo: Sasha Morgan, sasham@subpop.com 

laMbChoP 

Mr. M Merge 

Nashville-based group Lambchop climbs 99 

spots at Radio 200 with its 11th album of carefully 

constructed alt-country songs (157-58). 

RADIo: Lindsey Kronmiller, lindsey@mergerecords.com 

terrY MaltS 

Killing Time Slumberland 

Debuting at No. 72 is San Francisco’s Terry 

Malts, whose debut album features fresh 

lo-fi rock (D-72). 

RADIo: Matthew Gawrych, matthew@terrorbird.com 

Subscribers can log in at cmj.com/charts to view airplay charts 

in their entirety. 

thiS WeeK’S CoNtributiNg rePorterS 

3WK St. Louis Mo 

95bFM auckland 

aM1700 Ypsilanti MI 

aggie Radio Logan UT 

BIRN Boston Ma 

Bagel Radio San Francisco Ca 

BreakThru Radio New York NY 

CFMU hamilton oN 

CFRe Mississauga oN 

CFRU Guelph oN 

CFUV Victoria BC 

ChIRP Radio Chicago IL 

ChMR St. Johns NF 

ChoQ Montreal QC 

ChRW London oN 

ChUo ottawa oN 

ChYZ Quebec City QC 

CILU Thunder Bay oN 

CISM Montreal QC 

CJaM Windsor oN 

CJLo Montreal QC 

CJSW Calgary aB 

CKDU halifax NS 

CRaM Toronto oN 

CSCR Toronto oN 

Grow Radio Gainesville FL 

hCC Radio Columbia MD 

KaFM Grand Junction Co 

KaLX Berkeley Ca 

KaMP Tucson aZ 

KaNM College Station TX 

KaoS olympia Wa 

KBCS Bellevue Wa 

KBoo Portland oR 

KBRP Bisbee aZ 

KBUT Crested Butte Co 

KBVR Corvallis oR 

KCMP St. Paul MN 

KCPR San Luis obispo Ca 

KCRW Santa Monica Ca 

KCSB Santa Barbara Ca 

KCSC Chico Ca 

KCSS Turlock Ca 

KCSU Fort Collins Co 

KDhX St. Louis Mo 

KDNK Carbondale Co 

KDUR Durango Co 

KDVS Davis Ca 

KeoL La Grande oR 

KeUL Girdwood aK 

KeXP Seattle Wa 

KFaI Minneapolis MN 

KFJC Los altos hills Ca 

KFSR Fresno Ca 

KGLT Bozeman MT 

KGNU Boulder Co 

KhNS haines aK 

KhoL Jackson WY 

KIWR Council Bluffs Ia 

KJhK Lawrence KS 

KLPI Ruston La 

KLSU Baton Rouge La 

KMeT Denver Co 

KMSa Grand Junction Co 

KMSC Moorhead MN 

KNDS Fargo ND 

KNSU Thibodaux La 

KoPN Columbia Mo 

KoTo Telluride Co 

KPFa Berkeley Ca 

KPSU Portland oR 

KPUR Forest Grove oR 

KQaL Winona MN 

KRCC Colorado Springs Co 

KRCL Salt Lake City UT 

KRCX Denver Co 

KRFC Fort Collins Co 

KRFP Moscow ID 

KRLX Northfield MN 

KRNU Lincoln Ne 

KRSC Claremore oK 

KRTU San antonio TX 

KRUa anchorage aK 

KRUI Iowa City Ia 

WCDB albany NY 

KRUX Las Cruces NM WChC Worcester Ma 

KRZa alamosa Co 

WCNI New London CT 

KSCU Santa Clara Ca WCUR West Chester Pa 

KSJD Mancos Co 

WCVF Fredonia NY 

KSJS San Jose Ca 

WCYT Fort Wayne IN 

KSLU St. Louis Mo 

WDBM east Lansing MI 

KSLU hammond La 

WDCe Richmond Va 

KSMF ashland oR 

WDCV Carlisle Pa 

KSPC Claremont Ca 

WDUB Granville oh 

KSPU Seattle Wa 

WDWN auburn NY 

KSSU Sacramento Ca WeCB Boston Ma 

KSUa Fairbanks aK 

WeCI Richmond IN 

KSYM San antonio TX WeCS Willimantic CT 

KTCU Fort Worth TX 

WeRU east orland Me 

KTRU houston TX 

WeSS east Stroudsburg Pa 

KTSW San Marcos TX WeSU Middletown CT 

KTUh honolulu hI 

WFCF St augustine FL 

KUCR Riverside Ca 

WFDU Teaneck NJ 

KUGS Bellingham Wa WFhB Bloomington IN 

KUMD Duluth MN 

WFNP New Paltz NY 

KUNI Cedar Falls Ia 

WFWM Frostburg MD 

KUoM Minneapolis MN WGDR Plainfield VT 

KUPS Tacoma Wa 

WGLS Glassboro NJ 

KURa ouray Co 

WGMU Fairfax Va 

KURe ames Ia 

WGRe Greencastle IN 

KUST St. Paul MN 

WGSU Geneseo NY 

KUT austin TX 

WhCL Clinton NY 

KUWS Superior WI 

WhPC Garden City NY 

KVCU Boulder Co 

WhPK Chicago IL 

KVMR Nevada City Ca WhRW Binghamton NY 

KVNF Paonia Co 

WhSN Bangor Me 

KVSC St. Cloud MN 

WhWS Geneva NY 

KWCR ogden UT 

WIDB Carbondale IL 

KWCW Walla Walla Wa WIDR Kalamazoo MI 

KWLC Decorah Ia 

WIPZ Kenosha WI 

KWTS Canyon TX 

WITR Rochester NY 

KWUR St. Louis Mo 

WIUP Indiana Pa 

KWVa eugene oR 

WIUX Bloomington IN 

KXCI Tucson aZ 

WIXQ Millersville Pa 

