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KALX DJ Faves of 2008

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Updated: 16 Feb. 2009 - Final Version

Read on as KALX DJs list their favorites of the past year, 2008

 Alternate Tunings   Anonymous   The Berkestir   The Bipolar Bear   Bird Alderon   Brother Grimm   Carnacki   Cuppa Joe   Disco Shawn   DJ In The Manner of a Leprechaun   DJ Rawman   DJ Dollar Bin   Fife   Film Close-Ups   Francine   The Good Foot   Hip Hazardous   Leftfield Lance   Mack   Madame X   The Majority Whip   Matsu   McGee   Meatypaws   Midge   Mike Burma   Mixtress 9   Murky Logic   The Muse   The New Deal   Poindexter   Pop Goes the Weasel   Rebecca   Roscoe 2000   Rubberband Girl   The Runaway   SamtheRam   Sara and Guillaume   Sergio   Sex for Teens   Shrey   Sidja   Spanky   Summertime   Tiger Lily 


Alternate Tunings
Top 10 Instruments You Didn't Know You Heard This Year

The Zither
  • Ratatat - "Black Heroes" - LPIII
  • Plants and Animals - "Bye Bye Bye" - Parc Avenue
The Mellotron
  • Passion Pit - "Cuddle Fuddle" - Chunk of Change
  • Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma" - Vampire Weekend
The Mbira (aka, the Kalmiba, aka the "Thumb Piano")
  • Deerhunter - "Activa" - Microcastle
  • Au - "Are Animals" - Verbs
Hand Claps
  • Au - "rr vs. d" - Verbs
  • Starfucker - "Florida" - Starfucker
  • Der - "Even if There is a Reason" - Posters Fade
  • T.V. on the Radio - "Halfway Home" - Dear Science
  • Bostitch and Fussible - "The Clap" - Tijuana Sound Machine
  • Mr. Oizo - "Steroids" - Lamb Anger
The Glockenspiel
  • Au - "rr vs. d" - Verbs
  • Passion Pit - "Better Things" - Chunk of Change
  • Deerhunter - "Little Kids" - Microcatle
  • Cut Copy - "So Haunted" - In Ghost Colours
  • Dreamend - several tracks on The Long Forgot
  • The Burning of Rome - "Little Pirhanas" - The Burning of Rome
The Harmonium
  • Au - "The Waltz" - Verbs
The Harpsichord
  • Ratatat - "Dura" - LPIII
  • Passion Pit - "Better Things" - Chunk of Change
Jingle Bells
  • Ratatat - "Mumatz Khan" - LPIII
  • Light Pollution - "Hand Crushes the Wheel" - EP
Saw
  • Au - "Summer Heat" - Verbs
  • Mountain Bride - "Been All Around This World" (Available on MySpace)
Melodica
  • Clutchy Hopkins - "Percy on the Ones" - Walking Backwards
  • Musee Mechanique - "Fits and Starts" - Hold this Ghost


Anonymous
  • Heavy Petting Crew - Songs Our Pets Taught Us (Bomb Hip-Hop)
  • Jason Zeh - Heraclitus (C.I.P.)
  • William C. Harrington - Noise Noise (self-released)
  • Pure Sound - Acts Of New Noise (Euphonium)
  • Sujo - Dora (Inam)
  • Haino Keiji/Yoshida Tatsuya - Uhrfasudhasdd (Tzadik)
  • Population Reduction - Each Birth A New Disaster (Tankcrimes)
  • Kitka & Tzvetanka Varimezova - Sanctuary: A Cathedral Concert (Diaphonica)
  • Cline/Giffoni/Licht/Ranaldo - Nothing Makes Any Sense (No Fun Productions)
  • Bill Bondsmen - Swallowed By The World (Dead Beat)


The Berkestir
  • Antenne - #3 (Helmet Room)
  • Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble -Ana Hina (World Village)
  • A.A. Bondy - American Hearts (Superphonic)
  • T Bone Burnett - Tooth Of Crime (Nonesuch)
  • Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive)
  • Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch)
  • M 83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
  • Mexican Institute Of Sound - Pinata (Nacional)
  • Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  • The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
  • Portishead - Third (Mercury)
  • Danny Schmidt - Little Grey Sheep (Waterbug)
  • Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep (Lil' Beethoven)
  • Strawbs - The Broken Hearted Bride (Witchwood Media)
  • Wire - Object 47 (Pinkflag)


The Bipolar Bear
  1. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL)
  2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (self-released)
  3. Yelle - Pop Up (Caroline)
  4. Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Columbia)
  5. Dream Bitches - Coke-and-Spiriters (Recommended If You Like)
  6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  7. Cool Kids - Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)
  8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
  9. Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day (Blue Note)
  10. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair (Mute)
  11. Cat Power - Jukebox (Matador)
  12. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
  13. Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
  14. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  15. Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)


Bird Alderon
Top 32 for 2008:
  • B-52s - Funplex (Astralwerks)
  • Bell and Sebastian - BBC Sessions (Matador)
  • Boscoe - Boscoe (*)
  • Bostich and Fussible - Tijuana Sound Machine (Nacional)
  • Boticellis - Old Home Movies (Antenna Farm)
  • Brazillian Girls - New York City (Verve)
  • Bye Bye Blackbirds - Houses and Homes (American Dust)
  • CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
  • El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars (Control Group)
  • Five Cent Coffee - Bourbon and Beans (Duck on Bike)
  • Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
  • Jail Weddings - Somebody Lonely 7" (Red Wine)
  • Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild (Vapor)
  • Jorge Ben - Forca Bruca reissue (Dusty Groove America)
  • Menaham Street Band - Make the Road by Walking (Dunham)
  • Starfucker - Starfucker (Badman)
  • Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
  • Various Artists - ACHTUNG! (Bureau B)
  • Various Artists - ECCENTRIC SOUL THE TRAGAR AND NOTE LABELS (Numero)
  • Various Artists - SPRECHEN SIE POP? (Bureau B)
  • Various Artists - NIGERA ROCK SPECIAL (Soundway)
  • Various Artists - CALYPSOUL 70 (Strut)
  • Various Artists - LATIN FUNK (Fania)
  • Various Artists - DANCE MIXES (Seamless)
  • Various Artists - IN KRAUT VOL. 3 (Marina)
Favorite Song About Robots:
  • Flight of the Conchords - "Robots" (Sub Pop)
Greatest Funk Song Title:
  • Gilberto Cruz - "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)" on LATIN FUNK compilation (Fania)
Favorite Song Relating to Recessions:
  • Boscoe - "Money Won't Save You" (*)
Favorite Song About About Dutch Golden Age Painters:
  • Jonathan Richman - "Vermeer" (Vapor)


Brother Grimm
New releases:
  1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
  2. MC Chris - MC Chris Is Dead (self-released)
  3. This Is Ivy League - This Is Ivy League (Twenty-seven)
  4. She & Him - Volume One (Merge)
  5. Apache - Boomtown Gems (Birdman)
  6. The Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks (Nettwerk)
  7. Passion Pit - Chunk of Change (Frenchkiss)
  8. The Dodos - Visiter (Frenchkiss)
  9. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)
  10. Thee Makeout Party! - Play Pretend (Teenacide)
Reissues:
  • Nathaniel Mayer - (I Want) Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction) (Vampi Soul)
  • Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-76 (Sound Way)
  • Rodriguez - Cold Fact (Light in the Attic)
  • Eduardo Mateo - Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame (Lion)
  • Hallelujah Chicken Run Band - Take One (Analog Africa)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA SPECIAL: 1970-1976 (Sound Way)
  • Various Artists - DIRTY LAUNDRY: THE SOUL OF BLACK COUNTRY (Trikont)
  • Various Artists - YOU GOT YOURS! EAST BAY GARAGE 1965-67 (Big Beat)
  • Various Artists - AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST: RAW AND PSYCHEDELIC AFRO SOUNDS FROM BENIN AND TOGO 70'S (Analog Africa)
  • Various Artists - AUTHENTICITE: THE SYLIPHONE YEARS 1965-80 (Sterns)


Carnacki
in alphabetical order:
  • Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (No Masters)
  • DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti)
  • Ditty Bops - Summer Rain (self-released)
  • RK Faulhaber - 10 Studies of Texture Music (self-released)
  • Faun Fables - A Table Forgotten (Drag City)
  • Firewater - The Goldern Hour (Bloodshot)
  • Fuzzy Cousins - Progress (self-released)
  • Jim Haynes - Eraldus/Eravaldus (Elevator Bath)
  • Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 69 (Nettwerk)
  • Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Dan Rathbun - Ravish (Twelve Cups)
  • Andrew Liles / Fovea Hex - Gone Every Evening (Die Stadt)
  • Mute Socialite - More Popular Than Presidents and Generals (Dephine Knormal)
  • Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Jnana)
  • Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
  • Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
  • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
  • Agnes Szelag - No Summer or Winter (Aphonia)
  • Two Foot Yard - Borrowed Arms (Yard Work)
  • Vermillion Lies - What's In The Box (self-released)
  • Jason Webley - The Cost of Living (Lumberjack Mordam)
particularly memorable concerts, in roughly chronological order:
  • Hanne Hukkelberg at Cafe Du Nord, March
  • Club Foot Orchestra at the Castro, April
  • Wire in New York City, May
  • Firewater at the Bottom Of The Hill, June
  • In Gowan Ring solo show in a living room in San Francisco, June
  • Myrmyr at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, September
  • Nurse With Wound in Poland, November
  • Two Foot Yard and Magik*Magik Orchestra at the Swedish American Hall, November
  • Frith/Bossi/Kihlstedt/NormanConquest/Bargeld at the Meridian Gallery, December


Cuppa Joe
  1. Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
  2. Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (CAI/Red Pig)
  3. Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
  4. Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall (World Circuit)
  5. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (Yep Roc)]
  6. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (Domino)
  7. Dodos - Visiter (FrenchKiss)
  8. David Byrne/Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo)
  9. Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive)
  10. Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely (Warner Bros.)
  11. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
  12. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers (Super Ego)
  13. Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
  14. The Zydepunks - Finisterre (Nine Mile)
  15. Jesca Hoop - Kismet (Columbia)
  16. Calexico - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
  17. She & Him - Volume One (Merge)
  18. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL Recordings)
  19. Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  20. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal (Back Porch)
Top 5 Reissues:
  1. The Replacements - Let It Be (Rhino)
  2. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy)
  3. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Columbia/Legacy)
  4. The Replacements - Hootenany (Rhino)
  5. The Replacements - Tim (Rhino)
Best Box Sets:
  • Hank Williams - The Unreleased Recordings (Time Life)
  • The Pogues - Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say...Pogue Mahone!!! (Rhino)


Disco Shawn
Top 10 Albums:
  1. Portishead - Third (Mercury)
  2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science (Interscope)
  3. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  4. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL)
  5. El Guincho - Alegranza (XL)
  6. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
  7. Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
  8. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (In the Red)
  9. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  10. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
Top 20 Tracks:
  1. MGMT - "Kids" (Columbia)
  2. Fake Blood - "Mars" (Cheap Thrills)
  3. Crystal Castles - "Vanished" (Last Gang)
  4. Lemonade - "Bliss Out" (True Panther Sounds)
  5. Lil Wayne - "Lollipop" (Cash Money)
  6. DJ Mujava - "Township Funk" (Warp)
  7. Lil Wayne - "A Milli" (Cash Money)
  8. School of Seven Bells - "Connjur" (Ghostly)
  9. Juan Maclean - "Happy House" (DFA)
  10. Hercules and Love Affair - "Blind" (DFA)
  11. Vivian Girls - "Where Do You Run To" (In the Red)
  12. Rihanna - "Disturbia" (Def Jam)
  13. Ladytron - "Ghosts" (Nettwerk)
  14. Tobacco - "Hairy Candy" (Anticon)
  15. No Age - "Eraser" (Sub Pop)
  16. Sebastien Tellier - "Divine" (Record Makers)
  17. Kid Cudi - "Day 'N' Nite (Crookers remix)" (Fools Gold)
  18. Why? - "Fatalist Palmistry" (Anticon)
  19. Goldfrapp - "A&E (Hercules & Love Affair remix)" (Mute)
  20. M83 - "Graveyard Girl" (Mute)


