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KEXP Music Charts
KEXP Adds music charts for 2012
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|  Santigold | Master Of My Make Believe | Downtown/Atlantic | | PS I Love You | Death Dreams | Paper Bag | | Violens | True | Slumberland | | Monophonics | In Your Brain | Ubiquity | | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Aufheben | 'a' | | Silversun Pickups | Neck of the Woods | Dangerbird | | Alcoholic Faith Mission | Ask Me This | Old Flame | | Blockhead | Interludes After Midnight | Ninja Tune | | Twerps | Twerps | Underwater Peoples | | The Bats | Free All The Monsters | Flying Nun | | Quakers | Quakers | Stones Throw | | Blasted Canyons | 2nd Place | Castle Face | | Guantanamo Baywatch | Chest Crawl | Dirtnap | | Advance Base | A Shut-In's Prayer | Caldo Verde | | Norah Jones | Little Broken Hearts | Blue Note | | (Various) | Kitsune America | Kitsune | | Felix | Oh Holy Molar | Kranky | | Gravenhurst | The Ghost In Daylight | Warp | | Off! | Off! | Vice | | Addison Groove | Transistor Rhythms | Fifty Weapons | | Jaakko Laitinen & Vaara Raha | Yom Rovaniemella | Helmi Levyt | | Cheap Time | Wallpaper Music | In The Red | | WAZU | WAZU | self-released | | The Far Away Eyes | There's No Such Thing | Unsmashable | | 88:88 | Heady EP | self-released | | Tom Eddy | The Bread Maker's Blues | self-released | | The Pornadoes | Now Serving | self-released | | Kyson | Patience | Moodgadget | | Arca | Stretch 1 | UNO |
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| Beach House | Bloom | Sub Pop | | Allo Darlin' | Europe | Slumberland | | Best Coast | The Only Place | Mexican Summer | | Death Grips | The Money Store | Epic | | Lower Dens | Nootropics | Ribbon Music/Domino | | Daughn Gibson | All Hell | White Denim | | Reptar | Body Faucet | Vagrant | | The Sugarman 3 | What The World Needs Now | Daptone | | Ramona Falls | Prophet | Barsuk | | Evans The Death | Evans The Death | Slumberland | | Lightships | Electric Cables | Geographic/Domino | | Cheap Freaks | Bury Them All | Big Neck | | The Bombay Royale | You Me Bullets Love | Hopestreet | | Craft Spells | Gallery EP | Captured Tracks | | Hiss Golden Messenger | Poor Moon | Tompkins Square | | Orcas | Orcas | Morr | | Whitney Ballen | White Feathers, White Linens | self-released | | Alejandro Escovedo | Big Station | Fantasy | | Tomas Barfod | Salton Sea | Friends of Friends | | Shadows on Stars | Shadows on Stars | self-released | | Deadkill | Deadkill | Good To Die | | St. Vincent | Radio EP | 4AD | | Battles | Gloss Drop | Warp | | The Wandering | Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here | Songs of the South | | Fontomi | EP | self-released | | Justin Martin | Ghettos & Gardens | dirtybird | | Hawthorne Headhunters | Myriad of Now | Plug Research | | James & Evander | Bummer Pop | Velvet Blue Music | | Giraffage & XXYYXX | Even Though EP | Kitsune | | Squarepusher | Ufabulum | Warp | | Evil Eyes | EP | self-released | | Brad | United We Stand | Razor & Tie | | Woods/Amps For Christ | Woods/Amps For Christ | Shrimper | | Smile Brigade | Briana/Lovey Dovey | self-released | | Bo Diddley | The Black Gladiator | Future Days/Light in the Attic |
