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SCOTT T
BILL G
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Top 20 new in 2005
La Ira De Dios - Hacia El Sol Rojo Nasoni
Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Volume 1 Daredevil
The Hellacopters - Rock "N' Roll Is Dead Universal
Om - Variations On A Theme Holy Mountain
Golden Famile - Everyone Loves A Growler Music For Cats
Yawning Man - Rock Formations Alone
Circle - Tulikoira Elektro
Big Boss Man -Winner Blow Up
Joe Bataan -Call My Name Vampi Soul
Where The Moon Came From - Twin Of Pangea Nasoni
Black Mountain -S/T Scratch
The Double Pumpers - II indie
Banditas - S/T Last Drag
Brant Bjork & The Brothers - Saved By Magic Duna
Dexateens -Red Dust Rising Estrus
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Anthem Of The Space Elektro
Zone Six -Live Wired Nasoni
The Cherry Valence - TCV3 Bifocal
Black Boot Trio - Eternal Return Hassan's...
Sweatmaster - Tom Tom Bullet Bad Afro

Old & In The Way ( Re-Issues)
Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa Harvest
T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland Akarma
The Human Beast - Volume One Akarma
Pesky Gee - Exclamation Mark Earmark
Spids Nogenhat - En Maerkelig Kop Te Orpheus
Jacklin - Jacklin Earmark

Thee Ol' Aardvark rhymes some off.....

All Tomorrow's Party - Yoo Doo Right, Yoo Doo Slide Alive
The A-Lines - You Can Touch SFTRI
The Atomic Bitchwax - 3 Meteor City
Scott H. Biram - The Dirty Old One Man Band Bloodshot
The Bloody Hollies - If Footmen Tire You Alive
Harlan T. Bobo - Too Much Love Goner
Black Boot Trio - Eternal Return Hassan's
Brant Bjork & The Brothers - Saved By Magic Duna
The Bushpilots - Sonic Scenery indie
The Deadly Snakes - Porcella Paper Bag / ITR
Grey Delisle - Iron Flowers Sugar Hill
Dexateens -Red Dust Rising Estrus
Digger & The Pussycats - Watch Yr Back Spooky
Double Pumpers - II indie
Fiftymen - Balances & Sums indie
The Flaps - S/T Kelp
Golden Famile - Nobody Loves A Growler Music For Cats
Hard Lessons - Gasoline No Fun
Heartless Bastards - Stairs & Elevators Fat Possum
Heavy Trash - S/T Yep Roc
The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead Wild Kingdom
Les Hell On Heels - S/T Bomp
Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers - Have Knees Will Tremble Voodoo Rhythm
(International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love Burning Heart
John Lennox - Into The Bull's Shoulder indie
Lion Fever - Haunted Water Dim Mak
Lucero - Nobody's Darling indie
The Moaners - Dark Snack Yep Roc
Nickel Creek - Why Should The Fire Die? Sugar Hill
Jack O & The Tearjerkers - S/T SFTRI
Old Haunts - Fallow Field Kill Rock Stars
Reverend Glasseye - Our Lady Of The Broken Spine Music For Cats
John Schooley And His One Man Band - S/T Voodoo Rhythm
Les Sequelles - Tes Chansons Cruelles Dionysus
Thee Shams - Sign The Line Shake It
The Sights - S/T Sweet Nothing
Sons & Daughters - Repulsion Box Domino
South Filthy - Crackin' Up Rockin' Bones
Stoneage Hearts - Guilty As Sin Alive
Sweatmaster - Tom Tom Bullet Bad Afro
Turpentine Brothers - We Don't Care About Your Good Times Alive
Volebeats - Like Her Turquoise Mountain
Weird War – Illuminated by the Light Drag City
Yawning Man - Rock Formations Alone
Yellow #5 - Demon Crossing Scat

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DARRELL ANGUS (GOLDEN FAMILE) Counts down:

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IMMORTAL LEE COUNTY KILLERS 3
THESE BONES WILL RISE TO LOVE YOU AGAIN
TEE PEE

2) Nada Surf “The Weight is a Gift” Barsuk
A beautiful, flawless record from these pop masters.

3) Greg Dulli “Amber Headlights” Infernal
Mr. Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers solo stuff collected over the years.

