 |
| drbeeper |
|
||
|
||
|
|
-- January --
** 2007 **
** 2006 **
** 2005 **
** 2004 **
** 2003 **
** 2002 **
** 2001 ** |
new music - 2008
Absent Kid - Misadventure : nothin'-special indie-rock The Apes - Ghost Games : primal no-guitar rock with a touch of dirge Black Mountain - In the Future : in-the-pocket stoner psych-groove-rock Cat Power - Jukebox : some good, some bad Chris Walla - Field Manual : perfectly non-offensive singer-songwriter stuff Dead Meadow - Old Growth : stoner-riff-ic grooves Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams : another weird Bejar classic The Envy Corps - Dwell : interesting, if excessive, over-the-top 00's rock The Epochs - The Epochs : some decent, mostly cheezy, electro-pop Hot Chip - Made in the Dark : repetetive electro-pop - with some crappy fake-soul too! Ida - Lovers Prayers : basically shit indie-folk-b.s. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static : every song sounds just like every previous JJ song Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo : an outrageously fantastic musical adventure Joe Jackson - Rain : very fun throwback JJ album k.d. lang - Watershed : expertly executed adult-contemporary pop Lenny Kravitz - It's Time For A Love Revolution : as sterile and generic as 'rock' gets Marah - Angels of Destruction : crazy(-good) rock-r&b-soul leaking chaos everywhere The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath : freaky prod-adelic rock Morcheeba - Deep Dive : uneven with some nice highs Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride : another great set of literate, interesting MG tunez Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine : overproduced like a mo-fo North Mississippi All-Stars - Hernando : fun blueprint-following blues rock Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) : ridiculous, self-indulgent, AND boring One Night Only - Started A Fire : small doses=OK; long play=zzzzz boring zzzz The Shackletons - The Shackeltons : fun, if modest, trip through modern rock sounds and textures Sheryl Crow - Detours : nice and easy - nothing terribly interesting Sons and Daughters - The Gift : fast paced, all-upbeat, modern rock-n-roll The Stereotypes - 5 : solid, if short, indie-rock album Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha : classic bar-room Supergrass fun Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device : pablum pop-punk This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You : quite good instrumental post-rock - still not my cup of tea... Times New Viking - Rip It Off : great tunes, painfully lo-fi UNKLE - More Stories : mostly eh Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend : over-broad rock with corny 'ethnic' beats; bah White Light Riot - Atomism : churning, energetic, mildly dance-rock The Young Republic - 12 Tales From Winter City: excellent, excellent symphonic indie-pop Black Keys - Attack And Release : more rounded, less aggressive, still very, very good The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded : overlong and a bit rambling, but all Mick is good Mick... Gutter Twins - Saturnalia : deep dark and moody knockout rock HorrorPops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill : upbeat genre-jumping rockin' fun SSM - Break Your Arm For Evolution : a crazy-quilt stylistic mish-mash, excellently executed, damn! American Music Club - The Golden Age : nice and all, but I just can't connect... Andrea Bocelli - Vivere: Live in Tuscany : what, you're expecting something different? Autechre - Quaristice : interesting, but crazy experimental, electro tour Bachelors of Science - Science Fiction : tolerable DnB pounding Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice (deluxe) : familiar Bragg sound; mildly interesting Black Crowes - Warpaint : classic BC fare - bluesy southern-rock with a touch of country-boogie Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets : inventive dancefloor rock-punk British Sea Power - So You Like Rock Music? : at time quite good, but painfully uneven, uptight rock Chilled C'quence - Dream Triggers : a few occasionally brilliant psych-trance moments Chris Joss - Teraphonic Overdubs : fun and retro-funky background music Clinic - Do It : weird as hell; intriguing to interesting, just shy of 'good' DJ Cam - Lost and Found : nice (if dated) smokey downtempo jazz-influenced trip-hop Elf Power - In A Cave : E6! - psychedelic pop fun Erykah Badu - Amerykah Part One (4th World War) : fairly unlistenable Expreimental Aircraft - Third Transmission: Meet Me on Echo Terrace : some excellent post-rock-shoegaze Fredrik - Na Na Ni : excellent: a quite odd, very fun, pop-folk-psych sound Galactic Dice - Alleatoric Grooves : cool downtempo space-ambient Ghostland Observatory - Robotique Majestique : shit, crap, piss ... very ungood Gimenez.E - Bastard Melodies : compelling 2-cd classic soul Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple : fine modern pop/r&b, certainly nothing earthshaking Grand Archives - Grand Archives : interesting sunny pop; BoH lite Jason Collett - Here's To Being Here : very nice 'classic rock', with maybe a hint of folk The Kennedys - Better Dreams : sacharine sunday-drive americana Klaus Schulze - Virtual Outback : nice space-rock/ambient noodling LA Tool & Die - The Last Thorn of Summer : stupid. and I don't mean 'fresh' Leon Russell - In Your Dreams : the classic Leon piano-boogie sound Look Mexico - The Crucial Collection : interestingly quirky post-rock/indie with an emo underpinning Lucy Bland - Down to Sea Level : very well named (this is too easy...) Mazeffect - Horseshoes and Hand Grenades : nice indie/power-pop/punk Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious : not bad, but sounds like all the same songs redone Nada Surf - Lucky (+ bonus) : nice, elegant (non-annoying) jangle-pop Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig : brilliantly constructed genius Nine Inch Nails - Ghost I-IV : interesting effort, with high spots, but mostly boring Robert Pollard - Superman Was A Rocker : one for the 'good' R. Pollard pile Robots in Disguise - We're In the Music Biz : darn fun, if repetetive, elctro rock School of Language - Sea From Shore : oddball de/re-constructed pop-rock - Rockist 1-4 = awesome Sebastian Tellier - Sexuality : pretty boring shit Supreme Beings of Leisure - 11i : not terribly diverse or dynamic, still fun lounge-groove downtempo TAB the Band - Pulling Out Just Enough to Win : completely forgettable, but not bad Ugress - Unicorn : very fun electro-dance-dub-spy craziness The Againsters - A Few Notes on Darwin : decent, if unmemorable, garage-punk Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights of America : uninspiring anthem-punk The B-52s - Funplex : that party-friendly B-52 sound Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward : great, fun high spots - some dullards drag the overall effect down Bob Mould - District Line : some great tunes, the auto-tune is seriously awful though Colin Meloy - Sings Live : not much new here Counting Crows - Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings : standard CCrows fare De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle Make Every Sound : fun, eclectic, indie-party-psych-rock - samey & different at the same time DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling : more concise and better paced to great effect Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times : mmmeh, not the Pogues Justice Of The Unicorns - Angels With Uzis : alternates between awesome and awful The Kills - Midnight Boom : uber-sexy cool-brat-punk; more complex, somewhat less intense The Kooks - Konk : fun and bouncy, with just enough meat - better w/ each listen The Long Blondes - Couples : energetic Blondie-esque glam-punk M83 - Saturday Youth : disappointingly cheezy Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd : a most interesting musical transformation... The Photographic - Pictures of A Changing World : interesting post-rock instrumentals, i can't imagine ever listening to this... Pomegranates - Everything is Alive : interesting sweet-and-jangly pop/rock Quiet Life - Act Natural : fantastic blues-and-country-influenced indie rock REM - Accelerate : refreshingly rocking and immediate, notably not overdone Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely : genre-hopping good-time r-n-r, great rawness and immediacy Room Eleven - Mmm, Gumbo : fun, swinging jazz-pop Savalas - Exercise and Karma Drills : interesting, if playbook, Euro indie-rock She and Him - Volume One : great 70's AM country-pop Son Lux - At War With Walls and Mazes : interesting and occasionally compelling, a bit overwrought Van Morrison - Keep It Simple : true nuff, kept simple (suggestion- stick to the Van catalogue) We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery : buzzing guitar tones set over 80's dance-rock The Whigs - Mission Control : damn good indie rock with a southern-country-blues flavor, fairly by-the-numbers Zita Swoon - Big Blueville : interesting and adventurous Belgian pop/rock Adam Green - Sixes & Sevens : way overindulgent, but great pop-fun in bursts The BellRays - Hard Sweet And Sticky : over-mellowed version of their usual 'rock-and-soul' extravaganzas Black Hollies - Casting Shadows : groovy 60's-psych period-piece, sorta lacks ambition/originality, nice and short Breeders - Mountain Battles : moments of greatness, wish there were more of them... Monkeywrench - Gabriel's Horn : fuzzy sludge-laden guitars atop rolickingly retro/original song patterns - post-grunge fun Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe : nice straight rocker - bar-band boogie + world-worn