alt-J hits #1 on this week's Chart with "Left Hand Free," which sounds totally different than anything they've recorded to date. They seem to have found a soulful groove, which may have been their response to the band's U.S. label asking for something more commercial on the new album. They performed that track plus "Every Other Freckle" in The Current studio this past Halloween.

Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to Jeremy Messersmith's show at First Avenue on Friday, Dec. 19!

Locals Lizzo and Caroline Smith have reached the Chart Show Hall of Fame promise land with their nod to the ladies, "Let 'Em Say." I think 2014 is a year neither artist will forget.

Father John Misty debuts at #12 with "Bored in the USA," which will be on his new album, I Love You, Honeybear, set to release Feb. 10, 2015. Did you see him on David Letterman a couple weeks ago? We learned he plays a mean player piano! Last summer he played that song and the title track off his forthcoming album in Minnesota Public Radio's Forum.

Jenny Lewis is this week's big climber. "She's Not Me" is up 11 spots to #8 on the Chart. Jenny is keeping busy. She scored the upcoming music-centric romantic film Song One starring Anne Hathaway, who also stars in her video for "Just One of the Guys."

Vance Joy is up five spots to #11 with his song "Riptide" which is the name of the motel he and his family used to stay at for the holidays on the coast of Australia.

Trampled by Turtles are up to #5 this week. The band is getting set to tour the South where it's much warmer this time of the year. Their next gig in our neck of the woods is at Grand Casino in Hinckley on Feb. 21, 2015.

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• The Chart Show Ballot
• The Chart Show Hall of Fame