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In-Store Performance: White Mystery
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03/14/2010
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Brothers & sisters, we are proud to announce a free-instore by the Chicago brother & sister duo that is WHITE MYSTERY. The always exciting & very
energetic group will be celebrating the release of
their debut album & we couldn't be happier to have them rock the Wicker Park store once again. Come on out & support one of the coolest bands in Chicago!! We'll be selling the record (at least a week early!!) & we're hoping to have some special activities planned for you as well. This is going to rule!!
WHITE MYSTERY
free in-store performance & record release!!
Sunday March 14th
3pm
Reckless Records in Wicker Park
Testify!
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In-Store Performance: Titus Andronicus
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03/13/2010
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free instore!
4pm
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In-Store Performance: Judson Claiborne
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03/06/2010
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4PM!! FREE!!
Here's what we had to say about Judson's last album, Before Midnight Scholar:
"LOW SKIES main-man CHRIS SALVETER re-emerged under the JUDSON CLAIBORNE moniker, retaining his former band's stark austerity while achieving an even deeper intimacy. This is beautiful, heartfelt, & melancholy stuff. Recommended if you like JEFF BUCKLEY, CHRIS CONNELLY, SUN KIL MOON &
SHEARWATER."
Judson will have copies of his NEW album, Time & Temperature, available at this in-store.
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Reckless Employee BEST OF lists 2009
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12/28/2009
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RECKLESS EMPLOYEE BEST OF LISTS 2009
BRYAN SMITH
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
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 CAMDEN
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 SMITH
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 CATERER
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 JENCIK
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 TAYLOR
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 MERCER
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 D'ERCOLE
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 ILLARDE
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 SHOUP
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 GREEN
1. A ORILLAS DEL MAGDALENA: Coastal Cumbias from Colombia’s Discos Fuentes
2. SYLVESTER AND THE HOT BAND - Blue Thumb Collection
3. LOVE TRAIN - The Sound Of Philadelphia Box Set
4. RICK POPPA HOWARD - Whithout Your Love (12")
5. LIGHT :ON THE SOUTH SIDE
6. Phil Cohran - Spanish Suite
7. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
8. El Michels Affair - Enter The 37th Chamber
9. Mos Def - Ecstatic
10. Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
11. Africa Boogaloo: The Latinization of West Africa
12. Tumbele! Beguine, Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean
13. Doom - Born Like This
14. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
15. Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
16. Death - For the Whole World To See
17. String of Pearls: Jewels of the 78 RPM Era
18. Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake
19. Suarasama - Fajar Di Atas Awan
20. Mayer Hawthorne - Just Aint Gonna Work Out (Heart Shaped Record)
21. 24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
22. Pisces - Lovely Sight
23. Local Customs: Downwater Revival
DYLAN POSA
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 KAPUZA
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 HODGES
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 CALVANICO
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 ZILES
(in no particular order)
1. Iron Age "Sleeping Eye"
2. Ofege "Try and Love"
3. Pisces "Lovely Sight"
4. Greymachine "Disconnected"
5. Pissed Jeans "King of Jeans"
6. Oneida "Rated O"
7. Bellini "Precious Prize of Gravity"
8. Subway "Subway II"
9. Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers s/t
10. Giant Squid "The Ichthyologist"
11. Bill Callahan "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle"
12. Nirvana "Bleach" Deluxe Reissue
13. Oxbow "Fuckfest" Reissue & Remaster
CHRIS WILKUS
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 WALKER
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] (R.I.P.)
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]
JIM 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
CHRIS CONNELLY
1. GRISTLEISM-THROBBING GRISTLE
2. VIOLENT ARP - MAGAS
3. ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN - CURRENT 93
4. REPO - BLACK DICE
5. HOW WILL YOU? - AZITA
6. THE ROAD - HENRY COW
7. THIRD MIND SESSIONS - THROBBING GRISTLE
8. L.A. TURNAROUND - BERT JANSCH
9. WHITE ALBUM -THE BEATLES
10.PARADE ROOM- THESE WONDERFUL EVILS
11. ANTONY & THE JOHNSON "CRYING LIGHT"
DAN MALONEY
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 DREYER
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 COTTER
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 HAMILTON
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 VERHAGEN
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 GRUBBS
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 FRIER
1. embryonic - flaming lips
2. live anthology - tom petty
3. dark was the night - various artists
4. childish prodigy - kurt vile
5. entrance band - entrance band
6. middle cyclone - neko case
7. wolfgang amadeus phoenix - phoenix
8. enter the 37th chamber - el michels affair
9. top ranking - diplo & santogold
10. ecstatic - mos def
favorite ladies of the year:
chelsea lately, stephanie meyer,
mary portas & catherine hardwicke,
charlaine harris
JACOB OTTING
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 YOHANAN
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 BRANDT
1. Big Knife "Ruff Sesh" cassette
2. Blasted Diplomats "Blasted Diplomats" cassette
3. Chicago Thrash Ensemble "Demon Cassette" cassette
4. Chris Connelly "Pentland Firth Howl" Lp
5. Coupleskate "Don't Scare the Horses" CD
6. Death Ships "Notes From the Captain's Quarters" cassette
7. Implodes "Implodes" cassette
8. Magas "Violent Arp" LP
9. Mannequin Men "Lose Your Illusion Too" LP
10. Party Downers "party Downers" LP
DAN WORLAND
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 ELHAJ
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 HOFER
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 DEIA
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
DAN MORRIS
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 GROSSMAN
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)
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2009 friends of Reckless BEST OF lists
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12/28/2009
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Lots of our friends, ex-coworkers, & business associates have also chimed in with some interesting Best Of lists!
STEPHEN SOWLEY; Electrical Audio
Bill Orcutt--A New Way To Pay Off Old Debts
Paul F. Tompkins--Freak Wharf
Vee Dee--Public Mental Health System
Blues Control--Local Flavor
Primavera Festival in Barcelona and the 5000000 "This Is Happen To Me"
moments that it entailed.
IMPLODES and everything they do.
Sunn O)))--Monoliths & Dimensions
Rich Boy--Drop 12"
Robert Wyatt--Radio Experiment Rome, February, 1981
Mayyors--Deads 12"
Pissed Jeans--King Of Jeans
Throbbing Gristle--Logan Square
Brett Eugene Ralph--Black Sabbatical
Tim Hecker--An Imaginary Country
Death--For the Whole World To See
East Bound & Down
ATP NY '09 and the 200 "this is happening to me" moments that it entailed
Fucked Up--Year Of The Rat 12"
three way tie for criminal charges: Drunkdriver--Fire Sale 45// Billy
Bao--May '08// Drunkdriver & Mattin--List of Profound Insecurities 12"
Obits--I Blame You
Jim O'Rourke--The Visitor
Group Bombino--Guitars From Agadez vol. 2
Iron Lung/Walls/Pig Heart Transplant--Public Humiliation
Richard Youngs--Under A Stellar Stream
Moritz Von Oswald Trio--Vertical Ascent
Umbrella Music Festival '09
v/a--A Orillas del Magdalena: Coastal Cumbias from Colombia's Discos Fuentes
Jack Rose is beautiful; Jack Rose is FOREVER. ADAM BARTLETT; Gilead Media and The Independent Label Collective
AARON AITES & AUDREY EWELL; directors of “Until the Light Takes Us”
1. Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds
2. Om - Pilgrimage
3. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
4. MV & EE - Drone Trailer
5. MV & EE - Barn Nova
6. Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
7. Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
8. Valet - False Face Society
9. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
10. Beherit - Engram
BRIAN CASE; The Ponys/Disappears
Top 11 in no order really except for the first one:
The Horrors - Primary Colors (XL)
Times New Viking - Born Again (Matador)
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)
XX - XX (Young Turks)
Beak> - Beak> (Ipecac)
Nudge - As Good As Gone (Kranky)
Niesennmondi - Destination Tokyo (Small Town Supersound)
Strange Boys - And Girls Club (In The Red)
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information 4 (Strut / !K7)
Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
Woven Bones - Midas Touch EP (Zoo Music)
ADAM BARTLETT; Gilead Media and The Independent Label Collective
In no specific order, my favorite records of 2009
Get Rad - What The Fuck Happened To Common Sense? 12"
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today LP
The Mercury Program - Chez Viking LP
Thou/Mohoram Atta - Degradation of Human Life Split LP
Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited - The Spooky Sound Sessions LP
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware LP
M. Ward - Hold Time LP
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast 2xLP
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough CD
Iron and Wine - Around The Well 3xLP
TORSTEN of Northern Silence Productions, Germany
1. augrimmer-from the lone winters cold
2. spiritus mortis-the god behind the god
3. rituals of the oak-hour of judgement
4. amesoeurs-amesoeurs
5. griftegård-solemn.sacred.severe
DAVE DESTROYER; Revolver distribution
1 - dam funk - toeachizown (not available through us but SO GOOD)
2 - mount eerie - wind's poem
3 - oneida - rated o
4 - mantles - s/t
5 - james ferraro - clear & discovery LPs
6 - little claw - human taste
7 - gang gang dance - saint dymphna
8 - talk normal - sugarland
9 - smith westerns - s/t
10 - tropa macaca - sensacao do principio
re-issue - serge gainsbourg - histoire de melody nelson
single - sic alps - l mansion
ADAM REACH; Touch & Go Records
2009 Best of (in no particular order):
Mayyors "Deads EP" - self released
Om "God Is Good" - Drag City
The Jesus Lizard "Pure (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Head (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Goat (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Liar (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
The Jesus Lizard "Down (Reissue)" - Touch and Go
Cave "Psychic Summer" - Permanent
Polvo "In Prism" - Merge
Gun Outfit "Dim Light" - Post Present Medium
Slayer "World Painted Blood" - American
Tyvek "S/T" - Siltbreeze
Double Dagger "More" - Thrill Jockey
Mission of Burma "The Sound The Speed The Light" - Matador
Twin Stumps "S/T" - Dais
Sunn O))) "Monoliths and Dimensions" - Southern Lord
Death "...For The Whole World To See" - Drag City
Obits "I Blame You" - Sub Pop
White Shit - "Sculpted Beef" - Post Present Medium
Blues Control "Local Flavor" - Siltbreeze
V/A "Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace" - Numero Group
The Black Heart Procession "Six" - Temporary Residence
Crocodiles "Summer of Hate" - Fat Possum
Shannon Wright "Honeybee Girls" - Vicious Circle
Halo of Flies "Gay Witch Abortion Sessions" - Amphetamine Reptile
Mi Ami "Watersports" - Quarterstick
Big Business "The Drift" - Hydra Head
HENRY OWINGS; Chunklet
The Mantles - all (especially the Siltbreeze LP)
Mayyors - Deads EP (Mt. St. Mtn.)
