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IF YOU HUM A FEW BARS: As we write this, The Civil Wars' Between the Bars EP (sensibility/Columbia) is #5 on the iTunes album chart, right behind Beyoncé. The four-song set finds the duo giving their intimate, dark-folk treatment to songs by—get this—Portishead, Elliott Smith, Michael Jackson and The Romantics, and making all of this diverse material their own. Other comers on the iTunes chart include Glass Air's The Glitch Mob (currently #3 and due to bow with 20-25k on next week's Album Chart), Sumerian's electro-rock outfit Crosses (a side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno) and, outside the Top 10, Artium/Def Jam/IDJ's Jhene Aiko, Dualtone Country/Folk troubadour Noah Gundersen and the second ST collection from HBO's Girls (featuring Vampire Weekend, Jake Bugg, Beck and Aimee Mann, among others). (2/12p)