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DrBeeper 2004 CD mixes

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Albums
Singles and EP’s
remixes, compilations and endless mixes
compendums and reissues
Live recordings
Too late for review



Album releases


01 Green Day – American Idiot
02 Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
03 A.C. Newman – Slow Wonder
04 Brian Wilson – Smile
05 Jim White – Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
06 Jackpot – F+
07 The Mountain Goats – We All Shall Be Healed
08 Of Montreal – Satanic Panic in the Attic
09 Arcade Fire – Funeral
10 Nellie McKay – Stay Away From Me

11 Lambchop – Aw, C’mon/No, You C’Mon
12 Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
13 Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
14 Bumblebeez 81 – The Printz
15 Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News
16 Detroit Cobras – Baby
17 Luna – Rendezvous
18 Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
19 Federico Aubele – GranHotelBuenosAires
20 Matthew Sweet – Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu
21 The Go! Team – Lighting Thunder Strike
22 Califone – Heron King Blues
23 Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
24 Giant Sand – Is All Over the Map
25 Jem – Finally Woken

26 Polyphonic Spree – Together We’re Heavy
27 Clinic – Winchester Cathedral
28 Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
29 Rogue Wave – Out of the Shadow
30 Ash – Meltdown
31 The Black Keys – Rubber Factory
32 Graham Coxon – Happiness in Magazines
33 Mark Lanegan Band – Bubblegum
34 Gibby Haynes and His Problem – Gibby Haynes and His Problem
35 Mooney Suzuki – Alive and Amplified

36 Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
37 Simple Kid – Simple Kid 1
38 Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
39 63 Crayons – Good People
40 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Shake the Sheets
41 The Bees – Free the Bees
42 David Byrne – Grown Backwards
43 Pinback – Summer in Abadonn
44 Rachel Goswell – Waves are Universal
45 The Invisible Cities – Watertown
46 Sahara Hotnights – Kiss & Tell
47 Mr. Airplane Man – C’mon DJ
48 The Hives – Tyrannosarus Hives
49 Division of Laura Lee – Das Not Compute
50 Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez – A Manual Dexterity – Soundtrack Volume 1

51 – 75
Blues Explosion – Damage
Broken Spindles – Fulfilled : Complete
Camera Obscura – Underachievers Please Try Harder
Dead Texan – The Dead Texan
Ella Guru – The First Album
Experimental Pop Band – Tarmac & Flames
Fila Brazillia – Life & Times of Phoebus Brumal
Horns of Happiness – A Sea As A Shore
Manyfingers – Manyfingers
MF Doom – MMÖ Food
Mirah – C’mon Miracle
The Operators – The Operators
Patty Smith – Trampin’
Phantom Planet – Phantom Planet
PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her
The Ponys – Laced With Romance
Savath & Savalas – Apropra’t

Soundtrack of our Lives – Origin I
The Sunshine Fix – Green Imagination

Sytrofoam – Nothing Lost
Tortoise – It’s All Around You
Tragically Hip – In Between Evolution
Treeball – National Treasure
TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Von Bondies – Pawn Shoppe Heart

76 – 100
All Night Radio – Spirit Stereo Frequency
Bjork – Medulla
The Black Cherries – The Black Cherries
Delays – Faded Seaside Glamour
DJ Krush – Jaku
DJ Shadow – In Tune And On Time
Down to the Bone – Cellar Funk
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
The Elected – Me First
Elliott Smith – From A Basement on a Hill

The Frames – Set List
Grand National – Kicking the National Habit
The Gris Gris – The Gris Gris
Jill Scott – Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2
Kayne West – College Dropout
Magnetic Fields – I
Ministry – Houses of the MolÈ
Mirah – To All We Stretch The Open Arm
Modest Mouse – Baron von Bullshit Rides Again
Preston School of Industry – Monsoon
Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu – MilesGurtu
They Might Be Giants – The Spine
Tom Waits – Real Gone
Walkmen, the – Bows and Arrows
Washington Social Club – Catching Looks

101 – 150
50 Foot Wave – Bug
!!! – Louden Up Now
2 Lone Swordsmen – From the Double Gone Chapel
Aerosmith – Honkin’ on Bobo