lyrics Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk It Off : not very original, still pretty good Was (not Was) - Boo!! : fun oddball funky-funky-funk What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us : somewhat middling, formulaic indie-rock; fun front-of-mix percussion/drums Article A - Stay Now : fairly crap emo, with a few exception tunes Boy Kill Boy - Stars And The Sea : promising sound killed by intensely boring songs The Cat Empire - So Many Nights : mildly-"ethnic" light-"rock" Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid : grown-up pop/rock, not that there's anything wrong with that... Fighting with Wire - Man Vs Monster : decently rocking, with a throwback/grunge feel Futureheads - This Is Not the World : energetic, choppy, brit-guitar-rock I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge : honest, low-key, straight (brit) rock - quite good Islands - Arms Way : very intriguing and stylistically broad; lacks any cohesion... Jamie Lidell - Jim : mildly interesting 60's-retro-soul Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge : interesting pop-structured tunes Little Beirut - High Dive : very fun (great even) power-pop - very uneven. Madonna - Hard Candy : fairly shit Magnetic Fields - Distortion : JMC-ish feedback, as close to 'rock' as MF are likely to get Man Man - Rabbit Habits : crazy Tom Waits/gypsy/jazz/... Moby - Last Night : zzzzzzzzzz Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead : fair indie rock Portishead - Third The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion : mildly interesting, overly sprawling, psych-pop The Squires of the Subterrain - Feel the Sun : 60's-70's era psychedelic-rock, pretty fun Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash : 'the jam-band album' Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell : decent indie rock, w/ a few high spots The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water : interesting folky-ness dEUS - Vantage Point : interesting, but overdone, modern rock Apples in Stereo, the - Electronic Projects for Musicians : fun, but mostly forgetable Dosh - Wolves and Wishes : crazy-thick rhythmic multi-instrument wordless goodness The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia : there's tons-of-fun under the kitsch Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark : some fine, contemporary songs here Retribution Gospel Choir - Retribution Gospel Choir : very fun moody guitar rock Slackers - Self Medication : fun, bouncing, reggae-heavy ska Spiritualized - Songs in A&E : beautifully sparse and expertly constructed acoustic-based comedowns Thea Gilmore - Liejacker : pretty good, for AOR drivel The Wedding Present - El Rey : good guitar-driven rock-and-roll Nine Inch Nails - The Slip : thoroughly interesting Aimee Mann - @#%&! Smilers : fine adult pop Alanis Morissette - Flavors Of Entanglement : poisonously awful - egad Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends : very lukewarm by-the-numbers pop/rock Eef Barzelay - Lose Big : great, dry pop, with nice fuzz guitar and a Brecht-ian waltz feel The Night Marchers - See You In Magic : fun, riff-heavy rock with an R&B flavor - some serious duds Pink Skull - Zeppelin 3 : smashingly interesting electro-whatnot Santogold - Santogold : big, punchy dance-pop 500 Feelings - The Morning After : nice, if unmemorable, Scandanavian pop Black Diamond Heavies - A Touch of Someone Else's Class : gritty keys&drums blues with snarly Waits-ish vocals Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs : wake me when it's over. nevermind, let me sleep Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour : Del drops it funky, funky, fun Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku : very fun and light-hearted Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be : lovely voice, lovely melodies, enjoyably sparse Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes : sprawling, lightly anthemic, psych-folk-rock-ish The Fratellis - Here We Stand : fun, mindless, guitar-rock - perfect for the pub Gemma Hayes - Hollow of Morning : fuzzed out and sweet as pie, with some seriously sappy moments Guillemots - Red : tries to swing at everything (pop/r&b/dance/rock/world/...), mostly misses Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things : laid-back singer-songwriter: not at all bad - not at all good Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things : made-for-radio pablum crap Jewel - Perfectly Clear : it's definitely 'country'. is it good? - not to my ears Ladytron - Velocifero : goth-y electro-pop/rock Local H - Twelve Angry Months : nothing spectacular, but solid, fun, guitar-driven indie rock Maps - The Wick and the Fire : experimental post-rock instrumentals, natch Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us : delightful