Blue Sky + Hard Rock

Listen to WIXIW, the new album from Liars to be released on June 5th.

Here’s a peek at music that’s on the charts this week. A full detailed report will be in this week’s copy of BSHR Magazine June Edition.

UNCHARTED

- Foals spent their 6th week on uncharted, this week at #16- their highest position yet.
- Niki + The Dove share their 3rd week on the chart, also at their highest point- #19 
- Moonspell celebrates a 2nd week on uncharted, up from last week to #25
- And also repeating their 2nd week “uncharted” is Blood Red Shoes at #41 this week.

NEXT BEST SOUND’S Top 25 artists included #8’s Djr3hab and Niki + The Dove in at #14.

Adele’s ‘21’ is now at 68 weeks on the Social 50 Chart. Last month the album passed 9 Million Sales in the U.S. alone.

Also on the Social 50 is Skrillex at #3 and Tiesto hangs in there at #48 just one safer than last week.

HEATSEEKERS

We are excited to announce that the Continued Silence (EP) from Las Vegas band and another Blue Sky fave, Imagine Dragons has been on the Heatseekers Albums Chart now for 12 weeks. This week they soared to #2 on the charts.

The greatest gainer was #5 this week and one of our favorites- Never Trust A Happy Song
from Grouplove

And spending his 3rd week as a “Heatseeker” is Father John Misty who hold the #7 sport this week with his release Fear Fun

They were #2 last week, but this week (their 2nd charting) Otherwise comes in at #9 with True Love Never Dies.

Also dropping but still up there: in the 59th week The Head And The Heart are at #10 with their self-titled release. The band has made it to #1 in the past with this album, but they are up one from last week’s position.

And it’s the debut of Cherri Bomb who’s record This Is The End Of Control takes #11.
Electric Guest holds on to the #25 spot with Mondo. This is their 4th week on the chart. They are up from #32 last week but down from #11 which was their highest so far.

1. 

   Your Kind of People - Garbage

2. 

   A Joyful Noise - Gossip

3. 

   Gallery [EP] - Craft Spells

4. 

   Vows - Kimbra

5. 

   Choice of Weapon - The Cult

6. 

   The Light the Dead See - Soulsavers

7. 

   Cancer4Cure - El-P

8. 

   Born and Raised - John Mayer

9. 

   …Ya Know?- Joey Ramone

10. 

    Apocalyptic Love- Slash

11. 

    Passage - Exitmusic

Sigur Rós Streams New Album | Soulsavers Stream New Album |Regina Spektor & Only Son - Call Them Brothers Video | Stream: New Walkmen Album 

Coming next week… Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: Here, Gemma Ray: Island Fire, Regina Spektor: What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, Saint Etienne Words and Music by Saint Etienne, Scissor Sisters Magic Hour, Sigur Ros Valtari, Sun Kil Moon Among The Leaves, The Walkmen Heaven

We want to know

What did you buy or listen to this week?

What are your thoughts on the record?

Much of the same feeling may be found today when going to google.com. After all, we have omnibars to do our “googling” these days. Why couldn’t Google keep it’s ode to the great-beyond-measure Robert Moog? Surely we need a digital synthesizer in our lives each day.

I am mostly joking. Really how much work got done in tech offices around the world yesterday while workers were playing “Cars” and Daft Punk on the Google Moog? Google’s home page being that addicting everyday may be the fall of our economy + civilization all together. They were looking out for us! (99% joking)

I still found myself abnormally upset that the “Moogle” had transformed back into a “Google” even before midnight PST. That is, until I remembered something from the years of browsing the internet’s most productive tools.

Google has a ton of hidden gems, one of them being the Google Doodle archives, where luckily the Robert Moog Google Doodle Memorial will stand proud + function for as long as the internet exists. 

Plus, for those less “Funk”-y days, there is a Les Paul tribute of the Doodle that is amazing as well and also was/is able to record and send. 

Moog, Les Paul, Google… you complete us (but really, thanks for the genius, the innovation, and the endless inspiration).

Here is where you may find the Doodles (hopefully after business/school hours):

www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday

www.google.com/doodles/les-pauls-96th-birthday

And if you find yourself needing an educational break, we highly recommend reading  Robert Moog’s short auto-bio he wrote at only 17!

Enjoy + Make Music!

Oh and send it to us!

I am always excited when I hear about any new super-group, but the news that Britt Daniel (Spoon), Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Sam Brown (New Bomb Turks) formed together to create Divine Fits exceeded my happiness. 

The still untitled album is to be released later this year via Merge Records, Spoon’s record label, and is being produced by Nick Launay (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Cave). 

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• Tuesday Music News 
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• RIP Handsome Furs.

LP Shares Sessions from EastWest Studios with fans for free via this wonderful download box below.

Don’t let the “Live” throw you off here, in fact if anything the sound + style only accentuate the booming vocals of the Florence-meets-Joplin-esque singer.

Then again, it’s crushingly obvious that those vocals would sound just as strong and beautiful if she had been in an open field with no supporting talent- and we’d be just as excited about hearing it!

Swedish folk artist Kristian Matsson, otherwise known as The Tallest Man on Earth, will release his third album There’s No Leaving Now on June 12th in the U.S.- one day after the album’s UK release.

The ten track effort will be the follow-up to his 2010 record The Wild Hunt.

There’s No Leaving Now Tracklist

1. To Just Grow Away
2. Revelation Blues
3. Leading Me Now
4. 1904
5. Bright Lanterns
6. There’s No Leaving Now
7. Wind and Walls
8. Little Brother
9. Criminals 
10. On Every Page