The Chart Show: No Sweats, He's Done It Again!
by Mark Wheat
March 05, 2020
Appropriately, as he started his first big solo tour at The State Theater this week, Nathaniel Rateliff is back at the top for the second week out of seven on the Chart. The new album is a personal recollection of his disintegrating marriage and the death of Richard Swift who produced both the Night Sweats albums. NPR did a nice piece on him last weekend.
Up four places to six Polica have just released a video for this song from their new album, even though the Current in-studio version has been popular on YouTube already. They're back in the USA starting with a Madison show on March 19th.
Jumping three spots to eight, Big Thief are wowing sold out crowds in the UK right now. As the venerable Times of London asks, "How did a previously obscure indie folk four-piece from New York get to sell out the 5,000 capacity Hammersmith Apollo? By being extremely good."
Also up three places to nine this week, Best Coast will be in First Avenue's Mainroom next Monday. They started the tour last week in their hometown of L.A. And looked great and sounded "energetic"!
Margo Price is up five places to ten and lucky to be alive this week after narrowly escaping the devastating Nashville tornado. She had left the area most severely hit only minutes before, unaware that there was any danger!
The highest new entry at sixteen is beabadoobee one of the bands that will be joining us down in Austin TX, for SXSW in a couple of weeks, along with Seratones, M Ward, Sports Team and more.
Also new in the basement space is our old friend Brittany Howard, with the fourth track from "Jaime" to chart. She's over in the UK this week playing the BBC 6's Music Festival in London at the weekend with Kate Tempest, EOB (Ed O'Brien), Bombay Bicycle Club, Michael Kiwanuka, Kim Gordon and more.
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