Evaporator Mania Rules From Coast To Coast

Looking at the top of the Chart for the week ending, Evaporator Mania has fully gripped campus radio programmers from Victoria to Halifax. In fact, the Nardwuar-led quartet's latest release, Ripple Rock, has conquered almost every radio station outside of the province of Quebec, where only the English stations, CJMQ (Bishop's) at #6 and CKUT (McGill) at #7 are playing the dickens out of it. Ripple Rock tops the chart for a third consecutive week behind the strength of three #1 spots at CITR (Vancouver), CJSR (Edmonton) and CKUW (Winnipeg) and a total of 15 Top 10 placings. The Evaporators actually appear on 22 of the 33 individual charts from the past week.

Running in second is Air's Talkie-Walkie, followed by Stereolab's Margerine Eclipse, which drops to #3. Chad Van Gaalen's Infiniheart moves up nine places to #9, followed by a resurgence of former #1 The Joel Plaskett Emergency's Truthfully Truthfully, which rockets back up the charts 23 places to #10, partially on the strength of a #1 placing at the aforementioned CKDU. Also witnessing a rise in radio support is fellow Nova Scotian, Matt Mays. His eponymous debut re-enters the charts at #18.

The highest debut of the week belongs to The Elected's Me First, slamming into the Top 50 chart at a respectable #26. The End enter the charts at #31 with their new album, Within Dividia. The Microphones' Live In Japan debuts at #33. Other notable new entries include Crystal Method's Legion Of Boom at #35, the new Calgary phenoms, The Mood, who see their album, What's On The Surface And What's Underneath, enter the charts at #45 and Phantom Planet's eponymous release enters at #49.

Telefon Tel Aviv's Map Of What Is Effortless takes over the #1 position on the Electronic chart this week, Sweatshop Union's Natural Progression moves to #1 on the Hip-Hop chart and Premonitions Of War's Left In Kowloon returns to the top of the Metal/Punk chart. Both Chicago Underground Trio's Slon on the Jazz/Blues chart and Lhasa's The Living Road on the World/Folk chart retain their #1 positions this week