Ken
Sir Richard Bishop \”While My Guitar Violently Bleeds\”
Group Doueh \”Guitar Music From the Western Sahara\”
Chris Corsano and Mick Flower \”Radiant Mirror\”
Rafael Toral \”Space Solo 1\”
Group Inerane \”Music of Niger\”
Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs \”Electric Lotus\”
Selda -s/t Reissue
Baby Grandmothers -s/t Reissue
Henry Flynt and Nova Billy – s/t
Stars of the Lid \”And Their Refinement of the Decline\”

Magas
Sightings “Through the Panama”
Andrew WK “Close Calls With Brick Walls”
Black Dice “Load Blown”
ADULT. “Why Bother”
Chris Connelly “Episodes”
Demons “Frozen Fog”
Aaron Dilloway “Infinite Lucifer”
Blank Dogs Various 12\”s & 7\”s
Witchcraft “The Alchemist”
Prurient & Kevin Drumm “All Are Guests In The House of the Lord”

Billy
Shannon Wright \”Let In The Light\”
Shellac \”Excellent Italian Greyhound\”
Rufus Wainwright \”Release the Stars\”
Robert Plant & Allison Krauss “Raising Sand”
\”They Live By Night\” (1949) out on DVD
Foo Fighters \”Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace\”
U2 \”Joshua Tree\” 20th Anniversary reissue
White Stripes “Icky Thump”

Matt
Alcest \”Souvenirs D\’un Autre Monde\”
Amesoeurs \”Ruines Humaines\”
Baroques “s/t” LP reissue
Sir Richard Bishop \”While My Guitar Violently Bleeds\”
Bjork \”Volta\”
BlondeRedhead \”23\”
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
Circle of Ouroborus/ Urfaust split LP
Deathspell Omega \”Fas: Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum\”
Deerhunter \”Cryptograms\”
Drudkh \”Estrangement\”
Dungen \”Tio Bitar\”
Furze \”Utd\”
Grouper \”cover the windows and walls\” lp (sadly out of print)
Pj Harvey \”White Chalk\”
Karl Hendricks Rock Band \”World Says\”
Liars s/t
Nasheim/ Angantyr split (specifically the 25 minute Nasheim song)
Peste Noire \”Lorraine Rehearsals\” LP
Radiohead \”In Rainbows\” & bonus disc
Townes Van Zandt CD reissues
Velvet Cacoon “Genevieve” LP
Watain \”Sworn to the Dark\”
Wolves in the Throne Room \”Diadem of 12 Stars\”
Robert Wyatt \”Comicopera\”
Xasthur \”Defective Epitaph\”
Neil Young \”Live at Massey Hall\”

Jason

1. Bumps \”s/t”
2. Pelican “City of Echoes”
3. Soft Machine “Third\”
4. Soft Machine “Fourth”
5. Soft Machine “5”
6. Fucking Champs “VI”
7. Om “Pilgrimage”
8. Sven Libaek \”Inner Space; Film Music\”
9. Bill Dolan \”Do-Ist\”
10. Trans Am \”Sex Change\”

Dave
In no particular order.
Between the Buried and Me “Colors”
Animosity “Animal”
Rager “2007 Demo”
Altered Beast “2007 Demo”
Arbiter “2007 Demo”
Exit 13 “High Life”
Machine Head “The Blackening”
Yesterday\’s New Quintet “Yesterday\’s Universe”
V/A “East of Underground” reissue
Dillinger Escape Plan “Ire Works”
Impaled “The Last Gasp”
Corpus Mortale “A New Species of Deviant”
V/A: Now-Again “RE:Sounds Vol. 1” boxset
Chicago Thrash Ensemble “Unreleased Trax Vol. 2”
A Life Once Lost “Iron Gag”
Anything with Lil\’ Wayne on it
Clipse “We Got the Remix mixtape”

Chris P
Current 93 “The Inmost Light” reissue
Camberwell Now “All\’s Well” reissue
Dirty Projectors “Rise Above”
Angels of Light “We Are Him”
Cluster “II” & “Zuckerzeit”
Vashti Bunyan “Somee Things Just Stick in Your Mind”
Robyn Hitchcock “I Wanna Go Backwards” boxset
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
V/A “The Lost Tapes – Minimal Wave Compilation”
V/A “Do It Yourself – The Rise of the Independent Music Industry After
Punk”
Antena “Camino Del Sol” LP reissue
Lee Hazlewood “The Very Special World of…”
Om “Pilgrimage”
Pylon “Gyrate Plus”
DJ SCREW “June 27”

Keith
Black Lips “Good Bad Not Evil”
Busy Signals “s/t”
Circus Devils “Sgt. Disco”
Deerhunter “Cryptograms”
Deerhunter “Fluorecent Grey EP”
Dinosaur Jr. “Beyond”
King Khan & the Shrines “What is?!”
Les Savy Fav “Let\’s Stay Friends”
Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra “Space & Time”
The Ponys “Turn the Lights Out”
Shellac “Excellent Italian Greyhound”
White Savage “Destroy Your Style” 7\”

Kit
Albums!
Akron/Family “Love is Simple” – flail & shout! listen for the conch!
Pissed Jeans “Hope for Men” – smash your fist into that wall, scream
about it, repeat
Dirty Projectors “Rise Above” – sing along, i dare you
Randall of Nazareth “s/t” heavy Fahey love
Sir Richard Bishop “Polytheistic Fragments” – whoa…wait, what? see
above
King Khan & the Shrines “What is?!” – gritty old-school garage rock
DJ Screw “June 27” – i\’m sorry but if you\’re sober then forget it
Voice of the Seven Woods “s/t” – almost sounds like he\’s mad at his
guitar, but then suddenly you hear the love
White Magic “Dark Stars EP” – putting the fairy girls to shame
Compilations:
V/A “D.I.Y: Rise of the Independent Music Industry After Punk” – makes you
wish you\’d thought of it first
David Shrigley “Worried Noodles” – this man is insane, listen to how
insane he is. really.
V/A “Eccentric Soul: Twinight” – mellow dance party soundtrack
V/A “New Orleans Funk” – ass-kicking dance party soundtrack
V/A “Yellow Pills: Prefill” – sickly sweet early pop, the perfect mixtape
uplift

Reissues:
Flower Travellin\’ Band “Satori” – everyone loves this because they love
to think about what the world would be like if Ozzy was Japanese
Telegraph Avenue “s/t” – classic psych guitar swirl time warp
Boscoe “s/t” – intensly political 70s Chicago soul
German Oak “s/t” – heavy wiggy space-out good times

Lux
1 Turzi “A”
2 Big Business “Here Come the Waterworks”
3 Pissed Jeans “Hope For Men”
4 Johnny Lunchbreak “Appetizer/Soups on” (reissue)
5 True West “Hollywood Holiday Revisited”
6 Sarolta Zalatnay “s/t” reissue
7 Stephen Stills “Just Roll Tape” reissue
8 Warhammer 48k “Etheral Oracle”
9 Joni Mitchell “Shine”
10 Earthless “Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky”
11 Ophiucus “s/t” reissue
12 Vee Dee “Glimpses of Another World” (7\”)
13 Samara Lubelski “Parallel Suns”
14 La Otracina “Tonal Eclipse of the One”
15 Fucked Up “Year of the Pig”
16 Loudon Wainwright “Strange Weirdos”

Live
Neil Young
Jay Reatard
Circle
Blonde Redhead
Neko Case
Enslaved
Patti Smith

Leslie
Boris with Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
Bill Callahan “Woke on a Whaleheart”
Chris Connelly “Episodes”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Amiina “Kurr”
Om “Pilgrimage”
Nicole Willis “Keep Reachin\’ Up”
V/A “Now-Again Re:Sound”
Feist “The Reminder”
The National “Boxer”
Caribou “Andorra”
Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
White magic “Dark Stars”

James

1. Okkervil River “The Stage Names”
2. Deerhunter “Cryptograms”
3. Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
4. Les Savy Fav “Let\’s Stay Friends”
5. Dinosaur Jr. “Beyond”
6. PJ Harvey “White Chalk”
7. The National “Boxer”
8. Phosphorescent “Pride”
9. Black Lips “Good Bad Not Evil”
10. Battles “Mirrored”
11. The Narrator “All That To The Wall”
12. Sir Richard Bishop “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
13. Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
14. Angels of Light “We Are Him”
15. King Khan & The Shrines “What Is?!”
16. Henry Flynt & Nova\’ Billy “Henry Flynt & Nova\’ Billy”
17. Boris w/ Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
18. Shearwater “Palo Santo: Expanded Edition”
19. Lifetime “Lifetime”
20. Thurston Moore “Trees Outside The Academy”
21. White Magic “Dark Stars”
22. Office “A Night At The Ritz”
23. LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”
24. Kid Sister “Control” 12\”
25. Scott Walker “ …And Who Shall Go To The Ball?…And What Shall Go To The Ball?”
    Reissues/Live:
    Neil Young “Live At Massey Hall”
    Vashti Bunyan “Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind”
    Sebadoh “The Freed Man”
    Sonic Youth “Daydream Nation” Deluxe edition
    V/A “East of Underground”

Connelly
1 Joan of Arc “Orchard Vale” soundtrack
2 Throbbing Gristle “Part Two: Endless Knot”
3 Doll by Doll “Remember\” reissue
4 Doll by Doll “Gypsy Blood” reissue
5 Pj Harvey “White Chalk”
6 Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
7 Current 93 “Inmost Light triology”…
8 Scott Walker “And Who Shall Go to the Ball…And What Shall Go To The Ball?”
9: Wire “Read & Burn 3”
10 Pantaleimon “Mercy Oceans”

Michael

1. Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake “From the River to the Ocean”
2. Yesterdays Universe/Yesterday\’s New Quintet “Prepare for a New
   Yesterday, Vol. 1”
3. Boris with Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
4. His Name is Alive “Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown”
5. Chris Connelly “Episodes”
6. Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
7. Zelienople “His/Hers”
8. Fog “Ditherer”
9. Group Doueh “Guitar Music from the Western Sahara”
10. Woods “At Rear House”
11. Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio “Terminal Valentine”
12. Paul Duncan “Above the Trees”
13. Vieux Farka Toure “s/t”
14. (((Powerhouse Sound))) “Oslo/Chicago (((Breaks)))”
15. Birigwa “Birigwa” reissue