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| Jack White | Blunderbuss | Third Man/Columbia | | New Build | Yesterday Was Lived and Lost | Lanark | | Chicha Libre | Canibalismo | Barbes | | Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | Radio Salone | Cumbancha | | The Chemical Brothers | Don't Think | Astralwerks | | Jon DeRosa | A Wolf In Preacher's Clothes | Mother West | | Shabazz Palaces | Live at KEXP | Sub Pop | | Diamond Rugs | Diamond Rugs | Partisan | | Mister Lies | Hidden Neighbors EP | self-released | | Kingdom Crumbs | Kingdom Crumbs | Cloud Nice | | Cold Specks | Winter Solstice EP | Mute | | Kwes | Meantime | Warp | | Nick Waterhouse | Time's All Gone | Innovative Leisure | | Cock and Swan | Stash | Lost Tribe Sound | | Dreams | Flyte EP | 6BIT | | RxGibbs | Futures EP | Cascine | | Suckers | Candy Salad | Frenchkiss | | (Various) | Plug Research: Spring Forward Thinking | Plug Research | | Hurray For The Riff Raff | Look Out Mama | Born To Win | | Light Asylum | Light Asylum | Mexican Summer | | Part Time | What Would You Say? | Mexican Summer | | King of Prussia | Transmissions from the Grand Strand | self-released | | Dog Shredder | Brass Tactics | Good to Die | | Witch Gardens | R-I-P | self-released | | Asonat | Love In Times of Repetition | n5MD | | Magic Bullets | Much Ado About | Mon Amie | | (Various) | Stash Ritual | Mexican Summer | | Slavic Soul Party! | New York Underground Tapes | Barbes | | (Various) | Generation Y Not | Absent Fever | | Pressed And | Imbue Up | Mush | | Evil Eyes | EP | self-released | | Brad | United We Stand | Razor & Tie | | Woods/Amps For Christ | Woods/Amps For Christ | Shrimper | | Smile Brigade | Briana/Lovey Dovey | self-released | | Bo Diddley | The Black Gladiator | Future Days/Light in the Attic |
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| Spiritualized | Sweet Heart, Sweet Light | Fat Possum | | XXYYXX | XXYYXX | Relief in Abstract | | Amadou & Miriam | Folila | Nonesuch | | Screaming Females | Ugly | Don Giovanni | | The Dandy Warhols | This Machine | The End | | Outer Minds | Outer Minds | Southpaw | | JD McPherson | Signs & Signifiers | Rounder | | Toro y Moi | June 2009 | Carpark | | Waco Brothers & Paul Burch | Great Chicago Fire | Bloodshot | | Batida | Batida | Soundway | | Gemma Ray | Island Fire | Bronze Rat | | Joan Soriano | La Familia Soriano | iASO | | Robert Pollard | Mouseman Cloud | Guided By Voices, Inc. | | Julia Holter | Ekstasis | RVNG Intl. | | The Lions | A Sampler | Stones Throw | | Ebo Taylor | Appia Kwa Bridge | Strut | | Roaming Herds of Buffalo | Roaming Herds of Buffalo | self-released | | Emily Wells | Mama | Partisan | | Doe Paoro | Slow To Love | Anorak | | Pure Bathing Culture | Pure Bathing Culture EP | Father/Daughter | | Abjo | Sanfoka | Soulection | | Lee Hazlewood | The LHI Years | Light in the Attic | | Rob | Make It Fast, Make It Slow | Soundway |
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| M. Ward | A Wasteland Companion | Merge | | FRCxBNE | There Goes The Neighborhood | self-released | | Kishi Bashi | 151a | Joyful Noise | | Wayfinders | Wayfinders | self-released | | Breton | Other People's Problems | FatCat | | Gravelroad | Psychedelta | Knick Knack | | The Wedding Present | Valentina | Scopitones | | Trampled By Turtles | Stars and Satellites | Banjodad/Thirty Tigers | | (Various) | West In Dust 2012 | West In Dust | | Peter Broderick | http://itstartshear.com | Hush | | (Various) | Svengali Vol. 1 | Svengali | | Freshkills | Raise Up The Sheets | The End | | Ravens & Chimes | Holiday Life | Better Looking | | Fort Romeau | Kingdoms | 100% Silk | | feedtime | The Aberrant Years | Sub Pop | | Anenon | Inner Hue | Non Projects | | 10 Ft. Ganja Plant | 10 Deadly Shots Vol. II | ROIR | | Elephant & Castle | Transitions | Plug Research | | Clark | Iradelphic | Warp | | Lower Dens | Brains/Propagation | Domino | | White Arrows | Fireworks of the Sea | Votiv |