Air – Talkie Walkie
American Hi-Fi – Hearts on Parade
Asylum Street Spankers – Mercurial
Badly Drawn Boy – One Plus One is One
Ben Kweller – On My Way
Beta Band – Heroes To Zeroes
Bill Frisell – Unspeakable
Black Lips – We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow
Blanche – If We Can’t Trust the Doctors
The Bloodthirsty Lovers – The Delicate Seam
Brand New Heavies – All About the Funk
Breezy Porticos – Keep it Crisp
Chris Robinson & the New Earth Mud Band – The Magnificent Distance
The Concretes – The Concretes
The Davenports – Hi-Tech Lowlife
De La Soul – The Grind Date
Deerhoof – Milkman
Destroyer – Your Blues
Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands
Electrelane – The Power Out
The Faint – Wet From Birth
Friends of Dean Martinez – Random Harvest
The Futureheads – The Futureheads
Get Up Kids – Guilt Show
Guided by Voices – Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
Handsome Boy Modelling School – White People
Hanson – Underneath
Kings of Convenience – Riot on an Empty Street
Libertines – The Libertines
Mad Professor – The Next Revolution Will Be Dubwise
Mark Scudder – Don’t Wait
Mr. T Experience – Yesterday Rules
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken
Onelinedrawing – The Volunteers
Ozomatli – Street Signs
The Red Thread – Tension Pins
The Sadies – Favourite Colours
Seachange – Lay of the Land
Soledad Brothers – Voice of Treason
Stereolab – Margarine Eclipse
Sufjan Stephens – Seven Swans
Thievery Corporation – The Outernational Sound
Twilight Singers – She Loves You
Two Gallants – The Throes
Velvet Crush – Stereo Blues
Zero 7 – When It Falls

151 – 200
90 Day Men – Panda Park
The Album Leaf- In A Safe Place
Avril Lavigne – Under My Skin
Chin Up Chin Up – We Should Have Never Lived Like Skyscrapers
Cowboy Junkies – One Soul Now
The Cure – The Cure
Cyann & Ben – Happy Like an Autumn Tree
Divine Comedy – Absent Friends
The Donnas – Gold Medal
Eagles of Death Metal – Peace Love Death Metal
Earlimart – Treble and Tremble
Elvis Costello – The Delivery Man
The Features – Exhibit A
Fila Brazillia – Dicks
Gerardo Frisina – Hi Note
The Guild League – Inner North
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
Johnny Cash – My Mother’s Hymn Book
Jonatha Brooke – Back in the Circus
Juliana Hatfield – In Exile Deo
Kathryn Williams – Relations
The Killers – Hot Fuss
Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather
Leslie Feist – Let It Die
Linford Detweiler – Unspoken Requests
Local H – Whatever Happened to PJ Soles?
Matt Pond PA – Emblems
McLusky – The Difference Between Me & You is I’m Not On Fire
Mum – Summer Make Good
Nick Drake – Made to Love Magic
Norah Jones – Feels Like Home
P:ano – The Den
Paul Weller – Studio 150
Pauline London – Quiet Skies
Prince – Musicology
Queens of the Stone Age – Stone Age Complications
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
The Secret Machines – Now Here is Nowhere
Snow Patrol – Final Straw
Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue
Steve Earle – Revolution Starts Now
Talib Kweli – The Beautiful Struggle
Tommy Stinson – Village Gorilla Head
The Tangent – The World That We Drive Through
U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
VAST – Nude
Velvet Revolver – Contraband
The Vines – Winning Days
Waterloo – In the Light of Day
Wilco – A Ghost is Born

201 – 250
Aaron Booth – Our Last Escape
Aeroc – Vicious Solid
Air Formation – Stay Inside, Feel Everything
Ambulance Ltd. – Ambulance Ltd.
Angie Stone – Stone Love
Beastie Boys – To The 5 Boroughs
Beep Beep – Business Casual
Cake – Pressure Chief
Call & Response – Winds Take No Shape
Crystal Method – Legion of Boom
The Czars – Goodbye
Damaged Goods – Based on a True Story
Delgados – Universal Audio
Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
Eminem – Eminem is Back
Fatboy Slim – Palookaville
Frank Black Francis & Two Pale Boys – Frank Black Francis
Grant Lee Phillips – Virginia Creeper
Helmet – Size Matters
Interpol – Antics
Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
Jaguar Wright – And Your Point Is?
Jimmy Eat World – Futures
Le Tigre – This Island
Liars – They Were Wrong So We Drowned
Los Lonely Boys – Los Lonely Boys
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Between Here and Gone
Medeski, Martin & Wood – End of the World Party
Melissa Etheridge – Lucky
Michelle Williams – Do You Know?
Mission of Burma – ONoffON
New Found Glory – Catalyst
Patty Griffin – Impossible Dream
Rachael Yamagata – Happenstance
Radio 4 – Stealing Of A Nation