Dan M
The National “Boxer”
Okkervil River “Stage Names”
Les Savy Fav “Let’s Stay Friends”
Sonic Chicken 4 “s/t”
Grinderman “s/t”
Harlan T. Bobo “I’m Your Man”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Phosphorescent “Pride”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Iron & Wine “Shepherd’s Dog”

Dylan
Benoit Pioulard “Precis”
A very pretty record with some brilliant songwriting
Wilco “Sky Blue Sky”
The AOR record they were born to make, with some truly sweet riffs.
Chris Connelly “Episodes”
Another left turn exposing the tunes to the raw naturalistic cores
Shellac “Excellent Italian Greyhound”
Short but sweet – some of the best songs of their career
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “In Glorious Times”
Heavy and arty
Bad Plus “Prog”
A brilliant collection of \”jazz\” tunes for people who hate jazz
Ted Leo “Living With the Living”
The Elvis Costello of our generation just keeps getting better
Grinderman “s/t”
Some gritty blues without the exploitation
Charlotte Gainsbourg “5:55”
A Gainsbourg makes a record that I can stomach all the way through
Lindsey Buckingham “Under the Skin”
A beautiful pop record
Fall of Troy “Manipulator”
I sometimes like to break things, and I need a decent soundtrack
Bjork “Volta”
Great arrangements and some of the most interesting lyrics yet
Patton Oswalt “Werewolves & Lollipops”
One of my favourite observational comedians
St. Vincent “Marry Me”
Immensely hummable tunes with unorthodox arrangements
Dirty Projectors “Rise Above”
Enough about the concept – bonkers pop with the best backing vox ever
Animal Collective “Strawberry Jam”
Technology & hippies can co-exist
Akron/ Family “Love is Simple”
Sprawling freaky music has never been this tight
Qui “Love’s Miracle”
Some good back porch blues
Bylan & Jarboe “Viscera”
Truly frightening music by truly frightening people
White Magic “Dark Stars”
Uniquely freaky in a sea of mediocre \”psych\” bands
Radiohead “In Rainbows”
My only download to date, but I had to have it.
180gs (Negativland) “180G\’d to the Future”
Negativland are so ridiculous, you have to give them some credit
Japancakes “Loveless”
Country tinged cover of the MBV record reveals the songcraft
Dillinger Escape Plan “Ire Works”
Sometimes I only want to theorize about breaking things
Flight of the Conchords “Distant Future”
Very funny stuff, best stage banter ever
Reissues
Sonic Youth “Destroyed Room”
I never fell head over heels, but I really like this collection
Rhy Chatam “A Crimson Grail”
Beautiful noise
Camberwell Now “All’s Well”
I\’m always glad to see a new reissue of this art rock classic
Elliott Smith “New Moon”
A nicely done collection of odds n ends
Betty Davis reissues
To my feeble mind, nobody can touch this funk
Harvey Milk “My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment”
Mighty and gigantic
Peter Brotzman Octet “Complete Machine Gun Sessions”
Free jazz at its apex
Bobb Trimble “Iron Curtain Innocence”
How did this freaky pop masterpiece escape my notice for so long?
Robyn Hitchcock reissues
I never realized how out there his early stuff was
Chocolate Rain “Tay Zonday”
Best song of 2007, hands down.
Also, worst internet meme of 2007

Jacob
M.I.A. “Kala”
Pj Harvey “White Chalk”
White Magic “Dark Stars”
Avey Tare & Kria Brekken- \’Pullhair Rubeye”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Animal Collective “Strawberry Jam”
Fovea Hex “Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent: Allure”
Bill Callahan “Woke on a Whaleheart”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Circle “Katapult”

Courtland

1. Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
2. Group Inerane “Music of Niger”
3. Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane \”At Carnegie Hall\”
4. Charles Mingus \”Cornell 1964\”
5. Bruce Langhorne \”Hired Hand\” soundtrack
6. Sir Richard Bishop \”Polytheistic Fragments\”
7. Scharpling & Wurster \”Art of the Slap\”
8. Sugar Minott \”Live Loving\”
9. V/A \”When Rhythm Was King\”
10. V/A “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story” DVD
11. Stars of the Lid \”And Their Refinement of the Decline”
12. Charalambides \”Likeness\”
13. V/A “East of Underground”
14. Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake \”From the River to the Ocean\”
15. Nicole Mitchell \”Black Unstoppable\”
16. Chris Connelly \”Episodes\”
17. Lichens \”Omns\”
18. Reminder \”West Side Cabin\”
19. V/A “Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City”
20. Pieces of Peace “s/t”

Best Live shows:

1. De La Soul at Intonation
2. William Parker at Intonation
3. L. Subramanian at Millennium Park
4. Black Earth Ensemble at Millennium Park

Jeff
Non-HC faves of 2007 (in no real order):
She, Sir \”Who Can\’t Say Yes\”
Panda Bear \”Person Pitch\”
Brother Kite \”Moonlit Race\”
Warlocks \”Heavy Deavy Skull Lover\”
Blasphemy “Fallen Angel Of Doom\”
Ceremony \”Disappear\”
New Pornographers \”Challengers\”
V/A \”Heavy Metal\” boxset (Rhino)
Pissed Jeans\”Hope For Men\”
Besnard Lakes \”Are The Dark Horse\”
The National “Boxer”
Death breath “Let it Stink\”
Spoon \”Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga\”
Kid Sister \”Pro Nails\”
FUXA \”Commits Suicide\”
Raymond Scott Woolson \”View From Boggins Heights\”
A Place to Bury Strangers \”A Place To Bury Strangers\”
Akron/ Family \”Love Is Simple\”
Blonde Redhead \”23\”
Darkthrone \”Canadian Metal\”
Alcest \”Souvenirs D\’Un Autre Monde\”
DJ Screw \”June 27\”
Jatun “s/t”
Safeashome “Grid\”
Adam Franklin \”Bolts Of Melody\”
Naked Raygun \”What Poor Gods We Do Make\” DVD
Vice review of last Jens Lekman CD

Hardcore best of 2007 (also, in no real order):
Punch in the Face \”At War With Everybody\”
Fucked Up \”Year Of The Pig\”
Mind Piece NYC \”Demo\”
Reign Supreme \”Fuck The Weak\”
Shipwrecked \”Arctic Nights\”
Knife Fight \”Crisis\”
Violent Minds \”Eyes Of Death\”
86 Mentality \”Final Exit\”
John Joseph \”Evolution Of A Cro-Magnon\” book
Double Negative \”The Wonderful & Frightening World Of…\”
Bitter End \”Climate Of Fear\”
Rampage \”Limit Of Destruction\”
Life Trap \”Bleak Reality\”
Negative Approach/ Meatman live in Detroit 5/26/07

Steve R
(in no particular order)
Magik Markers “Boss”
Paul Metzger “Deliverance”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Thurston Moore “Trees Outside the Academy”
Shit & Shine “Ladybird”
Flower-Corsano “Radiant Mirror”
Eleh “Floating Frequencies/ Intuitive Synthesis Volumes 1 & 2”
V/A “Separate But Evil” boxset
Group Doueh “Guitar Music From the Western Sahara”
Group Inerane “Music of Niger: Guitars From Agadez”
PJ Harvey “White Chalk”
Henry Flynt & Nova\’Billy “s/t”
Joanna Newsom “Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band EP”
Zaimph “Mirage of the Other”
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
Nina Nastasia & Jim White “You Follow Me”
Bonnie \”Prince\” Billy “Ask Forgiveness”
Wally Shoup/ Paul Flaherty/ Chris Corsano “Bounced Check”
Sir Richard Bishop “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
Sir Richard Bishop “Polytheistic Fragments”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Steve Ritchey (continued)
Bill Callahan “Woke On a Whaleheart”
Stars of the Lid “And Their Refinement of the Decline”
Air Conditioning “Dead Rails”
Angels of Light “We Are Him”
Karen Dalton “Cotton Eyed Joe”
V/A “Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay”
Kevin Coyne & Siren “The Dandelion Years 1969-1972”
Vashti Bunyan “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind”
Bob Dylan “Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival” DVD

Emily
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Thurston Moore “Trees For The Academy”
Bad Brains “Build A Nation”
Wolves In The Throne Room “Diadem Of 12 Stars”
Vashti Bunyan “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and
Demos 1964-1967”
Amy Winehouse “Back To Black”
Anthony Joseph and The Spasm Band “Leggo De Lion”
Micheal Yonkers “Grimwood”
Ariel Pink\’s Haunted Graffiti “Scared Famous”
UGK “Underground Kingz”
Pig Destroyer “Phantom Limb”
Deerhunter “Cryptograms”
Mouthus “Saw A Halo”
PJ Harvey “White Chalk”
Dungen “Tio Bitar”
Radiohead “In Rainbows”

Melissa
In no particular order
Blonde Redhead “23”
Liars “s/t”
Alcest \”Souvenirs D\’un Autre Monde\”
Deerhunter “Cryptograms”
Pj Harvey “White Chalk”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Chris Connelly “Episodes”
Bill Callahan “Woke on a Whaleheart”
Feist “Reminder”
Grinderman “s/t”
Pissed Jeans “Hope For Men”
Selda “s/t” reissue
Betty Davis reissues
Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
Radiohead “In Rainbows”
Sweet Cobra “Praise”
V/A “Now Again: Resound 7\” boxset
V/A “East of Underground”
V/A “Homeschooled: Abc\’s of Kid Soul”
V/A “Eccentric Soul: Deep City Label”
Black Lips “Good Bad Not Ugly”
Om “Pilgrimage”
Witchcraft “Alchemist”
Neil Young “Live at Massey Hall”
Queens of the Stone Age “Era Vulgaris”
Common “Finding Forever” (well, about half of it)

SHOWS of 2007
Entrance @ Empty Bottle
The Blow @ Empty Bottle
Deerhunter/ Dan Deacon @ some Warehouse
Black Angels @ Empty Bottle
Enslaved @ the Pearl Room
Mika Miko @ Empty Bottle/ Reckless Records
Wolves In The Throne Room @ Empty Bottle

