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Nomads – “Uptight”   LP  White Jazz
Flaming Sideburns – “Hallelujah Rock ‘N’ Roll”  LP  Bad Afro
Dictators – “D.F.F.D.”   LP  Norton
Thulsa Doom – “The Seats Are Soft, But The Helmet…”  LP  Big Dipper
Soundtrack Of Our Lives – “Behind The Music”  LP  Stickman
Radio Birdman – “The Essential”  LP  Sub Pop
Briefs – “Hit After Hit”  LP   Dirtnap
Wrench - “Oscillator Blues”  LP  Beard Of Stars
Greenleaf – Revolution Rock”  LP  Molten Universe
Tearjerkers - “Bad Mood Rising”  LP  SFTRI
Motorpsycho - “Barracuda”  LP  Stickman
Astroqueen – “Up In It”  CD  Pavement Music
New Town Animals – “Is Your Radio Active”  LP  Mint
Chargers Street Gang – “ Holy Bop The Apocalypse”  LP  Get Hip
Cherry Valence – “S/T”  LP  Estrus
Von Bondies – “ Lack Of Communication”  LP  SFTRI
Buff Medways – “This Is This”  LP  Vinyl Japan
The Monarchs – “Make Your Own Fun” CD  Shock
Hellacopters – "High Visibility"  LP  Sweet Nothing
Spencer P. Jones – "The Last Gasp"  LP  Spooky/Corduroy

Local Yokels

The Glads
Mouthpiece
Andrew Vincent
Greenfield Main

Easy Action – “S/T” Reptilian
The Tearjerkers – “Bad Mood Rising” SFTRI
The Murder City Devils – “Thelema” Sub Pop
The Detroit Cobras – “Life, Love & Leaving” SFTRI
Motorpsycho – “Barracuda”  Stickman
Rocket 455 – “Go To Hell” Get Hip
The Deadly Snakes – “I’m Not Your Soldier Anymore”  In The Red
The Nomads – “Uptight” White Jazz
The Peepshows – “Today We Kill…”  Burning Heart
The Dirtbombs – “Ultraglide In Black” In The Red 
The Zoobombs – “Bomb You Live” Teenage USA
Howe Gelb – “Confluence” Thrill Jockey
King Brothers – “S/T”  In The Red
Reigning Sound – “Break Up…Break Down”  SFTRI
The Richmond Sluts – “S/T” Disaster
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant – “Collection” Alive
The Screws – “Shake Your Monkey” In The Red
The Flaming Sideburns – “Hallelujah Rock ‘N’ Rollah”  Bad Afro

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1. Beachwood Sparks- Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)
2. Kepler - Fuck Fight Fail (Troubleman/Resonant)
3. Pernice Brothers- The World Won’t End (Ashmont)
4. Two-Minute Miracles- Volume II (Teenage USA)
5. Crooked Fingers- Bring On The Snakes (Warm)
6. The Gizmos (reissue)- 1976-1977 (Hate)
7. Tortoise- Standards (Thrill Jockey)
8. Blurtonia- s/t (Independent)
9. Alasdair Roberts- The Crook Of My Arm (Secretly Canadian)
10. Sadies- Tremendous Efforts (Bloodshot)
 

Von Bondies - Lack Of Communication   SFTRI
Royal City - Alone At The Microphone   Three Gut
The Briefs - Hit After Hit   Dirtnap
New Town Animals - Is Your Radio Active?   Mint
Chitlin Fooks - S/T   Palomine/Hidden Agenda
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black   In The Red
The Flaming Sideburns – “Hallelujah Rock ‘N’ Rollah”  Bad Afro
Detroit Cobras - Life, Love & Leaving   SFTRI
Five Horse Johnson - The No. 6 Dance   Smallstone
Howe Gelb - Confluence   Thrill Jockey
Shikasta - Gold  indie
Now Time Delegation - Watch For Today   In The Red
Reigning Sound - Break Up Break Down   SFTRI

Live Shows!

Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Knoxville Girls, Lazy Cowgirls, Federation X, Shikasta, Mouthpiece, The Bureaucrats, The Fleshtones, The Cynics, The Bellrays, Hacksaw....

