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KALX DJ Faves of 2007
joy, lists, lists, more lists, and more joy
Updated: 11 Feb. 2008 - Final Version
Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year, 2007
Anonymous —
beezer —
The Berkestir —
The Bipolar Bear —
Bird Alderon —
Brother Grimm —
Carnacki —
Cuppa Joe —
Disco Shawn —
DJ In The Manner of a Leprechaun —
DJ Rawman —
Elliot R —
Flashflooder —
Gatsby —
Girl in the Green Jacket —
The Good Foot —
Hip Hazardous —
Jesse Luscious —
Johnny Savage —
Leftfield Lance —
Mack —
Madame X —
"Mad Mike" Metrovich —
The Majority Whip —
Marcelito —
Matsu —
Matthew Africa —
McGee —
Meatypaws —
Melizard —
Mike Burma —
Mixtress 9 —
Mon Amie —
Murky Logic —
The Muse —
Pop Goes the Weasel —
Robin —
Roscoe 2000 —
Roulette —
Rubberband Girl —
Sammich —
SamtheRam —
Sara and Guillaume —
Sergio —
Sex for Teens —
Shrey —
Sidja —
Studebaker —
Therese —
Tremulous —
Yours Truly
Anonymous
- Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra - Transmigration (Delmark)
- 16 Bitch Pile-Up - Bury Me Deep (Troniks)
- Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Quartet - Early And Late (Cuneiform)
- Peggy Seeger - Three Score And Ten (Appleseed)
- Pain Jerk/Incapacitants - Live At The No Fun Fest 2007 (No Fun Productions)
- Signal Lost - Prosthetic Screams (Prank)
- Marduk - Rom 5:12 (Regain)
- Jack Wright - The Indeterminate Existence (Last Visible Dog)
- To Live And Shave In LA 2 - The 300 Dollar Silk Shirt (X+Z=0)
- Muhal Richard Abrams - Vision Towards Essence (Pi)
beezer
albums/EPs on repeat:
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (ATO)
- Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (self-released)
- The Eames Era - Heroes and Sheroes (self-released)
- Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
- Mochipet - Girls Love Breakcore (Daly City)
- The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt (Sub Pop)
- Oh No! Oh My! - Between the Devil and the Sea (Dim Mak Records)
songs:
- LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" (DFA)
- The Silver Seas - "Imaginary Girl" (Cheap Lullaby)
- Coconut Records - "West Coast" (Young Baby)
- Maria Taylor - "Clean Getaway" (Saddle Creek)
- Feist - "I Feel It All" (Arts & Crafts)
- Bishop Allen - "The News From Your Bed" (Dead Oceans)
- Fred Astereo - "Don't Break My Heart" (Lost and Lonesome)
- Andy Samberg feat. dam Levine - "Iran So Far"
The Berkestir
- Antelope - Reflector- (Dischord)
- Anton Mink - Anton Mink (self-released)
- Meg Baird - Dear Companion
- Chris Bathgate - A Cork Tale Wake (Quite Scientific)
- Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky (Tee Pee)
- The Evens - Get Evens (Dischord)
- Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight And Dark (Lost Highway)
- Ghost - In Stormy Nights(Drag City)
- Githead - Art Pop (Swim)
- Hot Club Of Detroit - Hot Club Of Detroit (Mack Avenue)
- Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks (4AD)
- Magnolia Electric Co. - Sojourner (Secretly Canadian)
- Mekons - Natural (Quarterstick)
- Tarwater - Spider Smile (Morr)
- Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is`Life (World Village)
- Tied + Tickled Trio - Aelita (Morr)
- Teddy Thompson - Upfront & Down Low (Verve)
- Caetano Veloso - Ce (Nonesuch)
- Wrinkle Neck Mules - The Wicks Have Met (Lower 40)
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
The Bipolar Bear
- Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music (Our Secret)
- Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat (Double Negative)
- Tegan and Sara - The Con (Warner Bros.)
- Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (Virgin)
- Hello Saferide - Introducing... (self-released)
- Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP (Drag City)
- Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Vice)
- Mariee Sioux - Faces in the Rocks (Grass Roots)
- Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros.)
- Meg Baird - Dear Companion (Drag City)
- Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This (Polyvinyl)
- Dreamdate - Come Over Now (Chocolate Covered)
- Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Paper Bag)
- Chow Nasty - Super (Electrical) Recordings (Omega)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
Bird Alderon
Top 25
- Air - Pocket Symphony (Astralwerks)
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls on Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
- Stereo Total - Paris/Berlin (Kill Rock Stars)
- Justice - † (Downtown/Ed Banger)
- Dreamdate - Come Over Now (Chocolate Covered)
- New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom (Modular Interscope)
- Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Vice)
- Sugar and Gold - Créme (Antenna Farm)
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
- My Little Airport - Zoo Is Sad, People Are Cruel (Elephant)
- New Pornographers - Challengers (Matador)
- Spank Rock - Fabriclive.33 (Fabric)
- Attack - About Time (RPM)
- Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
- The Shins - Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop)
- Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future (Sub Pop)
- Walter Meego - Romantic (Bril 023)
- Feist - The Reminder (Cherrytree)
- Nella Dodds - This Is a Girl's Life (Kent)
- Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)
- Fratellis - Costello Music (Rough Trade)
- Lodger - Grown Ups (Slumberland)
- Hot Club of Detroit - Hot Club of Detroit (Mack Ave.)
