Album Sweep: July 6, 2013 - Part Two...

Ready and able to roll out part two of this week's "album sweep" of the new records spending their first week on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if possible...

Denver dance-pop duo 3OH!3, named for the area code they are from, come in at #81 with their fourth album Omens. Their last, Streets Of Gold, went all the way to #7 in 2010...

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Quasimoto, the "alter-ego" of alt-rapper Madlib, arrives at #83 with his third record under the moniker, Yessir Whatever....(NSFW)

Texan pop/rock outfit Green River Ordinance enters at #94 with their Chasing Down The Wind EP.


..on the other side of the country spectrum are the rap-country hybrids the LoCash Cowboys with their self-titled album (the second under that title) at #97...

California indie-rockers the Mowgli's, named for a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, pop in at #109 with Waiting For The Dawn...

Massachussetts hiphop artist Statik Selektah charges in at #121 with Extended Play, his fifth studio set...(NSFW)

Veteran jam band Phish, probably the biggest since the Grateful Dead, come back at #123 with Ventura, a six-CD set from two concerts in California in 1997 and 1998. Two of the band's studio albums, 1996's Billy Breathes and The Story of The Ghost two years later, reached the top-10...

70's country/soul icons Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark team up at #172 for Blind, Crippled & Crazy. They originally recorded together in 1972...

Sister vocal group Cimorelli has grown a big fanbase on YouTube, and they are on the chart at #179 with their Made In America EP....

The jazz trio bwb, consisting of guitarist Norman Brown, sax-man Kirk Whalum, and Rick Braun on the trumpet, has a collection of hit albums between them, and they're back at #184 with their second collaborative effort, Human Nature. It's a collection of lite-jazz versions of Michael Jackson songs...

Dutch DJ/producer Hardwell is in at #191 with Hardwell Presents Revealed: Volume 4...

The final debut of the week are newcomers Whenever, If Ever by the rock group The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am Not Afraid To Die at #196...

That's it for the second batch of goodness...out of these dozen the three I'd go with first are the Mowgli's, Green River Ordinance, and 3OH!3...