Bryan
Fucked Up “Year Of The Pig”
Sweet Cobra “Forever”
Career Suicide “Attempted Suicide”
Wolves In The Throne Room “Diadem Of 12 Stars”
Baroness “Red Album”
Interkosmos DVD & soundtrack by Jim Becker & Colleen Burke
Amy Winehouse “Back To Black”
Dungen “Tio Bitar”
Deathspell Omega “Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum”
Urfaust/Circle Of Ouroborus Split LP
Built To Spill vinyl re-issues
Deathspell Omega vinyl re-issues
Code Of Honor discography CD
Mobile Fidelity record brush (new to me anyway!)
Sweet Cobra beer koozie

Daniel
NEW STUFF

1. Black Lips \”Good Bad Not Evil\”
2. Fiery Furnaces \”Widow City\”
3. Mannequin Men \”Fresh Rot\”
4. \”No Country For Old Men\” dir. by Joel & Ethan Coen
5. Municipal Waste \”The Art of Partying\”
6. 30 Rock (NBC)
7. The Narrator \”All That to the Wall\”
8. \”Superbad\” dir. by Greg Mottola
9. Marnie Stern \”In Advance of the Broken Arm\”
10. Tegan & Sara \”The Con\”
11. Ghost \”In Stormy Nights\”
12. Sunset Rubdown \”Random Spirit Lover\”
13. Dungen \”Tio Bitar\”
14. R. Kelly \”Double Up\”
15. Bruce Springsteen \”Magic\”
16. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists \”Living with the Living\”
17. The 1900s \”Cold & Kind\”
18. Jarvis Cocker \”Jarvis\”
    19.The Besnard Lakes \”The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse\”
19. Mekons \”Natural\”
    OLD STUFF (reissues & comps):
20. Medicine Head \”New Bottles Old Medicine…Plus\”
21. Neil Young \”Live at Massey Hall, 1971\” [CD+DVD]
22. \”Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Pitfall/Woman in the Dunes/The Face
    of Another)\” (Criterion DVD)
23. v/a \”Life, Too, Has Surface Noise: The Complete Dandelion Records Singles
    Collection 1969-1972\”
24. Blue Oyster Cult \”Some Enchanted Evening: Deluxe Edition\” [CD+DVD]
25. Wreckless Eric \”Big Smash\”
26. Judee Sill \”Live In London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973
27. Kevin Coyne & Siren \”The Dandelion Years 1969-1972\”
28. \”If…\” dir. by Lindsay Anderson (Criterion DVD)
29. Catherine Howe \”What a Beautiful Place\”

Mica

1. Battles “Mirrored”
2. Amy Winehouse “Back to Black”
3. Burial “Untrue”
4. Bjork “Volta”
5. Animal Collective “Strawberry Jam”
6. Boxcutter “Glyphic”
7. St. Vincent “Marry Me”
8. LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”
9. Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
10. Yeasayers “All Hour Cymbals”

Kip
(in no particular order)
Cornelius \”Sensuous\”
Feist \”Reminder\”
Battles \”Mirrored\”
Big Business \”Here Come the Waterworks\”
Cinematic Orchestra \”Ma Fleur\”
Shellac \”Excellent Italian Greyhound\”
Andrew Bird \”Armchair Apocrypha\”
Marnie Stern \”In Advance of the Broken Arm\”
Shannon Wright \”Let in the Light\”
Dungen \”Tio Bitar\”

Best week of shows ever!:
Neil Young
Sharon Jones
Enslaved

Cole
Top 10, mostly in order:

Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
If you know anything about this album, you already know about its three parts, the foreign languages, blah blah blah. Fact is, this man clearly understands the smallest and largest details of musical composition and hasn\’t lost a step in his 40+ years of creating music. His voice sounds great and his brilliance is unrelenting. Find the picture of him in a field playing trumpet to a horse and tell me how anyone could not like this man.

Battles “Mirrored”
This was the first album of 2007 to really impress me. The musicianship is incredible and the production suits the music perfectly. There\’s a lot of fluidity and movement to this album without it buying into all the horrible dance stuff hipsters won\’t be caring about in a couple years.

Panda Bear “Person Pitch” Way better than the new Animal Collective and probably anything AC has ever done, this Panda Bear album was one of the more surprisingly good things about 2007. \”Person Pitch\” is totally unlike his previous album, for one in that it\’s overwhelmingly happy, and second in its use of loops and layering to create a really \”big\” sound. With never-ending Brian Wilson comparisons, this album came out at a perfect time for good spring/summer listening.

Spoon “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” & Shins “Wincing the Night Away”
Spoon and the Shins doing what they do best. These two bands were two of only a few mainstream indie bands to actually put out good albums this year. So much boring, disappointing music in an age where bands can\’t afford to be
boring or disappointing. These two albums are everything good pop music should be: instantly likeable, easy on the ears, and catchy as hell.

Do Make Say Think “You, You\’re A History In Rust”
I\’ve always liked this band, and a lot of those Constellation post-rock build-and-build-and-explode kind of bands, but the whole thing is pretty formulaic, isn\’t it? Start slow, add more instruments, build, and finally swell. I get it. Wait, there\’s singing on this record?! Ok, you win DMST.

Group Inerane “Guitars From Agandez”
I don\’t have much to say about this record other than that it\’s nuts! The guitar playing is really incredible, it\’s totally uninhibited in a way that I don\’t think westerners are capable of, and it\’s described as \”the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution.\” How could this record not be amazing?

Caribou “Andorra”
In truth, I never really paid much attention to this guy. It wasn\’t until this year, during a string of bad new releases (Rilo Kiley?), that I decided to put on \”Andorra.\” I didn\’t expect to like it as much as I did. This album provides a good mix of 60\’s psychedelia with more contemporary electronic sound and structure. And \”Melody Day\” is a great single.

Jesu “Sun Down/Sun Rise”
Out of the numerous Jesu projects in 2007, this was easily my favorite. Everything Justin Broadrick has done under the Jesu moniker sounds pretty similar, but this is the most concise. Probably most comparable to \”Silver,\” this EP provides a really spacious landscape without meandering. His vocals sound pretty redundant overall, but fortunately there isn\’t much singing on this one.

Alex Delivery “Star Destroyer”
A really good and overlooked debut from this Jagjaguwar band. I\’m surprised more people weren\’t interested in these guys with Deerhunter and No Age and all those \”experimental\” washy fuzz-rock bands making such a big splash this year. Also reminiscent of Need New Body and even Can. A really strong debut well worth a listen.

Other good albums (in no order):

Menomena “Friend & Foe”
Bill Callahan “Woke On A Whaleheart”
Efterklang “Parades”
Tunng “Good Arrows”
Deerhunter “Fluorescent Grey” & “Cryptograms”
Stars of the Lid “And the Refinement Of Their Decline”
Castanets “In the Vines”
Cole Cooney (continued again)
LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”
Shearwater “Palo Santo (reissue)”
Dungen “Tio Bitar”

Charles
Kaipa “Angling Feelings”
Beardfish “Sleeping In Traffic”
St Vincent “Marry Me”
New Pornographers “Challengers”
Marnie Stern “In Advance Of the Broken Arm”
Velvet Revolver “Libertad”
Baroness “Red Album”
The Dear Hunter “Act 2”
Sieges Even “Paramount”
Jon Spencer “Jukebox Explosion”

JAZZ
John Zorn “Six Litanies For Heliogabalus”
Chris Potter “Follow The Red Line”
Erik Friedlander “Block Ice And Propane”
Miles Davis “On The Corner Sessions”
William Parker “Corn Meal Dance”

REGGAE
I Roy “Gussie Presents”
Culture “Two Sevens Clash”

Dan W
Wilco “Sky Blue Sky”
Mannequin Men “Fresh Rot”
1900s “Cold & Kind”
Spoon “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
Times New Viking “present The Paisley Reich”
Thurston Moore “Trees Outside The Academy”
Watchers “Vampire Driver”
Takeovers “Bad Football”
Les Savy Fav “Lets Stay Friends”
Eternals “Heavy International”
Magik Markers “Boss”

Steve S
Big Business “Here Come the Waterworks”
Black Dice @ Lakeshore Theater
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara “Rainbow”
Danava “Where Beauty & Terror Dance” 7”
Dead C “Future Artists”
Deerhunter “Cryptograms”
Dungen “Tio Bitar”
Ghost “In Stormy Nights”
Growing “Vision Swim”
Daniel Higgs “Metempsychotic Melodies”
Mouthus “Saw a Halo”
Municipal Waste “Art of Partying”
Neurosis @ Logan Square Auditorium
Om “Pilgrimage”
Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
Pig Destroyer “Phantom Limb”
Pissed Jeans “Hope for Men”
R. Kelly “Trapped in the Closet” Chap. 13-22 premiere @ the Music Box
Sir Richard Bishop “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
Wooden Shjips “S/t”
Neil Young “Live at Massey Hall”

Chris R
Group Inerane “Music of Niger”
Group Doueh “Guitar Music From the Western Sahara”
Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs “Electric Lotus”
Lambsbread “Stereo Mars”
UGK “Underground Kings”
Sir Richard Bishop “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
Robert Wyatt “Comicopera”
Rafael Roral “Space Solo 1”
Julie Mittens “April/June”
Baby Grandmothers “s/t” (reissue)
R. Kelly “Double Up”
Angleblood “s/t”
V/A “Life is a Problem”

live shows:
Tent City “live @ the smell, LA”
Lucky Dragons “live @ Che Cafe, San Diego”

Sarah

1. Battles “Mirrored”
2. Panda Bear “Person Pitch”
3. Neil Young “Chrome Dreams II”
4. Les Savy Fav “Let’s Stay Friends”
5. Spank Rock “Fabriclive 33”
6. Thurston Moore “Trees Outside the Academy”
7. Common “Finding Forever”
8. Liars “s/t”
9. V/A “Home Schooled: ABC\’s of Kid Soul”
10. Stevie Nicks “Crystal Visions”
11. 11.The Drive (especially album side Thursdays)

