BRYAN
Azita – How Will You? lp/cd
Built to Spill – There Is No Enemy 2lp/cd
Vee Dee – Public Mental Health System 2lp/cd
Absu – Absu 2lp/cd
Deathspell Omega/S.V.E.S.T. LP
Wolves In The Throne Room – Black Cascade 2lp/cd
Arthur Russell – Love Is Overtaking Me 2lp
Death – For The Whole World To See lp/cd
Group Bombino – Guitars from Agadez Vol.2 lp
Group Doueh – Treeg Salaam lp
Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship lp/cd
Faust – Faust IV lp re-issue
Karen Dalton – It\’s So Hard To Tell Who\’s… lp re-issue
Amon Duul II – Yeti lp re-issue
KEN
Disappears – Live over the rainbow
Greg Kowalsky- Tape Chants
Sun Araw- Heavy Deeds
Group Doueh – Treeg Salaam
Bobby Beausoleil – Lucifer Rising boxset
George-Edwards group – 38:38
Pisces – Lovely Sight
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
Nudge – As good as Gone
Ngozi Family – 45,000 Volts
BILLY
JONSI & ALEX \”RICEBOY SLEEPS\”
JAPANDROIDS
HAYMARKET RIOT \”ENDLESS BUMMER\”
WINDY & CARL
PEARL JAM \”BACKSPACER\”
THEM CROOKED VULTURES
REISSUES:
WHO SELL OUT MONO/ STEREO
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE – BOTH
ELI
1- Das Boton \”Soda Drip\”
2- Polvo \”In Prism\”
3- El Michels Affair \”Enter The 37th Chamber\”
4- Thom Yorke \”Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses\” 12\”single
5- Zombi \”Spirit Animal\”
6- Dead Weather \”Horehound\”
7- Tortoise \”Beacons Of Ancestorship\”
8- MAGAS \”Violent Arp\”
9- Flaming Lips \”Embryonic\”
10- Chandeliers \”Dirty Moves\”
MATT
Absu \”Absu\”
Beherit vinyl reissues
Big Star \”Keep an Eye on the Sky\” boxset
Blues Control \”Local Flavor\”
Blut Aus Nord \”Memoria Vetusta: Dialogue with the Stars\”
Bobby Beasoleil \”Lucifer Rising\” boxset
Circle of Ouroborus \”Tree of Knowledge\”
Circle of Ouroborus “Streams” LP reissue
Deathspell Omega/S.V.E.S.T. split
Drudkh \”Microcosmos\”
Gris \”Il Etait Une Foret\”
Group Bombino \”Volume 2: Guitars from Agadez\”
Harmonia/ Eno \”Tracks & Traces\” reissue
Immortal \”All Shall Fall\”
Magas \”Violent Arp\”
Nachtmystium \”Doomsday Derelicts\”
Ngozi Family \”45,000 Volts\”
Pisces \”Lovely Sight\”
Plustapes Reckless domination! (Mannequin Men, Blasted Diplomats, Chicago Thrash
Ensemble, Death Ships, Chris Connelly etc…)
Polvo \”In Prism\”
Ruins of Beverast \”Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite\”
Sixx \”Sister Devil: Demo 1991\”
Sun Araw \”Heavy Deeds\”
Sylvester Anfang II
Von \”Satanic Blood Angel\” reissue
Gareth Williams \”Flaming Tunes\”
Yoga \”Megafauna\”
Thom Yorke \”Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses\”
Neil Young \”Dreamin Man\” Live 1992
Neil Young Archives boxset
Live Shows
Absu
Enslaved
Sunn o))) \”Monoliths & Dimensions\”
Pentagram
Harvey Milk
Leonard Cohen
CHARLES
Beatles: Mono Box Set
Henry Cow: Box Set
Sunn 0))): Monoliths & Dimensions
Barry Guy: Radio Rondo
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: Poetics
Paul Dunmall Sun Quartet: Ancient And Future Airs
Evan Parker: The Moment’s Energy
N.E.W: Deadeye Tricksters
Marcus Strickland Trio: Idiosyncrasies
WHITNEY
Bests:
Tallest Man on Earth : Shallow Grave. Technically 2008 but I found out about this in 2009. And fell in love.
Neko Case : Middle Cyclone
The Mountain Goats : Life of the World to Come
Mirah : (A)spera
Drakkar Sauna : 20009 (Twothousandousandnine) These guys make me really happy.