- Various Artists - IN-KRAUT VOLUME 2 (Marina)
- Various Artists - GET READY TO FLY! POP-PSYCH FROM THE NORMAN PETTY VAULTS (Big Beat)
Brother Grimm
Favorite new releases:
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls on Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
- The Lodger - Grown-Ups (Slumberland)
- Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five (Zedtone)
- Parson Red Heads - King Giraffe (Yukon)
- Eilen Jewell - Letters from Sinners & Strangers (Signature Sounds)
- The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
- Taken By Trees - Open Field (Eleven)
- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (Republic)
- Vampire Weekend - EP (self-released)
- Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight (Warner Bros)
Favorite reissues or soundtracks:
- Various Artists - CD86: 48 TRACKS FROM THE BIRTH OF INDIE POP (Castle)
- Various Artists - TROJAN COUNTRY REGGAE BOX (Trojan)
- Various Artists - THE GREAT NEW YORK SINGLES (Roir)
- Various Artists - THE IN-KRAUT VOL. 2 (Marina)
- Various Artists - THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Abkco)
- Various Artists - EXPLOSIVOS: DEEP SOUL FROM THE LATIN HEART (Vampi-Soul)
- Various Artists - THE MIRWOOD SOUL STORY VOL.2 (Kent)
- Various Artists - GOZALO! BUGALU TROPICAL, VOL. 1 (Vampi-Soul)
- Various Artists - GOLDEN AFRIQUE VOL. 3 (Network Germany)
- Various Artists - YOU GOT YOURS! EAST BAY GARAGE 1965-1967 (Big Beat)
Carnacki
in alphabetical order:
- Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Season Two Music And More (David Lynch MC)
- A Bad Diana - The Lights Are On But No-One's Home (United Jnana)
- Zoe Boekbinder - Shoestrings (self-released)
- Book of Knots - Traineater (Anti)
- Circle - Panic (Ektro)
- darwinsbitch - Induction (Aphonia)
- Ditty Bops - Pack Rat (self-released)
- Faust / Nurse With Wound - Disconnected (Art-Errorist)
- Jesca Hoop - Kismet (Columbia)
- Kitka - The Rusalka Cycle (Diaphonica)
- Andrew Liles - The Vortex Vault vols. 1-12 (Beta-Lactam Ring)
- Loretta Lynch - Concrete & Ether (self-released)
- Pantaleimon - Mercy Ocean (Durtro Jnana)
- Zbigniew Preisner - Silence, Night & Dreams (EMI Classics)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times (The End)
- Soundtrack - ONCE (Canvasback)
- Soundtrack - DAISIES (Finders Keepers)
- Soundtrack - PAPRIKA (Milan)
- Tin Hat - The Sad Machinery of Spring (Hannibal)
- Vermillion Lies - Scream-A-Long (self-released)
honourable mention:
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
- Julia Kent - Delay (Important)
- Nina Nastasia and Jim White - You Follow Me (Fat Cat)
- Soundtrack - INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch MC)
- Tiger Lillies - Urine Palace (Misery Guts)
also, if Agent Ribbons' cd "On Time Travel and Romance" had been released
two months later, it would be included on this list.
Cuppa Joe
20 Favorite Records
- Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music (Our Secret Record Company)
- Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (Ramseur)
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (BaDaBing)
- Bjork - Volta (Atlantic)
- Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
- Alela Diane - The Pirate’s Gospel (Holocene Music)
- Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)
- Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
- Kitka - The Rusalka Cycle: Songs between the Worlds (Diaphonica)
- Laibach - Volk (Mute)
- Mekons - Natural (Quarterstick)
- M.I.A. - Kala (XL)
- Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)
- Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers - Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Amoeba)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life (World Village)
- Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster (Anti)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (Republic)
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
5 Favorite Reissues
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
- Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place (Seeland)
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Universal)
- Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay (Finders Keepers)
- Joy Division - (all three) (Factory/Rhino)
Favorite Videos
- Bob Dylan - The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965 (Sony)
- Alanis Morissette - "My Humps"
- Tay Zonday - "Chocolate Rain"
Disco Shawn
Top 10 Albums:
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA/EMI)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (Interscope)
- Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release (Wichita/Interscope)
- El Hijo de la Cumbia - Freestyle de Ritmos (self-released)
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
Top 20 Tracks:
- Battles - "Atlas" (Warp)
- Simian Mobile Disco - "I Believe" (Wichita/Interscope)
- LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" (DFA/EMI)
- Rihanna - "Umbrella" (Def Jam)
- Santogold - "You'll Find a Way" (Switch & Sinden remix)
- Armand van Helden - "I Want Your Soul" (Southern Fried)
- Mae Shi - "Run to Your Grave" (Moshi Moshi)
- M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (XL/Interscope)
- Dude 'N Nem - "Watch My Feet" (TVT)
- Alika y La Nueva Alianza - "Para Bailar Cumbia (El Hijo de la Cumbia remix)"
- T2 - "Heartbroken" (All Around the World)
- Burial - "Archangel" (Hyperdub)
- Timbaland - "Give It to Me" (Blackground/Interscope)
- Timbaland - "The Way I Are (Cousin Cole remix)"
- LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great" (DFA/EMI)
- Belinda - "Bella Traicion" (EMI)
- Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Ed Banger/Vice)
- Blonde Redhead - "23" (4AD)
- Why? - "The Hollows" (Anticon)
- The National - "Fake Empire" (Beggars Banquet)
DJ In The Manner of a Leprechaun
Albums:
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
- The Orchids - Good to be a Stranger (Elefant)
- False - 2007 (M_nus)
- Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks/Post Present Medium)
- Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric)
- Voxtrot - self-titled (Playlouder)
- The Lodger - Grown-Ups (Slumberland)
- Two Lone Swordsmen - Wrong Meetings (Rotters Golf Club)
- Tullycraft - Every Scene Needs a Center (Magic Marker)
- The Clientele - God Save The Clientele (Merge)
Singles:
- Studio - West Side Part I & II (Information)
- Soul Capsule - Waiting 4 a Way 10" (Perlon)
- Bricolage - Looting Takes the Waiting out of Wanting (Fantastic Plastic)
- Shackleton - Blood on my Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso Now Mix) (Skull Disco)
- Luciano - For Disco Only 430U (For Disco Only)
- Love is All - Nothing to be Done (Parlophone)
- Rework - Love Love Love Yeah (Playhouse)
- Kissing Mirrors - Let's Kill Cupid (Fabulous Friends)
- Black Dice - Load Blown 12" (Paw Tracks)
- Arthur and Martha - Demos (Happy Robots)
On the reissue tip:
- Seefeel - Quique (Redux Edition) (Too Pure)
- Mike Ink - Rosengranz 12" (Sähkö)
- Mike Dunn - So Let It Be House 12" (Clone)
- The Pines - It's Been A While (Matinée)
- Donnacha Costello - Colorseries (Minimise)
- Richie Hawtin - Concept 1 96:CD/VR (M_nus)
- A Number of Names - Sharevari 12" (Capriccio/Bootleg)
- Visnadi - Racing Tracks 12" (Cbag/Bootleg)
- Even as we Speak - A Three Minute Song is One Minute Too Long (Egg)
- Brighter - Out to Sea (Matinée)
DJ Rawman
My Top 10 Electronic music releases for 2007...