KXLU Los angeles Ca WJCU University heights oh 

KXSC Los angeles Ca WKDU Philadelphia Pa 

KXUa Fayetteville aR WKNC Raleigh NC 

KXUL Monroe La 

WKPS University Park Pa 

KZMU Moab UT 

WLCa Godfrey IL 

KZoW Forest City Ia 

WLFM appleton WI 

KZSC Santa Cruz Ca WLFR Galloway NJ 

KZSU Stanford Ca 

WLJS Jacksonville aL 

KZUU Pullman Wa 

WLTL La Grange IL 

Lasell College Radio Newton Ma WLUR Lexington Va 

M3 Radio Brooklyn NY WLUW Chicago IL 

Montco Radio Blue Bell Pa WLVR Bethlehem Pa 

NVWR Reno NV 

WMBR Cambridge Ma 

ohIo.FM New albany oh WMCC Rochester NY 

openair Centennial Co WMCo New Concord oh 

osprey Radio Jacksonville FL WMhB Waterville Me 

RLC Piscataway NJ 

WMhC South hadley Ma 

Radio CUh honolulu hI WMhD Terre haute IN 

Radio Phoenix Phoenix aZ WMhW Mt. Pleasant MI 

Radio UTD Richardson TX WMLU Farmville Va 

Rainy Dawg Radio Seattle Wa WMSC Montclair NJ 

SCaD-atlanta Radio atlanta Ga WMSe Milwaukee WI 

SomaFM San Francisco Ca WMUa amherst Ma 

UCLaradio.com Los angeles Ca WMUh allentown Pa 

UMSL Student Radio St. Louis MoWMUR 

Milwaukee WI 

University Pulse Boise ID WMVL Purchase NY 

VIC Radio Ithaca NY WMXM Lake Forest IL 

WaIh Potsdam NY 

WNCW Spindale NC 

WaKe Winston-Salem NC WNhU West haven CT 

WaMh amherst Ma 

WNJR Washington Pa 

WaUG Rock Island IL WNRN Charlottesville Va 

WaWL Chattanooga TN WNSU Fort Lauderdale FL 

WBaR New York NY 

WNYo oswego NY 

WBeR Penfield NY 

WoBC oberlin oh 

WBGU Bowling Green oh WoJB hayward WI 

WBIM Bridgewater Ma WoNY oneonta NY 

WBJB Lincroft NJ 

WoRT Madison WI 

WBoR Brunswick Me WoUB athens oh 

WBRS Waltham Ma 

WPCD Champaign IL 

WBSD Burlington WI WPGU Champaign IL 

WBSU Brockport NY 

WPMD Norwalk Ca 

WBWC Berea oh 

WPNR Utica NY 

WCBN ann arbor MI 

WPRB Princeton NJ 

WPSC Wayne NJ 

WPTS Pittsburgh Pa 

WRaS atlanta Ga 

WRBC Lewiston Me 

WRCT Pittsburgh Pa 

WRCU hamilton NY 

WRDP Chicago IL 

WReK atlanta Ga 

WRFL Lexington KY 

WRFW River Falls WI 

WRGP Miami FL 

WRIU Kingston RI 

WRKC Wilkes-Barre Pa 

WRNC ashland WI 

WRPI Troy NY 

WRRC Lawrenceville NJ 

WRRG River Grove IL 

WRST oshkosh WI 

WRSU New Brunswick NJ 

WRUB amherst NY 

WRUR Rochester NY 

WRUV Burlington VT 

WRUW Cleveland oh 

WRVU Nashville TN 

WSBU St. Bonaventure NY 

WSCa Portsmouth Nh 

WSCW Worcester Ma 

WSFX Nanticoke Pa 

WSGR Port huron MI 

WShC Shepherdstown WV 

WSIa Staten Island NY 

WSIN New haven CT 

WSND Notre Dame IN 

WSoU South orange NJ 

WSPN Saratoga Springs NY 

WSUW Whitewater WI 

WSYC Shippensburg Pa 

WTBU Boston Ma 

WTJU Charlottesville Va 

WTSR ewing NJ 

WTUL New orleans La 

WUaG Greensboro NC 

WUMD North Dartmouth Ma 

WUMF Farmington Me 

WUoG athens Ga 

WUSB Stony Brook NY 

WUSC Columbia SC 

WUSo Springfield oh 

WUTK Knoxville TN 

WUVT Blacksburg Va 

WVaU Washington DC 

WVFI Notre Dame IN 

WVFS Tallahassee FL 

WVIa Pittston Pa 

WVMM Grantham Pa 

WVMW Scranton Pa 

WVoF Fairfield CT 

WVUD Newark De 

WVUM Coral Gables FL 

WWhR Bowling Green KY 

WWPV Colchester VT 

WWSU Dayton oh 

WWUh West hartford CT 

WWVU Morgantown WV 

WXaC Reading Pa 

WXaV Chicago IL 

WXBC annandale-on-hudson NY 

WXCI Danbury CT 

WXCU Columbus oh 

WXDU Durham NC 

WXJM harrisonburg Va 

WXLV Schnecksville Pa 

WXoU Rochester MI 

WXVU Villanova Pa 

WYBF Radnor Pa 

WZBC Chestnut hill Ma 

WZBT Gettysburg Pa 

WZLY Wellesley Ma 

WZMB Greenville NC 

Washington heights Free Radio 

New York NY

Loud Rock 

PERIOD ENDING 2/28/2012 

CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS THIS WEEK: 101 


1 1 1 1 5 LAMB OF GOD Resolution Epic 

2 2 3 2 4 ORANGE GOBLIN A Eulogy For The Damned Candlelight 

3 3 5 3 4 MOTORHEAD The World Is Ours Vol 1… UDR 

4 8 – 4 2 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Corrosion Of… Candlelight 

