The Chart Show: Alabama Shakes, Bad Bad Hats inducted to Hall of Fame
by Mark Wheat
March 17, 2016
Astonishingly — and we weren't giving tickets away — Courtney Barnett returns after a one week hiatus at ... No.1! She'll be traveling the world again this summer and if you want to plan a music-related trip to London, July might be the right time. The Somerset House Series has a great lineup including Barnett.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to Father John Misty's sold out show at Northrop on Saturday, April 16!
Aussies are the two top spots. Maybe there was a flurry of voting from Down Under?! Tame Impala will play in Toronto's Bestival Festival, a little closer to our home, along with the Cure, Grimes and Jamie xx.
Highest mover this week is Iggy Pop at No.5. He says his new album Post Pop Depression is his last, giving you good reason to see him perform with Josh Homme April 5 at Northrop. And after reading this review of their live debut, I will definitely be there!
Lissie also jumps 13 places. She'll be one of the many, many, many artists at SXSW this week. Even though she's been pretty successful, she has a stressful four shows in one day planned! On Thursday and Friday this week, program director Jim McGuinn and music director David Safar will be checking in from Austin, TX at 9 a.m. on Oake and Riley in The Morning and we'll be linked up live on the web for a big gig on Friday.
Kendrick Lamar continues to climb after eight weeks on the chart. He was heavily featured in a massive New York Times magazine issue this weekend, trying to tell us where music is going.
Alabama Shakes are inducted to our Hall of Fame for the fifth time, putting them at No.15 on the All-Time chart. They are the most "recently active" of the acts who are in the top 20 of that chart, so I thought it was a good #MarchMusicMadness pick to have them go all the way!
Bad Bad Hats are inducted for the second time. They will be one of the many bands traveling to Winona for the Mid West Music Fest at the end of April. Team Current will be down there too, broadcasting a live Local Show that Sunday.
PJ Harvey is new on the chart for the first time ever. She traveled the world to research the songs on her new Hope Six Demolition Project, but some of the people in the communities she sings about are not pleased.
Our old friend Andrew Bird is back with the first song released from Are You Serious which releases April 1. Seriously! And he has just premiered video for another track featuring Fiona Apple.
Prince is back after a two week leave, and he made a ton of people "Stare" at Chanhassen's Dinner Theater last weekend.