DJ In The Manner of a Leprechaun
Albums:
  • Carl Craig and Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (Mauled by Tigers)
  • Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)
  • Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco (Perlon)
  • From Bubblegum to Sky - A Soft Kill (Eenie Meenie)
  • Julie Ocean - Long Gone and Nearly There (Transit of Venus)
  • The Bright Lights - Drunker Than You Since '002 (555)
  • Acetate Zero - Civilize the Satanists (Arbouse)
  • The Lodger - Life is Sweet (Slumberland)
  • Robert Hood - Fabric 39 (Fabric)
Singles:
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You (Slumberland)
  • Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Sei es Drum)
  • Air France - No Way Down (Sincerely Yours)
  • DJ Mujava - Township Funk (This is Music/Warp)
  • Arthur and Martha - Autovia (Happy Robots)
  • Portable - Knowone Can Take Away (Perlon)
  • Northern Portrait - Napoleon Sweetheart (Matinée)
  • Pulshar - Nospheratu (Phonobox)
  • The Sound of Arrows - Danger! (Labrador)
  • Personal and the Pizzas - I Don't Wanna Be No Personal Pizza (Search and Destroy)
Reissues:
  • St. Etienne - Boxette (Foreign Office)
  • Allez Allez - Best of (Eskimo)
  • Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil 1968 LP (Phillips/Water)
  • Various Artists - TROPICALIA (Lilith)
  • The Wind - Where It's At With... (Vinyl Countdown)
  • Gal e Caetano Veloso - Domingo (Vinyl Lovers)
  • Arabian Prince - Innovative Life (Stones Throw)
  • Milk 'n' Cookies - Milk 'n' Cookies (Radio Heartbeat)
  • Various Artists - THE LESSONS: NY CUT AND PASTE (Madison Square Garage)
  • Belle and Sebastian - The BBC Sessions (Matador)


DJ Rawman
2008 Electronic Top 10
  • Arc Lab - The Goodbye Radio (n5MD)
  • Autechre - Quaristice (Warp)
  • Bostich + Fussible - Tijuana Sound Machine (Nacional)
  • Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
  • Dub Traffik Control - Dub One (Self-Released)
  • Michna - Magic Monday (Ghostly International)
  • Miss Kittin - Batbox (Nobody's Bizzness)
  • near the parenthesis - l'eixample (n5MD)
  • Pan Sonic - katodivaihe (Blast First Petit)
  • Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir (Warp)


DJ Dollar Bin
new:
  • Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
  • Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
  • King Khan And The Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of... (Vice)
  • Vetiver - Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)
  • Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
  • Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch (Reprise)
  • Centro -Matic/South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks (Misra)
  • Devon Williams - Carefree (Ba Da Bing!)
  • Nomo - Ghostrock (Ubiquity)
  • El Guincho - Alegranza (XL/Young Turks)
  • Donkeys - Living On The Other Side (Dead Oceans)
  • Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger (Hardly Art)
  • Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
  • Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin (Matador)
  • Kasai All-Stars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (Congotronics)
reissue:
  • Roy Harper - Flat, Baroque And Beserk (Science Friction)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA SPECIAL (Soundway)
  • Big Dipper - Supercluster (Merge)
  • Birigwa - Birigwa (Porter)
  • Joe Higgs - Life Of Contradictions (Pressure Sounds)
  • Johnny Osbourne - Truths And Rights (Heartbeat)
  • Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar (Soundway)
  • Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)


Fife
  1. The Mae-Shi - HLLLYH (Team Shi)
  2. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (EMI)
  3. Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
  4. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Afair (DFA Records)
  5. Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (No Masters)
  6. In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy (Modular)
  7. Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
  8. N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds (Star Trak)
  9. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
  10. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure (Team Swan)


Film Close-ups
Top 20 Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order)
  • Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
  • Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog)
  • Frozen River (dir. Courtney Hunt)
  • Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
  • In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh)
  • The Judge & the General (dir. Elizabeth Farnsworth)
  • Let The Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
  • Milk (dir. Gus van Sant)
  • My Winnipeg (dir. Guy Maddin)
  • The Pool (dir. Chris Smith)
  • Revolutionary Road (dir. Sam Mendes)
  • Shotgun Stories (dir. Jeff Nichols)
  • Snow Angels (dir. David Gordon Green)
  • Trouble the Water (dir. Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)
  • Trumbo (dir. Peter Askin)
  • The Unforseen (dir. Laura Dunn)
  • WALL-E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
  • The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
  • The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (dir. Cao Hamburger)
  • Young @ Heart (dir. Stephen Walker)


Francine
  1. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
  2. Lambchop - OH (Ohio) (Merge)
  3. Dears - Missiles (Dangerbird)
  4. Antony and the Johnsons - Another Worls EP (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
  6. Vetiver - Thing of the Past (Gnomonsong)
  7. Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)


The Good Foot
  1. Mia Doi Todd - Gea
  2. Vetiver - Thing of the Past
  3. El Guincho - Alegraza
  4. Curumin - Japan Pop Show
  5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
  6. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
  7. Menahan Street Band - Make the Road By Walking
  8. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
  9. Juana Molina - Un Dia
  10. Snowblink - Long Live


Hip Hazardous
  1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  2. Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
  3. Musee Mecanique - Hold This Ghost (Frog stand)
  4. Dodos - Visiter (French Kiss)
  5. Women - Women (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  7. Dr. Dog - Fate (Park The Van)
  8. El Guincho - Alegranza (XL)
  9. King Khan And The Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of... (Vice)
  10. Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
Honorable Mentions (or Extended Top 15)
  • Deerhunter - Microcastles (Kranky)
  • Man Man - Rabbit Habbits (Anti-)
  • No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
  • Music Tapes - For Clouds And Tornados (Merge)
  • TV On The Radio - Dear Science, (Interscope)


