The Chart Show: Dead Man Winter springs to No.1
by Mark Wheat
March 02, 2017
Dead Man Winter are top of the pile this week for the very first time. Dave Simonnett and his band set off on a national tour next week and won't be back in our area until
Blue Ox Music Festival, which has a massive lineup again this June.
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Hippo Campus are out on the West Coast this week, including a sold out L.A. show! Their two shows at First Avenue next weekend sold out long ago, but you can watch video of the band performing landmark, their new album, in its entirety at Icehouse in Minneapolis.
Bon Iver makes it an all local top three! They'll be at Rock the Garden this year, and remember: If you are a Minnesota Public Radio member, you can get in on the ticket pre-sale opportunity come April. Become an MPR member!
The biggest upward movers this week are Old 97's, whose Graveyard Whistling came out last Friday. Brandi Carlile isn't featured elsewhere on the album, but there's plenty singing about drinking and a touch of punk rock?!
Spoon are also up eight places before their album Hot Thoughts even releases. If you're making plans for SXSW later this month, there are several chances to see them live, including early in the morning at The W Hotel.
Glass Animals are back on the chart after a week break at No.11. Their website is one of the most beautifully designed I've ever come across and, for an English band, it has a unusually large number of .GIFs concerning old U.S. basketball stars?!
Speaking of a well executed web presence, Father John Misty's website is worth the wait time it takes to load. He shared a 25 minute film about the making of his new album, Pure Comedy.
Cage the Elephant careen back onto the chart at No.14 but might be in trouble in court down in Nashville where a concert goer is suing the band for an injury he sustained from a thrown guitar.
Long time listeners might know that I went to Leeds University in England – it's where I saw a ton of great shows! So it "pleases me to no end" (as they would say up there in Yorkshire), to see the announcement of the brand new Leeds International Festival featuring a film about footie, Lauren Laverne (my fave deejay on the BBC) and new entry Rag'n'Bone Man! He's on a roll right now after winning the Best Breakout Artist Award at the Brit Awards last week.
Elliott Smith posthumously debuts at No.20. His Either/Or came out 20 years ago this week and is revered by many as a seminal emo rock LP, including Steve Holmes of the band American Football who talked with GQ about the album.