Among the fresh sounds are Mixtape first-timers Wale (30), Billy Boy on Poison (34), Cursive (35), and Tweak Bird (40). Old vets seeing new action are Clipse (20), Ben Harper and his kick-ass new band the Relentless 7 (24), The Thermals (33), The Cool Kids (37), Super Furry Animals (38), and even Green Day sneaks in at 39 despite the tongue-lashing I gave them earlier this week.
There's plenty of shaking up going on with the other 30 songs that remain from last week. Iran's "Buddy" leaps from 10-2, proving that we will go ga-ga over anything TV on the Radio-related. Woods' blissfully lo-fi "Rain On" splits the distance to the top, moving from 20-10 while "Who's Asking?" by Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band climbs from 36-29. Steady wins the race for this band and its train-wreck name.
As was alluded to last week, Clipse are the highest of the new entries with their Kanye West collabo debuting at 20 while Ben Harper's first single from his upcoming new longplayer, White Lies For Dark Times, is close behind at 24 in its first week on the 'tape.
On Deck:
Next week should see a couple more new tunes breaking the top 40: Camera Obscura's second Mixtape-bound track from My Maudlin Career, "French Navy" and the return of Hanson. Yes. That Hanson.
The former Mmmboppers should see their lead singer Taylor appear on the 'tape as part of Tinted Windows, a pop-music lovefest featuring an all grown-up Taylor (has been for years now), Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos.
The first single from their just-released self-titled debut album, "Kind of a Girl," is a roll down the windows and crank it up, bubblegummy jam that, if you're Adam Schlesinger, is just that thing you do.
- Panic Switch / Silversun Pickups (4 weeks @ #1) iTunes MySpace
- Buddy / Iran iTunes MySpace
- Seaside / Kestrels iTunes MySpace
- Houses / Great Northern iTunes MySpace
- Now I'm a Fool / Eagles of Death Metal iTunes MySpace
- Zero / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
- The Rake's Song / The Decemberists iTunes MySpace
- Now We Can See / The Thermals iTunes MySpace
- It's Nice to Know You Work Alone / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- Rain On/ Woods iTunes MySpace
- Oblivion / Mastodon iTunes MySpace
- Cheerleader / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
- Night Lights / Golden Bear iTunes MySpace
- Cemetery Songs / The Archibalds iTunes MySpace
- Pulling On a Line / Great Lake Swimmers iTunes MySpace
- Ghetto Love / Spinnerette iTunes MySpace
- Go Square Go / Glasvegas iTunes MySpace
- Statues / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah iTunes MySpace
- Providence, RI / Nickel Eye iTunes MySpace
- Kinda Like a Big Deal / Clipse ft. Kanye West iTunes MySpace
- My Maudlin Career / Camera Obscura iTunes MySpace
- My Girls / Animal Collective iTunes MySpace
- I Was Once a Loyal Lover / Death Cab For Cutie iTunes MySpace
- Shimmer and Shine / Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 iTunes MySpace
- Perfect Games / The Broken West iTunes MySpace
- Little Bribes / Death Cab For Cutie iTunes MySpace
- Just Impolite / Plushgun iTunes MySpace
- Back 'Round / Wolfmother iTunes MySpace
- Who's Asking? / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band iTunes MySpace
- Chillin' / Wale ft. Lady Gaga iTunes MySpace
- Starting Over / Black Lips iTunes MySpace
- 1901 / Phoenix iTunes MySpace
- When I Died / The Thermals iTunes MySpace
- On My Way / Billy Boy on Poison iTunes MySpace
- From the Hips / Cursive iTunes MySpace
- The Box / The 1990s iTunes MySpace
- Pennies / The Cool Kids iTunes MySpace
- Mt. / Super Furry Animals iTunes MySpace
- Know Your Enemy / Green Day iTunes MySpace
- Whorses / Tweak Bird iTunes MySpace
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