Ray Charles – Genius Loves Company
R.L. Burnside – A Bothered Mind
Robyn Hitchcock – Spooked
Rumblefish – Exit Highland
The Rurals – Messages
Sam Phillips – A Boot and A Shoe
Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock’n’Roll
Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
Statistics – Leave Your Name
Supercar – Answers
Tangiers – Never Bring You Pleasure
Tanya Donnely – Whisky Tango Ghosts
The Thrills – Let’s Bottle Bohemia
Two Lone Swordsmen – Peppered With Spastic Magic
The Veils – Runaway Found

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Alanis Morrisette – So Called Chaos
Ani Defranco – Educated Guess
Asia – Silent Nation
Bearsuit – Cat Spectacular!
Ben Jelen – Give It All Away
Blonde Redhead – Misery is a Butterfly
Breaking Benjamin – We Are Not Alone
Brenda Russell – Between the Sun and the Moon
Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart
Datsuns – Outta Sight/Outta Mind
The Dears – Thank You Good Night Sold Out
Detroit Grand Pubahs – Galactic Ass Creatures From Uranus
Dizzee Rascal – Showtime
Dogs Die In Hot Cars – Please Describe Yourself
Eaves – Landing Lights
Eric Clapton – Me and Mr. Johnson
Eskimo Joe – A Song Is A City
Gwen Stefani – Love Angel Music Baby
Ides of Space – Sleeping Fractures
Janet Jackson – Damita Jo
Jimmy Buffett – License to Chill
Joss Stone – Mind, Body & Soul
Keane – Hopes and Fears
Kittie – Until the End
Lenny Kravitz – Baptism
Magicrays – On The Shoreline
Marjorie Fair – Self-Help Serenade

Melissa Auf Der Maur – Auf Der Maur
Midnight Movies – Midnight Movies
Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
Mos Def – The New Danger
Old 97’s – Drag It Up
Patty Scialfa – 23rd Street Lullaby
Pictures of Lily – Midnight Groove
R.E.M. – Around the Sun
Sequel – Motorized Instinct
The Snake the Cross the Crown – Mander Salis
Snoop Dogg – The Masterpiece
Sunburned Hand of the Man – Rare Wood
Tantric – After We Go
The Thermals – Fucking A
Trans Am – Liberation
Trashcan Sinatras – Weightlifting
US3 – Questions
The Used – In Love and Death
Wei Chi – One I, Two Eyes
William Hung – Inspiration
Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles



singles and EPs

01 Langhorne Slim – The Electric Love Letter EP
02 The Decemberists – The Tain/5 songs EP
03 The Unicorns- 2014 EP
04 Calexico – Convict Pool EP
05 Always the Runner – Always the Runner EP
06 Rachel Goswell – The Sleep Shelter EP
07 Detroit Cobras – Cha Cha Twist 7″
08 Black Keys – The Moan CDS
09 Pinback – Too Many Shadows (tour EP)
10 Kamikaze Hearts – Foxhole Prayers EP

11 Silver Mountain Reveries – Prettty Little Lightning Paw EP
12 Twilight Singers – Black Is the Color of My True Loves Hair EP
13 The Minus 5 – At the Organ EP
14 They Might Be Giants – Indestructible Object
15 Frans Ferdinand – Take Me Out single
16 Mountain Goats – Letter From Belgium single
17 Hot Hot Heat & The Red Light Sting – Split CD
18 Killers, the – Somebody Told Me single
19 Eskimo Joe – From the Sea single
20 Cowboy Junkies – ‘Neath Your Covers EP