Leftfield Lance
7"
  • Bad Sports - All the Time (Boomchick)
  • Box Elders - Hole in my Head (Grotto)
  • caUSE co-MOTION - Who's Gonna Care? (self-released)
  • Ean Eraser - Illegitimate Love (self-released)
  • Electric Bunnies - Chewing Gum (Florida's Dying)
  • Eric and the Happy Thoughts - Eric and the Happy Thoughts (Bubbledumb)
  • Hunx - Good Kisser (Bachelor)
  • Hunx and his Punk - You Don't Like Rock'n'Roll (Rob's House)
  • Mayyors - Marines Dot Com (Waste of Oil)
  • Meth Teeth - Bus Ride (Sweet Rot)
  • Naked on the Vague - Potergeist Palm (Skulltones)
  • Nodzzz - I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana) (Make a Mess)
  • Sweet Faces - On Top of that Girl (Douchemaster)
  • Tyvek - Sidewalk (M'Lady)
  • Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud/Pony People (S-S)
12"
  • Cheap Time - Cheap Time (In the Red)
  • Eat Skull - Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
  • The Dutchess & the Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)
  • NoBunny - Love Visions (Bubbledumb)
  • Nodzzz - Nodzzz (What's Yr Rupture?)
  • Nothing People - Anonymous (S-S)
  • The Okmoniks - Party Fever (Slovenly)
  • Pumice - Quo (Tipped Bowler)
  • Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
  • Thee Makeout Party - Play Pretend (Teenacide)
  • Thomas Function - Celebration (Alive)


Mack
  • Boz Boorer - Miss Pearl (Vibrant)
  • Davila 666 - Davila 666 (In The Red)
  • Alan Klein - Well At Least It's British (RPM)
  • Helen Love - It's My Club And I'll Play What I Want To (Elefant)
  • Barbara Lynn - The Jamie Singles Collection 1962-1965 (Jamie)
  • Teenage Head with Marky Ramone - Teenage Head with Marky Ramone (Sonic Unyon)
  • Various Artists - MAD MIKE MONSTERS VOL. 1-3 (Norton)
  • Vibeke -The World Famous Hat Trick (Pop Detective)
  • James Wilsey - El Dorado (Lakeshore)
  • Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby (Stiff)


Madame X Albums:
  1. Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
  2. Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists, Inc/Red Pig)
  3. Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth (M80)
  4. Calexico - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
  5. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (Domino)
  6. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit (Almost Gold)
  7. Natacha Atlas - Ana Hina (World Village USA)
  8. Soundtrack - PASSING STRANGE (Ghostlight)
  9. Devotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti)
  10. Mexican Institute of Sound - Piñata (Nacional)
Songs:
  1. Firewater - "This is My Life" (Bloodshot)
  2. Crooked Fingers - "Phony Revolutions" (Constant Artists, Inc/Red Pig)
  3. Flight of the Conchords - "Foux de Fafa" (Sub Pop)
  4. Dengue Fever - "Tiger Phone Card" (M80)
  5. Mexican Institute of Sound - "El Microfono" (Nacional)
  6. Wolf Parade - "California Dreamer" (Sub Pop)
  7. Bon Iver - "Flume" (Jagjaguwar)
  8. Calexico - "Two Silver Trees"(Quarterstick)
  9. Bajafondo - "Ya No Duele" (Verve Forecast)
  10. Gnarls Barkley - "Run" (Downtown/Atlantic)
  11. Elbow - "The Fix" (Polydor)
  12. Natacha Atlas - "La Shou el Haki" (World Village USA)
  13. Devotchka - "Head Honcho" (Anti)
  14. Frightened Rabbit - "Good Arms vs Bad Arms" (Fat Cat)
  15. Duchess and the Duke - "Resevoir Park" (Hardly Art)
  16. Blitzen Trapper - "Fur" (Sub Pop)
  17. Last Shadow Puppets - "Separate and Ever Deadly" (Domino)
  18. Damien Jurado - "Sheets" (Secretly Canadian)
  19. Pistolera - "Inquieta" (Luchadora)
  20. Tindersticks - "The Flicker of a Little Girl" (Beggars Banquet)
  21. Noah and the Whale - "5 Years Time" (Mercury)
  22. School of Seven Bells - "Iamundernodisguise" (Ghostly International)
  23. Curumin - "Compacto" (Victor)
  24. Stew - "We Just Had Sex" (Ghostlight)
  25. Bostich and Fusible - "Mama Loves Nortec" (Nacional)
  26. Ra Ra Riot - "Dying is Fine" (Barsuk)
  27. Bitter:Sweet - "Get What I Want" (Quango)
  28. Lykke Li - "Dance, Dance, Dance" (LL)
  29. Helio Sequence - "Hallelujah" (Sub Pop)
  30. Fleet Foxes - "He Doesn't Know Why" (Sub Pop)
  31. Rupa and the April Fishes - "Une Americaine a Paris" (S/R)
  32. DJ Cheb I Sabbah - "Haun Vaari Haun Varaney" (Six Degrees)
  33. Or the Whale - "Call and Response" (S/R)
  34. Man Man - "Top Drawer" (Anti)
  35. The Mountain Goats - "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature" (4AD)


The Majority Whip
New albums
  1. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  2. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
  3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  4. bLevin bLectum - Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
  5. Lalgudi G. Jayaraman - Violin Waves (Dunya)
  6. High Places - 03/07-09/07 (Thrill Jockey)
  7. Grupo Fantasma - Sonidos Gold (Aire Sol)
  8. Future Clouds and Radar - Peoria (The Apple Star Kingdom)
  9. Kills - Midnight Boom (Domino)
  10. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)
  11. Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat)
  12. Dot Tape Dot - Tomavistas (Other Electricities)
  13. Juaneco Y Su Combo - Masters of Chicha 1 (Barbes)
  14. Marcelo Birck - Timbres Não Mentem Jamais (Grenal)
  15. Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
  16. Calexico - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
  17. Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunnyside)
  18. Liz Durrett - Outside Our Gates (Warm)
  19. Graham Reynolds and the Golden Arm Trio - Cult of Color (Shamrock)
  20. Rusalnaia - Rusalnaia (Camera Obscura)
Reissues and Compilations
  1. Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc)
  2. Various Artists - AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST: RAW AND PSYCHEDELIC AFRO SOUNDS (Analog Africa)
  3. Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben (1969) (Dusty Groove)
  4. Various Artists - SNATCH AND GRAB IT! 33 2/3 EDITION RHYTHM & BLUES CLASSICS (Bear Family)
  5. Meic Stevens - Outlander (Water)
  6. Lines - Memory Span (Acute)
  7. Various Artists - PERFECT UNPOP, PEEL SHOW HITS AND LONG-LOST LO-FI FAVORITES (Cherry Red)
  8. Ersen - Ersen (B-Music)
  9. Various Artists - WELSH RARE BEAT VOLUME 2 (Finders Keepers)
  10. Guy Clark - Old No. 1 (DBK Works)