Volcano Choir : Unmap
Sing Fang Bous : Clangour
Why? : Eskimo Snow
Live:
Feelies @ Pritzger Pavillion
TV show I got my whole house hooked on:
Dexter Seasons 1, 2 & 3
ETHAN
DEATH- FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE
RATIONALS – THINK RATIONAL
ORCHESTRA POLY-RHYTHMO DE COTONDU: ECHOS HYPNOTIQUES
KURT VILE: CHILDISH PRODIGY
IMPLODES- S/T
BLASTED DIPLOMATS- S/T
DEATH SHIPS- NOTES FROM THE CAP\’NS QUARTERS
MANNEQUIN MEN- PREHISTORIC SHIT
MANNEQUIN MEN- LOSER ILLUSION TOO
JT IV- COSMIC LIGHTNING
CHRIS CONNELLY- PENTLAND FIRTH HOWL LP
CHICAGO THRASH ENSEMBLE- DEMON CASSETTE
VEE-DEE-PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
SNOW ANGELS
\”SEASONAL HELP\”
ANTHONY
BEE GEES: Odessa Deluxe Edition
BROADCAST: Broadcast & Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio
GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP: 38:38
MONKS: Black Monk Time & Early Years Deluxe Editions
YOKO ONO: Between My Head & The Sky
PISCES: Lovely Sight
TENNISCOURTS: Dig The New Sounds of the Tenniscourts
KURT VILE: Childish Prodigy
ZERO BOYS: Vicious Circle & History of the Zero Boys
V/A: G-Spots: Spacey Folk & Electro Sounds of Studio G Library
V/A: Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets Box Set V/A: You Weren\’t There: History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 LP/DVD
STEVE
beherit – drawing down the moon reissue
big star – keep an eye on the sky box set
box elders – alice & friends
circle of ouroborus – streams lp
citizen\’s arrest – colossus reissue
death – for the whole world to see
deathspell omega/s.v.e.s.t. split lp
faust – so far & IV lp reissues
harmonia & eno \’76 – tracks & traces
harvey milk – bob weston sessions
iron claw – s/t reissue
JT IV – cosmic lightning lp
lake of dracula – skeletal remains lp
masshysteri – var del av stan
mirrors – something that would never do
the monks – black monk time reissue
obits – i blame you
pisces – a lovely sight
pissed jeans – king of jeans
raekwon – only built 4 cuban linx part II
ratas del vaticano – s/t lp
the rats – intermittent signals reissue
the spits – IV
sun araw – heavy deeds
television personalities reissues
zero boys – vicious circle & history of reissues
v/a local customs: downriver revival
v/a mata la pena
v/a mortika
v/a oh graveyard, you can\’t always hold me
small stuff:
brain idea demo
dark ages – vicious lie 7\”
eyesight television demo
the fems – go to a party 7\” reissue
ga\’an – s/t cassette
implodes – cassette(s)
smart cops – cominciare a vivere 7\”
white meat – sculpted beef 12\”
live stuff:
carcass
der todesking
the gories & the oblivians
harvey milk
implodes
jesus lizard
killdozer
masshysteri
throbbing gristle
COURTLAND
- A ORILLAS DEL MAGDALENA: Coastal Cumbias from Colombia’s Discos Fuentes
- SYLVESTER AND THE HOT BAND – Blue Thumb Collection
- LOVE TRAIN – The Sound Of Philadelphia Box Set
- RICK POPPA HOWARD – Whithout Your Love (12\”)
- LIGHT :ON THE SOUTH SIDE
- Phil Cohran – Spanish Suite
- Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information
- El Michels Affair – Enter The 37th Chamber
- Mos Def – Ecstatic
- Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship
- Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization of West Africa
- Tumbele! Beguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean
- Doom – Born Like This
- Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
- Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
- Death – For the Whole World To See
- String of Pearls: Jewels of the 78 RPM Era
- Omar Souleyman – Highway To Hassake
- Suarasama – Fajar Di Atas Awan
- Mayer Hawthorne – Just Aint Gonna Work Out (Heart Shaped Record)
- 24-Carat Black – Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
- Pisces – Lovely Sight
- Local Customs: Downwater Revival
DYLAN
Didn\’t find out about it until late 2008:
THE WEEK THAT WAS – S/T
BEST 25 RECORDS OF 2009
CHEER-ACCIDENT – FEAR DRAWS MISFORTUNE
Chicago\’s own finally create their prog masterpiece
MARC RIBOT – SCELSI MORNING
An underrated guitarist, and a gorgeously compelling album
BAD PLUS – FOR ALL I CARE
Vocals? It works!
SQUAREPUSHER – NUMBERS LUCENT
Not as obtuse as previous records, but still complex and genius
AZITA – HOW WILL YOU
Another set of impeccably crafted jazz-pop tunes
STORSVEIT NIX NOLTES – ROYAL FAMILY – DIVORCE
Punk-gypsy blues – nice!
ST VINCENT – ACTOR
This was certainly her year!