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| Yppah | Eighty One | Ninja Tune | | Choir of Young Believers | Rhine Gold | Ghostly International | | Paul Weller | Sonik Kicks | Yep Roc | | La Sera | Sees The Light | Hardly Art | | Miike Snow | Happy To You | Downtown/Universal Republic | | Battleme | Battleme | Trashy Moped | | Georgia Anne Muldrow | Seeds | SomeOhtaShip | | Keaton Collective | Tercera | self-released | | Hush Arbors & Arbouretum | Aureola | Thrill Jockey | | Sidi Toure | Koima | Thrill Jockey | | Rocket Juice & The Moon | Rocket Juice & The Moon | Honest Jon's | | Mirrorring | Foreign Body | Kranky | | Arctic Monkeys | R U Mine? | Domino | | Learning Team | Daypack EP | self-released | | A Gun That Shootes Knives | Wish You Were Here XOXO | self-released |
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| The Shins | Port of Morrow | Columbia | | THEESatisfaction | awE naturalE | Sub Pop | | Lee Ranaldo | Between The Times And The Tides | Matador | | Scuba | Personality | Hotflush | | Cu | Caravana Sereia Bloom | Six Degrees | | The Lumineers | The Lumineers | Dualtone | | Tanlines | Mixed Emotions | True Panther Sounds | | Rocky Votolato | Television of Saints | self-released | | Trust | TRST | Arts & Crafts | | Blood Orange Paradise | Blood Orange Paradise | self-released | | Labyrinth Ear | Apparitions EP | self-released | | Daughter | The Wild Youth EP | Glassnote | | La Chiva Gantiva | Pelao | Crammed Discs | | Young Prisms | In Between | Kanine | | Mouse On Mars | Parastrophics | Monkeytown | | Caetano Veloso & David Byrne | Live at Carnegie Hall | Nonesuch | | White Hills | Frying On This Rock | Thrill Jockey | | Tensei | Constellation EP | Plug Research | | Yarn | Almost Home | self-released | | Brother Ali | The Bite Marked Heart EP | Rhymesayers |
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| The Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea | Merge | | Sleigh Bells | Reign of Terror | Mom + Pop | | Pond | Beard, Wives, Denim | Modular | | White Rabbits | Milk Famous | tbd | | Errors | Have Some Faith In Magic | Rock Action | | Jamie Woon | Mirrorwriting | Polydor/Verve Forecast | | The Megaphonic Thrift | The Megaphonic Thrift | Sonic Unyon | | Natasha Kmeto | The Ache | Dropping Gems | | Lucero | Women & Work | ATO | | The Blakes | Art of Losses | self-released | | ZZ Ward | Eleven Roses | self-released | | The Funk Ark | High Noon | ESL | | Oliver Tank | Dreams + Dreams Remixed | Yes Please | | Lilacs & Champagne | Lilacs & Champagne | Mexican Summer | | Crushed Stars | In The Bright Rain | Simulcra | | Speech Debelle | Freedom of Speech | Big Dada | | NUMBJAC | Grief EP | Car Crash Set | | Eux Autres | Sun Is Sunk | Bons Mots | | Hunx | Hairdresser Blues | Hardly Art | | Los Rakas | Raka Love | self-released | | Sol | Yours Truly | self-released | | Gangrene | Vodka & Avahuasca | Decon | | Subcoda | Wide Awake | Satellite 451 | | Radiation City | Cool Nightmare | Tender Loving Empire | | Breton | The Blanket Rule EP | FatCat | | Shortcircles | EP | Plug Research | | Burial | Kindred EP | Hyperdub | | Greylag | The Only Way To Kill You | Ninth Street Opus | | Bonobo | Black Sands Remixed | Ninja Tune | | Gold Fields | EP | Astralwerks | | Ringo Deathstarr | Shadow EP | Sonic Unyon | | Guards | Do It Again/Feels Like That | White Iris | | Mo Kolours | EP2: Banana Wine | One-Handed Music | | Callers & Delicate Steve | Further Out and Perfect Pairs | Western Vinyl |
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| Grimes | Visions | 4AD | | Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny | Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose | Mute | | Lushlife | Plateau Vision | Western Vinyl | | Perfume Genius | Put Your Back N 2 It | Matador | | Terry Malts | Killing Time | Slumberland | | Mati Zundel | Amazonico Gravitante | ZZK/Waxploitation | | My Best Fiend | In Ghostlike Fading | Warp | | The 2 Bears | Be Strong | DFA | | St. Paul de Vence | St. Paul de Vence | self-released | | Eighteen Individual Eyes | Unnovae Nights | self-released | | Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker and Yim Yames | New Multitudes | Rounder | | Bowerbirds | The Clearing | Dead Oceans | | Sweet Secrets | Color Force | 9lb Recordings | | Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now? | Nonesuch | | (Various) | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan | Amnesty International | | Loga Ramin Torkian | Mehraab | Six Degrees | | Field Music | Plumb | Memphis Industries | | Prinzhorn Dance School | Clay Class | DFA | | Wild Belle | Keep You | Sandhill Sound | | Pepe Deluxe | Queen Of The Wave | Asthmatic Kitty | | The Horde and The Harem | A Long Midwinter | self-released | | K.S. Chithra | K.S. Chithra | B-Music |
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| John Talabot | fIN | Permanent Vacation | | Galactic | Carnivale Electricos | Anti- | | The Twilight Sad | Non One Can Ever Know | Fatcat | | Memoryhouse | The Slideshow Effect | Sub Pop | | Yellow Ostrich | Strange Land | Barsuk | | Thaddeus David | Maven | Members Only | | Plants and Animals | The End of That | Secret City | | Black Bananas | Rad Times Xpress IV | Drag City | | Ana Tijoux | La Bala | Nacional | | Lux | We Are Not The Same | self-released | | Wiley | Evolve Or Be Extinct | Big Dada | | Chuch Prophet | Temple Beautiful | Yep Roc | | Little Barrie | King of the Waves | Tummy Touch | | Young Magic | Melt | Carpark | | Bhi Bhiman | Bhiman | self-released | | Lapalux | When You're Gone EP | Brainfeeder | | Tommy Womack | Now What! | Cedar Creek | | Detective Agency | Daggers EP | self-released | | Au Palais | Tender Mercy EP | The Sounds of Sweet Nothing | | Kimbra | Settle Down EP | Warner Bros. | | The Toure-Raichel Collective | The Tel Aviv Session | Cumbancha | | Islands | A Sleep & A Forgetting | Anti- | | Shigeto | Lineage | Ghostly | | Lambchop | Mr. M | Merge | | XPOSURE | Digital Perception | Egyptian Maracas | | Balkan Beat Box | Give | Nat Geo Music | | Evian Christ | Kings and Them | Tri Angle | | DJ Food | The Search Engine | Ninja Tune | | Plug | Back on Time | Ninja Tune | | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Stage Whisper | Elektra | | RA Scion | Beg Borrow Steal | self-released | | (Various) | Re:Generation | Hyundai/The Recording Academy/Greenlight/ATO | | The Riffbrokers | The Green Key Will Let You In | Unsmashable |
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| Shearwater | Animal Joy | Sub Pop | | Chairlift | Something | Columbia/Young Turks | | Tennis | Young & Old | Fat Possum | | Posse | Posse | self-released | | Barry Adamson | I Will Set You Free | Central Control | | Trailer Trash Tracys | Ester | Domino | | Fred Eaglesmith | 6 Volts | AML | | Comet Gain | Howl of the Lonely Crowd | What's Your Rupture? | | Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas | Columbia | | A Place To Bury Strangers | Onwards To The Wall | Dead Oceans | | Sharon Van Etten | Tramp | Jagjaguwar | | Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. | Area 52 | ATO | | Gonjasufi | MU.ZZ.LE | Warp | | Keep Shelly In Athens | Campus Martius EP | Planet Mu | | Matthew Dear | Headcage EP | Ghostly International | | Bears | Greater Lakes | Misra | | Radiohead | TKOL RMX 1234567 | Ticker Tape Ltd./TBD/XL | | The Black Belles | The Black Belles | Third Man | | Todd Terje | It's the Arps EP | Smalltown Supersound/Olsen | | Arrange | Five Years With the Sun | Jukboxr | | Rob Crow | He Thinks He's People | Temporary Residence Limited | | (Various) | Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics | Nublu | | Shlohmo | Vacation EP | Friends of Friends | | Of Montreal | Paralytic Stalks | Polyvinyl | | Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band | Tabla Rock | Ubiquity | | Zoos of Berlin | Pallister Chant EP | Time No Place | | Sonnymoon | 2012 EP | Plug Research |
