Take a good, long look at this week’s top 30 because it’s loaded with Grade A Jams. Of course, most people will know Dr. Dog and their fine work at the tippy top of our list this week, but many of you may be unfamiliar with Foxy Shazam. Let me give you a brief introduction:
That should just about do it for you. Get thee to YouTube…now!
1 DR. DOG Be The Void Anti
2 FOXY SHAZAM The Church Of Rock And Roll I.R.S.
3 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar Slumberland
4 BLACK BANANAS Rad Times Xpress IV Drag City
5 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory Carpark
6 ISLANDS A Sleep And A Forgetting Anti
7 TOY HORSES Toy Horses Albino Sparrow
8 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune EMI
9 PORCELAIN RAFT Strange Weekend Secretly Canadian
10 CHAIRLIFT Something Columbia
11 YOUNG MAGIC Melt Carpark
12 HOWLER America Give Up Rough Trade
13 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow Partisan
14 THE KNOCKS Magic Octone
15 BIG DEAL Lights Out Mute
16 DAMIEN JURADO Maraqopa Secretly Canadian
17 SAN CISCO Awkward Self-Released
18 FIRST AID KIT The Lion’s Roar Wichita
19 THE RELATIONSHIP The Relationship Golden State
20 CAVEMAN CoCo Beware Magic Man
21 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Onwards To The Wall Dead Oceans
22 COASTING You’re Never Going Back M’Lady’s
23 SHEARWATER Animal Joy Sub Pop
24 VARIOUS ARTISTS Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International Amnesty International
25 ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR Out Of Frequency BMG
26 OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl
27 BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour Vagrant
28 TERRY MALTS Killing Time Slumberland
29 BUXTON Nothing Here Seems Strange New West
30 ISIDORE Life Somewhere Else Communicating Vessels