Billy Bao - May 08 (Parts Unknown) and Sacrilege (Afterburn)
Twin Stumps - self titled 12" (Dais)
Wizard Smoke - self released (www.wizardsmoke.net)
H•O•F - Gay Witch Abortion Demos (AmRep)
Home Blitz - Out of Phase (Ritchie)
Om - Live Conference (Important)
White Wires - reissue (Douchemaster)
Pride Parade - Dose (self released)
Polvo - In Prism (Merge)
Cheap Trick - The Latest (self released?)
Circulatory System - Signal Morning (Cloud)
Shit and Shine - Girls Against Shit (Riot Season)
Obits - I Blame You (Sub Pop)
Drunkdriver - Knife Day (Fan Death)
Pigeon Religion - all
Wooden Shjips - all
The Fresh & Onlys - all
Ty Segall - all
anything on Captured Tracks, Trouble in Mind and Siltbreeze
JASON TAYLOR; Redeye distribution
1 - Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
2 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
3 - The Horrors - Primary Colours (Beggars)
4 - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
5 - Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
6 – Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
7 - Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
8 - Ramesses III – I Could Not Love You More (Type)
9 - Cass McCombs - Catacombs (Domino)
10 - Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore)
11 - Nosaj Thing – Drift (Alpha Pup)
12 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
13 - HEALTH - Get Color (Lovepump United)
14 - Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
15 - Absu – Absu (Candlelight)
16 - Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
17 - A Broken Consort - Box of Birch (Tompkins Square)
18 - Cloaks – Versus Gain (3BY3)
19 - Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars (Candlelight)
20 - Zelienople – Give It Up (Type)
TAYLOR BRODE; Chicago Independent Distribution
1. Zola Jesus The Spoils LP (Sacred Bones)— Taking the throne of this whole dark reverb renaissance movement thing is 20 yr old girl. From Madison. Wisconsin. When every other artist on this list is an irrelevant wash-up in 1-2 years, Nika will just be hitting her stride. Take comfort in knowing the future is bright. Even if bright is referring to the soundtrack to the 2012 apocalypse that surely will be Nik’s next full length.
2. Gun Outfit Dim Light LP (PPM)- I said last year this album would be on this year’s list. And it is so. These kids are the best kids. “.”
3. Lotus Plaza Floodlight Collective LP (Kranky)- The most underrated album of the year by the most unsung, yet most important member of Deerhunter. The vocals are buried somewhere underneath Atlantis, but the chord progressions that make you want open your veins are still omniscient enough to prove who the real songwriting talent in Deerhunter has always been.
4. 5. Mayfair Set S/T 7” AND Young One EP (Captured Tracks/ Woodsist)- The 7” and EP are both equally good, “Dark House” could be my favorite song of all time actually. Mike Sniper- you are hereby forgiven for Under and Under AND for never getting me the boxset you promised me in 07’.
6. UV Race S/T LP (Argh)- Eddy Current side project. Catchier and punker than every GonerZac release combined.
7. Grass Widow S/T EP (Captured Tracks)- If you’ve been jonesing for post-Frankie Rose Vivian girls, consider yourself fixed.
8. The Cultural Decay Eight Ways to Start a Day LP (Sacred Bones)- Well normally I try not to put reissues on here but this technically isn’t a reiss, it’s a compilation. This Belgian punk band only played 15 shows, and released one single and one EP before they broke up in 1982. Luc Van Acker produced the latter, nuff said.
9. Cold Cave Love Comes Close LP (Matador Reissue)- Turn the DAF dial all the way up to Yaz and voila you have the most commercially appealing goth band since Depeche Mode. Consider the single, “Love Comes Close” the arena rock anthem of oughts cold wave. The fact that this band signed to Matador and that Mr. Windish himself is booking them after having only played 10 (close enough) shows is a pretty good barometer of the kind of impact Cold Cave’s team are anticipating on this. 2010 will be epic for them and may even include late-night tv. However it plays out though, Wavves melt-down, etc, this record deserves all the hype it gets cause this band has managed to perfectly gel every single good thing about electronic dance music from the 80’s in a way that somehow still makes it relevant in 2010, and un-ironically to boot. And big ups to Blank Dogs for planting the seed on this..
10. Atlas Sound “Logos” (Kranky)- Dammit, I didn’t want to have to put this on here. But let’s face it, were I to leave off every megalomaniacal songwriting prick based solely on the fact they are intolerable assholes this list would be quite a bit shorter. The Laetitia Sadler and Noah Lennox collabs on here are unreal but overall this record’s pace is just a huge improvement on Brad’s previous solo work.
11. Abe Vigoda “Reviver” EP (PPM)- Talk about a band growing up before your eyes. Abe V are like my own personal Drew Barrymore. And unlike the rest of my LA bros, I didn’t even know them way back when they were a h/c band from Chino. Abe have dropped the tropical punk stee in favor of a new, darker, serious-er vibe. They had me at the Stevie Nicks cover, but opener “Don’t Lie” still just completely stops my unbeating heart.
12. Former Ghosts Fleurs LP (Upset! The Rhythm)- I am tempted to make a snarky remark about how Jaime Stewart has found a way to stay relevant by surrounding himself with younger and more relevant artists. After seeing this band live however, it was clear that lead singer Freddie Rupert relies far more on Stewart than the other way around. Unfortunately, the person who adds the most interesting contributions to this record, Zola Jesus, was not able to tour with them this year. It is Nika’s parts on this record that differentiates Fleurs from an average Xiu Xiu record, thereby turning it into something deeply more profound and interesting. Weird how adding a woman to the mix somehow balances out the estrogen levels here, but whatever works ya know?
13.Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy LP (Matador)- Full band live show is amazing now too.
DOMINICK FERNOW; Hospital Productions
akitsa live
kevin drumm - impish tyrant
realicide
glass candy
desire
burning star core live no fun sweden
wolf eyes live no fun sweden
vetalla 7"
circle of ouroborus
celestia live
J COLEMAN COONEY
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
They've managed to retain their style for over 20 years, yet continue to sound fresh and adventurous. One of the best bands in existence.
Superchunk - Leaves in the Gutter EP
This EP completely rocked my shit for like three months straight.
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
I know of at least one contemporary female piano player that I like. And it doesn't hurt that she covers both Harry Nilsson and Sparks.
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
This was the year in which we see Grizzly Bear become a household name, and for good reason.
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Bill Callahan returns to his sparse, wry, and manically depressing songwriting. Because happy Smog just doesn't cut it.
Group Bombino - Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2
Unlike the first volume, this one is half acoustic, half electric. But it’s still completely raw and messy and awesome. What else would you expect from a Nigerien rebel group?
Piano Magic - Ovations
Girlfriend dump you? Take a bunch of ketamine? Paranoid that your heart is about to collapse into itself? Or just generally feel like offing yourself? Well, the good news is you’ve found your soundtrack.
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family - My Ancestors
Technically a release from the early 70's, this album boasts simple melodies, fuzzed-out psych guitar solos, and heavy drums. This sounds a bit like Cream if they were Zambian and Clapton had any balls.
A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
Newman’s second solo album is more introspective than his first, but it’s still full of endless hooks and skillful songwriting. And it proves once again that he’s at his best when in total control.
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Horn-heavy orchestrated post-rock. Less doom and gloom than some of their contemporaries, it’s at times lilting, pastoral, and ethereal. Definitely more cohesive than their previous effort.
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
The original Dinosaur Jr. line-up once again prove that they're capable of sounding exactly the same as they did 20 years ago. And who doesn't need another Dinosaur Jr. record? But if you're a fan of Mascis's guitar solos, beware. This album only averages 1.5 solos per song.
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
This sounds nothing like Belle & Sebastian! Where do people get this stuff? It's a girl singing...come on, Belle & Sebastian have a guy singer. A little wimpy one. So what if they're both Scottish bands? Wait, you're telling me that that little twee turd photographed one of Camera Obscura's album covers? And Belle & Sebastian have girls that sing too? Shit. Did Wet Wet Wet release anything this year?
M. Ward - Hold Time
Last year's She & Him collaboration hasn't hurt M. Ward's cause at all. Hold Time features Ward's familiar songwriting and production skills, with a couple of cameos from everybody's mind-mistress, Zooey Deschanel.
