KALX DJ Faves of 2003

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Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year, 2003

• Jim Campilongo - American Hips
• Comets On Fire - Self Titled on Alternative Tentacles
• Bill Frissel - The Intercontinentalists
• Groovie Ghoulies - Go! Stories
• Eleni Mandell - Country For True Lovers
• Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
• Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet Evolution
• Los Straitjackets - Supersonic Guitars In 3D
• The Travoltas - Endless Summer
• Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears

• Toys That Kill - We Control The Sun (Recess)
• Rubber City Rebels - Pierce My Brain (Smog Veil)
• Resistoleros - Rock and Roll Napalm (Dead Teenager)
• Randy - Welfare Problems (Epitaph)
• Electric Six - Fire (XL)
• Rancid - Indestructible (Hellcat/Warner)
• Feederz - Vandalism (Broken)
• Electrocute - A Tribute to Your Taste (Emperor Norton)
• Manic Hispanic - Mijo Goes To Jr. College (BYO)
• Briefs - Off the Charts (Dirtnap)
• Paris - Sonic Jihad (Guerilla Funk)
• Various Artists - WAR (IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT!) (Hip Hop Slam)
• Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather (Epitaph)

1. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (Jetset)
2. Various Artists - BACK TO PERU (Vampi Soul)
3. Juana Molina - Segundo (Domino)
4. Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited (reissue) (Sonic Unyon)
5. Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan - Raga Gorakh Kalyan (India Archives)
6. Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever (Web of Mimicry)
7. Borah Bergman - Meditations for Piano (Tzadik)
8. Bart Davenport - Game Preserve (Antenna Farm)
9. Laura Veirs - Troubled by the Fire (Bella Union)
10. Steffan Basho-Junghans - Rivers and Bridges (Strange Attractors Audio House)

1. Audio Bullys - Ego War (Astralwerks)
2. Death In Vegas - Scorpio Rising (Sanctuary)
3. Black Eyes - Black Eyes (Dischord)
4. Blur - Think Tank (Virgin)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (Universal)
6. The Prids - Love Zero (Luminaire)
7. Spiritualized - (Sanctuary)
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own (Virgin)
9. Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
10. Ballboy - A Guide For The Daylight Hours (Manifesto)
11. The Rapture - Echoes (Strummer)
12. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Twinkle Echo (Tomlab)
13. Martin Gore - Counterfeit2 (Mute/Reprise)
14. The Creatures - Hai! (Sioux)
15. Faux Fox - Black Glove Or White Glove (Angelika Koehlermann)
16. Small Hours - Everywhere At Once (self-released)
17. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol)
18. The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love (Columbia)
19. Moving Units - Moving Units (Palm Pictures)
20. The Sounds - Living In America (New Line)

Top Ten Singles

1. Dizzee Rascal - "Fix Up, Look Sharp" (Matador)
2. 50 Cent Vs. Nine Inch Nails - "50 Inch Nails" (SELF-RELEASED)
3. Kelis - "Milkshake" (Arista)
4. Outkast - "Hey Ya" (Arista)
5. !!! - "Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard" (Touch & Go)
6. Radio Four - "Electrify" (Astralwerks)
7. Caesars - "Jerk It Out" (Astralwerks)
8. Client - "Price Of Love" (EMI)
9. Black Box Recorder - "These Are The Things" (One Little Indian)
10. Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" (Sub Pop)

1. Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
2. Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp)
3. Jolie Holland - Catalpa (Anti)
4. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant)
5. New Pornographers - Electric Version (Matador)
6. Various Artists - VELVET TINMINE (RPM)
7. Pacific UV - Pacific UV (Warm)
8. Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (Shelflife)
9. Neung Phak - Neung Phak (Abduction)
10. Phil Crumar - So Unique (Up in the Attic)

