Yer
2008's : Feck .... Aardvark
.... McIntyre .... McKinnon .... Shanks
.... Carver .... Hong .... Kirkland
.... Whelan .... Roy .... AltaVista
.... Brooks ....
2007 .... 2006
.... 2005 .... 2004 ....
2003 .... 2002 ....
2001 .... 2000
John's
2008 Top Picks
Ancestors - Neptune With Fire North (Atlantic Sound) LP
Brant Bjork - Punk Rock Guilt (Low Desert Punk) LP
Black Mountain - Into The Future (Jagjaguwar) LP
Blood Ceremony - S/T (Rise Above) LP
Boris - Smile (Southern Lord) LP
Burning Saviours - Nymphs & Weavers (Blood Rock) LP
Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light (Kranky) LP
Colour Haze - All (Elektrohasch) LP
Julian Cope - Black Sheep Head (Heritage) CD
Dungen - 4 (Subliminal Sounds) LP
Earth - Bees Made Honey Inside... (Southern Lord) LP
Eden Express - Que Amors Que (Holy Mountain) LP
Endless Boogie - Focus Level (No Quarter) LP
H.Espvall/M.Batoh - S/T (Drag City) LP
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness(Bo'Weavil) LP
Grails - Take Refuge In The Clean (Important) LP
Grails - Doomsdayers Holiday Temporary Residence LP
Grand Magus - Iron Will Rise Above LP
Graveyard - S/T Tee Pee LP
Hellacopters - Head Off Wild Kingdom LP
El Hombre Mysterioso - (Nasoni) LP
Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend Birdman LP
Linus Pauling Quartet - All Things Are Light Camera Obscura LP
M.Mucci - Under The Tulip Tree Tall House Recording Co. CD
Nebula - Peel Sessions (Sweet Nothing) LP
Oresund Space Collective - Inside Your Head Sulatron CD
Pack - Funeral Mix Tape Mint LP
Plastic Crimewave Sound - S/T Eclipse LP
Pontiak - Sun On Sun Thrill Jockey LP
Wayne Rogers - Infinite For Now Twisted Village LP
Sienna Root - Far From The Sun Headspin LP
Space Debris - Elephant Moon Indie LP
Sword - Gods Of The Earth Kemado LP
Sunn O)) - Domkirke (Southern Lord) LP
Alexander Tucker - Portal ATP LP
Ufomammut - Idolum Supernatural Cat LP
Vibravoid - The Politics Of Ecstasy Nasoni LP
Zaphire Oktalogue - S/T (Nasoni) LP
Aardvark
Andre Williams
& The New Orleans Hellhounds – Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot)
Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines (Ecstatic Peace)
Brant Bjork – Punk Rock Guilt (Low Desert Punk)
Brimstone Howl – We Came In Peace (Alive)
Buffalo Killers – Let It Ride (Alive)
Double Agents – Seemed Like A Good Idea (Beast)
Double Pumpers – Old Gold (Music For Cats) CC
Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves - Roll With You (Q Division)
Evil Farm Children - II: The Evilling (Dad's Favorite) CC
Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
Five Dollar Priest – S/T (Bang)
Flecton Big Sky – The Bright Side Of Dying (Kelp) CC
Garaga – S/T (indie) CC
Gunsmoke - From Somewhere - (Inside My Brain Records) CC
Holy Cobras – Make Pyramids (Telephone Explosion) CC
Jay Crocker – Below The Ocean Over (ArtUnit) CC
Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers – S/T (Bang)
Jolie Holland – The Living And The Dead (Anti)
Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds (Cass/Sub Pop)
Lynne Hanson – Eleven Months (indie) CC
M. Mucci – Under The Tulip Tree (The Tall House) CC
Man Man – Rabbit Habits (Anti)
Marianne Dissard – L'Entredeux (Le Pop Musik)
Nomo – Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
Possessed By Paul James - Cold & Blind (Voodoo Rhythm)
Ronnie Hayward w/ Five Star Homeless – The Hobo Son (Smokin' Ace) CC
Sedatives – S/T (Going Gaga) CC
Spencer P. Jones feat. The Escape Committee – Fugitive Songs (Bang)
Spindrift – The West (Beat The World)
Suppositories – Moments Of Square Violence (Reprise? Really?) CC
The B-Sides – Wreck In Heaven (Goodbye Boozy) CC
The Donkeys – Living On The Other Side (Dead Oceans)
The Ettes – Look At Life Again Soon (Take Root)
The Pack AD – Funeral Mixtape (Mint) CC
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band – The Whole Fam Damnily (Side One