adult-indie-pop MGMT - Oracular Spectacular : uneven, but great at times My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges : a few decent rockers, mostly crap jam-swoon nonsense Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quartet - The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange : jam-arific and prog-tastic, as expected: interesting... Russian Circles - Station : metallic-flavored post-rock Sam Roberts - Love At the End Of the World : straight-ahead Canadian rock Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head : kudos for the effort Shearwater - Rook : awful - can't stand the voice... Sigur Ros - Med Sub I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust : summons aural tranquility, without being sacharine Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea : oddly compelling (as usual) indie-country-folk-weirdness Tilly & the Wall - O : fun, fun, fun - breezy, light fun The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing : hopscotch beats taken all the way to the extreme Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album) : some fun(ny) moments, but generally lame Why? - Alopecia : quirky and off-beat indie-rock-rap Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves : excellent, epic, lush instrumental electronic soundscapes Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost : good, dark drone-rock - heavy spaceman influence Blind Mellon - For My Friends : not bad, but not good either Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground : creepy, muddy, shoegaze-y, overlong, overlong, overlong Cartridge - Fractures : lovely, lively, indie-pop Dave Barnes - Me And You And The World : I can't stay awake long enough to decide how awful this is Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge : retro arena-rock, pretty crappy Delays - Everything's The Rush : fairly awful arena-garbage Doctors And Dealers - Confessions Of A Drunken Mind : simple, sweet, one-(wo)man Swedish pop Dodos - Visiter : some darn good folk-indie-rock moments Dropkick - Dot The I : fun, shiny, glimmery, country-tinged power-pop Echo Revolution - A Safe Place To Start : adventurous pop-rock - moments of brilliance Errors - Its Not Something But It Is Like Whatever : very interesting electro-math-prog-rock(?) Explorers Club - Freedom Wind : cute, but way overdone, Beach Boys sound-alike album Feeder - Silent Cry : decent anthemic, meodic pop-metal - not bad, nothing special Filter - Anthems For The Damned : crrrrrappy Forever The Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater : standard lame-o emo Foxboro Hottubs - Stop Drop And Roll : familiar, and damn good, pop-punk Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight : quite great modern folk-rock-anthemz Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust : yuck Russian Red - I Love Your Glasses : Spanish singer-songwriter with cute, gentle songs Ghosty - Answers : Shins-esque pop-rock Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light : hyper-kinetic/spastic indie rock, a grower? Johnossi - All They Ever Wanted : wow! - punk/blues/indie - wow! Kids In Glass Houses - Smart Casual : barely tolerable power-pop Look See Proof - Between Here And There : decidedly un-fresh, but interesting, angular post-punk rock Maybeshewill - Not for Want of Trying : interesting, bombastic post-rock with a metal edge Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart : sultry jazz torch songs Mock Orange - Captain Love : cool, quirky indie-rock (a bit like Modest Mouse...) Mystery Jets - Twenty One : very good modern rock/power-pop, a bit uneven through the album No Age - Nouns : darn cool rackety-rackety-rackety rock Pigeon Detectives, the - Emergency : fairly boring brit-rock crap Royworld - Man In The Machine : interesting bits, largely drivel Run Kid Run - Love At The Core : polished, professional, etremely lame
-live- Half Man Half Biscuit - Live On Marc Riley 01-04 Rogue Wave - Daytrotter Session 01-07 Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Hotel Oregon, McMinnville OR 01-19 Heavy Trash - La Maroquinerie, Paris FRA 01-27 The Dirtbombs - The Picador, Iowa City IA 02-22 Cat Power - Live on KCRW 02-29 The Dirtbombs - East Brunswick Club, Melbourne AUS 03-07 John Mellencamp - Rock and Roll HOF 03-10 Bob Mould Band - The Paradise, Boston MA 03-12 Elf Power - 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 03-29 The B-52s - Live On KCRW 04-02 Tapes 'n Tapes - Daytrotter Session 04-07 Kelley Stoltz - Daytrotter Session 04-08 The Gutter Twins - Manchester Academy 3, 04-08 Black Keys - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis MN 04-11 early show The Eels - Live on KCRW 04-15 Califone - National Theatre, Richmond VA 04-16 Fleet Foxes - Daytrotter Session 04-17 White Denim - Daytrotter Session 04-25 Carbon/Silicon - Coachella, Indio