December 2021 update: Migrated the Albums to Get back to 10thumbs' Bandcamp Wishlist (where they can more easily be browsed in-store via the app) and instead will list the Good Enough to Relisten albums here, above the Missed the Cut selections.
LC 011: Year 5 Stats (2020-2025+)
Total albums added to Listcore 011 in first 5 years: 4,596
| Still to hear | 0 | 0% |
| Albums to get, have gotten, maybe (to triage) | 184/12/240 | 9.5% |
| Relistenable | 3,825 | 83.2% |
| Missed the cut | 528 | 11.4% |
LC 011: Year 1 Stats
Total albums added to Listcore 011: 1,658
| Still to hear | 781 | 47% |
| Albums to get, have gotten, LC 001 | 130/12/5 | 9% |
| Relistenable | 486 | 29% |
| Missed the cut | 244 | 15% |
Good Enough to Re-listen:
Albums in bold are due for a relisten sooner than later.
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- !!! – Louden Up Now / solid dance punk
- .NEMA – s/t / just ok powerviolence
- ’68 – Two Parts Viper / solid rock + some indie
- 1-Speed Bike – Droopy Butt Begone! / Liked playing this at V89 — but maybe better in that context
- 10 String Symphony – Weight Of The World
- 14 foot 1 – two / Good new mathy/emo from MA
- 18th & Addison – Old Blues / Modern Love / fine LA pop punk EP
24-Carat Black – Gone: the Promises of Yesterday/ good Neo-soul, but just 1x listen- 40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light / great slowcore… not as dynamic as their 1st album
- 50FOOTWAVE – Bath White / Krsiten Hersh rock outfit good not great; cool album art
- 5th Child – Shut Up & Say Something! / track names = SNCC, COFO, etc. just beats mostly
- 7 Seconds – Take it Back, Take it On, Take it Over / Good present day political pop punk from long-timers
- 7seconds – The Crew (TRUST Edition) /
- 84 Tigers – Time in the Lighthouse / not as good as SBB (but hard to do that)… maybe as good as ABF?
- A Bunny’s Caravan – Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures / interesting mix of pop(rock) and polititcs and electronic
- A Celebration of Leonard Cohen – A Celebration of Leonard Cohen / fine live cover set
- A Great Big Pile of Leaves – Pono / just OK indie
- A Great Big Pile of Leaves – You’re Always On My Mind / OK Indie
- A Lot Like Birds – No Place (Instrumental) / ok Post rock
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- Abbesse – The Surface of Our Needs / GTremblay from FHH
- Abigail Lapell – Love Songs + More New Songs (2002-2003) / really solid from the LP office days
- Able Baker Fox – Visions
Abolitionist – The Formative Years (2010-2014)/ punkAC DEATHSTRIKE – Dawn/ meh digi-punk from Jax- Accordion Crimes – Songs to Drive Wives Away / Shellac-like (no longer on BC)
- Ace Frehley – Origins Vol.2 / Ace = fun but largely boring collectino of covers
- Achings – All These Shapes, All These Days /engaging ethereal indie rock from Western MA (feat Daniel Danger)
- Acquaintances – 8 1/2 Lives / OK sorta post-punk qua indie?
- Action News – FAILED STATE / fine 10-min HC blast
Action/Adventure – Going Heel/ ok punk ala Cartel… another album made cut above- Action/Adventure – Pulling Focus / OK Pop punk
- Actionesse – The Deep, Bright Below / fun spazzy-lite punk
Actress – Karma & Desire/ Sprawling Trippy mehAddress – Majestic Domestic/ geneeric anthemic punk rock- Admiral – 7/13/18 demos / denver indie/emo
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz Is Dead 001/ well done but not my bagAesop Rock – Bushwick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)/ cool but not enough there- Aesop Rock x Blockhead – Garbology / v89 review
Aesop Rock – Music from the game Freedom Fighter/ just 3 songs + some instrumentals- Aesop Rock – Skelethon / what you’d expect
- Aesop Rock – Spirit World Field Guide / v89 review
- Saetia – Live at ABC No Rio Spring 1999 / old school screamo, poor recording
- The Afghan Whigs – In Spades
- The Afghan Whigs – Up In It
- After Words – After Words / early 90s Dischord-like
- Against All Logic – 2017-2019 / about as good electronic house as i have heard in my limited sample(s)
- Agassiz – Pulse 1A
- Agassiz – Pulse 1B
- Agassiz – Pulse 1C / great Instrumental indie rock from Winnipeg; added rest of catalog
- Airships on the Water – Folded into Bells / pleasant but unexciting post rock ala El Ten Eleven
- Airstream Futures – Le Feu Et Le Sable / Pleasant Tilt-ish pop punk
- AKAI SOLO & Navy Blue – True Sky / decent background hip hop
- Alan Braufman – Valley of Search / partial album fo jazz
- Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God / electro autotune oddness but well made; NOT Low-like
- Alarms & Controls – Clovis Points LP / Good if a little uneven on Dischord
Alecia Renece – Play Vol. 1/ well done added a song- Alejandro Escovedo – More Miles Than Money / very good
- Alexisonfire – S/T / surprisingly really good.. added a later record
- Alexalone – Alexaloneworld / v89 review; shoegazey
- Alexisonfire – Old Crows / Young Cardinals / solid canadian punk
- Alex Keith – Today’s As Good As Any / decent indie folk
- Alexisonfire – Watch Out! / fine punk rock
- Algernon Cadwallader – Some Kind of Cadwallader / right outta 90s like Cap’n Jazz-y
- Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies / good … maybe needs another listen?
- Algiers – Cleveland 20/20 / just 1 song — expansion of song Cleveland post-George Floyd
- Algiers – Four Priests / not the good Algiers, but decent emo
Algiers – Live in Atlanta: The Last Show on Earth, 14 March 2020/ OK, but only for completists- Algiers – Shook / only 3 songs but good enought to get more
- Algiers – There Is No Year / only 3 songs
- Alicja Trout – “Fall Down South” by Mouserocket / good indie (other Alicja Trout projects: Lost Sounds and Sweet Knives)
- Alkaline Trio – Crimson /
- Alkaline Trio – Good Mourning /
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT – ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT/ GYBE offshoot, quieter than LowAll the Best Tapes – Apex Emotion/ metal jazz?- All The Saints – Look Like You’re Going Somewhere /
- All Get Out – Nobody Likes a Quitter / meh pop indie rock from S.C.
- All Blondes Go to Heaven – the trick is to always look down, right? / ok pop/emo from Buffalo
- All the Saints – Firs on Corridor X / good find on Touch and Go from Atlanta
Allison Russell – Outside Child/ well done soul from Nashville, just not my thing- Allo Darlin’ – Allo Darlin’ / well done “rom-pop” from UK; a little like less country Waxahatchee
- Amanda X – Giant / good female fronted indie rock
- Amaro Freitas – Y’Y / ok Brazillian Jazz
- Amber – S/T / solid HC/metal from Marburg(!), Germany
- Ambition Mission – You Name It, We Hate It! (Complete Discography) / pre-This is My Fist, in a similar vein
Amen Dunes – Freedom/ well done moody UK pop, but not my thing- American Football – American Football (LP2)
- American Football – American Football (EP) / good > great
- American Football – Rare Symmetry / Fade Into You / OK
- American Football – Year One Demos / 4 wistful instrumental tracks
Amerigo Gazaway – Endless Summer Nights/ too easy listening- AMONG GIANTS – I don’t know you / good Rumbleseat-ish folk-punk from ORL
- Among Legends – Take Good Care / decent pop punk; added 1 song to Bandcampr?
Amos Lee – My Ideal/ easy listening 🙁- AMPERE – Like Shadows / OK… maybe only NIR completionism
- Amu Daria – S/T / decent power violence
- Amusement – Holding On / good old-Superchunk like indie
- Amusement – Walk Out to Sink EP / good orgcore 7″ from PDX
- Amygdala – Our Voices Will Soar Forever / noisy HC punk from SATX
- Amyl and the Sniffers – S/T / fun bratty… maybe overhyped?
- An Albatross – We Are the Lazer Viking /crazy spazy emo
- An Uneasy Peace – S/T / OK political punk, Lance Hahn
Analogue – Cool Tape: An Anthology 1993-2002/ 46 post-AAD tracks… too much, sprawling- Analog Africa – Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical (Limited Dance Edition Nr. 11)
- Analog Players Society – Tilted / middle of road jazz
- Anarchists are Better Lovers – Revolution Baby / are they?!?! 🙂 meh kinda typical anarcho folk punk w/ more pop sensibility than most
- And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs / decent instrumental
- Anderson .Paak – Malibu / ok R&B
- Andrew Bird – Hark! / much more enjoyable than i thought a xmas album would be
- Andrew Bird – Panthology Songs III / fine pandemic EP
Andrew Bryant – Sentimental Noises/ well done but not engaging enoughAndrew Bryant – Magnolia State/- Andy Bunn – Hickory / Good to VG solo guy folk > alt country from Bellingham, WA
Angela Munoz – Andrian Young Presenst Angela Munoz Introspection/ neo soul- Angela Davis – Angela Davis Speaks /
Angel Ho – Woman Call/ Sorta dance music, not my thingAngry Gods – The Clearing/ ex-Scout’s Honor, death metal- Ani DiFranco – Binary
- Anika Pyle – Four Corners / nice americana from ex-Chumped singer (interesting back story)
- Anika Pyle – Thank You For Being A Friend / 1 song; cover of Golden Girls theme (ex-Cayatena)
The Anime Club – (Japan Demo)/ generic pop-punk- Animal Flag – LP / good indie like Conner Oberst
- Ann Beretta – Bitter Tongues / solid
- Ann Beretta – Nobody’s Heroes EP / solid
- Ann Beretta – To All Our Fallen Heroes / just OK
- Annakarina – Unceremony / solid srkamz
- Annakarina – Live At Bates Hardcore Gym 3/09/2015 / Fine Pittsburgh punk rock
- Anna & Elizabeth – Sun to Sun / good mountain folk
- Annabel – Worldviews / ok… on Tiny Engines; more indie > punk
- The Anniversary – Designing a Nervous Breakdown / very fun, I added their 2nd album
the Anniversary Party – S/T/ not enough here- Anonymous Choir – Anonymous Choir Sings Leonard Cohen (2015) / not enough here; concept > execution
- Another City – S/T ep / pop punk w heart like FHH
- Anquitaz – The Seasons Changed / very interesting UK punk/indie
- Antarctic – Antarctic / good St. Aug post-rock
- Antagonizör – Heavy Metal Bootlicker / Gville feminist shock/70s/NWBHM metal
Antagonizers ATL – KINGS/ ok oi- Antagonizör – SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS / Gville feminist shock/70s/NWBHM metal
- Antekirta – S/T / solid if unspectacular HC
- antherums – Antherums / anthemic indie rock from Baltimore
Antillectual – Covers EP/ just OK covers- Antillectual – Engage / just OK, not their best
- Antioch Arrow – Gems of Masochism / good snazzy, just not my thing at 10 am.
- The Antlers – Hospice / gave another chance b/c of CLRC, better on a 2nd, more focussed listen
- ANXIOUS – Bambi /meh indie emo
- ANXIOUS – Little Green House / good emo from CT
- Aoife O’Donovan – Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska / just OK
- Apes of the State – This City Isn’t Big Enough / at times fine… at times grating folk punk w/o melody
- Apollo Brown – Sincerely, Detroit / really solid Hip hop
- The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra – s/t/5″ / good powerviolence, only 3 songs
- Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Round Here – (Remastered) / probably need more concentration than i have at work to appreciate
- Arcadia Grey – Casually Crashing / fine, if at times grating, pop punk from CHI
- Arcadia Grey – Konami Code /
- Arch Trio – Arch Trio / OK amibent jazz rock from TAL
- Archie Shepp, Jason Moran – Let My People Go / OK jazz
Arch Trio – Live on V89/ too discordant … kept s/t album above- Aretha Franklin – Aretha With The Ray Bryant Combo / historic, but a bit much late in the day 🙁
- Aretha Franklin – Live in Stockholm / good but bad sound quality
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams / well done beatnik pop?
- Arlo Mckinley – Die Midwestern / solid alt-country ala The Weight
- arm’s length – Everything Nice / meh mall emo sound
arm’s length – Never Before Seen, Never Again Found/ Fall Out Boy/mall punkArmand Hammar – Paraffin/ good hip hop… not enough- Armand Hammer – Shrines / BC best of 2020; messy weird hip hop that settles in
- The Armed – ULTRAPOP / good snazzy, worth a 2nd listen
- Armor – Afraid of What’s to Come / Fine FLA HC … just not my thing
- Arrested Development – For The FKN Love / probalby worth a closer listen… pretty good
- Arrested Development – On The Cutting Room Floor (A Mixtape) / not bad, not great… good
ARRIVER – Vanlandingham and Zone/ Ok-to-weird metal like CHI rock- Art Star – In Three Parts /very good art punk
- Arthur James – Right & leaving / interesting singer-songwriter voice
- Articles – Coffee Fix /Gville, saw at Fest 22? Like idea > music; Fat Wreck played by college nerds?
- Artisan P – Different Forms EP / fine local lofi hip hop
- articles – People That Love You / newest
- As Friends Rust – Up From The Muck /solid, earnest 2 song 7″
Asesinato – DEMO/ Fine HC from DC- ASkySoBlack – Autumn In The Water / PHI shoegaze
- ASSATEAGUE – Good Morning Blues / good indie folk
- asthenia – 9 Songs / Good scramz from Japan
- Astropilot – lost in silence / meh overly quiet ambient
The Ataris – Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits/ slightly better than avg pop-punk- ATIVIN – Interiors / ok post rock/slowcore from Nashville; once of Sec Canadian
- Atlantic Oceans – The Florida Years / good post punk-days folk from Tampa
- Atomic Action! – “Exhibit A” Compilation Benefit For SPLC / solid loud rock compilation
- Attempt Survivors – Negative Nite / Good indie rock, interesting; ex- members of many bands, none that I love-love
- Austin Lucas – Immortal Americans / Seems like a transitional work; good not great.
- AVAIL – Satiate / early record, not as good as latter
- Aversions – Sharp Left Turns / The National crossed with Idles?
- Saves the Day – Stay What You Are / less dynamic than i imagined it’d be; 1 deviation away from the stuff i really like.