4) Bloc Party “Silent Alarm” Vice/Dim Mak
I just could not stop listening to this record. Catchy as hell!

5) Paint It Black “Paradise” Jade Tree
Think Black Flag, Blast, Poison Idea. Heavy.

6) Sun Kil Moon “Tiny Cities” Caldo Verde
Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters returns with an all Modest Mouse covers album.

7) Coheed and Cambria “Good Apollo I’m Burning” Columbia
Heavy, catchy, slightly cheesey metal Rush, but I’m hooked.

8) Get Up Kids “Live” Vagrant
Greatest Hits but faster.

9) V/A “Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland” Vagrant
Hot Snakes doing G.I., Thursday covering Buzzcocks, and much more. Classic punk by some present fine bands.

10) Lucero “Nobody’s Darlings” + “Dreaming in America” Live/DVD East West
2 albums showcasing this Replacements meets Whiskeytown alt. country punk band.

HEATHER OSBORN (ROCK THE BOAT) Hangs ten.
Tuesdays 1 to 3 PM CKCU FM

1) (as in #1 hands down) Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators

next five in no order:
2) Carlangas - both Blues and the Ivory Breast, and its companion
3) Flecton - Never Took a Wife
4) Golden Famile - Nobody Loves a Growler
5) (Advanced, Unreleased, Didn't Really Hear it Copy of) Four 'n' Giv'r
6) (Advanced, Unreleased, Didn't Really Hear it Copy of) Weapons of Mass Seduction

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Woah only 4 choices left, and you thought I was stroking the egos of my friends? Nope, truth is we got it good here and sometimes it's just a matter of realizing it. As the cookie crumbles/as the snow falls.

7) Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - Open (this is an '04 re-issue but they've re-released more in '05 of both the Julie and the Brian so I figure those must be equally good. If pressed, I can choose those even though I haven't heard them.) ...This album got me through some long walks through some cold times on the way to work at the station last year. You'd think trudging through slush and frozen accumulation would be a bad thing but I felt like I was on the top of the world. Poor little ducks under the bridge, though. Don't feed the birds, they may opt not to leave! One day it was minus 30-something and the snow was coming down side-ways in harsh pricks and I gave in and tossed them my banana pancake left over from breakfast and intended for lunch. I certainly don't regret it, poor duckies.

8) Black Lipstick - Sincerely, Black Lipstick

9) Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

10) Black Mountain - s/t

BIJON ROY (SUNDAY NIGHT MIND MELT)
alternate sundays 11PM on CKCU FM

Some of the great new albums coming to my attention in 2005:

- 35007 -- Phase V [Stickman]
- Acid Mothers Temple -- IAO Chant From The Cosmic Inferno [Ace Fu]
- Dead Meadow -- Feathers [Matador]
- Dungen -- Ta Det Lungt [Subliminal Sounds]
- Earthless -- Sonic Prayer [Gravity]
- Elevator -- August [Bluefog]
- Hrsta -- Stem Stem In Electro [Constellation]
- Liquid Visions -- From The Cube [Fünfundvierzig]
- Modey Lemon -- The Curious City [Birdman]
- Om -- Variations On A Theme [Holy Mountain]
- Oneida -- The Wedding [Jagjaguar]
- Zone Six -- Live Wired 2004 [Nasoni]

Some of the great reissues coming to my attention in 2005:

- Agitation Free -- 2nd [Amber Soundroom (Vertigo 1973)]
- Asoka -- Asoka [Mellotronen (Sonet? 1971)]
- Julie Driscoll,Brian Auger & The Trinity -- Open [Earmark (Atco 1967)]
- Egg -- The Polite Force [Eclectic (Deram 1971)]
- Fifty Foot Hose -- Cauldron [Radioactive (Limelight 1968)]
- Flower Travellin' Band -- Satori [Radioactive (Atlantic 1971)]
- Funkadelic -- Funkadelic [Westbound (Westbound 1970)]
- Groundhogs -- Thank Christ For The Bomb [Akarma (Liberty 1970)]
- Randy Holden -- Population II [Hobbit (1969)]
- Khan -- Space Shanty [Eclectic (Deram 1972)]
- May Blitz -- The 2nd Of May [Akarma (Vertigo 1971)]
- Leigh Stephens -- Red Weather [Akarma (Philips 1969)]