For more Picks and other Nonsense check the"OFF THE BEATEN TRACK" site

Les Sequelles - Et Tant Pis Si Cela Vous Deplait
The Now Time Delegation - Watch For Today
Mama Guitar - In Mama Guitar Style
Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
The Buff Medways - This Is This
Deadly Snakes - I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore
The Legendary Invisible Men - Come Get Some
Golden Famile - S/T
Luke Doucet - Aloha Manitoba
The Sountrack Of Our Lives - Behind The Music
The Bevis Frond - Valedictory Songs
V/A - Nuggets box vol.2

1. The Stumblers at Bumpers Dec. 22. Already the set of the millenium (yes the current one, not the one just completed)
2. The 10th anniversary of the best music retaling experience in the RAFR universe; Birdman Sound
3. Everything Bryson
4. The John Westhaver "country" radio program
5. The end of "I'm no Dingo" on CKCU (How much Rheostatics & Inbreds can you tolerate?)
6. Lazy Cowgirls at Dominion - a band in the best & truest sense
7. Blue Mountain at The Black Sheep (Also a notable evening personally for overcoming my crush on Jim Bryson and conversing with him without stammering and feeling inadequate)
8. I have so far this year managed to avoid hearing or reading any of Gord Downie's poetry.
9. Bell Rays at Dominion
10. "Bob ate my homework"

King Brothers - King Brothers
Now Time Delegation - Watch for Today
Federation X - American Folk Horror
Andy G. and the Roller Kings - 10"
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
The Neatbeats - Everybody Need
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind the Music
Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease Down the Road
Smash Up Derby - Sound of Self-Defence
Golden Famile - Golden Famile
The Michelle Gun Elephant - Casanova Snake

Mr. (Nathaniel) Hurlow's Top Picks :

Tight Bros. -Lend You A Hand
Hot Pockets - Mess Of Fire
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind the Music
Mouthpiece - Tell It Like It Is
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Songs: Ohia - You Came To Me As A Ghost
Golden Famile - Golden Famile
Protex - Listening In
Smash Up Derby - Sound Of Self- Defence
The Statics - Original 1980 Punk Rock recordings 7"
Les Sexareenos - Out to Sea 7"
Rocket 455 - Go to Hell

Trip Hill - Takes From Oblivion Psyche Out
Bardo Pond - Dilate Matador
Dead Meadow - Howls From The Hills Tolotta
Mushroom - Foxy Music Innerspace
Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black In The Red
Robert Pete Williams - S/T Fat Possum
Greenleaf - Revolution Rock Molten Universe
Mark D - Silent Treatment Tee Pee
Tomahawk - S/T Ipecac
Oliver Klaus - 1967-70 Capt. Moze

Paul Pierlot's Top 2001 Albums

59 Times the Pain - Calling the Public (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
American Steel - Jagged Thoughts (Lookout)
Atom and His Package - Redefining Music (Hopeless)
The Beltones - Cheap Trinkets (TKO)
The Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Epitaph)
The Celibate Rifles - A Mid-Stream of Consciousness (Oracle)
DM Bob and the Deficits - Band's Ruin (Re-release)(Fanboy)
Jeff Dahl - Pancake 31 (Triple X)
The Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving (SFTRI)
Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills (TVT)
Howe Gelb - Confluence (Thrill Jockey)
The La Donnas - Complicated Fun (Scooch Pooch)
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
The Lillington's - The Backchannel Broadcast (Panic Button/Lookout)
Mensen - Delusions of Grandeur (Gearhead)
New Town Animals - Is Your Radio Active (Mint Records)
The Peepshows - Today We Kill...Tomorrow We Die (Burning Heart)
The Prowlers - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (Mad Butcher/KOB)
Radio Birdman - The Essential Radio Birdman (Sub Pop)
Reducers SF - Crappy Clubs and Smelly Pubs (TKO)
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds (Vagrant)
Thug Murder - The 13th Round (TKO)

A killer album that I somehow missed in 2000:
Leatherface - Horsebox (BYO)

Woody's (Mag Wheel) Top 10 of 2001

1) Spoon "Girls Can Tell" + "Love Ways" CDep on Merge Records
2) Pernice Brothers "World Won't End" Ashmont Records
3) Whiskeytown "Pneumonia" Lost Highway
4) Pilot to Gunner "Games at High Speeds" Gern Blandsten
5) Hey Mercedes "Everynight Fireworks" Vagrant
6) Dashboard Confessionals "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most" Vagrant
7) Get Up Kids "Eurdora" Vagrant
8) Tricky Woo "Les Sables Magiques" Sonic Unyon
9) Sunday's Best "Poised to Break" Polyvinyl
10) Owen "S/T" Polyvinyl