Michael A
Black Lips \”Good Bad Not Evil”
We All Together \”The Singles\”
Wild Billy Childish \”Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall”
Eux Autres \”Cold City\”
Marnie Stern \”In Advance of The Broken Arm\”
Big Business \”Here Come The Waterworks\”
Bottomless Pit\”Hammer of The Gods\”
Demon\’s Claws “Satan\’s Little Pet Pig\”
Ghostface Killah\”Big Doe Rehab\”
Caribou\”Andorra\”
Boston Chinks \”s/t\” (7\”)
Shapes & Sizes \”Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner\”
Master Ace \”Take A Look Around (Deluxe Ed.)\” (reissue)
Dungen \”Tito Bitar\”
Madlib \”Vol. 3 &4/ Beat Konducta in India\”
Times New Viking \”Paisley Reich\”
Capstan Shafts \”Her Versus The Sad Cold Eventually\”
Tough & Lovely \”Teardrops\”
Holy Fuck \”LP\”
Kanye West “Graduation\”
Nervous Patterns \”Nervous Patterns\”
Deerhunter \”Cryptograms
The Takeovers “Bad Football\”

Brett

1. Swan Lake “Beast Moans” (Jagjaguwar)
2. .tape “Paintings” (spa.RK)
3. Beirut “Gulag Orkestar” (Ba Da Bing)
4. The Sleepy Jackson “Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was Bird)” (Astralwerks)
5. Mojave 3 “Puzzles Like You” (4ad)
6. Atone “un an” (Autres Directions in Music)
7. Band of Horses “Everything all the Time” (Subpop)
8. The Surf, The Sundried “The Surf, The Sundried (AttackNine)
9. Vetiver “To Find Me Gone” (Dicristina Stair)
10. Glissandro 70 “Glissandro 70” (Constellation)
    11 J-live “Hear After” (Penalty)
11. Colleen et Les Boites a Musique “Colleen et Les Boites a Musique” (Leaf)
12. Melodium “There is something in the Universe” (Autres Directions in Music)
13. Sufjan Stevens “Avalanche” Asthmatic Kitty
14. Bonnie Prince Billy “The Letting Go” (Drag City)
15. Thom Yorke “The Eraser” (xl)
16. Various Artsits “Peanut Butter Wolf presents Chrome Children (Stones Throw)
17. Jim Noir “Tower of Love” Barsuk
18. Liars “Drum’s Not Dead” (Mute)
19. Dr. Dog “Takers and Leavers” (Park the Car)
20. Shuta Hasunuma “Shuta Hasunuma” (Western Vinyl)
21. Guitar “Tokyo” (Onitor)
22. Frida Hyvonen “Until Death Comes” (Secretly Canadian)
23. Julie Sokolo “Something about Violins” (Western Vinyl)
24. Freescha “Head Warlock Double Stare” (Darla)
25. Georgia Anne Muldrow “Olesi: Fragments of an Earth” (Stones Throw)
26. Juana Molina “Son” (Domino)
27. Le Volume Courbe “I killed my best friend” (Honest Jons)
28. Wussy- “Funeral Dress” (Shake It)
29. Darkel “Darkel” (Astralwerks)
30. Neko Case “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” (Anti)
31. Sodastream “Reservations” (Hausmusik)
32. Boris “Pink” Southern Lord
33. Joana Newsom “Vs” (Drag City)
34. Mason Jennings “Boneclouds” (Epic)
35. Northern Picture Library “Postscript” (Ltm)
36. Boats “We Made it For You” (Moteer)
37. Ekhard Ehlers “Life without Fear” (Staubgold)
38. Ponies in the Surf “Ponies on Fire” (Asaurus)
39. Camera Obscura “Let’s Get out of this Country” (Merge)

Melissa
Sibyelle Baier “Colour Green”
Bardo Pond “Ticket Crystals”
Chris Bell “I am the Cosmos” vinyl reissue
Boris “Pink”
Neko Case “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.”
Johnny Cash “American V: Hundred Highways”
Charalambides “Vintage Burden”
Chris Connelly box set
Circle “Sunrise” vinyl reissue
Clipse “Hell Hath No Fury”
Karen Dalton “In My Own Time” reissue
Danava “s/t”
Dead Moon “Echoes of the Past”
El Michels Affair 7″s
The Fix “At the Speed of Twisted Thought”
Fucked Up “Hidden World”
Ghostface “Fishscale”
Harvey Milk “Special Wishes”
Bert Jansch “Black Swan”
J Dilla “Donuts”
Jesu “Silver”
Josef K “Entomology”
Liars “Drum’s Not Dead”
Magas “May I Meet My Accuser”
Mastodon “Blood Mountain”
Georgia Anne Muldrow “Olesi”
Om “Conference of the Birds”
Jay Reatard “Blood Visions”
Reminder “Continuum”
Six Organs of Admittance “Sun Awakens”
Sparklehorse “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain”
Sunn O)))/Boris “Altar”
Scott Walker “Drift”
Wilderness “Vessel States”
Wipers “Is This Real” vinyl reissue
Witch “s/t”
Neil Young “Living with War”
v/a “Birmingham Sound: Soul of Neal Hemphill Vol. 1”
V/A Eccentric Soul: Deep City Label
v/a “Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal”
TOUCH & GO FESTIVAL

Charles
Motorpsycho: Black Hole/Blank Canvas
Paul Weller: Catch Flame!
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say
Karine Polward: Scribbled In Chalk
Jake Thackray: Jake In A Box
Robbie Basho: Venus In Cancer
Caetano Veloso: Ce
Chico Barque: Carioca
Marisa Monte: Infinito Particular
4th Street Orchestra: A Who Seh?
Tapper Zukie: Escape From Hell
Vandermark Five: A Discontinuous Line
Paul Lewis: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Kip
(in no particular order)

1. Meshuggah “Catch Thirty Th33”
2. Melvins “A Senile Animal”
3. Neko Case “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
4. Miwon “Pale Glitter”
5. Meshuggah “Nothing” Reissue
6. Slayer “Christ Illusion”
7. Yo La Tengo “I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass”
8. Feist “Open Season”
9. Juana Molina “Son”
10. Bonnie Prince Billy “The Letting Go”
11. Tortoise “Lazarus Taxon”
12. Extra Golden “Ok-Oyot System”
13. Lupe Fiasco “Food & Liquor”
14. Gnarls Barkley “St. Elsewhere”
15. Joanna Newsome “Ys”

Erin
DECEMBERISTS. CRANE WIFE
CAT POWER. GREATEST
WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE. HYMNS OF THE HOPELESS
THE EVENS. GET EVEN
TOM WAITS. ORPHANS
AD ASTRA PER APERA. CATAPULT CALYPSO
SUFJAN STEVES. AVALANCHE
LUPE FIASCO. FOOD AND LIQUOR
FLAMING LIPS. AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS
GNARLES BARKLEY. ST ELSEWHERE

James
low skies > all the love i could find
white magic > dat rosa mel apibus
whitest boy alive > dreams
om > conference of birds
beach house > beach house
human television > look at who you’re talking to
sonic youth > rather ripped
califone > roots n’ crowns
bound stems > appreciation night
oxford collapse > remember the night parties
shuta hasunuma > shuta hasunuma
juana molina > son

Pete
Jay Reatard “Blood Visions”
King Khan & the BBQ Show “What’s for Dinner
Exploding Hearts “Shattered
Chad Van Gaalen “Skelliconnection
Badly Drawn Boy “Born in the UK”
Destruction Unit “Death to the Flesh”
Comets on Fire “Avatar”
Wire Reissues “Pink Flag”, “Chairs Missing”, “154”
Wipers “Is This Real” vinyl reissue

Mark
Vincent Black Shadow S/T (Baltimore one)
Danava S/T
Mammatus S/t
Brightblack morning Light S/t
Kelly Stoltz ‘Beneath the Branches’
Comets on Fire ‘Avatar’
Indian Jewelry ‘Invasive Exotics’
Battito ‘Fetus’ (Reissue)
Black Angels ‘Passover’
Karen Dalton ‘In My Own Time’ (Reissue)
Wooden Shjips ‘Shrinking Moon for you’ 10″
+WShjips ‘Dance california’ 7″
Mucca Pazza ‘A Little Marching Band’
Vetiver ‘To Find Me Gone’
Greatest Show On Earth ‘Horizons’ (Reissue
Best Show I got to play in 2006
Headlining Suoni Per Popolo Fest in Montreal
on my Birthday w/ Mammatus & Residual Echoes
2 best shows I wish I had played
1. Mucca Pazza Cd release party @ Martyrs
2. Coughs @ Wire fest
Best event that validates owning 34 Hall & Oates lps
YACHT ROCK!
Best James Barron-ism of 2006
A $125,000 Ebay bid on Velvets acetate
Honorable Mention: All Adam Sonderberg Music
that I didn’t hear (which is most of it)
Chris Connelly award for co-worker who looks
coolest on own lp in 2006: MAGAS

James
1 GHOSTFACE KILLAH- FISCHSCALE
2 MISSION OF BURMA- THE OBLITERATI
3 DANIELSON- SHIPS
4 BOB DYLAN- MODERN TIMES
5.SCOTT WALKER- THE DRIFT
6.OKKERVIL RIVER- OVERBOARD & DOWN EP
7.JOANNA NEWSOM-YS
8.THE EXPLODING HEARTS- SHATTERED
9.ONEIDA- HAPPY NEW YEAR
10.MASTODON- BLOOD MOUNTAIN
11.BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY- THE LETTING GO
REISSUES:
HSCALE DANIEL JOHNSTON- CONTINUED STORY/HI HOW ARE YOU? + YIP! JUMP
KAREN DALTON- IT’S SO HARD TO TELL WHO’S GOING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST
JOSEF K- ENTOMOLOGY

Emily
Enslaved “Ruun”
Brightblack Morning Light “s/t”
Freescha “Head Warlock Double Stare”
Georgia Anne Muldrow “Olesi: Fragments of an
Earth”
Soulwax “Nite Versions”
Ocean “Aeolian”
Pearls & Brass “Indian Tower”
Sunn O)))/ Boris “Altar”
Juvenile “Reality Check”
J Dilla “Shining”
Harvey Milk “Special Wishes”
V/A “Trip: Curated by Jarvis Cocker & Steve
Mackey”
Danava “s/t”
White Magic “Dat Rosa Mel Apibus”