Dummy)
The Visitors - Lost On The Globe (indie) CC
The White Wires - Girly Girly Girly (Going Gaga) CC
Thomas Function – Celebration – (Alive)
Tom Fun Orchestra – You Will Land With A Thud (Company House) CC
Trevor Alguire – Thirty Year Run (indie) CC
Vivian Girls – S/T (In The Red)
MARK
McINTYRE
Top Ten Albums of 2008
Ludella Black & The Masonics
– From This Witness Stand (Damaged Goods)
Dungen – 4 (Subliminal Sounds)
Helena Espvall & Masaki Botoh (Drag City)
Josephine Foster – This Coming Gladness (Bo Weevil)
Ron Franklin - S/T (Alive)
Graham Day and the Gaolers – Triple Distilled (Damaged Goods)
Pete Molinari – A Virtual Landslide (Damaged Goods)
Otis Optic and the Optic People (Nasoni)
Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds (Cass/Sub Pop)
ST Mikael – In Harmony (Subliminal Sounds)
Top Five Compilations of 2008
In Kraut Volume 3 (Marina)
Nigeria Rock Special (Soundway)
Nigeria Special Volumes 1 & 2 (Soundway)
Obsession (Bully)
Soul Messages From Dimona (Numero)
Top Five Reissues
Animated Egg –
ST (Sundazed)
Billy Childish and The Blackhands – Play Captain Calypso’s Hoodoo
Party (Damaged Goods)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Burrito Deluxe (4 Men With Beards)
Fraser and Delbolt w/ Ian Guenther (Fallout)
Mayo Thompson – Corky’s Debt To His Father (Drag City)
Mary
MacKinnon
Recordings of 2008:
Avarus: Kirppujen Saari (LP, Arbor)
Black Mountain: In the Future (LP, Jagjaguwar)
Julian Cope: Black Sheep (CD, Head Heritage)
Josephine Foster: This Coming Gladness (LP, BoWeavil)
Fred Frith: To Sail, To Sail (CD, Tzadik)
Kemialliset Ystavat/Sunroof: Split Series (LP, FatCat)
Kinski/Bardo: Master of the Universe/Lord of Light (7”, Trensmat)
Lau Nau: Nuukuu (LP, Locust)
Merzbow: Sonar Dolphin (CD, Important)
Oneida: Heads Ain’t Ready (7”, These are Not Records)
Michael Snow, Alan Licht, Aki Onda: Five A’s, [etc] (CD, Victo)
Spires that in the Sunset Rise: Curse the Traced Bird (LP, Secret Eye)
Windy Weber: I Hate People (LP, Kenedik)
music percolating
through to 2008:
Kathleen Baird: Lullaby for Strangers (CD, 2006, Secret Eye)
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On (1971, Tamla)
Isis: s/t (1973, Buddah)
Wilson Pickett: The Wicked Pickett (1966, Atlantic)
Patti Smith: 12 (2007, Columbia)
Ike and Tina Turner: The Hunter (1970, Blue Thumb)
Zephyr: s/t (1970, Probe )
events of 2008:
February 28: Alarm will Sound: a/rhythmia @ Carnegie Hall
February 29: Oneida, Oakley Hall, Company @ Knitting Factory
March 1: Gary Lucas’ Gods & Monsters @ Bowery Poetry Club
March: LaMonte Young: Dream House
June 4: Spires + Josef van Wissem @ Casa del Popolo
June 7: Oneida + Carla Bozulich Evangelista @ Sala Rossa
June 18: Duquesne Incline funicular: Pittsburgh
June 19-21: Plastic Crimewave Sound, Linus Pauling Quartet, Espvall/Batoh, Oneida,
Kinski, Bardo Pond, Grails, Motorpsycho, Sapat, Paik, Kawabata: Melwood Arts
Centre, Louisville KY
July: A. Belew, Richard Thompson, Seun Kuti, Ray Davies @ Bluesfest
July 26: Terry Riley @ Bang on A Can Marathon
July 30: Gryphon Trio perf. Arvo Part @ Museum of Civilization
August 16: Country Joe MacDonald @ Ottawa Folk Festival
August 24: Pete Seeger, Knitters, Charlie Hayden Family, Patti Smith @ Damrosch
Park – Lincoln Centre
December 15: Flower Travellin’ Band @ Revival Bar
Patrick
Shanks Top 2008
Fuad and The Feztones
- Beeramid (Ricochet)
The Midways - Manners, Manners (Screaming Apple)
Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild (Vapor)
Krista Muir - Accidental Railway (Indica)
The Chesterfield Kings - Psychedelic Sunrise (Wicked Cool)
Go Slowpoke! - All My Friends Are Good People
Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide (Damaged Goods)
Milie Croche - 1001 Breakup Songs
The Evaporators - Gassy Jack and Other Tales (Mint/Nardwuar)
Push Button Auto - Like A Nerve
The Cozmik Cuzinz - Suicidal Spiders e.p.
