Chart Rundown

Tapes 'N Tapes scored big this week with their second album Walk It Off debuting at #116 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the New Artist Albums chart. Other notable entries on his week's chart include Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV, with it's physical release at #14, The Breeders' latest album Mountain Battles at #98 and Man Man's Rabbit Habits at #186. The New Artist Albums chart also saw new entries from Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and UK upstarts The Duke Spirit.

Billboard 200:

• #5 R.E.M. - Accelerate [46,326 this week, down 59.9%, 162,464 to date]
• #14 Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-Iv [38,270]
• #20 Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely [23,324 this week, down 7.2%, 90,663 to date]
• #27 Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple [18,311 this week, down 20.9%, 101,372 to date]
• #34 Rolling Stones - Shine A Light [16,924 this week, down 54.3%, 54,041 to date]
• #40 Black Keys - Attack & Release [13,697 this week, down 52.7%, 42,974 to date]
• #46 Various Artists - Juno OST [11,936 this week, down 9.8%, 611,512 to date]
• #57 Moby - Last Night [10,583 this week, down 50.0%, 31,849 to date]
• #69 Radiohead - In Rainbows [9,323 this week, down 18.5%, 467,565 to date]
• #70 B-52's - Funplex [9,314 this week, down 32.3%, 52,896 to date]
• #71 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once OST  [9,285 this week, down 18.2%, 525,978 to date]
• #81 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [8,453 this week, down 16.8%, 174,532 to date]
• #98 Breeders - Mountain Battles [7,327]
• #116 Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off [5,905]
• #119 Muse - H.A.A.R.P. Tour-Live From Wembley [5,794 this week, down 58.9%, 20,103 to date]
• #139 She & Him - Volume One [4,981 this week, down 29.0%, 31,356 to date]
• #149 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [4,762 this week, down 0.6%, 53,665 to date]
• #186 Man Man - Rabbit Habits [3,788]
• #200 Sun Kil Moon - April [3,330 this week, down 46.2%, 9,857 to date]

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

• #1 Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off [5,905]
• #7 Man Man - Rabbit Habits [3,788]
• #12 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [3,070 this week, up 47.9%, 6,712 to date]
• #13 Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live! [2,897]
• #14 Kills - Midnight Boom [2,807 this week, up 20.0%, 14,484 to date]
• #27 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles [2,065 this week, down 9.6%, 10,005 to date]
• #30 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago [1,905 this week, down 7.3%, 22,162 to date]
• #49 Devotchka - Mad & Faithful Telling [1,42 this week, down 25.0%, 9,737 to date]
• #54 Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour [1,368 this week, down 9.8%, 13,606 to date]
• #55 The Duke Spirit - Neptune [3,165]
• #74 Los Campesinos - Hold On Now Youngster [1,067 this week, down 29.0%, 4,997 to date]
• #76 Gutter Twins - Saturnalia [1,044 this week, down 22.0%, 14,951 to date]
• #93 Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams [895 this week, down 31.7%, 7,566 to date]
• #101 Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell [826 this week, up 11.0%, 2,291 to date]

The Loudest Show On Earth?

Hot out of the press release inbox, you are cordially invited to attend THE LOUDEST SHOW ON EARTH.  Quite the claim to uphold we think, even if they are excluding extraterrestrial pursuits, but the bands attempting this feat will include: Motley Crue, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, SIXX:AM and Trapt.  Unfortunately, this tour hits our area on, um, laundry day, so we'll miss out on the promised raucousness, but it got us wondering about the loudest shows we've been to.  This will obviously depend on venues and sound techniques, but some of our finalists included concerts by Dinosaur Jr, Mogwai and AC/DC. 

What do you think would win as the loudest show on earth?  (Or perhaps as a more realistic endeavor: what's the loudest show you've attended?)

Yes, that is the official tour logo. Delish!

Wallpaper Offers To Remix Your Fave Tune

To celebrate the digital release of Wallpaper’s digital EP T-Rex, frontman Ricky Reed will remix a song of your choice to be made available with then EP drops on April 29. So get hunting through those stacks of vinyl to find the weirdest, wackiest or cheesiest single that you’d like to hear Wallpaper remix.

The ideal format is .aiff or .wav files, it would mean Ricky can bang that sucker out and get a second half-hour of his daily massage.  But if not, it can be submitted in whatever format you have: mp3, vinyl, cassette tape, 8-track, etc.

E-mail the title and artist of your submission to contest@eeniemeenie.com along with a link to whatever version you can find or create and put online. As long as we can hear it once, we can put it among the submissions and if your song is selected, we'll contact you to get the best version you have. The deadline for submissions is April 17, so hurry!

Get inspired by watching the video for "T-Rex":

Session Round-Up

This week, Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn And John sat down with the good people at Daytrotter to record a selection of songs from his new solo album The Last Tycoon,  American Music Club stopped by MPR's The Current and  Cursive visited WOXYs lounge.

@ Daytrotter

• Peter Morén
• The Teeth
• Paul Scheer Bookery

@ NPR's World Cafe

• Langhorne Slim
• What Made Milwaukee Famous
• Nine Inch Nails

@ MPR's The Current

• American Music Club

@ WOXY

• Matt Pond PA
• Cursive

Out The Week

M83 - Saturdays = Youth

The Kooks - Konk

Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into

Radio On The TV

This week's Radio On The TV schedule is packed with great artists - The Roots will be on The Colbert Report promoting their new album Rising Down, The Black Keys will be on Thursday's Letterman and The Kooks round off the week on Conan.

Monday, April 14
Late Late Show: Daniel Lanois
Conan O'Brien: Spoon
Last Call: Morrissey

Tuesday, April 15
David Letterman: Rogue Wave
Colbert Report: the Roots

Wednesday, April 16
David Letterman: the Gossip
Late Late Show: Bell X1

Thursday, April 17
David Letterman: the Black Keys

Friday, April 18
Jay Leno: Flogging Molly
Late Late Show: Liam Finn
Conan O'Brien: the Kooks
Jimmy Kimmel: Lyrics Born