St. Louis Music Blog

Euclid Records
1. Sting - If On A Winter's Night...
2. Beatles - Revolver
3. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
4. Nirvana - Live At Reading
5. REM - Live At The Olympia
6. Tegan & Sara - Sainthood*
7. Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
8. Jack Johnson - En Concert
9. Swell Season - Strict Joy*
10. Wilco -- (Wilco The Album)

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records
1 Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights
2 Leonard Cohen: Live Songs
3 Atlas Sound: Logos
4 A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
5 Avarus: Toossassa
6 Nudge: As Good As Gone
7 BOMP! 2: Born in the Garage
8 Inca Ore: Silver Sea Surfer School
9 Joe Schwartz: Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis
10 Lake of Dracula: skeletal remains

Euclid Records
1. Rosanne Cash - The List
2. Jay Farrar/Ben Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
3. Swell Season - Strict Joy*
4. REM - Live At The Olympia
5. OST - Where The Wild Things Are
6. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood*
7. Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
8. Michael Jackson - This Is It
9. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records:
1 Atlas Sound: Logos
2 A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
3 Inca Ore: Silver Sea Surfer School
4 Nudge: As Good As Gone
5 BOMP! 2: Born in the Garage
6 Joe Schwartz: Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis
7 Love Exchange: s/t
8 Josh Hydeman: Brainsickness / Phantasmagoria
9 Current 93: Soft Black Stars
10 Nightmares: s/t

Every Monday (or Tuesday), A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
2. Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
3. Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
4. Boston Spaceships - Zero To 99
5. Exene Cervenka - Somewhere Gone
6. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
7. Wilco - Wilco The Album
8. Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man*
9. Marl Knopfler - Get Lucky*
10. Rain Machine - Rain Machine

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
2. Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward*
3. Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky*
4. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
5. Wilco - Wilco The Album
6. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
7. Black Crowes - Before The Frost*
8. Mars Volta - Octahedron
9. Phish - Joy
10. Muse - The Resistance

A bit late this week, but here are the top sellers for local rekkid stores. Asterisk means the band's coming to town...

Vintage Vinyl
1. BRAND NEW---Daisy*
2. JAY-Z---The Blueprint 3
3. THIS IS ENERGY---How It Begins*
4. MONSTERS OF FOLK---Monsters Of Folk
5. PEARL JAM---Backspacer
6. SAOSIN---In Search Of Solid Ground
7. MUSE---Resistance
8. K-JON---I Get Around
9. BEATLES---White Album
10. LIL' BOOSIE---Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Bad Azz
11. NOISETTES---Wild Young Hearts
12. BEATLES---Abbey Road
13. SAOSIN---Saosin
14. YO LA TENGO---Popular Songs
15. MAXWELL---BLACKSummers'Night*
16. VARIOUS ARTISTS---Silky Soul Music: All Star Tribute To Maze
Featuring Frankie Beverly
17. WHITNEY HOUSTON---I Look To You
18. OLIVER SAIN---St. Louis Breakdown: The Best Of Oliver Sain
19. NEW BOYZ---Skinny Jeanz & A Mic
20. RAEKWON---Only Built For Cuban Linx, Pt. 2
21. KID CUDI---Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day
22. MATISYAHU---Light*
23. BEATLES---Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
24. DAVID BAZAN---Curse Your Branches
25. GIRLS---Album

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky*
2. John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
3. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
4. Wilco - The Album*
5. Yonder Mountain String Band - The Show
6. Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward*
7. Black Crowes - Before The Frost*
8. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
9. White Rabbits - It's Frightening*
10. Bruce Hornsby - Levitate*

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records:
Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship*
Faust: C'est Com...Com...Complique
Health: Get Color
Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night
Nudge: As Good as Gone
Blank Dogs: Under and Under
Silvester Anfang: Silvester Anfang 2
Cave: Psychic Psummer
Tortoise: BOA Remixes*

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. (Vintage Vinyl will return next week -- they had catastrophic email problems last week.) An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records
Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
Faust: So Far
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship*
Faust:C'est Com...Com...Complique
Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night
Nightmares: s/t (cassette)
Blank Dogs: Under and Under
Silvester Anfang: Silvester Anfang 2
sic alps: A Long Way Around to A Shortcut
cave: Psychic Psummer

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. (Vintage Vinyl will be added once it arrives!) An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. Bottle Rockets: Lean Forward*
2. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
3. Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
4. Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol.2
5. Son Volt: American Central Dust*
6. Mew: No More Stories
7. Colbie Caillat: Breakthrough
8. Dead Weather: Horehound
9. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
10. Blitzen Trapper: Black River Kill

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records
1. Faust -- C'est Com...Com...Complique
2. Voivod -- Infini
3. Faust -- So Far
4. Russian Tsarlag -- Open Casket
5. Crocodiles -- Summer of Hate*
6. Silvester -- Anfang Silvester Anfang 2
7. Cacaw -- Get A Brain
8. V/A: Porno Groove The Sound of 70s Adult Films
9. Robert Turman / Aaron Dilloway -- Split
10. Francis Harold and The Holograms -- Who Said These Were Happy Times?

Every Monday A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. Bottle Rockets: Lean Forward*
2. Wilco: Wilco The Album*
3. Son Volt: American Central Dust
4. Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs: Under The Covers Volume 2
5.Willie Nelson: Lost Highway*
6. Yim Yames (Jim James) Tribute To George Harrison
7. Green Day: 21rst Century Breakdown
8. Levon Helm: Electric Dirt
9. Jets Overhead: No Nations
10. Dan Deacon:Bromst

Every Monday A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Vintage Vinyl
1. K-JON---I Get Around
2. MAXWELL---BLACKsummers'night*
3. MICHAEL JACKSON---Thriller
4. MICHAEL JACKSON---Off The Wall
5. MODEST MOUSE---No One's First, And You're Next
6. DJ CD---Hard On The Streets
7. DEAD WEATHER---Horehound
8. MICHAEL JACKSON---Vol. 1: Greatest Hits
9. FABOLOUS--Loso's Way
10. MOS DEF---Ecstatic
11. WILCO---Wilco (The Album)*
12. AMANDA BLANK---I Love You
13. MICHAEL JACKSON---Bad
14. RUM DRUM RAMBLERS---Hey Lordy Mama Mama Get Up And Go*
15. DISCOVERY---LP
16. JAPANDROIDS---Post-Nothing
17. GRIZZLY BEAR---Veckatimest
18. JULIAN PLENTI---Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper
19. YIM YAMES---Tribute To
20. CHRISETTE MICHELE---Epiphany
21. MICHAEL JACKSON---Number Ones
22. RAPHAEL SAADIQ---The Way I See It
23. SON VOLT---American Central Dust
24. TREVOR HALL---Trevor Hall
25. BOTTLE ROCKETS---Brooklyn Side*

Every Monday (Tuesday this week -- sorry, Warped Tour), A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. SON VOLT: American Central Dust
2. WILCO: Wilco (The Album)*
3. LEVON HELM: Electric Dirt
4. FIERY FURNACES: I'm Going Away
5. MATTHEW SWEET/SUSANNA HOFFS: Under the Covers, Vol. 2
6. REGINA SPEKTOR: Far
7. DIRTY PROJECTORS: BItte Orca
8. ELVIS COSTELLO: Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
9. RHETT MILLER: Rhett Miller
10. STEVE EARLE: Townes