Alanis Morrisette – Everything promo single
Avril Lavigne – Donít Tell Me (promo single)
Belle & Sebastian – Books EP
Blue States – Across the Wire single
Buddha Bar VI (sampler)
Court and Spark – Dead Diamond River EP
Crosby and Nash – Lay Me Down (promo CDS)
Cure, the – End of the World (promo single)
Death Cab For Cutie – The New Year 7″ single
Erick Sermon – Relentless promo single
Franz Ferdinand – Michael 12″
Gene Simmons – Asshole promo
Keane – Live acoustic EP
Look Down – The American Hustle EP
Melys – Eyeliner CDS
Metallica – Some Kind of Monster EP
Morrissey – English Heart Irish Blood single
Muse – Hysteria DVD single
P:ano – Pure Evil 7″
Papa Roach – Getting Away With Murder (promo CDS)
Pink – Last to Know (promo single)
Razorlight – Golden Touch CD single 1
Razorlight – Golden Touch CD single 2
Rivulets – You’ve Got Your Own EP
Silk – Silk (promo)
Silvertide – Show & Tell (album sampler)
The Furlongs – Mother’s Day demos
The Stills – Still In Love Song CDS-2
The Waifs – Bridal Train EP



remixes, compilations and continuous mixes

01 DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
02 Kleptones – A Night At the Hip Hopera
03 The Ladykillers OST
04 Garden State OST
05 The Kleptones – Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots
06 Not the Same Old Blues Crap, 3
07 D-Cyde – The Purple Album
08 Future Soundtrack For America
09 New Testament of Funk Exploring the Funkier Side of All Things
10 Ray Charles – Ray OST

11 Tribute to the Fall – (Perverted by Mark E)
12 Vienna Scientists IV – Five Years of Solid Grooves
13 Ursula 1000 – Ursadelica
14 Erlend ÿye – DJ-Kicks
15 Thievery Corporation – Babylon Rewound
16 100 Songs on 1 CD
17 The Outernationalists – Ethnomixicology
18 DJ BC – The Beastles
19 Wilco – The Wilco Book
20 Jay-Zeezer – The Black and Blue Album

Acid Jazz Vol. 85
Alternative Times, Vol. 47
Amon Tobin – Solid Steel Mix
Cafe de Soul, vol 4
DJ N-Wee – The Slack Album
Essential R&B – The Very Bestof Summer 2004
KFOG Live from the Archives, Vol. 10
Mountain High
Nu-Funk
Om Lounge, vol. 9
Pure Moods – A Celestial Celebration
Rare Elements – Ustad Sultan Kha
Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. – The Wired Creative Commons CD
Silicon Summer 2004
The Believer, June 04
The Punisher OST
This is Indie Rock : The Best Bands You’ve Never Heard



compendums and reissues

01 Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain : LA’s Desert Origins
02 Mark Sandman – Sandbox
03 Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
04 Les Savy Fav – Inches
05 Supergrass – Supergrass is 10. Best of ’94-’04
06 Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
07 Nirvana – With the Lights Out box

Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
Bobby Darin – Beyond the Sea
Brian Eno – Before and After Science
Lamb – Best Kept Secrets : Best of 1996-2004
Late, Great Daniel Johnson Discovered Covered
Live – Awake
The Waifs – A Brief History



Live recordings

Nelly McKay – Live in Studio 4A (NPR) 02-26-04
Brian Wilson – Smile at The Royal Festival Hall, London 02-27-04
Beta Band – Black Session 06-10-04
Spoon – Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room, St. Louis, MO 06-24-04
Calexico – Fillmore, SF 07-16-04
Detroit Cobras – Peel Session 09-14-04
Brian Wilson – Carnegie Hall, NYC 10-12-04
Giant Sand – Muhle Hunziken, CHE 10-15-04
The Go! Team – Zane Lowe 11-03-04
The Kills – CBC Radio, Vancouver BC 12-05-04
Green Day – KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 12-12-04

The Waifs – live on Andy Kershaw 01-25-04
Better Than Ezra – Irving Plaza, NYC 03-06-04
Matt Nathanson – Slim’s, SF 03-06-04
Mr. Airplane Man – Peel Session 04-21-04
Mountain Goats – Peel Session 04-28-04
Devo – Central Park, NYC 07-24-04
Paul Weller – Haldern (Ger) Pop Festival 08-07-04
Air – Hollywood Bowl, LA 09-26-04
Badly Drawn Boy – KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic 10-12-04
Jandek – Instal.04 Festival, Glasgow 10-17-04
Ditty Bops – KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic 10-26-04