The Flips - That Girl Stacey 7"
Fresh out of Brew City, these girls marry the 60's girl-group sounds of the Shangri-Las and Martha and the Vandellas with the lo-fi aesthetic of the Vivian Girls (but much more classy and charming).
Mulatu Astatqe & the Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information Vol. 3
Steeped in the Ethiopian jazz that Mulatu came to patent and popularize, and coupled with the funk backbone of the Heliocentrics, this album is reminiscent of the Ethiopian Quintet’s Afro-Latin Soul.
Implodes - everything I heard on myspace
Because I don't have a cassette player anymore.
Zombi - Spirit Animal
If this album were a spirit animal, it would be a shark being eaten by a rhinoceros being ridden by Geddy Lee.
Other Animals - Other Animals
Debut from Chicago-area dudes sounds like Explosions in the Sky, but with sexy interweaving guitars.
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Battles meets 20th Century composing. Complete with Wizard of Oz munchkin vocals (and even some human vocals).
IAN HENTZER; City Hall distribution
Cass McCombs – Catacombs (Domino)
Girls – Album (True Panther)
Foreign Born – Person to Person (Secretly Canadian)
Doom – Born Like This. (Lex)
Black Crowes – Before The Frost… Until The Freeze (Silver Arrow)
Winfred E. Eye – ‘Til I Prune (Antenna Farm)
TV Mike & The Scarecrows – Spittin’ In Cursive (Brave Scarecrow)
The Moore Brothers – Aptos (American Dust)
Reigning Sound – Love And Curses (In The Red)
Mos Def – The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Reissues:
Laurel Aitken – Says Fire/Rumble In A Brixton Market/The High Priest Of Reggae (Pressure Drop)
Feelies – Crazy Rhythms (Bar/None)
Kool & The Gang – Live At PJ’s (Reel Music)
Jim Ford – Big Mouth USA (Bear Family)
Johnny Paycheck – The Little Darlin’ Years (Omni)
IAN LAWRENCE; Forced Exposure distribution
Intrusion : The Seduction Of Silence (Echospace Detroit) CD
Ben Frost : By the Throat (Bedroom Community) CD
Zelienople : Give It Up (Type) LP+CD
Shackleton : 3EPS (Perlon) 3xLP
Demdike Stare : Symiosis Part 1 + Part 2 (Demdik Stare) 2x12"
Daniel Wang : Daniel Wang Presents Balihu 1993-2008 (Rush Hour) 2CD
Broadcast : Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp) LP
Black Dice : Repo (Paw Tracks) 2xLP
Animal Hospital : Memory (Barge Recordings) CD/LP
Redshape : The Dance Paradox (Delsin) LP
Spacemen 3 : DJ Tones (The Great Pop Supplement) LP
KZA : Dig and Edit (Endless Flight) CD
Mayyors : Deads EP (Hurling Man) 12"
Jim O'Rourke : The Visitor (Drag City) CD
Brock Van Wey : White Clouds Drift On And On (Echospace Detroit) 2CD
Moritz Von Oswald Trio : Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon's) 2xLP
V/A : Eastern Standard Time (Weltraum) LP
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions : Through The Devil Softly
(Nettwerk) CD
V/A : Boogaloo Pow Wow (Honest Jon's) LP
Monolake : Silence (Monolake) LP
Ducktails : Ducktails (Not Not Fun) LP
ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU : Volume Two -- Echos Hypnotiques
(Analog Africa) CD
V/A - Raks! Raks! Raks! 17 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets (Raks Discos) LP
DOUG SNYDER AND BOB THOMPSON : Daily Dance (Cantor) LP
Kath Bloom + V/A : Loving Takes This Course (Chapter Music) 2CD
Margaret Dygas : Invisible Circles (Perlon) 12"
ROB SEVIER; Numero Group
2009 Top Ten in Alphabetical Order
Barn Owl - The Conjurer (Root Strata)
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising Suite (Ajna)
Dolphins into the Future - ...on Seafaring Isolation (Not Not Fun)
Emeralds - S/T (Wagon)
Locrian - Drenched Lands (At War With False Noise)
Marc McGwire - Solo Acoustic Volume Two (VDSQ)
Sky Burials CD-R
Sylvester Anfang II - S/T (Aurora Borealis)
24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises of Yesterday (Numero Group)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
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Top Sellers for 2009
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12/18/2009
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Here's our top 30 releases for 2009 (by sales):
1. Animal Collective "Merriweather Post Pavilion" CD/LP
2. Grizzly Bear "Veckatamist" CD/LP
3. Wilco The Album CD/LP
4. Bon Iver "For Emma Forever Ago" CD/LP
5. Phoenix "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" CD/LP
6. Neko Case "A Middle Cyclone" CD/LP
7. Fleet Foxes CD/LP
8. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart CD/LP
9. Bon Iver "Blood Bank" CD/LP
10. St. Vincent "Actor" CD/LP
11. Dirty Projectors 'bitte Orca" CD/LP
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "It's.." CD/LP
13. Deerhunter "Microcastle" CD/LP
14. Dead Weather "Horehound" CD/LP
15. V/A "Dark Was The Night" CD/LP
16. Bonnie Prince Billy "Beware" CD/LP
17. Death "For The Whole World To See" CD/LP
18. Decemberists "Hazards Of Love" CD/LP
19. Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" CD/LP
20. Mastodon "Crack The Skye" CD/LP
21. Camera Obscura "My Maudlin Career" CD/LP
22. Radiohead "In Rainbows" CD/LP
23. Antony & The Johnsons "Crying Light" CD/LP
24. Andrew Bird "Noble Beast" CD/LP
25. Passion Pit "Manners" CD/LP
26. Sonic Youth "The Eternal" CD/LP
27. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" CD/LP
28. Flaming Lips "Embryonic" CD/LP
29. Velvet Underground "Loaded' LP
30. Pj Harvey "Woman A Man Walked By" CD/LP
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Top 25 sellers for 2008
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12/19/2008
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RECKLESS RECORDS 2008 TOP 25 SELLERS
1.RADIOHEAD "IN RAINBOWS" CD/LP
2.PORTISHEAD "THIRD" CD/LP
3.VAMPIRE WEEKEND "S/T" CD/LP
4.FLEET FOXES "S/T"CD/LP
5.BON IVER "FOR EMMA, FOREVER AGO" CD/LP
6.TV ON THE RADIO "DEAR SCIENCE" CD/LP
7.BECK "MODERN GUILT"CD/LP
8.NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL "IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA" CD/LP
9.SIGUR ROS "MED SUD I EYRUM VID SPILUM ENDALAUST" CD/LP
10.BONNIE PRINCE BILLY "LIE DOWN IN THE LIGHT" CD/LP
11.BLACK KEYS "ATTACK & RELEASE" CD/LP
12.NICK CAVE "DIG LAZARUS, DIG!!!" CD/LP
13.MAGNETIC FIELDS "DISTORTION" CD/LP
14.RACONTEURS "CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY" CD/LP
15.WOLF PARADE "AT MOUNT ZOOMER" CD/LP
16.CUT COPY "IN GHOST COLOURS" CD/LP
17.CAT POWER "JUKEBOX" CD/LP
18.MIA "ARULAR" CD/LP
19.SHE & HIM "VOLUME ONE" CD/LP
20.HOT CHIP "MADE IN THE DARK" CD/LP
21.M83 "SATURDAYS = YOUTH" CD
22.SPIRITUALIZED "SONGS IN A&E" CD/LP
23.DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE "NARROW STAIRS" CD/LP
24.STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS "REAL EMOTIONAL TRASH"
25.ALKALINE TRIO "AGONY & IRONY" CD/LP
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2008 Reckless staff best of lists!!!
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12/19/2008
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2008 has been one of the weirdest years ever. George Bush = NO! Barack Obama = YES! Chicago Cubs = NO! Blackhawks Winter Classic = YES! Economy = NO! Reckless best of lists = YES!
So here they are, we know that you've been waiting for them.
RECKLESS 2008 BEST OF LISTS
CHRIS PAPPAS
GROUPER “Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill”
SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE “Curse the Traced Bird”
DOWN IN JUNE “Covers...Death in June”
BEACH HOUSE “Devotion”
JOHN MAUS “Love is Real”
CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE “In Between words”
SPACEMEN 3 “DJ Tones” ep
PORTISHEAD “Third”
REISSUES
MAYO THOMPSON “Corky's Debt to His Father”
THE LINES “Flood Bank”
THE LINES “Memory Spand”
IRON CURTAIN “Tarantula Scream”ep
DEAD CAN DANCE reissues
VAN DUREN “Are You Serious?”
MICHELLE HODGES
in no particular order
M83 “Saturdays = Youth”
BEACH HOUSE “Devotion”
CRYSTAL STILTS “Alight of Night”
PIT ER PAT “High Time”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle/ “Weird Era Continued”
18TH DYLE “Amorine Queen”
GROUPER “ Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill”
WINDY & CARL “Songs for the Broken Hearted”
WHITE MAGIC “New Egypt”
NAGISA NI TE “Yosuga”
HELENA ESPVALL & MASAKI BATOH “S/T”
WOODEN SHJIPS VOL. 1
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS “Plutonium Blonde”
JOHN MAUS “Love is Real”
JACK ROSE “ Dr. Ragtime & Pals”
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES “The Supreme Genius of...”