Andrew
Carver
Trevor Alguire, 30 Year Run (self-released)
Aidan Baker and Tim Hecker, Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
Chris Bathgate, A Cork Tale Wake (Tangled Up)
Beach House, Devotion (Car Park)
Black Mountain, In the Future (Jagjaguwar)
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Boris, Smile (Southern Lord)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Sunday At Devil Dirt (Fontana)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! (Mute)
Chesterfield Kings, Psychedelic Sunrise (Wicked Cool)
Cloudland Canyon, Lie In Light (Kranky)
Crystal Antlers, Crystal Antlers (Touch and Go)
Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Continued (Kranky)
Dr. Dog, Fate (Park the Van)
Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
Dungen, 4 (Kemado)
Earthless, Live At Roadburn (Tee Pee)
Endless Boogie, Focus Level (No Quarter)
Evangelista, Hello Traveller (Constellation)
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop)
Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
Geisha, Die Verbrechen der Liebe (Crucial Blast)
Gnaw Their Tongues, Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood (Crucial Blast)
Gutter Twins, Saturnalia (Sub Pop)
Harvey Milk, Life...The Best Game in Town (Hydra Head)
Hellacopters, Head Off (Wild Kingdom)
Krallice, Krallice (Profound Lore)
Sharron Kraus, Meg Baird & Helena Espvall, Leaves From Off The Tree (Bo’Weavil)
Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
Leviathan, Massive Conspiracy Against All Human Life (Moribund)
The Linus Pauling Quartet, All Things Are Light (Camera Obscura)
Moss, Sub Templum (Rise Above)
M. Mucci, Under The Tulip Tree (Tall House Recording Co.)
Muffler Crunch, Arc (Last Drag)
Nachtmystium, Assassins - Black Meddle Part I (Century Media)
Jennifer O’Connor, Here With Me (Matador)
Pentemple, Sunno))) Presents (Southern Lord)
Jay Reatard, Matador Singles ’08 (Matador)
RTX, JJ Got Live RaTX (Drag City)
Shearwater, Rook (Matador)
Sic Alps, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)
The Society of Imaginary Friends, Sadness Is a Bridge to Love (Soifmusic)
Sloan, Parallel Play (Yep Roc)
The Starlite Desperation, Talke It Personally (Infrasonic)
Kelley Stoltz, Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Sunno))), Domkirke (Southern Lord)
Torche, Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
Kurt Vile, Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher)
Martha Wainright, I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (Zoe)
The Walkmen, You & Me (Gigantic)
White Wires, Girly Girly Girly (Gaga Records)
Rereleases
Big Dipper, Supercluster (Merge)
Jim Ford, Point of No Return (Bear Family)
Robyn Hitchcock, Luminous Groove (Yep Roc)
Bettye Lavette, Tell Me A Lie (Universal)
Nick Lowe, Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc)
Milk’n’Cookie, Milk’n’Cookies (Radio Heartbeat)
Linda Perhacs, Parallelograms (Sunbeam)
The Philisteins, A Savage Affection (Off The Hip)
Raven, Back to Ohio Blues (Owl Recording Studios)
Rodriguez, Cold Fact (Light In the Attic)
Soggy, Soggy (Memoire Neuve)
Soul Messengers, Soul Messages From Dimona (Numero)
Steinski: What Does It All Mean? Retrospective 1983-2006 (Illegal Art)
Meic Stevens, Gwymon (Sunbeam)
Titan: It's All Pop! (Numero)
Sir Victor Uwaifo, Guitar-Boy Superstar, 1970-76 (Soundway)
Neil Young, Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968 (Reprise)
VSS, Nervous Circuits (Hydra Head)
RON
HONG Top 50 albums of 2008
1. Acid Mothers Temple
& The Melting Paraiso U.F.O : Cometary Orbital Drive – Bambalam F
2. Ancestors : Neptune With Fire – North Atlantic Sound
3. Baby Charles : S/T – Record Kicks
4. Ron Franklin : S/T - Alive
5. Black Mountain : Into The Future – Jagjaguwar