AKRON/FAMILY – SET EM WILD, SET EM FREE
A bold experiment in free-form rock, but consistently good
DIRTY PROJECTORS – BITTE ORCA
Another great collection of off-kilter pop; oddly popular…
YONLU – A SOCIETY IN WHICH NO TEAR IS SHED
Sadly overlooked bedroom lo-fi tragedy – look into it!
FUTURE OF THE LEFT – TRAVELS WITH MYSELF AND ANOTHER
Intense live show, and great songs
WILCO – WILCO THE ALBUM
\”Dad rock\” – ridiculous. How \’bout \”insidious AOR\”?
JOAN OF ARC – FLOWERS
A concise, consistent collection from these old-timers
DEAD WEATHER – HOREHOUND
Exciting and revolutionary in its backwards-looking vibe
GREYMACHINE – DISCONNECTED
Those of you missing Godflesh can stop immediately!
PATTERN IS MOVEMENT – ALL TOGETHER
Strange art-prog, but with a heart
PATTON OSWALT – MY WEAKNESS IS STRONG
Nerd comedy!
YO LA TENGO – POPULAR SONGS
Another strong collection of varied pursuits
POLVO – IN PRISM
They\’re back!
SHUDDER TO THINK – LIVE FROM HOME
A perfect setlist
DAVID SYLVIAN – MANAFON
An absolute stunner – think Scott Walker meets Derek Bailey
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – HERE COMES SCIENCE
Another batch of \”kids\” songs. Dorky geniuses
FLAMING LIPS – EMBRYONIC
Back to the old school for this psych-pop classic
DEAD MAN\’S BONES – S/T
Creepy and cool, despite the Hollywood pedigree
THEM CROOKED VULTURES – S/T
Not much fancy here, just good ol\’ rock \’n\’ roll
BEST REISSUES OF 2009
NIRVANA – BLEACH
The bonus live show is probably the best show I\’ve heard
ANTHRAX – AMONG THE LIVING
About time for this thrash masterpiece
DEATH – FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE
What a find! Great lost punk tunes
WHO – SELL OUT
A slightly flawed reissue campaign can\’t diminish the importance
PISCES – LOVELY SIGHT (REISSUE) (KIND OF)
Who doesn\’t love this lite-psych lost gem?
BEST (OR MOST INTERESTING) BUSINESS MODEL OF 2009
THIRD MAN RECORDS
KATIE
Aceyalone – Lonely Ones
Bibio- Ambivalence Avenue
Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit – The Very Best
jj – jj no. 2
Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence
Major Lazer – Guns Don\’t Kill People, Lazers Do
Moderat – Moderat
Mr. Scruff- Nice Up the Function feat. Roots Manuva
MSTRKRFT- Fist Of God
Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx II
MICHELLE
new releases:
cultural decay – eight ways to start a day
13th chime – the singles: 1981-1983
subway – subway II
big pink – a brief history of love
broadcast & the focus group – investigate witch cults of the radio age
jack rose & the black twig pickers – s/t
james blackshaw – the glass bead game
pisces – a lovely sight
arthur russell – the sleeping bag sessions
marked men – ghosts
pissed jeans – king of jeans
liechtenstein – survival strategies in a modern world
pains of being pure at heart – s/t
death – for the whole world to see
jeremy jay – slow dance
vaselines – enter the vaselines
V/A – forge your own chains: heavy psychedelic ballads & dirges
1968 – 1974
V/A – local customs: downriver revival
reissues:
zero boys – vicious circle
loop – the world in your eyes
rodriguez – coming from reality
jawbox – for your own special sweetheart
vinyl reissues:
television personalities – and don\’t the kids just love it
faust – so far & IV
the rats – intermittent signals
the breeders – last splash
samuel prody – \”s/t\”
best shows:
jack rose @ the hideout
devo @ the vic
mk ultra @ the beat kitchen
faust @ the empty bottle
broadcast @ the bottom lounge
JESSICA
Best Coast tape \”Where the Boys Are\” on Blackest Rainbow
Pissed Jeans \”King of Jeans\”
Ga\’an s/t tape
Torche \”Meanderthal Demos\” tape on Rotting Chapel
Vivian Girls \”Everything Goes Wrong\”
Julian Lynch \”Orange You Glad\” LP on Olde English Spelling Bee
Om \”God is Good\”
OH YEAH and the hit single (song only) by SHAKIRA SHE WOLF
ANGELA
(in no particular order)
- Iron Age \”Sleeping Eye\”
- Ofege \”Try and Love\”
- Pisces \”Lovely Sight\”
- Greymachine \”Disconnected\”
- Pissed Jeans \”King of Jeans\”
- Oneida \”Rated O\”
- Bellini \”Precious Prize of Gravity\”
- Subway \”Subway II\”
- Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers s/t
- Giant Squid \”The Ichthyologist\”
- Bill Callahan \”Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle\”
