Interpreting Album Art: Wolf Parade Edition

After our initial inspiration to interpret album art, we've decided to continue the tradition with another great band from the musical mecca up north - Montreal.  Below you'll find the official artwork for Wolf Parade's highly-anticipated At Mount Zoomer (out 6/17 via Sub Pop); take your best stab at it...

Chart Rundown

Congratulations are in order to current Filter cover stars, Flight Of The Conchords, for debuting this week at #3 on the Billboard Chart with their new self-titled album!  Tokyo Police Club also saw a big week, coming in at #1 on the New Artist Albums Chart and #106 on the Billboard 200 with their first week as a physical release, following several weeks of digital-only sales. Elbow and Lyrics Born both saw solid debuts, while Coachella artists Vampire Weekend and M.I.A. felt the festival bump in sales this week.

Billboard 200:

• #3 Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords [52,370]
• #7 Various Artists - Juno OST [30,738 this week, down 1.8%, 673,535 to date]
• #17 R.E.M. - Accelerate [21,272 this week, down 29.1%, 213,721 to date]
• #32 Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely [13,441 this week, down 23.7%, 121,721 to date]
• #47 Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple [10,637 this week, down 46.2%, 131,790 to date]
• #56 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [9,489 this week, up 3.3%, 193,206 to date]
• #71 Black Keys - Attack & Release [8,015 this week, down 27.0%, 61,963 to date]
• #75 Radiohead - In Rainbows [7,730 this week, down 11.5%, 484,030 to date]
• #81 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once OST  [7,425 this week, down 16.1%, 542,254 to date]
• #106 Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell [5,914 this week, up 641.1%, 9,003 to date]
• #107 The Kooks - Konk [5,835 this week, down 56.2%, 19,170 to date]
• #109 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid [5,786]
• #129 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [4,934 this week, down 1.3%, 63,598 to date]
• #131 Moby - Last Night [4,817 this week, down 28.1%, 43,365 to date]
• #143 She & Him - Volume One [4,351 this week, down 20.3%, 41,163 to date]
• #189 M83 - Saturdays=Youth [3,384 this week, down 46.2%, 9,703 to date]
• #197 M.I.A. - Kala [3,177 this week, up 22.3%, 201,761 to date]

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

• #1 Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell [5,914 this week, up 641.1%, 9,003 to date]
• #2 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid [5,786]
• #4 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [4,934 this week, down 1.3%, 63,598 to date]
• #10 M83 - Saturdays=Youth [3,384 this week, down 46.2%, 9,703 to date]
• #11 Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once [3,336]
• #13 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [3,006 this week, down 27.0%, 13,838 to date]
• #24 Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off [1,538 this week, down 43.9%, 10,184 to date]
• #25 Sun Kil Moon - April [1,534 this week, down 31.3%, 13,625 to date]
• #32 Foals - Antidotes [1,353 this week, down 11.7%, 8,250 to date]
• #33 Man Man - Rabbit Habits [1,270 this week, down 30.5%, 6,884 to date]
• #35 Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live! [1,266 this week, down 43.2%, 6,392 to date]
• #39 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago [1,219 this week, down 29.6%, 25,113 to date]
• #43 DeVotchKa - Mad & Faithful Telling [1,177 this week, down 20.5%, 12,395 to date]
• #62 Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP [976 this week, down 23.6%, 4,739 to date]
• #83 Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster... [842 this week, down 22.3%, 6,922 to date]
• #107 The Duke Spirit - Neptune [719 this week, down 25.2%, 4,845 to date]
• #126 Beirut - Flying Club Cup [649 this week, down 1.8%, 58,604 to date]
• #127 El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stairs [649]

Session Round-Up

This week Death Cab For Cutie visit Daytrotter for a live set, Los Campesinos! stop by NPR's World Cafe, and Okkervil River head over to the WOXY lounge.

@ Daytrotter

• Quasi
• Death Cab For Cutie
• White Denim

@ NPR's World Cafe

• Los Campesinos!

@ MPR's The Current

• Foals
• Neva Dinova

@ WOXY

• Finest Dearest
• Okkervil River

Phil Collins Retires to Collect War Memorabilia

It has been recently reported that drummer / singer / Oscar-winning Tarzan soundtracker Phil Collins will be retiring.   Fear not, he will continue to write songs, but he would like to spend more time focusing on his passion for collecting memorabilia from the Battle of the Alamo...because that's what men his age do.

Riiight.

Fill in the blank:

Phil Collins should / should not retire because ___________________.

Radio On The TV

This week Feist makes two appearances on late-night TV on both the Colbert Report and Conan while Morrissey pulls a double-shift on the Late Late Show, so don't worry if you forget to set your Tivo.  Also, tune in to catch Santogold, Grand Archives, and She & Him.

Monday, April 28
David Letterman: The Roots
Late Late Show: Morrissey
Conan O'Brien: Santogold
Colbert Report: Feist

Tuesday, April 29
Late Late Show: Morrissey
Conan O'Brien: The Kills
Jimmy Kimmel: Cinematic Orchestra

Wednesday, April 30
Late Late Show: Grand Archives
Conan O'Brien: Feist

Thursday, May 1
Late Late Show: She & Him
Last Call: Does It Offend You Yeah?

Friday, May 2
Jimmy Kimmel: Estelle

Out This Week

Portishead - Third

South - You Are Here

Wallpaper - T Rex

The Roots - Rising Down

Constantines - Kensington Heights

Jamie Lidell - Jim