Matsu
  1. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular Interscope)
  3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  4. The Walkmen - You & Me (Gigantic)
  5. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
  6. Olof Arnalds - Vid og vid (12 Tonar Ltd./Finetunes)
  7. Curse of Company - Leo Magnets Joins A Gang... (Dangerbird)
  8. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
  9. Various Artists - HALF DREAMING (Quince)
  10. Heaviness - Heaviness (Quince)
  11. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit (Almost Gold)
  12. The Low Lows - Shining Violence (Monotreme)
  13. Anni Rossi - Afton (4AD)
  14. Olekranon - Cohesion (Inam)
  15. The Rosebuds - Life Like (Merge)
  16. Pacific UV - Longplay 2 (Warm)
  17. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing (Atp)
  18. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (DGC/Interscope)
  19. The Presets - Apocalypso (Modular Interscope)
  20. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (What's Your Rupture)


McGee
  1. Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby (Hyena)
  2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  3. Au - Verbs (Aagoo)
  4. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  5. Nomo - Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
  6. Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Vol. 9 (Tzadik)
  7. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  8. The Low Lows - Shining Violence (Misra)
  9. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (M80)
  11. Medeski Martin and Wood - Radiolarians I (Indirecto)
  12. The Fireman - Electric Arguments (Ato Records)
  13. Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic (Sunny Side)
  14. Deastro - Keeper's (Ghostly International)
  15. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers)
  16. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin (Matador)
  17. Portishead - Third (Mercury)
  18. Avishai Cohen Trio - Gently Disturbed (Sunny Side)
  19. Dr. Dog - Fate (Park The Van)
  20. Cursillistas - Wasp Stings The Last Bitter Flavor (Digitalis Recordings)


Meatypaws

Best Songs
  1. Devil Makes Three - "Bullet" / "Shades" / "Old Number 7"
  2. Dillard And Clark - "Train Leaves Here This Mornin"
  3. Hayes Carll - "She Left Me For Jesus"
  4. Old Crow Medicine Show - "Mary's Kitchen"
  5. Teddy Thompson - "The Worst Is Yet To Come"
  6. Woodbox Gang - "Devil's Got Dibs On Me"
  7. Wrights - "You Were Made For Me"
  8. Langhorne Slim - "Restless"
  9. Moondoggies - "Old Hound"
  10. Th Legendary Shack Shakers - "Born Again Again"
  11. Blitzen Trapper - "Furr"
  12. Uni And Her Ukelele - "Christmas On Tatooine, A Star Wars Christmas" (Live at KALX)
  13. Mars Arizona - "Dirty Town"
  14. Manu Chao - "Politik Kills"
  15. Jason Ringenberg - "Pocket Full Of Soul" / "Rainbow Stew"
  16. Andre Williams - "Pray For Your Daughter"
  17. Earl Scruggs - "Sittin' On Top Of The World"
  18. Pixie Kitchen - "Ducks In the Millpond" (Live at KALX)
  19. Randy Newman - "Harps And Angels"
  20. Eilen Jewell - "Rich Man's World"
  21. Mikie Lee Prasad - "North Of Mediocre" (Live at KALX)
  22. Mother Truckers - "I'll Meet You There"
  23. Possessed By Paul James - "Ferris Wheel"
  24. Lee Scratch Perry - "Disarm"
  25. Holly Golightly - "Gettin' High For Jesus"
  26. Lucinda Williams - "Well Well Well"
  27. Rhonda Vincent - "I'm Leavin'"
Some Great Pop Songs in 2008
  • B52's - "Dancin' Now"
  • Dolorata - "You've Gotta Want It"
  • Dressy Bessy - "Shoot I Love You"
  • Love As Laughter - "Baby Shambles"
  • My Little Airport - "Edward, Had You Ever Thought That The End of the World Would Come On 20.9.01?"
  • Offspring - "Hammerhead"
  • Mae Shi - "Lamb And Lion"
  • Ting Tings - "Great DJ"
  • Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby - "Here Comes My Ship"
Many Thanks to Artists Who Played on the Meatypaws Show in 2008
  • Bhi Bhiman (courtesy of the Freight and Salvage)
  • Foxtails Brigade and the Trifles
  • Hobohemians Boxcar Band
  • Mikie Lee Prasad
  • Pixie Kitchen, and tap dancer Sage (found at the SF Cole Valley Street Fair)
  • Richard Julian (courtesy of the Freight and Salvage)
  • Thimble Wit and Sluggs Revenge
  • Tippy Canoe
  • Uni and Her Ukelele (and her musical pal Dr. Trucker)


Midge
Most Listened to Albums of 2k8:
  1. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Astralwerks)
  2. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (We*Are*Free)
  3. Au - Verbs (Aagoo)
  4. Ratatat - LPIII (XL Records)
  5. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
  6. Passion Pit - Chunk of Change Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  7. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
  8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (French Kiss)
  9. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Happens Today (Todomundo)
  10. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)
  11. Stereolab - Chemical Chords (4AD)
  12. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular Interscope)
  13. Jaguar Love - Highways of Gold (Matador)
  14. Kings of Leon - Only in the Night (RCA)
  15. Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir (Warp)


Mike Burma
  • Arrington de Dionyso - I See Beyond the Black Sun (K)
  • Box Elders - Hole in my Head 7" (Grotto)
  • Calexico - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
  • caUSE co-MOTION - Who's Gonna Care? (self-released)
  • Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (No Masters)
  • Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing (Atp)
  • Jason Zeh - Heraclitus (C.I.P.)
  • Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  • Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
  • Nodzzz - I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana) (Make a Mess)
  • The Okmoniks - Party Fever (Slovenly)
  • Pure Sound - Acts Of New Noise (Euphonium)
  • The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  • Wire - Object 47 (Pinkflag)