RODRIGUEZ “Cold Fact” reissue
FIVE OR SIX “Acting on Impulse”
MONOCHROME SET “Independent Singles Collection”
THE LINES “Flood Bank” reissue
EMILY ELHAJ
in no particular order
LIL WAYNE “Tha Carter III”
GROWING “All the Way”
SPIRITUALIZED “Songs in A&E”
CHAIRLIFT “Does You Inspire You”
BLACK ANGELS “Directions to See a Ghost”
BORIS “Smile”
METALLICA LP Reissues
RZA “Digi Snacks”
BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT “Motion to Rejoin”
ENSLAVED “Vertebrae”
M83 “Digital Shades Volume 1”
MOUNT EERIE/ JULIE DOIRON - Lost Wisdom (Southern)
NO AGE “Nouns”
OCEAN “Pantheon of the Lesser”
DUNGEN “4”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
T-PAIN “Thr33 Ringz”
NICO MUHLY “Mothertongue”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue” reissue
VETIVER “Thing of the Past”
Q-TIP “Renaissance”
CHARLIE LOUVIN “Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs”
WARMER MILKS “Soft Walks”
JASON VERHAGEN
RUSSIAN CIRCLES "Station”
NERVES (1975) "One Way Ticket”
MOGWAI "The Hawk is Howling”
LARRY NORMAN "Rebel, Poet, Jukebox Balladeer”
EARLES & JENSEN "Just Farr a Laugh”
THE MIDDLE CLASS "Out of Vogue, Early Material”
COLLAPSAR "Integers”
JEFF LOOMIS "Zero Hour Phase”
DON CABALLERO "Punkgasm”
DIANOGAH "Qhnnnl”
MATT JENCIK
AIDAN BAKER/TIME HECKER“Fantasma Parastasie”
BROWN JENKINS “Angel Eyes”
CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS/ SOMNIVORE split
DUNGEN “4”
ENSLAVED “Vertebrae”
FRIPP/ ENO“No Pussyfooting” reissue
GROUPER “Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill”
GROUPER/INCA ORE split
HELLHAMMER “Demon Entrails”
JAY REATARD “Singles 06-07”
KRALLICE “S/T”
LEVIATHAN “Massive Conspiracy Against All Life”
LIFELOVER“Konkurs”
MORKER “Hostmakter”
NACHTMYSTIUM “Assassins: Black Meddle pt. 1”
NASHEIM/ ANGANTYR split
ONE LAST WISH “1986” LP reissue
O.W.L. “Of Wondrous Legends” reissue
THE PEACE “Black Power” reissue
RADIOHEAD “In Rainbows”
RAVEN “Back to Ohio Blues”
STRID“s/t” reissue
V/A “1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”
WEDARD “Wo Die Ewgkeit Die Zeit Beruhrt”
XASTHUR "A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors” reissue
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM “Two Hunters”
NEIL YOUNG “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House”
Live shows:
IRON MAIDEN
POLVO
RADIOHEAD
BORIS
STARS OF THE LID
NICK CAVE
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
BARACK OBAMA Acceptance Speech in Grant Park
CHRIS CONNELLY
BOB DYLAN “Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006”
OAN AS POLICE WOMAN “To Survive”
EARLY WORM “S/T”
THESE WONDERFUL EVILS “Regine Flory”
CURRENT 93 “Nature Unveiled” reissue
LYNN JACKSON “Soft Stars”
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS “Another World”
CAT POWER “Jukebox”
JUANA MOLINA “Un Dia”
THE SMITHS “Sound of the Smiths”
LIZ WEINSTEIN
BEACH HOUSE "Devotion"
JOHN MAUS "Love is Real"
PORTISHEAD "Third"
SAY HI "The Wishes And The Glitch"
MARNIE STERN “This is it & I am it & You are it & So is that & he is it”
IRON CURTAIN "Desertion"
V/A “BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85”
SEBASTIEN TELLIER "Sexuality"
RAVEONETTES "Lust Lust Lust"
BLACK ANGELS "Directions to See a Ghost"
V/A “Messthetics #106
DUNGEN "4"
BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT"Motion to Rejoin”
DEERHUNTER "Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued"
TRICKY "Knowle West Boy”
LEE SCRATCH PERRY "Repentance”
REISSUES
NEW ORDER “Movement”
JORGE BEN "Forca Bruta”
U2 "October"
FRIPP & ENO "No Pussyfooting"
BILLY SMITH
CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE “In Between Words”
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS “Assassination of Jesse James” soundtrack
NICK CAVE “Dig Lazarus Dig!!!”
JONNY GREENWOOD “There Will Be Blood” soundtrack
SIGUR ROS “Med Sud I Eryum Vid Spilum Endalaust”
NINE INCH NAILS “The Slip”
RIVERS CUOMO “Alone Part 1”
Bands that stupidly got ignored (by me) until 2008:
WINDY & CARL
UFO (how did I miss them for so long?)
SAMMY HAGAR
PROCOL HARUM
These albums had some good SONGS on them, but I didn't
find myself listening to the WHOLE album...
COLDPLAY “Viva La Vida”
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Narrow Stairs”
RADIOHEAD “In Rainbows” (Don't believe the hype)
UGLYSUIT “S/T”
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM “Sound of Silver”
JUSTICE “Cross”
HOLD STEADY “Stay Positive” (slightly annoying, but catchy)
REM “Accelerate” (starts off great, then zzzzzzz)
DYLAN POSA
*****NEW RECORDS*****
XIU XIU “Women As Lovers”
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “Here Come the 123s”
NEPTUNE “Gong Lake”
SIAN ALICE GROUP “59:59”
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
THE BREEDERS “Mountain Battles”
MARNIE STERN “This is it & I am it & you are it & so is that & he is it”
VIOLENCE OF THE LEFT “Curses”
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS “S/T”
NEIL HAMBURGER “Sings Country Winners”
MEGAFAUN “Bury the Square”
ROOTS “Rising Down”
PORTISHEAD “Third”
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE “Water Curses”
NEW BLOODS “Secret Life”
LAST SHADOW PUPPETS “Age of the Understatement”
ERIC MATTHEWS “Imagination Stage”
PONYTAIL “Ice Cream Spiritual”
WALTER BECKER “Circus Money”
MUCCA PAZZA “Plays Well Together”
SLOAN “Parallel Play”
SIGUR ROS “Med Sud I Eryum Vid Spilum Endalaust”
FRED FRITH “To Sail to Sail”
FUCKED UP “Year of the Pig”
SPARKS “Exotic Creatures of the Deep”
ONEIDA “Preteen Weaponry”
GETATCHEW MEKURIA & THE EX “Moa Anbessa”
SBACH “S/T”
METALLICA “Death Magnetic”
DEAD SCIENCE “Villainaire”
FUCKED UP “Chemistry of Common Life”
WOMEN “S/T”
JARBOE “Mahakali”
WHITE MAGIC “New Egypt”
AC/DC “Black Ice”
SQUAREPUSHER “Only a Souvenir”
CHRIS CONNELLY “Forgiveness & Exile”
LOWDOWN BRASS BAND “S/T”
MY CANADIAN GIRLFRIEND “It Might Even Get Cold”
***REISSUES***
V/A “Carolina Funk”
MAYO THOMPSON “Corky's Debt to his Father”
GARY NUMAN “Replicas”
NICK LOWE “Jesus of Cool”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue”
VAN DUREN “Are You Serious”
VSS “Nervous Circuits”
***MAGAZINE PUBLISHING EVENT OF THE YEAR***
CHUNKLET
JACOB OTTING
PORTISHEAD “Third”
DEERHUNTER "Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued"
BEACH HOUSE "Devotion"
MICAH BLUE SMALDONE "The Red River"
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY "Lie Down in the Light"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "Water Curses"
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS "Another World"
ARTHUR RUSSELL “Love is Overtaking Me”
JAMES DEIA
CONSTANTIES “Kensington Heights”
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING “Primary Colours”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
DUTCHESS & THE DUKE “She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke”
FUCKED UP “The Chemistry of Common Life”
PORTISHEAD “Third”
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
BLACK MOUNTAIN “In The Future”
SHEARWATER “Rook”
OKKERVIL RIVER “The Stand Ins”
WALKMEN “You & Me”
ONEIDA “Preeteen Weaponry”
DISAPPEARS 2008 7"s
HOWLIN' RAIN “Magnificent Fiend”
BORIS “Smile”
Reissues/Live
BOB DYLAN “Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue”
RODRIGUEZ “Cold Fact”
LARRY NORMAN “Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: Anthology”
V/A “Nigeria Disco Funk Special”
STEINSKI “What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective”
ARTHUR RUSSELL “Love Is Overtaking Me”
V/A “1970's Algerian Proto Rai Underground”
FINAL SOLUTION “Brotherman” soundtrack
THE CLEAN “Anthology”
SKIP JAMES “1931 Sessions”
IRMA THOMAS “Sings”
JOHN PHILLIPS “John The Wolf King of L.A.”