Top Ten Singles

1. Outkast - "Hey Ya" (Arista)
2. Quintron - "Place Unknown" (Three-One-G)
3. Fannypack - "Cameltoe" (Tommy Boy)
4. Oranges Band - "OK Apartment" (Lookout!)
5. Killer Mike - "ADIDAS" (Sony)
6. DJ Format - "The Hit Song" (Genuine)
7. Libertines - "Horrorshow" (Rough Trade)
8. Aislers Set - "Languor in the Balcony" (Suicide Squeeze)
9. Pas/Cal - "The Bronze Beached Boys (Come On Let's Go)" (Le Grand Magistery)
10. Eleni Mandell - "Iowa City" (Zedtone)

1. Pipas - Golden Square (Annika)
2. Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
3. Aislers Set - How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
4. Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp)
5. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant)
6. Sweet Trip - Velocity:Design:Comfort (Darla)
7. Ms. John Soda - No P. or D. (Morr)
8. Pacific UV - Pacific UV (Warm)
9. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Goom)
10. Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (Shelflife)

1. Calexico - Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
2. American Analog Set - Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
3. The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
4. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (Matador)
5. Pinback - Offcell (Absolutely Kosher)
6. Zongamin - Zongamin (XL)
7. Dan Sartain - Dan Sartain VS. the Serpientes (Swami)
8. Film School - Alwaysnever (Amazing Grease)
9. Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party? (Soundslike)
10. The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
11. The Strokes - Room on Fire (RCA)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (Interscope)
13. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
14. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
15. The Rapture - Echoes (Strummer/Universal)
16. The Hidden Cameras - The Smell of Our Own (Rough Trade)
17. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance (Matador)
18. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
19. The Decemberists - Her Majesty (Kill Rock Stars)
20. Azure Ray - Hold On Love (Saddle Creek)

Top Ten Singles

1. OutKast - "Hey Ya!" (Arista)
2. !!! - "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)" (Touch & Go)
3. The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army" (V2)
4. The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" (Sub Pop)
5. Basement Jaxx featuring Dizzee Rascal - "Lucky Star" (Astralwerks)
6. Kelis - "Milkshake" (Star Trak/Arista)
7. The Stills - "Still in Love Song" (Vice)
8. Ladytron - "Evil" (Telstar TV/Emperor Norton)
9. Q and Not U - "X-Polynation" (Dischord)
10. Dizzee Rascal - "Fix Up, Look Sharp" (XL)

• The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze/Slumberland)
• The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
• The Radio Department - Lesser Matters (Labrador/Shelflife)
• Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (XL)
• Sportique - Communique no. 9 (Matinee/WIAIWYA)
• Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
• The Relict - Tomorrow is Again (Vegas Morn)
• Various Artists - SUPERLONGEVITY 3 (Perlon)
• Luomo - The Present Lover (Forcetracks/BMG)

Favorite Singles

• The Frenchmen - "Powdered Blue" (Shelflife)
• Black Dice - "Cone Toaster" (DFA)
• Dub Taylor feat. Vital - "Your Soul" (Forcetracks)
• The Pines - "True Love Waits volumes. 1&2" (Foxy Boy/Matine)
• Lorelei - "Informed by the Future" (Textile Sounds)
• The Foxgloves - "Lives You Didn't Lead" (Foxy Boy)
• DJs Collapse - "Jawfunk" (Soundslike)
• Morane - "The Trick" (Perlon)
• Broadcast - "Microtronics" (Warp)
• Matthew Dear - "Dog Days" (Spectral Sound)

Favorite Reissues

• Remarc - Sound Murderer (Planet Mu)
• Secret Shine - After Years (Clairecords)
• Various Artists - COOL AS ICE (LTM)
• Various Artists - SOUNDS OF LEAMINGTON SPA VOL. 3 (Firestation Tower/Clarendon/Bilberry)
• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE PRESENTS POST-PUNK VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
• Various Artists - FEEDBACK TO THE FUTURE (Mobile)
• Various Artists - NEW YORK NOISE (Soul Jazz)
• Razorcuts - R is for Razorcuts (Matine)
• Various Artists - WILD DUB (Select Cuts)
• Various Artists - EGG RECORD: AN INTRODUCTION TO 1988-1991 (Egg)

1. Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - Streetcore (Hellcat)
2. Cafe Tacuba - Cuatro Caminos (MCA)
3. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (Epitaph)
4. Puffy Amiyumi - Nice (Bar/None)
5. Akrobatik - Remind My Soul (Coup D'etat)
6. Warren Zevon - The Wind (Artemis)
7. The Cutters - In the Valley of Enchantment (Blackjack Humboldt)
8. The Mother Truckers - Something Worth Dying For (Little Star Prod.)
9. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (American)
10. New Pornographers - Electric Version (Matador)

Top Five Reissues

1. The Gits - "Frenching the Bully" (Broken Rekids)
2. Donny Hathaway - "Live" (Phantom)
3. Soundtrack - WATTSTAX (Stax)
4. Stereo Total - "Oh Ah" (Kill Rock Stars)
5. 28th Day - "Complete Recordings" (Innerstate)

Top Five Compiliations

1. Various Artists - AMOEBA MUSIC COMPILATION VOL. IV (Hip Hop Slam Records)
2. Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE: POST PUNK VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
3. Various Artists - BAY AREA FUNK (Ubiquity)
4. Various Artists - THE AMERICAN SONG-POEM ANTHOLOGY (Bar/None)
5. Various Artists - DICTIONARAOKE (Insinkerator)

1. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
2. Jolie Holland - Catalpa (Anti)
3. Cursive - The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
4. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Def Jux)
5. Clogs - Lullaby for Sue (Brassland)
6. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak (Lookout!)
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone (Drag City)
8. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
9. Winfred E. Eye - The Dirt Tier (Luckyhorse)
10. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)

1. Tipper - Surrounded (Myutopia)
2. The User - Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers (Asphodel)
3. Psychokinetics - The Vault / On My Break 12" (Psychokinetics)
4. Pole - 45/45 12" (~scape)
5. Plastikman - Closer (Mute)
6. Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio R.M.X.S. (Tino Corp.)
7. Languis - Unithematic 12" (pehr)
8. K-RAD - deli mood spot (someoddpilot)
9. Hrvatski - Insect Digestion Melancholy 7" (Planet Mu)
10. Esem - Serial Human (Merck)

• Andrew Bird - Weather Systems (Righteous Babe)
• The Books - Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
• The Darkness - Permission to Land (Atlantic)
• Decemberists - Her Majesty (Jealous)
• DJ Wally - Nothing Stays the Same & Emulatory Whoredom (Thirsty Ear)
• DM & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life (Lex)
• Folksongs for the Afterlife - Put Danger Back in Your Life (Hidden Agenda)
• Joss Stone - Soul Sessions (S-curve)
• Karsh Kale - Liberation (Six Degrees)
• Manitoba - Up In Flames (Domino USA)
• Ms. John Soda - No P. or D. (Morr)
• Postal Service - Give Up (SubPop)
• Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (Shelflife)
• Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow (Responsive)
• Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (Jetset)

11 New Albums I Liked

• Aarktica - Pure Tone Audiometry (Silber)
• Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
• Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo (Touch & Go)
• Dresden Dolls - Dresden Dolls (self-released)
• Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Slowthinking (EMI)
• Mr. Airplane Man - C'mon DJ (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
• Schlammpeitziger - Everything Without All Inclusive (Sonig)
• The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
• Syzygys - The Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik)
• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE: POST PUNK VOL. 01 (Rough Trade)
• Ween - Quebec (Sanctuary)

4 Reissues That Made Me Very Happy

• The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals (ReR/Morphius)
• Pearls Before Swine - Jewels Were the Stars box set (Runt/Warners)
• Sun City Girls - God is My Solar System/Superpower (Eclipse)
• Television - Marquee Moon (Rhino)