5 5 8 5 3 GOATWHORE Blood For The Master Metal Blade 

6 6 2 1 7 NIGHTWISH Imaginaerum Roadrunner 

7 4 4 3 5 PRIMAL FEAR Unbreakable Frontiers 

8 10 – 8 2 AVATAR Black Waltz eOne 

9 18 – 9 2 AMORAL Beneath The End 

10 13 21 10 3 PSYCROPTIC The Inherited Repression Nuclear Blast 

11 7 6 3 7 ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Becoming Candlelight 

12 11 9 9 4 BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART Feel The Power Tooth And Nail 

13 16 – 13 2 PILGRIM Misery Wizard Metal Blade 

14 12 11 1 14 MEGADETH Th1rt3en Roadrunner 

15 25 – 15 2 BENEATH THE MASSACRE Incongruous Prosthetic 

16 29 31 16 4 STONECREEP The Deathmarch Crushes On Old School Metal 

17 20 30 17 3 11TH HOUR Lacrima Mortis ToP MoVER Napalm 

18 15 14 14 5 LACUNA COIL Dark Adrenaline Century Media 

19 28 28 13 17 WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Celestial… Southern Lord 

20 – – 20 1 CANNIBAL CORPSE Torture ToP DEBuT Metal Blade 

21 22 37 21 5 LIBERTEER Better To Die On Your… Relapse 

22 – – 8 12 SKELETONWITCH Forever Abomination Prosthetic 

23 19 – 19 2 MYSTIC PROPHECY Ravenlord Massacre 

24 24 15 14 6 O' BROTHER Garden Window Triple Crown 

25 – – 25 1 NEPHELIUM Coils Of Entropy Self-Released 

26 – – 26 1 CAPSULA In The Land Of Silver Souls Krian 

27 – – 27 1 DEATH Vivus! Relapse 

28 – – 28 1 MARTYRD The Mortal Coil Maniac 

29 – – 29 1 IRON MASK Black As Death AFM 

30 9 7 7 4 IRON FIRE Voyage Of The Damned Napalm 

31 30 12 3 7 RAMMSTEIN Made In Germany Universal 

32 23 18 13 5 TRILLIUM Alloy Frontiers 

33 14 23 1 17 MACHINE HEAD Unto The Locust Roadrunner 

34 33 16 9 5 ASTRAL DOORS Jerusalem Metalville 

35 38 38 35 4 BIOHAZARD Reborn In Defiance Roadrunner 

36 21 – 21 2 LILLIAN AXE XI:The Days Before Tomorrow CME 

37 – – 37 1 DODECAHEDRON Dodecahedron Season Of Mist 

38 39 – 25 8 SADGIQACEA/GRASS Split Anthropic 

39 – – 13 11 HULL Beyond The Lightless Sky The End 

40 – – 40 1 KANDIDATE Facing The Imminant Prospect Of Death Napalm 

Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of Loud Rock releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and noncommercial 

radio stations. Subscribers can log in at cmj.com/charts to view airplay charts in their entirety. 

Adds 

TW ADDS ARTIST + TITLE LABEL 

1 71 MINISTRY "Double Tap" [Single] AFM 

2 65 ELUVEITIE Helvetios Nuclear Blast 

3 60 EXCITER Death Machine Massacre 

4 49 HEIDEVOLK Batavi Napalm 

5 45 INTERSPHERE Hold On, Liberty! Long Branch 

25 

ChaRTS 

Loud Rock Select Albums 


geNre foCuS 


1 1 1 1 5 84 FOXY SHAZAM The Church Of Rock And Roll I.R.S. 

2 3 3 2 50 53 SEETHER Holding On To Strings Better Left To Fray Wind-Up 

2 4 15 3 23 53 BLACK VEIL BRIDES Set The World On… Universal Republic 

4 53 – 4 2 50 TERRY MALTS Killing Time Slumberland 

5 5 6 2 26 49 DEVIL WEARS PRADA Dead Throne Ferret 

6 9 9 4 20 37 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH American… Prospect Park 

6 6 5 1 29 37 STAIND Staind Atlantic 

8 7 8 7 52 36 VOLBEAT Beyond Hell/Above Heaven Universal 

8 10 13 7 20 36 WE CAME AS ROMANS Understanding What… Equal Vision 

8 2 2 1 51 36 RISE AGAINST End Game Interscope 

11 8 4 2 13 35 KORN The Path Of Totality Roadrunner 

12 11 10 7 78 32 10 YEARS "Shoot It Out" [Single] Universal 

13 12 12 5 5 29 LAMB OF GOD Resolution Epic 

14 13 7 1 52 25 DESTROY REBUILD UNTIL… D.R.U.G.S. Warner Bros. 