6. Blood Ceramony : S/T – Rise Above
7. Boris : Smile – Southern Lord
8. Brant Bjork : Punk Rock Guilt – Low Desert Punk
9. Brimstone Howl : We Came In Peace – Alive
10. Buffalo Killers : Let It Ride – Alive
11. Burning Saviours : Nymphs & Weavers – Transubtans
12. Cloudland Canyon : Lie In Light – Kranky
13. Colour Haze : All – Elektrohasch
14. Come ‘N’ Go : 2 – Voodoo Rythm
15. Dragontears : Tambourine Freakmachine – Bad Afro
16. Dungen : 4 – Subliminal Sounds
17. Elder : S/T – Meteor City
18. Endless Boogie : Focus Level – No Quarter
19. The Ettes : Look At Life Again Soon – Infrasonic
20. Five Dollar Priest : S/T – Bang!
21. Graveyard : S/T – Tee Pee
22. Grand Magus : Iron Will – Rise Above
23. Grails : Doomsdayer’s Holiday – Temporary Residence
24. Grails : Take Refuge In Clean Living – Importance
25. Graham Day & The Gaolers : Triple Distilled – Damaged Goods
26. Hank III : Damm Right , Rebel Proud – Curb
27. Hellacopters : Heads Off - Psychout
28. Helena Espvall & Maski Batoh : S/T – Drag City
29. Howling Rain : Magnificiant Rain – Birdman
30. Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers : S/T – Bang!
31. Julian Cope : Black Sheep – Head Heritage
32. Kings Of Frog Island : II – Elektrohasch
33. La Ira Dios : Cosmos Kaos Destruction – World In Sound
34. Miss Ludella Black : From The Witness Stand – Damaged Goods
35. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : Dig Lazarus Dig – Mute
36. New Mastersounds : Plug & Play – One Note Records
37. Old Crow Medicine Show : Tennessee Pusher – Nettwerk
38. Oneida : Preteen Weponary – Jagjaguwar
39. Oresound Space Collective : Inside Your Head – Sulatron
40. Pete Molinari : A Virtual Landslide – Damage Goods
41. Pierced Arrows : Straight To The Heart - Tombstone
42. Saviours : Into Abaddon – Kemado
43. Sienna Root : Far From The Sun – Headspin
44. Space Debris : Elephant Moon – Indie
45. Spirits Burning : Alien Injection – Black Widow
46. Soundtrack Of Our Lives : Communion – Warner (Sweden)
47. Starlite Desperation : Take It Personally – Infrasonic
48. The Sword : Gods Of Earth – Kemado
49. T.K. Webb & The Visions : Ancestor – Kemado
50. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire : Thatcher’s
Children – Damaged Goods
STEVE
KIRKLAND
The 25 Albums released in 2008 I liked the most:
Arbouretum/Pontiak:
Kale (Thrill Jockey)
Black Mountain: In the Future (Jagjaguwar)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig!! Lazarus Dig!! (Anti)
Death Vessel: Nothing is Precious Enough for Us (Sub Pop)
the Ettes: Look at Life Again Soon (Take Root)
Evangelicals: the Evening Descends (Dead Oceans)
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh: S/T (Drag City)
Evil Farm Children: the Evilling (Dad's Favourite) CD
Ex-Reverie: the Door Into Summer (Drag City) CD
Frightened Rabbit: the Midnight Organ Flight (Fat Cat) CD
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians: Luminous Groove (Yep Roc box)
Ida: My Fair My Dark ep (Polyvinyl)
Lambchop: OH (ohio) (Merge) CD
the Notwist: the Devil You and Me (Domino)
Jennifer O'Connor: Here With Me (Matador)
the Pack AD: Funeral Mixtape (Mint)
Portishead: Third (Island)
Arthur Russell: Love is Overtaking Me (Audika) CD
Sons and Daughters: This Gift (Domino)
Various Artists: Guitar Soli (Numero)
Various Artists: Well Hung 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary
Volume One (Finders Keepers)
Various Artists: the White Album Revisited Vols. 1 and 2 (included with MOJO
magazine) CDs
Vivian Girls: S/T (In the Red)
White Wires: Girly Girly Girly (Going GaGa)
James Yorkston: When the Haar Blows In (Domino) CD
Woody
Whelan
Just records I liked, so don't go a gettin' all riled up. Make yer own list.