- Nirvana \”Bleach\” Deluxe Reissue
- Oxbow \”Fuckfest\” Reissue & Remaster
CHRIS W
BEST ALBUMS OF 2009
1) DIRTY PROJECTORS \”Bitte Orca\” (Domino)
2) COLD CAVE \”Love Comes Close\” (Matador Records)
3) LIGHTNING DUST \”Infinite Light\” (Jagjaguwar)
4) ST. VINCENT \”Actor\” (4AD Records)
5) DERADOORIAN \”Mind Raft EP\” (LovePump United)
6) ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS \”The Crying Light\” (Secretly Canadian)
7) DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS \”Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi\” (David Lynch Music)
8) THE DURUTTI COLUMN \”Love In the Time of Recession\” (Fulfill)
9) GRIZZLY BEAR \”Veckatimest\” (Warp Records)
10) KARL BLAU \”Zebra\” (K Records)
11) SUN ARAW \”Heavy Deeds\” (No Not Fun)
12) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE \”Merriweather Post Pavilion\” (Domino)
13) REVOLVER (France) \”Music For a While\” (101 Distribution)
14) TELEPATHE \”Dance Mother\” (IAMSOUND)
15) NUDGE \”As Good As Gone\” (Kranky)
16) OM \”God Is Good\” (Drag City)
17) THE GENTLEMAN LOSERS \”Dustland\” (City Centre Offices)
18) CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA \”Les Ailes Pourpres (soundtrack)\” (101 Distribution)
19) CLUSTER \”Qua\” (Nepenthe Music & Publishing)
20) MULATU ASTATKE & THE HELIOCENTRICS \”Inspiration Information\” (Strut Records)
*Honorable Mention: ELUVIUM \”Life Through Bombardment\” (7LP collected works) (Temporary Residence)
BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS OF 2009
1) KiD CuDi \”Man On the Moon: The End of the Day\” (Motown)
2) GET BUSY COMMITTEE \”Uzi Does It\” (Tokyo Sex Whale Records)
3) WALE \”Attention Deficit\” (Interscope/Allido Records)
4) CAM\’RON \”Crime Pays\” (Asylum Records)
5) METHOD MAN & REDMAN \”Blackout! 2\” (Def Jam)
6) APATHY \”Wanna Snuggle?\” (Traffic Entertainment)
7) PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS \”Carried Away\” (On Records)
8) CLUTCHY HOPKINS MEETS LORD KENJAMIN \”Music Is My Medicine\” (Ubiquity Records)
9) U-GOD \”Dopium\” (Babygrande)
10) THE LONELY ISLAND \”Incredibad\” (Universal Republic)
CONOR
Kiila – Tuota Tuota [Fonal]
Current 93 – Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain [Dutro]
Onna – Onna 7” [Holy Mountain]
Spectrum – War Sucks 12” [Mind Expansion]
Josephine Foster – Graphic as a Star [Fire]
WHITE – WHITE [Open Note]
Marissa Nadler – Little Hells [Kemado]
Back Sheep – Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse [Invada]
Nurse With Wound – Surveillance Lounge [Dirter]
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle [Drag City]
Peanut Butter Wolf – 45 Live 7” Box Set [Stones Throw]
Träd Gräs och Stener – Hemlosä Katter [Subliminal Sounds]
Bardo Pond – Gazing at Shilla [Important]
Skitliv – Skandinavisk Misantropi [Season of Mist]
Records from the past that have been addictions throughout the year:
Gene Clark – White Light [1971]
John Cale – Vintage Violence [1970]
Mike Heron – Smiling Men With Bad Reputations [1971]
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava [1968]
Felt – Forever Breathes the Lonely Word [1986]
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed [1969]
Graham Nash – Songs for Beginners [1971]
Roxy Music – Roxy Music [1972]
Don Cherry – Symphony for Improvisers [1966]
BadFinger – Straight up [1971]
Otherworldly Performances:
Jack Rose at the Hideout 9.24.2009
Throbbing Gristle at the Logan Square Auditorium [4.26.09 & 4.27.09]
Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino at the Empty Bottle [4.28.09]
Harvey Milk at Subterranean [7.18.09]
MAGAS
TRAXX – FAITH
BLUES CONTROL – LOCAL FLAVOR
GATEKEEPER – OPTIMUS MAXIMUS
BILL ORCUTT – A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS
IRON CLAW – s/t
MORITZ VON OSWALD – VERTICAL ASCENT
Plustapes/Addenda: IMPLODES, BLASTED DIPLOMATS, DEATH SHIPS, CHRIS CONNELLY
LIGHTNING BOLT – EARTHLY DELIGHTS
ANDREW WK – 55 CADILLAC
BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL – LUCIFER RISING SUITE
KEVIN DRUMM – IMPISH TYRANT & IMPERIAL HORIZON
FRED BIGOT – MONO/STEREO
MAGAS – VIOLENT ARP
CONNELLY
- GRISTLEISM-THROBBING GRISTLE
- VIOLENT ARP – MAGAS
- ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN – CURRENT 93
- REPO – BLACK DICE
- HOW WILL YOU? – AZITA