THE CLASH “Live at Shea Stadium”
THE RATS “S/T”
ROBBIE HAMILTON
PORTISHEAD “Third”
BEACH HOUSE “Devotion”
LEE SCRATCH PERRY “Repentance”
DUNGEN “4”
SPARKS “Exotic Creatures of the Deep”
ERIC MATTHEWS “Imagination Stage”
DAVID VANDERVELDE “Waiting for the Sunrise”
BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT “Motion to Rejoin”
JOHN MAUS “Love is Real”
BLACK MOUNTAIN “In the Future”
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)
SLOAN “Parallel Play”
REISSUE OF THE YEAR:
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue”
BAND I JUST DISCOVERED THIS YEAR:
BADFINGER
MOVIE OF THE YEAR:
WALL-E
GAR BRANDT
CLASH "Live at Shea Stadium"
DAVID BOWIE "Live Santa Monica '72"
BLACK ANGELS "Directions To See A Ghost"
JAY REATARD "Matador Singles '08"
CLINIC "Do It"
DEERHUNTER "Microcastle"/ “Weird Era Continued”
CHRIS CONNELLY "Forgiveness & Exile"
PORTISHEAD "Third"
FUCKED UP "Chemistry of Common Life"
JOHNNY FOREIGNER "Waited Up Til It Was Light”
V/A "Sprigs Of Time: 78's From The EMI Archive"
DAN WORLAND
EDDIE CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING “Primary Colours”
DUTCHESS & THE DUKE “She's The Duchess, He's The Duke”
DISAPPEARS both 7 inches + Live Above The Rainbo CDR
TIMES NEW VIKING “Rip It Off”
CONSTANTINES “Kensington Heights”
COURTLAND GREEN
V/A “Sprigs of Time: 78s From the EMI Archive”
STEPHEN MALKMUS “ Real Emotional Trash”
V/A “1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”
LEON WARE “Moonride”
GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS “Claudine/ Pipe Dreams” soundtracks
NEIL YOUNG “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968”
V/A “I Don't Feel At Home In This World Today”
V/A “Life Is A Problem”
GZA “Pro Tools”
GETATCHEW, EKURIA & THE EX “Moa Anbessa”
V/A “New Orleans Funk Vol. 2”
MICHAEL ARDAIOLO
DISAPPEARS 7"s + “Live Over the Rainbo”
V/A “1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”
TOUMANI DIABATE “Mande Variations”
ROOTS MANUVA “Slime & Reason”
FLYING LOTUS “Los Angeles”
BOB DYLAN “Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006”
DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA “Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey”
VALERIO COSI “Collected Works”
ODEAN POPE “What Went Before, Volume 1”
CHRIS CONNELLY “Forgiveness & Exile”
V/A “Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929”
V/A “Sprigs of Time: 78s from the EMI Archives”
SIR VICTOR UWAIFO “Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-76 “
SCOTT TUMA “Not for Nobody”
MATANA ROBERTS QUARTET “Chicago Project”
BLUES CONTROL “Puff”
Best Shows
STARS OF THE LID (Lakeshore Theater)
TOUMANI DIABATE (Logan Square Auditorium)
THE EX & GETATCHEW MEKURIA (Pritzger)
AMIR EL SAFFAR (Pritzger)
ORNETTE COLEMAN (Grant Park)
MATANA ROBERTS (Heaven Gallery)
SARAH FRIER
(NO ORDER-ALBUMS)
BLACK ANGELS “Directions to See a Ghost”
FLEET FOXES “S/T”
LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM “GIFT OF SCREWS”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
DIPLO & SANTOGOLD “Top ranking”
PIT ER PAT “High Time”
ROOTS MANUVA “Slime & Reason)
PORTASTATIC “Some Small History”
V/A “Nigeria Disco Funk Special”
V/A “Rmxxology”
(NO ORDER CELEBRITIES)
TINA FEY
CHARLIE DAY
DAVE HOFER
THE BAKERTON GROUP “S/T” (Groovy instrumental boogie-rock from Clutch, but
minus their singer)
BETWEEN THE BURIED & ME “Colors” (I know this came out in 2007, but
Victory Records finally issued this on vinyl! Amazing prog-metal-hardcore)
GOJIRA “The Way of All Flesh” (Awesome, heavy, and complex metal recorded
and performed very well. Fans of Meshuggah or Lamb of God will like this)
GRIDLINK “Amber Grey” (Another band starting with "G," this features Jon
Chang from Discordance Axis on vocals and most of Japan's Mortalized on
instruments. 12 songs in 11 minutes and completely punishing)
GUILTY SIMPSON “Ode to the Ghetto” (A nice mixture of street-level rhymes
and a sense of humor, this is another winner from Stones Throw)
HARMS WAY "Delusion" 7" (Intense and scary hardcore/grind/death metal
from these Chicago lads)
THE MUZZLER /MZRCDXVL Split 7" (Awesome split from two of the area's best
hardcore bands)
ORIGIN “Antithesis” (Insane and unrelenting technical death metal from
Kansas, of all places. Totally overpowering and amazing)
PORTISHEAD “Third” (Indescribable release from an indescribable band.
Other-worldly rhythms mixed with Beth Gibbons' airy voice make for another
winner from this band)
PUERTO MUERTO “I Was A Swallow” (Dark, post-country tunes with beautiful
male/female vocals from right here in Chicago. Very underrated music that
sounds like it's from Death Valley and covered in sand)
STEINWAYS “Gorilla Marketing” (Excellent pop punk in the vein of Screeching Weasel. Buy & smile.)
VENOMOUS CONCEPT “Poisoned Apple” (punk/thrash from one half of Brutal
Truth and one half of Napalm Death)
V/A “This Comp Kills Fascists” (Great hardcore compilation on Relapse, assembled by Pig Destroyer guitarist Scott Hull. Features new material from tons of killer bands, including Brutal Truth, Weekend Nachos, Spoonful of Vicodin, Agents of Satan, and like 15 more)
KIP MCCABE
in no particular order
MESHUGGAH “Obzen”
MESHUGGAH “Chaosphere Reloaded” (Reissue)
JUANA MOLINA “Un Dia”
DUNGEN “4”
FRIPP/ENO “No Pussyfooting” (Reissue)
NAGISA NI TE “Yosuga”
ENSLAVED “Vertebrae”
FUCKED UP “Year of the Pig”
SEA & CAKE “Car Alarm”
NEIL YOUNG “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968”
NONAGON “No Sun”
TV Series
MAD MEN “Seasons 1 and 2”
IN TREATMENT “Season 1”
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA “Season 4.0”
THE SHIELD “Season 7”
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA “Season 4”
LOST “Season 4”
TRUE BLOOD “Season 1”
Movies
IN BRUGES
WALL-E
JIM MAGAS
GAS “Nah Und Fern”
WOLFGANG VOIGT “Freiland Klaviermusik”
MAURIZIO “M Series”
V/A “'70s THAI ORCHESTRA”
BASIC CHANNEL “2”
RAVEN “Back to Ohio Blues”
TRUTH & JANEY “No Rest for the Wicked”
BRAINBOMBS reissues
CHRISSY ZEBBY TEMBO & NGOZI FAMILY “My Ancestors”
YA HO WAH 13 “Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony”
ERSEN “S/T” reissue
CHRIS CONNELLY “Forgiveness & Exile”
THE PEACE “Black Power”
HUMAN BEAST “Vol. 1”
BLUE PHANTOM “Distortions”
SUCK “Time to Suck”
FREEDOM'S CHILDREN “Astra & Galactic Vibes”
BLUE ADDICTS “S/T”
T2 “It'll All Work Out in Boomland” & “T2” (aka Fantasy)
STACK WADDY “S/T”
EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND reissues
MURPHY BLEND “First Loss”
Everything on STRANGE LIFE
Bonus round:
Fallout 3 (Xbox 360)
Braid (Xbox 360)
The Presidential Election
DAN MALONEY
1.) PORTISHEAD “Third”
2.) NICK CAVE AND BAD SEEDS “Dig Lazarus, Dig!!!”
3.) ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
4.) DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
5.) BON IVER “For Emma Forever Ago”
6.) FLEET FOXES “S/T”
7.) THEE OH SEES “Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night in”
8.) BLACK MOUNTAIN “In the Future”
9.) SHOPPING “S/T”
10.) VETIVER “Thing of the Past”
REISSUES
1.)MISSISSIPPI RECORDS: VARIOUS TITLES (IRMA THOMAS, “LOVE IS LOVE” etc...)
2.)RODRIGUEZ “Cold Fact”
3.)LARRY NORMAN “Rebel, Poet, Jukebox Balladeer”
4.)BOB DYLAN “Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006”
5.) NERVES “One Way Ticket”
6.) LOS HOLY'S “Sueno Sicodelic” (PLUS TAPES CASSETTE)
7.) DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue”
8.) ARTHUR RUSSELL “Love is Overtaking Me”
9.) KAREN DALTON “Cotton Eyed Joe”
10.) REPLACEMENTS All Reissues
11.) V/A“Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro Rock”
12.) V/A “ Summer Records Anthology”
MARK “Little Ronnie” LUX
in no particular order
BECK “ Modern Guilt”
YAHOWA 13 “Sonic Portal”
O.W.L. “Of Wondrous Legend” reissue
JONAS REINHARDT “ S/T”
BLACK ANGELS “ Directions To See a Ghost”
FRIPP/ENO “No Pussyfooting” (reissue)
DIALS “ Amoeba Amore”
CLOUDLAND CANYON “ Lie in Light”
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE “My Bloody Underground”
DENNIS WILSON “ Pacific Ocean Blue” reissue
GENESIS Rhino cd/dvd reissues
ONEIDA “ Preteen Weaponry”
DANIEL MORRIS
KEVIN AYERS "Unfairground"
BIG KNIFE “S/T” (cassette)
BLACK ANGELS "Directions to See a Ghost"
THE DIALS "Amoeba Amore"
ENDLESS BOOGIE "Focus Level"
THE FINAL SOLUTION "Brotherman"
Soundtrack for an never-filmed movie, unearthed by Numero, by a group with maybe the most (unintentionally,
I hope?) band name of all time.