1) Bronx "Bronx
III" Island
2) Gaslight Anthem "59 Sound" Sideonedummy
3) Torche "Meanderthal" Hydrahead
4) Loved Ones "Build and Burn" Fat
5) Nada Surf "Lucky" Barsuk
6) Fucked Up "Chemistry of Common Life" Matador
7) Jay Reatard "Matador Singles 08" Matador
8) Constantines "Kensington Heights" Arts and Crafts
9) Paint it Black "Lexicon" Jade Tree
10) Night Marchers "See You in Magic" Swami
Other records I really dug in 08: Helms Alee "Night
Terror" Robotic/Hydrahead, Brutal Knights "Living by Yourself"
Deranged, Gutter Twins "Saturnalia" Sub Pop, Nerves "One way
Ticket" Alive, Subhumans "Death Was Too Kind" reissue Alt Tent.,
Gods and Queens "S/T" Robotic Empire, Naked Raygun 1st 3 records repressed
on ltd. vinyl, Hot Water Music "Till the Wheels Fall Off" No Idea,
Mark Kozelek "The Finally LP" Caldo Verde, Gentleman Jesse "S/T"
Douchemaster, Four'n'Giv'r "Second Psychle" Birdman, Mission of Burma
deluxe vinyle reissues on Matador, Mudhoney "The Lucky Ones" Sub Pop,
Nick Cave "Dig Lazarus Dig" Anti, Death Cab for Cutie "Narrow
Stairs" Atlantic, Drive By Truckers "Brighter than Creations Dark"
New West, Bob Mould "District Line" Anti, Lemonheads "Shame About
Ray" special double reissue, Mudhoney "Superfuzz..." 20th Anniversary
reissue, Two Cow Garage "Speaking in Cursive" Suburban Home, Jay Reatard
"Singles 06/07" In the Red, Sun Kil Moon "April" Caldo Verde,
Whiskeytown "Stranger's Almanac" delux reissue, RFTC “R.I.P.”
live CD/DVD, RFTC “All Systems Go III” Swami...
Shows:
1) CPC Gangbangs w/Jay Reatard @ Silver Dollar April 17th
CPC were just AMAZING. We all know what happened with Jay...
2) Shellac @ Horseshoe Sept 16th
3) Hardskin, Brutal Knights & Fucked Up at Wrongbar May 13th
4) Gutter Twins @ Mod Club Mar. 14th
5) Night Marchers
@ Lee’s Dec. 20th
6) Lucero @ Horseshoe April 19th
Also: Bob Mould @ Mod Club Mar. 10th, Mudhoney @ Horseshoe Sept. 19th, King
Khan @ Horseshoe July 23rd,Joan of Arc @ Lee’s, Torche w/Boris @ Lee’s(I
got in late from a flight and missed Torche, so this one doesn’t count
I guess)...