- THE ROAD – HENRY COW
- THIRD MIND SESSIONS – THROBBING GRISTLE
- L.A. TURNAROUND – BERT JANSCH
- WHITE ALBUM -THE BEATLES
10.PARADE ROOM- THESE WONDERFUL EVILS - ANTONY & THE JOHNSON \”CRYING LIGHT\”
DAN
Favorite 20 New Releases for 2009
1.) Bibio — Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
2.) Phoenix— Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
3.) Felice Brothers– Yonder is the Clock (Team Love)
4.) Obits — I Blame You (Sub Pop)
5.) Alela Diane — To Be Still (Rough Trade)
6.) Washed Out — Life of Leisure (Mexican Summer, Vinyl Only)
7.) Kurt Vile — Childish Prodigy (Matador)
8.) Peaking Lights — Imaginary Falcons (Night People)
9.) Handsome Family — Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
10.) Horrors — Primary Colours (XL)
11.) Future of the Left — Travels With Myself and Another (4ad)
12.) Baroness— Blue Record (Relapse)
13.) Dawes — North Hills (ATO)
14.) Thee Oh Sees — Foggy Notion + Help (Boomkat + In the Red)
15.) Ducktails — Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee)
16.) Wilco — The Album (Nonesuch)
17.) Neko Case — Middle Cyclone (Anti)
18.) William Elliott Whitmore — Animals in the Dark (Anti)
19.) Camera Obscura — My Maudlin Career (4ad)
20.) Yim Yames — Tribute To (ATO)
Favorite 20 Reissues of the Year:
1.) Beatles — Remasters (Capitol)
2.) Red House Painters — Songs for a Blue Guitar (Plain Vinyl Reissue)
3.) Betty Padgett — S/T (LuvnHaight)
4.) Jim Ford — Big Mouth USA + Unissued Capitol Album (Bear Family Vinyl Reissues)
5.) Arthur Verocai — S/T (LuvnHaight)
6.) Karen Dalton — It\’s So Hard to Tell Who is Going to Love You the Best (Light in the Attic Vinyl Reissue)
7.) Neil Young —- Archives Box Set (Reprise)
8.) Death — For the Whole World To See (Drag City)
9.) Terry Reid— River (4MenWithBeards Vinyl Reissue)
10.) Anagram Jam — Compilation (Bmusic)
11.) Townes Van Zandt — Vinyl Reissues (Fat Possum)
12.) Big Star— Keep an Eye on the Sky Box Set (Rhino)
13.) Sunny Day Real Estate — Vinyl Reissues (Sub Pop)
14.) Jawbox — For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Desoto)
15.) 24 Carat Black — Gone Promises of Yesterday (Numero)
16.) Wayfaring Strangers — Lonesome Heroes (Numero)
17.) Loudon Wainwright III — Vinyl Reissues (Scorpio)
18.) Michael Hurley — Armchair Boogie + Parsnip Snips Vinyl Reissues (Mississippi Records)
19.) Nerves/Breakways — Live Reissues (Alive)
20.) JT IV — Cosmic Lightning Vinyl (Galactic Zoo/Drag City)
Favorite Local Underground Labels/ Releases:
1.) Plus Tapes/Addenda Records + Tapes Label (Disappears, Blasted Diplomats, Implodes, Mannequin Men, Hollows etc)
2.) Hozak Label— (White Mystery, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Smith Westerns)
3.) Numero Group Label (A true Chicago class operation)
4.) Mannequin Men — Lose your Illusion, Too (flameshovel)
5.) Cococoma — Things Are Not Alright (Goner)
6.) Cave — Psychic Psummer (Important)
7.) Canadian Rifle — Visibility Zero LP (Reissue)
8.) Galactic Zoo (comics + mixes)
9.) Coupleskate — Dont Scare the Horses (self)
10.) Vee Dee — Public Mental Health System LP (Criminal IQ)
11.) Magas — Violent Arp LP (Punch)
CHRIS D
Eternal Tapestry – Palace of the Night Skies
Group Bombino – Guitars of Agadez Vol. 2
Japandroids – Post-Nothing
Mount Eerie – Wind\’s Poem
Oneida – Rated O
Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
Pontiak – Maker
Residual Echoes – MFI GBSP
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Various Artists – Local Customs: Downriver Revival
JOSH
10 neko case middle cyclone
9 fuck buttons tarot sport
8 oneida rated o
7 wilco the album
6 fever ray
5 yo la tengo popular songs
4 volcano choir unmap
3 mount eerie winds poem
2 califone all my friends are funeral singers
1 flaming lips embryonic
ROBBIE
Best albums of 2009:
Fool\’s Gold -S/T
Pisces – A Lovely Sight
Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Sian Alice Group – Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
Subway – Subway II
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Best artist that I just discovered this year:
Dwight Twilley
Best films of 2009 (that I\’ve seen so far!):
Funny People
Adventureland
Drag Me To Hell
Best live shows in Chicago of 2009:
Pentagram @ The Empty Bottle, June 27, 2009.
