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Chainsaw Charts 2/3/26
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DEFEATED SANITY | Chronicles of Lunacy | Season of Mist |
| 2 | CHAT PILE | Cool World | The Flenser |
| 3 | LYCHGATE | Precipice | Debemur Morti |
| 4 | SIEGE COLUMN | Sulphur Omega | Self-Released |
| 5 | BLOOD ABSCISSION | I I | Debemur Motri |
| 6 | CATHARSIS | Hope Against Hope | Crimethinc. |
| 7 | DRAWN AND QUARTERED | Lord Of Two Horns | Nuclear Winter |
| 8 | EMMA GOLDMAN | All You Are Is We | Zegema Beach |
| 9 | HEDONIST | Scapulimancy | Southern Lord |
| 10 | KARDASHEV | Alunea | Metal Blade |
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Afterhours Charts 2/3/26
Afterhours Charts
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SASSY 009 | Dreamer+ | PIAS Electronique |
| 2 | LOS PULPITOS | Octopean Union | Crammed Discs |
| 3 | SHUGOREI | Memories of Magic—魔法の記憶—Mahō no Kioku | 4000 |
| 4 | FKA TWIGS | EUSEXUA Afterglow | Young/Atlantic |
| 5 | CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON | “Selfish” [Single] | Stone Woman/XL |
| 6 | EMIL MARK | “Resjer” [Single] | Tonal Union |
| 7 | GIRL BRUTAL | “Asteroids” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 8 | RAMONPANG | “Mystery Dungeon” [Single] | Tabula Rasa |
| 9 | HELADO NEGRO | The Last Sound On Earth [EP] | Big Dada |
| 10 | ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | Tranquilizer | Warp |
Afterhours Adds
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SASSY 009 | Dreamer+ | PIAS Electronique |
| 2 | LOS PULPITOS | Octopean Union | Crammed Discs |
| 3 | CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON | “Selfish” [Single] | Stone Woman/XL |
| 4 | EMIL MARK | “Resjer” [Single] | Tonal Union |
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Underground Charts 2/3/26
Underground Charts
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SAMM HENSHAW | It Could Be Worse | Dorm Seven/AWAL |
| 2 | PLANET GIZA | The Sky Is Recording Me: 100 Years Later (Vol. 3) | Quiet Note |
| 3 | MCKINLEY DIXON | Magic, Alive! | City Slang |
| 4 | PRESERVATION AND GABE ‘NANDEZ | Sortilège | Backwoodz Studioz |
| 5 | KEIYAA | hooke’s law | XL |
| 6 | DANNY BROWN | Stardust | Warp |
| 7 | DEMAE | Deep Dive [EP] | FAMM |
| 8 | CAUTIOUS CLAY | The Hours: Night | Fantasy/Concord |
| 9 | 7XVETHEGENIUS | Self 7xve 3 | Broadband Sound |
| 10 | HUMAN ERROR CLUB AND KENNY SEGAL | Human Error Club At Kenny’s House | Backwoods Studioz |
Underground Adds
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LORD JAH-MONTE OGBON | As Of Now | Lex |
| 2 | BY STORM | My Ghosts Go Ghost | deadAir |
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DJ Dragonfly’s January Favorites
The first DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites for 2026 is here. It’s time to see if anything’s changed from last year to this year.