1. Pram - Dark Island (Merge)
2. Kristin Hersh - The Grotto (4AD)
3. Lou Harrison - Drums Along the Pacific (New Albion)
4. Debashish Bhattacharya and Bob Brozman - Mahima (Riverboat)
5. Alexander Fadoriouk - Art of the Cimbalom (Traditional Crossroads)
6. Ralph Carney - This is! (Black Beauty)
7. Rob Burger - Lost Photograph (Tzadik)
8. John Brumit - Piledriver (Norcal Waste Systems)
9. Abdul Lateef Khan - Sarangi (India Archive)
10. Wu Man and Tatsu Aoki - Posture of Reality (Asian Improv)

1. Various Artists - DERRICK CARTER: CHOICE (Azuli)
2. Various Artists - PLAYGROUP: DJ KICKS (Studio !K7)
3. Blaze - I Think Of You (Slip 'N' Slide)
4. Mr. Scruff - "Sweetsmoke" b/w "It's Dancing Time (feat. Quantic)quot; (Ninja Tune)
5. Various Artists - DIS-JOINTED (Dis-Jointed)
6. unknown - Triple Shot EP (bootleg of Brandy "What About Us?") (white)
7. Various Artists - UNITED NATIONS OF FUTURE MUSIC (Om)
8. Likwit Junkies - "Keep Doin' It" b/w "S.C.A.N.S." (ABB)
9. Goapele - Closer (Remixes) (Loveslap!)
10. Various Artists - WAR (IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT!) (Hip Hop Slam)
11. Unagi - Unagi (442)
12. N'Dambi - Call Me (Yam Who Reworks) (Yam Who)

• Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
• Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
• Onion Flavored Rings - Used To It
• Allergic to Bullshit - Train I Ride
• Gravy Train!!!! - Hello Doctor
• The Triggers - Shoot Your Mouth Off
• The Vanishing - Songs For Psychotic Children
• The Bananas - The First Ten Years
• Lipstick Pickups - Split 7"
• Killer Dreamer - Self Titled 7"
• Chickenhead/Los Canadians - Mutiny in Miami
• Forced Vengeance - Self Titled 7"
• Black Ice - Eve
• Phantom Limbs - Displacement
• Diverse - "Certified"
• Edan - "I'll Come Runnin' Back To You"
• Outkast - "Hey Yeah"
• The Spits - Dirtnap LP
• Toys That Kill - Control The Sun
• Evolution Control Committee - Plagiarhythm Nation
• Luie Luie - El Touchy

• Push Button Objects - Ghetto Blaster (Chocolate Industries)
• Josh Rouse - 1972 (Rykodisc)
• Tara De Long - You Do the Math (Efa)
• Beans - Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
• The Weegs - The Weegs (self-released)
• Mono Pause - Neung Phak (Abduction)
• Erase Errata - At Crystal palace (Troubleman)
• Majesticons - Beauty Party (Big Dada)
• The Planet The - Physical Angel (54' 40' or Fight)
• Outkast - The Love Below/Speakerboxxx (Arista)
• Puffy Amiyumi - Nice (Bar None)
• De Hawnay Troof - Get Up! Resolution: Love (Retarddisco)
• Death In Vegas - Scorpio Rising (Sanctuary)
• Akrobatik - Remind My Soul (Coup D'Etat)
• Madlib - Shades of Blue (Blue Note)
• Various Artists - TEUTONIC DISASTER 2 (Gomma)
• Various Artists - FREE SPEECH FOR SALE (FSFS)
• Various Artists - NEW YORK NOISE (Soul Jazz)

Favorite Singles

• Lyrics Born - "Callin' Out" (Quannum Projects)
• Kelis - "Milkshake" (Arista)
• Die Monitr Batss - "Spread Yer Legs" (Dim Mak)

