Happy Spring everybody! Welcome to another season of the SubModern Report. It's a big week for an artist who once performed in my living room. Congrats to Japanese Breakfast on the release of the fourth album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), which lands right at #1 this week! And it's a double whammy #1 for JBrekkie because their new single from the record, "Picture Window" is #1 as well. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's Michelle Zauner's world and we're just living in it. Happy to see how much success she's had since I first met her almost fifteen years ago.

For the 3rd week in a row The Bug Club's '"Have U Ever Been 2 Wales" is at #2 on the singles chart, which is kind of funny because they just announced a new album that this is not even part of. Anyway, that's actually tied with two other #2s this week - "Bonnet of Pins" by Matt Berninger (last week's #1) and "Sunny Baby" by The Kooks. Mother Mother's "Make Believe" is tied for #5 with Bon Iver's track featuring Danielle Haim, "If Only I Could Wait" (while HAIM's new tune has fallen off the chart). Another tie at #7 is between Billie Marten with "Feeling" and My Morning Jacket with "Half A Lifetime". And finally there's one more tie to close the top ten wherein "Farrah Fawcett Hair (Predux)" by Capital Cities and "Over and Over" by Wishy share the #9 spot.

You'll see some of those same names show up as we continue going over the top ten albums, starting with My Morning Jacket's tenth record is debuting at #2. Two more just-released records, Brian D'Addario's (of The Lemon Twigs) Till The Morning and Ora The Molecule's Dance Therapy, are tied for #3. Bon Iver's much anticipated SABLE, fABLE is at #5, followed by Wishy's Planet Popstar EP at #6, and Capital Cities' A Hurricane of Frowns at #7. That leaves a four-way tie at #8 to close the top ten, featuring Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ from Courting, Hex Key from Mamalarky, Ginkgo from Panchiko, and ANGIE from spill tab.

There's more on both charts of course and you can find the rest HERE. And you can find another big batch of singles and albums on the Available For Airplay list. As I mentioned earlier, The Bug Club announced a record, as did Laura Jane Grace; both have new singles to tease them. Plus there are album drops from Bria Salmena, The Darkness, Dean Wareham, girlpuppy, Great Grandpa, Perfume Genius, Somebody's Child, and more. That's all for now. I'll talk to you in April... no foolin'!

~ Josh T. Landow