CJAM’s first charts of Spring! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOO!!1!11!!!!!!
* indicates Canadian artist. ^ indicates local Windsor/Detroit artist
1 CHAD VANGAALEN* World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener (Flemish Eye)
2 DANE ROBERTS^* Chasing Water (Soul City Music Co-op)
3 VARIOUS* 1492 Mixtape (Self-Released)
4 RICK SPARKES AND THE ENABLERS* Pleasure in the Pathless Woods (Self-Released)
5 THE LUVMENAUTS* Extravehicular Activity (Do Right!)
6 THE WEATHER STATION* Ignorance (Next Door)
7 MICHAEL FEUERSTACK* Harmonize the Moon (Forward Music Group)
8 BERNICE* Eau De Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
9 THE HOLD STEADY Open Door Policy (Positive Jams)
10 ARLO PARKS Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive)
11 ROUTINE And Other Things (Dead Oceans)
12 VARIOUS* CJAM: Live Off the Floor (Self-Released)
13 STARSIGNS* Every Step Forward (Self-Released)
14 MADELINE DOORNAERT^* Muddy Water (Soul City Music Co-op)
15 THE BLUE STONES^* Hidden Gems (eOne)
16 PANSY^ Pansy (Self-Released)
17 GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS* Fallacy of Fairness (Self-Released)
18 THE AUGUST ARRIVAL* All Blue and Gold (Self-Released)
19 DAN PITT QUINTET* Wrongs (Self-Released)
20 GEMSTONES* Nevermind EP (Self-Released)
21 MAIDENS NAMES* I Now Pronounce You Maidens Names (Self-Released)
22 JON GANT* Soft Release (Self-Released)
23 PEOPLE OF THE SUN* Last Day Of Summer (Self-Released)
24 MAGPIE* yes phase (Self-Released)
25 OLDE* Pilgrimage (Seeing Red)
26 BOBBY DOVE* Hopeless Romantic (Self-Released)
27 TUNETOWN* Entering Utopia (Three Pines)
28 PEACH & QUIET* Just Beyond the Shine (Self-Released)
29 DEEP COVERS* Dark World (Self-Released)
30 BEAT SEXÜ* Deuxième Chance (Pantoum)
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International
1 FIMBER BRAVO Lunar Tredd (Moshi Moshi)
2 PAHUA Ofrenda (Nacional)
3 FEMI KUTI Stop The Hate (Partisan)
4 NGOZI FAMILY 45000 Volts (Now Again)
5 LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY Dubz of the Root (Megawave)
6 DOM LA NENA Tempo (Six Degrees)
7 CARAVELA Orla (None More Records)
8 AFRIKA MAMAS Ilanga (The Sun) (ARC Music)
9 IKOQWE The Beginning, The Medium, The End And The Infinite (Crammed Discs)
10 MADE KUTI For(e)ward (Partisan)
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Jazz
1 DAN PITT QUINTET* Wrongs (Self-Released)
2 HECTOR QUARTET* Uncharted (Self-Released)
3 TUNETOWN* Entering Utopia (Three Pines)
4 CORY WEEDS O Sole Mio! (Cellar)
5 MIKE FREEDMAN* Into The Daybreak (Self-Released)
6 DR. LONNIE SMITH Breathe (Blue Note)
7 CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS Tone Poem (Blue Note)
8 EMANCIPATOR & ASHER FULERO Dab Records Vol 1 (Loci)
9 TELL ADELINE* This Scene Is Clockwise (Self-Released)
10 JESSE RYAN* Bridges (Fwé Culture)
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Loud
1 THE STOOLS^ Carport (Goodbye Boozy Records)
2 OLDE* Pilgrimage (Seeing Red)
3 NIXIL All Knots Untied (Self-Released)
4 SUFFERING HOUR The Cyclic Reckoning (Profound Lore)
5 REST EASY* Sick Day EP (Mutant League)
6 WOLF KING The Path of Wrath (Prosthetic)
7 NOFX Single Album (Fat Wreck Chords)
8 BUMBO’S TINTO BRASS BAND^ 7″ EP (X!)
9 KAWTHRA* The Tenets (Self-Released)
10 GRALE* Agitation (Self-Released)
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Folk/Roots/Blues
1 THE AUGUST ARRIVAL* All Blue and Gold (Self-Released)
2 RICK SPARKES AND THE ENABLERS* Pleasure in the Pathless Woods (Self-Released)
3 MICHAEL FEUERSTACK* Harmonize the Moon (Forward Music Group)
4 BOBBY DOVE* Hopeless Romantic (Self-Released)
5 PEACH & QUIET* Just Beyond the Shine (Self-Released)
6 MELISSA CARPER Daddy’s Country Gold (Self-Released)
7 GEORGIA VAN ETTEN Deep Black Water (Birthday Cake)
8 TACO TAPES trad is rad (American Standard Time Records)
9 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES J.T. (New West)
10 MO KENNEY* Covers (Turtlemusik)
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