Welcome to a very spring-like edition of the SubModern Report (I say that on a day that reached 80 degrees in my neck of the woods). Getting into the charts, the new War Child benefit HELP(2) certainly didn't need any help landing at #1, more than doubling the spins of the #2 and the #1 single. Congrats to all involved and kudos to the artists contributing for an organization that does such important work at a time when their services will be in great need.

On the singles chart, Metric debuts "Time Is A Bomb" at #1. It's the second single from their forthcoming tenth album Romanticize The Dive, which itself debuts at #4. Last week's #1, "Born To Kill" by Social Distortion is this week's #2. That's followed by a three-way tie at #3, including the title track from the #2 album of the week, Basement's WIRED, as well as "Biting Heels" by Lucky and "Trickle Down" by SPRINTS. Friko chugs their way to #6 with "Choo Choo", ahead of another tie at #7 between Cheekface's "Hostile Street" and The Claypool Lennon Delirium's "The Golden Egg of Empathy". And closing out the top ten singles is a four-way tie at #9, featuring "Watching The Omnibus" by The Bug Club and "Mettle" by She's Green, along with two tracks from the aforementioned HELP(2) - Fontaines D.C. with a cover of Sinead O'Connor's "Black Boys On Mopeds" and Pulp's "Begging For Change". I'd usually stop there, but it's worth mentioning that yet another HELP(2) offering, Depeche Mode's version of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier", also made top twenty-five at #13t.

I already mentioned the #2 and #4 albums, but what about #3? Well, that's where we find last week's top album, Nothing's About To Happen To Me from Mitski. At #5 are newcomers Endearments with their debut An Always Open Door. The aforementioned Friko's upcoming Something Worth Waiting For is #6, followed by a tie at #7 between The Great Parrot-Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy from The Claypool Lennon Delirium and The Mountain from Gorillaz. Weird Nightmare's forthcoming Hoopla is penultimately at #9, followed by a tie at #10 between Maybe Not Tonight from Lime Garden and Reality Star from Surfbort.

Now it's up to you to check out the rest of the charts HERE. And be sure to check out the bounty of riches coming our way on the Available For Airplay list (perhaps coinciding with SXSW). New albums are coming from Anjimile, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Cut Worms, Kim Gordon, Ritt Momney, The Sophs, and Sweet Pill, amongst others, and new singles will be dropping from the likes of Deer Tick, Dogstar, Jalen Ngonda, The Lemon Twigs, Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt, Rosa Walton of Let's Eat Grandma, Rostam, and lots more. Catch you next time and in the meantime, beware The Ides of March.

~ Josh T. Landow