FUCKED UP "The Chemistry of Common Life"
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES "The Supreme Genius of King Khan"
NICK LOWE "Jesus of Cool" [reissue]
basically the best record ever, the reissue includes all the tracks from the UK release as well as the re-titled U.S.
version "Pure Pop for Now People"
MUTUAL DIVORCE "Gay for Gasoline"
SPARKS "Exotic Creatures of the Deep"
VIVIAN GIRLS “S/T”
V/A "Well Hung: Funk Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist
Hungary Vol. 1"
V/A "Titan: It's All Pop!"
Another Numero Group compilation, lost power-pop gems on the Titan label. A good follow-up to 2005's
“Yellow Pills.”
ANTHONY ILLARDE
JOHN BAKER
The John Baker Tapes, Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics Rare & Unreleased Workshop Recordings 1963-1969
The John Baker Tapes, Volume 2: Soundtracks, Library, Home Recordings, Electro Ads 1954-1985
Trunk CDs/LP
Trunk Records has outdone themselves! A pair of lovingly assembled 2CD sets of various cues, themes and musical beds (much of it unreleased) made for radio and television through the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Primitive (yet futuristic) electronics and sonic manipulations that owe an obvious debt to the electroacoustic/music concrete pioneers of a decade prior, but with an added musicality and playfulness befitting its status as production music. Alongside Delia Derbyshire (who is long overdue for a similar re-examination), Baker was one of the Workshop's most prolific composers, and these discs represent a remarkable 30-odd years of work. If you're a fan of the Raymond Scott "Manhattan Research" package from years back, there's much here for you to enjoy.
CLINIC
“Do It!”
Modern avant/psych that manages to avoid the 'retro' tag. Familiar elements weave in and out of the mix but Abe Blackburn's unique vocals and the band's use of odd chord progressions make Clinic sound like no one else. Mildly unsettling and equally mysterious.
MITTY COLLIER
“Shades Of Mitty Collier - The Chess Singles 1961-1968”
First-ever CD collection from this Chicago gospel-influenced deep soul belter. "I Had A Talk With My Man" is the classic but Collier & the Chess studio band shine throughout. Classy & moving.
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES
“The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shrines”
US compilation of this multi-national garage R&B outfit's prodigious output. Great live show to boot.
LULA CORTES & ZE RAMALHO
“Paêbirú”
Brazilian psych folk from 1975. Lots in common with Caetano Veloso and the then- relatively recent Tropicalia movement, but with a spacier, almost progressive vibe that would appeal to fans of UK acid folk stalwarts Comus or Ramases. Concept record? Of course it is.
NICK LOWE
“Jesus Of Cool” (Remastered Edition)
Expanded version of Nick Lowe's 1978 debut (renamed "Pure Pop For Now People" in the US) featuring a whopping 10 bonus tracks. The timeless pop perfection of "Marie Provost" and "So It Goes" (in all of its Thin Lizzy-esque glory) appear here, along with the original version of "Cruel To Be Kind" and the only partially tongue-in-cheek "Rollers Show." The line between power pop and new wave has never been so blurry; never mind, they both begin here.
RODRIGUEZ
“Cold Fact”
A heavier Latino Donovan produced by Dennis Coffey. 1970 psychedelic folk rock. Awesome.
SHE & HIM
“Volume One”
Slightly flat, sometimes over-emotive, brashly charming bubblegum that matures throughout the course of the record. A sympatico collaboration between M. Ward & actress Zooey Deschanel that stood up to a summer's worth of repeated plays. This deserves a follow-up.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s”
“Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk In 1970s Nigeria”
Complimentary collections from the Afro-Rock underground. Think Fela Kuti crossed with Hendrix, Santana or Funkadelic's Eddie Hazel. Not to be missed.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story”
The alternate/demo versions of Big Star & related material that comprise roughly half of this 2CD set ought to make this a no-brainer, but the mid 60s garage/pop/psychedelic obscurities included keep this from being merely a completist's archival package.
ANGELA ZILES
1. ERSEN “ S/T” reissue... Addictive, choppy, and stellar Turkish rock
2. RODRIGUEZ "Cold Fact" reissue
3. PORTISHEAD "Third"
4. KING KHAN & THE SHRINES "Supreme Genuis of King Khan"
5. WOODEN SHJIPS "Vol. 1"
6. RELIGIOUS KNIVES "After Dark"
7. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS “S/T”
8. BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT"Motion to Rejoin" (not to mention a mesmerizing show at the Hideout)
9. NEW ORDER "Movement" reissue
10. WHITE MAGIC "New Egypt"
11. PONYTAIL "Ice Cream Spiritual"
12. DEERHOOF "Offend Maggie"
13. NEU "Neu! 2" (Reissue)
14. RAVEN "Back to Ohio Blues" (Reissue)
15. DEERHUNTER "Microcastle"/ “Weird Era Continued”
16. DAVID BOWIE “ Live Santa Monica” '72
17. DUNGEN "4"
18. MAGNETIC FIELDS "Distortion"
19. WOMEN “ S/T”
20. ONEIDA "Preteen Weaponry"
21. BEACH HOUSE "Devotion"
22. GROUPER "Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill"
23. JOSEPHINE FOSTER "This Coming Gladness"
24. FUCK BUTTONS "Street Horrrsing"
25. AWESOME COLOR "Electric Aborigines"
26. THE BREEDERS "Mountain Battles"
DVD's:
"The Future is Unwritten/Joe Strummer" by Julien Temple
"Joy Division" by Grant Gee (amazing footage of Joy Division performances that make you wish, or in fact,
almost feel like you were there. Grant Gee keeps you enthralled the entire time.
THADDEUS PHIPPS
SPIRITUALIZED “Songs in A&E”
NEIL HAMBURGER “Sings Country Winners”
EARLES & JENSEN “Just Farr A Laugh” reissue
“KING OF KONG: FISTFULL OF QUARTERS”
“THE WIRE” Season 5
“IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA” Season 4 (TACO BED!!!!)
REBBECA CRAWFORD
BIG DIPPER "Supercluster Anthology"
BLACK ANGELS "Directions to See a Ghost"
BLACK MOUNTAIN "In the Future"
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE "My Bloody Underground"
CHEAP TIME "S/T"
THE CLEAN "Compilation"
CRYSTAL STILTS "Alight of Night "
DIGITAL LEATHER "Sorceror"
DUNGEN "4"
EL GUINCHO "Alegranza"
EL PERRO DEL MAR "From the Valley of the Stars"
THE NERVES “One Way Ticket”
RAVEONETTES "Lust Lust Lust"
JAY REATARD “Singles 06-07”
SPARKS “Exotic Creatures of the Deep”
SPIRITUALIZED "Songs in A&E”
KEITH BEIERSDORFF
A/V MURDER “Missile Command” 7"
CIRCUS DEVILS “Ataxia”
CHRIS CONNELLY “Forgiveness & Exile”
DAVILLA 666 “S/T”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
DISAPPEARS “Need” 7" & “Old Friend” 7”
DUTCHESS & THE DUKE “Never Had a Chance” 7"
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING “Primary Colours”
FRANCE HAS THE BOMB “World of Mirrors” 7"
NIGHTMARCHERS “See You in Magic”
OBITS “One Cross Apiece” 7"
THE REPLACMENTS reissues bonus tracks
SHOPPING "Shopping" LP
BRYAN SMITH
V/A “1970'S Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”
V/A “70s Thai Orchestra”
BILL COSBY Presents Badfoot Brown & The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band CD
BLACK ANGELS “Directions To See a Ghost”
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW “Dandelion Gum”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue” reissue
DISFEAR “Live the Storm”
FESTIVAL “Come, Arrow, Come”
FUCKED UP “Chemistry of Common Life”
FUCKED UP “Year Of The Pig”
GORE “Hart Gore & Mean Man's Dream” reissues
LEVIATHAN “Massive Conspiracy Against All Life”
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS “Dig Lazarus Dig!!!”
NICK LOWE “Jesus Of Cool” reissue
RATS reissue
RAVEN “Back to Ohio Blues”
SEX VID “Communal Living” 12"
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM “Two Hunters”
STEVE SHOUP
BIRTH CONTROL "Goin' To Target" 7"
BLACK ANGELS "Directions To See A Ghost"
BLACK TIME "Double Negative"
BORIS "Smile"
BOX ELDERS"Hole in My Head" 7"
THE CLEAN "Compilation" LP Reissue
DAILY VOID"Man/Machine" 7"
DANAVA "Unonou"
DRUNKDRIVER "Born Pregnant" LP
EARLES & JENSEN "Just Farr a Laugh"
ENSLAVED"Vertebrae"
FEELING OF LOVE "Petite Tu Es Un Hit" LP (out of print)
FUCKED UP"The Chemistry of Common Life"
GROUPER "Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill"
HARMONIA"Live 1974"
HARVEY MILK vinyl reissues
MITCH HEDBERG"Do You Believe in Gosh?"