Daniel M
(in alphabetically order)
Califone – “Roots & Crowns”
Neko Case – “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
Cat Power – “The Greatest”
El Perro Del Mar – s/t
Electric Light Orchestra – reissues
Entrance – “Prayer of Death”
Fiery Furnaces – “Bitter Tea”
Fucked Up – “Hidden World”
The Grates – “Gravity Won’t Get You High”
Howlin Rain – s/t
Kim Jung Mi – reissues: “Wind”; s/t
Midlake – “The Trials of Van Occupanther”
Joanna Newsom – “Ys”
Office – “Q & A”
v/a – “Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon”
Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band – “Second Attention”

Cole
Joanna Newsom – Y’s
Califone – Roots & Crowns
Rhymefest – Blue Collar
Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
Dr. Dog – Takers and Leavers EP
Long Winters – Putting the Days to Bed
Black Angels – Passover
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
Spank Rock – YoYoYoYoYo
Jesu – Silver EP
Hot Snakes – Thunder Down Under
Roots – Game Theory
Islands – Return to the Sea
Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
Midlake – Trials of Van Occupanther
Loose Fur – Born Again in the USA
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
POS – Audition

Kevin O

Eef Barzeley – Bitter Honey
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / Tortoise – Brave & the
Bold
Black Heart Procession – The Spell
Black Ox Orchestar – Nisht Azoy
Boris – Pink
Calexico – Garden Ruin
Johnny Cash – American V
Christine Carter – Electrice
Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
Danava- s/t
Dr. Dog – Takers and Leavers ep
Junior Boys – So This is Goodbye
Matmos – The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth…
Outkast – Idlewild
Russian Circles – Enter
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
Sunn 0)))/Boris – Altar
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Lisbon
Xiu Xiu – Air Force
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Various Artists – New York Noise Vol. 3
Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You…
Outkast – Idlewild
Scott Walker – The Drift

Best Live Shows:

1. Pearls & Brass @ EB
2. Danava @ EB
3. Coughs & LSA
4. Sword
5. Jack Rose & Peter Walker & EB
6. Ghostface @ H.O.B.
7. Brightback Morning Light/ Lights @ EB
8. Smega @ EB

Keith
HOME- SEXTEEN
MAGAS- MAY I MEET MY ACCUSER
WITCH- S/T
CHRIS CONNELLY- BOX SET
SHOPPING- IMMEDIATE CAVE 7″
SUBMARINE RACES- S/T
EUGENE MIRMAN- EN GARDE SOCIETY
THE TOUCH & GO 25TH ANNIVERSARY/ HIDEOUT 10TH ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY
BLACK BEAUTIES- CATCH A BEAT
ROBERT POLLARD- FROM A COMPOUND EYE
HEADACHE CITY- S/T

Jason
1.RUSSIAN CIRCLES “ENTER”
2.ZOMBI “SURFACE TO AIR”
3.TORTOISE “LAZURUS TAXON”
4.GLENN KOTCHE “MOBILE”
5.BOARDS OF CANADA “TRANS CANADA EXPRESS”
6.DON CABALLERO “WORLD CLASS LISTENING PROBLEM”
7.DYSRHYTHMIA “BARRIERS AND PASSAGES”
8.FRED ANDERSON “TIMELESS”
9.RATATAT “CLASSICS”

Gar

1. Thermals-Body the Blood da Machine
2. Built To Spill-you in reverse
3. Califone- Crown&roots
   4.Radio 4-Enemies Like This
4. Mastodon-Blood Mountain
   6.Eccentric Soul:deep city label
   7.yo La Tengo-I Am Not Afraid Of You & I will Beat Your Ass
   8.Busy Signals S/T 7″
   9.Danava S/T
5. Steve Ritchey’s July 15th 2nd turn on the night shift @ WP
   10.5 DEVO 2.0

Chris W
Aloe Blacc “SHINE THROUGH”
Cam’Ron “KILLA SEASON”
Count BassD “ACT YOUR WAIST SIZE”
The Coup “PICK A BIGGER WEAPON”
Darc Mind “SYMPTOMATIC OF A GREATER ILL”
The Game “DOCTOR’S ADVOCATE”
Ghostface Killah “FISHSCALE”
Hi-Tek “HI-TEKNOLOGY 2: THE CHIP”
J Dilla “DONUTS”
J Dilla “THE SHINING”
Lupe Fiasco “FOOD & LIQUOR”
M1 of Dead Prez “CONFIDENTIAL”
Masta Killa “MADE IN BROOKLYN”
Motion Man featuring KutMasta Kurt “PABLITO’S WAY”
OutKast “IDLEWILD”
People Under the Stairs “STEPFATHER”
Rhymefest “BLUE COLLAR”
The Roots “GAME THEORY”
Skyzoo & 9th Wonder “CLOUD 9: THE 3 DAY HIGH”
Sleepy Brown “MR. BROWN”

BEST OF 2006 (NON-HIP-HOP):
Beach House “S/T”
Beirut “GULAG ORKESTAR”
Brightblack Morning Light “S/T”
Dub Tractor “HIDEOUT”
Emily Haines “KNIVES DON’T HAVE YOUR BACK”
Freescha “HEAD WARLOCK DOUBLE STARE”
Glissandro 70 “70”
Harvey Milk “SPECIAL WISHES”
Jessica Bailiff “FEELS LIKE HOME”
Juana Molina “SON”
Orchestra Baobab “A NIGHT AT THE BAOBAB”
Radio Dept. “PET GRIEF”
Tussle “TELESCOPE MIND”
White Magic “DAT ROSA MEL APIBUS”

Nicolette

1. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2. Akron/Family – Meek Warrior
3. The Black Angels – Passover <— break out band of the year!!!
4. Joanna Newsom – Ys
5. Dead Meadow – Dead Meadow (re-issue)
6. Boris – Pink
7. Vanishing Kids/Biography of Ferns split 7″ (on Failed Experiment)
8. Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light (they live in teepees!!!)
9. Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor (the leaked, bootleg version)
10. Fucked Up “HIDDEN WORLD”
11. Sunn O)))/Boris split – Altar
12. The Sword – Age Of Winters
13. Headache City – Headache City
14. Darondo – Let My People Go (re-issue)
15. OOIOO – Taiga
16. Hollertronix #5
17. The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
18. Witch – Witch
19. Lady Sovereign – Vertically Challenged EP
20. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
21. Peaches – Impeach My Bush (the inside artwork alone stands as a best of)
22. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You…
23. Built To Spill – You In Reverse
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
25. Woodend Wand & the Sky High Band – Second Attention Favorite Compilations:
    *Dead Moon – Echoes of the Past
    *Broken Flowers Soundtrack
    *Plague Songs
    *New York Noise vol. 3
    *Songs In The Key Of Z

Connelly
TINY TIM-GOD BLESS TINY TIM
SCOTT WALKER-THE DRIFT
JOSEF K-ENTOMOLOGY
CAN-FLOW MOTION
BERT JANSCH-BLACK SWAN
TOWN & COUNTRY-UP ABOVE
JOAN OF ARC-EVENTUALLY ALL AT ONCE
CURRENT 93-BLACK SHIPS THAT ATE THE SKY
SCISSOR SISTORS-TA-DAH!

Dylan
Scott Walker – The Drift
Sparks – Hello Young Lovers
Squarepusher – Hello Everything
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth
About – Bongo
Oneida – Happy New Year
Xiu Xiu – Air Force
Midlake – Trials Of Van Occupanther
White Magic – Dat Rosa Mel Apibus
Zombi – Surface To Air
Isobel Campbell – Milk White Sheets
Devo 2.0 – s/t
Hella – Acoustics
Dylan Posa & Three Cheers For One Dead Man – Debut 7″
Akron/Family – Meek Warrior
Thom Yorke “eraser”
Glenn Kotche “mobile”
Jazkamer “metal music machine”
Jesu “Silver”

Bryan
Boris/Sunn O))) ? Altar
Built To Spill ? You In Reverse
Craft ? Fuck The Universe
Danava ? Danava
Extra Golden ? Ok-Oyot System
Fucked Up ? Hidden World
Joanna Newsom ? Ys
Juana Molina ? Son
Mastodon ? Blood Mountain
Scott Walker ? Drift

Re-Issues:
Code Of Honor ? Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984
Fix ? At the Speed of Twisted Thought
Karen Dalton ? In My Own Time
Lake of Dracula ? Skeletal Remains
Motorhead ? Another Perfect Day 2CD
Negative Trend ? s/t 4 song e.p.
Pretenders ? s/t 2CD
This Heat ? Out of Cold Storage
Tortoise ? A Lazarus Taxon
Trouble ? Psalm 9 & Skull

Matt
sibyelle baier “colour green”
chris bell “i am the cosmos” vin yl reissue
rhys chatam “die donnergotter”
craft “fuck the universe”
danava “s/t”
dead moon “echoes of the past”
dissection “storm of the light’s bane” vinyl reissue
drudkh “blood in our wells”
enslaved “ruun”
harvey milk “special wishes”
heresi “psalm II: Infusco Ignis”
daniel higgs “ancestral songs”
jesu “silver”
leviathan “blind wound”
major stars “syntoptikon”
mastodon “blood mountain”
joanna newsom “ys”
om “conference of the birds”
jay reatard “blood visions”
ruins of beverast “unlock the shrine” lp
serena-maneesh s/t
striborg “embittered darkness/isle de morts”
velvet cacoon “genevieve”
wilderness “vessel states”
witch st
xasthur “sublimianl genocide”
thom yorke “eraser”
neil young “living with war”
neil young & crazy horse “live at the fillmore east)

best live shows:
brian jonestown massacre
dead meadow
bert jansch
liars
melvins
radiohead
sunn o)))
tom waits
touch & go fest

Dave

1. Lawrence Arms, Oh! Calcutta! (Fat)
2. Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up)
3. Frightmare, Bringing Back the Bloodshed (Razorback)
4. Cretin, Freakery (Relapse)
5. Rager, 2006 demo (self-released)
6. The Muzzler, 2006 demo (self-released)
7. Grenade Vs. Freight Train, Structural Psychisos (Duckphone)
8. Lair of the Minotaur, The Ultimate Destroyer (Southern Lord)
9. The Steinways, Missed the Boat (Cold Feet)
10. Dim Mak, Knives of Ice (Willowtip)
11. Cannibal Corpse, Kill (Metal Blade)
12. Mr. Lif, Mo’ Mega (Def Jux)
13. Kashmere Stage Band, Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 (Now Again/Fat Beats)
14. V/A, Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal (Numero Group