Mixtress 9
  • Perfume - Game (Tokuma Japan)
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Slip ( Null Corps.)
  • Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Lies/Last Gang)
  • Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (EMI)
  • Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
  • The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust Lust (Vice)
  • Yelle - Pop Up! (Source Et Caetera)
  • Ladytron - Velocifero (Nettwerk)
  • Pretty & Nice - Get Young (Hardly Art)
  • The Polysics - We Ate The Machine (Myspace)
  • Does It Offend You Yeah? - You Have No Idea ... (Sony Entertainment)
  • Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair (DFA)
  • The Presets - Apocalypto (Modular)
  • Sebastian - A Fine Selection Of Remixes (Ed Banger)
  • Aural Vampire - Aural Vampire (Avex)
  • The Futureheads - This Is Not the World (Nut Records)
  • Buono!! - Cafe Buono!! (Pony Canyon)
  • Morning Musume - Cover You!! (Up Front Works)
  • And Also The Trees - Best Of (QDK)
  • Various Artists - PETIT BEST 9 (Up Front Works)
  • Justice - A Cross The Universe (Because)
  • Wonder Girls - THe Wonder Years Trilogy (JYP Entertainment)
  • Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Motown)
  • Various Artists - ED REC VOL. 3 (Ed Banger)
  • Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
  • Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul ( Big Brother Recordings)
  • Animal Collective - Water Curses (Domino)


Murky Logic
Records I listened to a bunch in 2008:
  • The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  • Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
  • Rupa & the April Fishes - eXtraordinary rendition (Cumbancha)
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light (Drag City)
  • Brian Molnar - Feelin' Out of Time (Avenue A)
  • Kitka - The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between The Worlds (Diaphonica)
  • Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  • Devotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
  • Edmund Welles - Tooth & Claw (Zeroth Law)
  • Arrington de Dionyso - I See Beyond the Black Sun (K)


The Muse
New Releases:
  • Juaneco Y Su Combo - Masters of Chicha 1 (Barbes)
  • Charlie Haden - Family & Friends, Rambling Boy (Decca)
  • Blevin Blectum - Gularflutter (Aagoo)
  • Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (Trade Root)
  • Zydepunks - Finisterre (Nine Mile)
  • Edmund Welles - Tooth and Claw (Zeroth Law)
  • Woodbox Gang - Drunk as Dragons (Alternative Tentacles)
  • The All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking Into It (self-released)
  • Triclops! - Out of Africa (Alternative Tentacles)
  • Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (Definitive Jux)
  • Cafe Tacuba - Sino (Universal Republic)
  • The Cuban Cowboys - Cuban Candles (Muy Nice Music)
  • Flight Of The Conchords - Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
  • Kitka - The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between The Worlds (Diaphonica)
  • Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper - Leavin' Town (Rounder)
  • Wooden Shjips - Vol. 1 (self-released)
  • Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud (Sidewalk)
  • NCM - Escape From Myopia (self-released)
  • Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians 1 (Indirecto)
  • Cephas & Wiggins - Richmond Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • Cheap Time - Cheap Time (In The Red)
Reissue/Retrospective:
  • Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil (1968) (Water)
  • Tim Hardin - 1 (Water)
  • Aretha Franklin - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (Rhino)
  • Lulu - Something to Shout About (Rev-Ola)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA SPECIAL (Soundway)
  • Stiff Kittens - Greatest Trips (All Killer Music)


The New Deal
  • Kevin Ayers - Songs for Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980 (Emd Int'l)
  • Mae Shi - HLLYH (Team Shi)
  • Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colors (Modular Interscope)
  • Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  • El Guincho - Allegranza (XL)
  • Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  • Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
  • Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Astralwerks)
  • Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture?)
  • Dodos - The Visiter (French Kiss)
  • Anathallo - Canopy Glow (Anticon)
  • David Byrne/Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (TODO MUNDO)
  • Various Artists - NEW YORK SINGLES (Roir Europe)
reissues:
  • Pavement - Brighten the Corners (Matador)
  • The Replacements - Tim (Rhino / Rykodisc)
  • Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (Ato Records / Red)
  • Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
favourite shows:
  • Neil Young at some huge venue in Reno
  • Silver Jews at the Fillmore
  • Mae Shi at Sugar in L.A
  • Los Campesinos! at Bimbos
  • Thorns of Life at 924 Gilman St.


Poindexter
  1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  2. Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
  3. Dodos - Visiter (French kiss)
  4. King Khan and the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines (Vice)
  5. Man Man - Rabbit Habits (Anti-)
  6. El Guincho - Alegranza (XL)
  7. Musee Mecanique - Hold This Ghost (Frogstand)
  8. Dr. Dog - Fate (Park the Van)
  9. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  10. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)


Pop Goes the Weasel
Favorite songs of 2008:
  • American Astronaut - "Reno" (from Reno EP)
  • Apollo Sunshine - The Mermaid Angeline" (from Shall Noise Upon)
  • Tom Breiding - "The Breaker" (from The Unbroken Circles, Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields)
  • Calico Horse - "Onomatapeia" (from Mirror)
  • Five Cent Coffee - "Devil Woman" (from Bourbon & Beans)
  • High Decibels - "Miss Cindy" (from High Decibels)
  • Pets - "No Way" (from Misdirection)
  • Robert Pollard - "The Original Heart" (from Robert Pollard is Off to Business)
  • Brian Scary & the Shredding Tears - Invitation to the Sky (from Flight of the Knife)
  • Sparks - "She Got Me Pregnant" (from Exotic Creatures of the Deep)
  • Winters Fall - "Blame" (from Winters Fall)
  • Richard Youngs - "I Need the Light" (from Autumn Response)
Favorite Songs from Reissues:
  • Arthur Alexander - "Solitary Man" (from Lonely Just Like Me: the Final Chapter)
  • Charlie Feathers - "One More Time" (from Wild Side of Life)
  • Honeybus - "Under the Silent Tree" (from Story)
  • Juaneco y Su Combo - "Mujer Hilandera" (from Masters of Chica No. 1)