• The Knockout Pills - The Knockout Pills (Deadbeat)
• Various Artists - NY NO WAVE: THE ULTIMATE EAST VILLAGE 80'S SOUNDTRACK (Zerecords)
• The Diskords - Pink Palace E.P. (Dirtnap)
• The Quails - The Song Is Love (Mr. Lady)
• Onion Flavored Rings - Used To It (Onion Flavored Records)
• Electrocute - A Tribute to Your Taste (Emperor Norton)
• The Lovemakers - The Lovemakers (Weird Eye)
• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE: POST PUNK VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
• The Kills - Fried My Little Brains E.P. (Domino Recording Company)
• The Spits - The Spits (Dirtnap)
• Sexy - Por Vida (Onion Flavored Records)
• Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace (Toubleman Unlimited)
• Adult. - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)

• Davie Allan & The Arrows - Restless In L.A. (Sundazed)
• Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever (Web Of Mimicry)
• Lolita No. 18 - Destroin (Junk)
• Mando Diao - bring 'em in (Capitol)
• Johnny Otis - Vintage 1950s Broadcasts From Los Angeles (Ace)
• Puffy Amiyumi - Nice (Bar/None)
• The Quick - Untold Rock Stories (Rev-Ola)
• Randy - Welfare Problems (Epitaph)
• The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love (Columbia)
• The Star Spangles - Bazooka!!! (Parlophone)
• Various Artists - GREAT GOOGA MOOGA (Ace)
• Various Artists - VELVET TINMINE (RPM)
• Sonny Vincent - The Good * The Bad * The Ugly (Acetate)
• Yuki - Commune (Epic)

• Various Artists - DEATH BEFORE DISCO (Pricehouse)
• Summer Hymns - Clemency (Misra)
• Iron & Wine - The Sea and the Rhythm EP (Sub Pop)
• Hella - Total Bugs Bunny on Wild Bass (Narnack)
• Various Artists - BAY AREA FUNK (Luv N' Haight)

1. Crack: We Are Rock - Cosmic Mind Flight (Tigerbeat 6)
2. The Weegs - The Weegs (self-released)
3. Quintron - Are You Ready for an Organ Solo? (Three One G)
4. Various Artists - TUETONIK DISASTER VOLUME 2 (Gomma)
5. Lowdown - Y is a Crooked Letter (Zum)
6. Dance Disaster Movement - We are from nowhere (Dimmak)
7. Dada Swing - Cut Cut Cut (Cochon Records)
8. Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace (Troubleman Unlimited)
9. The Intima - Panic and Peril (Collective Jyrk)
10. Black Eyes - Black Eyes (Dischord)
11. Adult - Anxiety Always (Ersatx Audio)
12. Total Shutdown - The Album (Load Records)
13. Chromatics - Chrome Rats vs Basement Rutz (GSL)

1. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
2. Deerhoof - Apple O'
3. Manitoba - Up In Flames
4. Why? - Oaklandazulasylum
5. Broadcast - Haha Sound
6. Bexar Bexar - Haralambos
7. Cat Power - You Are Free
8. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
9. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Sleep/Holiday
10. Kathleen Edwards - Failer

Top Songs

1. Broken Social Scene - "Anthem For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl"
2. Deerhoof - "L'Amour Stories"
3. Prefuse 73 - "Untitled 2"
4. Manitoba - "Crayon"
5. The Radio Dept. - "Where Damage Isn't Already Done"
6. M83 - "0078h"
7. Kanda - "Turtle"
8. Sufjan Stevens - "Holland"
9. The Innocence Mission - "One For Sorrow"
10. Belle & Sebastian - "Stay Loose"

• Audio Bullys - Ego War
• Namie Amuro - Style (Avex Trax)
• Z-Trip - Uneasy Listening Vol.1
• Hidden Forest - Bjork vs. The Cure
• The Rapture - Echoes
• Various Artists - ARABIAN GROOVES (Putomayo)
• Chemical Brothers - The Singles 93-03
• Soundtrack - MATRIX RELOADED
• Morning Musume - Go Girl! Koi No Victory (Zetima)

1. Blur - Think Tank (Virgin)
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
3. Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
4. American Analog Set - Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (Interscope)
6. Bart Davenport - Game Preserve (Antenna Farm)
7. Daniel Lanois - Shine (Anti-)
8. Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever (Web of Mimicry)
9. The Books - Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
10. Various Artists - ETHIOPIQUES VOL. 13 ETHIOPIAN GROOVE (Buda Musique)
11. The Darkness - Permission to Land (Atlantic)

