One of those two-song band's is this week's highest debut. Make that debuts. Dirty Projectors makes a grand entrance on the Mixtape this week with back-t0-back entries from their brilliant album, Bitte Orca. The high-altitude twin debuts of "Stillness Is the Move (12) and Temecula Sunrise (13) trump a pretty respectable debut from Mixtape favorite - Arctic Monkeys.
Any other week, "Cryin' Lightning" would be the big deal, but Arctic Monkeys' latest single settles in quietly at 25 in its first week. Expect big things from the song. The Monkeys' third full-length album, Humbug, will hit the US August 25, and, if history is any indication, will produce several Mixtape tracks. This week, however, belongs to Dirty Projectors. Did I mention the album is brilliant?
Other new entries this week include the band with the singer who's the nephew of the guy that pretty much runs the show that is The Flaming Lips. Dennis Coyne obviously spent his formative years listening to Uncle Wayne's band as Lips-ish psychedelic experimentation is a cornerstone of Dennis' band, Stardeath and White Dwarfs. If the name sounds familiar it's because the band collaborated with The Flaming Lips earlier this year on Madonna cover (and Mixtape top-ten), "Borderline." "I Can't Get Away" (34) is the first proper entry for Stardeath and White Dwarf. Miike Snow (yes, double "i" - the theme of the week continues) enters at 39 with "Song For No One" and the Fruit Bats occupy the leadoff position at 40 with "My Unusual Friend."
It's a busy week on the Mixtape and the next few months should be just as action packed. Aside from all the left-field suprises that makes seeking out new music so worthwhile, some big names are set to drop new releases. August albums from Jimmy Fallon's house band (The Roots - 8/11) and the aforementioned Arctic Monkeys (8/25) as well as September releases from Jay Z (9/11), Beastie Boys, Grand Archives, and Q Tip (9/15), and even Pearl Jam (9/22) should keep the Mixtape interesting to say the least.
- Summertime Clothes / Animal Collective (4 weeks @ #1) iTunes MySpace
- Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear iTunes MySpace
- It's Nice to Know You Work Alone / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- 21st Century Breakdown/ Green Day iTunes MySpace
- Radio Kaliningrad / Handsome Furs iTunes MySpace
- Catch and Release / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- Murder City / Green Day iTunes MySpace
- Easy / Deer Tick iTunes MySpace
- Life In Marvelous Times / Mos Def iTunes MySpace
- You'll Disappear / The Phenomenal Handclap Band iTunes MySpace
- Casa Bey / Mos Def iTunes MySpace
- Stillness Is the Move / Dirty Projectors (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Temecula Sunrise / Dirty Projectors (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- You Never Know/ Wilco iTunes MySpace
- Rain On/ Woods iTunes MySpace
- Skeletons / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
- Sacred Trickster / Sonic Youth iTunes MySpace
- Bull Black Nova / Wilco iTunes MySpace
- I Want You to Know/ Dinosaur Jr. iTunes MySpace.
- The End Is Near / The Fiery Furnaces iTunes MySpace
- Caterpillar Playground / Nurses iTunes MySpace
- Feel Like Taking You Home / Brendan Benson iTunes MySpace
- French Navy/ Camera Obscura iTunes MySpace
- Got Nuffin' / Spoon iTunes MySpace
- Cryin' Lightning / Arctic Monkeys (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Since We've Been Wrong / The Mars Volta iTunes MySpace
- Seaside / Kestrels iTunes MySpace
- Upside Down / Banjo or Freakout iTunes MySpace
- Lost Words / Ganglians iTunes MySpace
- Death of Auto Tune / Jay-Z iTunes MySpace
- Satellite Skin / Modest Mouse iTunes MySpace
- Panic Switch / Silversun Pickups iTunes MySpace
- Zero / Yeah Yeah Yeahs iTunes MySpace
- I Can't Get Away / Stardeath & White Dwarfs (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Tokyo / Telekinesis (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- Beggar's Bowl / Polvo iTunes MySpace
- L.A. Guitar Dream / Spanish Prisoners iTunes MySpace
- Dream City / Free Energy iTunes MySpace
- Song For No One / Miike Snow (NEW) iTunes MySpace
- My Unusual Friend / Fruit Bats (NEW) iTunes MySpace
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