Rebecca Renfro
  • Sleepy Sun - Embrace
  • Boris - Smile
  • Melvins - Nude With Boots
  • Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending the Night in
  • Polysics - We Ate the Machine
  • CSS - Donkey
  • Aids Wolf - Cities of Glass
  • Jolie Holland - the Living and the Dead
  • Magnetic Fields - Distortion
  • Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull


Roscoe 2000
  1. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
  2. Various Artists - OBSESSION (Bully)
  3. Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher)
  4. Rodriguez - Cold Fact (Light In The Attic)
  5. Ersen - Ersen (Finders Keepers)
  6. Vetiver - Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)
  7. Chakachas - Jungle Fever (Dusty Groove)
  8. Davila 666 - Davila 666 (In The Red)
  9. Arrington De Dionyso - I See Beyond The Black Sun (K)
  10. Birigwa - Birigwa (Porter)


Rubberband Girl
Tops:
  • Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
  • Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Rhino)
  • Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL)
  • Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
  • She & Him - Volume One (Merge)
Others I Heart:
  • Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat (Central Control International)
  • Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
  • David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo)
  • Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular Recordings)
  • Chris Difford - The Last Temptation Of Chris (Stiff)
  • Diplomats Of Solid Sound - Featuring the Diplomettes (Pravda)
  • Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (In The Red)
  • Dutchess and the Duke - She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke (Hardly Art)
  • The Ettes - Look At Life Again Soon (Walking Around Sense)
  • Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  • Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
  • El Guincho - Alegranza (XL)
  • Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine (Brushfire)
  • Little Joy - Little Joy (Rough Trade)
  • Pacific UV - Longplay 2 (Warm)
  • Sonny J - Disastro (Astralwerks)
  • Tipsy - Buzzz (Ipecac)
  • Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini (Rough Trade)
  • Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby (Stiff)
  • Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge (Blue Rose)


The Runaway
Best Shows I Went To In 2008:
  • Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (Self-Released)
  • Carla Bozulich - Hello, Voyager (Constellation)
  • Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (Domino Recording)
  • Issa - Dragon Dreams (Sheeba)
  • Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild (Vapor)
  • Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss)
  • The Dodos - Visiter (French Kiss)
  • TV on the Radio - Dear Science (Touch And Go)
  • Various Artists - SONGS FROM HAWAI'I ISLAND (Don Ho)
Best Shows I Missed In 2008:
  • The Cool Kids - Bake Sale (C.A.K.E./Chocolate Ind.)
  • Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
  • MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
  • My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (ATO)


SamtheRam
Best releases-
  • David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today (Todo Mundo)
  • Danny Schmidt - Little Grey Sheep (Waterbug)
  • Portishead - Third (Mercury)
  • Antenne - #3 (Helmet Room)
  • Holy Fuck - LP (Young Turks)
  • Drive by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
  • Earth - The Bee Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
  • Boris - Smile (Southern Lord)
  • Lyrics Born - Everywhere at Once (Anti-)
  • Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (Trade Root)
  • Stereolab - Chemical Chords (4AD)
  • Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Subpop)
  • Randy Newman - Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)
  • Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Constellation)
  • Cyro Baptista - Banquet Of The Spirits (Tzadik)
  • Zydepunks - Finisterre (Nine Mile)
  • Mexican Institute of Sound - Pinata (Nacional)
  • Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
  • CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
  • Cheap Time - Cheap Time (In The Red)
  • Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
  • Neon Neon - Stainless Style (Lex)
Best comps/Re-issues
  • Portastatic - Some Small History (Merge)
  • Jimmy Hughes - The Best of Jimmy Hughes (EMI)
  • The Clash - Live At Shea Stadium (Legacy)
  • Dennis Brown - The Best of Dennis Brown: The Niney Years (Heartbeat)
  • Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Dicristina)
  • Big Dipper - Supercluster (Anthology) (Merge)
  • Shel Silverstein - Boy Named Sue and His Other Country Songs (Water)
  • Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy)
  • Aretha Franklin - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (Rhino)
  • The Kinks - Picture Book (Sanctuary)
  • Lulu - Something to Shout About (Rev-Ola)


Sara and Guillaume
Top Ten French Songs of 2008
  1. BB Brunes - "Le Gang"
  2. Les Shades - "Vénus"
  3. Les Prototypes - "Coup de Langue"
  4. Les Vedettes - "Joey Starr"
  5. Housse de Racket - "Oh Yeah"
  6. Little - "N'importe Quoi"
  7. Sébastien Tellier - "Divine"
  8. Albin De la Simone - "Catastrophe"
  9. Justice - "Stress"
  10. Mr Oizo - "Positif"


Sergio
  • Various Artists - FUNKY NASSAU: THE COMPASS POINT STORY 1980-1986 (Strut)
  • Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair (DFA)
  • Various Artists - DISCO NOT DISCO 3: POST PUNK, ELECTRO & LEFTFIELD DISCO CLASSICS 1974-1986 (Strut)
  • Various Artists - JEROME DERRAJDI PRESENTS THE AMERICAN BOOGIE DOWN (BBE)
  • Various Artists - DISCO ITALIA (Strut)
  • DJ Lengua - DJ Lengua EP (Unicornio)
  • Various Artists - DIRTY EDITS VOLUME 1 (Dirty)
  • Various Artists - DON'T STOP: RECORDING TAP (Numero Group)
  • Matmos - Supreme Balloon (Matador)
  • Wee - You Can Fly On My Aeroplane (Numero Group)
  • Various Artists - VINTAGE GROOVES: DANCE MIXES VOLUME (Seamless)
My favorite blogs, re-edits, and reasons to love DISCO