Avind – Evig blenda/ just OK indie pop- maxwell stern – Springing From The Source / just one song
- azzacov – fragmente / fine if unspectacular German screamo
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Babi Ali – Memory Device/ well done but not my thing- Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers – Bone Soldiers / ex-Constantines whose voice is better than it is there
- Bacchae – Next Time / WDC punk reminds of Sarge/Sleater-Kinney
- Bad Ideas – 2014 / TLH punk
- BAD DOG – BAD DOG EP / fine GNV post punk with Dru Martin
- Bad Luck. – Books On Tape / good BkN emo
- Bad Madonna – Iron Fist / very good 90s style alt
- Bad Waitress – No Taste / solid big rock; L7ish with less sneer
- Bad Waitress – No Taste / good female fronted pop punk with edge
- Bad Luck. – Noise In Your Head / good fest punk
- Bad Visuals – Petaluma / college rock
- BAD RIVER – PETROL HEAD / solid loud rock from TOR
- Bad Luck. – Take What You Need / fine fest punk from BKN
Bad Habits Die Hard – s/t/ – boring post-HC HWM copy- Bad Mammals – S/T / fine Fest-like punk
- Bad Operation – S/T / ok Ska but give a chance b/c of NOLA/community records
- Balance and Composure – with you in spirit / meh
- Bam Bam – Villains (Also Wear White) EP / OK post punk
- BANANAS – Azal bat, urdina / good Spanish emo/punk
- Barely Civil – I’d Say I’m Not Fine / decent Fest punk from Milwaukee
- Baroness – Yellow & Green / this feels closer to SBB/Restorations than Torche
The Barr Brothers – Queens of the Breakers/ bar rock/indie, just 3 songs- BARRELS – s/t / Reminds of Helmet
- Bartees Strange – Live Forever / really interesting indie rock at times ala Bloc Party, at times soulful
Bastien Keb – The Killing of Eugene Peeps/ WEll done just not a repeated listen- battle ave. – BATTLE AVE / fine Hudson Valley indie
- Be Well – The Weight And The Cost / good post HC; Brian McTiernan’s band
- Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers / reminds of Letters to Cleo
Beach Slang – Beach Slang Ruins Everyone He Loves/ mostly meh covers- Beach Craft Bonanza – Cradle To Wave / meh garage rock
- Beach Slang (Quiet Slang) – Everything Matters But No One is Listening / acoustic versions of 1st 2 albums
Beach Slang – The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City/ Not as good as earlier stuff, a tad boring.- Beach Bunny – Honeymoon / good high energy w/ female vox
- Beans – Someday this Will All Be Ash / fine hip hop
- Bear vs. Shark – Audiotree Live / really good 00s post-HC reuntied … seek out their full length(s)
- Beauty Pill – Describes Things As They Are / Just OK weird-ish indie
- Beauty School – Happiness / meh mall punk
- Beauty Pill – Instant Night / V89 review; fine but inessential
- Bed Maker – S/t / sounds like early Dischord (but is 2024 dischord)
Bedsweater – Bitter Demos/ folky emo- Beige Banquet – Ornamental Hermit / fine UK post punk
- BEiTTHEMEANS – Alabama Calling / fine countryish rock/punk
- Bela Fleck – Echo In The Valley / respect but not enough for repeated listens
- BELLS≥ – Solutions, Silence, or Affirmations / Zac B from Jawbox; instrumental
- Belly Jelly – The Universal Language / OK joyous post-punk
- Belong – Common Era / decent 80sish popst punk from NOLA (on Kranky?)
Beltways – Chasing the Sun/ cool cover art, blah pub Lucero rock- Belvedere – Hindsight Is the Sixth Sense / meh photocopy of Bad Religion/ CA punk
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Annihilation (Music From The Motion Picture)/ just 2 songs, not enough there- Ben Quad – I’m Scared That’s All There Is / fine current emo
- Ben Lee – Quarter Century Classix / Orig are good enough to carry this, but these covers are bland
- BEN E. KING – SUPERNATURAL SOUL / ok soul –> funk
Ben Eisenberger – Three Islands/ meh signer songrwriter- Benjamin Booker – Witness / solid as a rock
- Benton Falls – Fighting Starlight / good early Deep Elm emo
- Bernard Sanders – Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary, 1855-1926 / historically interesting, but not a repeat listen
- The Berries – High Flying Man / Fine indie
- Bertos – Chamuco Le Cuenta Los Pasos / reminds of mid90s GNV beer-punk
- The Besnard Lakes – Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO / ok poppy indie rock from Montreal
- Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers – Get In Union / Historic, but 60 songs of gospel
- The Best of the Worst – Better Medicine / screamy ska?!
- The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field / good indie pop from Australia (?)
- The Beths – Future Me Hates Me / good indie power pop
- Betty Nico – Cool With Whatever / good local NH punk rock
- Betterment – Raise Your Spirit / fun Sarasota emo with Office sample
- Betwixt – The Salty Tang / Gordon Withers 90s rock band from BOS; kinda misses kinda hits
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Transmissions: the Music of Beverlyl Glenn-Copeland/ Folk that I’m not into, but can see its Joni Mitchell-ish appeal- Beyond – No Longer At Ease / good NYC HC, not formulaic
- BIB – A Band in Hardcore / heavy and spazzy in a good way
- Big Brave – Feral Verdue / really good loud/quiet post-metal/heavy-emotional with fem-vocals
- Big Heet – On a Wire / Really good ex-TAL D. Settle project, but cassette only so just misses cut.
- Big Knife Little Knife – Anchor Rights / really good digital-only post HC reminds a tiny bit of Fugazi
- Big Walnuts Yonder – s/t / not as good the 2nd time through?
- Big Ghost Ltd & Widowmaker – An Open Tomb… An Empty Casket / OK instrumental hip hop album
- Big Joanie – Back Home / Good not great
- Big Baby – Big Baby’s Big Fuckin’ Record / fine pop punk from Pittsburgh
- Big Sad – Black Umbrellas / classic Tampa punk sound
Big Science – Difficulty/ fine but not really enough- Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You / good not great
- Big Neck Records – *Gallery Night – I Want to Die Here / good garage from Milwaukee
- Big Surr – Miss You Most / good indie/shoegaze from Nashville
- Big Sad – Send Help / fine Tampa punk (ex Clairmel)
- Big Shoals – Still Go On / Americana, keep an eye on
- Big Joanie – Sistahs / UK Black feminist punk
- Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine A Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad / not as great as I ghouth it would be but still a good listen
- Billy Raygun – Billy Raygun / fine Fest type pop punk
Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Blind Date Party/ 4 songs, not really interesting- Billy Strings – Me / And / Dad / fine to good old timey; KGK in DKC loves B. Strings
- Billie Eilish – Silent Dust x Billie Eilish / pleasant remixes
- Billy Bragg – The Million Things That Never Happened / Probably worth another listen; kinda meh, but still BB!
- Billy Brooks – Windows of the Mind / Good funky jazz
- Bio Ritmo – Puerta del Sur / cumbia from RVA(?)
- Birds in Row – Gris Klein / very good French Post HC
- Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World / big dynamic shoegaze from France
- Bitter Branches – Along Came a Bastard / good loud rock
- Bitter Branches – This May Hurt a Bit / loud and angry
- Bitters and Distractions – The Home That Procrastination Built / me folk punk from Long island
- Bitter Branches – Your Neighbors Are Failures / good loud adult rock
- Black Dresses – Forever in Your Heart / intersting Death Grips sytle trainwreck
- Black Pumas – S/T / good indie garage/funk but tops out at really good
- BLACKSTARKIDS – Surf / pretty cool indie rockish w/o guitars a la Bartees STrange
- Black Bra – Black Bra / post Forget cassettes project; good > great
- Black Budget – Crown Of Misery / Sludgy rock
- Black Dots – EP2 / Vena Cava-related, better punk rock
Black is Just a Dark White – First strike 7″/ proggy- Black Country, New Road – For the First Time / very interesting, UK radioheadish, not what i expected
- Black Guy Fawkes – Life, Love & The Bomb / good indie/punk from MD w/ good politics
Black Eyes – Live in Amsterdam 11/5/2003/ for completists only- Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me / fine to good HC/postHC
- Black Skies – On The Wings Of Time / sludgy and well done
- Black Eyes – Singles and Comps / cool but only for diehards
- Black Eyes – Speaking In Tongues: Black Eyes 2001-2004 / good but 32 Black Eyes tracks is a lot at one time.
- Black Ends – Stay Evil / indie
- Black Spooks – The Black Spooks / good old school hip hop sound
- Black Market Dub – The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Dub / generic Clash covers
- Bleach Everything – So We Gnaw / OK RVA HC
Blessed – Salt/ not bad, jut not very engaging- BLIGHTS – YEARS OF BAD NEWS / good post-punk from MO
- The Blind Shake – Celebrate Your Worth
- Blind Luck Music – Split with Boxingwater / just OK 90s emo/punk
- Blind Girls – The Weight of Everything / solid non-annoying screamo from Australia
Blitzen Trapper – Furr/ Less interesting Wilco?BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans/ less dynamic than 1st record?- BLK ODYSSY – DIAMONDS & FREAKS / solid if unspectacular
- Blktop Project – Blktop Project / fine if a bit forgettable indie rock played by skaters
- BLKVAPOR – VAPORISING / great 3-song tape … excited for the full length
- Bluetip – Dischord No. 101 / Love artwork; music just OK
- BLUE NOISE – everyone goes away eventually / ok skramz
- Blunt Razors – Early Aught / less loud PMFS side project
- Blunt Bangs – Proper Smoker / Avg Blunt Bangs
- Blunt Mechanic – World Record /
- BLXPLTN – Black Cop Down / electro-NIN political punk from TX(!)
- Bob Nanna – Asssorted & Unsorted / uneven, but some Nanna gems for sure
- Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin
- Bob Nanna – Celebration States / post divorce record
- Bob Da Rage Sense – Ordem Depois Do Caos / phrancofile hip hop from Angola
Bob Marley – Soul Revolution Part II Dub/ dub versions are instrumental and just too repetitive; added orig album- Bob Marley – Soul Revolution Part II / good reggae
- Bob Nanna – Top 100 of 2001: 40-31 / good
- Bob Nanna – Top 100 of 2001: 90-81 / just OK
- Bobbie McGee – Bread and Raises: Songs for Working Women / enjoyable
- Boilermaker – Boilermaker / good CA post-HC; have box set
Boldy James/ Sterling Toles – Manger on McNichols/Decent hip hop house but not for me- The Bollweevils – History Of The Bollweevils Part I / pretty by-the-numbers old pop-punk from CHI
- The Bollweevils – Stick Your Neck Out! / pretty by-the-numbers old pop-punk from CHI
- The Bombpops – Death in Venice Beach / as good as CA pop punk can get?
Bomba Estereo – Mantelo Prendido/ 15 songs of cumbia in 5 remixes- Boneflower – Armour / ok atmostpheric rock
- Bong Mountain – The Battle Of Bong Mountain / good poppy emo/org core from MI
- bonny doon – Bonny Doon (lp) / decent quiet indie folk rock
- bonny doon – Let There Be Music /
- Bonsai Trees – LEARN TO GROW (LP) / well done indie rock from Hartford CT
- Bootlicker – S/T LP / not as bad as I thought it’d be … reminds me of Motorhead in a way
- Bossk – Migration / chill post-Metal
- Botch – We Are The Romans (Remastered Reissue) / fine metalish rock
Botfly – Open Letters/ cool art; meh HC- Bothers – s/t / ex-Young Livers and ex-Shores; strong PDX punk that almost made the cut
- Bottomless Pit – Hammer of the Gods / Good thoughtful dad-punk from CHI
- Boys Life – Departures and Landfalls / good midwest emo; not enough to get as is, but will get as part of Numero Boys Life box
- BOYSCLUB – She, the Atrocity / 1 song, good femme queer punk from Austrailia
Boysetsfire – The Crying, This Screaming, My Voice is Being Born/ OK, prob worth hearing more, but kinda meh emo90sBracket – Requiem/ odd pop music w punk-like cover art?- Brain Trust – Therapy? / old punk/hc from Louisville
- Brand New For China! – Cactus Truck / awesome artwork, but just OK Danish free jazz
- Brandtson – Fallen Star Collection / sweeping emo
- Brandtson – Letterbox / good sounds like Green day vox at times
- Brasilia – S/T /
- Brave Bird – Maybe You, No One Else Worth It / good new emo from MI
- Breaker Morant – Breaker Morant 1996-1999 (EW013) / solid but unspectacular 90s emo/rock
- Breather Resist – Charmer / just OK loud rock/punk from Louisville on Jade Tree
Bridge Under Fire – No Division (Hot Water Music cover)/ meh HWM cover- Bridge Under Fire – The Night Court Sessions / good fest punk
- Bridge Under Fire – Why Wait?/ good FEst punk, shades of Young Livers
- Brief Habits – Teleport / ok to good Aussie indie rock
- Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2016 Reissue) / don’t see what the massive hype is but prob b/c i’m 52 not 22 now
- The Briggs – Numbers / Kinda bland Street Dogs-esque posi punk
BRNDA – Do You Like Salt?/ oddball punk… not today- Broken Prayer – Broken Prayer / OK CHI hardcore
- Broken Bells – Into The Blue / fine dreamy indie rock from LA
- BROKEN TALENT – Rules No One LP / 80s Punk from Hialeah, FL
- Broken Hearts Are Blue – The Truth About Love / 90s MI emo
- Broken Hearts Are Blue – The Truth About Love Redux / good late 90s emo/rock
- Brother Theotis Taylor – S/T / fine blues`
- Brown Bird – Axis Mundi / interesting alt-folk from Rhode Island
- Brown Bird – Salt For Salt / interesting alt-folk from Rhode Island
Bruce Hornsby – Absolute Zero/ not bad, well done but meh- Bruges – Demonstration / good heavy CHI sludge (like Unsane?)
- BRUTUS – Burst / decent intl arty-indie
- Brutal Youth – Rebuilding Year /ok pop-punk from TOR
- BRUTUS – Unison Life / Just on edge of / b/c of classical woman Vox and heavy rock but good instrumentation
- BSCBR – Maters of Rehearsal / solid Black Sabbath covers
- Bubble Jug – Anthology / screamo on Belladonna
- Bubmo’s Tinto Brass Band – s/t / Wierdo musical punk
- The Bucking Mules – Smoke Behind the Clouds / straight bluegrass, notihing new/noteworthy
- Buffy Sainte-Marie – Medicine Songs / suprisingly tight and interesting
- Buffalo Nichols – Buffalo Nichols / solid blues via V89
- Buggin – Brainfreeze / 2 song CHI HC including beastie boys cover
- Built for the Sea – All Too Human / portisheadish
- Build Us Airplanes – Leon / Fine CAL indie rock
- BUIO OMEGA – TAKE A LOOK / Minneapolis HC
- Bull Shannon – Chill Power!!!!! / really nteresting ‘members of…’ band; 4 songs, 2 bass guitars; added latter album.
- Bully – Sugaregg / really good indie rock from Nashville… was susrpised by how solid
- bulletsbetweentongues – The Lights Never Lie / ok DAL-FW powerviolence
- Burial Waves – Holy Ground / Very good old-guy big rock from DC
- Burl – 2019 / very good St Aug punk
Busdriver – Electricity is on our Side/ good enough, but only 3 songs that didn’t gra bme- Busy Weather – 7 Song Demo / decent This is My Fist/Bitchin style punk
- Butcher Brown – #KingButch
Butch Walker – Afraid of Ghosts/ RTRS Spike loves him; good but not enough for relsitenThe Butchershop Quartet – The Rite of Spring/ only 15 sec clips of Post Rock covers of the The Rites of Spring (classical)Buzzcocks – Sonics In The Soul/ meh, but will still try their debutBygones – by-/ ok snazzy but a little too all over the place
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- C-Clamp – In Tow / really good .. but just 1 song; added full Numero collection
- C.H.E.W. – Feeding Frenzy
- C.H.E.W. – In Due Time 7” / decent HC
- c’yotes – Threats /
- Cabeza de Agua – Cabeza de Agua / fine Costa Rican post HC but just 3 quick songs
- Cadence Weapon – Parallel World / interesting hip-hop on Anti- (mistook this for Childish Gambino pre-listening)
Caitlin de Marrais – What Will You Do Then?/ sadly not as strong as RMCaixa Cubo – Angela/ new jazz- Calexico – The Thread that Keeps Us / good but less intriguinig that Shins-like
- Calexico and Iron & Wine – Years to Burn / not as good as the first collab
- Caliphone – Stitches / really like, a la Will Johnson or Wilco
California – Hate the Pilot 7″/ Fine pop punk with Jawbreaker/Green Day members, just not enogh.- Call For Arms – Call For Arms / fine punk from CA
- The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist / OK to meh heavy
- Calm – 12” / numero group
- Calvary – Outnumbered is Outflanked / good + jon resh design!