Stephen
J Dilla-Donuts
Carla Bozulich-Evangelista
Pissed Jeans–Don’t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear 7″
DC Snipers–Missile Sunset
Harvey Milk–Special Wishes
The Melvins–A Senile Animal
Xasthur–Subliminal Genoicde
Ghostface–Fishscale
Sonic Youth–Rather Ripped
Clipse–Hell Hath No Fury
Fucked Up–Hidden World
Enslaved–Ruun
Jazkammer–Metal Music Machine
Growing–Color Wheel
Matmos–The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of The Beast
Scott Walker–Drift
Mission Of Burma–Obliteratti
Mika Miko–C.Y.S.L.A.B.F
Brightblack Morning Light–S/T
Fireball–S/t 12″
Reminder: Continuum

Live Heat:
Touch & Go 25th Anniversary–Hideout Chicago
Tom Waits–Chicago Theatre
Jack Rose–Empty Bottle, Chicago
Tortoise–Empty Bottle, Chicago
The Dicks/Pissed Jeans–North Six Brooklyn, NY
Chunklet 13th Anniversary–40 Watt Athens, GA.
Comedians Of Comedy–LSA, Chicago
Pissed Jeans/Binges–Nihilist Chicago
Sunn O)))/Boris–LSA Chicago
Oren Ambarchi–Reckless In-Store
Thrones–Reckless In-Store
Neil Michael Haggerty–Schuba’s Chicago
Carla Bozulich–Schuba’s Chicago

Everything All The Time:
Adult Swim
Yearling
The Best Show on WFMU
Sheer Magic
Kranky
Mayor Aspirin
Scalpels
Chris Corsano
Burning Star Core
The Entire Reckless Staff.
St. Viateur Bagel, Montreal

Steve R
VA- GOOD GOD !: A GOSPEL FUNK HYMNAL (NUMERO GROUP)
VA- INNATURE (BARGE RECORDINGS)
VA- ELEGY BOX (LAST VISIBLE DOG)
JOANNA NEWSOM- YS (DRAG CITY)
ROBERT POLLARD- MOON (MERGE)
J DILLA- DONUTS (STONES THROW)
KAREN DALTON-IT’S SO HARD TO TELL WHO’S GONING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST
(MEGAPHONE & IN MY OWN TIME (A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC)
MAJOR STARS- SYNOPTIKON (TWISTED VILLAGE/ IMPORTANT RECORDS)
KUUPU- YOKEHRA (DEKODER)
ESPERS- II (DRAG CITY)
DEATH UNIT- ONLY DEATH IS CERTAIN (HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS)
PAUL FLARHERTY- WHIRL OF NOTHINGNESS (FAMILY VINEYARD)
FLAHERTY/ CORSANO- BELOVED MUSIC (FAMILY VINEYARD)
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN- THE MYLAR TANTRUM (3LOBED)
CARLA BOZULICH- EVANGELISTA (CONSTELLATION)
JOSEPHINE FOSTER- A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING (LOCUST)
RICHARD YOUNGS- SAPPHIE & ADVENT (BOTH ON JAGJAGUWAR)
PAUL METZGER- S/T ( MUTANT MUSIC), FOUR IMPROVISATIONS ON MODIFIED GUITAR &
BANJO (TREEHOUSE) & SPLIT LP W/ CHRIS CORSANO & BEN CHASNEY (RORATORIO)
WOLF EYES-HUMAN ANIMAL (SUB POP)
MAGAS- MAY I MEET MY ACCUSER (IMAGINARY CONFLICT)
COMETS ON FIRE- AVATAR (SUB POP)
BORIS- PINK (SOUTHERN LORD)
NINA NASTASIA- ON LEAVING (FAT CAT)
HOWLIN’ RAIN- S/T (BIRDMAN)
GEOFF MULLEN- THIRTYSXTRLLNMNFSTNS (ENTSCHULDIGEN)
PLUS AMAZING SHOWS BY VASHTI BUNYAN, SMEGMA, JOANNA NEWSOM, TOM WAITS, CARLA
BOZULICH AND A BUNCH MORE

courtland

1. CEDRIC BROOKS “LIGHT OF SABA”
2. CHARALAMBIDES “VINTAGE BURDEN”
3. REMINDER “CONTINUUM”
4. SEBADOH III
5. BODUF SONGS “LION DEVOURS THE SUN”
6. BRUCE LANGHORNE “HIRED HAND” (SOUNDTRACK)
7. EL MICHELS AFFAIR “SHAOLIN SERIES VOL. 1 c.R.E.A.M. b/w GLACIERS OF ICE” (7″)
8. HOWLING HEX “1-2-3”
9. HOWLING HEX “NIGHTCLUB VERSION OF THE ETERNAL”
10. VA “GOOD GOD! A GOSPEL FUNK HYMNAL”
11. J DILLA “DONUTS”
12. VA “ECCENTRIC SOUL: DEEP CITY LABEL”
13. BLIGHT “DETROIT: DREAM IS DEAD”
14. BLACK MERDA “BLACK MERDA”
15. MINUTEMEN “WE JAM ECONO” (DVD)
16. GHOSTFACE KILLAH “FISHSCALE”
17. OPAL

Chris R
major stars- synoptikon
coughs- secret passage
birchville cat motel- our love will destroy the world
flaherty/corsano- full bottle
josephine foster- a wolf in sheep’s clothing
lambsbread- return to the harbor
smegma- live @ empty bottle
graveyards w/ spencer yeh- live @ delaware, ohio
various artists- messthetics greatest hits
soft machine- middle earth masters
charlambides- vintage burden
REENCARNACION “888 metal”
sandy bull “st. valentine’s day”

Dan W
TIMES NEW VIKING “Dig Yourself” Extreme lo-fi pop clamour. Kind of like when GBV were underground & mysterious, except with girl singing.
SONIC YOUTH “Rather Ripped” Ding Dong the witch is dead! Jim O’Rourke is out of the band & SY is no longer boring.
PLAGUE BRINGER “As The Ghosts Collect, The Corpses Rest” I cant keep track of all the metal sub-genres, but I’m pretty sure these 2 Chicago psychos have 3 or 4 of them mastered on this disc.
MAGAS “May I Meet My Accuser” Magas rules the electro-rock wasteland.
1900’s “Plume Delivery” Comparisons to Belle & Sebastian abound, but 1900’s are actually better, especially when the girls take over.
RYE COALITION “Chariots On Fire” itunes only EP features the handful of good songs from the otherwise avoidable Curses full-length.
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY “The Letting Go” Because what the hell was with that Tortoise thing?
LORD FYRE “Destruction At 2013” Whipped out solo joint from John Wilkes Booze frontman.
YO LA TENGO “I Am Not Afraid Of You & I Will Beat Your Ass” Perhaps past their prime, but this is better than the last album.
DETACHMENT KIT “+” Curiously self-released.

Kim
jesu – silver
reminder – continuum
tortoise – a lazarus taxon
boduf songs – lion devours the sun
sparklehorse – dreamt for light years…
six organs of admittance – sun awakens
georgia anne muldrow – olesi: fragments of an earth
charalambides – vintage burden
black merda – black merda (reissue)
eddie hazel – game, dames and guitar thangs (reissue)

Jim Magas

1. MAGAS: May I Meet My Accuser (Imaginary Conflict/Wwilko)
2. LAKE OF DRACULA: Skeletal Remains (Savage Land)
3. DANAVA: s/t (Kemado)
4. WITCHCRAFT: Firewood (Rise Above)
5. LES GEORGES LENINGRAD: Sangue Puro (Tomlab)
6. THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (ReR)
7. HARMONIA: Musik Von (Lilith) reissue
8. TROUBLE: Psalm 9 (Escapi Music) reissue
9. OKAMI (Capcom/Clover Studio) video game
10. CLIPSE: Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up Records)

Taylor
Fucked Up Hidden World (Jade Tree/ Deranged)- Dear H/C Scene, Can we make
a collective New Years Resolution? Can we stop crucifying our peers when
they succeed at their craft? Can we finally stop calling people sell outs
because they sign to indie labels that have reputable distribution? Can
we all stop being punk fascists and learn to embrace each other and all
our differences? I mean isn’t that why we all became “punks” in the first
place, cause we were different? Ok, ok I know i’m on a hippy tangent right
now. Forgive me, I am getting old and my horizons are broadening. Things
like street cred have become less important while actual song writing has
become more important. And speaking of song writing, this album slays in a
thousand different ways. I am ok with epic, progressive h/c music and I am
elated that this band is next leveling this entire genre. You should be
too.

Mika Miko C.Y.S.L.A.B.F (Kill Rock Stars/ PPM)- Kinda like if Kathleen
Hannah was a skate punk that occasionally cut loose and said things like
“fuck it guys, let’s take some E and read each other’s auras.” These
ladies are my great white hope for the future o’ feminist punk. What’s
even more rad is that they never even have to reference feminism. I heard
they learned how to play by covering Crass songs. Their sense of punk
history however seems to extend far beyond the usual anarcho-political
fair, in fact if i had to guess I’d say at least one of them is the
illegitimate daughter of Ari Up. Coolest kids ever born post 1980.

Snowden Anti Anti (Jade Tree/ Stickfigure)- >- Like Interpol but without
all the posturing, eyeliner, and std’s. Fill in the Postcard/ Rough
Trade/ Creation records roster artist’s name here___ if you need a frame
of reference. This record deserves to be heard even though they are not
epically reinventing the wheel. It’s catchy to the point of being
compelling, and it’s really honest in kind of a humbling way.

Deftones Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick)- Chino Moreno et al. could record
themselves pulling bong hits and dropping nickels in a tin can and i would
think it was the best record of the year. However an epic “wtf” for “Pink
Cellphones” not getting cut from this record. Kinda no excuse for that
pile. And yes, i’m bummed i’m still this emo too.