Jennifer Priest's Top 10 for 2K1:

1. Wrench: Oscillator Blues
2. The Dirtbombs: Ultraglide In Black
3. The Detroit Cobras: Life, Love and Leaving
4. The Delgators: Pound Down!
5. Les Sexareenos: 14 Frenzied Shakers
6. The Come Ons: Hip Check
7. The Deadly Snakes: I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore
8. Les Sequelles: Et Tant Pis Si Cela Vous Deplait
9. The Von Bondies: Lack Of Communication
10. The Real McKenzies: Loch'd And Loaded

These Fave-Raves Also Would Have Been On The List, But They're From 2000:
The Action Time: Versus The World
The Murder City Devils: In Name And Blood
The Raging Teens: Rock N' Roll Party
The Lazy Cowgirls: Somewhere Down The Line
The Knoxville Girls: In A Paper Suit

R.I.P. Award: (Hopefully there will be spin-off projects):
Slim Cessna's Auto Club

It's also a sadder world now that Joey Ramone is now gone.

Jen will be back on CKCU doin' "Minimum Wage" Fridays 7 'til 8PM !!!

Superchunk - Here's To Shutting Up (Merge)
- The light-weights will pan, but the hard-core fans get it...this album is killer.
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds (Vagrant)
- Rocket returns to circa 'Circa:Now' with horns and guitars blazing.
White Stripes - White Blood Cells (SFTRI)
- Tough to argue that this isn't the record of the year.
Mark Kozelek - What's Next to the Moon (Badman)
- Red House Painters front man gets intimate with acoustic guitars and classic AC/DC. Awesome.
Dead Moon - Trash and Burn (Empty)
Andrew Vincent and the Pirates - A Short Trip With the Pirates (Kelp)
- A highly anticipated record that didn't disappoint. the summer album of the year.
Kepler - Fuck Fight Fail (Resonant)
- This one was brilliant. just wait to you hear them in 2002.
Royal City - Alone At The Microphone (Threegut)
Richard Buckner - The Hill (Sixshooter)
Blurtonia - S/T (independent)

Biggest Disappointment:
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are (Vagrant)
- How can a band follow-up a killer LP like 'Through Being Cool' with such a homogenized milk spewing, suck-ass dud? I'm floored.

Most surprising LP: Rowland S. Howard, "Teenage Snuff Film"
- Howard sounds ominous and disturbed on this excellent double-LP.
Favorite punk LP: The Reds, "Its about time".
Weirdest CD: David Candy, "Play Power"
- Ian Svenonious (The Make Up, Nation of Ulysses) tells you where his favorite places are (museums, there is no pressure to buy anything), his favorite country (Brazil, playfully sexy), and gives you a desert recipe, over '60s style psychedelic-pop.
Craziest CD: Mr. Quintron, "The Unmasked Organ Light-Year of Inifinity Man"
- This nutty one man band (plus yells and puppet show provided by his partner Miss Pussycat) pounds out fun ditties on his Hammond organ.
Favorite French LP: Les Séquelles, "Et tant pis si cela vous déplaît"
- Great mix of yé yé and garage, even better when Stéphane and Stéphanie trade off on vocals. Also one of my favorite live shows of 2001 at Bumpers last September.
Favorite re-issue CD: Les Misérables, "L'intégrale"
- If you don't already know these guys, buy this now ! All of the songs recorded buy this great Rolling Stones - Pretty Things sounding band from Montréal from the mid-'60s.
Favorite re-issue LP: The Cramps, "Smell of female"
- A great live set, finally re-issued, on beautiful smello-yello. The sound is amazing ! The Cramps (with Congo Powers still on guitar) put in a wild set at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City in 1983. With extra tracks ! They do a cover of "Faster Pussycat, Kill ! Kill !" What more do you want ?!
Favorite Compilation: Nuggets II
- Save up your money and get this ! You can't go wrong.
Favorite Locals: Mouthpiece, The Glads, Weights and Measures.