- Xela - The Dead Sea (Type)
- Murcof - Cosmos (Leaf)
- Mochipet - Girls Love Breakcore (Daly City)
- Lusine - Podgelism (Ghostly)
- Khan - Who Never Rests (Tomlab)
- Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story (Quango)
- Dntel - Dumb Luck (Sub Pop)
- Dalminjo - One Day You'll Dance for Me Tokyo (Kriztal)
- cobblestone jazz - 23 Seconds (Studio !K7)
- arc.lab - no.spectre (n5MD)
Elliot R
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Grinderman - Grinderman (Anti)
- Ghost - In Stormy Nights (Drag City)
- Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (Virgin)
- Justice - † (Ed Banger/Vice)
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
Flashflooder
Top 20 Albums of 2007
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
- Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
- Elliott Smith - New Moon
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA)
- Justice - † (Ed Banger/Vice)
- El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)
- Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
- Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (Trangressive/SubPop)
- Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
- The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
- Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
- Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Digitalism - Idealism (Kitsume)
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (BaDaBing)
Gatsby
Top 20 Albums
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA)
- The National - Boxer (Beggar's Banquet)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (Self-released/XL)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Justice - † (Vice/Ed Banger)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- R. Kelly - Double Up (Zomba)
- M.I.A. - Kala (XL)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Vice)
- Jay-Z - American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)
- !!! - Myth Takes (Warp)
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - "100 Days 100 Nights" (Daptone)
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
- Feist - The Reminder (Cherrytree)
- The Federation - It's Whateva (Jive)
- Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
- Wallpaper - T Rex (Self-release)
- Kanye West - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella)
Top 19 Singles
- LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (DFA)
- R. Kelly - Real Talk (Zomba)
- UGK - Int'l Players Anthem (feat. Outkast) (Jive)
- Battles - Atlas (Warp)
- Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is) (Roc-A-Fella)
- Georgie James - Need Your Needs (Laboratory)
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Ed Banger)
- Caribou - Melody Day (Merge)
- Modest Mouse - Dashboard (Epic)
- !!! - Heart of Hearts (Warp)
- Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (Geffen)
- Devendra Banhart - Seahorse (XL)
- Chromeo - Tenderoni (Vice)
- T-Pain feat. Akon - Bartender (Nappy Boy)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Interscope)
- The Black Lips - O Katrina! (Vice)
- Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin' (Roc-A-Fella)
- Boom Bip - Sacchriledge EP (Lex)
Honorable Mention:
- Magic Bullets
- Health
- Dirty Projectors
- A-Trak
- The Budos Band
Girl in the Green Jacket
Top 10 Records of 2007
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
- Budos Band - Budos Band II (Daptone)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- blackblack - EP2
- Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Paper Bag)
- Yellow Fever - Cats & Rats EP (self-released)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
- Taken By Trees - Open Field (Rough Trade UK)
- Soundtrack - DEATH PROOF (Warner Brothers)
Close calls:
- David Shrigley's Worried Noodles (Tomlab)
- Shocking pinks - Shocking pinks (DFA)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Health - Health
6 Best Live Shows this Year:
- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ Bimbos, SF 12/5
- !!! at the Fillmore, SF 4/29
- Cool Kids - Hiro Ballroom, CMJ, NY
- Justice at the Mezzanine, SF 10/11
- Lightning Bolt, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA 4/9
- Thurston Moore at CMJ Apple Store, NY and Great American Music Hall, SF
The Good Foot
- The Finches - Human Like A House
- Lavender Diamond - The Cavalry Of Light
- Greenbelt Collective - Our Homes
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch
- Big Eagle - The Demos
- Tinariwen - Aman Imam: Water Is Life
- Jana Hunter - There’s No Home
- The Budos Band - The Budos Band II
- Marisa Nadler - Songs III: Bird On The Water
- Wooden Wand - James & The Quiet
- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
- MIA - Kala
- White Magic - Dark Stars
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
- Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul
- Taken By Trees - Open Fields
- Anton Barbeau - In The Village Of The Apple Sun
- Greg Ashley - Painted Garden
- Sharon Jones & The Dapkings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
- Caribou - Andorra
Hip Hazardous
Top Ten Albums Of 2007:
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Japanther - Skuffed Up My Huffy (self-released)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Chow Nasty - Super (Electrical) Recordings (Omega)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- The Huxtables - A Touch Of Wonder (Famous Class)
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (BaDaBing)
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
- The Black Lips - Good Bad, Not Evil (Vice)
- Fog - Ditherer (Lex)
Top Five Singles/Ep's Of 2007:
- Beirut - Lon Gisland EP (BaDaBing)
- Why? - The Hollows 12'' (Anticon)
- Two Gallants - The Scenery Of Farewell (Saddle Creek)
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E 12" (Ed Banger)
- Jay Reatard - Hammer I Miss You 7" (Goner)
Jesse Luscious
Top 25 + 1 of 2007 (not in any order)
- Against Me! - New Wave (Sire)
- Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life (Hellcat)
- Leftover Crack/Citizen Fish - Deadline (Alternative Tentacles/Fat)
- Big D and the Kids Table - Strictly Rude (Side One Dummy)
- Shantel - Disko Partiziani (Essay)
- Carbon/Silicon - The Last Post (Caroline)
- Leftovers - On The Move (Rally)
- Rabanes - Kamikaze (Universal)
- Talco - Combat Circus (Mad Butcher)
- Eat - It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity (Alternative Tentacles)
- Martin Atkins’ China Dub Soundsystem - Made In China (Bloodshot)
- GG Allin - Carnival of Shame (Ponk)
- Rancid - B Sides and C Sides (Rancid Records)
- Four Eyes - Five Songs (Thrillhouse)
- Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Swampblood (Yep Roc)
- Unlovables - Heartsickle (Whoa Oh)
- Desmond Dekker - In Memoriam 1941-2006 (Secret)
- Joey Shithead Keithley - Band of Rebels (Sudden Death)
- Cobra Skulls - Sitting Army (Red Scare)
- Los Fastidios - Anejo 16 Anos (Mad Butcher)
- Coyle and Sharpe - These 2 Men Are Imposters (Sharpeworld)
- Various Artists - BOMBSHELL BABY OF BOMBAY (Bombay Connection)
- Commandantes - Fur Brot Und Freiheit (Mad Butcher)
- MIA - Kala (Interscope)
- Various Artists - GOD IN THE GARAGE (Gabriel's Trumpet)
Best music event:
- Insubordination Fest 2007 (Baltimore, MD)
Johnny Savage
Albums
- Arcade Fire - The Neon Bible (Sonovox)
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
- Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (Trangressive/SubPop)
- Kings of Leon - Because Of These Times (Columbia)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (Waste Product Ltd)
- Bruce Springsteen - Magic (Columbia)
Reissues
- Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (Deluxe Edition) (Columbia)
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Warner Brothers)
- Various Artists - LOVE IS THE SONG WE SANG: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970 (Rhino)
DVD
- Joe Strummer - The Future Is Unwritten (Channel 4 DVD)
Leftfield Lance
LPs
- Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar)
- Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
- Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation (self-released)
- Capstan Shafts - Her Vs. the Sad Cold Eventually (Asaurus)
- Dream Date - Come Over Now (Chocolate Covered)
- Lamps - Lamps (In the Red)
- Oh Sees - Sucks Blood (Castle Face)
- Ovipositor - Pirate Flag At Half Mast (Arbeit Macht Dinge)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Pink Reason - Cleaning the Mirror (Siltbreeze)
- Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
- Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses (In the Red)
- Terminals - Last Days of the Sun (Last Visible Dog)
- Times New Viking - Presents the Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze)
- Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
Singles
- BARR - The Song is the Single (PPM)
- BBQ & King Khan Show - Teabag Party (Crypt)
- Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep (Hozac)
- Eat Skull - Things I Did When I Died My Hair (MEDS)
- Eddy Current Supression Ring - You Let Me Be Honest with You (White Denim)
- Electric Bunnies - Eskimo (Florida's Dying)
- Giant Haystacks - A Rebirth of Our City (Pizza Pizza)
- No Age - Every Artist Needs a Tragedy (PPM)
- Jay Reatard - Hammer, I Miss You (Goner)
- Pink Reason - By a Thread (Trick Knee)
- So Cow - Moon Geun Young (Almost Ready)
- Thomas Function - The Insignificants (Tic-Tac Totally)
- Tyvek - Still Sleep (What's Yr Rupture?)
