Music Blog

We do love the annual compilation from PDX Pop Now! and its two big handfulls of Portland music, stylistically all over the map, some familiar and not familiar names, and always a place to hear a few surprising bands you didn't know enough about. And again it's sitting at #1 on our list of most-played records this week. Arcade Fire's The Suburbs (not out officially until August but with a couple of early singles offered for download), The Black Keys, Portlanders Blitzen Trapper, and Deer Tick round out the top 5. New, unknown, and definitely worth a listen dept:  the quirky folk-pop record from Sea of Bees, Songs for the Ravens, #8 on our list.

Here's our newest chart:

1.  Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

2. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

3. The Black Keys/Brothers

4. Blitzen Trapper/Destroyer of the Void

5. Deer Tick/The Black Dirt Sessions

6. Jamie Lidell/Compass

7. The National/High Violet

8. Sea of Bees/Songs for the Ravens

9. Foals/Total Life Forever

10. Karen Elson/The Ghost Who Walks

11. LCD Soundsystem/This is Happening

12. The New Pornographers/Together

13. Hillstomp/Darker the Night

14. Janelle Monae/The ArchAndroid

15. Nada Surf/If I Had a Hi-Fi

16. RATATAT/LP4

17. Stars/The Five Ghosts

18. The Sadies/Darker Circles

19. Typhoon/Hunger & Thirst

20. V/A - Levi's Pioneer Sessions 2010

 

By the way, here's last week's list:

The new compilation from PDX Pop Now! tops our playlist this week.  This year the 2-CD set includes songs from Blitzen Trapper, Menomena, Hockey, Y La Bamba, AgesandAges, and about 20 other Portland bands. 

Blitzen Trapper's brand new full-length Destroyer of the Void also made our list of most-played records this week, along with The Black Keys, The National and The New Pornographers. Not to mention the impressive new music from Hillstomp, Darker the Night, which adds keyboards and ups the production for the popular Portland trance-blues duo. 

 

Here's our newest chart:

1.  Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

2. The Black Keys/Brothers

3. The National/High Violet

4. The New Pornographers/Together

5. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

6. Blitzen Trapper/Destroyer of the Void

7. Jamie Lidell/Compass

8. Broken Social Scene/Forgiveness Rock Record

9. Hillstomp/Darker the Night

10. RATATAT/LP4

11. Teenage Fanclub/Shadows

12. The Sadies/Darker Circles

13. Caribou/Swim

14. LCD Soundsystem/This is Happening

15. Typhoon/Hunger & Thirst

16. Deer Tick/The Black Dirt Sessions

17. UNKLE/Where Did the Night Fall

18. Band of Horses/Infinite Arms

19. Club 8/The People's Record

20. Foals/Total Life Forever