The Pixies – Fine Line Music Cafe. Minneapolis MN 04-13-04
The Pixies – Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg 04-14-04
The Pixies – Doris Knight Ballroom, Regina SK 04-15-04
The Pixies – Prarieland, Saskatoon Canada 04-17-04
The Pixies – Red, Edmonton 04-18-04
The Pixies – Macewan Hall, Calgary 04-19-04
The Pixies – Victoria Curling Club, Victoria BC 04-21-04
The Pixies – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC 04-22-04
The Pixies – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC 04-23-04
The Pixies – The Big Easy, Spokane WA 04-24-04
The Pixies – The Big Easy, Boise ID 04-25-04
The Pixies – McDonald Hall, Eugene OR 04-27-04
The Pixies – McDonald Hall, Eugene OR 04-28-04
The Pixies – Freeborn Hall, Davis CA 04-29-04
The Pixies – The Glass House, Pomona CA 04-30-04
The Pixies – Coachella Festival, Indio CA 05-01-04
The Pixies – Pinkpop 2004 05-30-04
The Pixies – Brixton Academy 06-02-04
The Pixies – Brixton Academy 06-03-04
The Pixies – Brixton Academy 06-04-04
The Pixies – Brixton Academy 06-05-04
The Pixies – Autodromo, Imola ITA 06-19-04
The Pixies – Belfort, France 07-03-04
The Pixies – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 07-06-04
The Pixies – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago IL 11-14-04
The Pixies – Arrow Hall, Toronto 11-25-04
The Pixies – Mullins Center, Amherst MA 11-30-04
The Pixies – Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC 12-18-04 (late show)

Libertines – Manchester Acadamy 01-03-04
Cranebuilders – Mutua Fides, Groningen 01-09-04
Rilo Kiley – Bottom of the Hill, SF 01-11-04
The Twilight Singers – VPRO, Amsterdam 01-14-04
The Twilight Singers – Paradiso, Amsterdam 01-16-04
White Stripes – Liverpool Royal Court 01-19-04
Camera Obscura – Robert Burns Supper Party, BBC Radio 01-22-04
Spiritualized – Carling Academy, Liverpool 01-24-04
Electrelane – Peel Session 01-29-04

The Unicorns – The Earl, Atlanta 02-03-04
White Stripes (Jack White solo) – Peel Session 02-04-04
The Shins – Canes Ballroom, San Diego 02-08-04
Mountain Goats – Mills College Chapel, Oakland CA 02-11-04
Prince – Fillmore, SF 02-14-04
Modest Mouse – Social, Orlando FL 02-15-04
Mountain Goats – The Earl, Atlanta 02-18-04
Lambchop – Echo Lounge, Atlanta 02-21-04
Adam Green – Feierwerk, Munich 02-23-04
Love – Liverpool Carling Academy 02-24-04

Mountain Goats – Knitting Factory, NYC 03-03-04
Spoon – The Parish, Austin TX 03-05-04
Fountains of Wayne – CafÈ de la Danse, Paris 03-06-04
The Constantines – Lager House, Detroit 03-11-04
Primus – DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC 03-13-04
G. Love & Special Sauce – 9:30 Club, Washington DC 03-14-04
Lambchop – Live in Vienna (radio) 03-18-04
Camper van Beethoven – The Vic, Chicago IL 03-18-04
Califone – Boa, Lucern SUI 03-21-04
The Who – The Forum, London 03-22-04
Dan Bern – Housing Works Used Book Cafe, NYC 03-24-04
Super Furry Animals – Liverpool Royal Court 03-24-04
Preston School of Industry – WFMU, 03-28-04
Nelly McKay – Knitting Factory, LA 03-29-04

Mountain Goats – XFM Session 04-08-04
Smog – The Earl, Atlanta GA 04-10-04
Deerhoof – Emo’s, Austin TX 04-16-04
Elf Power – Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON 04-19-04
Franz Ferdinand – La Cigale, Paris 04-22-04
Tortoise – 9:30 Club, Washington DC 04-24-04
Avril Lavigne – Denny, UK 04-26-04 (webcast)
Polyphonic Spree – The Backyard, Austin 04-27-04