- Tyvek - Summer Burns (What's Yr Rupture?)
- Wooden Shjips - Sol '07 (Sick Thirst)
Mack
- Asakusa Jinta - Sky "Zero" (Bad Addiction)
- Fabienne Delsol - Between You And Me (Damaged Goods)
- The Dictators - Every Day Is Saturday (Norton)
- The 50 Kaitenz - 50 Kaitenz No Biri Biri!! (Warner Music Japan)
- The Len Price 3 - Rentacrowd (Wicked Cool)
- Luis & The Wildfires - Brain Jail (Norton)
- Jonny Manak And The Depressives - Rebound Town (Reach Around)
- Nathaniel Mayer - (I Want) Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction) (Vampisoul)
- The Pretty Things - Balboa Island (Zoho Roots)
- Puffy (AmiYumi) - Honeycreeper (Ki/oon)
- The Rubinoos - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Rubinoos (Sanctuary/Castle)
- Tranzmitors - Tranzmitors (Deranged)
- Mary Weiss - Dangerous Game (Norton)
- Various Artists - ROCK YOU SINNERS - THE DAWN OF BRITISH ROCK & ROLL (Rev-Ola)
Singles
- Operation S - "Is It Good? (Or Is It Bad?)" (Shit Sandwich)
- Operation S - "Je Vois Des Gens" (Broken Rekids)
- Sisely and the Safety Pin-Ups - "Do The Robot" (teenacide)
Madame X
- Federico Aubele - Panamericana (18th Street Lounge)
- The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
- Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
- Talco - Combat Circus (Mad Butcher)
- Otros Aires - Dos (Union)
- Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat (Double Negative)
- Soundtrack - MUN 2: THE CHICAS PROJECT (Nacional)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (Interscope)
- Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
- Tegan & Sara - The Con (Warner Bros)
"Mad Mike" Metrovich
Here's my list, alphabetically:
- Robert Ashley - Now Eleanor's Idea (Lovely Music)
- Burning Star Core - Operator Dead... Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
- Loren Connors - As Roses Bow (Family Vineyard)
- Core of the Coalman - Anxiety (Resipicent)
- Core of the Coalman - O Sirhan, O Sirhan (O Sirhan, O Sirhan)
- Crawling with Tarts - Ochre Land, Blue Blue Skies (Pogus Productions)
- Jandek - Manhattan Tuesday (Corwood Industries)
- Daniel Menche - Furnace Fucker (self-released download reissue)
- Negativland - Our Favorite Things (Other Cinema DVD)
- Taylor Swift - "Our Song"
The Majority Whip
2007 Album Favorites<
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Tongues (Domino)
- Richard Leo Johnson and Gregg Bendian - Who Knew Charlie Shoe? (Cuneiform)
- Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
- Golden Arm Trio - The Tick-Tock Club (Shamrock)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Yesterdays New Quintet - Yesterdays Universe (Stones Throw)
- Caribou - Androrra (Merge)
- Coco Rosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go)
- People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Perpetuum Mobile (Soleilmoon)
- Various Artists - TWENTY WAYS TO FLOAT THROUGH WALLS (Crammed Discs)
- Radio Zumbido - Peque–o Transistor de Feria (Q'Mass)
- Yoshida Brothers - Hishou (Domo)
- Dave Soldier - Chamber Music (Mulatta)
- Harris Newman - Decorated (Strange Attractors Audio House)
- Tartit- Abalabalok (Crammed Discs)
- Hotel Alexis - Goliath, I'm on Your Side (Broken Sparrow)
- Don Lennon - Radical (Martin Pilip)
- Assif Tsahar, Cooper-Moore and Chad Taylor - Digital Primitives (Hopscotch)
- Amon Tobin - The Foley Room (Ninja Tune)
- Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold (Caroline)
- Hauschka - Room to Expand (Fat Cat)
Marcelito
In no particular order, new releases and re-releases
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch
- M.I.A. - Kala
- The Peter Brotzmann Octet - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
- Angels of Light - We Are Him
- Celebration - The Modern Tribe
- Miles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions
- Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
- Blood Lines - XX
- Psychic Paramount - Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural
Matsu
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Sunset Rudbdown - Random Spirit Lover(Jagjaguwar)
- Budos Band - Budos Band II (Daptone)
- A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Echodrone - Echodrone (Isomer)
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)
- Dalek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
- EPO-555 - Mafia (Crunchy Frog)
- Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires (Anticon)
- Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara (Nettwerk)
- Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (DFA)
Matthew Africa
New
- UGK - "Int'l Player's Anthem (I Choose You)" feat. Outkast (Jive)
- Jay-Z - American Gangster (Roc-a-fella)
- Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Ed Banger)
- R. Kelly - "Real Talk" (Jive)
- Snoop Dogg - "Sexual Eruption" (Interscope)
- Keak Da Sneak - "In Front of Yo Momma's House" (Koch)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- M.I.A. - Kala (XL)
- Scarface - Made (Rap-A-Lot)
- DJ Format - "Stealin' James" (T.D.)
