Congratulations to Claremont College local NORA AND THE BRIGHTS for their top spot on KSPC’s most played this week!1 Nora and the Brights Demo EP Self-released
2 Destroyer Kaputt Merge
3 Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 4AD
4 Wild Nothing Golden Haze Captured Tracks
5 Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will Sub Pop
Check out our Top 30 and the rest of our charts after the jump.
6 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Heart in Your Heartbreak Slumberland
7 The Octopus Project Hexadecagon Peek-a-boo
8 Smith Westerns Dye It Blonde Fat Possum
9 Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics Woodsist
10 Bruce Haack Farad: the Electric Voice Stones Throw
11 White Fence Is Growing Faith Woodsist
12 Tennis Cape Dory Fat Possum
13 The Parting Gifts Strychnine Dandelion In the Red
14 Wire Red Barked Tree Pink Flag
15 Rainbow Arabia Boys and Diamonds Kompakt
16 Fergus & Geronimo Unlearn Hardly Art
17 Apex Manor The Year of Magical Drinking Merge
18 Surf City Kudos Fire
19 Sharon van Etten Epic Ba Da Bing
20 Agent Ribbons Chateau Crone Antenna Farm
21 Nobunny First Blood Goner
22 So Many Wizards Love Songs for When You Leave Me Self-released
23 Deerhoof Deerhoof vs. Evil Polyvinyl
24 Kisses The Heart of the Nightlife Transparent
25 Yuck Yuck Fat Possum
26 Gregory and the Hawk Leche Fat Cat
27 Jonathan Richman O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth Vapor
28 Puro Instinct Headbangers on Ecstasy Mexican Summer
29 Delicate Steve Wondervisions Luaka Bop
30 The Morose Project The Morose Project Self-released
AMERICANA
1 Sharon van Etten Epic Ba Da Bing!
2 Giant Sand Blurry Blue Mountain Fire
3 Mountain Man Made the Harbor Partisan
4 Barb Barb Yep Roc
5 Wanda Jackson The Party Ain’t Over Nonesuch Records
6 Blackstrap Molasses Drag Your Hands and Feet YoungTough Records
7 Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone Anti-
8 Megafaun Heretofore Hometapes
9 Donovan Quinn Your Wicked Man Shrimper
10 Fitz and the Tantrums Pickin’ Up the Pieces Dangerbird
ELECTRONIC/RPM
1 The Octopus Project Hexadecagon Peek-a-boo
2 Bruce Haack Farad: The Electric Voice Stones Throw
3 Royksopp Senior MB3
4 Loden Buggy Mush
5 Avey Tare Down There Paw Tracks
6 Mount Kimbie Crooks and Lovers Hot Flush
7 Gold Panda Lucky Shiner Ghostly
8 Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea Warp
9 The Hundred in the Hands The Hundred in the Hands Warp
10 Underworld Barking Cooking Vinyl
HIP HOP
1 Keon Supreme Supreme S/R
2 Kristoff Krane Picking Flowers Next To Roadkill Strange Matter
3 The Pleasantville Killers The Pleasantville Killers Mastermindz Entertainment
4 Sims Bad Time Zoo Doomtree
5 J. Rocc Some Cold Rock Stuf Stones Throw
6 Blue Scholars Oof! Duck Down
7 Blu & Exile Below the Heavens Sound in Color
8 Jay Electronica Suckas S/R
9 Diz Gibran Soon You’ll Understand All We Got Is Us
10 Josh Smith Night and Music Bittker Records
JAZZ
1 Mason Brothers Two Sides, One Story Archival
2 Folk Jazz Jazz in the Stone Age 1 hr
3 Houston Person Moment to Moment Highnote
4 The Hilario Duran Trio Motion Alma
5 Sunna Gunnlaugs The Dream Sunny Sky Records
6 Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society Heads Up
7 The Bad Plus Never Stop Eone
8 Herb Alpert & Lani Hall I Feel You Concord
9 Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen For The Ghosts Within Domino
10 Exploding Star Orchestra Stars Have Shapes Delmark
WORLD
1 Patriots Third World Third World Music
2 Olof Arnalds Innundir Skinni One Little Indian
3 Aurelio Laru Beya Sub Pop
4 Various Artists Tradi-Mods vs Rockers Crammed
5 El Guincho Pop Negro Young Turks
6 The Good Ones Kigali Y’ Izahabu Dead Oceans
7 Various Artists Angola Soundtrack Analog Africa
8 Afrocubism Afrocubism World Circuit
9 Various Artists The Sound of Club Secousse Volume 1 Crammed
10 DePedro Nubes de Papel Nat Geo