The Entrance Band @ The Hideout, July 16, 2009.
JASON
1.DEATH \”FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE\” (DRAG CITY)
2.TORTOISE \”BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP\” (THRILLJOCKEY)
3.YEAH YEAH YEAHS \”ITS BLITZ\” (DGC)
4.YOU WEREN\’T THERE;HISTORY OF CHICAGO PUNK 77-84 (FACTORY 25)
5.ZERO BOYS \”REISSUES\” (SEC.CANADIAN)
6.PELICAN \”WHAT WE ALL COME TO NEED\” (SOUTHERNLORD)
7.SLAYER \”WORLD PAINTED BLOOD\” (DEF-AMERICAN)
8.CONVERGE \”AXE TO FALL\” (EPITAPH)
9.MUNICIPAL WASTE \”MASSIVE AGGRESSIVE\” (EARCHE)
10.CANADIAN RIFLE \”VISIBILITY ZERO\” (RESIDUE REC.)
MELISSA
in alphabetical order:
Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics- inspiration Information
Big Star- Boxed set
Broadcast- Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio
Bill Callahan- Sometimes I wish we were an Eagle
Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career
Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
Phil Cohran- Spanish Suite
Chris Clark- Soul Sounds (reissue, first time on cd!)
Leonard Cohen- Live at the Isle of Wight
Chris Connelly- Pentland Firth Howl
Death- For the Whole World to See
El Michels Affair- Enter the 37th Chamber
Yvonne Fair- Bitch Is Black (reissue, first time on cd!)
Group Bombino- Guitars from Agadez
Mayer Hawthorne- Just Ain\’t Gonna Work Out & Maybe So Maybe No 12\”s
Implodes- Implodes (cassette)
Barbara Lynn- Here is Barbara Lynn (reissue, first time on cd!)
Magas- Violent Arp
Monks- Reissues
Ofege- Try & Love
Orchestre Poly Rythmo – Echos Hypnotiques Analog Africa vol.2
Pisces- Lovely Sight
Betty Padgett- Betty Padgett
Raveonettes- In and Out of Control
Sunn- Monoliths & Dimensions
Sylvester Anfang- Sylvester Anfang II
Thin Lizzy- Still Dangerous Live at the Tower Theatre
24-Carat Black- Gone the Promises of Yesterday
Kurt Vile- Childish Prodigy
Thom Yorke- Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses 12\”
Neil Young- Dreamin Man Live \’92
Various- Light on The South Side
Various- Mortika
Various- A Orillas Del Magdalena- Coastal Cumbias
Various- Tumbele! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean
Various- Fly Girls B-Boys Beware
Various- You Weren\’t There
Plus Tapes releases (blasted diplomats/ mannequin men/ death ships etc.)
SARAH
- embryonic – flaming lips
- live anthology – tom petty
- dark was the night – various artists
- childish prodigy – kurt vile
- entrance band – entrance band
- middle cyclone – neko case
- wolfgang amadeus phoenix – phoenix
- enter the 37th chamber – el michels affair
- top ranking – diplo & santogold
- ecstatic – mos def
favorite ladies of the year:
chelsea lately, stephanie meyer,
mary portas & catherine hardwicke,
charlaine harris
JACOB
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Azita – How Will You?