Some of the great "old" albums first coming to my attention in 2005 (missed until now, for whatever reason):

- Bardo Pond -- Amanita [Matador (1996)]
- Blue Oyster Cult -- Tyranny And Mutation [Columbia (1972)]
- Can -- Delay 1968 [Spoon (1968)]
- Faust -- So Far [Polydor (1972)]
- Guru Guru -- KanGuru [Brain (1972)]
- Heads -- The Time Is Now [Man's Ruin (1998)] & Sessions 02 [Rocket (2002)]
- Marble Sheep Meets Circle Triangle Square -- S/T [Fünfundvierzig (2002)]
- Orange Sunshine -- Homo Erectus [Motorwolf (2001)]
- Pharoah Sanders -- Tauhid [Impulse! (1966)]
- Pink Fairies -- Neverneverland [Polydor (1971)]
- Spacious Mind -- Garden Of A Well-Fed Head [Lone Starfighter (1998)]
- Sun Ra -- Lanquidity [Philly Jazz (1978)]

Strangest album heard in 2005:
Bobby Brown -- The Enlightening Beam Of Axonda [Akarma (1972)]

Best re-discoveries in 2005:
Black Sabbath -- Master Of Reality [Earmark(Warner 1971)]
Freddie Hubbard -- Straight Life [CTI (1970)]

Album cover dude bearing the most disturbingly uncanny resemblance to me:
Badui, from Carlito e Badui -- Os Reis Do Batidão [Chantecler]

CAITLIN CROCKARD (free-lance music journalist)
Records that hardly left my stereo in 2005

Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Fighting and Onions (Shoutin' Abner Pim)
Angels of Light & Akron Family - Angels of Light & Akron Family (Young God)
Black Mountain - Black Mountain (Scratch)
Deadly Snakes - Porcella (Paper Bag)
The Flaps - The Flaps (Kelp)
Harris Newman - Accidents with Nature and Each Other (Strange Attractors)
Old Time Relijun - 2012 (K)
Marc Ribot - Spiritual Unity (Pi)
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop)
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Nostalgia/Pain (Constellation)

DICK ALTAVISTA’s (BOTH KINDS OF MUSIC) Best of 2005
Wednesdays 1:30 to 3:30 PM on CKCU FM

Dick's Sweet 16:
Black Boot Trio, Eternal Return, Hassan’s Rumpuss Room
Nick Danger and the Danger City Rebels, The Return of Nick Danger, The Beautiful Music
The Moaners, Dark Snack, Yep Roc
The Dirtbombs, If You Don’t Already Have A look, In The Red
The Double Pumpers, II
The Sealevel, Beach from Last Summer, Firestation Records
Reigning Sound, Home For Orphans, SFTRI
Jack O. & the Tearjerkers, Don’t Throw your Love Away, SFTRI
The Bigger Lovers, This Affair Never Happened…And Here Are Eleven Songs About It, Yep Roc
Laura Cantrell, Humming By The Flowered Vine, Matador
Fiftymen, Balances+Sums
V/A, If I Could Write Poetry(a tribute to the Television Personalities), The Beautiful Music
The Golden Famile, Nobody Loves A Growler, Music For Cats Records
Four ’N’ Giv’r, 11 song demo
The Deadly Snakes, Porcella, Paper Bag Records
The Farmers, Loaded, Clarence Records

Asleep at the Wheel Pick: best record I didn’t hear from 2003:
Warren Zanes, Memory Girls, Dualtone

Best Reissue Series:
Love, Peace & Poetry, Normal Records survey of Psychedelic Music from all over the place.
I have six: Mexico,America, Latin America, Japan,Turkey & Africa. Each one is killer! I kid you not. And even better there are two more I don’t have yet.