15 31 16 15 4 22 PINK MINK Pink Mink Little Veronica 

16 15 21 15 5 18 RIVAL SONS Pressure And Time Earache 

16 61 65 17 20 18 TALKDEMONIC Ruins Glacial Pace 

18 16 19 16 14 17 EMPHATIC "Get Paid" [Single] Atlantic 

18 26 23 19 6 17 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS This Is The Warning Sumerian 

20 32 33 20 34 16 BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE For The… Side One Dummy 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums Mediaguide must have been serviced 


loud roCK 

Top Five 

oraNge gobliN 

CorroSioN of CoNforMitY 

laMb of god 

Motorhead 

goatWhore 

Powered by

ChaRTS geNre foCuS 

rPM 

Top Five 

dJ food 

re:geNeratioN 

boNobo 

PoliCa 

air 

RPM 


1 2 10 1 3 DJ FOOD The Search Engine Ninja Tune 

2 3 2 2 5 RE:GENERATION The Re:Generation Music Project ATO 

3 26 – 3 2 BONOBO Black Sands Remixed Ninja Tune 



6 37 – 6 2 GRIMES Visions ToP MoVER 4AD 

7 1 1 1 6 PLUG Back On Time Ninja Tune 

8 4 3 3 4 RANDOM RAB Visurreal Self-Released 


10 33 – 10 3 JAMIE WOON Mirrorwriting Verve 

11 11 12 11 3 MELLEEFRESH VS DEADMAU5 At Play Play 

12 9 17 9 4 SHIGETO Lineage Ghostly 

13 20 – 13 2 PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND Form And Control Tummy Touch 

14 14 – 14 2 PHUTUREPRIMITIVE Kinetik Self-Released 

15 25 39 15 3 GOLDFRAPP The Singles EMI 

16 7 4 4 4 ERRORS Have Some Faith In Magic Rock Action 

17 10 21 10 3 LIFTOFF Sunday Morning Airplay Fort Knox 

18 13 20 13 4 GONJASUFI MU.ZZ.LE Warp 

19 23 – 19 2 MUX MOOL Planet High School Ghostly 

20 21 22 5 13 JOKER The Vision 4AD 

21 18 18 12 4 MATTHEW DEAR Headcage [EP] Ghostly 


23 15 7 1 18 JUSTICE Audio, Video, Disco Ed Banger 

24 32 36 24 3 BLONDES Blondes RVNG 

25 22 – 22 2 JOHN TALABOT FIN Permanent Vacation 

26 16 8 1 12 TYCHO Dive Ghostly 

27 – – 27 1 SHANA HALLIGAN Paper Butterfly [EP] ToP DEBuT Unknown Breakthrough 

28 24 15 11 5 CLAPS Wreck Guilt Ridden Pop 

29 19 23 1 18 DJ SHADOW The Less You Know The Better Verve 

30 12 9 3 7 SECOND SKY The Art Of Influence Remixed Rhythm And Culture 

31 – – 31 1 OOKPIKK/ADAM SAIKALEY Split Cassette Place Machine 

32 – – 32 2 ISTANBUL 70: PSYCH, DISCO, FOLK CLASSICS Various Artists Nublu 

33 – 29 12 6 OLIVIA BROADFIELD This Beautiful War Cherry Bang 

34 29 25 25 9 DNTEL Life Is Full Of Possibilities Sub Pop 

35 – – 35 1 GRAHAM KNOX FRAZIER The Big Chill Simply Deep 

36 – – 36 1 TRUST Trust Self-Released 

37 28 32 28 4 SAADI Snowyman Dither Down 

38 – – 38 1 ARIANE MOFFATT MA Audiogram 

39 31 19 7 9 ESCORT Escort Escort 

40 – – 24 4 NERO Me And You Interscope 

Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of RPM releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and non-commercial radio stations. Subscribers can log in at cmj.com/charts to 

view airplay charts in their entirety. 

Adds 


1 37 VOLTAIRE TWINS Romulus [EP] Self-Released 

2 31 VCMG Spock/Single Blip [EP] Mute 

3 29 GRAHAM KNOX FRAZIER The Big Chill Simply Deep 

4 12 BEHOLD THE PROFIT Behold The Profit [EP] Lowatt 

5 8 MATI ZUNDEL Amazonico Gravitante Waxploitation-ZZK 

26 


CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS THIS WEEK: 111

Hip-Hop 




1 1 1 1 8 DOOMTREE No Kings Doomtree 

2 3 3 2 4 WILEY Evolve Or Be Extinct Ninja Tune 

3 2 10 2 5 GANGRENE Vodka And Ayahuasca Decon 

4 5 7 4 4 BILL ORTIZ Winter In America [EP] Left Angle 

5 4 2 1 11 ELIGH AND AMPLIVE Therapy At 3 Legendary 

6 14 16 6 3 A$AP ROCKY LiveLoveA$AP RCA 

7 13 – 7 2 BUSDRIVER Beaus$Eros Fake Four 

8 7 6 3 8 ROOTS Undun Def Jam 

9 10 8 3 13 CHILDISH GAMBINO Camp Glassnote 

10 8 4 4 6 ADRIAN YOUNGE Something About April Wax Poetics 

11 9 9 8 8 SCRIBES What Was Lost Self-Released 

12 12 14 12 4 VISION THE KID Lost Summer Be Easy 


14 11 12 9 7 COMMON The Dreamer/The Believer Warner Bros 

15 16 17 15 3 THUNDAMENTALS Foreverlution Obese 

16 – – 16 1 CHIDDY BANG Breakfast ToP DEBuT Capitol 

17 18 20 1 21 EVIDENCE Cats And Dogs Rhymesayers 

18 24 – 18 2 M-PHAZES Phazed Out Coalmine 

19 – – 19 1 BISCO SMITH X PETER JAY Jackson P [EP] Daylight Curfew 

20 21 13 1 16 TEENBURGER Burgertime Droppin' Science 

21 – – 21 2 JUST ISAAC Just Wait Self-Released 

22 20 – 20 2 KOOLEY HIGH David Thompson M.E.C.C.A. 