The Black Heart Procession The Spell (Touch and Go)- This list is biased
and I am jaded, or maybe the other way around. Whateves. If you missed
this now is the time to ask for it for xmas. There are drums and rock
songs on this record so it may surprise you a bit.

Wilderness Vessel States (Jagjaguar)- This is my favorite band in the
entire universe. I am not exaggerating. I never exaggerate.

Daughters Hell Songs (Hyrdahead)- I think this might be the final nail in
the coffin of Load. Parts of this make the hair on the back of my
neckstand up. If Clive Barker was smart he would do a pro-bono feature
fulllength for this album. No fuck that, Gregg Araki should actually do
it.

Liars Drums Not Dead (Mute)- Ok, I kinda think this album wasn’t as good
as They Were Wrong?. However, “The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack” is so
good that it parlays the record into one of the best albums of all time.Q:
can a single make an album? A: yes, it can. Side note: I do not condone
or endorse the purchasing of singles off Itunes (or any digital music
website) unless it is a Billboard Top 200 pop band. You should buy this
record cause the whole thing is worth listening to and owning.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones (Interscope)- Ok so I’m putting both these
bands on here?yeah yeah yeah “so trendy’ you’re thinking. But here’s the
thing…Sometimes bands sell lots of records and have tons of fans because
they are actually good. (maybe 20% of the time even). The B side of this
album is completely charming. Not in a coherent, well structured, planned
way, but in a moments of each song could get stuck in your head for days
way. The A side– not so memorable. Either way, Karen’s gonna turn
allowing yourself to be vulnerable into a “do” for 2007.

Pissed Jeans I Don’t Need Smoke To Make Myself Disappear (Sub Pop)– Is
this the wrong speed? Does it matter? Could I love this band anymore?
Maybe. No. And no, respectively.

Mastodon Blood Mountain (Relapse)/ Daughters Hell Songs (Hydrahead)-
Thisis a tie because I have only heard part of the Mastodon record once
but it fucking blew my mind. Who knows though, there could have been like
some real clunkers there that I just haven’t gotten a chance to hear yet.
For the most part though, I’m down for any band that can play all 16
subgenres of metal perfectly within one song while never sounding the
least bit
pretentious. As far as the creepy mustached substitute gym teacher squad
goes, if Clive Barker was smart he would do a pro-bono feature full length
Hell Songs. Wait, no fuck that, Gregg Araki should do it and Crispin
Glover’s cast from “What Is It?'” should star in it. This record is light
years ahead of their last full length mostly because they no longer sound
like mini-Locusts, both the vocals and the song structures have traded
white-belt grindmo for nauseating weirdcore.

Kevin
Bardo Pond “ticket crystals”
Espers “II”
Scott Walker “the drift”
Major Stars “black road” 7″
Arthur Russell “another thought” (reissue)
Boduf Songs “lion devours the sun”
Danava “s/t”
J Dilla “donuts”
v/a “good god! gospel funk”
Broadcast “future crayon

Billy
SUNN/BORIS – ALTAR (SOUTHERN LORD)
VARIOUS ARTISTS – AMERICAN HARDCORE soundtrack (RHINO)
The Raconteurs ? Broken Boy Soldiers
Culture Kids (http://myspace.com/culturekidss)
EARTH – reissues (subpop)
The Fix – At the Speed of Twisted Thought (Touch and Go)
Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
Steve Turner – New Wave Punk Asshole
Pearl Jam – s/t
Welcome – Sirs (comes out domestically in Feb 2007 on FatCat)
Amazing Stories season one DVD
Dungeons and Dragons complete animated series DVD

Brett

1. Radiohead- Hail to the Thief (capitol)
2. Shins- Chutes too Narrow (subpop)
3. Mojave 3- Spoon & Rafter (beggars)
4. Fruit Bats- Mouthfuls (subpop)
5. Lullatone- Computer Recital (audio dregs)
6. Baxter Dury- Len Parrot?s Memorial Lift (roughtrade)
7. Cat Power- You are Free (matador)
8. Clientele- The Violet Hour (merge)
9. King Geedorah- Take me to your leader (big dada)
10. Papa M- One, Two, Three, Four eps (dragcity)
11. Cass Mccombs- A/ Not the Way (monitor)
12. Zephyrs- Year to a day (setanta)
13. Supersilent- 6 (rune grammofon)
14. New Pornographers- Electric Version (matador)
15. Party of Helicopters- Please Believe it (velocette)
16. Dipsomaniacs- Life you?re faking (face down)
17. Belle & Sebastian- Dear Catastrophe Waitress (roughtrade)
18. Bonnie Prince Billy- Master & Everyone (drag city)
19. Eluvium- Lambent Material (temporary residence)
20. Sleepy Jackson- Lovers (astralwerks)
21. Four-tet- Rounds (domino)
22. Schneider TM- 6 Peace E.P.(mute)
23. Sloan- Action Pact (bmg)
24. Carla Werner- Departure (warner)
25. Ulrich Schnauss- Strangley Isolated Place (towerblock)
26. Parsley Sound- Parasley Sounds (mowax)
27. The 88- Kind of Light (mootron)
28. Sufjan Stevens- Greetings from Michigan The Great Lakes State (sounds familyre)
29. M83- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (gooom)
30. Tyde- Twice (rough trade)
31. Toshack Highway- Magnetic Morning (Sonic Unyon)
32. Paula Frazer- Place where I know (Birdman)
33. Lucksmiths- Midweek Midmorning/ Little Distraction (matinee)
34. Various Artists- Acuarela Songs v.2 (acuarela)
35. Timbaland & Magoo- Under Construction Part II (Universal)
36. Jorma Whittaker- Jorma Whittaker (Secretly Canadian)
37. Felt Reissues on CD and DVD (cherry red)
38. David Shire- Conversation Soundtrack (intrada)
39. Winged Migration DVD (columbia)
40. The Muppet Show reissues on DVD (columbia)
41. Space Ghost Coast to Coast on DVD (warner)

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Kip

Neil Young- On the Beach (reissue)
Tv on the Radio- Young Liars ep
Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
Books- Lemon of Pink
Johnny Cash- Unearthed Boxset
Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
Led Zeppelin- How the West was won
Speaking Canaries- Get out Alive- the Last type story
Dirty Three- She has no Strings attached
Outkast- Speakerboxxx

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Mark L.

Andrew Hill Passing Ships
Angels of Light Everything Is Good Here Please Come Home
Cass Mccombs A
Comets on Fire S/T
Dirty Three She Has No Strings Attached
Double Leopards Halve Maen
Jade Fly on Strangewings
Led Zeppelin How the West was won
Linda Perhacs Parrallelograms
Loudon Wainwright So damn Happy
Michael Yonkers Microminature Love
Modey Lemon Thunder & Lightning
Outkast SpeakerBoxx
Pentagram First Daze Here
Plastic CrimeWave Sound Flashing Open
Postal Service
Shins Chutes Too Narrow
Sleep Dopesmoker
Stark Reality

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Gwen

SMOG – SUPPER
LOOSE FUR – S/T
STROKES – ROOM ON FIRE
GOLDFRAPP – BLACK CHERRY
TV ON THE RADIO – YOUNG LIARS
CASS MCCOMBS – A
MISSY ELLIOTT – THIS IS NOT A TEST
POSTAL SERVICE – GIVE UP
CAT POWER – YOU ARE FREE
LED ZEPPELIN – HOW THE WEST WAS WON
OUTKAST – SPEAKERBOXXX
GRAND ULENA – GATEWAY TO DIGNITY
RADIOHEAD – HAIL TO THE THIEF
BETH GIBBONS – OUT OF SEASON

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Matt

in alphabetical order
nick cave “nocturama”
dirty three “she has no strings apollo”
missy elliott “pass the dutch”
jonny greenwood “bodysong”
karl hendricks trio “the jerks win again”
king geedorah “take me to your leader”
led zeppelin “how the west was won” cd & DVD
lungfish “love is love”
madvillain “money folder” 12″
mastodon “remission”
m83 “red seas & lost ghosts”
90 day men “too late or too dead”
outkast “speakerboxxx/love below”
party of helicopters “please believe it”
pentagram “vintage daze” reissuecanaries
radiohead “hail to the thief”
shins “chutes too narrow”
sleep “dopesmoker”
speaking canaries “get out alive: the last type story”
television “live at the old waldorf”
paul westerberg “come feel me tremble”
yeah yeah yeah’s “maps” 7″
michael yonkers band “microminiature love” reissue
various artists “miami soul”

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Ryan

the Best of 2003 in Music

1. Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co.
2. Cass McCombs – A
3. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master and Everyone
4. Cat Power – You Are Free
5. the Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
6. OutKast – Speakerboxx / the Love Below
7. Fruit Bats – Mouthfuls
8. GOODBYE, BABYLON (six disc boxset of early gospel music)
9. M. Ward – the Transfiguration of Vincent
10. Damien Jurado – Where Shall You Take Me?
11. Johnny Cash – Unearthed (boxset of american recordings)
12. Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
13. Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
14. Iron & Wine – the Sea and the Rhythm e.p.
15. Smog ? Supper

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Taylor

TOP TEN LP’S:

1. Cass McCombs “A”
2. Party of Helicopters “Please Believe It”
3. Outkast “Speakerboxx/ The Love Below”
4. Brian Jonestown Massacre “And This Is Our Music”
5. Telescopes “As Approved By the Committee”
6. Lungfish “Love Is Love”
7. Pleasure Forever “Alter”
8. Plastic Crimewave “Flashing Open”
9. M83 “Red Seas & Lost Ghosts”
10. Bruce Springsteen “Essential Bruce Springsteen”
    TOP SEVEN EP’S/7″S/Singles:
11. These Arms Are Snakes “This Is Meant to Hurt You” EP
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps” 7″
13. Electrelane “On Parade” EP
14. Ponys “S/T” 7″
15. !!! “Me & Giuliani Down By the School Yard”
16. Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers” single
17. Souls She Said “Rub the Sleep Out” EP

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Tina

Tops for 2003 (in random order):