LA DUSSELDORF vinyl reissues
MIDDLE CLASS “Out Of Vogue - The Early Material"
MISSION OF BURMA reissues
NERVES "One Way Ticket"
RATS "s/t" LP reissue
RODRIGUEZ"Cold Fact" reissue
IRMA THOMAS "Irma Thomas Sings" LP
VSS "Nervous Circuits" reissue CD/DVD
V/A "Fight on Your Time Ain't Long"
Live:
ANIMAL LAW
BIG KNIFE
DANAVA
DUNGEN
ROKY ERICKSON
GONERFEST
HOMOSEXUALS
KING KHAN
PIERCED ARROWS
PISSED JEANS
JAY REATARD
CHARLES TAYLOR
MOTORPSYCHO “Little Lucid Moments”
DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES “In Ear Park”
MARNIE STERN “This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It”
MOVE “Lookin On” reissue
STEINSKI “What Does it All Mean?”
PLANETO IMAGINARIA “Biomasa”
SECRET CHIEFS 3 “Plays Masada Book Two”
MATTHEW HERBERT BIG BAND “There's Me & There's You”
STEVEN BERNSTEIN “Diaspora Suite”
WILLIAM PARKER “Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield”
SUN RA “Sleeping Beauty”
SUN RA “On Jupiter”
LONDON/GLASGOW IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRAS “Separately & Together”
ANTHONY BRAXTON “Complete Arista Recordings”
SCHLIPPENBACH TRIO “Gold is Where you Find it”
JEFF JOHNS
BEACH HOUSE "Devotion"
BIRTH CONTROL "Going To Target" 7"
BLACK ANGELS "Directions To See A Ghost"
CONVICTED "Unconquered" 7"
CRUEL HAND "Prying Eyes"
DEAD CAN DANCE reissues
DIPLO & PAPER ROUTE GANGSTAZ "Fear & Loathing In Huntsvegas"
DOUBLE NEGATIVE Raw Energy" 7"
FUCKED UP "Chemistry of Common Life"
GROUPER "Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill"
HARMS WAY "Delusion" 7"
ICEMEN 7"
IRON CURTAIN "Desertion 1982-1988"
LOOP reissues
MARVELOUS DARLINGS "I Don't Want to Go to the Party" 7"
MIDNIGHT "Farewell to Hell" 10"
NEW ORDER reissues
NO AGE "Nouns"
OBLITERATION 7"
SATANIC THREAT "Into Hell" 7"
SEX VID "Communal Living" 12"
SPACEMEN 3 "DJ Tones"
SUN KIL MOON "April"
THOUGHT CRUSADE "Common Man" 7"
VIOLATION "Devoured"
WHITE MAGIC "New Egypt"
MY BLOODY VALENTINE @ Aragon
PUNCH IN THE FACE & THE REPOS respective last shows
SWERVEDRIVER @ Metro
Family Tattoo (2230 W. Belmont)
LIBBY ZANDERS
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA “Danger Bird Blues” 7"
ANNIHILATION TIME “Tales of the Ancient Age”
BIRTH CONTROL “Going to Target” 7"
BLACK TIME “Double Negative”
DANAVA “Unonou”
DARK AGES “4 Songs” 7"
IRMA THOMAS “Sings the New Orleans Series” LP
JAY REATARD “Singles 06-07”
PIERCED ARROWS “n My Brain/Caroline” 7"
RATS “S/T” LP reissue
Live:
THE BARBARAS
BOX ELDERS
DAILY VOID
DANAVA
FUCKED UP
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES
Also:
BEYONCE "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" video
“Burn After Reading”
STEVE RITCHEY
PAUL METZGER @ Enemy
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY “ Lie Down in the Light”
All of the T.I. singles
BOB DYLAN bootlegs on the back porch with St. Peter's English Ale, Scrabble & good company.
PAUL METZGER “Gedanken Splinter”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
NEIL YOUNG “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House”
Almost everything Mississippi Records put out
The Ex with Getachew Mekuria@ LSA
EVANGELISTA- "Hello Voyager"
ARTHUR RUSSELL “Love is Overtaking Me”
EVANGELISTA @ South Union Arts
Reggae Night @ the Burlington
New bike & biking to the RNC (though the event itself was a horrible depressing drag- thanks republicans & St. Paul PD)
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
EARTH- "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull"
CASTRATED WARLORD- "The Essential Castrated Warlord"
GROUP INERANE- "Guitars From Agadez"
The Pit at the Pissed Jeans show at the Bottle
KATE FAGAN “I Don't Want to Be Too Cool” 7”
NICK CAVE “Dig Lazarus Dig!!!”
“My Winnipeg” film
That Earles & Jensen track about Garfield.
“Encounters at the End of the World” film
V/A “Wooden Guitar” (LP Reissue)
CHRIS CORSANO “Young Cricketer” (LP Reissue)
Plus Tapes
RAVEN- "Back To Ohio Blues" (Reissue)
Free concerts at Millennium Park
V/A “Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture”
KAREN DALTON “Cotton Eyed Joe”
“Wild Combination” DVD
KEVIN COYNE & Siren reissues
BLACK PUS CDRs
FUN YEARS “Baby, It's Cold Inside”
MELISSA GRUBBS
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
JORGE BEN reissues
BLACK ANGLES “Directions to See a Ghost”
NICK CAVE “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
THE CLEAN “Anthology”
CHRIS CONNELLY “Forgiveness & Exile”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/ “Weird Era Continued”
DUNGEN “4”
FUCKED UP “Chemistry of Common Life”
ENSLAVED “Vertebrae”
ERSEN “S/T” reissue
GETATCHEW MEKURIA & THE EX “Moa Anbessa”
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES “The Supreme Genius of...”
GROUPER “Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill”
GZA “Pro Tools”
HARVEY MILK LP reissues
LEVIATHAN “Massive Conspiracy Against All Life”
NICK LOWE “Jesus of Cool” reissue
THE PEACE “Black Power”reissue
JUANA MOLINA “Un Dia”
PORTISHEAD “Third”
Q-TIP “Renaissance”
RADIOHEAD “In Rainbows”
THE RATS “S/T” reissue
RAVEN “Back to Ohio Blues”
JAY REATARD “Matador Singles”
RODRIGUEZ “Cold Fact” reissue
IRMA THOMAS “Sings”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue” reissue
Neil Young “Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House”
V/A “Well Hung: Funk Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist Hungary Volume 1”
V/A “Summer Records Anthology”
V/A “Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad , 1925-1929”
V/A “Life is a Problem”
V/A “Springs of Time: 78'S From the EMI Archive”
V/A “Rmxxology”
V/A “I Don't Feel at Home in this World Today”
V/A “1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground”
V/A “New Orleans Funk Vol. 2”
V/A “Nigeria Disco Funk Special”
V/A “Nigeria Rock Special”
The comps were really good this year!
KEN CAMDEN
STARS OF THE LID “Carte-De-Visite”
THE PEACE “Black Power”reissue
BURNING STAR CORE “Destroyer”
CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE “In Between Words”
JONAS REIHARDT “S/T”
LULA CORTES & ZE RAMALHO “Paebiru”
ANIMALS & MEN “Never Bought Never Sold” reissue
V/A “Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929”
J SPACEMAN & SUN CITY GIRLS “Mister Lonely” (soundtrack)
AMANAZ “Africa” (reissue)
MEGAN MINNEART
SIGUR ROS “Med Sud I Eryum Vid Spilum Endalaust”
MINUS THE BEAR “They Make Beer Commercials Like This” (First time ever released on vinyl)
FUCKED UP “Chemistry of Common Life”
MATES OF STATE “Rearrange Us”
SPARKS “Exotic Creatures of the Deep”
BEACH HOUSE “Devotion”
LACKTHEREOF “Your Anchor”
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS “Flight of the Conchords”
Honorable Mention:
MAN MAN “Rabbit Habits “[just have to be in the mood]
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Narrow Stairs”[much potential, but haven't been able to listen enough to judge fairly]
PORTISHEAD “Third” [the whole vinyl fiasco was a pain in the bum]
LYKKE LI “Youth Novels [i just can't not love the first track]
FRIENDS OF RECKLESS...
BLAKE JUDD (NACHTMYSTIUM/ BATTLE KOMMAND RECORDS)
1. EARTH “The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull”
2. GENGHIS TRON “Board up the House”
3. TORCHE “Meanderthal”
4. WOVEN HAND “Ten Stones”
5. LEVIATHAN “Massive Conspiracy Against All Life”
ADAM REACH (Touch and Go Records, Production, lover of cats)
PORTISHEAD "Third”
MONOTONIX "Body Language
GUN OUTFIT "Your Will" 7”
DEAD MEADOW "Old Growth"
NODZZZ "I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana)" 7"
HIGH PLACES"S/T"
BLACK TAJ "Beyonder"
DEERHUNTER "Microcastle/Weird Era Cont."