23 19 15 1 13 IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE The Martyr Self-Released 

24 35 24 24 6 PHILLY MOVES Peace... [EP] ToP MoVER Self-Released 

25 29 – 25 2 PLANET ASIA Crack Belt Theatre RBC 

26 – 25 25 2 LAZERBEAK Lava Bangers Doomtree 

27 36 31 4 15 DESSA Castor, The Twin Doomtree 

28 – – 28 1 SLOW SPOKES Slow Spokes TableSyrup 

29 – – 25 3 URBNET CERTIFIED VOL. 1 Various Artists Urbnet 

30 – – 30 1 RE:GENERATION The Re:Generation Music Project ATO 

31 17 18 15 8 ACTION BRONSON AND STATIK SELEKTAH Well Done DCide 

32 – 34 32 3 GET BY Let Go Self-Released 

33 15 11 4 11 DYME DEF Yuk The World Yuk 

34 – – 20 10 KENDRICK LAMAR Section .80 Self-Released 

35 23 21 21 6 KHEMIST Puzzle Pieces Self-Released 

36 – – 36 1 INTERNET Purple Naked Ladies Odd Future 

37 37 32 22 9 YU The Earn Mello 

38 – – 38 1 LUSHLIFE Plateau Vision Western Vinyl 

39 – – 39 1 DILLON Dillon Ain't Playin' [EP] Self-Released 

40 – 19 15 7 D-SISIVE Running With The Creeps Urbnet 

Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of Hip-Hop releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and non-commercial 


Adds 


1 42 SPEECH DEBELLE Freedom Of Speech Big Dada 

2 39 ECID Werewolf Hologram Fill In The Breaks 

3 24 J. PINDER Never No Fin 

4 13 CHIDDY BANG Breakfast Capitol 

5 9 NNEKA Soul Is Heavy Decon 

27 

Hip-Hop Select Albums 



1 1 29 1 3 173 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos Anti 

2 2 1 1 36 92 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 

3 4 3 2 28 60 JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST Watch The Throne Def Jam 

4 3 2 1 15 55 DRAKE Take Care Young Money 

5 9 6 3 22 45 J. COLE Cole World: The Sideline Story Roc Nation 

6 35 – 6 2 43 MUX MOOL Planet High School Ghostly 

6 6 5 4 5 43 GONJASUFI MU.ZZ.LE Warp 

8 11 12 8 4 41 GYM CLASS HEROES The Papercut... Fueled By Ramen 

9 24 – 9 2 38 2 BEARS Be Strong DFA 

10 5 4 4 10 37 DOOMTREE No Kings Doomtree 

11 8 7 7 33 34 BIG SEAN Finally Famous: The Mixtape G.O.O.D. 

12 – – 12 18 33 DESSA Castor, The Twin Doomtree 

13 18 20 13 21 32 FLO-RIDA "Good Feeling" [Single] Atlantic 

14 7 8 1 12 28 ROOTS Undun Def Jam 

14 12 13 2 36 28 PITBULL Planet Pit J 

16 21 27 16 17 27 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Euphoria Universal 

17 13 16 1 45 26 BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 Capitol 

18 17 19 3 26 24 LIL WAYNE Tha Carter IV Young Money 

19 34 34 19 3 23 M.I.A. "Bad Girls" [Single] N.E.E.T.-Interscope 

19 25 30 20 17 23 DRAKE "The Motto" [Single] Young Money 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Hip-Hop Select Albums, Mediaguide must have been serviced with all albums, EPs 

and singles (including remixes and edits). 

hiP-hoP 

Top Five 

WileY 

bill ortiz 

dooMtree 

gaNgreNe 

eligh aNd aMPliVe 

Powered by

ChaRTS geNre foCuS 

Jazz 

Top Five 

JaCK deJohNette 

ChiCK Corea/eddie 

goMez... 

Matt WilSoN’S artS 

aNd CraftS 

JoSh leViNSoN SeXtet 

Paul MCCartNeY 

Jazz 


1 1 2 1 6 JACK DEJOHNETTE Sound Travels Entertainment One 

2 2 1 1 7 CHICK COREA/EDDIE GOMEZ/PAUL MOTIAN Further Explorations Concord 

3 4 – 3 2 MATT WILSON'S ARTS AND CRAFTS An Attitude For Gratitude Palmetto 

4 6 3 3 4 JOSH LEVINSON SEXTET Chauncey Street Jlevrecords 

5 5 9 5 3 PAUL MCCARTNEY Kisses On The Bottom Hear 

6 16 30 6 3 JACOB DEATON Tribulation Self-Released 

7 3 4 2 7 CHARLIE HADEN AND HANK JONES Come Sunday Emarcy 


9 9 19 9 4 STEPHANE GRAPPELLI AND TOOTS THIELEMANS Bringing It Together LiSem 

10 – – 10 1 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio ToP DEBuT Blue Note 

