The Chart Show: Artists from across the pond flood the chart
by Mark Wheat
September 13, 2013
The big music news from across the pond this week are the Mercury Prize nominations. The artists who made the cut are interestingly reflected on our chart this week.
Last year's winner Alt-J jumped up six places after two sold-out shows at First Avenue last weekend, but two of this year's favorites dropped down a few spots, Jake Bugg and Arctic Monkeys.
SPIN did an interview with Alex Turner of the Monkeys this week with a great story about one of my heroes, poet John Cooper Clark!
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age can take some credit for the Mercury Prize award to his buds Arctic Monkeys, too. He gets the highest new entry spot on the chart this week.
Lorde is featured on the cover of the new Billboard this week. She's #3 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Rock and Alternative charts. Lorde, or Ella Yelich-O'Connor, is the first female to be at the top of that chart since Tracy Bonham in 1996?!?! That's just one of the amazing facts that are part of an article by Pitchfork to mark 25 years of alternative music.
Swedish band NONONO's debut EP will be out digitally in the U.S. Sept. 17 with a full album to follow in early 2014. The group is arrives in America for the first time in October, headlining Mercury Lounge in New York City on October 15 with Los Angeles and San Francisco dates to be announced in the coming weeks, and October 22 NONONO make their network TV debut in the US performing "Pumpin' Blood" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dawes' "Most People" retires to the Chart Show Hall of Fame this week, the band's fourth induction. Check out the video for the song that features some people and places from the Twin Cities that you might recognize!
We lost Black Joe Lewis and Head and the Heart after just one week each and Superchunk after two with their replacements being Queens of the Stone Age, TV on the Radio and Poliça.
You'll have to GetYaFreakOn without me this weekend as I am away tomorrow in Chicago to see The Replacements, Pixies and many more perform. I will try to call Jill and Steve during The Morning Show Monday, that is if I survive the Riot Fest!