Beck – Coachella Festival, Indio CA 05-01-04
Radiohead – Coachella Festival, Indio CA 05-01-04
Kraftwerk – Coachella Festival, Indio CA 05-01-04
The Sleepy Jackson – KCRW 05-03-04
Britt Daniel – The Garage, London 05-04-04
PJ Harvey – Peel Acres 05-04-04
Ben Kweller – Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR 05-05-04
Deerhoof – Peel Session 05-12-04
Paul Westerberg – Brown Theatre, Louisville 05-15-04
Velvet Revolver – Quest Club, Minneapolis 05-15-04
New Model Army (as Justin Sullivan & Friends) – DNA Lounge, SF 05-19-04
Mike Watt – La Zona Rosa #2, San Pedro CA 05-21-04
Mountain Goats – KEXP Session 05-21-04
Velvet Revolver – Kool Haus, Toronto 05-21-04
Kings of Convenience – Radio 1 Blue Room 05-22-04
Mountain Goats – Bottom of the Hill, SF 05-26-04
Avril Lavigne – Intimate & Interactive, MuchMusic Toronto 05-28-04
Datsuns – Pinkpop 2004 05-31-04
Black Eyed Peas – Pinkpop 2004 05-31-04
Franz Ferdinand – Pinkpop 2004 05-31-04
The Thrills – Pinkpop 2004 05-31-04

Paul Weller – Royal Albert Hall, London 06-02-04
The Decemberists – Lees Palace, Toronto 06-06-04
Badly Drawn Boy – BBC Radio2 06-07-04
PJ Harvey – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 06-10-04
Van Halen – Greensboro Coliseum 06-11-04
Cracker and Camper van Beethoven – Bonnaroo Festival , Manchester TN 06-13-04
Cracker – Blue Cats, Knoxville TN 06-15-04
Belle & Sebastian – Glastonbury Festival 06-27-04

Bo Diddley – House of Blues, Las Vegas 07-01-04
Nellie McKay – South Street Seaport, NYC 07-07-04
Dan Bern – 12 Galaxies, SF 07-08-04 (early show)
Dan Bern – 12 Galaxies, SF 07-08-04 (late show)
Snow Patrol – T’ in the Park 07-11-04
Cowboy Junkies – Atlanta Botanical Gardens 07-14-04
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Big Orange, Austin TX 07-15-04
Melys – Peel Session 07-20-04
Southern Culture on the Skids – The Visualite, Charlotte NC 07-23-04
Bob Schneider – Borders in-store, San Diego CA 07-24-04
Tanya Donnely – Mark Radcliffe Show, BBC Radio 2 07-26-04
Rilo Kiley – Bottom of the Hill, SF 07-30-04
Eric Clapton – HP Pavillion, San Jose 07-30-04

Lianne Hall and Caroline Martin – Peel Session 08-05-04
The Sunshine Fix – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 08-07-04
Charlie Hunter – Great American Music Hall, SF 08-21-04
Animal Collective – Bowery Ballroom, NYC 08-15-04
Franz Ferdinand – Lowlands Festival, Holland 08-22-04
Donavon Frankenreiter Band – Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA 08-27-04
G. Love and Special Sauce – Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA 08-27-04
Jack Johnson – Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA 08-27-04

Fiery Furnaces – Mod Club, Toronto ON 09-09-04
The Dirtbombs – Molotow, Hamburg GER 09-15-04
Neil Young – Berkeley Community Theatre 09-15-04
Soundtrack of our Lives – Austin City Limits Festival, Zilker Park 09-18-04
David Byrne – Town Hall, NYC 09-21-04 (creative commons benefit)
Interpol – Melkweg, Amsterdam 09-23-04
Supergrass – KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic 09-27-04

The Polyphonic Spree – Millenium Stage, Washington DC 10-01-04
Mono – Bottom of the Hill, SF CA 10-01-04
Black Mountain – Live on ZeD 10-07-04
James Mercer (Shins) – Moonshine Festival, Laguna Beach CA 10-10-04
Rilo Kiley – The Black Cat, Washington DC 10-10-04
Libertines – Opera House, Toronto 10-12-04
Velvet Revolver – The Roxy, Hollywood 10-13-04
Tom Waits – Orpheum, Vancouver BC 10-15-04
The Mountain Goats – The Earl, Atlanta GA 10-18-04
Patti Smith – White Session 10-22-04
Rilo Kiley/The Elected/Jenny Lewis – Edge Studios, Adventure Club, Dallas TX 10-23-04
Riko Kiley – Good Records in-store, Dallas TX 10-23-04
Stephen Malkmus – La Trastienda, Buenos Aires ARG 10-23-04
Pinback – The Black Cat, Washington DC 10-25-04
Fiery Furnaces – Criminal Records, Atlanta GA 10-27-04
Mark Lanegan Band – Paradiso, Amsterdam 10-28-04
Britt Daniel – Swedish American Hall, SF 10-29-04
Lali Puna – Peel Session 10-30-04
Local H – Double Door, Chicago IL 10-31-04

