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Arcade Fire (The Suburbs) and Menomena (Mines) were the records we played most this past week. We're also spinning the 22-20s record, Lost in the Trees, and that deep well of Portland music, the PDX Pop Now! compilation. As you may have seen the Dandy Warhols Capitol Years record is out today and that makes our playlist below. So do locals John Heart Jackie, Run on Sentence and Dolorean. I know I know, it's not out until October and we're still in summer, but if you can wait that long, well you are more disciplined than I am. (Download the first song from The Unfazed, right here.)

Our top 20 list this week:

1. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

2. Menomena/Mines

3. 22-20s/Shake/Shiver/Moan

4. Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

5. Lost in the Trees/All Alone in an Empty House

6. Ra Ra Riot/The Orchard

7. Jesca Hoop/Hunting My Dress

8. Wavves/King of the Beach

9. Cotton Jones/Tall Hours in the Glowstream

10. Frazey Ford/Obadiah

11. Dandy Warhols/The Capitol Years 1995-2007

12. John Heart Jackie/We Are Gold Mounds

13. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band/Where the Messengers Meet

14. Run On Sentence/You The Darkness & Me

15. Sea of Bees/Songs for the Ravens

16. Social Studies/Wind Up Wooden Heart

17. The Budos Band/The Budos Band III

18. Villagers/Becoming a Jackal

19. Blue Giant/Blue Giant

20. Dolorean/The Unfazed

 

And this was last week:

The weekly spins list checks in from its summer hiatus, (all tan and happy, smelling faintly like river water and barbecue..)  What's hot here? Summer releases from a couple of heayweights, Menomena and Arcade Fire.  While Menomena's Mines hit stores at the end of July and has been stuck on play ever since, two distinct, lovely, sometimes quirky records from singers Frazey Ford and Jesca Hoop have had our ear lately, along with Wavves, Lost in the Trees and Seattle's Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.  And -- look for a brand new studio session from Jesca Hoop on opbmusic tomorrow!

Here's the list of records we're playing most:

1. Menomena/Mines

2. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs

3. Frazey Ford/Obadiah

4. Jesca Hoop/Hunting My Dress

5. Wavves/King of the Beach

6. Alejandro Escovedo/Street Songs of Love

7. Carissa's Wierd/They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2000

8. Kathryn Calder/Are You My Mother?

9. Land of Talk/Cloak and Cipher

10. Lost in the Trees/All Alone in an Empty House

11. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band/Where the Messengers Meet

12. Various/PDX Pop Now! 2010

13. Wolf Parade/EXPO 86

14. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse/Dark Night of the Soul

15. Ferraby Lionheart/The Jack of Hearts

16. Maps & Atlases/Perch Patchwork

17. The Books/The Way Out

18. Cotton Jones/Tall Hours in the Glowstream

19. J. Roddy Walston & the Business/J. Roddy Walston & the Business

20. The Angry Orts/ self-titled