Tuesday Top 25: August 4, 2026

It's already August?? Hold on to summer - and there's a lot to take in! The Italian Festival is this weekend. The Dirty Heads are top of the charts this week, and we've got new tracks from U2, Cage the Elephant, and Social Distortion! Celebrate Erie, Zabawa, and the county fairs are right around the corner. And classes begin August 26...

LW          TW

3              1              The Dirty Heads/One of Those Days (Better Noise)

2              2              Temper City/Self-Aware (Thirty Knots)

4              3              Almost Monday/No More Regrets (Thank God It’s Almost Monday EP; Hollywood)

5              4              The Strokes/Going Shopping (RCA)

6              5              Modest Mouse/Picking Dragon’s Pockets (An Eraser and a Maze; Glacial Pace)

8              6              Evanescence/Who Will Follow (Sanctuary; Wind-Up)

1              7              Noah Kahan/Doors (The Great Divide; Republic)

11           8              Myles Smith/Hold Me in the Dark (It’s OK To Feel Limited)

12           9              Julia Wolf/In My Room (AWAL)

10           10           Florence and the Machine/Buckle (Everybody Scream; Republic)

7              11           Beck/Ride Lonesome (Capitol)

14           12           Death Cab for Cutie/Stone Over Water (I Built You a Tower; Anti- )

13           13           Brian Fallon and The Painkillers/Better Before (Lesser Known) 

17           14           Weezer/We Might as Well Be Strangers (Warner)

--             15           Cage the Elephant/Beaches in Tennessee (Mercury)

18           16           Bleachers/We Should Talk (Everyone for Ten Minutes; Dirty Hit)

19           17           Buffalo Traffic Jam/Fool’s Gold (Take Me Home EP; Arista)

20           18           Young the Giant/Evergreen (Victory Garden; Concord)

15           19           Phoebe Bridgers/Lost Boys (Dead Oceans)

21           20           Beaches/Should’ve Known Better (No Hard Feelings; AWAL)

22           21           Edgehill/Love To Go (Ode to the Greyhouse; Big Loud Rock)

--             22           U2/Street of Dreams (Island)

--             23           Social Distortion/Tonight (Born To Kill; Epitaph)

23           24           Violet Grohl/Bug in the Cake (Be Sweet to Me; Republic)

25           25           Jack White/Dollar Bill (Frozen Charlotte; Third Man)

#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS

Last Year (2025): Mumford and Sons/Caroline (Rushmere; Island)

5 Years Ago (2021): Green Day/Pollyanna (Reprise)

10 Years Ago (2016): Red Hot Chili Peppers/Dark Necessities (The Getaway; Warner Brothers)

15 Years Ago (2011): Coldplay/Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall (Mylo Xyloto; Capitol)

20 Years Ago (2006): The Raconteurs/Steady As She Goes (Broken Boy Soldiers; V2)

25 Years Ago (2001): Cake/Short Skirt, Long Jacket (Comfort Eagle; Columbia)

30 Years Ago (1996): Primitive Radio Gods/Standing Outside a Phone Booth (Rocket; Columbia)

35 Years Ago (1991): Big Audio Dynamite/Rush (The Globe; Columbia)

40 Years Ago (1986): The Eurythmics/Missionary Man (Revenge; RCA)

45 Years Ago (1981): Pat Benatar/Fire and Ice (Precious Time; Chrysalis)

50 Years Ago (1976): Elton John & Kiki Dee/Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (MCA)