- Calvary – The Will of The Way / ok CHI post punk (Resh design)
- Calyx – Stay Gone / Reminds of Hop Along
- Camera Obscura – “Writing Kodak” b/w “We Talked Midi” single / only 2 songs but intriguign
- Camera Obscura – To Change the Shape of an Envelope /
- Camera Obscura – To Paint The Kettle Black / 2 songs, but good/spazzy on 31G
Camp Trash – Downtiming/ meh new emo from Fla.- Canal Irreal – Canal Irreal / Good aggro punk
- Candy Apple – Sweet Dreams of Violence / fine screamy punk, just OK
- Candy Hearts – The Best Ways To Disappear / fine punk pop
- Caravels – Lacuna (10th Anniversary Mix) / very good spirited art-screamo from Las Vegas
- Caravels – Lacuna / enjoyable post HC (maybe saw at FEST?)
- Caracara – New Preoccupations / very good indie rock
- careen – Careen Love Health / just OK
- Career Suicide – Machine Response E.P. / good old school punk from Ontario
- Career Day – Where We’ve Always Been / fine NYC pop-punk-emo
- Carly Cosgrove – See You in Chemistry / Good Emo
- Carly Cosgrove – The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty / really solid pop punk from PA
- The Carolyn – Rhythm Of My Own Decay / Good > great ATL emo, heartfelt
- The Carolyn – This Will Begin To Make Things Right / solid as well
- Carpool – My Life In Subtitles / odd mix of styles but pretty good emo/punk/screamy
The Carrier– uninteresting metal- Casey Neill & The Norway Rats – Goodbye To The Rank and File / ok indie rock a la old REM
- Cash Money Bros – Cash Money Bros / KOLS 1 off of covers “”Live” BC only stuff.
- The Casket Lottery – Short Songs For End Times
- Caspian – Live at Old South Church
Cast Spells – *Bright Works and Baton (EP)* / ok indie folk but not enough- The Casual Dots – The Casual Dots (Self Titled) / ex-Slant 6 and others; post/gararge punk
Catbite – Nice One/ no-doubt xerox?- Catbite, Laura Jane Grace – Operation Ivy Live at The Empty Bottle (Laura Jane Grace/Catbite) / just 1 song, fine.
- Cavalier – Private Stock / Fine pro-Black hip hop
Cave In – Jupiter/ oddly disappointing, kinda pre-mars Volta-ish?- cave people – Wind Burn / ok PHilly indie pop
Cayetana – not what we meant by NEW KIND OF NORMAL demos & unreleased songs/ love the band, but these were rough demos, released post-breakup in the panedimc- CB Radio Gorgeous – EP / chicago punk rock weird ness?
- Cedric Noel – Hang Time /really interesting indie-soul
- Ceramicats – III / fun old person gainesville indie rock
- Cerberus Shoal – …And Farewell To Hightide / good, but kept another reissued LP
- Cerce – discography 2011 – 2013 / fine BOS punk
- Ceres – Drag It Down On You / super good Aussie indie/power pop similar to Japandroids? just missed Final LC011 cut.
- CEREMONY – Rohnert Park / OK… not as dynamic as I’d expect
Chagall Guevara – Halcyon Days/ reformed; christian rock- Chalmers – Death Practice / good emo postHC
- Chalmers – All the Songs Sung Wrong
- Chalk Hands – Don’t Think About Death / atmospheric skramz from UK
- Chamberlain – Red Water / reminds of Gaslight anthem
- Channels – Backpfeifengesicht b/w Airstrip One / 2 new songs 12 years after full length
- The Chanteymen – Down / Good Terminal Orchestra side project (or other way around) interesting indie like a mix of Decemberists and DCFC.
- Charles Webser – Born on the 24th of July / pleasant techno
- Charmpit – Cause a Stir / fun UK pop punk
- Charlie Parr – Little Sun / good ol timey folk
- Charmer – Seney Stretch / me emo-ish indie
- Charlie Harper & Friends – Stop Hobophobia single (T&M 027) / similar to Leatherface or Social D?
- Charlie Megira – Tomorrow’s Gone / confusing mix of psych, goth, etc on Numero
- Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer / weird but kinda well done
Charles Rouse – Two is One/ good jzaz but not something I’d seek back out.- Chasing 76 – Eden / J Kutchma side project, good
- THE CHASE THEORY – Scrapbook \1998-2001 / pre HGWT emo band; interesting and can hear meloides
- Chat Pile – God’s Country / really good metal
- Cheap Girls – Barely Alive in Grand Rapids, MI 12/30/12
- Cheap Girls – God’s Ex-Wife (Selective Rarities 2007-2014) / see why these are rarities
- Cheeky – Choke On A Cheeseburger / Fun NYC punk
- Cheer-Accident – Fades / interesting art rock
- Chella & The Charm – Denver Delay / Neko Case-ish from Denver; good
- CHERYM – Hey Tori / OK pop punk
- CHERUBS – Short of Popular (Remastered Reissue) / decent loud rock
- Child’s Pose – Eyes to the Right / decent post-punk
- Chimes of Bayonets – Archiver / OK EP
- Chino Horde – This is Done / solid, archival
- Chisel – Set You Free / feels obvs like proto-Ted Leo + Rx… maybe more and closer listens would lead to getting.
- Chisel – 8 A.M. All Day / Good > great
- The Chisel – Retaliation / big UK punk that at times reminds me of latter AM!
- The Chisel – What A Fucking Nightmare / just OK; don’t see the hype
- Chook Race – Around the House / decent indi efrom Australia
- Chris Brokaw – End of the Night / Good instrumental (was CB in Codiene?)
- Christie Front Drive – S/t / prob would have liked if got into in the 90s
- Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina – All Out & Down / OK folk/trad covers; not what i expected
Christine and the Queens – Chris/ Well done indie dance pop, just not my thing- Christie Front Drive – First LP /
- Chris Broach – Lost Years: Volume 11 / suprisingly not irritating (recalled his solo work bing so)
- Chris Combs – Run Down The Ghost / very interesting country-blues-jazz from Tulsa
- Chump – Demo / good screamo from Memphis
- Chumped – Teenage Retirement
- Church Girls – Still Blooms / good power pop or punk lite
- Cicada Radio – Drift/Dream / good like late era Title Fight
- Cielos – Cielos /cool 1 off controlled spazzy punk from MI; one 30 min track + one 30 min live rendition
- Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex / OK gothic indie via CLRC
- Cigarettes After Sex – X’s / OK gothic indie via CLRC
- Cinco de Gatos – Epiphany Wants To Come Home / Braid contemporaries from CHI… good > great
- Circle Takes the Square – As the Roots Undo / ok screamo
- Circus Lupus – Solid Brass / Solid Dischord
- Citizen – As You Please / good indie
- Citizen – Life In Your Glass World / OK `00s sytle indie rawk
- Citizen – Youth / good moody volume rock
- City of Caterpillar – s/t / good screamo/post HC
- City of the Lost – At the Edge / OK Russian post rock
- The City Champs – Luna ’68 / pleasant if unspectacular instrumental funk/soul
- City of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters / good, haunting RVA post-HC
- Civilian Mind – Remembrance / as unannoying as SXE HC can be? 🙂
- CLASS – Class / decent garage rock from AZ
- Classics Of Love – Walking in the Shadows / fun punk on Asian Man (w Jesse Michaels)
- Claudio Talino – Calamo (Original Soundtrack) / only coherent of the italian Sonor Music Editions albums i added b/c of album art
- Clear Channel – Hell / good bass driven punk
- Clearbody – One More Day / good shoegaze emo
Clear Leader – SeWERWELL (aka “2”)/ M. Stoltz exprerimental project… not for me- Clever Girl – No Drum and Bass in the Jazz Room / ?
- Clikatat Ikatowi – *Clikatat Ikatowi – Demo /
- Clikatat Ikatowi – The Trials And Tribulations Of… / own?
Clint Mansell – In the Earth/ ambient soundtrack?- Clique – Burden Piece / post HC
- Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave / v89 review — good rock from IND
- Cloakroom – Further Out / intersting enough to listen to other albums
- Cloakroom – Time Well / eh.. fine
- Cloister Maximus – Alien Lanes /more melodic and beatles like; shows underlying strenght of songs; good/faithful cover but less grating
- Closer – Within One Stem / pretty solid skramz w female singer
- Closetalker – Destination Isolation / MIN punk on Landland
- Cloud Nothings – Final Summer / better than others, but not as great as … Memory
Cloud Nothings – Live @ The Social, Orlando 4/21/14/ murky sonic wise, not enough of a fan- Cluttered – The First Pandemic / really fun pop-punk
- Cluttered – Accidents / fine pop punk
- COCHONNE – EMERGENCY / just OK post punk
- Cocks – Arena / really good pop punk from Italy
- Codeine – Dessau / since got via Numero’s Magnolia chapter 3
Code of the Jaguar – Jag Ex Machina/ ok indie rock, not my thing- Codeine – What About The Lonely? / kinda non-descript live set
- COEDS – Yearbook 2014-2015 / punk doo-wop from Savannah
The Coke Dares – Roburrito’s EP/ sillyCold World – Dedicated To Babies Who Came Feet First/ metal-punk; well done but not for me.- Cold Years – Goodbye To Misery / ok to meh; on the edge of /… post-indie/punk like Loved Ones but less good
- Cold Meat – Hot and Flustered / female fronted post punk
- Cold Waste – Primative / Gville post punk a la cure
COLIC – Back At It/ just meh Avett Brothers cover + indie/folk- Coliseum – C.L.S.M. Infinity Shit / solid heavy rock from Louisville
- Colin Hay – Fierce Mercy / ok
- Colin Hay – Man @ Work / pleasant mix of old and new
- Colossal – Welcome The Problems / fine new midwest emo from Elgin IL
- Coma Regalia – Marked / solid 90s loud emo
- Coma Regalia – There’s Still Time / good old school screams
- Coma Regalia – Busy / good, 2 Jawbreaker covers
- Combat Wounded Veteran – Duck Down For The Torso / 4 songs; a little uneven
- Combat Wounded Veteran – Electric Youth Crew /
- COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN – I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos / enjoye more than i thought i would
- Combat – Stay Golden / ok pop emo/indie from Baltimore
- Combat Wounded Veteran – This Is Not An Erect, All-Red Neon Body /
- Come Closer – Pretty Garbage / ‘Mats or Beach Slang-ish
- Comic Sans – Éramos felices y no lo sabíamos / spanish language emo
- Common Sage – Closer To; / ok alt-post-hc
- Community – Community/ decent emo-ish from NOLA
- Common Sage – It Lives and It Breathes / BKN post-HC
- Confectioner – Accounts / connected to Shores somehow
- Confectioner – Accounts / good Shores-like slowcore; Shores side project
- Constatine Sankathi – Discography / good 90s screamy punk w/ occasional horns
- Control Top – Covert Contracts / good snotty punk from PHI
- control freak – white noise for sleep / 5song 8 minute polynesian punk
- Convinced Friend – Convinced Friend / fine indie folkish
- Cool Moon – Crossing the Finish Line / Newer(est) LP not as solid as Postparty
- Copywrite – Murderland: Choose Your Own Adventure / ELP style hip hop; columbus OH 🙁
- Corre Diablo – At Home, Vol. 2 / 2 songs, OK HWM cover
- Corre Diablo – Claws / Good posi/Fest/beard punk?
Cory Strand – Aenima: A Reinterpretation/ WTF?!? Drone… ONE NOTE… don’t see any relation to the record at all … just deleted the other 2 records (12 Golden Country Greats: A Reinterpretation and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: A Reinterpretation)- Cory Branan – When I Go I Ghost / solid, but not his best
- Cough Drop – Yell Heah / one-and-only release from TAL 4-piece w/ 2 of my V89 contemporaries
- Country Westerns – Country Westerns / more like The Weight … not quite as good
- Country Westerns – Country Westerns EP / ex-The Weight singer,… not as good
- Couplet – LP1 / members of you blew it and into it over it
- COWARD – COWARD (5 song ep) EW009 / pretty interesting instr. rock w/ keyboard/drums
- Craig Finn – I Need A New War / what you’d expect from a Craig Finn record, not as fully realized as We all Want the Same Things
- Craig Cardiff – Love is Louder (Than All the Noise) Pt. 1 & 2 / reminds of happier Alexi Murdoch
- Crash Of Rhinos – Distal / BC recommended punk
- Crash of Rhinos – Knots / reminds me of latter day SBB
- Crasher – Speaking Terms / good punk/indie from San Diego
- CREDENTIALS – Why is My Arm Not a Lilac Tree? / interesting loud rock from CHI or MIL
- Crimpshrine – Duct Tape Soup / Missed out on the box; historic
- Criminal Culture – Keep On Keepin’ Gone / GOod Tampa punk
- Crimpshrine – The Sound of a New World Being Born /Missed out on the box; historic
CRISÁLIDA SÓNICA – Compilación I/ ethereal psych rock – also not sure where this came from- Crisis Actor – False Flag / OK political post punk from LA
- CROSSED – Morir / fine screamo
- Crowning – Survival/Sickness / decent screamo from CHI
- Cruiserweight – The Smith Tower / solid pop-punk/emo
- Crusch – Self/Centered / fun Aussie 7″ reminds of Jimmy Eat World-ish pop punk; love the cover art street scape
- Crusch – Rupture / really good authentic indie rock from Australia
- Cryptobebelem – Songs from the Gyre / engaging fem-indie from SEA; a mix of styles that is just off, but shades of latter S-K, early PGMG
- Culture Shock – Mandemic / OK UK skapunk
- Cure for the Common Convulsion – Cure for the Common Convulsion / Ouikut band @ Hootenanny on WVFS
- Curlew – Paradise / interesting experimental rock on Cunifrom
- Current Affairs – Off the Tongue /
- Current – Yesterday’s Tomorrow is Not Today / OK to good 90s emo on Numero
- Cursive – Get Fixed
- Curtis Harding – If Words Were Flowers / contemporary soul, v89 review
- Curtail – When The Sway Sets / avg indie rock
- Curve – Doppelganger / ehh… misses
- The Cutthroats 9 – Dissent / fine loud rock from San Fran
- Cy Dune – Against Face / OK JSBX like weirdo-electro punk blues?
- cynthia nelson band – out of the cave / < Retsin but still good
- Cynthia Nelson – The Sophie Drinker Record / reminds more of Retsin vibe
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- daddy’s boy – punk discipline / standard CHI punk
- Dain Bramage – Demo One (1986) / meh to OK; Grohls’ 1st band
- Dain Bramage – I Scream Not Coming Down (1986) / more fully realized than Demo One
Dakim – regos_SLAMMIN’/ beats- Dakota Suite – Signal Hill / one great song, mellow
- dakota suite – this river only brings poison (20th anniversary edition) / decent soft indie
dakota suite, david darling & quentin sirjacq – vallisa/ quiet, classical. like in the church on the cover- damezumari – hitherandthitheringwaters of / very good Post HC from OKC
Damien Jurado & Richard Swift – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1/ too 60s pop, not a fan of Swift I think.- Damien Jurado – Sometimes You Hurt The Ones You Hate / good not great DJ; not as somber as his best stuff IMO
- Damien Jurado – The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania / solid
- Damien Jurado – What’s New Tomboy? / Love the cover art, more 70s folk than sad DJ that I love
- Damon Locks – Black Monument Ensemble – NOW / good but a bit in the background
- Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic – Ocean Bridges / interesting hip hop and jazz, explore more
- Dan Spencer – I Like To Worship The Devil / very good
- Dancer – As Well / decent UK post punk
- danes – Molds / good post HC, serious rock
Daniel Lanois – Goodby to Language/ pretty bu too ephemeral- Daniel God Damn Byrom – Live From Dead Tuesdays / Fine if a bit meh folk inide
- Daniel Bachman – Lonesome Weary Blues / kotke like instrumentals … just OK
- Daniel Martin Moore – Never Look Away / decent folk
Danny Elfman – Big Mess/ meh from Oingo Boingo singer- DARE – Against All Odds / HC from Cali… generic but OK?
- Dark Thoughts – At Work / power pop in the vein of Title Tracks
- Darkle – Birds Bees and Sweaty Palms / New Lennox emo
- The Darling Fire – Distortions / pretty good big, dramatic indie/emo from central FLA
- Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want / hyped, good
- The Dauntless Elite – Graft /
- Dave ‘Bolshie’ Brown – Bring out the Banners / Great NZ/English/irish? labor songs
- Dave Hause – Live at Great American Music Hall Vol. 2
- Dave Hause – Heavy Heart
- Dave Smalley & The Bandoleros – Ignited / fine pop punk
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Live At The Montreaux Jazz Festival 1982 / good
- Dave Hause – Paddy / just OK
- Dave Hause – Patty / just ok
- Dave Hause – Pray for Tucson
- Dave Hause – September Haze / just OK
- David Dondero – The Filter Bubbles Blues / solid Dondero stuff
- David Bazan – Care / good
- David Byrne – Grown Backwards (Deluxe Edition) / fun
- David Dondero – Immersion Therapy / Good Dondero fare
- David Rovics – Notes from a Failed State / Great lyrics, ok folk
- David Dondero – State Songs, Vol. 1 / fine Dondero 7″
- Dawer x Damper – DONDE MACHI (album) / well done columbian dance music
- dawson – Discography+ / fine scottish post-punk but 50+ songs here
Days N’ Daze – Rouge Taxidermy/ snotty bad folk punk- de facto enscripture – SARDONIC ENTROPY NEXUS / OK screamo, 22 diff singers or something?
Dead Sara – Antiquiet Sessions #1/ Maybe via CLRC; farily unspectacular session- Dead Sea Lords – Demo / jus 3 songs; OK
- Dead Bars – Regulars / good NIR punk
- Dead Meat – The End of Their World is Coming / Algiers side project w/o many vox
- Dead Format – Write Your Own Story / good RVA pop/fest punk on Say 10
- Deadenders – Carolina House / TLH punk w/ Cody D
- Dead Feeling – nu.wav / Gvill post-punk
- Death Cab for Cutie – The Georgia EP / just 1 of the 5 songs, should get
- Death Cab for Cutie – Asphalt Meadows / it’s DCFC
- death pose – Midnight Society / CHI metal core, not horrible
Deathfix – S/T/ well done, but not my thing: 60s pop on Dischord- Debt Neglector – Dirty Water / good ORL punk
- Decades/Failures – G00DBY3 / decent post-punk on Dead Tank
- Decahedron – The Black Sea EP / remind here of J Robbins’ bands
- DECKER – Rekced / good not great Tampa/ex-GNV punk
- Deep Tunnel Project – Deep Tunnel Project / ex-Tar, good loud CHI rock
Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight/ well done indie pop/rock but not enough- The Deep and Holy Sea – The Deep and Holy Sea / good but wish was more dynamic
- Defeater – Travels / OK hc
- DEFIANCE OHIO – Midwestern Minutes / fine?
//delay(5000) – Are We Ok?/ Sean Bonner droneDELCO MF’S – DELCO MF’S E.P./ Sloppy PHI HC- The Delines – Scenic Sessions / quiet female fronted alt country; DDC design + Willy Vlautin
- The Delines – The Sea Drift / good softer indie rock, alt country; DDC design?
- Deltona Records Comp – “How to Get to Heaven From Central Florida” / good early 90s comp
- Demo – S/T / Gville pos-punk w Dru Martin, good
- Denature – Discography (1993) / OK historic ORL/FLA punk
- denitia – Highways / meh to ok female indie folk
- DENT – Bao Bei / just oK Boston female fronted metal punk
- Denude – A Murmuration Of Capitalist Bees (EW023/DR-009) / good adult rock from CHI
- Denzel Curry – Zuu / good enough to listen to other DC
- Denzel Curry – Imperial / pretty solid hip hop from Miami
- Denzel Curry – Unlocked Instrumentals
- Desgraciadas – Tu Madre / good snotty TLH punk, ex V89
- Designosaur – Drive EP / ok Indie rock EP from Nova Scotia
- Desperate Living – City Sadness / reminds of Needs or Unwound, post HC
- Dessa – Chime / Interesting pop stuff on Ryhmesayers
- Destroy Boys – Funeral Soundtrack #4 /pretty good gothic ish punk from CA
- Destroy Boys – Sorry, Mom / real good /solid girl punk
- Devil’s Beat Records – Ssik Action! A High Energy Tribute To The Hottest Band In The World / fine covers from Argentina
Devin Daniels – Trio Exposition/ good but unengaging jazz- Dexateens – Lost and Found / just OK
- Dexateens – The Dexateens / good rock a la Gritkisser from Birmingham AL
The DiAboLicaL LibERTieS – High Protection and the Sportswear Mystics/ odd pastische of Blur-like music mixed w/ freakout- Diamond District – March On Washington / good old school hip hop form DC
Dianacrawls – A Glitter Manifesto/ decent sreamo but only 9 min and sound is oddly mixed; they’re on a kept 4-way split aboveDianogah – Dianogah Demo/ Good but not necessary for me; off DuPage County Hardcore BC page- Dianogah – PRF BBQ 2021 – Dianogah / smal EP, OK good
- Diarrhea Planet – Aloha EP / Good garage rock from Nashville
- Dibia$e – Baker’s Dozen / good hiphop
- Dick Move – Chop! / OK bratty NZ punk
- Die! Die! Die! – Promises Promises / fun upbeat punk
- The Difference Machine – Triangel Schemes /Solid outside the box hip hop
- Digger Barnes – Time Has Come LP/CD / well done but too wispy?
- Digital Underground – Sex Packets / solid if unspectacular old school hip hop
- Dillinger Four – C I V I L W A R / good not great
- The DiMarcos – s/t EP / Gville/NC punk
Diners – “three”/ boring bedroom pop- Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space / what you’d expect
Diplo – MMXX/ ambientnessDirty Beaches – Badlands/ well done retrol-proto-punk a la Suicide, but meh?- Dirty Faces – SUPERAMERICAN / Garage-y + The Make-Up? it’s OK
- dis- – M 386 .D57 1994 / Good loud indie rock
- Disintegration – Shiver in a Weak Light /interesting goth from CLE
Dispossessed – Besieged/ Kenny J’s death metal bandDisq – Disq I/ Poppy indie rock that wasn’t my thing- DISSIDENTE / ДИССИДЕНТЫ – FRONTLINE EP /political punk w ska?
- DISTORTION FELIX – RECORD / good LA shoegaze on Akashic
- Distillers – S/T / decent pop punk al a Hole, Tilt
- DIVERS – Hello Hello / good heartfelt emo/rock from PDX, reminds of Spanish Love Songs a little.
- Division of Laura Lee – 1997-1999 / reminds of a mix of Refused and Fugazi
- Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit / heavy
- DJ Amir, Re.decay, DJ Dez Andrez (aka Andrés), Amp Fiddler – Street Rap (DJ Amir & Re.Decay Jazz Re.Constructed Remix) / Salsa (DJ Dez Salsa (de Corazon) Remix) / Fun funk fun
- DJ Bacon – Back in Hell/Sure Shot / fun remixes/mashups (AC/DC RunDMC Beasties)
- Dj Bones – Started In The Park / good old schoool hiphop but 30 tracks is a lot at once
DJ Delish – Khadijah Vol. 6/ well done dance music but not my thing- DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Magnificent / Good old school hip hop
- DJ Kevlar – The ReMixTapes Vol. 5 – Bill Withers / enjoyable
- DJ Self Born – POWER & Refinement VOLUME 2 / good hip hop instrumentals with political spoken work (incl Dream Defenders!)
- DJDS – Stand Up And Speak / good dance indie, just not my thing
Dntel – Human Voice/ 1/2 of Postal Service but too avant electronic for me- Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead / initially a keeper but a little too ambient on final listen; still really strong.
- Do Nothing – Zero Dollar Bill / Ted Leo-ish
- Doc Hopper – Aloha / good 90s emo like Samiam
- Doc Watson – Live At Purdue University 3-19-64 / solid but not haunting enough
Doggon Sweater – Bummerville/ sloppy covers (HWM + AM! +3)- Dolarhyde – “Self Titled” / fine pop-punk from ATL
- Dollar Signs – Hearts of Gold /Defiance Ohio/BTMI mimicry … just meh
- Dolorean – You Can’t Win / pretty good, if unspectacular, folk rock
Don Knotts – A Black Day For Mayberry/ silly Asshole Parade like North Lincoln offshoot; unnecessary- Don’t Say Words – Don’t Say Words / good local TAL punk
Donnie & Joe Emerson – Tonight/ yacht rock 7″ but great 2nd son (story = movie w Casey Affleck?)- Doom Scroll – Immoral Compass / pretty good folk punk (not cookie cutter)
- Doom Service – The Uncanny Doom Service / good punk rock music from VT
Dorian Taj – On the Loose/ well done indie rock just too 70ish for my taste- Doris Henson – white elephant / reminds of less quirky Dismemberment Plan, interesting
- Dos – Justamente Tres / Mike Watt and Kira from Black Flag
- Dosser – Violent Picture / Violent Sound / meh angry emo from Baltimore
Dot Allison – Heart-Shaped Scars/ too soft sing-son- Dow Jones and the Industrials – Can’t Stand the Midwest: 1979-1981 Anthology / good early punk; great art
- Downhaul – Before You Fall Asleep / Solid emo
- DOWNWARD – The Brass Tax / music ≠ cover art; indie pop/rock; well done but forgettable?
- Dowsing – Okay / good poppunk/emo
- DRAIN – California Cursed / OK california lite metal punk
- Dreamtigers – Closer Than Time / 2 songs of moody, post-punk indie?
- Dreamwell – Modern Grotesque / Fine to good punk from Rhode Island
Dream Nails – Take Up Space!/ well done riot-grrl likebut doesn’t break much new groundDreamer Isioma – The Leo Sun Sets/ CHI bedroom soul; well done just not my thing- Dream Job – s/t / enjoyable pop punk
- Dreamend – as if by ghosts… / good instructions, post rock on Graveface
- Drill For Absentee – Circle Music + 4 / Dianogah-ish
- Drive-Truckers – The New OK / fun, incl ramones cover
- Drive-Truckers – The Unraveling / solid > great
- Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day / Title track is a slammer
Droids Blood – demo/ weird OK/not CHI punk weirdnesssDRONES – Our Hell Is Right Here/ OK UK punk like Daytrader, but starts to lag- Droughts – Stay Behind / decent post HC
- The Drowns – Under Tension / reminds of OWTH
- DRUG CHURCH – Cheer / Fucked Up-lite?
- DRUG CHURCH – Hygiene / really solid hard indie rock
- Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg / OK post punk … only 3 songs
- Dua Lipa – Dance With Me (Album) / mash-up that’s fine/well done just not enough
- Duckis – Lick it Up – snotty TLH punk
- Dugong – Quick To The City /reminds of Failures Union
- THE DUKES OF HILLSBOROUGH – Generation Tinnitus / good Leatherface-ish from Tampa
Duma – s/t/ Kenyan grindcore(!) by way of Death Grips, intense- Duma – s/t / kenyan gridncore by way of Death Grips?!?; BC 2020 essential; not my thing but woah.
- Dumb – Club Nites / Strokes or pavement like
- Dungen – Allas Sak / solid
- Duster – Remote Echoes / fine
- Duval Timothy – Help / well made indie R&B
Dyani – Under/ experimental jazz
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- Early Day Miners – Outside Lies Magic / ver good mellow indie
- The Eastern Wave – Temple Sleep / St Aug dark ambient; ex=punks?
- Easy Prey – Relentless Struggle / good post HC from Austin TX
- Echo Base – Some Legacy / good TLH emo
- Edgar – Edgar, 1994-1996 / meh early stuff from Edgar
- Edmonton – That’s a Long Way to Swim / fun GNV punk EP
- Edsel – The Everlasting Belt Co. / solid indi rock
- Eef Barzelay – A Deeper Truth We’ve Come To Know
- EF – Ceremonies / avg Post Rock
- the EFFECTS – Eyes to the Light / good Discord
- Efrim Manuel Menuck – Pissing Stars / interesting and part of Constellation Records family
Ego Ella May – Honey for Wounds/ Baduish neo soul, well done- Eighty Six – What’s My Problem Today? / good org-core
Ekin Fil – Feelings/ quiet ambient- Ekko Astral – QUARTZ / decent dark trans punk from DC
- El Michels Affair – Adult Themes / good instrumental loungy beats
- El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game / good hip hop
- El Michels Affair – Return To The 37th Chamber / good hip hop beats
- El Sécondhand – All The Lonely People / good 90s emo
- El Ten Eleven – New Year’s Eve / fine poppier post rock
- EL-P – Fantastic Damage
- EL-P – I’ll Sleep When Your’e Dead
- The Electric Moog Orchestra – Music from ‘Star Wars’ / fun, but unnecessary to hear 2x
- Elephant Micah – Where in our Woods / nice J Gonz like progressive folk
- Eli West – Tapered Point of Stone / Decent to good traditional folk
Eliza Hardy Jones – Because Become/ just OK- Eliza Hardy Jones – Pickpocket / fine… would be a
/if not for RTRS connection - Elliott – U.S. Songs / late 90s found on Rev Records rabbit hole
- ELMER – Songs of Sin and Retribution +7 / fine… NIR completionism only
Eluvium – Pianoworks/- Elvis ‘77 – 10 Thumbs Down / heavy decent
- Emily Robb – How To Moonwalk / 26 min of guitar feedback but not horrible
- Emily Wells – Regards to the End / well done indie rock with classical-ish singing
- Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell / good but just E.R.R. and a piano, i remember being louder/more dynamic
- Emma Anderson – Pearlies / Lush-lite (former singer?)
- Emocat Records – A Benefit Compilation For Palestine / vancouver scrams comp
Empire Of One – A History In Sound/ historic but inessential comp from Flint Local 232 soundboard (HWM, TGUK)- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) – You Will Eventually Be Forgotten / really good 4th wave emo; added 2x others
Empty House Cooperative – Seven \hinah032/ too quiet improv/indie jazz- Enemy Radio – Loud is Not Enough / Public Enemy w/o Flava Flav?
- Enemies – We’ve Been Talking / OK instrumental post rock
- Enola Gay – Casement EP / Interesting weird gloomy punk from Belfast
Enter The Ronald – RLND/ meh metalish instr.- Enumclaw – Jimbo Demo / good “classic” indie/shoegaze
- Envy – Insomniac Doze /
- Envy – The Fallen Crimson / heavy and good
- Envy – All The Footprints You’ve Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead
- Epic Ganesh – Epic Ganesh / TAL krishna prog-rock… but NOT terrible?!?
- Erase Errata – Nightlife / good dance punk from Oakland
Eric Case – After All(,) This/ No. Religious folk that is ex-Look Mexico- Eric Bachmann Man – *Eric Bachmann – Live at Colorow’s Cave / Good; not enough of a fan to see the highs/lows
Eric Revis – Slipknots through a Looking Glass/ very good jazz but just 2 songs- Erica Freas – Young / good > great
- Erica Freas – Belly
- Erica Freas – Young / good, prob need more listens to deepen
Erika de Casier – Essentials/ meh pop songsErika de Casier – Essentials/ meh pop songsEris Drew – Quivering in Time/ techno- Escape Point – Ghost Signs / ok deep voice sludge from DC
- ESCØRT – Demo 2017 / fine olympia aggro-punk
- Esmerine – Mechanics Of Dominion / OK post rock; members of GYBE & Silver Mt Zion
- Espejos – Demo / chi post punk
- Ethers – s/t / power-pop lite from CHI
- Ethel Cain – Unreleased II / just OK
Europa – Small Steps/ odd alt rock outta Orlando- Every Time I Die – Radical / well done just a smidge off wanting to get; ATDI/mars Volta-ish spazzy punk from Buffalo
- Everything I Own Is Broken (Remaster) (2022) – B. Hamilton / fine… didn’t leap out
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown / screamy punk from Buffalo
- Everyone Asked About You – It’s Days Like This / good 90s emo; just 1 song
- Evidence – Cats & Dogs / pretty darn good hip hop
Evidence – Squirrel Tape Instrumentals, Vol. 1/ Just beats, but good enough to add other Evidence albums- The Ex – Too Many Cowboys / sounds like The Ex
- Ex-Breathers – Demos & Rarities
- Ex-Breathers – Past Tense /
Except After C – Learn: The Songs of Ben Barnett/ fun idea, just not enough great KOLS songs here- EXCIDE – Actualize/Radiation Reel / fine post HC from CHI
- exhalants – Atonement / interesting loud rock from TX
- Exhalants – S/T /Texas loud rock a la The Blind Shake
- Exit Verse – Grant No Glory / good followup
- Expert Timing – Glare / worth another listen
- The Expert – Dynamic Drift / DJ shadow like compositions
- Expert Timing – Stargazing / OK mid FLA emo
- Explosions in the Sky – Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) / v89 review; diff from earlier EITS
- Explosions in the Sky – End / more post than rock 🙂
- Explosivo! – If The Devil Had A Guitar… / OK Long Island punk
- Eye Q – Please The Nation / good Zimbabwe 60s/70s rock but not repeat listens (sound a little like Ozzy)
- Ezra Cohen – The Sweet Million / meh alt-rock from NH; ex-Notches?
- face to face – Don’t Turn Away / fine SoCal punk
- FACS – Present Tense / decent CHI art-punk-rawk
- FACS – Void Moments / OK post punk
- The Fad – Kill Punk Rock Stars / Good Long Island ska punk; BTMI with less joy and more horns
Failures – Failures – S/T, LP/14 min HC- Failure – Fantastic Planet (Remastered) / big 90s sound; prob worth a 2nd listen; remastered in 2020
- Failure – Wild Type Droid / not as good as earlier album
- Fairweather – s/t / good epic-ish punk from Baltimore
- Faith No More – Sol Invictus / just OK
- Fake Limbs – The Power of Patrician Upbringing / Chicago garage rock
Fall Out Boy – We Didn’t Start The Fire (DJ 52 Redrum) 152/ 1 song, unnecessary- Family Cat – Dealing with Depression / great Fest-like punk by way of Weezer? from RVA
- Faraquet – The View From This Tower / This is good, uh, Dischord punk rock
- Fashion Week – Prêt-à-Porter / good loud rock (ex-Nakotami Plaza)
- Faster Than Light – Turbo Lightning / ok LA alt rock
Fat Shadow – Foot of Love/ ok Erin Tobey garage indie- The Faux Paws – The Faux Paws / decent bluegrass-indie
- Fawning – Illusions of Control / Sounds a lot like lighter Lush
Fear Not Ourselves Alone – You in the Heart of Everyone/ reminds of Imadethismistake but doesn’t land; trans-centric- FEBUARY – February / screamo, similar to other Smegma Beach stuff
- Feeble – Growing Out Of Touch / really good BTMI-like punk
- feeble little horse – Hayday / interesting fuzzy Pittsburg indie rock
- Fela Kuti – Gentleman / good taste, explore more
- Fela Kuti – Perambulator
- Felony for Existing – Felony for Existing / loud punk, screamy like YLivers?
Fennec – Free Us of This Feeling/ electronica- Feverchild – Feverchild / fine indie rock
- Fiddlehead – Springtime and Blind / interesting enough indie/punk from MA
- Fidelity Jones – Magdeburg Lad / intersting reformed Dischord band; les HC more arty/spiritual
- Fight Amp – Constantly Off / good loud rock
The Fights – Off Your Horse/ not enough heart; not enough alt- with the country- Filthy Friends – Invitation / good: Corrine Tucker, Peter Buck, et al.
- Finom – Fantasize Your Ghost / very good and interesting indie pop from CHI
- Fire In The Radio – New Air / good but not as good as Monumnets
- Fireworks – Oh, Common Life / well done but closer to Fall Out Boy than i like usually
- The Firebird Band – The City at Night / Surprisingly interesting electronic rock
- Fistful – s/t 7″ / solid enough singer songwriter on New Granada
- The Flatliners – New Ruin / solid if unspectacular
- Flaws – Flaws– Erect Nation LP / Mike Taylor 3-piece on Harlan Records that sounds like Jawbox (!)
Fletcher C Johnson – It Rained Something Wicked/ latter day member of The Weight… but boring?- Flight Mode – The Three Times / good > great Norwegian emo (ala DCFC)
- Flight Mode – TX, ’98 / just OK indie from Norway
- Floating In Space – Liftoff / fine cinematic post-rock on Deep Elm
Floatie – Voyage Out/ fine but a little irritating proggy emo- Flock of Dimes – Head of Roses / OK indie folk (wye oak side project)
FLOOR – Lost Tracks/ fine but not for non-completists- Floor – Oblation / solid doom/sludge
- Floor – Sight & Seen / 30 songs is too much as a casual fan for one sitting
- Florida Man – Tropical Depression / good loud rock, punk
- Flowers Taped to Pens – Endgame
Flowers Taped to Pens – Nice to Meet You, I Hate You/ ok screamo, vox are over top, added and kept 2 albums above- Flowers Taped to Pens – s/t / OK skramz from San Diego… low quality recording; added later LP
- Fluung – Satellite Weather / fine Built to Spill like indie
- Flux Of Pink Indians – Neu Smell / ok UK anarcho punk on Crass’ label
- Flying Raccoon Suit – Afterglow / very No Doubt-ish
- FM359 – Truth, Love, & Liberty / Steet Dogs side project
- Folklore – The Curse /interesting indie pop in the vein of NMH via Athens/PHI
- football, etc. – Vision / very good female fronted emo
FOOTBALLHEAD – Before I Die/ liked LP from V89 much better- FOOTBALLHEAD – Overthinking Everything (2024) /
- for your health – In Spite Of / Ok HC from Columbus OH
- For The Hell of It – Tallahassee Four Way Split /
- For Love of Records – Yesterday & Today: DC Does Dischord / good; dont know the indiv songs well enough to love
- For Everest – We Are At Home In The Body / good stuff, reminds of someone: Macabbees, Forget Casssetts?
- The Foreign Correspondents – Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy / Ted Leo + B. Canty et al… OK 7″
- forests – Sun Eat Moon Grave Party / twinkly emo outta Singapore
- forget cassettes – O CURSA / good, but <<<<<< Salt
- Former Member – Manageable Scratches / good kinda late 80s-thoughtful metal/rock (ala Tesla?)
- Fortunate Son (2021) – B. Hamilton / good cover
- Forth Wanderers – Forth Wanderers / OK Sub Pop pop
- Forth Wanderers – Mahogany / solid indie EP, added full-lengh
- Forth Wanderers – Tough Love / fine indie/pop emo
- FOTOCRIME – Accelerated / Postpunk from Colliseum lead singer
- Fox Wound – In Passing, You Too Faded / fine indie emo
- Foxhall Stacks – The Coming Collapse / good power pop by old punks
- Foxing – Draw Down the Moon / v89 review, miss the old Foxing
- Foxing – The Albatross: Ten Years / concept >>> execution
- Foxmoulder – Lethe / loud chaotic rock
- Foxtails – Querida Hija / good weird screamy art punk
- foxtails – fawn / good screamy emo w/ feeling
- The Fragiles – S/T / David Settle mellow pop
- Frail Hands – Parted/Departed/Apart / solid loud rock
- Frail Hands – parted/departed/apart / avg screamo
- Frank Turner & Jon Snodgrass – ‘Buddies’ / Just OK
Frankie Stubbs – Blood Orange Moon/ respect to Stubbs but mehFrank Turner & Jon Snodgrass – Buddies II: Still Buddies’/ kinda forced and dumb- Frank Turner – Campfire Punkrock / just OK EP
Franco Tonani – Confluenze/ too frantic; from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)- Frankie Stubbs – Don’t You Ever Say Goodbye / just one song
Frank Force – Entroducing Originals: Part One/ The clips that DJ Shadow used for Entroducing; not as engaging as the final version- Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed: Tenth Anniversary Edition (B-sides) / 1 LP of demos; 1 LP of live songs which is better
- Frank Turner – Sleep Is For The Week – Tenth Anniversary Edition (Bonus Demos) / fine but inessential
Frank Turner – Ten For Ten/ just meh nothing really spoke to me- Frank Turner – The First Three Years / some good covers and “Jet Lag”
Frank Turner – The Second Three Years/ just meh, nothing really spoke to me- Frank Turner – The Third Three Years / some good stuff, some meh; but the good is very good
- Freezing Cold – Stuck on Hold/Drawn to Scale EP / Jeff from B&T… 7″
- French Vanilla – French Vanilla / run of the mill femael fronted post punk
- Freshman Woes – THANK YOU RAP GODS / OK hip hop from South Carolina
Fried E/M – Modern World/ OK punk- Frightened Rabbit – Sing The Greys /
- Froggy – Sopa de Elote / solid young female punk from PHI
- From Indian Lakes – Everything Feels Better Now / fine ethereal indie/pop rock from NY
From Indian Lakes – Everything Feels Better Now/ meh Sufjan-like indie- From Autumn To Ashes – The Fiction We Live / meh Vagrant pop-screamo
- Frontier(s) – White Lights / decent Tiny Engines post HC from 2014
- Fruit Bats – Spelled In Bones / ok indie folk pop that’s well done just not my thing
Fucked Up – Mixtape 6- Fucked Up – Oberon / more gothic than other FU stuff?
- Fucked Up – One Day / interesting but would take a few listens to sink in
- Fucked Up – Year of the Horse / just OK
- Fuel / TheBandFormerlyKnownAsFuel – s/t / Spoke/Allied/Dischord 90s from East Bay
- Full Bush – S/T / interesting mix of styles: punk, indie, riot grrl, post punk from PHI
- Full Sun – Thinkin About It / Excellent BLoomington punk
- Full Sun – Bare Floor / just OK psych indie
- FUN TIME OBJECTS – C20/20 GO-GO!* / avg NYC punk
Funeral Clown / bath – Funeral Clown / bath/ Gvill punk; FC = ska; Bath – skramz, but not enought to keep- Futuro – Os Segredos Do Espaço e Tempo / similar to Downtown Boys ; good, quick
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- Galaxie 500 – This is Our Music / historic? reminds me of Freedom Coalition days
- Gard Nilssen´s Supersonic Orchestra – If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours / good jazz
- The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound Sessions / fine, not a GA completist
- Gasoline Heart – Big Trouble / slow start but recovers, alt-country from BKN
- Gauche – A People’s History of Gauche / good post punk on Merge; some is liek latter day Sleater-Kinney
- The Geeks – Every Time We Fall / pretty run of the mill HC/punk
- Gender Chores – Night In The Woods / just1 song, added LP
- Gender Chores – Play The Greatest Hits / just OK borders on nah.
- Generacion Suicida – REGENERACION / spanish language punk from LA
Gentleman Jesse & His Men – Bryan / Hate To See You Stay/ meh power pop 7″ … somehow The Weight related?- Genuine – Dear You / good covers; not great/essential
- Genuine – Give Up / just ok; largely unrecognizable
- Genuine – MCMLXXX MIXTAPE / amusing but not enough
- Georgia Maq – Pleaser / camp cope singer doing less punk more pop
George Barton – Thanks For The Light/ meh OLKA boogie boogie- The Get Up Kids – Live @ The Granada Theater / really good but maybe not essential
- ghert’s dirt – Ole Peach Hall Demo / OK banjo punk from Montreal; C. Ragan cover
- Ghost Tropic – Ghost Tropic EP / more jangly, less haunting than 2nd EP Fire
- Ghost Tropic – Reveal / 1 song, 2 remixes, more haunting
- Ghost Work – You’ll Be Buried With / ex-Seaweed and others; RIYL Replacements and early U2; just oK
Giant Haystacks – Blunt Instrument/ Vocals are too English-y even though from Bay Area- Giant Sand – Heartbreak Pass / soft indie rock
- Giardini di Mirò – Giardini di Mirò / good post rock
Gillian Carter – Salvation Through Misery/ meh screamo- Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) / better than my perceived cynicism
- GILT – Ignore What’s Missing / good Jax punk a la Sleigh Bells?
- Ginger Alford – Into the Void Tour Tracks / fun 3-song EP
Girl Friday – Androgynous Mary/ Decent female fronted indie rock- GIRL ARM – Cell Death / meh indie/post punk
- Girlsperm – The Muse Ascends / as name implies Riot Grrrlish
- GLAAS – Cruel Heart, Cold Summer / good german post-punk
- Glacier Veins – Accident Prone/Circles (reimagined) / great Jawbreaker cover
- Glacier Veins – Clear Your Head / good pop emo from PDX
- gladie – Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out / OK but < Cayetana
Gladie – Raw Nerve/ ex Cayatena just ok but added other full length- Gladie – Safe Sins / ex-cayetana
Glass Beach – The First Glass Beach Album/ BTMI knock-off- The Glass Hours – The Glass Hours / very good americana/folk from BKN
- Glazed – 1999 / decent emo from Jax
- Glen Hansard – All That Was East Is West Of Me Now / just OK
- Glen Hansard – This Wild Willing
- Glitterer – Life is Not a Lesson / title Fight singer; think i like this more than Hyperview
- Gnod – Hexen Valley / excellent angry rock
- Gnod – JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE / good noise rock mixed with some electroclash; interesting BC article (why i added)
Gnod – Infinity Machines/ droney ambient… not for me in the A.M. (another Gnod record made 2nd re-listen oddly enough)- The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part One / very enjoyable UK dance pop
- The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike / fun
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers
- Gods Reflex – A Brief Lesson in Affection / decend indie/punk from Rockford
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! – all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling / good not great
- Gods Reflex – Scenes From a Motel Seduction / good 90s indie/emo from IL
- Golden Grrrls – Golden Grrrls / perfectly pleasant indie pop
- Golden Ones – Nowhere Fast / good OKLA alt rock
- GOLDEN STREETS OF PARADISE – Throes / intriguing indie rock from CLE
- Good Kid – Good Kid 2 / good; a time and place
- Good Kid – Good Kid 3 / good; a time and place
- Good Sleepy – i better start dreaming, vol 1 / decent emo from Worcester
- Good Sleepy – Okay With The Way It Is, As Is / Fine midwest emo stuff
- Goodridge – Sinking / perfectly good emo
Good Good Blood – Trick of the Light/ sounds like Bon Iver lite?- Goomson – True & Living / good boom-bap
- Gordo! – Semillas / fine > great spanish lang. punk
- Gorgeous – S/T / Strong TAL femme-punk
- Gorgeous – 4 Way Split with Repo Man, For The Hell of It, and Ex-Breathers /
Gorgeous – Egg/ quirky pop; right on borderline of not making it- Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today / added for historic value, relisten?
The Gorls – Fall in Love 1992-93/ good but not vital garage rock- Gospel Music – How To Get To Heaven From Jacksonville, FL / sounds a lot like Magnetic Fields; always assumed this was a punk comp by the cover art LOL
- Gospel – The Loser / ok kinda metalish punk
- Gospel – the moon is a dead world / Good punk
- Gospel – The Moon is a Dead World / dynamic, mars volta ish
- The Gotobeds – Debt Begins at 30 / good loud rock on Sub Pop outta Pittsburgh
- Grace Petrie – Connectivity / Good queer UK folk (ala Bragg/Turner)
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill – The Moomins/ No. Carnival like theme music… was curious b/c of Kleon’s love for them- Grails – Burning Off Impurities / jazzy > the solid rock I expected
Gram Parsons – Another Side of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons 1965-1966/suprisingly bland and disappointing- Grammer – Awesome Knifes / good not great
Gramercy Arms – The Seasons Of Love/ well done indie pop thats not my thing; cover art > music- The Grand Marquis – Heavy-duty Wonderful / by the numbers CHI pop punk
- Grand Ulena – Gateway to Dignity / interesting intstrumental spazz rock
- The Great Redneck Hope – Behold The Fuck Thunder / amusing >10 min of Grindcore w fun titles
- Great Plains – Family Friends / very good indie rock from New Paltz
- Great Plains – Great Plains / really good post-rock from NY; added another LP
- Green On Red – Gas Food Lodging / real good proto alt-country from 80s
- Green/Blue – Paper Thin / solid post punk
- Greenland is Melting – Still Not Dead / Just OK EP
- Gregoire Maret – Americana / Harmonica jazz w Bon Iver cover
- Gregor Barnett – Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave / sounds like you’d expect: Menzingers-lite
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell/ weird metalish big rockGreg Spero – The Chicago Experiment/ jazzy but not enough- Gregor – Untitled / fine 90s emo on Council Rec.
- Grey Goose – Til the Medicine Takes / Continued to be surprised by Kaleb’s music (RIP)
Grey Matter – Climbing Out/ just OK ska punkGreys – Age Hasn’t Spoiled You/ Not as engaged noise rock as I remembered their first album from my V89 days.Griffith Harter Union – Progress b/w A House In The Country/ fine but just like proto-proto-proto-punkGrizzly Bear – Yellow House/ not for me, boringish indie rockGrouper – Ruins/ well done but too quiet/sparse for relisten- Groundwork – Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent /90s AZ HC, sounds like… HC
- Growing Fins – Growing Fins / good newer emo
- Growing Fins – Ogilvie / just 1 song but added EP
- GRP.TXT – GRP.TXT / Jessica Mills post-punk 3-piece
- Grrrl Gang – Here to Stay / reminds of a poppier Lemuria, boy/girl vox
- Grumpster – Grumpster /good pop punk from OAK
- Grumpster – Underwhelmed / good pop punk
- Guacamole Breakfast – Persea Americana / TAL punk
Guerilla Toss – What Would the Odd Do?/ decent dancy punk- GUHTS – Regeneration / ok ‘alt-metal’ from NY
- Guided by Voices – Nowhere To Go But Up / Good > great
Guiltmaker – The Emerald Coast/ well done but spacey indie… meh.- Gulfer – Gulfer / reminiscent of latter day Minus the Bear
- Gully Boys – Favorite Son / decent power pop
- Gumm – Two Song Promo / 2 song HC from Chattanooga
Gun Club – Moonlight Motel/ live album; bad quality, decent musicGun Died Laughing – The Big Heat/ Gvill rock… less good Unitas?- Guts Club – Trench Foot / a lot of Patti Smith influence, NOLA
- GUTS – Lucky All Over / debut by Sam Jones’ ~83rd band
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Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden/ decent folk but. too ethereal- Halifax Pier – S/T / in the vein of emporer moth erudition
- Hammered Hulls – Careening / good new Dischord; reminded of Tubers at times.
- Hammerhead – Into the Vortex / OK loud rock
- Hammered Hulls – S/T / solid Dischord 7″
Hang the Old Year – The Incessant Hum/ Reminiscent of Mars Volta, just not very interesting tho- Hankshaw – Nothing Personal / nostalgic, but i’m good
Hanni El Khatib – FLIGHT/ indie pop/dance?- Hard Girls – Floating Now / reminds of BTMI
- Hard Left – Strike For America / 2 song 7″ mod/oi isn’t my thing but good politics
- Charmer – **
- Harmony Woods – GRACEFUL RAGE / interesting potential, grandish emo
- Harriet the Spy – We Don’t Need the Glamorous Life: An Anthology / good 90s punk, not essential
- Harvey Milk – Reckoning / much heavier than REM, historic? probl not enough to get
- The Hated – No More We Cry / uneven early early emo
- The Hated – What Was Behind / OK prob better than I’m hearing each time
- The Hated – Words Come Back (Single) / good/great early emo song — part of larger Numero comp 220.1
- Havah – Contravveleno / decent post punk
- Have Gun Will Travel – Strange Chemistry / really good 1st song
- Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness / interesting, slow shoe gaze/postpunk
- Have Gun, Will Travel – Fiction, Fact, or Folktale? / Solid but not as terrific as debut
- Have Gun, Will Travel – Science from an Easy Chair / good from them
- Have Gun, Will Travel – Silver Sounds EP / decent EP
- Have Heart – Songs to Scream at the Sun / decent HC/post HC screams
- hawak – nước / ok punk screamo only 15 min
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 / historic folk, solid
- Hazing Over – Pestilence / death metal punk?
- Ohbliv – Bakers Dozen: Ohbliv / just beats
- The Souljazz Orchestra – Solidarity / well done just more reggae than i want; no longer on BC
- Headphones – Headphones / Decent Bazan
Health – Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear/ Electro goth weirdness… I thought i liked an earlier record @ V89- Hearken – Help Me, I’m Alive / female indie rawk, dark sonic
- HEARTS APART – Number One To No One / somehow added a 2nd time 🙂
heartscape landbreak – this day rolls away/ Aimee Des Ark’s partner? Elephant6 like odd pop.- Heart Attack Man – Thoughtz & Prayerz / fine pop-punk from CLE
Heart and Lung – You Wanna Know the Truth?/ Fine pop punk but only so many hrs in the day- Heavy Pockets – Pure Evil / sounds a lot like Hop Along, just missed the final cut
- Heavy Seas – Distortion Days / good Chicago adult/dad punk
- Heavy Seas – Everything Breaks* / good Chicago adult/dad punk
- Heavy Lungs – Abstract Thoughts EP / loud rock a la Idles or early Nirvana
- Heavy Lag – Another Year Closer To Whatever / good BKYN “dirt pop”
- Heavy Heart – Closer / OK pop punk… just on the line of /
- Heavy Seas – Distortion Days / good chi punk rock
Heavy Hearts – Room With A View/ too hot-topic-ish emo- Helen of Troy – Discography, Pt. 1 / really good post HC/screamo from NYC
- Helen Money – Atomic / like Mary Lattimore but gloomier and more interesting
The Heliocentrics – Infinity of Now/ well done soul psychadelics but not my thing- Hell Beach – BEACHWORLD / decent pop punk from NH
Hellrazor – Heaven’s Gate/ OK but unnecessary odd punk rock electro- Helms Alee – Keep This Be the Way / good shoegaze/grunge from SEA
- Helms Alee – Night Terror / good heavy rock from SEA
- hemlock – talk soon / “hope core”, sounds like TJO
Henry Lloyd Allen – Infinite Memory, a Collection of Bits and Fragments/ really minimal ambient, not my thing- Her Head’s On Fire – College Rock and Clove Cigarettes / solid, if not great ex-SBB, Saves the Day, Garrison, The Bomb
- Heroes of Heartache – Good Morning, Sweet Dreams / from band who did Branches EP; interesting and layered like Pingrove a bit
- Hesitation Wounds – Hesitation Wounds / OK loud yell-y punk
- Hewhocorrupts – Master Of Profits / 10 min; A for concept; C for music; OK spazz HC
- Hey Colossus – In Blood / good post punk — sounds exactdly like expect cover art
- Hey Colossus – The Guillotine / OK to good droney post punk from UK
- HEY-SMITH – Life In The Sun / boring ska punk
- Hey, ily! – Internet Breath / Good sugary synth pop punk
- Hey, ily! – Psychokinetic Love Songs / OK pop punk
- Hiccup – Imaginary Enemies / harder edged Juliana Hatfield sound
- Hickoids – Corn Demon / good old cow punk
- HIDE – Hell is Here / angry industrial darkness outta Chicago w Heather Gabel
- Hideto Sasaki, Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1 – Stop Over / Nice jazz from Japan (!)
- High Vis – Guided Tour / surprisingly enjoyable UK post punk
- High Castle – Spirit Of The West / good female post punk
Hippie Trim – What Consumes Me/ meh nu-skramz?- Hipshot Killer – Guns and Gas / solid punk
- Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like a Levee / decent alt-countryish folk on Merge
- Hit Society – Hit Society / good sounds a lot like early Nirvana
Hit The North Records – Hit The North Pole (Vol. 1): A Festive Charity Compilation for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund/ good cause, but meh xmas coversHit The North Records – Love Los Angeles: A Charity Compilation in Aid of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Benefiting the Mutual Aid LA Network/ good cause, meh indie pop/rock- The Hold Steady – Live at The Salt Shed 7-1-23 / OK, but hard to capture THS live energy
- The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy
- The Hold Steady – The Price of Progress / Good but not much new ground
- The Hold Steady – Thrashing Through the Passion
- Hollow Suns – Free Fall / really good japanese india rock 90s sound
- The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir – Slow Murder / weird scrams/spaz/metal mix on Graveface … well done but not great
- Homeboy Sandman – Dusty / pretty solid old school sounding new hip hop
- Home Is Where – i became birds / good but don’t really get the hype
Hoogway – Forever Ago/ slow ambient, a little too little.- Hop Along – more songs from 2005 / fine but loft
- Hope 4 Justice – Hope 4 Justice / musically a / (don’t keep); but kids choir singing for enviro justice
- Horse Lords – The Common Task / Very interesting post-rock from Baltimore
- Horsegirl – Ballroom Dance Scene et cetera (best of Horsegirl) / Chicago post punk with great design
- Horse Lords – Comradely Objects / interesting post-rock, by-way-of-jazz
- Hospital Job – Never Get Cold / decent pop punk
- Hot Hands – Blood Stereo / bratty punk with some pop (Jeffery Kickbright)
- Hot Cross – Cryonics / solid screamy emo from ’03
- Hot Graves – Fashion Victim EP / 8 min, death/thrash Gville/NC
- Hot Rod Circuit – Hot Rod Circuit / fine 3 song EP
- HOT MASS – Nervous Tensions / very good org-core/Riot Before type punk
- Hot Mulligan – Opportunities / just OK; liked their other one
- HOUSTON – Every Branch On The Way Down / solid MN punk from mid 00s
- Household Gods – Palace Intrigue / interesting SY-ish one-off
- Shovels & Rope – O’ Be Joyful / same ^^
- hubcap – Those Kids Are Wierd / heavier pre-Dianogah
- Hum – Inlet / fine stuff
- Human Parts – 1.2.3.4. EP / fun EP from Gville band
Human – Delicacies of Extinction/ meh PHI grind core/death metal punk- Humilitarian – Head in a Jar / solid indie; less awesome, less soncially intense Forget Cassettes?
- Hundreds of AU – Acting From Remote Satellites / really good, reminds at times of heavier Young Livers
- Hundreds of AU – A Briefing on the Human Condition / good loud rock/punk
- Hunger Anthem – Hunger Anthem / ok inide rock
- The Huntress and Holder of Hands – Avalon / very satisfhying mellow indie/rock folk; post-death Brown Bird project?
- Huntingtons – Self-Titled Album (Remastered) / decent punk
- Hurry Up Shotgun – Abracadabraham Lincoln / good loud CAL rock
Hurray For The Riff Raff – LIFE ON EARTH/ meh; maybe b/c heard on a Monday, but forgettable indie- hurst – hurst. / fine mid 90s punk/emo from Indy
Husbandry – A Port in the Storm/ a little too nu-metally fo r me- I Came From Earth – The Owl on the One Dollar Bill (2012) / meh folk punk w/ heart+politics in the right place
- I Could Live In Hope – PSA, Not Ok / good shoegaze
- I Hate Sex – Circle Thinking / very good skramz; would prob love if i saw them
- I HATE OUR FREEDOM – This Year’s Best Disaster / good adult punk rock on Arctic Rodeo
- I Hate Sex – World of Grief / screamo from Alberta, not really nuanced enough
- I Kill Giants – I Kill Giants / good emo
- I Kill Giants – No One Will Ever Leave You / fine emo
- I Like Allie – Rare Instances of Independent Thinking / me italian indie
- I Love Your Lifestyle – No Driver / good sweedish emo
I MARC 4 – G.L.P. 1004/ from batch add of Italian film music whose album covers >>>> music (weird stuff)- I Self Devine – Rituals of Resilience / solid conscious hip hop from MIN
- I Would Set Myself on Fire For You – S/T / not as great as Believe in Patterns
- THE ICARUS LINE – ALL THINGS UNDER HEAVEN (ARK EXPANDED EDITION) / sprawling weirdo … on the edge of missing the cut
- IDLES – TANGK / only Idles thus far that feels meh-like
- If I Had a HiFi – We’re Never Going Home / Less cogent Challenger?
- Piglet – Lava Land / good instrumental post rock twinkling
- Iguana Death Cult – Echo Palace / OK post punk
- ILL STAR – Unfortunate / kinda classic old-school GNV Hardback punk
- Illuminati Hotties – FREE I.H: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For / really good but maybe too poppy for getting
- illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More / not as good as 1st record and only 4 song EP
illusory state of happiness – streams/ ambient drone; Shores side project?- imadethismistake – Different Ghosts / can see where this led to Bow and Quiver, but this is more uneven
- Immanu El – They´ll Come, They Come / pleasant indie-pop post-rock?
- In Loving Memory – A Discography / this contains As Years Pass and Feel Like Seconds and 4 more songs; excellent Skramz from Iowa(!)
- In Medias Res – Penny/Adequate (EW006) / Good, sorta like a Q and Not U lite
Indigo De Souza – Any Shape you Take/- Indigo Sparke – Echo / solid alt folk
- Industrial Revelation – Liberation & the Kingdom of Nri / really good jazz with a political slant?
- Inept – Images of Betrayal / late 90s HC, not my jam but well done
- Infant Island – Beneath
- Initiate – Lavender / shrugs.. metal indie from CA
- innards – I’ve Lost Everything Remastered / solid skrams
Innocence Mission – Befriended/ delightful indie-pop harmonics- the innocence mission – see you tomorrow / fine but somewhat forgetable
- Insect Fear – Must Be Destroyed/Crease / TLH old school indie; reminds of Naomi’s Hair
- Inside Voices – Liminal Space / decent emo indie from Louisiana
- Inside Out – No Spiritual Surrender / pre-RATM Zach DLR on Revelation(!)
- Inso Grey – 1996 Demo / female fronted screamo from Kalamzoo, MI; digital reissue by the great Council Records; right up my alley just missed LC011.get
- Insurgence DC – Ripe For The Trade-Off / Dischord like DC HC
- Interpol – Antics / only 2 songs, but would be keeper
- The Interrupters – In The Wild / OK, No Doubt like LA rock (via Good Trouble poster LOL)
- Into It. Over It. – Twelve Towns / very good but just misses the keep
- Into It. Over It. – Figure / a little poppier than before
Into Another – Into Another/ boring 80s/90s metalish HC?Invaluable – Repetition/ pop punk just ok- Iron Cages – January 2020 Tour Promo / less bad HC (3 song ep)
- Iron & Wine – Light Verse /
- Iron & Wine – Live at Third Man Records
- Iron & Wine – Archive Series Vol. 5: Tallahassee Recordings / reviewed for V89
- Irreversible Entanglements – Who Sent You? / political free jazz w/ great cover art
- Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul / OK
- Isaac Hayes – Shaft (Music From The Soundtrack) / historic but didn’t really hit on 1st listen
- Isaac Hayes – The Isaac Hayes Movement / interesting — and Hayes prob deserves closer/2nd listens… or maybe its just not for me
Isomorphic Worlds – False Mirror/ too quiet dark ambient- It Thing – Syrup / Good Tilt/BYOPet sound
- Itchy & The Nits – Itchy & The Nits / ok classic 3piece female punk
Ivan the Tolerable – Out of Season/ Uninterestingly caccophonous- Ixachitlan – Eagle, Quetzal, and Condor (NP-XII) native american black metal (!)
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- J CHURCH – Open Road: The Allied Years (1992–1997) / i like J Church but 39 songs is a bit much at one time
- J Dilla – Welcome 2 Detroit – The 20th Anniversary Edition / well done hip hop
- J Mascis – Don’t Do Me Like That (cover)
- J Mascis – Elastic Days / a little same-samey
- J Mascis – Fade Into You 7”
- J Robbins – Un-Becoming
- J. Robbins – Automaticity / just.2 songs
- J. Robbins – Basilisk / J. Robbins
- J. Robbins – Covers EP / just OK for JRob
J. Robbins – Three Masks/ don’t really hit- JAAW – SUPERCLUSTER / good noise rock a la Idles, but not as good
- Jacob Tovar – Jacob Tovar & The Saddle Tramps / old time country/honky tonk from Tulsa c. 2015
- Jade Dust – Demo Winter 2021 / just OK PDX punk
- Jaguar Shark – This City Will Eat Me Alive / really good HC/post-HC
- Jahari Massamba Unit – Pardon My French / OK Madlib jazz (cool album cover)
- Jail Socks – Coming Down / OK pop emo/punk
- Jail Socks – No Promises / OK emo 7″
Jake Xeres Fussell – In the Natural World/ thought it was a Lars ripoff, learned its a trad arrangement- Jake Blount – Spider Tales / BC 2020 essential
- Jamaican Queens – Wormfood / good dance-y indie rock; shades of a mix of TV on the Radio and OK GO?
Jamie 3:26 – Jamie 3:26 presents A Taste of Chicago/ house music that’s not my thing- Japandroids – Fate & Alcohol / not as immediat eas previous
- Japandroids – Massey Fucking Hall / like Radon they may just be better on record
- Jared Grabb Among Thieves – Among Thieves / Good JG stuff about Peoria
- Jared Grabb – Masters / ex-Scout’s Honor and great artwork
- Jason Anderson – Pipeline! at Home (live set) / good set with some classics + interview
- Jason Anderson – We Walked Home in Silence / great songs, but full band detracts a little
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Reunions / good stuff
- Jason Kutchma – Detroit
- Jason Kutchma – All Night Naked Eyes / solid
- Jason Anderson – Canyonlands /
- Jason Anderson – First Light / Not his best but solid
- Jason Anderson – Jason Anderson Folkadelphia Session 11/14/2012 / typically heart-felt J.A.
- Jason Kutchma – Live: 5 from the 506 /
Jason Darling – Night Like My Head/ meh singer songwriter from a guy well known at a recording studio?- Jason Anderson – The Next Big Open Door / OK
- Jason Anderson – Together, Apart / Climax, Michigan / OK Anderson, 2 songs
- Jason Anderson – What it Was and What We Wanted (Selected Songs 2005-2020)
- Jason Kutchma – Wishing Well / interesting; done w synth > guitar b/c of an injury; inessential
- Jasper Høiby – Planet B
- Jawbox – Live at Metro Chicago 2019 / good but nothing life changing, records are just as good
- Jawbox – The Revisionist EP / good, but just 3 song EP — 2 from Grippe reworked and a Wire cover.
- Jazmine Davis – Revoluntionary Voices (demo) / keep an ear out for; political
Jazzberry Patch – Jazzberry Patch/ too 70s lounge-yjeanines – acoustic/ indie pop that wasn’t very interesting- Jeff Curtis – Beaver Creek / instrumental banjo; outdoors at nigh
- Jeff Rosenstock – HELLMODE / standard Jeff R stuff
- Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream / not as immediate as Worry
Jeff Pianki – Said and Done/ pleasant but forgetful acoustic folk- Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown / pleasant jazz,
- Jeff Tweedy – Warm
- Jeff Cunningham – The Poems Stuck in My Teeth / pre-Bridge & Tunnel solo record
- Jen Pop – East Side of Eden / ok indie pop punk
- Jen Wood – No More Wading /
- Jena Berlin – Quo Vadimus / pre-Restorations band
- Jena Berlin – Play It Safe EP / good but not as great as Restorations
- Jeniferever – Choose A Bright Morning / more upbeat, less good Karate?
- Jenny Don’t and the Spurs – The Singles Roundup / ok alt country that sounds like there’s a tongue in cheek
- Jenna Camille – The Time is Now / Good 1st track, the rest jazzy
- Jenny Toomey – Antidote / really interesting
Jeremy Cunningham – The Weather Up There/ ok Chicago white jazz- The Jerky Boys – The Jerky Boys / brought me back; a couple classic-level ones, some misses too
- JEROMES DREAM – Completed | 1997-2001 / OK San Fran screamo discography; have since added others.
- Jeromes Dream – Presents / good post HC
- JEROMES DREAM – The Gray In Between / OK screamo
- The Jerry Granelli Trio – The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi and Mose Allison / decent Jazz
Jessy Lanza – All The Time/ well done dance pop but too sugary- Jess Harp – Jessy Baby Forever / solid indie female rock
- Jesuit – Discography / historic metal who went on to form other bands
- jesu – Duchess / Veiled EP / OK, 2 songs + mixes
- Jesu – S/T / sludgy
- Jet Black Berries – Post Modern Ghosts / glammy psych rock from Rochester NY, meh
- Jigsaw Youth – America’s Sweethearts / really good feminist punk from Staten Island
Jim Page – A Hand Full of Songs/ bland folk, don’t know how was added- Jim White – Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition) / ok (historic?) alt country from Pensacola
Jimi Hendrix & Kendrick Lamar – HENDRIX LAMAR./ good idea, but just sounds like 2 records played over each otehr > mashupjinsang – solitude./ beats, not enough to relish- JIVEBOMB – JVBM / Fine 9 min HC from Baltimore
- JKutchma & The Five Fifths – Sundown, USA / full-band versions of songs also on “At the End of Every Day I Make a Sunset”; akin to latter day Lucero w/ horns taking away from my prefered Kutchma/5/5ths stuff
- JKutchma & The Five Fifths – Blue Highways – Singles /solid
JKutchma & the Five Fifths – Moondance/ just one song, but added others- Jodi – Blue Heron / Remids of Pinegrove
- Jodi – Karaoke / Good. Reminds of Pinegrove
- Jodi Jones – Rust Belt Refugee / folk from NC that sounds famililar but not enough for many relistens
- Joe McMahon – Another Life / more indie rock than Smoke or Fire work
- The Joe Beats Experiment – Indie Rock Blues / fine but only really the S:O track stands out
Joe Beats – Joe Beats presents Non Prophets Hopestrumentals/ meh beatsJoe McMahon – Joe McMahon: Live at the Owl Sanctuary/ love Joe Mc but unispired acoustic versions for most partThe Joe Strummer Foundation – Strummerville A Go-Go- Joe Pernice – Who Will You Believe / Fine?
- Joe Lally – Why Should I Get Used To It / solid, ex-Fugazi
Joey Cape – A Good Year To Forget/ disappointing and weak in some spotsJohanna Warren – Chaotic Good/ Quiet singer-songwriter- JOHN HENRY WEST – (studio sessions) / fine old Little Rock punk
- John Francis Flynn – Look Over the Wall, See the Sky / just 1 song but really interesting
- John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness
- Johnny Football Hero – Complacency / emo
- Johnny Paycheck – Country Outlaw – Take This Job And Shove It / OK country; better than I figured it would be
John Parish – How Animals Move/ meh… a little less than I wanted- John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves / well done; LC001?
John Lely / Apartment House – Meander Selection/ Ambient – piano… looks like cover of Attack on Memory- John Coltrane – Soultrane
- John Prine & Mac Wiseman – Standard Songs for Average People / more good Prine, fun album art
The Johnny Clash Project – The Johnny Clash Project/ Clash reinterpreted through newish Johnny Cash?- John Prine – The Missing Years / not as good as below
- John Prine – The Singing Mailman Delivers / solid
- joie de vivre – The North End / solid illinois Emo
- joliette – Principia / fine Mexican HC
Jon Loudon – Drone #1/ love J. Loudon but unnecessary drone- Jon Snodgrass – Tace / avg Snodgrass
- Jon Snodgrass – Five-State Record / Pretty solid, reminds of Drag the River > his Turner collabs; prob worth another listen
- José González – and the Brite Lites at Svenska Grammofonstudion
- José Gozález – Local Valley
José González – Swing EP/ eh, just 3 remixesJosé González – Visions EP/ 1 song, 4 remixes- Josh Small – Juke / punk-folk with an RVA drawl, really good
Josh Johnson – Freedom Exercise/ just ok jazz- Josiah and the Bonnevilles – Endurance / fine new–alt-country-folk-thing
The Joy Formidable – Into The Blue/ avg indie rock- Joyce Manor – Cody
- Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me
- Joystick! – I Can’t Take it Anymore / fine ska punk
- The Joytraders – Have Fun Keeping Nothing /enjoyable gnv punk rock
- JPEGMAFIA – Communist Slow Jams / broadly interesting and visceral
jpgegmafia – Veteran/gratutiously ambitious but not for me- JUCIFER – District of Dystopia / not really my thing, but respect
Judas Knife – Death is the Thing with Feathers/ meh post punkJuiceboxxx – It’s Easy To Feel Like A Nobody When You’re Living In The City/ much better than i expected, but not something I’d listen to again- Julie Karr – Let’s Exchange the Experience / ex-Gville, one song has a Molina lyric
- Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police / good > great
- Jumpstarted Plowhards – Round One / this is good, uh, punk rock music
- Junegrass – Perpetual Stew / interesting jazz/prog instrumental. from CHI
- Junip – Fields
- Junip – S/T
- Just Mustard – Wednesday / very good shoegaze in the Lush vein
- Just Neighbors – If It Ever Comes Back / Solid GNV emo, Karate-esque musically at times.
- Just Die! – Since the Day We Were Born / generic but fine punk
Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster – Take Heart, Take Care/ Well donee just not engaging enough- Jutland Songs – Charm on the Chain / Spark Out / solid 2 songs
- Jyoti, Georgia Anne Muldrow – Mama, You Can Bet! / Erika Badu-like jazzy
K-HAND – On A Journey/ Detroit techno Legend? just not for me- kafadan kontak – The Cutthroat Brothers / Fine swamp/garage punk
- Kahil El’Zabar Quartet – A Time for Healing / kind of jazz i liek most via CHI
- Kaia – Two Adult Women in Love
- Kal Marks – Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies / good loud rock; added other LP
- Kaleb Stewart – Tropical Depression / really good, better than i expected
Kali Masi – Square Pegs/ band worth lisntening to but this is demos, voice memos, etc.- Kamasi Washington – The Epic / historic, 3 hrs, parts really good
Kaonashi – Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year/ meh metal core- Karate – Make It Fit / just oK
- Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! / bold fem hip hop but not really my jam
- Kaschalot – Zenith / ok post rock 4 song LP
- Kashmere Stage Band – Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974 / good mostly instrumental funk
Kassa Overall – I THINK I’M GOOD/ well done and groovy just not my thingKath Bloom – Finally (2023 edition)/ sounds like cover art… 70s female folkKatie Gately – Loom/ reminds of poppier, less intresting latter PJ Harvey- Kayer – Rewind a Decade / strong old school influenced hiphop`
Keegan DeWitt – Nothing Shows EP/ Fine folk but not enough- Keith Secola – Seminole Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Clewiston FL 11/10/2007 / interesting but a 1x listen… on Don Giovanni?!?
keiyaA – Forever, Ya Girl/ neo soulKelly Lee Owens – Inner Song/ well done techno- Kelly 8 – The Technique of Pushing Someone Forward / Good woman fronted post HC
- Kerosene 454 – Came By To Kill Me / good post HC reminds of Gunmoll
- Kerosene Heights – LEAVING EP / good emo from Asheville
Kevin Seconds – February Songs 2015-2019/ Respect but not enjoyable enoughKevin Seconds – Heaven’s Near Whereever You Are/ Not my thing- Kevin Seconds – March Songs, 2015-2019 / better than the other BC releases
- Khruangbin – Mordechai / chill, groovy
- The Kickback – Sorry All Over The Place / ok CHI indie rock
The Kickback – Weddings & Funerals/ well done but boring indie rock from S. Dakota- KIDCRASH – Snacks / good new emo
- Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert – The Flowers That Bloom in Spring / really solid alt-country/folk
- Killing The Dream – Fractures / OK screamo/hc/metal
- Kind of Like Spitting: Learn 2: The Songs Of The Karl Hendricks Trio / fun KOLS, rocking
Kind of Like Spitting – Daytrotter/ love KOLS but inessential- Kind of Like Spitting – Daytrotter session / non-essential
- KINDLING – Everywhere Else / good fuzzy, heavy shoegaze
- KINDLING – Galaxies / fuzzed out 4 song 7″
- Kind Of Like Spitting – Live & Acoustic At Fireside Bowl / ok
- Kind Of Like Spitting – Live In Seattle / fine but inessential
- Kind Of Like Spitting – MILE / 3 songs from a comp; just OK
- Kind Of Like Spitting – Myspace covers / fine but unfocussed
- Kind Of Like Paris – Not What You Want It To Be EP / good DIY slowcore
Kind of Like Spitting – Professional Results (1999-2014)/ love KOLS but inessential- Kind of Like Spitting – The Thrill of the Hunt
- Kind Of Like Spitting – Tour CD / ok
- King Khan – “Children of the World” b/w “Gone Are the Times” / 2 songs, good but added full sdtk/album
- Kingsize Beast – Golden Hour / fine but largely uninspired folk instrumental from DEN
- King Hannah – I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me / really solid indie rock; more upbeat Mazzy Star
- King of Heck – Kingo / fine, uneven indie pop/emo
- King Friday – Married Alive / good MIA/Tampa punk (ex-Quit, Fay Wray); hallmark vox
- King Isis – scales / decent OAK indie rock
- King Hannah – Tell Me Your Mind and I’ll Tell You Mine / mazzy stairs
- King Khan – The Invaders – Original Score / respect to the film and Sdtk, but orig scores are often mish mash
- KISS THIS!/Various – BUFFALO ROCK CITY – The Complete Collection / fine covers, not the usual songs
- Kiss Of Death Records – Mayflower / Jeff Rowe – Split 7″ / good stuff!