- Ballgreezy - "Shone" (Iconz)
- The Federation - It's Whateva (Reprise)
- Kanye West - Graduation (Roc-a-fella)
- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (Universal)
- Enur - Calabria 2007 feat. Natasha (Scorpio)
- Playaz Circle - "Duffle Bag Boy" feat. Lil Wayne (Def Jam)
- Unk - "Flatline" (Koch)
- Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi (dATA remix) (Wall of Sound)
- Dude N 'Em - "Watch My Feet" (TVT)
- Camp Lo - Black Hollywood (Good Hands)
- Calvin Harris - "Neon Rocks" (Almost Gold)
- Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
Used
- Lee Moses - Time and Place (Castle)
- Various Artists - COLOMBIA! THE GOLDEN AGE OF DISCOS FUENTES (Soundway)
- Wild Magnolias - They Call Us Wild (Sunnyside)
- Sly & the Family Stone reissues (Legacy)
- Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - "Beggin'" (Pilooski re-edit) (679)
- Various Artists - STUDIO ONE RUB-A-DUB (Soul Jazz)
- Dyke & the Blazers - We Got More Soul (BGP)
- Sabata - "Man for My Lady" (Numero Group)
- Various Artists - ECCENTRIC SOUL: TWINIGHT'S LUNAR ROTATION (Numero Group)
- Various Artists - GOOD THINGS: THE SAADIA RECORDS STORY (Jazzman)
- Various Artists - BOMBAY CONNECTION, VOL. 1 (Bombay Connection)
- Various Artists - HITSVILLE WEST (Kent)
- Barbara & Ernie - Prelude to… (Fallout)
- Various Artists - GET READY TO FLY: POP-PSYCH FROM THE NORMAN PETTY VAULTS (Big Beat)
- Various Artists - LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970 (Rhino)
- Eugene Blacknell - We Can't Take Life for Granted (Luv n' Haight)
McGee
Top 15 Albums
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
- Arthur and Yu - In Camera (Hardly Art)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
- Antibalas - Security (Anti-)
- El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
- Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean (Thrill Jockey)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
- Phoenix and The Turtle - Asleep in America (self-released)
- The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out (Matador)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale Hotel (Gargleblast)
- Feist - The Reminder (Cherry Tree)
Top 5 EPs
- Echodrone - Echodrone (Isomer)
- Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future (Sub Pop)
- Beirut - Lon Gisland (Ba Da Bing)
- Ulrich Schnauss - Quicksand Memory (Domino)
- All My Pretty Ones - Handsbreadth (self-released)
Top 5 Reissues
- James Chance & The Contortions - Soul Exorcism (ROIR)
- Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)
- Sly and the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (Sony)
- Various Artists - BRAZIL 70 (SoulJazz)
- Albert Ayler Quartet - The Hilversum Session (ESP Disk Ltd.)
Meatypaws
Best Songs and Albums
- Lily Allen - Allright Still (Capitol)
- Jonathan Byrd - "The Cocaine Kid" - This Is The New That (Waterbug)
- Lee Hazelwood - "Boots, Original Melody" - Cake Or Death (Ever)
- Porter Wagoner - "Hotwired" - Wagonmaster (Anti)
- Bobby Osborne - "Music Makin' Man" - Bluegrass Melodies (Rounder)
- Slim Langhorne - "Honey Pie" - Engine EP (V2)
- Th Legendary Shack Shakers - Swampblood (Yep Roc)
- Hammerlock - "Lowdown Salinas Waltz" - Forgotten Range (Steel Cage)
- John C Riley - Walk Hard Soundtrack (Columbia)
- Asleep At The Wheel - "Your Mind Is On Vacation" - Reinventing The Wheel (Bismeaux)
- AJ Roach - "Clinch River Blues" - Revelation (Waterbug)
- Elana James - "Twenty Four Hours A Day" - Elana James (Snarf)
- Flat Mountain Girls - Idle Talk and Wicked Deeds (Self Released)
- Uncle Earl - Waterloo Tennessee (Rounder)
- Whoreshoes - Get Lucky (Self Released)
- Loretta Lynch - "New World" - Conrete And Ether (Self Released)
- Red Meat - "High Maintenance Babe" - We Never Close (Ranchero)
- Uni And Her Ukelele - "See Your Face Again" - My Favorite Letter Is U (Unicornbread)
- Robbie Fulks - "I Like Being Left Alone" - Revenge (Yep Roc)
- Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Weapon Of Choice" - Baby 81 (RCA)
- Robert Earl Keen - "I'm The Man Around Here" - KPIG Vol 2 (Quilted Fish)
- Apple Pie Hopes - "History" - A La Mode (Self Released)
- Hayseed Dixie - "Hungover Breakdown" - Weapons Of Grass Destruction (Cooking Vinyl)
- Tom T Hall - ...Sings Miss Dixie (Blue Circle)
Best Compilation:
- Various Artitsts - TROJAN COUNTRY REGGAE BOX SET (Trojan)
Many Thanks to Artists Who Played on the Meatypaws Show in 2007
- Apple Pie Hopes
- The Cowlicks (we're the Cowlicks, on cow-lex)
- Five Cent Coffee (with the dreaded chain)
- Kitten On The Keys
- Loretta Lynch
- Tippy Canoe (who stuck around for Why Baby Why)
Melizard
- Abernethy - College Grove (Spinning Gold)
- Bassnectar - Underground Communication (Om)
- Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold (Echo)
- BR6 - Here To Stay: Gershwin and Joabim (NuVision)
- Chopstick - Bingo (self-released)
- Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli (Nuclear Blast)
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
- Ektomorph - Outcast (Nuclear Blast)
- Jesca Hoop - Kismet (Columbia)
- Hop-Frog's Drum Jester Devotional - Chants de Sewage (Urk)
- Kyron - Dark Goddess (Blacknote)
- Laibach - Volk (Mute)
- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Sony)
- Trans Am - Sex Change (Thrill Jockey)
Mike Burma
- Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
- Various Artists - YOU GOT YOURS! EAST BAY GARAGE 1965-1967 (Big Beat)
- Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
- Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace)
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
- Eat - It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity (Alternative Tentacles)
- Coyle and Sharpe - These 2 Men Are Imposters (Sharpe World)
- Various Artists - BOMBSHELL BABY OF BOMBAY (Bombay Connection)
- Jay Reatard - Hammer, I Miss You (Goner)
- The Dictators - Every Day Is Saturday (Norton)
- The Rubinoos - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Rubinoos (Sanctuary/Castle)
- Core of the Coalman - Anxiety (Resipicent)
- People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Perpetuum Mobile (Soleilmoon)
- The Peter Brotzmann Octet - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
- James Chance & The Contortions - Soul Exorcism (ROIR)
- Sly & the Family Stone reissues (Legacy)
- Cynics - Here We Are (Get Hip)
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Warner Brothers)
- Various Artists - LOVE IS THE SONG WE SANG: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970 (Rhino)
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
- Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place (Seeland)
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Universal)
- Joy Division - (all three) (Factory/Rhino)
Mixtress 9
Best of 2007 Albums
- Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
- Justice - † (Vice)
- Various Artists- RADIO 1'S ESSENTIAL MIX FEATURING JUSTICE