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| Cloud Nothings | Attack On Memory | Carpark | | Imperial Teen | Feel The Sound | Merge | | Hospitality | Hospitality | Merge | | Big Deal | Lights Out | Mute | | Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes | Vagrant | | Gabriel Teodros | Colored People's Time Machine | Fresh Chopped Beats | | Jim White | Where It Hits You | Yep Roc | | Adrian Younge presents Venice Dawn | Something About April | Wax Poetics | | Elliott Brood | Days Into Years | Paper Bag | | The Big Pink | Figure This | 4AD | | Howlin Rain | The Russion Wilds | American | | (Various) | Coastal Sightings | Cairo | | Union | Analogtronics | Fat Beats | | The New Law | The Fifty Year Storm | self-released | | Busdriver | Beaus$Eros | Fake Four Inc. | | Keyboard Kid | The Mind Is So Complex When You're #Based | self-released | | Ryan Stively | Soft Kingdom | self-released | | Robert Glasper Experiment | Black Radio | Blue Note | | Water Borders | Harbored Mantras | Tri Angle | | John & Tom | Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar | Third Man | | Becky & John | I'll Be There If You Ever Want | Third Man |
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| Porcelain Raft | Strange Weekend | Secretly Canadian | | First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar | Wichita | | Common | The Dreamer/The Believer | Think Common/Warner Bros. | | Howler | America Give Up | Rough Trade | | Cardinal | Hymns | Fire | | Laura Gibson | La Grande | Barsuk | | John K. Samson | Provincial | Epitaph | | Lana Del Rey | EP | Interscope | | The Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Out of Frequency | BMG | | Cate Le Bon | Cyrk | The Control Group | | Steven Bernstein's Milennial Territory Orchestra | MTO Plays Sly | The Royal Potato Family | | The Torn ACLs | Make A Break, Make A Move | CreeperSpeak | | Neverever | Shake-a-Baby | Slumberland | | Spekulation | Spekulation | self-released | | The Pharmacy | Dig Your Grave | Kind Turkey | | Jessie Baylin | Little Spark | Blonde Rat | | Brokaw | Interiors | Good To Die | | Joe Louis Walker | Hellfire | Alligator | | Air | Parade/Seven Stars | Astralwerks |
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| Nada Surf | The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy | Barsuk | | The Weeknd | Echoes of Silence | self-released | | Novalima | Karimba | ESL Music | | The Men | Open Your Heart | Sacred Bones | | Guided By Voices | Let's Go Eat The Factory | Guided By Voices Inc. | | eleventhfloorrecords | eleventhfloorrecords | n5MD | | Hanni El Khatib | Will the Guns Come Out | Innovative Leisure | | Tindersticks | The Something Rain | Constellation | | The Jet Age | Domestic Disturbances | Sonic Boomerang | | Sapient | Eaters Volume One: Tusks | self-released | | Herman Dunee | Tell Me Something I Don't Know | Strange Moosic | | Tim Love Lee | Fully Bearded: 15 Years of Tummy Touch Records in Dub | Tummy Touch | | Kithkin | Takers & Leavers | self-released | | (Various) | Gem Drops Two | Dropping Gems | | The Little Willies | For the Good Times | Milking Bull | | Jonsi | We Bought A Zoo | Columbia | | Warm Ghost | Narrows | Partisan | | Orkestar Zirkonium | Too Hot For Sleep | self-released | | Ernest Gonzales | Natural Traits | Friends of Friends | | Pandr Eyez | Eyes On You EP | Cascine | | Adanowsky | Amador | Everloving | | Sinjin Hawke | The Lights EP | Pelican Fly | | IG68 | A Loom and Not Me | Nueva Forma | | Countrycide | The Rise and the Fall | self-released | | Don't Talk To The Cops | Let's Quit | self-released | | Little Cuts | Plastic Disaster | Dirtnap | | Graintable/Kimnusico Trio | No Northwest Cycle 2 EP #2 | Car Crash Set | | Charles Bradley | Heartaches and Pain | Daptone |
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