Filter Office Fun

It’s been an action-packed week over here at Filter HQ – if you thought we’d all still be hibernating in cardboard boxes after SXSW, you’d be dead wrong!

On Wednesday, the pride and joy of North Oakland, CA - Wallpaper stopped by the Filter headquarters ready to help us all get over hump day.  The self proclaimed "original funky dinosaur" came with iPod, glitter gloves and sunglasses in tow and treated us to four of the funkiest songs to ever grace the impromptu stage of Filter.  Catch the dynamic duo of dance below as they performed "EvryTM We Do It" from their debut EP T Rex:

Then on Thursday, our good friend Jaymay invited us out to watch her perform on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. We had a wonderful time hanging out with her and her band, rubbing shoulders with Johns Cusack and Stamos and even Craig himself, but the highlight was watching Jaymay perform “Grey Or Blue” from her debut album Autumn Fallin’. No cameras were allowed in the studio, but we snapped a couple of covert shots in the green room:

Chart Rundown

Lots of new entries in this week’s chart with Gnarls Barkley’s hastily pushed forward sophomore release The Odd Couple debuted at #18, M.Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s collaboration She & Him landing at #81 and The Kills’ latest album Midnight Boom slotting in at #133. The New Artists Albums chart also saw new entries from Destroyer, Crystal Castles, Be Your Own Pet and Switches.

Billboard 200:

• #18 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple [31,009]
• #25 Various Artists - Juno OST [26,276 this week, up 31.4%, 570,873 to date]
• #38 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once OST [18,842 this week, down 1.8%, 492,442]
• #61 Radiohead - In Rainbows [14,256 this week, up 15.7%, 435,638]
• #81 She & Him - Volume One [10,261]
• #133 Kills - Midnight Boom [6,520]
• #158 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [5,341 this week, up 27.3%, 39,696]
• #172 Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks [4,843 this week, up 3.9%, 81,615]
• #190 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash [4,292 this week, down 30.7%, 21,556]

New Artist Albums (artists who've never had a release in the top 100 of the Billboard 200):

• #1 Kills - Midnight Boom [6,520]
• #5 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [5,341 this week, up 27.3%, 39,696]
• #13 Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams [3,422]
• #14 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles [3,254]
• #16 Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust [2,977 this week, down 10.3%, 22,057]
• #18 Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour [2,835 this week, down 51.2%, 8,820]
• #19 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago [2,773 this week, down 15.4%, 15,769]
• #20 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark [2,708 this week, up 74.7%, 21,286]
• #28 Gutter Twins - Saturnalia [2,286 this week, down 13.0%, 11,112]
• #29 Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward [2,276]
• #50 Beach House - Devotion [1,449 this week, down 5.2%, 9,003]
• #126 Witch - Paralyzed [848]
• #139 Switches - Lay Down The Law [706]

Session Round-Up

Nada Surf head up the Session Round-Up this week with their session on NPR's World Cafe. Also recommended is Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks' appearance on MPR's The Current and The Walkmen's Daytrotter performance.

@ Daytrotter

• The Walkmen
• A Place To Bury Strangers
• Mason Proper

@ NPR's World Cafe

• Nada Surf
• Chris Walla
• Dengue Fever

@ MPR's The Current

• Bell X1
• Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks
• Blitzen Trapper

@ WOXY

• The Big Sleep
• Mussels

Radio On The TV

Loveable Brits The Wombats bounce onto Fuel TV's The Daily Habit to promote their new eponymous EP, former Good Music Guide cover-stars The Raveonettes will be on Letterman and Bjork will be performing on Conan.

Tuesday, March 25
David Letterman: the Raveonettes
Jay Leno: Steve Earle
Late Late Show: Bell X1
Last Call: Shooter Jennings

Wednesday, March 26
David Letterman: Langhorne Slim
Jay Leno: Jose Gonzalez
Conan O'Brien: Bjork

Thursday, March 27
Conan O'Brien: Ghostland Observatory
Fuel TV's The Daily Habit: Bad Religion

Friday, March 28
Late Late Show: Ziggy Marley
Conan O'Brien: Sondre Lerche
Fuel TV's The Daily Habit: The Wombats

Out This Week

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Morrissey - Greatest Hits

The B-52's - Funplex

De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound