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Sun Kil Moon's Newest Disappoints
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Vampires Everywhere! will not scare off listeners with, Lost in the Shadows
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Robyn Hithcock & The Venus 3 Offer Ten Great Tracks
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Fans will Say Yes to new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD, It's Blitz
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The Ericksons make music for the Middle Of The Night
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MMM…Delicious Metal! Psychostick's Sandwich
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Rob Dunnett’s Top Ten Things of 2008 (In No Particular Order)
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The Glass Passenger: a few good splinters
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New Kids On The Block, or, Old Men [Whistling At Young Girls] On The Porch?: The Block
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Secret Chiefs 3 meet John Zorn's Masada
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Can We Believe in the Flobots?
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Jet Black Stare’s In This Life: Please remove it from mine
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Melvins' Nude with Boots: Get your rock on, Bitch!
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Weezy, Phone Home – The Throne is Calling
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The Acacia Strain; destroying, one Continent at a time.
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Beck’s Modern Guilt: Ten perfect tracks make this a definite album-of-the-year contender
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Wake The Neighbors! R. City is “Losin’ It”
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El Rey—Listen, then Re-gift this Wedding Present
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Thought You Knew Weezer?
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Wondering about Gavin Rossdale’s Wanderlust at all? Don’t.
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Shine A Light: Sometimes, dark is better
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Bone Thugs: Bona Fide Talent
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50 Cent can spare some change
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Daft Punk – Alive and well
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Women As Lovers: a new addiction by Xiu Xiu
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Dead Meadow's Old Growth casts a pretty cool shadow
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High On Fire shake it up again with Death Is This Communion
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Top CDs of 2007
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Prepare for Blindside: PlayRadioPlay!
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HIM: Bring on the Doom!
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Beastie Boys shut up for The Mix-Up
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Bjork weaves colorful emotions vocally with Volta
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Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration: Blueprint of Progress
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Amy Winehouse: Time Traveler
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Battles’ Art and Beats Bring Hope in Pre-Post-Modern Times
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The White Stripes’ Icky Thump: What the Heck?
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Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight: throw away your hipster cred and check it out
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Good to be back: Bad Brains Build a Nation being themselves
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Tomahawk’s Anonymous: a musical pow-wow on dangerous grounds
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Eat Me, Drink Me: are you a Manson fan?
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BRMC's Baby 81: Too cool for school
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The Beatles’ Love CD: All You Need Is George
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Elliott Smith's posthumous New Moon rises to the occasion
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NIN's Year Zero: are we there yet?
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We Were Dead Is Full Of Life
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Better Than Most Other Top Halves: Umphrey’s McGee’s The Bottom Half
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Imagine Reissue a Must
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Bust a Move to Madahoochi
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After The Breakout: Fall Out Boy’s Infinity On High
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Brand New's Rage Sees New Directions
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Brazil's Philosophy
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Boys Like Girls join the punk-pop armada
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Incubus' Light Grenades is a dud
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Best CDs of 2006
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Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas Singalong: Miracles still happen
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AM’s Troubled Times is no trouble at all. And that’s too bad.
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U218 Singles: This is the reason
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The Prize Fighter Inferno: Claudio Sanchez chills out
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TV On The Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain a sweet success
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Dredg-up a great live take
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Don’t Fear Purchasing the Latest by Fear Before The March of Flames
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Terra Diablo: Musically Confused
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Harry Nilsson’s Required Re-Mastered Re-Issue: Son Of Schmilsson
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Dying To Say This To You Sounds Like Fun
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George Harrison: Thirty Three & 1/3 a Reissue with Staying Power
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'Over It' is Optional
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The Information: one of Beck's best
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Don't wait to get Zox's The Wait
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Tokyo Police Club's A Lesson in Crime: a peek into the future?
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Blag'ard's Blank Minded Clocks leave us blank
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Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Kicks it Pretty Well
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We're Dying To Tell You About The Sounds
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Dirty Pretty Things' Waterloo to Anywhere Takes you Everywhere
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Hello to …bye bye beautiful by The October
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Three Days Grace's sophomore effort, One-X is one to check out
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Going Underground June '06
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Peeping Tom [Ipecac] has arrived
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Snow Patrol’s Open and Shut Case: Eyes Open
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Murder City Players--Big City Life
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Crucial Reggae From Outside Jamaica, Vol.2--Ride On, Dread I
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The Unemployed: Who Needs Work?
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Calexico: Tour Guides to Poe’s Mind
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Big Sound Small Island: Freedom's Journal
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Sorry Jamaica, No Hard Feelings: Crucial Reggae From Outside Jamaica
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Placebo's Meds--take only as directed.
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Keaton Simons' Exes & Whys: Fire on the Outside, Vanilla on the Inside
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Lose it to Morningwood
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Going Underground April '06
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A-Frames' creepy-ass Black Forest: no shame
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Love as Laughter's Laughter's Fifth: indescribably genius
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Sub Pop's Triple Threat: Frausdots’ Couture, Couture, Couture
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Go Do It Yourself: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
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Resale Value: Capitol continues weird Beatles reissue program with a second volume
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Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat
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Marc Johnson's Shades of Jade--Spooky Swing
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Monday Morning's Fool's Paradise: almost there
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The Vacation's Band from World War Zero
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Deadboy and the Elephantmen: raining skulls, saving lives
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The OTL EP by On Tracy Lane
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When One Percentis The Strongest Proof
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The Pigs: OINK!-- Tacky and Catchy
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Going Underground
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Everything Wrong Is Imaginary by Lilys
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Toothfairy Does Not Work Well With Reality Works Pretty Well, In Fact
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A Little Bit Lost in AM Syndicate's Empire
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The Twenty Twos Touch & Go Genius
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Jump On Your Bed! It's the Vinyltones!
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Fivespeed are Full-Speed with Morning Over Midnight
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Why?things burn: the Your Flowers EP
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The Apparitions: As This is Futuristic is long overdue
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Pilotdrift's water sphere: what dreams listen to
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Rumor Has It that Nellie McKay's next full-length is in limbo
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NT's Best of 2005
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Over the Years and Through the Woods: The Queens know how to kill it live!
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Going Underground Dec. 05
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Chris Bono: Ten Senators and the Rebel Son
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Citrus: Oh Well
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The Magic Numbers: A Prime Example of a Great Debut
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The Most Serene Republic's Underwater Cinematographer: Not So Serene Broken Social Scene
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Monk & Trane at Carnegie Hall Found!
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Odditorium or the Warlords from Mars: the Dandy Warhols' odd latest effort
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Going Underground Nov. '05
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Local H’s Alive ‘05: Intensity in Two Cities!
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the domani international--Today
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McCartney Gets Honest
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Solid, soulful, Stones! A Bigger Bang ain't bad
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Song X: Twenty years on, still a joyful noise
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30 Seconds To Mars' A Beautiful Lie
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Going Underground 9/05
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We Reach: The Music of the Melvins Reaches Far and Sometimes Grabs It
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Imogen Heap's Speak for Yourself
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Going Underground: August '05
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No Mourning for Here's To The Mourning
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Circus Harmony: A Curious Diversion for a Good Cause
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Cruiserweight's Sweet Weaponry: groovy punk
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The Sun: Blame It On Youth...exactly
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Sinead O'Connor's Collaborations
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Lapush's Debut CD: essential pop to keep your summer cool
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Doris Henson's CD Give Me All Your Money--Give This Band Your $15
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Going Underground June '05
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eX-Girl's Endangered Species: Rare By Comparison
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Temper Temper--Deeper, Louder, Broader...
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The Dissociatives
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Does Johnny Still Hate Jazz? New Jazz Releases
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Emperor X: Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractal Dunes
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Worlds Apart: An Instant Classic
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The Pile: Stack of releases by Fooling April, Cheer Leaders United, Ben's Diapers, Jadecroon & Brand X comedy troupe
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Jeff Hanson's Sophomore Effort Engages, Enchants
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David Harness: Heartbeat, Volume 1
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Going Underground: March '05
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UK Dispatch: March '05
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Going Underground: Feb. '05
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The Pat Metheny Goup's The Way Up--Listen Hard!
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UK Dispatch, Jan. '05
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Renaissance: The Mix Collection
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Reissue Spotlight: James Brown's Soul on Top Swings with Soul
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Box-Sets of 2004: Which are Worthy?
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Asobi Seksu
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Going Underground Dec. '04
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Score City for Mardo
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How Could We Forget Nellie McKay?
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Matthew Sweet's Kimi Ga Suki: A Love Letter to Japan--Hold the Wasabi
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UK Dispatch: December '04
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Faultline's Your Love Means Everything
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U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Worth the Wait
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Ulysses: 010
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Going Underground: Nov. '04
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The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1
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Octet: Cash and Carry Songs an Ambitious Debut
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UK Dispatch: Nov. '04
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From a Basement on the Hill: A Fond Farewell to Elliott Smith
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Going Underground: Oct. '04
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Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology
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Björk’s Medulla Feeds the Head with Exotic Morsels...or something like that
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Leaving Rouge--White Houses
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Future Sound of London presents Amorphous Androgynous--The Otherness
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Brian Wilson Presents Smile
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Adam Marsland's Solo Debut Defies Anonymity
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UK Dispatch: Sep. '04
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God Lives Underwater is Up Off The Floor
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LPII: 25 minutes of punk, pop and pissed-off Minnesotans
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Going Underground: Aug. '04
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UK Dispatch: Aug '04
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Spike by Agata: Oh my god!
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Virginal Co Ordinates by Eyvind Kang
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The Conet Project: Five...Four...Zero...One
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Story of the Year: Living Up to Their Name
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Pepper: In With The Old Keeps the Groove Going
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Los Lonely Boys: There's a Reason They're Lonely
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Ray Charles: Let the Music Wash Over You
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Beastie Boys: Bringing Back That Old New York Rap
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Pixel Panda's The Nation of Symmetry
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Lay of the Land Gives You That...And More
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Muse's Absolution: Endlessly Radiohead, but Quite Good
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Blonde Redhead's New Misery is Bliss
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Junkie XL's Radio JXL and Chris Vrenna's 2 AM Wakeup Call: Your life will be that much more enjoyable.
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Global Underground #026: Romania is Pure Bliss
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The Campfire Girls' Tell Them Hi: Almost Radio-Friendly, But Don't Hold That Against Them
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Miles_Gurtu: Miles of Globe-Trotting Mastery
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Pattern Is Movement's The (Im)Possibility of Longing
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Delirium Cordia and the Compulsion to Keep Listening
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Molar: The Time and Motion Studies
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Clearlake's Cedars: One of the Year's Best
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Pitty Sing: Pac Man and Parachute Pants
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The Big Picture: Tenki's View of an Orbiting Man
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Blood Red Velvet: Your Candidate for Listening in 2004
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Plastic on the Mouth Hole: Suffocation Never Felt so Good
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Wanna See Your Writing Here?
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NT's 2003 Year-End CD Overview
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Avenged Sevenfold: Waking the Fallen
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Let It Be--Naked: In the Buff, for the Buffs
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The Best of R.E.M. In Time 1988-2003 Really Isn't, but it's OK
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Sixer: Beautiful Trash = Amazing Listening Experience
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The Locust: Plague Soundscapes
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Everything Must Go: Irony's Second Coming
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36 Crazyfists: Bitterness The Star Tastes Sweet
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West 78: American Girl Oughtta Feel A Bit Embarrassed
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Warm American Sweater Feels Good
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Brady Brock's I Will Live In You Where Your Heart Used To Be
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Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking by John Zorn
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The Black Dahlia Murder: Unhallowed
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Leviathan: EP from Hell?