Favorite Singles

• The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
• Kelis - "Milkshake"
• The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
• Pharrell Williams - "Frontin'"
• Alicia Keyes - "You Don't Know My Name"
• Sondre Lerche -"Don't Be Shallow"
• Stereolab - "Sudden Stars"
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"
• Flaming Lips - "Sunship Balloons"
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead"
• Elbow - "Grace Under Pressure"
• Blink 182 - "Feeling This"
• Missy Elliot - "Pass That Dutch"
• The Darkness - "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

• Various Artists - PEACE NOT WAR (Mordam)
• Kali Z. Fasteau - Oneness (Flying Note)
• Nephlim Modulation Systems - Woe To Thee O Land Whose King Is A Child (Big Dada)
• Angus MacLise - Astral Collapse (Quakebasket)
• Various Artists - 50 YEARS OF JAZZ & BLUES (Delmark)
• Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet Evolution (Crescent Moon)
• KRS-ONE - kristyles (Koch)
• Various Artists - ROUGH TRADE: POST PUNK VOL. 1 (Rough Trade)
• Paris - Sonic Jihad (Guerilla Funk)
• Various Artists - FESTIVAL IN THE DESERT (World Village)

1. Schooly D - "Theme From Aqua Teen Hunger Force" (Warner Brothers)
2. New Order - Soundtrack From Peter Saville's Art Exhibit (London)
3. Reverend Lester Knox -Put Your Face In Gwod: The 366th Revival (Smack Shire)
4. Various Artists - GOODBYE BABYLON (Dust To Digital)
5. Various Artists - CHINA-THE SONIC AVANT-GARDE (Post Concrete)
6. DJ Prank - Crank Calls From Arnold Schwarzeneggar' s Movie Characters (no label)
7. Various Artists- VISION LIVE cd & dvd (Thirsty Ear)
8. Fennesz - Live In Japan (Headz)
9. Various Artists - DESI NATION (Stern's Music)
10. Leviathan - The Tenth Sub-Level Of Suicide (Moribund Records)

• American Analog Set - Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
• Autechre - Draft 7.30 (Warp)
• Clocked Out Duo - Water Pushes Sand (Clocked Out Productions)
• Deerhoof - Apple O' (Kill Rock Stars)
• Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo (Touch & Go)
• Essential Logic - Fanfare in the Garden (reissue) (Kill Rock Stars)
• Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango (Ya Basta!)
• Morelenbaum²/Sakamoto - A Day in New York (Sony Classical)
• Muna Zul - Muna Zul (Tzadik)
• Various Artists - NEW YORK NOISE (Soul Jazz)
• John Zorn / Masada - Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik)

Favorite Songs and Albums

• A Band of Bees - "A Minha Menina"
• Assylum Street Spankers - "Mountain Town"
• Terry Binion - (Bluegrass CD, 2003)
• Ed Cuningham - "Talking Terror Blues"
• Derailers - Genuine
• Dolly Ranchers - "Driving"
• Due West - These Boots
• Sue Foley - "Vertigo Blues"
• Fun da Mental - "Fire Water"
• Carlos Guitarlos - "Damn Atchafalaya"
• Jolie Holland - "Littlest Birds"
• Lost Trailers - "Walkin Blind"
• Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues - Hanapepe Dream
• Van Morrison - "Royalty Check"
• Orange Monkey - "Osama Bin Es Perazo"
• Puffy Ami Yumi - "Planet Tokyo"
• Bonnie Raitte - "Gnawin On It"
• Amy Rigby - "Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again"
• Siderunners - "Countin Threes"
• Stairwell Sisters - "Banjo Pickin Girl"