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Vintage Vinyl:
1. MAXWELL: BLACKsummers'night
2. MICHAEL JACKSON: Thriller
3. MICHAEL JACKSON: Essential Michael Jackson
4. MICHAEL JACKSON: Number Ones
5. MICHAEL JACKSON: Bad
6. MICHAEL JACKSON: Dangerous
7. MICHAEL JACKSON: Vol. 1: Greatest Hits
8. WILCO: Wilco (The Album)*
9. MICHAEL JACKSON: Off The Wall
10. SON VOLT: American Central Dust
11. PORTUGAL THE MAN: The Satanic Satanist
12. MICHAEL JACKSON: Stripped Mixes
13. DEAD WEATHER: Horehound
14. JACKSON 5: Gold
15. JACKSON 5: The Millenium Collection
16. RUM DRUM RAMBLERS: Hey Lordy Mama Mama Get Up and Go*
17. TWISTA: Category F5
18. SONIC YOUTH: The Eternal
19. CLUTCH: Strange Cousins from the West
20. MICHAEL JACKSON: Invincible
21. JACKSON 5: Ultimate Collection
22. JACKSONS: Jacksons
23. EMINEM: Relapse
24. MOS DEF: Ecstatic
25. BOB MARLEY: Legend

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Apop Records
1. DINOSAUR JR: Farm*
2. DEERHUNTER: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
3. BONE AWL: Not For Our Feet
4. SUNN O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
5. SIX FINGER SATELLITE: Half Control
6. CURRENT 93: Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
7. SIR RICHARD BISHOP: Freak of Araby
8. WOLD: Imperator
9. THE REBEL: Exciting New Venue for Soccer and Execution of Women
10. KHANATE: Clean Hands Go Foul

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. SON VOLT: American Central Dust
2. WILCO: Wilco (The Album)
3. LEVON HELM: Electric Dirt
4. SONIC YOUTH: The Eternal*
5. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Live from Austin
6. THE JAYHAWKS: The Very Best of the Jayhawks
7. WHITE RABBITS: It's Frightening
8. MAXWELL: Black Summer's Night
9. GREEN DAY: 21st Century Breakdown*
10. PHOENIX: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Vintage Vinyl
1. WILCO: Wilco (The Album)
2. MICHAEL JACKSON: Thriller
3. MICHAEL JACKSON: Off The Wall
4. MICHAEL JACKSON: Essential Michael Jackson
5. MICHAEL JACKSON: Bad
6. MICHAEL JACKSON: Dangerous
7. MICHAEL JACKSON: Number Ones
8. MICHAEL JACKSON: Thriller - 25th Anniversary
9. MICHAEL JACKSON: X2 (Off The Wall/Invincible)
10. MICHAEL JACKSON: Vol. 1 - Greatest Hits
11. MICHAEL JACKSON: Thriller - 25th Anniversary (Zombie edition)
12. REGINA SPEKTOR: Far
13. MOS DEF: Ecstatic
14. LEVON HELM: Electric Dirt
15. MOBY: Wait For Me
16. MICHAEL JACKSON: History Past Present
17. DJ CD: Hard On The Streets
18. SONIC YOUTH: The Eternal*
19. DINOSAUR JR: Farm*
20. PETE YORN: Back & Fourth*
21. MICHAEL JACKSON: Love Songs
22. WU TANG: Chamber Music
23. SO MANY DYNAMOS: The Loud Wars
24. GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest
25. JEREMIH: Jeremih

Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:

Euclid Records
1. REGINA SPEKTOR: Far
2. DINOSAUR JR.: Farm*
3. ELVIS COSTELLO: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
4. SUNSET RUBDOWN: Dragonslayer
5. PATTERSOON HOOD: Murdering Oscar
6. BOB DYLAN: Together Through Life*
7. GOD HELP THE GIRL: God Help the GIrl
8. WHITE RABBITS: It's Frightening
9. DAVE ALVIN: Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women*
10. FLEET FOXES: Fleet Foxes

Here's a new feature on A to Z: Every Monday, we'll publish the best-selling releases from area independent record stores for the preceding week. And so without further ado:

[Update, 4 p.m.: Apop's top sellers are also below now!]

Euclid Records' Top Ten
1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King
2. GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest
3. ELVIS COSTELLO: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
4. SONIC YOUTH: The Eternal
5. ST. VINCENT: Actor
6. YUSUF: Roadsinger
7. DIRTY PROJECTORS: Bitte Orca
8. STEVE EARLE: Townes
9. HA HA TONKA: Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
10. DAVE ALVIN: Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women