Bijon
Roy
Some of the
great new music coming to my attention in 2008:
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness [Important]
- Ilyas Ahmed - The Vertigo Of Dawn [Time-Lag]
- Baby Woodrose - Chasing Rainbows [Bad Afro]
- Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds [Locust]
- Black Mountain - In The Future [Jagjaguar]
- Anthony Braxton - 12+1tet & Trio (Victoriaville) [Victo]
- Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin [Matador]
- Colour Haze - All [Elektrohasch]
- Julian Cope -- Preachin' Revolution (EP) & Black Sheep [Head Heritage]
- Crazy Dreams Band - Crazy Dreams Band [Holy Mountain]
- Crooked Hook - The Captain Will Be Your Guide [Safety Meeting]
- Danava - Unounou [Kemado]
- Dead Meadow - Old Growth [Matador]
- Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [Southern Lord]
- Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh [Drag City]
- Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness [Bo'Weavil]
- Jackie-O Motherfucker - Cryin' Sea [Awesome Vistas]
- Fuzz Against Junk - Netti Netti [Invada]
- Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday [Temporary Residence] & Take Refuge In Clean Living [Important]
- Growing - All The Time & Lateral [Social Registry]
- Guapo - Black Oni [Hlava] & Elixers [Neurot]
- Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend [Birdman]
- Lau Nau - Nukkuu [Locust]
- Linus Pauling Quartet - All Things Are Light [Camera Obscura]
- Major Stars - Portable Freak Factory / Can You See Me 7" [Important]
- Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments [Rune Grammofon]
- Oneida - Pre-Teen Weaponry [Jagjaguar] & Heads Ain't Ready 7" [These Are Not Records]
- Adam Payne - Organ [Holy Mountain]
- Plastic Crimewave Sound - Plastic Crimewave Sound [Eclipse]
- Pontiak - Sun On Sun [Thrill Jockey]
- Residual Echoes - Firsts [Elevation]
- Silver Mount Zion - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons [Constellation]
- Spires That In The Sunset Rise - Curse The Traced Bird [Secret Eye]
- Suarasama - Fajar Di Atas Awan [Drag City]
- Alexander Tucker - Portal [ATP]
- Ulaan Khol - 1 [Soft Abuse]
- TK Webb & The Visions - Ancestor [Kemado]
- Vocokesh - Electric Indian Blues [Pure pop]
- White Hills - A Little Bliss Forever [Drug Space]
- Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 [Holy Mountain]
Some of the great pre-2008 music first coming to my attention this year (missed until now, for whatever reason):
- Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom [Leaf Hound]
- Bardo Pond - Live In Philadelphia [Archive]
- Bowie, David - The Man Who Sold The World [Mercury]
- Alice Coltrane - World Journey [Impulse!]
- Julian Cope - Jehovahkill [Island]
- Floating Flower - Floating Flower [Eclipse]
- Flying Saucer Attack - Further [Drag City]
- Fred Frith - Guitar Solos [Virgin]
- Roy Harper - Stormcock [Chrysalis]
- High Rise - Disallow [Squealer]
- J.B.'s - Hustle With Speed [Polydor]
- Nishinihon - Nishinihon [Static Resonance]
- Oneida - Anthem Of The Moon [Rocket]
- Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby [RCA]
- Spacious Mind - Rotvalta [Goddamn I'm A Countryman]
- Television - Marquee Moon [Elektra]
- Terje Rypdal - What Comes After [ECM]
- Spires That In The Sunset Rise - Four Winds The Walker [Secret Eye] & This Is Fire [Daffodil]
- Travelling Bell - Scatter Ways [Secret Eye]
- Wire - Chairs Missing [Harvest]
Best re-discoveries in 2008:
- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds [Capitol]
- Roxy Music - Roxy Music [Island/EG]
- Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! [Epic]
Some of the shows I enjoyed most during 2008:
- Xu Fengxia and Gunda Gottschalk - May 17, FIMAV 25, Victoriaville, QC
- Spires That In The Sunset Rise - June 4, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC
- Terrastock 7 - June 19-21, Louisville, KY
- Wayne Shorter Quartet - Dec. 5, Massey Hall, Toronto, ON
- Flower Travellin'
Band - Dec. 15, Revival, Toronto, ON
Dick
AltaVista
My favourite recordings from 2008:
Pawnshop Diamond, Pawnshop Diamond
N.Q. Arbuckle, XOK
Justin Rutledge, Man Descending
Trevor Alguire, Thirty Year Run
Evil Farm Children, II: The Evilling
Alejandro Escovedo, Real Animal
Angela Desveaux, Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship
Steve Wynn/Scott McCaughey/Linda Pitmon/Peter Buck, The Baseball Project
M. Mucci, Under The Tulip Tree
Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers, Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers
Meredith Luce, Neck Of The Woods
Chatham County Line, IV
Black Mountain, In The Future
Huntley Slim & The Suburban Cowboys, Summer Sessions
Shanker + Romps, Pancakin’ and Sing For Your Summer
Kathleen Edwards, Asking For Flowers
The Superantastics Choose Your Destination
Dr, Dog, Fate
Vancougar, Canadian Tuxedo
Ninety Pounds Of Ugly, 4 songs
Giant Sand, Provisions
Little Foot Long Foot, Just about Broke
The Bible All-Stars, Pretty Down There
The White Wires,
The White Wires
SCOTT
BROOKS
Favorite 2008 releases:
Ancestors – Neptune with Fire (Tee Pee) LP
Black Mountain – In the Future (Jagjaguar) LP
Burning Saviours – Nymphs & Weavers (Transubstans) CD
Colour Haze – All (Elektrohasch) LP
Danava – Unonou (Kemado) CD
Endless Boogie – Focus Level (No Quarter) LP
Farflung – A Wound in Eternity (MeteorCity) LP
Graveyard – S/T (Tee Pee) CD
Magnolia – Falska vägar (Transubstans) CD
Mahogany Frog – DO5 (Indie) LP
Titan – Pilzmarmelade (Wakusei) LP
Ufomammut – Idolum (Supernatural Cat) CD
Other pre-2008 records
I dug this year:
Acid King – Busse Woods (Kreation) LP
Asoka – S/T (Mellotronen) LP
Atomic Rooster – Nice n’ Greasy (Castle) CD
Baby Woodrose – Money for Soul (Bad Afro) LP
The Bakerton Group – S/T (Emetic) LP
Brant Bjork and the Bros – Saved by Magic (Duna) LP
Edgar Broughton Band – Wasa Wasa (Harvest) LP
Roy Buchanan – Second Album (Polydor) LP
Burning Saviours – S/T (I Hate Records) CD
Burning Saviours – Hundus (I Hate Records) CD
Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre (Earache) CD
Circle – Arkades (Forth Dimension) LP
Cosmic Invention – Help Your Satori Mind (The Now Sound) CD
Deep Purple – Burn (Warner Bros.) LP
Dias de Blues – S/T (Akarma) LP
Earthless – S/T (Gravity) LP
Electric Sandwich – S/T (CD)
Eloy – Inside (EMI) CD
Eloy – Floating (EMI) CD
Eloy – Live (EMI) CD
Epitaph – S/T (Universal) CD
Focus – 3 (Sire) LP
Fu Manchu – Go For It...Live (Steamhammer) LP
Goblin – Susperia (Attic) LP
High Tide – Sea Shanties (Repertoire) CD
High Tide – S/T (Repertoire) CD
Steve Hillage – L (Virgin) LP
Steve Hillage – Motivation Radio (Virgin) LP
Josefus – S/T (Mainstream) LP
Man – Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day (United Artists) LP
Steve Moore – The Henge (Static Caravan) LP
Bruce Palmer – The Cycle is Complete (Akarma) LP
Pentagram – Day of Reckoning (Peaceville) CD
Pretty Things – Parachute (Repertoire) CD
The Psychic Paramount – Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural (No Quarter)
LP
Quatermass – S/T (Repertoire) CD
Status Quo – Live (Capitol) LP
T.2. – It’ll All Work out in Boomland (Akarma) LP
Tangerine Dream – Ricochet (Virgin) LP
Tubeway Army – S/T (Beggar’s Banquet) LP
Uriah Heep – ...Very ’eavy...Very ’umble (Sanctuary) CD
Uriah Heep – Look at Yourself (Sanctuary) CD
Various Artists – The Essence of Swedish Progressive Music 1967-1979 (Premium)
CD
Various Artists – Love, Peace & Poetry Japanese Psychedelic Music
(Normal) LP
Warhorse – S/T (Angel Air) CD
Weed – S/T (SPV) CD
Witchcraft – S/T (Rise Above) CD
Witchcraft – Firewood (Rise Above) CD
Yeti – S/T (Coloured Rain) LP
Yatha Sidhra – A Meditation Mass (Universal) CD
Zior – S/T (Akarma) LP