Favorite Compilations

• Various Artists - COMPILASIAN
• Various Artists - COUNTRY BOOGIE
• Various Artists - HILLBILLY BOOGIE
• Various Artists - KPIG (Comp by Radio Station KPIG, Freedom, Calif)
• Various Artists - LA MUSICA MAFIA 2
• Various Artists - PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS (Comp of Country Death Songs)
• Various Artists - PUTUMAYO, FRENCH CARIBBEAN
• Various Artists - ROUGH GUIDE TO ASIAN UNDERGROUND
• Various Artists - ROUGH GUIDE TO CHINA
• Various Artists - ROUGH GUIDE TO RUSSIA

Favorite Songs of 2003

• Bellrays - "Mother Pinball" , Raw Collection (UpperCut)
• Bootcuts - "Rhonda", In the Comfort of Your Own Home (Makewater)
• Bunky - "Chuy" , Space Alien EP
• Flops - "Susannah" , Ooh La La (Mockingbird)
• Melt Banana - "Chain Shot to Have Some Fun" , Cellscape (Revolver)
• Monsieur Leroq - "No Pork Just Beats" , Oh La La (Cornerstone RAS)
• New Pornographers - "The Electric Version" , The Electric Version (Matador)
• Pascal - "Mr Jenkins" , Hello My Name is Pascal (UvuLittle)
• Petals - "Living Room" , Butterfly Mountain
• Kelley Stoltz - "Perpetual Night" , Antique Glow (Jackpine Social Club)
• Howard Tate - "Get it While You Can" , Rediscovered (Private Music)
• Gillian Welch - "Nobody Knows My Name" , Soul Journey (Arcony)

Favorite Songs Reissued In 2003

• Dazurik Sisters - "Go to Sleep My Darling" , FLOWERS IN THE WILDWOOD (Trikont)
• Essential Logic - "Aerosol Burns" , Essential Logic (Fanatic)
• Flame - "Big Wheel Turning" , VELVET TINMINE (RPM)
• Isaac Hayes - "Soulsville" Isaac Hayes at Wattstax (Stax)
• Simply Saucer - "Mole Machine" Cyborgs Revisited (Sonicuyon)

• Sexy - Por Vida (Onion Flavored Records)
• FM Knives - Useless and Modern (Broken Rekids)
• Polysics - Hey Bob, My Friend (Asian Man)
• A-Frames - A-Frames (Dragnet)
• Mates of State - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
• The Pulses - The Pulses (Dirtnap)
• Kill-a-Watts - Electrorock (Rip Off)
• The Spits - The Spits (Dirtnap)
• Free Loan Investments - Ever Been to Mexico? (Shelflife)
• The Lowdown - Y is a crooked letter (ZUM)

Favorite Singles

• Speedmarket Avenue - Is anything Ever done? (Modesto Records)
• K.I.T./Wives Split 7" - (ZUM)
• Foibles - Shoe People 7" (Fickle Fame)
• Tommy Lasorda 7" (SPAM)
• Frenchmen powdered blue 7" (Shelflife)

1. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Def Jux)
2. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
3. Various Artists - BAY AREA FUNK (Ubiquity)
4. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
5. Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (Matador)
6. Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp)
7. Bonobo - Dial "M" for Monkey (Ninja Tune)
8. Daedelus - Rethinking the Weather (Mush)
9. The Notwist - Neon Golden (Domino)
10. Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below (La Face)

1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
2. Faux Fox - Faux Fox
3. The Vanishing - Songs for Psychotic Children
4. Ohgr - Sunnypsyop
5. Audio Bullys - Ego War
6. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
7. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
8. The Lovemakers - The Lovemakers
9. The Spits - The Spits
10. Gravy Train!!!! - Hello Doctor
11. The Vanity Set - The Vanity Set
12. Year Future - Year Future
13. The Creatures - Hai!
14. SushiRobo - The Light-fingered Feeling of SushiRobo
15. The Small Hours - Everywhere at Once

1. DJ Earflaps & E. Da Boss - Ley Ja Kitte Door
2. Kill Me Tomorrow - I Require Chocolate

• various artists - WITCHES OF THE WEST (This Starcraft)