The Chart Show: Jamie xx goes to high places
by Mark Wheat
June 25, 2015
Jamie xx just manages to hold on to the top spot that he grabbed last week in a very tight race. Ahead of his Glastonbury Festival performance this weekend, Jamie previewed his score for a contemporary ballet inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes, and might be working with Noel Gallagher?!?
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win a pair of Chippewa Enhanced passes to the inaugural Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival in Eau Claire, WI on July 17 and 18!
Laura Marling is inducted into the Chart Show Hall of Fame for the first time this week. She just debuted a video for another track off her latest Short Movies and announced an Australian tour. She'll perform in the Twin Cities at the Trampled by Turtles-curated Festival Palomino on Sept. 19.
Side note, big shout-out to the Matildas, Australia's women's soccer team, who stunned the World Cup beating Brazil to get through to the quarterfinals, along with the English (another surprise) and the much-fancied USA!
Tame Impala, from Down Under, are also inducted this week for the third time. Their new album Currents is out July 17 and, according to this review and interview, could be termed a Kevin Parker solo album.
Of Monsters and Men are also inducted for the fourth time moving them up to #22 on the All-Time Hall of Fame Chart. They're playing festivals all over the world this summer including Lollapalooza in Chicago and don't arrive in St.Paul until Oct. 1 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium.
There are five new entries this week headed by Bully whose album Feels Like came out this week and was given a B from The Onion's A.V. Club.
Best Coast are feeling OK about being back on our Chart. They stopped by The Current recently to chat about their new California Nights album with Bill DeVille and to record a few tracks off the album live in our studio.
Death Cab For Cutie bounce back this week, too. They will also be at Glastonbury as they do the rounds of European festivals. You can see what they've been playing for their live sets here.
It was a thrill for us to have Conor Oberst at Rock the Garden last weekend. At one point he was spotted hanging with another guest who we were thrilled to have with us, Woody Harrelson! Maybe they were discussing Conor's new album with his band Desaparaceidos, Payola, which came out this week.
Appropriately enough, as we head into Pride Weekend, Greg Holden enters the Chart for the first time. I'll be on this Friday afternoon and from 4-6 p.m. and want to play your favorite songs full of Pride, so get ya requests in!