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Thrice: The Artist in the Ambulance
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Damone: From the Attic
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Oleander Takes Us On A Joyride
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Memento: Beginnings
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Yoshimi and Yuka: Goddesses that Bring You Gifts of Joy
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Copeland's Beneath Medicine Tree on Top of Punk/Emo List
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C&C's Second Stage Turbine Blade: First Rate
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CURSE OF THE GOLDEN VAMPIRE: SICK DIGITAL HARDCORE WADING IN BEAUTY
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Melt Banana's Cell Scape: Another Astonishing Release
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Yellowcard: The Underdog EP
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Tech N9ne Brings ‘Absolute Power’ to the Hip Hop Scene (and It’s About Time!)
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Take a Look at Liz Phair
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Long Live Godflesh in Messiah
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Ministry: They're Back with Animositisomina
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Mit Gas Embraces a World of Possibilities
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Hyper-Avant-Hardcore: The Blood Brothers
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Blackout: a Schizophrenic Good Time
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Yea for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell!
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The Music: Dirty, Smart, Confusing, and Everything Music Is Supposed To Be
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Brown Reason To Live: Butthole Surfer's PCPPEP
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Mullets Rock! Not just a hairstyle, it’s a lifestyle
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Opeth: Deliverance
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Enon: Gnawing Away at the Shaky Future of Pop Music
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The Best of 2002
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System of a Down: Steal This Album
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Tzomborgha by Ruins. Wow.
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Moistboyz III: Rock 'N' Fuckin' Roll
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Recover: Ceci N'est Pas Recover
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Thrice: The Illusion of Safety
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Mr. Lif: I Phantom
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DALEK: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
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Phantomsmasher: Ipecac's latest smash
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Hemophiliac: the Ultimate Brain Bleed
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Shut Up and Work It; Rock Star Club for the Working Man
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Queens of the Stone Age: Songs For the Deaf
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Boy Hits Car Puts Musicianship Back In Metal
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Sparta: Wiretap Scars
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Obtanium by Skeleton Key: Return of Promising Weirdo Rock
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Porcupine Tree In Abesentia
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Brianmania, 2002: Pet Sounds Live
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Disarray: In the Face of the Enemy
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Sweep The Leg Johnny: Going Down Swinging
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Sonic Youth's Murray Street More Than Up to Snuff
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Hatebreed's Perseverance = Hardcore Heaven
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Stillmatic Proves Nas Still Matters
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Rock Music: A Tribute to Weezer Actually DOES Rock!
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Dalek's Negro Necro Nekros: A feast of sound
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Painfully close: Mono by The Icarus Line
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Reverend Horton Heat's Lucky 7: A Lucky Break
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Nickelback Land Silver Side Up
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The Fallout Puts Default on the Map
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...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
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B-Boy Heaven: We Came From Beyond
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Taking Back Sunday Takes the Teen Punk Route
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Point: God Bless Cornelius
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the worst you can do is harm may be the best you can do
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Time To Meet the X-Ecutioners
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Pure Party Pleasure with Andrew W.K.
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Scorpion King: At Least the Soundrack is Good
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Big Band Music from Fantomas & Melvins: Millennium Masterwork
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Thursday: N.J.'s Finest
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Melvins: 18 and only getting better
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The Big Ka-Boom, Part One
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Move Over Sub-Par Punk -- The Kickovers Are Here
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Blood Money From a Master: Tom Waits
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Tom Waits' Alice
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The Tragically Hip are back In Violet Light
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The Mooney Suzuki Sure Can Rock
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Spanning the Musical World With MusT
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Metal Rules... Well, Rules!
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Exclusive Listen: Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint
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Live stories from the Naked City
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