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Jazz Charts 2/3/26
Jazz Charts
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | NOAH HAIDU | Standards III | Infinite Distances |
| 2 | ISAIAH J THOMPSON | The Book Of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry | Mack Avenue |
| 3 | BRAD MEHLDAU | Ride Into The Sun | Nonesuch |
| 4 | WEB WEB | Plexus Plexus | Compost |
| 5 | WAITIKI 7, THE | Exotica Reborn: In Studio And Live At House Without A Key | Waitiki International |
| 6 | OLYMPIANS, THE | “Strawberry Kiwi” [Single] | Daptone |
| 7 | LAUREN HENDERSON | Sonidos | Brontosaurus |
| 8 | LAKECIA BENJAMIN | Phoenix | Whirlwind |
| 9 | PAUL CORNISH | You’re Exaggerating! | Blue Note |
| 10 | LANCE FERGUSON | Rare Groove Spectrum, Vol. 3 | Tru Thoughts |
Top Adds
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHABAKA | “A Future Untold” b/w “Marwa The Mountain” [Single] | Shabaka |
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Top Charts 2/3/26
Top Charts
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DOUBLE WISH | Double Wish | Hit The North |
| 2 | LIGHTHEADED | Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! | Slumberland |
| 3 | PHOEBE RINGS | Aseurai | Carpark |
| 4 | APRIL MARCH | “Surfing Castafiore” [Single] | Bong Load |
| 5 | CROOKED FINGERS | “Cold Waves” [Single] | Merge |
| 6 | FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE | “This Is Real” [Single] | Saddle Creek |
| 7 | HEMLOCK | Orange Streak Glow [EP] | Self-Released |
| 8 | HOMEOSTASIS | “Golden Eyes” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 9 | PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE | Taurus | Topshelf |
| 10 | SHARP PINS | Balloon Balloon Balloon | K/Perennial |
| 11 | STEREOLAB | Instant Holograms On Metal Film | Warp/Duophonic |
| 12 | ABIGAIL DOWD | Saints & Warriors | Self-Released |
| 13 | ACOPIA | Blush Response | Scenic Route |
| 14 | AMENRA | De Toorn & With Fang And Claw [EP] | Relapse |
| 15 | CHANEL BEADS | “The Coward Forgets His Nightmare” [Single] | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON | “High Road” [Single] | Stone Woman/XL |
| 17 | CHAT PILE | Cool World | The Flenser |
| 18 | DAFFO | Where The Earth Bends | Concord |
| 19 | DEFEATED SANITY | Chronicles of Lunacy | Season of Mist |
| 20 | DESTRATA | A Healthy Fear [EP] | !K7 |
| 21 | DJ BEETLEBITCH | Acidtape2024 [EP] | Dirtbag |
| 22 | FILLERHOOK | Apricity | Self-Released |
| 23 | FIND MY FRIENDS | Find My Friends [EP] | Bloody Knuckles |
| 24 | FOXWARREN | 2 (Two) | Anti- |
| 25 | GANSER | Animal Hospital | felte |
| 26 | HATCHIE | Liquorice | Secretly Canadian |
| 27 | JOYER | On The Other End Of The Line… | Julia’s War |
| 28 | KARDASHEV | Alunea | Metal Blade |
| 29 | KILL THE BUDDHA | Kill the Buddha | Moths Recording Company |
| 30 | LILITHPAD | The Sky Is Falling… [EP] | Self-Released |
Top Adds
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | TRUE BLUE | Star Witness | True Nature |
| 2 | TRIPLES | Every Good Story [EP] | Bleak Enterprise |
| 3 | TREMBLER | Total Sorry [EP] | Rite Field |
| 4 | SNAIL MAIL | “Dead End” [Single] | Matador |
| 5 | GUV | Warmer Than Gold | Run For |
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Learning about Noise
I love music that pushes the envelope on what can be considered music. Two metal pipes banging against each other in my headphones might just be a prototype of the instruments of the future. The worst part is I am only half joking. If someone can make it sound good, or scratch that if someone can make it sound, who’s to say it isn’t music? Music is just noise, so any noise or combination of noises could be music. That line of thinking is what gets you the noise music genre. This genre features things like music made using hair dryers, cut up and split together cassette tapes, factory ambience, half-unplugged amps doing an infinite feedback loop with themselves and more that almost fails to be describable.
Photos by Lachlan Vester.
The Front Bottoms kicked off their Back On Top: Ten Years Tour at the Ritz in Raleigh on the twelfth of December 2025. Before getting any further into this post I must confide in the reader that I am a huge fan of The Front Bottoms and have seen them several times. Despite this, I will do my best to keep an unbiased view of this show.
The show kicked off with NOBRO, an all-female outfit of hard rockers who had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands for their whole set. NOBRO absolutely killed their set and set the bar high for the rest of the night.
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DJ Dragonfly’s December Favorites
It might be a new year, but some old things keep carrying on. A prime example would be the next edition of “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”
I know this post comes a little late but these were my picks for December, I promise.