11 13 28 11 4 MICHAEL MUSILLAMI Mettle Playscape 

12 7 7 5 6 JOSH RZEPKA Into The Night Self-Released 

13 12 8 4 6 FRANK WALTON SEXTET The Back Step Self-Released 

14 – 13 13 2 DON BYRON NEW GOSPEL QUINTET Love, Peace, And Soul Savoy Jazz-Savoy 

15 29 – 15 2 WYNTON MARSALIS The Music Of America Sony Masterworks 

16 20 36 16 3 CATHERINE RUSSELL Strictly Romancin' World Village 

17 – – 17 1 JON GOLD Bossa Possibility Blujazz 

18 8 40 8 3 LORRAINE FEATHER Tales Of The Unusual Jazzed Media 

19 10 5 1 15 CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE Conversations With Christian Mack Avenue 

20 – – 20 1 JEFF LORBER FUSION Galaxy Heads Up 

21 – – 21 1 GENE ESS A Thousand Summers Simp 

22 19 12 12 5 TOM WETMORE The Desired Effect Crosstown 

23 40 16 10 7 BILL BARNER Ten Tunes ToP MoVER Bill Barner 

24 27 – 24 2 TODD CLOUSER'S A LOVE ELECTRIC 20th Century Folk Selections Royal Potato Family 

25 – – 25 1 YELENA ECKEMOFF Forget-Me-Not L And H 

26 22 – 22 2 AKIKO TSURUGA Sakura American Showplace 

27 17 22 17 3 CHARLES GAYLE TRIO Streets Northern Spy 

28 – – 28 1 WES MONTGOMERY Echoes Of Indiana Avenue Riverside 

29 – 11 6 4 GARY SMULYAN Smul's Paradise Capri 

30 – – 30 1 OCTOBER TRIO New Dream Songlines 

31 39 – 1 14 CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE The Good Feeling Mack Avenue 

32 33 – 7 12 JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO At The Crossroads Emarcy 

33 – 17 17 4 CLIPPER ANDERSON The Road Home Origin 

34 28 37 17 12 GEORGE BENSON Guitar Man Concord 

35 – – 35 1 FRANK RUSSELL Circle Without End Sonic Portraits 

36 – – 26 2 STEVEN BERNSTEIN'S MILLENNIAL TERRITORY... MTO Plays Sly Royal Potato Family 

37 – – 37 1 HUGH MASEKELA Jabulani Razor and Tie 

38 – – 38 1 TIM BERNE Snakeoil ECM 

39 24 32 7 6 JANICE FINLAY Anywhere But Here Self-Released 

40 – 38 11 12 JAZZ ROOTS: MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS Various Artists Sony 

Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of Jazz releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and non-commercial radio stations. Subscribers can log in at cmj.com/charts to view airplay 

charts in their entirety. 

Adds 


1 17 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio Blue Note 

2 9 KAREN JOHNS Peach Ptarmigan 

2 9 THEA NEUMANN Lady And The Tramps Self-Released 

4 7 WES MONTGOMERY Echoes Of Indiana Avenue Riverside 

4 7 HRISTO VITCHEV AND WEBER IAGO Heartmony First Orbit 

28 


CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS THIS WEEK: 101

New World 

1 1 1 1 6 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52 Red-ATO 

2 2 2 1 8 NOVALIMA Karimba ESL 


4 3 3 3 5 ISTANBUL 70: PSYCH, DISCO, FOLK CLASSICS Various Artists Nublu 

5 5 14 5 3 CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages Concord-Hear 

6 8 9 6 3 LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO AND FRIENDS Collaborations With Some Of... Razor And Tie 

7 6 4 3 8 TRIBECASTAN New Deli Evergreene 

8 10 31 8 3 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos Anti 

9 13 22 9 3 HUGH MASEKELA Jabulani Razor and Tie 

10 32 – 10 2 MATI ZUNDEL Amazonico Gravitante ToP MoVER Waxploitation-ZZK 

11 7 12 7 7 ANA TIJOUX La Bala Nacional 

12 22 – 12 2 WATUSSI 1000% Guapo Self-Released 

13 9 6 1 15 LIJADU SISTERS Danger KF 

14 15 19 1 16 EL REGO El Rego Daptone 

15 33 – 11 11 LOGA RAMIN TORKIAN Mehraab Six Degrees 

16 14 11 9 9 JIMMY CLIFF Sacred Fire [EP] Aollective Sounds 

17 12 7 4 9 THE ORIGINAL SOUND OF CUMBIA Various Artists Soundway 

18 – – 18 1 K.S. CHITHRA K.S. Chithra ToP DEBuT Audiotracs 

19 20 20 6 11 HINDI ZAHRA Handmade Naive 

20 – – 20 1 BALOJI Kinshasa Succursale Crammed Discs 

21 11 13 1 24 TINARIWEN Tassili Anti 

22 – – 22 1 ALTAN Gleann Nimhe: The Poison Glen Compass 

23 18 18 18 5 IRIE TIME In Another Time Inherent 

24 39 15 10 6 MARTY DREAD It Sometimes Rains In Paradise Five Corners 

25 – – 7 20 PLAYING FOR CHANGE 2: SONGS AROUND THE WORLD Various Artists Concord-Hear 