MAT"Stateside" MOUTARD, Most Spun:

The D4 – Out of My Head Flying Nun
Kinski – Alpine Static Sub Pop
Heartless Bastards – Stairs and Elevators Fat Possum
Thee Shams – Sign The Line Shake It
Coachwhips – Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge Narnack
The Greenhornes – East Grand Blues V2
Turbonegro – Party Animals Burning Heart
The Dexateens – Red Dust Rising Estrus
The Bassholes – Dead Canary Presents the Bassholes Dead Canary
Vic du Monte’s Idiot Prayer – Prey for the City Black Waxx
Weird War – Illuminated by the Light Drag City
Guitarwolf – Loverock – Narnack
Le Nombre – Scénario Catastrophe – Blow the Fuse
Blackfire Revelation – Gold and Guns on 51 Southern Reconstruction
The Kills – No Wow Rough Trade
Reigning Sound – Live at Maxwell’s Spoonful
Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose Interscope
Human Eye – S/T In The Red
Harlan T. Bobo – Too Much Love Goner
The Fall – The Real New Fall LP, Formerly Country on the Click Narnack

WILLIAM GUERRERO (WEAPONS..., EXPATRIATES)
currently hosting "Bob Ate My Homework" Mondays 2-4 PM on CKCU FM

A random assortment of coolness out of the ashes of 2005:

Favourite 2005 records from Non-Ottawans (in no order):
The Buff Medways "Medway Wheelers"
Hipbone Slim & the Knee Tremblers "Have Knees, Will Tremble"
Immortal Lee County Killers "These Bones Will Rise to Love You Again"
Black Mountain S/T
John Schooley "... and His One-Man Band"
King Khan & BBQ "The King Khan & BBQ Show"
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings "Naturally"
Turpentine Brothers "We Don't Care About Your Good Times"


Best records from these parts:
Double Pumpers: "II"
Golden Famile: "Nobody Loves a Growler"
Banditas: S/T
Black Boot Trio: "Eternal Return"
Fiftymen: "Balances and Sums"

Nice to See you Again: Discoveries and Re-discoveries
Deja Voodoo "The Worst Of..."
Forgotten Rebels "This Aint Hollywood"
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa '70 w/ Ginger Baker
Rush "Permanent Waves" (I'm not kidding: I actually spent a lot of this year in awe of 'Natural Science'. What, exactly, is wrong with me?)

Great Moments in Modesty 2005:
Immortal Lee County Killers/Double Pumpers - July 10 2005
Following a smokin' set by the Double Pumpers, one J. Feck steps up to the mic to introduce the evening's headliners, ILCK, and stops to mention that the 'Killers' new record will soon be available at better record stores in town. To which one D. Martindale, guitar hero and occassional bandana enthusiast of the the aforementioned Double Pumpers quipped "BIRDMAAAAAN!". Our intrepid Master of Ceremonies paused only briefly to reflect on the thunderous nature of the ensuing comment, and, taking the reaction in stride, simply said "Well, yeah."

Stuff to look forward to in 2006:
New music from Yogi's new studio (still in need of a name, as far as I know - help the guy out, would ya?)
Four 'n' Giv'r - debut album? I'm in! Could be released before the end of the year? Maybe!

ANDREW CARVER
National Capital Rock (www.natcaprock.blogspot.com)

Some records in no particular order, not including the ones I forgot …
Martha Wainright – Self-titled Zoe
Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno – Anthem of the Space Elektro
River City Tanlines - All 7 Inches Plus 2 More Dirtnap
Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow XL
High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings Relapse
Sunn O))) – Black One Southern Lord
The Drones – Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By ATP
Black Mountain – Self-titled Scratch
Blackavar – Self-titled Transsiberian
Jack O and the Tearjerkers – Don’t Throw Your Love Away SFTRI
Sunburned Hand of The Man – No Magic Man Manhand
Carlangas – Blues and the Ivory Breast Lodge Facility Productions
Circle – Forest No Quarter
Lau Nau – Kuutarha Locust
Golden Famile – Nobody Loves a Growler Music for Cats
Clark the Band – The Woods Zunior
Jeen O’Brien – Sixties Sostarstruck
Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower Drag City
The Double Pumpers – II Self-released
The Wedding Present – Take Fountain Manifesto
Reigning Sound – Home For Orphans SFTRI
The Banditas – Self-titled Last Drag

* background photo of the guitar (also) by Andrew Carver

I am pretty sure I am going to totally love The Fiftymen as soon as I get it, I have heard parts of it at Barrymores but I just don’t actually have the record yet.