Jim O\’Rourke – The Visitor
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
Atlas Sound – Logos
Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
Sufjan Stevens – The BQE
Systems Officer – Underslept
Sunny Day Real Estate – LP2 (Reissue)
V/A – New Moon OST
Bonny Billy live
CAROLINE
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE “Merriweather Post Pavillion
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS “The Crying Light”
ATLAS SOUND “Logos”
BLAKROC “Blakroc”
CALIFONE “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers”
CAMERA OBSCURA “My Maudlin Career”
CAVE “Psychic Psummer”
NEKO CASE “Middle Cyclone”
CHANDELIERS “Dirty Moves”
DEAD WEATHER “Horehound”
THE DECEMBERISTS “The Hazards of Love”
DIRTY PROJECTORS “Bitte Orca”
DODOS “TIme to Die”
- FLORENCE & THE MACHINE “Lungs”
FRUIT BATS “The Ruminant Band”
GRIZZLY BEAR “Veckatimest” - MICACHU “Jewellery”
PHOENIX “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
TAKEN BY TREES “East of Eden”
VAMPIRE WEEKEND “Vampire Weekend”
THE XX “xx”
V/A “Dark Was the Night” *favorites
Concerts: Beirut, Pitchfork Festival
Phoenix, Aragon Ballroom
CHRISTIAN
- Big Knife \”Ruff Sesh\” cassette
- Blasted Diplomats \”Blasted Diplomats\” cassette
- Chicago Thrash Ensemble \”Demon Cassette\” cassette
- Chris Connelly \”Pentland Firth Howl\” Lp
- Coupleskate \”Don\’t Scare the Horses\” CD
- Death Ships \”Notes From the Captain\’s Quarters\” cassette
- Implodes \”Implodes\” cassette
- Magas \”Violent Arp\” LP
- Mannequin Men \”Lose Your Illusion Too\” LP
- Party Downers \”party Downers\” LP
DAN W
Obits – I Blame You
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Magic Markers – Balf Quarry
Coupleskate – Don\’t Scare The Horses
Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
Times New Viking – Born Again Revisited
Mannequin Men – ridiculous album title
Wilco – ashes of American flags DVD (skip the crappy new CD)
Flaming Lips – Embryonic. the last album sucked. nice return to form.
Magas – Violent Arp
EMILY
Antony & The Johnsons \”Crying Light\” (Secretly Canadian)
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart \”S/T\” (Slumberland)
Abner Jay – One Man Band (Subliminal)
Wolves In The Throneroom \”Black Cascade\” (Southern Lord)
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career (4AD)
Lil Wayne – Rebirth (Cash Money)
Rick Ross – Deeper Than Rap (DefJam)
The Horrors – Primary Colours (XL)
Mayor Daley – Facial Expressions (Rotted Tooth Recordings)
Trad Gras Och Stenar – Homeless Cats (Subliminal Sounds)
Mount Eerie – Wind\’s Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Running For The Drum (Appleseed)
Bobby BeauSoleil – Lucifer Rising (Boxset) (Ajna Offensive)
Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong (In The Red)
Julian Lynch – Orange You Glad (Olde English Spelling Bee)
No Age – Losing Feeling EP (Sub Pop)
White Shit – Sculpted Beef EP (PPM)
Windy & Carl – Instrumentals For The Broken-Hearted (Self Released)
Grass Widow – S/T (Make A Mess)
Mason Lindahl – Serrated Man Sound (Porter Records)
Atlas Sound – Logos (Kranky/4AD)
Desire – II (Italians Do It Better)
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 (Ice H2O)
Rev. Louis Overstreet “An Evening with…”
Kurt Vile – God Is Saying This To You (Mexican Summer)
Q-Tip – Kamaal the Abstract (Battery)
Washed Out – Life Of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
O.W.L. – Of Wonderous Legends (Locust)
Ga\’an – S/T cassette (Self Released)
Reissues:
Stone Roses – Stone Roses (Reissue) (Sony)
Betty Davis – Nasty Gal (Reissue) (Light In The Attic)
Beherit – Drawing Down The Moon (Reissue) (Primitive Reaction)
Feelies – Crazy Rhythms/ Good Earth (Reissue) (Domino/Bar None)
DAVE
Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
Cryptacize – Mythomania
Dear Landlord – Dream Homes
Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Norah Jones – The Fall
Burnt By The Sun – Heart Of Darkness
Triorganico – Convivencia
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Harpoon – Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide
Iron Reminders – S/T
Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin – Music Is My Medicine
Resident Evil 5 (video game)
Shadow Complex (video game)
Left 4 Dead 2 (video game)
Drag Me To Hell (film)
JAMES
BARONESS \”Blue Record\”
BEATLES (Remasters)
BIBIO \”Ambivalence Avenue\”
BIG STAR \”Keep An Eye On The Sky\”
BLASTED DIPLOMATS \”S/T\” Cassette
A.A. BONDY \”When The Devil\’s Loose\”
CAMERA OBSCURA \”My Maudlin Career\”
CAVE \”Psychic Psummer\”
THE CLEAN \”Mister Pop\”
COCOCOMA \”Things Are Not Alright\”
CONVERGE \”Axe To Fall\”
DEATH \”For The Whole World To See\”
DEATH SHIPS \”Notes From The Captain\’s Quarters\” Cassette
ALELA DIANE \”To Be Still\”
DISAPPEARS \”Live Over The Rainbo\”
BOB DYLAN \”Together Through Life\” & \”Christmas In The Heart\”
FAUST \”Faust IV & So Far\” LP Reissues
THE FELICE BROTHERS \”Yonder Is The Clock\”
FUTURE OF THE LEFT \”Travels With Myself & Another\”
GIRLS \”Album\”
GROUNDHOGS (Vinyl Reissues)
HOLLOWS \”S/T\” LP
MICHAEL HURLEY \”Armchair Boogie & Parsnip Snips\”
IMPLODES \”S/T\” Cassette
BERT JANSCH (Drag City Reissues)
ABNER JAY \”True Story Of Abner Jay\”
JESUS LIZARD (Touch & Go Remasters)
MAGAS \”Violent Arp\”
MANNEQUIN MEN \”Lose Your Illusion, Too & Prehistoric Shit Vol 1\”
MY BLOODY VALENTINE \”Before Loveless\” LP
NACHTMYSTIUM \”Doomsday Derelicts\”
NIRVANA \”Bleach\” Remaster & \”Live at Reading\”
NGOZI FAMILY \”45,000 Volts\” LP
OLD FAKE \”Covers Tape\” Cassette
PISCES: \”A Lovely Sight\”
REIGNING SOUND \”Love & Curses\”
JOSEPH SPENCE \”Good Morning Mr. Walker\”
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE (Sub Pop Remasters)
THEE OH SEES \”Help/ Dog Poison/ Tidal Wave 45/ Ty Segall Split 45\”
13th FLOOR ELEVATORS \”Sign of the 3 Eyed Men\”
VASELINES \”Enter The Vaselines\”
VEE DEE \”Public Mental Health System\”
SCOTT WALKER \”30 Century Man\” DVD
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM \”Black Cascade\”
NEIL YOUNG (Remasters/ Fork In the Road/ Dreamin\’ Man Live \’92 &
That Weird Boxset)
V/A: FORE YOUR OWN CHAINS- Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges \’68-\’74
V/A: TUMBELE- Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds From The French Carribean
V/A: AFRICAN SCREAM CONTST- Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From…
V/A: LOCAL CUSTOMS- Downriver Revival
DANIEL
Bat For Lashes \”Two Suns\”
Box Elders \”Alice & Friends\”
Death \”…For The Whole World To See\”
Fiery Furnaces \”I’m Going Away\”
King Khan & BBQ \”Invisible Girl\”
Niela Miller \”Songs Of Leaving\”
Pisces \”A Lovely Sight\”
Thee Oh Sees \”Help\”
Vivian girls \”Everything Goes Wrong\”
v/a \”Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage Vol. 2\”
BRETT
2009 with headphones:
Bear in Heaven \”Beast Rest Forth Mouth\” (Hometapes)
Lullatone \”Songs That Spin in Circles\” (Audio Dregs)
Devendra Banhart \”What Will We Be\” (Warner Brothers)
Clientele \”Bonfires on the Heath\” (Merge)
Tune-Yards \”Bird Brains\” (4ad)
Swan Lake \”Enemy Mine\” (Jagjaguwar)
Jay-Z \”The Blueprint 3\” (Roc Nation)
Atone \”Cet Après-Midi Là (Autres Directions In Music)
Sonic Youth \”The Eternal\” (Matador)
Shuta Hasunuma \”Pop Ooga\” (Western Vinyl)
Atlas Sound \”Logos\” (Kranky)
Grizzly Bear \”Veckatimest\” (Warp)
.tape. \”Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007)\” (Tomavista)
A.C. Newman \”Get Guilty\” (Matador)
Handsome Furs \”Face Control\” (Subpop)
Mos Def \”The Ecstatic\” (Downtown)
Sunset Rubdown \”Dragonslayer\” (Jagjaguwar)
My Little Airport \”Poetics — Something Between Montparnasse and Mong Kok\” (Harbor Music Type)
Animal Collective \”Merriweather Post Pavilion\” (Domino)
Doom \”Born Like This\” (Lex Records)
The Archivist \”The Keeper of the Library\” (Lacies)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs \”It\’s Blitz\” (Interscope)
Built to Spill \”There Is No Enemy\” (WEA/Reprise)
Destroyer \”Bay of Pigs\” (Merge
The Wooden Birds \”Magnolia\” (Barsuk)
The Dirty Projectors \”Bitte Orca\” (Domino)
The Lucky Dragons \”Rara Speaks\” (Moamoo)
School of Language \”Sea from Shore\” (Thrill Jockey)
Sigur Ros \”We Play Endlessly\” (EMI)
Es \”Kesämaan Lapset\” (Fonal)