- Morning Musume - Sexy 8 Beat
- Saul Williams - The Rise & Liberation Of Niggy Tardust
- Various Artists - ED REC VOL.2
- Canaria Club - Kanaria Canaria
- Unkle - War Stories
- Memory Almost Full - Paul McCartney
- EL-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
- Bassnectar - Underground Communication
- Jay-Z - American Gangster
- Namie Amuro - Play
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- M.I.A. - Kala
- Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
- Gorillaz - D-Sides
- Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Best of 2007 Singles
- Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
- Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism
- Canaria Club - Sweet & Toughness
- Ayumi Hamasaki - Glitter
- Morning Musume - Mikan
- Namie Amuro - Hide & Seek
- Kanye West - Stronger
- Dania - El Helwa Di
- Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows
- Jamelia - Something About You (Mr. Oizo Remix
- Battles - Atlas
- Animal Collective - Peacebone
Mon Amie
- Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)
- M.I.A. - Kala (XL)
- Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA)
- Magic Bullets - A Child But In Life, Yet A Doctor In Love (Words on Music)
- Beirut - Lon Gisland (Ba Da Bing)
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
- Justice - Cross (Ed Banger/Vice)
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
- My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats (Becalmed)
- Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Merge)
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Greg Ashley - Painted Garden (Birdman)
- The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
- The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes (Labrador)
- Yoko Ono - Open Your Box (Astralwerks)
- The Clientele - God Save The Clientele (Merge)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (Interscope)
Murky Logic
Top thirteen of 2007
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
- People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz - Perpetuum Mobile (Soleilmoon)
- Edmund Welles - Agrippa's 3 Books (Zeroth Law)
- Eyvind Kang - Athlantis (Ipecac)
- Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
- Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
- Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy)
- Uz Jsme Doma - Cod Liver Oil (Skoda)
- Chris Bathgate - A Cork Tale Wake (Quite Scientific)
- Murcof - Cosmos (Leaf)
- O'Death - Head Home (Ernest Jenning)
- Fulton Lights - Fulton Lights (Android Eats)
Best 36-year-late release:
- Catherine Howe - What a Beautiful Place (Numero)
Best use of a sample:
- Digitalism - "Digitalism in Cairo" (Astralwerks/EMI)
The Muse
- Robbie Fulks - Revenge! (Yep Roc)
- Digitalism - Idealism (Kitsume)
- Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Love Their Country (Fat Wreck Chords)
- S.F. Jazz Collective - Live 2007: 4th Annual Concert Tour (SF Jazz)
- Beastie Boys - The Mixup (Capitol)
- Bassnectar - Underground Communication (OM)
- Beretta 76 - Black Beauty (self-released)
- Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Calling (ZOE)
- Eugene Chadbourne & Dave Fox - The Foxbourne Chronicles (Assembled Sound)
- Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (Def Jam)
- Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Big Damn Nation (Family Owned)
- That One Guy - The Moon is Disgusting (self-released)
- The Cuban Cowboys - Cuban Candles (Muy Nice Music)
- Dead Rabbits - Sin-Eater (Overit)
- Icon The Mic King - Mike & The Fatman Lp (Uprising)
- Phideaux - The Great Leap (Blood Fish)
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
Pop Goes the Weasel
Favorite Songs:
- Antelope - "Reflector" from Reflector
- Meg Baird - "Dear Companion" from Dear Companion
- Battles - "Atlas" from Mirrored
- Citay - "Little Kingdom" from Little Kingdom
- Tim Finn - "Couldn't Be Done" from Imaginary Kingdom
- Levon Helm - "False Hearted Lover Blues" from Dirt Farmer
- Hot Toddies - "Motorscooter" from Smell the Mitten
- Jessie & Layla - "Rolling Back" from Kinetic
- Lavender Diamond - "Oh No" from Imagine Our Love
- Liars - "What Would They Know" from Liars
- Makes Nice - "Anna Karina" from Candy Wrapper & 12 Other Songs
- Koko Taylor - "Piece of Man" from Old School
- Tegan and Sara - "Back in Your Head" from The Con
- Trans Am - First Words from Sex Change
- Nicole Willis - "Invisible Man" from Keep Reaching Up
Favorite Albums:
- Bikeride - The Kiss
- Dave Gleason's Wasted Days - Just Fall to Pieces
- The Lovely Public - Burning Tape at the Mystery Dinner
- Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster
Robin
albums/comps/mixtape/ep:
- Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)
- Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean (Thrill Jockey)
- Rob Reddy's Small Town - The Book of the Storm (Reddy Music)
- Delta Saxophone Quartet - Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening (Moonjune)
- Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
- Ernst Reijseger - Do You Still (Winter & Winter)
- Osvaldo Golijov - Oceana (Deutsche Grammophon)
- The Real Tuesday Weld - The London Book of the Dead (Six Degrees)
- Amiina - Kurr (Ever)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba - Segu Blue (Out Here)
- Lil' Wayne - The Leak (Cash Money)
- Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3)
- The Dave Warland Singers - Lux Aurumque (Gothic)
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw & the Hun Hangar Ensemble (Leaf)
- Various Artists - THE OLD NEW THING (Abraxas/ESP-Disk)
- Various Artists - ZANZIBARA 3 (Buda Musique)
- Various Artists - ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE OUTSKIRTS OF DEEP CITY (Numero)
- Various Artists - THE BAD BOOGALOO (Fania)
reissues:
- Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - The Malcolm X Memorial (Katalyst)
- Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Live at Willisau (Ogun)
- Gwigwi Mrwebi - Mbaqanga Songs (Honest Jon's)
- Ken Hyder's Talisker - Dreaming of Glenisla (Reel)
- Nina Simone - Just Like a Woman (Columbia/Legacy)
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
songs:
- David S. Ware Quartet - "Ganesh Sound" (Aum Fidelity)
- Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford - "Hymn" (Palmetto)
- Louis Dufort - "Grain de Sable" (Empreintes DIGITALes)
- Amnesty - "Can I Help You?" (Now Again)
- Budos Band - "Budos Rising" (Daptone)
- DJ Jazzy Jebediah - "The Scrappy Chief" (Money Studies)
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "War" (Pantone)
- Gogol Bordello - "Super Taranta!" (Side One Dummy)
- Beirut - "Elephant Gun" (Ba Da Bing)
- Ghost - "Caledonia" (Drag City)
- Virgin Black - "Domine" (The End)
- Kenge Kenge - "Kenge Kenge" (World Music Network)
- DJ Blaqstarr - "Shake it to the Ground" (Mad Decent)
- Consequence - "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" (G.O.O.D.)