1. Dead Meadow — Shivering King & Others
2. TV On the Radio — Young Liars
3. Comets on Fire — S/T
4. Devendra Banhart — Oh Me Oh My
5. Broadcast — Pendulum
6. Tyrades — S/T
7. Pelican — Australasia
8. Lungfish — Love is Love
9. Missy Elliott — This is not a test
10. Entrance — Kingdom of Heaven must be taken by storm
11. Angels of Light & Devendra Banhart @ Schuba’s
12. Civilized Age & Plastic Crimewave @ the Hideout

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Brian

TOP 10 (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
TV ON THE RADIO – YOUNG LIARS
CAT POWER – YOU ARE FREE
OUTKAST – SPEAKERBOX/LOVE BELOW
RADIOHEAD – HAIL THE THIEF
FIERY FURNACES – GALLOWSBIRDS BARK
PANTHERS – LET’S GET SERIOUS
YOUNG PEOPLE – WAR PRAYERS
PINEBENDER- THE HIGH PRICE OF LIVING A SINGLE DREAM TOO LONG
JONATHAN COLECLOUGH – CASINO
PREFUSE 73 – ONE WORD EXTINGUISHER

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James

2003’S MENTIONABLES (in random order)
The Shins “Chutes Too Narrow”
The Constantines “Shine a Light”
American Analog Set “Promise of Love”
Cass McCombs “A”
Cat Power “You Are Free”
Califone “Quicksand/Cradlesnakes”
M. Ward “Transfiguration of Vincent”
Lucksmiths “Naturaliste”
Camera Obscura “Underachievers Please Try Hard”
Eliott Smith “Pretty (Ugly Before)”
Iron & Wine “The Sea & the Rhythm”
Broken Social Scene “You Forgot It In People”
Postal Service “Give Up”
Bonnie Prince Billy “Master & Everyone”
Clientele “Violet Hour”
Charlene “S/T”
Mojave 3 “Spoon & Rafter”
The Wrens “Meadowlands”
The Strokes “Room On Fire”
Aislers Set “How I Learned to Write Backwards”

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Mark Y.

1. the Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
   overzealous praise: maybe not since the beatles has a group woven such interesting harmonies and melodies into the pop idiom.
2. T.V. and the Radio – Young Liars (Touch & Go)
   i think i have listened to this 50,000 times.
3. Arab Strap – Mondays at the Hug and Pint (Matador)
   critically underrated!@$!#
4. Juana Molina – Segundo (Domino)
5. Outkast – Speakerboxxx/the Love Below (LaFace)
6. Diverse – 1 a.m. (Chocolate Industries)
7. Four Tet – Rounds (Domino)
8. Books – The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
   i only discovered the even better “thought for food” this year as well.
9. Fruit Bats – Mouthfuls (SubPop)
10. Yo La Tengo – Summer Sun (Matador)
11. Postal Service – Give Up (Sub Pop)
12. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – I Bet You Say That To All the Boys (Fashion Brigade)
13. Branches – (self titled demo)
    i can’t wait until this album comes out so we can see jeremy lemos’ handiwork on some of the finest “indie rock” i’ve heard in years.
14. Head of Femur – Ringodon or Proctor (Greyday)
15. King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader (Big Daddy/Ninja Tune)
16. Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State (Asthmatic Kitty)
17. The Firey Furnaces – Gallowsbird’s Bark (Sanctuary)
    Both sufjan and fiery furnaces are late additions but so rarely do i find myself NEEDING to own an album after the first time i hear it.
18. DJ Andy Smith – The Document II (Classic/Illicit)
19. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief (Capitol) .
20. Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
    best single – tie Andre 3000 – “Hey Ya” / Kelis – “Milkshake”

best b-side – Elliott Smith – “A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free”

best s/t – ?Lost in Translation?

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Sarah

albums:
comets on fire s/t
japanther ‘leatherwings’
m83 ”dead cities, red seas, & lost ghosts’
gossip ‘movement’
michael yonkers band ‘microminIature love’ -reissue
brant bjork ‘jalamanta’ reissue
pelican ‘australasia’
witches ‘on parade’
iron & wine ‘sea & the rhythm’
country teasers ‘secret weapon revealed at last’
the fall ?country on the click?
7’s:
ponys ‘i wanna fuck you +2’
electrelane ‘on parade’
plastic crimewave sound ‘great ceased’
functional blackouts ‘1900 get inside’
ponys ‘wicked city’

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Chris R.

?Top Ten? of 2003 (in no particular order):
Eddie Gale (reissue): Black Rhythm Happening, Eddie Gale’s Ghetto Music
Sightings: Absolutes
Young People: War Prayers
Spires That in the Sunset Rise: s/t
Kevin Drumm: Land of Lurches
Deerhoof: Apple o?
The Ex: improv show @ the empty bottle
Sleep: Dopesmoker
Essential Logic/Laura Logic (reissue): Fanfare in the Garden
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian

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Daniel L.B.

Postal Service / Give Up
Beulah / Yoko
Mono / One Step More and You Die
Brother Ali / Shadows on the Sun
The Jealous Sound / Kill Them With Kindness
Pernice Bros. / Yours, Mine & Ours
Cursive / The Ugly Organ
Non-Prophets / Hope
Four Tet / Rounds
M. Ward / Transfiguration of Vincent
TV on the Radio / Young Liars Ep
Hey Mercedes / Loses Control
American Analog Set / Promise of Love (first three songs only)
Explosions in the Sky / The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Beyonce f. Jay-Z / “Crazy in Love”

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Drew

1. COUNTRY TEASERS: secret weapon revealed at last
2. CHARIZMA & PEANUT BUTTER WOLF: big shots
3. KING GEEDORAH (MF DOOM): take me to your leader
4. BLACKBIRDS: blackbirds
5. THE FALL: this is the new fall album
6. LUNGFISH: love is love
7. SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE: s/t
8. BARDO POND: on the ellipse
9. MOGWAI: happy songs (big surprise)
10. WHITEHOUSE: bird seed
11. JOAN OF ARC: in rape fantasy and terror sex we trust

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Courtland

Top 15, no order

1. Daily Planet – Team Daily
2. Mad Villian – Money Folder 12″
3. Stark Reality – Now
4. Express Rising
5. JFA – We Know You Suck
6. Family Tree – Tree House Rock
7. King Geedorah _Take Me To Your Leader
8. Smog – Supper
9. Monsta Island Czars – Escape From Monsta Island
10. MIdwest Funk – Various
11. Mickey & The Soul Generation – Iron Leg
12. Town & Country – 5
13. Trad Gras Och Stenar – Mors Mors
14. Style Wars – DVD
15. Ethiopiques Vol. 13 : Ethiopian Grooves

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STEVE’S TOP 20

BARDO POND-on the ellipse
CHRISTIAN BRANDT & THE 100%-7″
MICHAEL YONKERS BAND-microminiture love
STARK REALITY-1969′
TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR-mors mors
MODEY LEMON-thunder & lightning
BRAIN DONOR-s/t
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA-queen of guess
ED ASKEW-2nd unreleased LP
RABBIT RABBIT-split 7″
ESPERS-s/t
BRETT SMILEY-breathlessly brett
HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY-cautrot vocal recordings
MIMINOKOTO-2
V/A-velvet tinmine
COMETS ON FIRE-live on WFMU
V/A-Cherrystone’s rocks
6 ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE-compathia
TESTORS-complete 1976-79
METAL URBAIN-anarchy in Paris

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Stephen

Top 20:

1. The Whip–Freelance Liason 7″
2. MF DOOM–Everything (King Gedorah, Viktor Vaughn, Madvilian 12″,Yee Haw 12″)
3. Growing–Skys Run Into the Sea
4. Express Rising–S/T LP
5. TV On The Radio–S/T EP
6. Devandra Banhart–Oh Me Oh MY…
7. Beans–Tomorrow Right Now
8. Cass McCombs–A
9. Carla Bozulich–Red Headed Stranger
10. Cat Power–You Are Free
11. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists–Hearts Of Oak
12. Loose Fur–S/T
13. Tim Hecker–Radio Amor
14. 90 Day Men–Too Late or Too Dead EP
15. Watchers–To The Rooftops
16. Black Eyes–S/T
17. Matmos–The West
18. Azita–Enantiodromia
19. Sunn O)))–White 1
20. Matthew Herbert Big Band–Goodbye Swingtime
    Bonus 10 Shows
21. SUNN O)))–Empty Bottle
22. Mastodon–Fireside Bowl
23. Black Eyes/Scalpels–Swayze Compound
24. Shellac–De Kalb, IL.
25. Summer On Southport–Walkmen, 90 Day Men, Watchers, Boas, etc.
26. Oxes/Cass McCombs–Empty Bottle
27. Taking Pictures–Various Shows
28. Carla Bozulich/Nels Cline–Schubas
29. Outhud/Beans–Empty Bottle
30. The Fall/Tv On The Radio–Empty Bottle.
    3 Re-Issues
    1.Pentagram–First Daze Here
31. Parliament–Osmium
32. Sleep?Dopesmoker

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Gar

1.BOOKS “LEMON OF PINK”

2. WEAKERTHANS “RECONSTRUCTION SITE
   3.BUZZCOCKS S/T
   4.SLAYER WAAR AT THE WARFIELD DVSD
3. SUPERGRASS “LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS”
   6.SOUL POSITION “8 MILLION STORTIES”
4. LUNGFISH “LOVE IS LOVE”
5. STRIKE ANYWHERE “EXIT ENGLISH”
6. GILLIAN WELCH “SOUL JOURNEY”
7. THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF FLAMING LIPS “TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE SATELLITE HEART”

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Dave

top 20 of 2003. no order.
-pelican: australasia
-he who corrupts: ten steps to success
-vital remains: dechristainize
-motion city soundtrack: i am the movie
-defleshed: royal straight flesh
-non prophets: hope
-misery index: retaliate
-elvis costello: trust (re-issue)
-every time i die: hot damn!
-the killer: where all my nightmares came true
-viktor vaughn (mf doom): vaudeville villain
-the lawrence arms: the greatest story ever told
-curl up and die: we may be through with the past…
-madvillain: money folder 12″
-neil young: on the beach (cd issue)
-kungfu rick: coming to an end
-sole: selling live water
-nedelle: republic of two
-sleep: dopesmoker
-the dream is dead: taking friendly fire