26 31 – 2 24 MARIACHI EL BRONX Mariachi El Bronx (II) ATO 

27 21 16 12 7 SEE-I See-I Remixed Fort Knox 

28 23 27 23 7 LOOPING JAW HARP ORCHESTRA Universal Language Self-Released 

29 28 – 28 2 BOSSA JAZZ VOL. 2 Various Artists Soul Jazz 

30 – – 30 3 ILHAN ERSAHIN'S ISTANBUL SESSIONS Night Rider Nublu 

31 19 17 15 8 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS: BRAZILIAN BEAT Various Artists Putumayo 

32 17 8 8 9 BACHATA LEGENDS The Bachata Legends Iaso 

33 – – 33 1 NNEKA Soul Is Heavy Decon 

34 16 10 3 16 JONI HAASTRUP Wake Up Your Mind Soundway 

35 – 32 14 12 BOLLYWOOD BLOODBATH Various Artists Finders Keepers 

36 26 29 26 3 LILA DOWNS Pecados Y Milagros Sony 

37 – – 26 7 MARYSE LETARTE Des Pas Dans La Neige Arctic 

38 34 – 34 2 TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE The Tel Aviv Session Cumbancha 

39 – – 2 20 KIRAN AHLUWALIA Aam Zammen: Common Ground Avokado Artists 

40 – – 12 14 MIGHTY POPO Gakondo Borealis 

Adds 




Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of New World releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and non-commercial radio stations. Subscribers can log in at cmj.com/charts 

to view airplay charts in their entirety. 


1 36 BALOJI Kinshasa Succursale Crammed 


3 19 FUNK ARK High Noon ESL 

4 11 MATI ZUNDEL Amazonico Gravitante Waxploitation-ZZK 

5 8 K.S. CHITHRA K.S. Chithra Audiotracs 

29 

NeW World 

Top Five 

rodrigo Y gabriela 

NoValiMa 

balKaN beat boX 

ISTANBUL 70: 

PSYCH, DISCO, FOLK 

ChieftaiNS

ChaRTS 

Triple A 

geNre foCuS 




1 1 1 1 10 BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 

2 3 6 2 4 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow Partisan 

3 5 10 3 4 DR. DOG Be The Void Anti 

4 7 3 3 8 ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On Righteous Babe 

5 9 11 5 5 CRAIG FINN Clear Heart Full Eyes Vagrant 

6 11 5 5 5 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp Jagjaguwar 

7 14 9 7 6 FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar Wichita 

8 10 30 8 3 TENNIS Young And Old Fat Possum 

9 12 15 9 4 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas Columbia 

10 6 8 5 6 CHIMES OF FREEDOM... Various Artists Amnesty International 


12 22 – 12 2 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos Anti 

13 8 4 2 8 NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy Barsuk 


15 31 31 2 18 FEIST Metals Interscope 

16 13 32 13 3 DAMIEN JURADO Maraqopa Secretly Canadian 

17 33 17 1 15 TOM WAITS Bad As Me Anti 

18 16 21 16 3 SHEARWATER Animal Joy Sub Pop 

19 37 – 19 4 HOSPITALITY Hospitality ToP MoVER Merge 

20 20 12 12 5 BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite Noise Company 

21 – 22 21 2 JACK WHITE "Love Interrupted" [Single] Third Man-Columbia 

22 4 2 2 11 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur Rounder 

23 17 13 5 8 LITTLE WILLIES For The Good Times Milking Bull 

24 32 25 17 6 GRACE WOODROOFE Always Want Modular 

25 38 16 16 4 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory Carpark 

26 27 – 26 2 BAHAMAS Barchords Brushfire 

27 – 28 27 6 ALABAMA SHAKES Alabama Shakes Self-Released 

28 18 14 14 4 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52 Red-ATO 

29 – – 29 1 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit ToP DEBuT Rounder 

30 – – 30 2 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Stranger 


32 35 20 13 8 GOTYE Making Mirrors Universal Republic 

33 21 – 21 4 BARR BROTHERS The Barr Brothers Secret City 

34 25 24 24 5 JOHN K. SAMSON Provincial Epitaph-Anti 

35 – – 35 1 GRIMES Visions 4AD 

36 – 29 17 3 IMPERIAL TEEN Feel The Sound Merge 


38 28 – 28 2 BALKAN BEAT BOX Give Nat Geo 

39 – – 39 1 MOE. What Happened To The LA LAs Sugar Hill 

40 26 – 26 2 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Stage Whisper Elektra-Because 

Chart information is based on combined airplay reports of Triple A releases from CMJ’s panel of college, commercial and non-commercial 


Adds 

tW Adds Artist + titLe LAbeL 

1 9 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror Mom And Pop 

1 9 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit Rounder 

3 6 POND Beard, Wives, Denim Modular 

4 5 HUNX Hairdresser Blues Hardly Art 

4 5 BOWERBIRDS The Clearing Dead Oceans 

30 

Ñ Alternative Select Albums 


1 1 1 1 6 76 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52 Red-ATO 

2 2 2 2 9 18 ANA TIJOUX La Bala Nacional 

3 9 5 1 51 14 DIEGO GARCIA Laura Nacional 

4 11 3 1 24 13 TERENCE BLANCHARD... Chano Y Dizzy Concord Jazz 

4 4 8 1 43 13 DJ RAFF Latino And Proud Nacional 

6 10 7 6 18 11 HENDRIK MEURKENS Live At Bird's Eye Zoho 

7 5 4 1 36 10 RED HOT AND RIO 2... Various Artists eOne 

8 20 10 2 21 8 DAVID MURRAY... Plays Nat King Cole... Motema 

8 93 6 3 19 8 MILES ESPANOL Various Artists eOne 

10 26 22 10 7 7 ERNESTO SALGADO No Sabes Que Te Quiero Freddie 

10 16 11 1 31 7 MARIACHI EL BRONX Mariachi El Bronx (II) ATO 

10 41 12 12 43 7 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Rio Arriba ZZK 