- UGK - "Int'l Players Anthem" (Jive)
- Wu-Tang Clan - "Sunlight" (Universal)
Roscoe 2000
Top ten for 2007:
- Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
- Citay - Little Kingdom (Dead Oceans)
- Geoff Soule - A Dialogue Between Feminine Wisdom And Masculine Uncertainty (Supermegacorporation)
- Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
- Sala-Arhimo - Sala-Arhimo (Last Visible Dog)
- Bobb Trimble - reissues (Secretly Canadian)
- Caetano Veloso - Cê (Nonesuch)
- Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
- Various Artists - TURKUDELIC (Turk Ola)
- RTX - Western Xterminator (Drag City)
Roulette
LPs
- Bellavista - Bellavista (Take Root)
- Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (Rough Trade)
- Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future (Subpop)
- Vladimir Godar - Mater (ECM)
- Richard Hawley - Lady’s Bridge (Mute)
- M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope)
- Oh Sees - Sucks Blood (Castle Face)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster (Anti-)
- Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin’ Up (Light in the Attic)
Singles/ EPs
- Animal Collective - "Peacebone" (Domino)
- Chromeo - "Fancy Footwork" (Vice)
- Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Ed Banger)
- The Morning Benders - Boarded Doors (self-released)
- Quintron - Jamskate (Rhinestone)
- UGK featuring Outkast - "Int’l Player’s Anthem" (Jive)
- Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - "Beggin’ (Pilooski re-edit)" (679)
- wallpaper. - T Rex (self-released)
Rubberband Girl
By no means definitive... just a few of the things I was particularly excited about:
- Lily Allen - Alright, Still
- Dot Allison - Exaltation Of Larks (UK Release)
- Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
- Belinda Carlisle - Voila
- The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
- The Coral - Roots And Echoes
- The Detroit Cobras - Tied And True
- Feist - The Reminder
- The Go - Howl On The Haunted Beat You Ride
- Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
- MIA - Kala
- Minipop - A New Hope
- The Noisettes - What's The Time, Mr. Wolf?
- Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks
- Whiting Tennis - Three Leaf Clover
- The Triffids - Calenture (reissue)
- Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat
- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Sammich
- Sunsplit - Sing For Sunday (self-released) )
- Star - Devastator (Lovely Rebel)
- Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Painbow)
- My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats (Becalmed)
- Cats on Fire - The Province Complains (Marsh Marigold)
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
- Panda Bear - /Person Pitch/ (Paw Tracks)
- Manhattan Love Suicides - The Manhattan Love Suicides (Magic Marker)
- Sambassadeur - Migration (Labrador)
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
SamtheRam
Albums<
- Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (Anti)
- Mekons - Natural (Quarterstick)
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
- Cynics - Here We Are (Get Hip)
- Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
- Laiback - Volk (Mute)
- Tango No. 9 - Here Live No Fish (Spillhouse)
- Brunettes - Structure & Cosmetics (Sup Pop)
- Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum (SPV)
- Uncle Earl - Waterloo, Tennessee (Rounder)
- Young Knives _ Voices Of Animals & Men (Ryko)
- Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music (Our Secret Record Company)
- The Griefs - Throwing A Tempo Tantrum (Spoonful)
- Orchestra Baobab - A Night at Club Baobab (Oriki)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA)
- Gruff Rhys - Candylion (Rough Trade)
- Seb Martel - Coitry? (Because)
- The Vocokesh - ..All This And Hieronymus Bosch (Strange Attractors)
- Throbbing Gristle - Part Two -- The Endless Not (Mute)
- Ono - Open Your Box (Astralwerks)
- Ann Savoy & her Sleepless Knights - If Dreams Come True (Memphis International)
- Githead - Art Pop (Swim)
- Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)
- Bettye LaVette - The Scene Of The Crime (Anti-)
- Connie Evingson - Stockolm Sweetin (self-released)
Comps/ Reissues
- Azymuth - Azimuth (Farout)
- Willie Colon - The Player (Fania)
- Coyle and Sharpe - These Two Men Are Imposters (Sharpe World)
- Susan Christie - Paint a Lady (Finders Keepers)
- Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay (Finders Keepers)
- Soundtrack - DEATH PROOF (Warner Bros)
- Ultimate Force - I'm Not Playin' (Traffic)
- Various Artists - GET READY TO FLY! POP-PSYCH FROM THE NORMAN PETTY VAULTS (Big Beat)
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
- Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)
- Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Domino)
- Conjunto Bernal - Mi Unico Camino (Arhoolie)
- King Sunny Ade - Gems From The Classic Years 67-74 (Shanachie)
- All reissues put out on Water Records
Sara and Guillaume
Top Ten French Songs 2007
- Yelle - "ACDG TEPR Tecktonik Remix" (Source Etc.)
- Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Ed Banger)
- TTC - "Travailler Orgasmic Remix" (Big Dada)
- Leonard de Leonard - "AC/DD" (Ekler'o'shock)
- Air - "Mer Du Japon" (Astralwerks)
- Vanessa Paradis - "Des que j'te vois" (Universal)
- BB Brunes - "Le Gang" (Kurtis)
- DatA - "Aerius Light" (Naive)
- Thomas Fersen - "Georges"(Tot ou tard)
- Keren Ann - "Lay Your Head Down" (Metro Blue)
Sergio
Lucky 13 favorite albums/compilations
- Various Artists - NEW YORK LATIN HUSTLE (Soul Jazz)
- Various Artists - DIRTY SPACE DISCO (Dirty)
- Various Artists - GREATEST HITS OF GAMM (GAMM)
- Azymuth - Azimuth (reissue) (Far Out)
- Various Artists - RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE (Soul Jazz)
- Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly International)
- Various Artists - OM HIP HOP VOL. 1 (Om Hip Hop)
- The Blackhorse Project - Input (Molaman)
- Barbara & Ernie - Prelude To.(reissue) (Fallout)
- Sugar & Gold - Creme (Antenna Farm)
- Budos Band - The Budos Band (Daptone)
- Cake - B Sides and Rarities (Upbeat)
- Various Artists - SISTER FUNK 2 (Jazzman)
Lucky 13 favorite singles
- Hector Lavoe - "Mi Gente (Louie Vega Elements of Life dub)" (Fania)
- M.E. - "R+B Drunkie" (Golf Channel)
- Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - Beggin' (Remixes) (679)
- Corsican Brothers (Anthony Mansfield & Sneak-E Pete) - "Sport (edit)" (Mobbeats)
- Fabulous Souls - Take Me (re-edits) (LAMP)
- Herbie Hancock feat. Sylvester - "Magic Number (Todd Terje remix)"
- Frequent Flyers - The Wonderful World of Air Travel EP (Jackin' Tracks)
- Kinky Movement - The Breakfast Club E.P. (Replay)
- TJ Gorton- "Club Cabana" (Beat Freeze)
- Evan Rhodes - The Rise and Shine E.P. (Shakin)
- Lily Allen - LDN (remixes) (Capitol)
- Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races EP (Poly Vinyl)
- Gladys Knight - "I've Got To Use My Imagination (Quentin Harris & Timmy Regisford Mix)" (Unrestricted Access)
Sex for Teens
Top 25 new releases:
- Joe Henry - Civilians (Anti)
- Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971 (Reprise)
- Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie (Pure)
- Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (Anti)
- Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods (Astralwerks)
- John Doe - A Year In The Wilderness (Yep Roc)
- Laibach - Volk (Mute)
- Hauschka - Room to Expand (Fat Cat)
- Judee Sill - Live In London - The BBC Recordings 1972 - 1973 (Runt LLC)
- Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)
- Hot Club of Detroit - Hot Club of Detroit (Mack Avenue)
- Slow Six - NorÕeaster (New Albion)
- The Real Tuesday Weld - The London Book of the Dead (Six Degrees)
- Sukhawat Ali Kahn - Shukriya (Megawave)
- Frank Pahl - Songs of War And Peace (Acidsoxx Musicks)
- Vladimir Godar - Mater (ECM)
- Ibrahim Ferrer - Mi Sueno (Nonesuch)
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
- Linda Thompson - Versatile Heart (Rounder)
- Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway)
- September Collective - All the Birds Were Anarchists (MOSZ)
- Flat Mountain Girls - Honey Take Your Whiskers Off (Self-released)
- Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster (Anti)
- Peggy Seeger - Three Score and Ten (Appleseed)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
10 Favorite reissues:
- Don Cherry Quintet - Live at Cafe Monmatre 1966 (ESP Disk)
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
- Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson (RCA/Legacy)
- Charlie Mingus - Tijuana Moods (RCA/Legacy)
- Sly & the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (Columbia/Legacy)
- Betty Davis - They Say IÕm Different (Light in the Attic)
- Louis Armstrong - Live at the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival (Concord)
- Various Artists - BRAZIL 70 (Soul Jazz)
- Johnny Cash - Ultimate Gospel (Sony)
- Lee Hazlewood - ANY of the great reissues on (Water)
Shrey
Top 10 Albums of 2007
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
- Social Studies - This is the World's Biggest Hammer (Homeroom)
- M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope)
- The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
- Nathamuni Brothers - Madras 1974 (Fire Museum)
- Soundtrack - THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Abkco)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash (Drag City)
- Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature (Mute)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
Sidja
- Various Artists - BOX OF DUB 1 (Soul Jazz)
- Various Artists - BOX OF DUB 2 (Soul Jazz)
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
- Lucky Dragons - A Sewing Circle (States Rights)
- Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monica Enterprise)
- The Threshold House Boyschoir - Form Grows Rampant (Threshold House)
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Universal Island)
- Esgmeq - Esgmeq (Silver Rocket)
best reissue
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science - (Nonesuch)
Studebaker
Albums:
- The Amazements - The Amazements (self-released)
- Boss the Big Bit - Boss the Big Bit (KDVS)
- Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
- The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
- Justice - † (Ed Banger/Vice)
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
- The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
- Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now (Too Pure)
- Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
- Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
- Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch & Go)
- Souvaris - A Hat (Gringo)
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
- Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric)
- Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
- White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
Singles/EPs:
- Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep (HoZac)
- Clockcleaner - Frogrammer (Parts Unknown)
- Jay Reatard - I Know A Place (Goner)
- Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass (In the Red)
- The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys (Dusty Medical)
- The Traditional Fools - The Traditional Fools (Chocolate Covered)
- Tyvek - Summer Burns (What's Your Rupture?)
- Why? - The Hollows (Anticon)
- Wooden Shjips - SOL '07 (Sick Thirst/Holy Mountain)
Therese
- Frick the Cat/Fuzzy Wuz She - Frick the Cat/Fuzzy Wuz She Split 7" (Abaton)
- Here Here - Boy with an Orange (self-released)
- Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (Sub Pop)
- Wire - The Scottish Play 2004 (Pink Flag)
- Fucking Champs - VI (Drag City)
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
- Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists - FOR THOSE ABOUT TO SHOCK (Eleckler'o'Shock)
- Wisdom Teeth - Wisdom Teeth (self-released)
- Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel (Nü-folk)
- Justice - † (Vice)
- Black Dice - Load Blown (Pawtracks)
- Devandra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)
- Trans Am - Sex Change (Thrill Jockey)
- Earth - Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
- Citay - Little Kingdom (Dead Oceans)
Tremulous
- The Pines - It’s Been a While
- Eluvium - Copia
- Madagascar - Goodbye East, Goodbye West
- Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
- Vladimir Godar - Mater
- Hauschka - Room to Expand
- Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
- Cataracs - Technohop Vol. 2
- Kanye West - Graduation
- Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
- Judee Sill - Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973
- Coyle & Sharpe - These 2 Men are Imposters
- Libyssa - From Libyssa to Gebze
- Catherine Howe - What a Beautiful Place
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
- Maps - We Can Create
- Slow Six - Nor'Easter
- Soundtrack - THE HISTORY BOYS
- Soundtrack - THE WAR
- Soundtrack - HEAVENLY SWORD
Songs:
- Twilight Sad - "That Summer at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"
- Jens Lekman - "The Opposite of Hallelujah"
- St. Vincent - "Marry Me"
- Electrelane - "Cut & Run"
- Postscripts - "The Story Never Ends"'
Yours Truly
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Caribou - Andorra
- Soundtrack - DEATH PROOF
- Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
- Justice - † (Vice)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
- M.I.A. - Kala
- Mark Ronson - Version
- Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
- Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Is Is
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