It's amazing what can happen in the span of a few weeks. The juggernauts of last year are finally relinquishing their death grip on the 40, allowing some fresh blood to get in the mix. This week, new songs by The Thermals, Peter Bjorn and John, and Camera Obscura give a passing wave to Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, and Secret Machines tracks and a changing of the guards is nigh.
The Decemberists creep up to number 2 with The Thermals right behind at #4, both songs giving Animal Collective a real threat to any long-term penthouse stay the band may have had. Thieves Like Us are at #25 and moving up quickly with "Drugs In My Body," the bastard child of Blur's "Boys and Girls."
Not to be left out in all of the "up with newness" movement, The Strokes' bassist Nikolai Fraiture's side project - Nickel Eye - has bounced its way up to #15 with "Providence, RI." The track from the band's debut album, The Time of the Assassins, sounds like a folk-influenced Strokes cover band. Despite the harnshness of the previous sentence, the song has a laid-back vibe that begs repeated listenings. More importantly, it makes me hungry for another Strokes record. For now, I will have to get my Julian Casablancas vocals when he lends them to other projects - last year's collaboration with NERD and Santogold (and The Mixtape's #7 song of 2008), "My Drive Thru" as well as his guest turn on The Lonely Island's "Boombox." Ahh...The Lonely Island...the funniest batch of well-thought and produced songs since Tenacious D rocked our socks off in 2001. "I'm on a Boat" just may be the first song featuring T-Pain to actually crack the 'Tape. Stay tuned...
- My Girls / Animal Collective (2 weeks @ #1) iTunes MySpace
- The Rake's Song / The Decemberists iTunes MySpace
- Language City / Wolf Parade iTunes MySpace
- Now We Can See / The Thermals iTunes MySpace
- That's Not My Name / The Ting Tings iTunes MySpace
- I'm Outta Time / Oasis iTunes MySpace
- Sleepyhead / Passion Pit iTunes MySpace
- Perfect Games / The Broken West iTunes MySpace
- Now I'm a Fool / Eagles of Death Metal iTunes MySpace
- Stolen Shoes & a Rifle / Blitzen Trapper iTunes MySpace
- White Noise Melody / The Whore Moans iTunes MySpace
- Nothing Ever Happened / Deerhunter iTunes MySpace
- Nothing to Worry About / Peter, Bjorn, and John iTunes MySpace
- Sleeping Sickness / City and Colour iTunes MySpace
- Providence, RI / Nickel Eye iTunes MySpace
- My Maudlin Career / Camera Obscura iTunes MySpace
- You've Got Your Friends... / In Endeavors iTunes MySpace
- Daylight / Matt & Kim iTunes MySpace
- Dead and Gone / TI (w/ Justin Timberlake) iTunes MySpace
- Starting Over / Black Lips iTunes MySpace
- Now You're Gone / Secret Machines iTunes MySpace
- Airport Surroundings / loney, dear iTunes MySpace
- Never Trust My Heart / The Points iTunes MySpace
- An Eluardian Instance / of Montreal iTunes MySpace
- Drugs In My Body / Thieves Like Us iTunes MySpace
- Night Lights / Golden Bear iTunes MySpace
- Last Believer, Drop Dead / Secret Machines iTunes MySpace
- Lover's Day / TV on the Radio iTunes MySpace
- Saved By Old Times / Deerhunter iTunes MySpace
- Jetstream / Doves iTunes MySpace
- That Beep / Architecture in Helsinki iTunes MySpace
- Street Lights / Kanye West iTunes MySpace
- Come Saturday / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart iTunes MySpace
- Love Dog / TV on the Radio iTunes MySpace
- DLZ / TV on the Radio iTunes MySpace
- Broken / Late of the Pier iTunes MySpace
- Sunlight / Harlem Shakes iTunes MySpace
- The Mountain / Heartless Bastards iTunes MySpace
- Seaside / Kestrels iTunes MySpace
- Wind Phoenix / Cymbals Eat Guitars iTunes MySpace
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