CA 04-26 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - BJCC Arena, Birmingham AL 04-26 The Eels - Enmore Theatre, Sydney AUS 04-27 dEUS - Black Session, Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris, FR 04-28 She and Him - Vista Theatre, LA CA 04-28 The Breeders - Amoeba Records in-store, SF CA 05-01 The Raconteurs - Stubb's BBQ, Austin TX 05-03 The Raconteurs - Gentilly Stage, Jazz Fest NOLA 05-04 The Kills - Opera House, Toronto ONT 05-06 The Dirtbombs - KEXP Studio, Seattle WA 05-13 Islands - Daytrotter Session 05-19 Bob Mould Band - Manchester Academy 2, 05-24 Mountain Goats - Daytrotter Session 05-26 Spiritualized - Live on KCRW 05-27 (acoustic with strings) Bob Mould Band - Luxor, Cologne GER 06-03 Jim White - Daytrotter Session 06-04 The Kills - Black Session, Maison de la Radio, Paris FRA 06-10 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Manchester Academy 2 ENG 06-12 My Bloody Valentine - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ENG 06-13 Spoon - Daytrotter Session 06-16
-re-release/comps/mixes- Beck - Odelay (deluxe 2cd) : not much interesting added; still an awesome album Eels - Useless Trinkets (1996-2006) : eels are cool Lauryn Hill - Ms. Hill Dax Riggs - If This Is Hell Then I'm Lucky (reissue) : deep, dark and dirge-y; southern rock flava' Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 07 : typically nice blind RT taster Northstar - Broken Parachute : mostly crap b-sides, occasionally interesting Cypress Hill - Collections Legends of Country : 36 Great Performances : hell, I'm tryin'... Queen - A Kind of Magic (reissue) Soulsville Sings Hitsville (Stax Sings Songs of Motown Records) Stax Does the Beatles Sunn o))) - ØØ Void (reissue) : big and scary, dark and ponderous Wet & Wild - Compiled by Twilight : extreme suck Intruders - Save the Children (remastered) : make-out-style 70s soul Soul Children - Finders Keepers (remastered) Juno OST Apples in Stereo - The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone (reissue) : long live the Apples, long live E6! Rancid - B Sides And C Sides : mostly C's, maybe a few B's The Very Best Of Outlaw Country Fergie - Collaborations and Remixes Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (remaster) The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (remaster) Minus the Bear - The Make Beer Comercials Like This EP (reissue) Mogwai - Young Team (deluxe ed.) Radiohead - Best of Sex & the City OST City Lounge 4 Warped Tour Compilation 2008 Download, Dig It or Die King Khan & the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of ... : SUPREME FUCKING GENIUS INDEED!!! Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville [15th Anniversary Edition]
-singles/EPs- Bubblegum Lemonaide - Ten Years Younger : awesome C86-JAMC-60s pop combination Strawberry Whiplash - Who's In Your Dreams : see above, add female vocalist Mobius Band - Love Will Reign Supreme EP : nice little freebie cover ep White Stripes - Conquest pt. 2 [vinyl] The Estranged - Sacred Decay 7" : nice strapping guitar-punk The Brute Chorus - Chateau CDS : great modern gritty blues-rock The Information - Natural Language EP : direct and fun power-pop-punk Unextraordinary Gentlemen - 5 Tales From God Only Knows EP White Stripes - Conquest EP Cornelius - Gum EP Gnarls Barkley - Run CDS HoneyHoney - Loose Boots EP : solidly 'meh' Natasha Bedingfield - Love Like This CDS Comfort Fit - Restless Legs EP : nice electro-groove loaded with hip-hop beats Joseph Arthur - Could We Survive EP : nice Kylie - Wow CDS Lottergirls - Bonfini EP : interesting modern take on 'techno' The Maple State - Say Scientist EP : pretty decent emo Sinking - Dead Mans Groove EP : oh dear god... Urban Deep - Urban Deep EP : no, no, no Wooden Spoon - 3 CDR EP : ambient transcendence Zero db - Heavyweight Gringos sampler Apathy Eulogy, the - Introduction_ Walk North When Winter Hits EP : decent acoustic pop Clinic - Free Not Free CDS Clinic - The Witch CDS Future Loop Foundation - Sunshine Philosophy EP : pleasantly expansive soundscapes Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Jerry 7" : fun, fun, fun, fun, trashy fun Animal Collective - Water Curses EP Radishes - Strychnine EP : gritty, fun rock Speed n' Spikes 7" Four Tet - Ringer EP Milla Jovovich - laptop demos Sex Vid - Nests 7" Digital Leather - She Had A Cameltoe 7" : crazy, but interesting, electro-rock N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose (remix) CDS N.E.R.D. - Spazz CDS The National - The Virginia EP Noisecontrollers - Shreez 7" The Zutons - Always Right Behind You CDS Sleaze Phonics - Rock Ya Head Top EP The Dead Trees - Fort Music EP : great NY&CH-ish rock Eagle Seagull - I Hate EPs EP : definitely one to watch... Go:Audio - Made Up Stories CDS : fun single Fifty Sixx - Prescriptions For The Rich : effortlessly unmemorable
|
|
||
|
