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U.S. chart report

Coldplay's X&Y stays put at #1 as the sales of the album drops 44% (181,000 units this week). Total sales: 1,248,383 after 3 weeks.

The Killers' Hot Fuss is down eights spots to #26. Total sales: 2,090,517 after 54 weeks.

Oasis' Don't Believe the Truth is down a couple dozen spots to #102. Total sales: 121,391 after 4 weeks.

The Bravery's debut album is down a few spots to #125. Total sales: 169,141 after 13 weeks.

Keane's Hopes & Fears is down a few spots to #148. Total sales: 730,493 after 49 weeks.

Bloc Party's Silent Alarm is down one spot to #176. Total sales: 108,411 after 14 weeks.

The Redwalls' debut album De Nova (Capitol) enters the Heatseekers chart (artists who've never been in the Top 100) at #21 with sales of 3,907, not too shabby.

Embrace's Out of Nothing hangs onto the #147 spot with sales of 1,225 bringing it's total sales # to 2,773 after 2 weeks. Wow this isn't going well, is it.

And lastly, Pernice Brothers' Discover a Lovelier You has fallen off the Heatseekers chart after 1 week.

Download a couple new SFA tunes

Here are a couple tracks from the new Super Furry Animals album Love Kraft.

• "Lazer Beam" [4:55] 1st UK single
• "Cabin Fever" [6:20]

Download Kent goodies

Kent goodness here:

Watch the video for the two latest singles: "Max 500" (very creepy Halloween look) and "Palace & Main" (shot in Vegas, though thee band isn't in it.) You can also download a full recent gig, and a full English-language gig from way back on the Hagnesta Hill tour.

There are no plans to release an English-language version of the new album, Du Och Jag Doden. And that's unfortunate since it's one of my favorite albums of the year so far. I was really surprised how good it was, after their last album Vapen & Ammunition was a bit of a dissapointment.

Watch a few Glasto highlights

Playlouder offers up some Glasto video highlights:

Babyshambles "Killamangiro"
Bloc Party "Pioneers"
Doves "Words" [I wish the new album was this good!]
Fatboy Slim "Sunshine of Your Life"
The Futureheads "Decent Days and Nights"
Interpol "NYC" [Why won't he just SING?!]
Roisin Murphy "If We're in Love"
The La's "There She Goes" [Ugh, sounds painfully bad!]
The Wailers "No Woman No Cry"
Garbage "I'm Only Happy When It Rains"
Basement Jaxx "U Don't Know Me"

Stream Glasto highlights

Stream yesterday's Steve Lamacq BBC show, by putting this rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/lamacqlive.ra into your RealPlayer.

The 4 hour broadcast includes this stuff from Glastonbury:

Bloc Party - 'So Here We Are' - (Glasto 2005)
Futureheads - 'Picture of Dorean Grey' - (Glasto 2005)
Kaiser Chiefs - 'Modern Way' / Oh My God / Take My Temp - (Glasto 2005) 
White Stripes – ‘7 Nation Army’ / Blur Orchid – (Glasto 2005)
The Killers - 'Indie Rock n Roll' - (Glasto 2005)
Babyshambles - 'Loyalty Song' / Sticks & Stones / Fuck Forever - (Glasto 2005) 
Basement Jaxx – ‘Where’s Yr Head At?’ – (Glasto 2005)

Coldplay @ Glasto '05:
Yellow / Speed of Sound / Low / Warning Sign / Everythings Not Lost / The Scientist / Till Kingdom Come / Clocks / Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie cover] / In My Place / Fix You
 
Doves - 'Pounding' - (Glasto 2005)
Interpol - 'Slow Hands' - (Glasto 2005)
Maximo Park - 'I Want You To Stay' / Graffiti / Gone Missing - (Glasto 2005) 

Full tracklist for the radio-show can be found here.

Stream Hard-Fi's debut album

Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV

1.    Cash Machine - low | high
2.    Middle Eastern Holiday - low | high
3.    Tied Up Too Tight - low | high
4.    Gotta Reason - low | high
5.    Hard To Beat - low | high
6.    Unnecessary Trouble - low | high
7.    Move On Now - low | high
8.    Better Do Better - low | high
9.    Feltham Is Singing Out - low | high
10.  Living For The Weekend - low | high
11.  Stars OF CCTV - low | high

New Dandy Warhols album set for Sept

The Dandy Warhols' new album Odditorium or Warlords of Mars will be released Sept 13th via Capitol Records. The 12-track set was produced by group leader Courtney Taylor-Taylor in tandem with Gregg Williams and was mixed by Tchad Blake. A video for first single "Smoke It" finds the band performing in front of 40 dogs. Beyond a previously announced appearance at Lollapalooza in Chicago in late July, the Dandies are planning both a fall North American tour and a separate acoustic "suitcase tour." For that outing, the group will only utilize the instruments it can fit into a single case. Odditorium is the follow-up to 2003's Welcome to the Monkey House, which was kinda crap for a DW album, wasn't it?

Check the Billboard article for the full album tracklisting.

a-ha to play first U.S. gig in almost 20 years!

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge a-ha fan, in an unironic way. Though they haven't released an album in the U.S. since 92's Memorial Beach; they've put out two great albums in the last few years: Minor Earth Major Sky and Lifelines. Now there's finally good news for those of us in the U.S. The band will play in NYC @ Irving Plaza on Sept 12 '05, their first u.s. show since the end of the Scoundrel Days tour in Oct '86. And the band's new album (which is currently being mixed by Flood in London) will actually be getting a U.S. release thanks to them finally having a record deal which covers this part of the world.

Download a couple new Supergass tunes

Supergass have finally chilled-out. Download two new tracks from their upcoming album Road To Rouen, due out in the UK on Aug 18th. No u.s. release date has been set yet.

• "St. Petersburg" (3:19) [1st UK single, due out Aug 8th]
• "Roxy" (6:17)

UK chart report

The decent stuff that entered the UK charts this week:

Singles:

#9 Hard-Fi - "Hard to Beat" (Necessary Records)
#13 Stereophonics - "Superman" (V2)

#22 The Subways - "Rock & Roll Queen" (Infectious) [video]
#25 Erasure "Here I Go Impossible Again" (Mute)
#53 OCS - "This Day Should Last Forever" (Sanctuary) [stream clip]
#59 Be Your Own Pet - "Fire Department" (Rough Trade)
#60 Tom Vek - "You Set The Fire In Me" (Tummy Touch Records) [video]

Indie label singles chart (of the songs that didn't make it onto the big chart above):

#13 The Checks "What You Heard" (Full Time Hobby) [video]
#14 The Long Blondes "Appropriation" (Angular Records) [video]
#26 Martha Wainwright "When the Day is Short" (Dis)

Albums:

#31 The Ordinary Boys Brassbound (B Unique Records)

Indie label albums chart (of the ones that didn't make it onto the big chart above):

#6 The Cribs The New Fellas (Wichita Records)