CMJ's top 20 this week

The American College Music Journal's rankings this week. The indie supergroup Monsters of Folk featuring Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, M. Ward and Yim Yames at numero uno in the Independent-only category. In the general category, the Flaming Lips.

A Place to Bury Strangers is doing well. Here's a clip from their new album:

CMJ Radio 200 #1128

TW LW ARTIST ALBUM LABEL 1 3 FLAMING LIPS Embryonic Warner Bros. 2 1 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk Shangri-La 3 2 RAVEONETTES In And Out Of Control Vice 4 5 BUILT TO SPILL There Is No Enemy warner 5 6 AVETT BROTHERS I And Love And You Columbia 6 9 XX The Xx XL Young Turks 7 4 YO LA TENGO Popular Songs Matador 8 13 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS I Told You I Was Freaky SUB POP 9 30 DEAD MAN'S BONES Dead Man's Bones Anti 10 15 THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN Know Better Learn Faster Kill Rock Stars 11 11 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Exploding Head Mute 12 19 AIR Love 2 Astralwerks 13 10 NO AGE Losing Feeling [EP] SUB POP 14 8 ISLANDS Vapours Anti 15 14 GIRLS Album True Panther Sounds 16 27 ATLAS SOUND Logos Kranky 17 16 CALIFONE All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Dead Oceans 18 29 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Here Comes Science Walt Disney 19 32 GOSSIP Music For Men 20 31 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Geneva Suicide Squeeze

CMJ CMJ Independent-Only Radio Select Albums #1128

TW LW ARTIST ALBUM LABEL 1 1 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk Shangri-La 2 4 PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Glassnote 3 2 YO LA TENGO Popular Songs Matador 4 5 XX The Xx XL Young Turks 5 6 COMPILATION Backspacer Monkeywrench 6 3 RAVEONETTES In And Out Of Control Vice 7 87 SWELL SEASON Strict Joy Anti 8 14 SEA WOLF White Water, White Bloom Dangerbird 9 11 THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN Know Better Learn Faster Kill Rock Stars 10 15 GENERATIONALS Con Law Park The Van 11 9 GIRLS Album True Panther Sounds 12 7 ARCTIC MONKEYS Humbug Domino 13 12 BIG PINK A Brief History Of Love 4AD 14 8 FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band SUB POP 15 17 MISSION OF BURMA The Sound The Speed The Light Matador 16 21 BROTHER ALI Us Rhymesayers 17 18 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Up From Below Vagrant 18 13 ISLANDS Vapours Anti 19 32 HEAVY The House That Dirt Built Counter 20 34 CHUCK PROPHET Let Freedom Ring! Yep Roc