SQUAREPUSHER "Just A Souvenir"
RED FAVORITE"S/T"
BROTHER JT 3 "Jelly Roll Gospel"
STEPHEN SOWLEY (Electrical Audio Studio Manager, Danny's doorman, former Reckless Employee, DJ &
Bingo MC)
HARVEY MILK “Life...The Best Game in Town”
BREEDERS “Mountain Battles”
EVANGELISTA “Hello Voyager”
“Let the Right One in” (Film)
EARTH “Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull”
KEVIN DRUMM “Imperial Distortion”
FOOD FOR ANIMALS “Belly”
“Wall-E” (Film)
IRON LUNG “Sexless/No Sex”
Basil Hayden Bourbon
GROUPER “Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill”
WINDY & CARL “Songs For The Broken Hearted”
DISFEAR “Live The Storm”
MY DISCO “Cancer”
THEE OH SEES (OCS) “The Masters Bedroom Is Worth Spending The Night in”
2562 “Aerial”
Roscoe's Chicken N' Waffles: Los Angeles
NAKED ON THE VAGUE “S/T”
ENSLAVED “VERTEBRAE”
SUNN O))) “Domkirke”
V/A “African Scream Contest”
MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
Soundway's awesome examination of '70s Nigerian music
CHRIS CONNELLY “Concrete, Bullet Proof, Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock” (book)
FENNESZ “The Black Sea”
STEPHEN COLBERT “I am America, and So Can You” Audiobook Version
Little Things--
SEX VID “Nests” 7" & “Communal Living” 12"
MAYYORS “S/T” 7" & “Megan's LOLZ” 7"
BOTTOMLESS PIT “Congress” 12"
NODDZ “I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana)” 7"
COLD CAVE “Trees Grew Emotions And Died” 12"
MI AMI “African Rhythms” 12"
DOUBLE NEGATIVE “S/T” 7"
FUCKED UP “Crooked Head” 7"
VIVIAN GIRLS “Wild Eyes” 7"
Live Things:
EX & GETACHEW MEKURIA (Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago)
HARVEY MILK (Canadian Building, Los Angeles)
ATP NY (Kutshers, Monticello, NY)
STARS OF THE LID (Lakeshore Theater, Chicago)
DEAD C (Empty Bottle, Chicago)
SEX VID (Beat Kitchen, Chicago)
THE THING (Hideout, Chicago)
FOOD FOR ANIMALS/ MI AMI (AV Aerie, Chicago)
TAYLOR BRODE's alphabetical nepotism (Touch and Go Records, sales)
ALL THE SAINTS “Fire On Corridor X”
BLANK DOGS “In a Web” 7”fans of shit gaze & glue wave take note-- this is the ONLY band whose name you will ever need to know post 2008.
BLANK DOGS “Mirror Lights” Cassette
BLANK DOGS “Diana the Herald” 12”
BLANK DOGS “Two Months” 7”
BLANK DOGS “Yellow Mice Asleep” e.p.
CRYSTAL STILTS “Alight of Night”
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE “Christmas for the Crows”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle/ Weird Era Continued”
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING “Primary Colours”
FUCKED UP “The Chemistry of Common Life” Seventy guitar tracks might look self-indulgent on another band. Somehow these geniuses pull it off, er should I say, continue to pull it off. i even like the pop punk song w/ the douche chills guyliner guest vocalist. Fuck it, i especially like this song.
GANG GANG DANCE “Saint Dymphna”
GUN OUTFIT “S/T” 7” This is the flannel you’ve been waiting for.
KURT VILE “Constant Hitmaker” No matter how many inches of snow and sleet are on the ground outside, playing the first track on this record is guaranteed to make you feel like you’re smoking a j-bone in the Caribbean and that you really are gonna have a functional relationship with your ex.
NAKED ON THE VAGUE “Blood Pressure Sessions”
NUDGE “Infinity Padlock” e.p. Brian Foote is the dude behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. He is the Wizard, or possibly Oz, whichever one of those is more enigmatic, he’s that one.
SEX VID “Communal Living” 12” If this band stopped releasing live records that sound like my cat w/ bronchitis they would pretty much be perfect.
THESE ARE POWERS “Taro Tarot” e.p.
VSS “Nervous Circuits” reissue
JEFF CAMPAGNA (Forced Exposure distribution, sales)
“I'm quite an old-school romantic that thinks the heart and emotion of the music is what matters and that is what I listen out for, not the style. The characteristics and virtues I most cherish are when a music-maker can express an all-round character with integrity, a complete universe that thrives on its own. When it elevates above all styles.” - Björk
Top Albums
AARON DILLOWAY & C. SPENCER YEH “Thee Squid”
AIDAN BAKER AND TIM HECKER “Fantasma Parastasie”
ANGEL “Kalmuki”
APSE “Spirit”
BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA “Passing Out”
BORKO “Celebrating Life”
COLDPLAY ”Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends”
COLIN MELOY “Sings Live!”
DEERHUNTER “Microcastle”/”Weird Era Continued”
ELUDER “The Most Beautiful Blue”
EMILIANA TORRINI “Me and Armini”
FENNESZ “Black Sea”
FOTHERINGAY “2”
HJALTALIN “Sleepdrunk Seasons”
J SPACEMAN & MATTHEW SHIPP “Spaceshipp”
JACASZEK “Treny”
JAMES “Hey-Ma”
JASPER TX “Black Sleep”
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON “Fordlândia”
KEVIN DRUMM “Imperial Distortion”
KOEN HOLTKAMP “Field Rituals”
LAURA VEIRS “Two Beers Veirs”
LAWRENCE ENGLISH “Kiri No Oto”
MACHINEFABRIEK “Mort Aux Vaches”
MILIEU “A Warm Wooden Hollow/Smokebuilder's Woodshop”
NADJA/AIDAN BAKER/LEAH BUCKAREFF “Trinitarian”
NINE INCH NAILS “Ghosts I-IV”
Ø “Oleva”
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS “Eulogy for Evolution”
OMIT “Interceptor”
PETER BRODERICK “Float”
PETAR DUNDOV “Escapements”
PHANTOM ORCHARD “Orra”
PHILIP GLASS “Music In Twelve Parts”
POCAHAUNTED “Chains”
ROD MODELL “Incense & Black Light”
RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS “Cardinology”
SIGUR RÓS “Med Sud I Eryum Vid Spilum Endalaust”
SIN FANG BOUS “Clangour”
SOCCER COMMITTEE & MACHINEFABRIEK “Drawn”
SONS OF THE DRAGON “Sons Of The Dragon”
SVARTE GREINER “Man Bird Dress”
THE CURE “4:13 Dream”
THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND “13 Blues For Thirteen Moons”
THOM YORKE “The Eraser Remixed”
V/A “A Cleansing Ascensio”
V/A “Spire Live - Fundamentalis”
WILLITS + SAKAMOTO “Ocean Fire”
XELA “In Bocca Al Lupo”
YELLOW SWANS “Psychic Secession”
Misc picks
BJÖRK “Wanderlust” 2X12”
FM3 “Buddha Machine II
JANDEK “Manhattan Tuesday” DVD
NURSE WITH WOUND “Images/Zero Mix” Book w/ CD
PAN SONIC “Kuvaputki” DVD
Top Reissues
808 STATE “Quadrastate”
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN “The BBC Sessions”
CHRIS CORSANO “The Young Cricketer”
DAVY GRAHAM “Folk, Blues & Beyond...”
DREDD FOOLE “Kissing The Contemporary Bliss”
GAS “Nah Und Fern”
IN CAMERA “Open Air”
JADE “Fly On Strangewings”
KAREN DALTON “In My Own Time”
METALLICA “Ride the Lightning”
MICHEL CHION “Requiem”
POLE “1 2 3”
STEINSKI “What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective”
THE SMITHS “The Sound of the Smiths”
UNIVERS ZERO “Univers Zero”
V/A “African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro”
V/A “Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long”
V/A “Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days”
XHOL “Motherfuckers GmbH & Co. Kg”
YOSHI WADA “The Appointed Cloud”
Special Mention
Náttúra Concert: Reykjavik, Iceland with Ólöf Arnalds, Ghostigital, Sigur Rós and Björk (National Geographic World Music) Webcast
DRAG CITY RECORDS
MARYANNE AMACHER “ Sound Characters 2”
ERYKAH BADU “New Amerykah: Part One (Fourth World War)”
BEACH HOUSE “Devotion”
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM “Gift of Screws”
GLEN CAMPBELL “Meet Glen Campbell”
CIRCLE X “Prehistory” reissue
THE COASTERS “ There's a Riot Goin' On: The Coasters on Atco”
DJ SHADOW & CUT CHEMIST “Hard Sell (Encore)”
JOE E “Love Got In the Way”
EARLES & JENSEN “Just Farr A Laugh Vol. 1&2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever!”
FENNESZ “Black Sea”
GAS “Nah Und Fern”
GIRL TALK “Feed The Animals”
GUNS N ROSES “Chinese Democracy”
BOBBY HUTCHERSON “Head On” reissue
RYOJI IKEDA “Test Pattern”
AKIRA ISHIKAWA & COUNT BUFFALO UGANDA “Afurikan Rokku no Yoake” reissue
LIL WAYNE “Tha Carter III”
CHRIS McGREGOR “Brotherhood of Breath” reissue
GRACHAN MONCUR III “Evolution” reissue
POLE “1-2-3” reissue
PORTISHEAD “Third”
SHEARWATER “Rook”
SIC ALPS “A Long Way Around To A Shortcut”
SIC ALPS “U.S. EZ”
SPARKS “Exotic Creatures of the Deep”
STEINSKI “What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006”
GEBHARD ULLMANN “New Basement Research”
DENNIS WILSON “Pacific Ocean Blue” reissue
V/A “Bollywood Steel Guitar”
...and everything on Drag City central, natch
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12/01/2006
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Okay, it's not the most high tech system, but we do have gift certificates available on the site now in pre-defined amounts.
A couple great things about our gift certificates - they never expire, and we can look up your gift certificate in our system even if you have lost the physical copy. Please make sure we have a valid name for the recipient for this purpose. We will, however, leave the recipient name blank on the actual certificate unless it is being mailed to a different name & address or you request otherwise so that you can fill that out with a custom message if you desire.
If you have any difficulties, or you have a special request for how you want the gift certificate handled, you can also order them by phone or just give us the details in the comments section of the checkout form.
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