13 32 – 13 2 6 BEBE Un Pokito De Rocanrol EMI Spain 

13 19 18 12 16 6 DON OMAR Meet The Orphans VI 

13 15 31 12 25 6 AFRO BOP ALLIANCE Una Mas Concord 

13 6 20 3 38 6 JOSE RIZO'S... Jose Rizo's Mongorama Saungu 

13 39 24 17 3 6 WATUSSI 1000% Guapo Self-Released 

18 47 49 18 5 5 PRINCE ROYCE "Las Cosas Pequenas" [Single] Top Stop 

18 33 9 9 7 5 ELIO VILLAFRANCA AND... Dos Y Mas Motema 

18 7 15 1 36 5 OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS Taurus ESL 

18 62 41 21 40 5 HELADO NEGRO Canta Lechuza Asthmatic Kitty 

22 23 14 3 18 4 ADANOWSKY Amador Everloving 

22 14 21 14 12 4 GLORIA ESTEFAN Miss Little Havana Cresent Moon 

22 55 55 9 5 4 PAUL MEYERS Welcome Home Little Chin 

22 38 40 14 23 4 3BALL MTY "Intentalo" [Single] La Penca 

22 21 26 4 41 4 ELIANE ELIAS Light My Fire Concord Picante 

22 40 60 27 39 4 ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO Cotonou Club Strut 

28 8 17 3 8 3 NOVALIMA Karimba ESL 

28 51 23 3 24 3 BIO RITMO La Verdad Electric Cowbell Records 

28 99 96 5 24 3 SHARON ISBIN Guitar Passion Sony Masterworks 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Ñ Alternative Select Albums, Mediaguide must have been serviced 


Radio Select Self Released 

Powered by 


Powered by 

TW ARTIST + TITLE LABEL 

1 GUIDED BY VOICES Let’s go eat the Factory GBV 

2 DOOMTREE no kings Doomtree 

3 NEAL MORGAN in the Yard Self-Released 

In order for music to be eligible for appearance on CMJ Radio Select Self-Released Mediaguide must have been serviced with 

all albums, EPs and singles (including remixes and edits). 

guided bY VoiCeS dooMtree Neal MorgaN

Top 200 Adds 

POS. Total Adds ARTIST + TITLE LABEL 

1 141 HUNX Hairdresser Blues Hardly Art 

2 132 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror Mom And Pop 

3 115 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit Rounder 

4 86 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory Vagrant 

5 82 SAID THE WHALE Little Mountain Hidden Pony 

6 76 POND Beard, Wives, Denim Modular 

7 75 BOWERBIRDS The Clearing Dead Oceans 

8 32 EUX AUTRES Sun Is Sunk Bon Mots 

9 31 FUNK ARK High Noon ESL 

9 31 AMY RAY Lung Of Love Daemon 

11 29 GEOGRAPHER Myth Modern Art 

11 29 TOPS Tender Opposites Arbutus 


14 19 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 

14 19 ZZ WARD Eleven Roses Hollywood 

16 16 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio Blue Note 

16 16 CUFF THE DUKE Morning Comes Paper Bag 

18 14 XRAY EYEBALLS Splendor Squalor Kanine 

18 14 SOFT SWELLS Soft Swells Modern Outsider 

20 11 FUN. Some Nights Fueled By Ramen 

SPECIAL OFFER! 

Every new and renewed 

subscription to NmR will 

receive a free badge to 

the CmJ music marathon 

& Film Festival 2012. 

SubScribe 

To 


31 

toP addS 

Top Five 

Sleigh bellS 

SChool of SeVeN bellS 

ChaRTS 

NEW MUSIC REPORT 

Send me ❏ 1 year ($395 United States / $420 Canada & mexico / $495 Outside North America) 

toP addS 

CmJ’S WEEKLY INDUSTRY mAGAzINE PUBLISHED 

AS 48 PDF ISSUES PER YEAR, INCLUSIVE OF 

SPECIAl PRINT EDITIONS AND ACCESS TO A 

mONTHLY CmJ-CURATED DOWNlOAD COmPILATION 

Send me ❏ 2 years ($655 United States / $695 Canada & mexico / $805 Outside North America) 

❏ This is a renewal ❏ CmJ login name:___________________________________________________________________ 

U.S. Check or International money order for $ ___________ is enclosed. (payable to CmJ Network in USD drawn on US bank) 

Charge my credit card: ❏ mastercard ❏ VISA ❏ American Express ❏ Discover 

Card Number: Expiration Date: 

Cardholder Name: ____________________________ Cardholder Signature: ______________________________________ 

Name: ______________________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ 

Address: ____________________________________________ Suite/Floor: ______________________________________ 

City:________________________ State: __________________ zip: ____________ Country: __________________________ 

Phone:(______) _____________________________ Fax:(______) _____________________________________________ 

Email: ________________________________________________________________________ 

Mail this to: CMJ new Music Subscriptions, P.o. Box 1016 new York, nY 10113. or fax it to: 917.591.4661 

For more information contact us: customerservice@cmj.com 

only valid for subscriptions purchased between march 1, 2012 - June 30, 2012. 

huNX 

delta SPirit 

Said the Whale

CMJ New Music Report - March 2012 - Tasting Grace

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?