Call & Response – Gideon Coe 11-04-04
The Killers – Columbia Club, Berlin GER 11-06-04
Allison Moorer – Nighttown, Rotterdam 11-06-04
Luna – Lee’s Palace, Toronto ON 11-07-04
Black Keys – Canal+ Studios, Paris 11-08-04
Camper van Beethoven – Amoeba in-store, Hollywood CA 11-08-04
Ballboy – Peel Session 11-09-04
The Black Keys – Zane Lowe 11-10-04
Animal Collective – Lee’s Palace, Toronto 11-11-04
John Mellencamp – Live by Request (A&E) 11-11-04
Arcade Fire – TT the Bears, Cambridge MA 11-12-04
Wilco – Fillmore, SF 11-15-04
Half Man Half Biscuit – Peel Session 11-16-04
Ditty Bops – El Rey Theatre, LA 11-19-04
Mermen – New Jury Room, Santa Clara CA 11-20-04
Ditty Bops – Mira Mesa Epicenter, San Diego CA 11-20-04
Tragically Hip – Grey Cup halftime 11-21-04
Tom Waits – Hammersmith Apollo, London 11-23-04
Low – Gideon Coe 11-23-04
The Kills – Empty Bottle, Chicago IL 11-27-04
Pinback – Bimbo’s 365 Club, SF CA 11-27-04
Pinback – Bimbo’s 365 Club, SF CA 11-28-04

Ash (acoustic) – Mark Radcliffe Show, BBC Radio 2 12-01-04
Twilight Singers – Flog, Firenze ITA 12-08-04
The Shins – KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 12-11-04
Modest Mouse – KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 12-11-04
PJ Harvey – John Peel Tribute, Maide Vale 12-16-04
Spoon – The Double Door, Chicago IL 12-17-04
Better Than Ezra – Irving Plaza, NYC 12-17-04
Luna – World CafÈ WXPN, Philadelphia PA 12-17-04
Sleater-Kinney – Madison Square Garden, NYC 12-31-04
Flaming Lips – Madison Square Garden, NYC 12-31-04
Wilco – Madison Square Garden, NYC 12-31-04


Too late for review:

New York Dolls – Royal Festival Hall, London 2004
Tilly and the Wall – Wild Like Children
Nicola Conte – Nicola Conte remixes (2cd)
Death From Above 1979 – You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine
Nicola Conte – Other Directions
Phoenix – Alphabetical
Soul Asylum – After the Flood: Live From the Grand Forks Prom, June 28, 1997
50 First Dates OST
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason OST
Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon

Kimya Dawson – Hidden Vagenda
Kimya Dawson – Knock Knock Who?
Pete Yorn – Live from New Jersey (2cd)
The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free
The White Stripes – Under Blackpool Lights (DVD audio)
Cream – Disraeli Gears (deluxe remaster 2cd)
Bloc Party – Bloc Party EP
The Go! Team – Ladyflash 7″
Josh Groban – Live at the Greek
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble

Rock Against Bush, vol. 1
Rock Against Bush, vol. 2
Okkervil River – Sleep and Wake-Up Songs
Tegan & Sara – So Jealous
CafÈ del Mar, vol. 11
Charles Burton Blues Band – Charles Burton Blues Band
French Kicks – The Trial of the Century
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
American Music Club – Love Songs For Patriots
The Black Keys – 10AM Automatic pt. 2 cds

The Story – Angel in the House (remaster)
Th’Legendary Shack*Shakers – Believe
Donovan – Beat CafÈ
King Khan & the Shrines – Mr. Supernatural
Uncle’s Institution – Everything A Man Can Dream Of EP
Petra Haden and Bill Frisell – Petra Haden and Bill Frisell
The BoDeans – Resolution
Panda Bear – Young Prayer
This Moment In Black History – Midwesterncuttalistic
This Moment In Black History & Fatal Flying Guilloteens – split LP

The Silent League – The Orchestra, Sadly, Has Refused
The Shore – The Shore
Blanket Music – Cultural Norms
Kaki King – Legs To Make Us Longer
Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love
Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison – Got You On My Ming

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