Sex for Teens
Top 25 New Releases:
  1. Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
  2. Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat)
  3. Marching Band - Spark Large (U&L)
  4. Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider - Silent City (World Village)
  5. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey (Lost Highway)
  6. Huun-Huur-Tu - Mother Earth! Father Sky! (Jaro / Zebralution)
  7. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  8. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
  9. Dave Holland Sextet - Pass It On (ECM)
  10. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood (Nonesuch)
  11. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Constellation)
  12. Charlie Haden - Rambling Boy (Decca)
  13. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen (Pi Recordings)
  14. Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
  15. Avishai Cohen - Gently Disturbed (Sunnyside)
  16. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)
  17. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)
  18. Jeff Gauthier - House of Return (Cryptogramophone)
  19. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel (AVIE)
  20. Rupa & the April Fishes - eXtraordinary rendition (Cumbancha)
  21. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold (Rhymesayers)
  22. Rhonda Vincent - Good Thing Going (Rounder)
  23. The Notwist - The Devil You + Me (Domino)
  24. Valerio Cosi - Collected Works (Porter)
  25. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP)
Top 10 Reissues
  • The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium (Legacy)
  • Guy Clark - Old No. 1 (DBK Works)
  • Aretha Franklin - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (Rhino)
  • Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil (1968) (Water)
  • Tim Hardin - 1 (Water)
  • Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA SPECIAL: MODERN HIGHLIFE, AFRO-SOUNDS & NIGERIAN BLUES (Soundway)
  • Otis Redding - Live In London & Paris (Stax)
  • Rodriguez - Cold Fact (Light in the Attic)
  • Top Choice Clique - Anthology (Brick)


Shrey
  1. M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (XL)
  2. The Dodos - Visiter (Frenchkiss)
  3. The Terrordactyls - The Terrordactyls (Pankof)
  4. TV On The Radio (Dear Science)
  5. The Cool Kids - Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)
  6. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)
  7. She & Him - Volume One (Merge)
  8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Red Ink)
  9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
  10. The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)


Sidja
  • Autechre - Quaristice (Warp)
  • Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (Warp)
  • Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (Atp Recordings)
  • Skozey Fetish - This Then (Resipiscent)
  • Eleh/Pauline Oliveros - Eleh/Pauline Oliveros (Important Records)
  • Sun O /// - Domkirke (Southern Lord)
  • Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely (Season Of Mist)
  • Tape - Luminarium (Hapna)
  • Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher)
  • Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky)
  • Jarboe & Justin Broadrick - J2 (The End)
  • Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (FatCat)
  • Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan (Tzadik)


Spanky
Releases:
  • Younger Lovers - Newest Romantic (Retard Disco/Raw Sugar)
  • Okmoniks - Party Fever!!! (Slovenly)
  • NoBunny - Love Visions (Bubbledumb)
  • Hunx And His Punx - "Gimmie Gimmie Back Your Love"/"You Don't Like Rock&Roll" (Rob's House)
  • Shannon & The Clams - Scuffle With The Clams (1234 Go! Records)
  • Schatzi and Hazeltine - "Waffle House" (demo)
  • Black Rainbow - We Radiate (Left Off the Dial)
  • Black Rainbow - Black Rainbow (Thrillhouse)
  • Swann Danger - Swann Danger LP
Videos:
  • "Dunce Dunce Revolution" by Janelle Blarg
  • "Gimmie Gimmie Back Your Love" Hunx and His Punx video by Justin Kelly
  • Younger Lovers Music Video by Lovewarz
Live shows:
  • What Cheer Brigade? - in the streets!
  • Pinhead Gunpowder - at 924 gilman street
  • C'mon Everybody - at WC/Ghost town
  • Personal and the Pizzas - budget rock
  • Underground Railroad To Candyland - on espn in japan!
  • Sticker Guy 15th Anniversary show in Reno w/ Spits, Bananas, Scared of Chaka, etc.
  • Thorns of Life - on youtube!
  • Harlem - at the knockout
  • Flight of The Conchords - nob hill masonic center
  • Ssion - at the Knockout
  • Needles - at the Knockout
  • ...and all the bands on my Releases list!


Summertime
  • Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
  • Captain Dan And The Scurvy Crew - Rimes Of The Hip Hop Mariners (Nonexistant)
  • Charlie Haden, Family & Friends - Rambling Boy (Decca)
  • Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won (PM Press/Trade Route Music)
  • Colin Meloy - Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists Incorporated/Red Pig)
  • Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West Records)
  • Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  • Herman Dune - Next Year In Zion (Everloving Records)
  • Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
  • Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles - Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles (Kemado)
  • Luke Doucet And The White Falcon - Blood's Too Rich (Six Shooter)
  • Mates Of State - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk Records)
  • Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long (Sub Pop)
  • Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar-Boy Superstar 1970-76 (Soundway)
  • Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge (Blue Rose)
  • The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia... (Roadrunner)
  • The Heavenly States - Delayer (The Rebel Group)
  • The Watson Twins - Fire Songs (Vanguard)
  • Vetiver - Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)
Top 10 Compilations or Soundtracks
  • Various Artists - AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST (Analog Africa)
  • Various Artists - CINNAMON GIRL: WOMEN ARTISTS COVER NEIL YOUNG FOR CHARITY (American Laundromat)
  • Various Artists - EL BARRIO:LATIN FUNK/ BAD BOOGALOO/ SOUNDS OF THE SPANISH HARLEM STREETS (Fania)
  • Various Artists - GUILT BY ASSOCIATION (Engine Room Recordings)
  • Soundtrack - JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN (Legacy)
  • Various Artists - LOVE, PEACE AND POETRY: CHILEAN PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC (Normal Records)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA 70 LAGOS JUMP (Strut)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA DISCO FUNK SPECIAL: THE SOUND OF UNDERGROUND LAGOS (Soundway)
  • Various Artists - NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL (Soundway)
  • Various Artists - THANK YOU FRIENDS: THE ARDENT RECORDS STORY (Big Beat/Ace)


Tiger Lily
My favorite 7"s:
  • The Barbaras - The Barbaras (Goner)
  • Box Elders - Box Elders (Grotto)
  • Eric & the Happy Thoughts - Eric & the Happy Thoughts (Bubbledumb)
  • Hunx & His Punx - You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll (Rob's House)
  • Personal & the Pizzas - Personal & the Pizzas (self-released)
My favorite albums:
  • Cheap Time - Cheap Time (In the Red)
  • Clinic - Do It! (Domino)
  • Nobunny - Love Visions (Bubbledumb)
  • The Okmoniks - Party Fever!!! (Slovenly)
  • The Pets - Misdirection (Static Impulse)


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