- Kittyhawk – Hello, Again /
- kitty – ROSE GOLD / ORL myth pop. Well doen but not my jam
- Knife the Sympathy – All The Wrong Turns Taken to Get Here / Good post HC from Cincinnati; shades of Young Livers
- Knifeplay – Animal Drowning / good shoegaze from PHI
Knxwledge –1988/ 2 min beats/ sounds… needs an editor IMO- Kodiak Deathbeds – Kodiak Deathbeds / great album art, meh quiet indie folk
- KOENIGSTEIN YOUTH – S/T 12″ / OK french HC
- The Koreatown Oddity – Little Dominiques Nosebleed / really solid hip-hop
- Kowloon Walled City – Greivances / strong
- Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships / not as strong as i remember KWC being
- Kowloon Walled City – Piecework / more metally than i remembered, or maybe they changed between records
- Koyo – Painting Words Into Lines
Kråkesølv – S/T EP/ well done but too bland indie rock from Norway?- Kraus – Path / ok Hum-like shoegaze
- Kriegshög – Love & Revenge / decent Japanese stoner rock? ala Kyuss
- Kristin Hersh – Possible Dust Clouds / sounds like Kristin Hersh
- Kronos Quartet, Clint Mansell – Requiem For A Dream (Original Soundtrack) / good but only a few great songs (which i remember from Napster)
Kronos Quartet – Under 30 Project: 1-4- Kudrow – Lando / decent
- Kudzu Wish – At the Scene of the Accident / good post HC from NC (kept full length); this their side of split w Disband
- Kurt – S/T / 12HT-ish (band became 10volt shock?)
- Kurt – Schesaplana
L
L.S. Dunes – Past Lives/ meh post-HC bordering on 80s metal?- L’Rain – Fatigue / interesting enough and well made Neo-soul/jazz electronic mix-up
- La Bella – Ides / fine screamo
- La Dispute – Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair / not really my thing but OK overall
- La Gritona – Demasiado Tonto Para Los Niños Listos / Demasiado Listo Para Los Niños Tontos / 1st 12 tracks are the full length prob add that instead; grudgy sludge from Boston
- La Luz – La Luz / fine indie pop
- La Luz – News of the Universe / fine indie pop
La Parade – Voces Del Exillo/ 00s emo < 90s emo; from SpainLa Sécurité – Try Again / Suspens/ fine but unnecessary art punk 7″- The Ladderback – “honest, i swear it’s the turnstyles…” / sold 90s punkish
- Lakes – Elysian Skies / emo pop that grows on ya
Lake Mary, Drew Danburry, zweiton – You Say Love/ odd ambient stuff- Alan Lee – An Australian Jazz Anthology / good jazz but a few opera type songs in the middle?
Lance Howell – Helping Hand/ blank folk songs- Landowner – Consultant / sounds like 80s college rock
- Lande Hekt – Going to Hell / straightforward indie rock a la waxahatchee
- Lankum – False Lankum / just 3 songs but good dark irish folk/indierock
- LAPÊCHE – Blood In The Water /
- LAPÊCHE – LAPÊCHE on Audiotree Live / just OK
- The Lapis Sanctuary – The Lapis Sanctuary / great cover art; ok CHI punk
Laraaji – Celestial Vibration/ fun WTF guest but interminable new age /harp- Laraaji – Sun Piano / Nice piano jazz
- LaRhonda Steele & Karen Haberman Trusty – Spirit of Freedom / recollections from Trusty (white woman who worked for SNCC); Songs from Steele
- Larry Russell – Ashen / ok ambient; forgettable like ambient maybe aims to be?
- Las Cafeteras – It’s Time /
- Lasorda – S/T / another, less satisfying Matt Pryor side project
- The Lassie Foundation – California (Remastered) / decent indie/shoegaze from SoCal
- The Last Poet – A Page From my Book
- Last Of The Juanitas – Brangus / meh punk/post HC from 90s reissued? San DIego
- Last of the Juanitas – Time’s Up / OK metalish punk from Portland now? reformed
Laura Jane Grace – At War With The Silverfish/ not for me, kinda wierd pop feel- Laurie Anderson – Big Science / ok… not as great as the 1 song “Only an Expert”
- Laura Jane Grace – Bought to Rot / good > great
Laura Baird – For My Father’s Guitar/ well done classical guitar but meh…- Laura Jane Grace – Hole In My Head / more fully realized that Bought to Rot
- Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers – Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers Folkadelphia Session 4/20/2019 / fine
- Laura Veirs – Year of Meteors / well done singer-songwriter
- Laveda – A Place You Grew Up In / meh dream-pop-gaze?
- Lavender Country – Blackberry Rose / debut was first openly-gay country album, this is ok but more in theory than actual
- Lavender Country – Lavender Country / Historic (1st gay country album), but prob just 1x listen
- The Lawrence Arms – A Guided Tour of Chicago /
- The Lawrence Arms – Apathy and Exhaustion / Very good
- The Lawrence Arms – Buttsweat and Tears / very good EP
- The Lawrence Arms – Ghost Stories /
- The Lawrence Arms – Metropole / Good!
- The Lawrence Arms – Oh! Calcutta! / pretty good
The Lawrence Arms – Skeleton Coast/ just OK- The Lawrence Arms – The Greatest Story Ever Told /
- Lead Into Gold – Low & Slow / old instustiral on Wax Trax
- least – Sitting In The Best Light / decent Fla emo
- Leatherface – Mush
- Leaving Time – I + II / decent latter-day-Title-Fight-like shoegaze from Jax
- Leave Let Be – Repeat The Sound of Joy / good Travis Dopp (rip) side project; more indie than SBB
- Leave Let Be & Travis John – The 12 Laborers / good Travis Dopp (rip) side project; more indie than SBB
- Lee Bains + the Glory Fires – Old-Time Folks / Political southern rock w/ dash o punk like a mix of Drive-by Truckers and Bottle Rockets on Don Giovanni Recors
- Lee Corey Oswald – Darkness, Together / menzingers like
- Leem of Earth – Leem Of Earth / barely OK pop rock from Destin
- Leer – Spring Break No Parents / good screamy emo from San Jose — just missed cut
- Leg Biters – s/t / low-fi GBV like from Gville
- Leggy – Let Me Know Your Moon / fine indie rock
- Leisure Burn – S/T / good loud DC rock
- Leisure Burn – U018 / good loud DC rock
- Lektron – LEKTRON / good > great punk 7″ w/ member of Alk Trio
- The Lemonheads – Come On Feel (30th Anniversary Edition) /Great record but 2nd disc isn’t essential since already have main disc
- Lemuria – Companion / good but inessential
- Less Art – Strangled Light / punkish metal (more HC)
- Less Than Jake – Uncharted / not horrible
- Let Me Downs – Tacoma Is For Lovers / good punk
- Letters to Catalonia – Demo / breif screamy punk
- Letters to Catalonia – Fragmentary / breif screamy punk
Leunon – Goodbye Cycles/ TLH indie pop- Leunon – Lessons Learned / TLH indie with great album art
- Levi Fuller & the Library – Such Bad Things Happen / good indie rock, listen to others releases?
- Alexander & the Grapes – Hyper Self / Decent indie poppy rock, fla band
- Leyla McCalla – Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes / solid tribute
- LickGoldenSky – The Beautiful Sounds Of… / Engaging loud rock
- Lie – You Want it Real / really solid punk from Vancouver
- LIES – Lies / OK electro pop… just not my thing (later learned the duo is Mike/Nate Kinsella)
- Lifeguard – Dive / decent CHI indie/punk
- Lifeguard – In Silence / well done thoughtful art/diy/post punk
Life Without Buidings – Live at Annadale HotelLife’s Question – LP Promo 2021/ yawn HC from BOS- Lifeguard – Ministry / Energie / 1 good song, others in LC011
- Lifeguard – Taking Radar b/w Loose Cricket / Very interesting CHI arty punk; added other LP & EP
- Light the Fuse and Run – All Your Base Are Belong to Us / Solid 90s art punk
- Lilac Queen – If Only / No Sleep punk
Lila Tirando a Violeta – Limerencia/ good electronica- Lime Crush – Timewaster / fine post punk from Austria
- Lina Tullgren – Wishlist / nice female indie folk
- Lincoln – Repair and Reward / Good early post HC from WV
- The Lindbergh Line – Bang Bang You’ll Be Missed /
- The Linda Lindas – Growing Up / good, if by the numbers pop punk from LA
- Lions to Lambs – S/T / Concord NC rock w/ Seth Avett and Jessica Lee Mayfield from 2021
- LIPPY – EP / OK EP of Philly Indie
- The Lipschitz – Chevron / Pretty avg post punk from CHI
- Lipstick Homicide – Out Utero / Really good pop punk from Iowa City (like less hard FHH)
- Liquids – Life is pain Idiot / interesteing IND punk a la Zero Boys
- Lissie – Watch Over Me (Early Works 2002-2009) / fine female folk; added b/c was in Good Trouble?
- Little Big League – These Are Good People / good female fronted emo — very reminiscent of Hop Along
- Little Mazarn – S/T / good offbeat, hauting folk from Austin
- Little Silver Hearts – Little Silver Hearts / good Ryan Adams-homaged Americana
- littler – Of Wandering / PHI indie that reminds fo Breeders
- Little Big League – Tropical Jinx / good female fronted PHI indie rock
(Liv)e – Couldnt’ Wait to Tell You…/ Neo R&B- Living Conditions – Vows / skramz
Liz Janes – Time & Space/ mess of covers noise- Liza Kate – No Love Live / Gville ex-pat folk
- Lo Tom – LP2 / good not great Bazan supergroup of sorts
- Local Mu-12 – Labor Day / really good hip hop collective. Added song to Bandcampr
- Local H – Here Comes the Zoo (20th Anniversary Remaster) / sounds exactly like Local H
- Local News Legend, Mary Wander – No Boyfriend November / decent enough bisexual folk punk
- Locket – All Out / decent big emo/mall punk from Ontario
- LOCKSTEP – Lockstep 1 / good shoegaze
- Locktender – Men As Trees – Weltschmerz & Sea of Ice Songs / dense, interesting post HC from CLE
- Lomelda – Hannah
- Loose Bearings – KNOWMAD / just OK gville beer punk
- Lord God Bird – Oceans Rising / Odd metal but sorta interesting
Lord Tusk – Paradise Awaits/ good electronica, beats- Lorenzo Morresi & Tenderlonious – Cosmica Italiana / beautifully weird Italian instrumental Daft Punk like music; tracks 1 & 3 are keepers, the rest doesn’t hold up as much
- Lorelei – Enterprising Sidewalks / kinda REMish from WDC
- Los Lobos – Native Sons / OK, wanted to experience the indie stalwarts
Loss Leader – Loss Leader/ Decent emo revival but not enough; ~~label shows promise though- Lost Legion – Bridging Electricity / solid CHI punk
- Lost Boy – New Normal / good EP of spirited emo from Augusta GA
The Lost Controls – Short Notice/ indie. well done, but like a steakThe Lost Cartographers – WALK ON/me indie folk rock from CHI- Love, Claire – The Forgotten Cinema LP / Good late 90s instrumental slowcore
Love is Red – The Hardest Fight/ boring metalcore- LOVELORN – What’s Yr Damage /well done dance post-punk from PHI (ex creepoid)
- Love Axe – South Dakota / really good ppower pop and indie rock — hear more
- Low Cloud – Discography / good fest punk from NL-run-or-affiliated tape label, Tapes Not Bombs
Low – Hey What/ maybe good in a different context botu the blips and beeps are grating- Low – The Exit Papers / good old LP
- The Low Sixes – The Oshawa Tree /good ted leo-ish power pop from Montreal
Low Dose – s/t/- Lowepines – In Silver Halides / reminds me of Elliot Smith
- LOWER AUTOMATION – Lower Automation / fine, but sounds too much like ATDI
- LOWHANGERS – Ulterior Motives / solid CHI punk
- Lucero – Nobody’s Darlings (Live from Memphis) / fine Covid release but not amazing
- Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ on My Mind / fine. 1st album?
- Lucía y los Alfileres – Chicas Que Se Portan Mal / 1 art punk song from Mexico City
- Luco Land’s – Dua lipa – levitating (Luco Lands remix) / one song but fun
- Luggage – Hand Is Bad / good CHI punk/rock
- Luggage – Shift / Shellac-esque; added newer album
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real/ meh… good on Maron, but not very interesting here- Lukah – When The Black Hand Touches You / decent Memphis Hip Hop
- Lull – The Birth, Life, and Death of a Perfectly Ordinary Person / gloomy doomy art punk
- LUME – Perennial Phase / decent CHI indie/shoegazey
- Lumineers – S/T
- Lung – All the Kings Horses / PJ Harvey-ish
- Lupine – The Fangs And The Flowers / pretty good 90s emo/punk female fronted 7″
- Lustre King – Shoot The Messenger / OK CHI punk
- Lync – *Remembering the Fireballs (part 8)* / great, reminds of Moonraker
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- M(h)aol – Attachment Styles / good post punk re: gender fluidity and sex positeve + feminism
- Macseal – Permanent Repeat / indie pop
- Madder Rose – No One Gets Hurt Ever / NY-> UK slow indie? reminds of Mazzy Star
- Madi Diaz, S.G. Goodman & Joy Oladokun – Be Careful / good but just 1 song
- Madi Diaz – Same History, New Feelings / enjoyable reinterpretations, but like the sad/somber originals better
- Madi Diaz – Weird Faith / solid, but not as visceral as 1st album
Madlib – Madlib Medicine Show #7 – High Jazz/ straight up well done jazz but all over place- Madlib – Sound Ancestors /
- Magazine Beach – Constant Springtime / really solid pop-punk, pop-emo
- Maggie Rogers – The Echo / meh indie folk
- MAGIC GHRELIN – SPOTTED LANTERN FLY / pretty good pop punk from NJ
- Magnolia Electric Co. – Live at Cat’s Craddle, Sept. 25, 2007
The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir/ would probably be really cool if i were a bigger fanMagnolia Park – Vacant/ meh, bland pop-punk from ORL- Majesty Crush – Love 15 / solid 90s post-punk, etc.; since got as part of Numero Magnolia series
Majority Rule – Interviews with David Frost/ screamy grindcore- MakeWar – Stay / good heavy pop punk from CHI on Fat
- Makthaverskan – För Allting / decent Sweedish poppy shoegaze
- Malady – Malady / reminds me of slower Young Livers
- Malci – Papaya! / OK Chicago hiphop
- MALFLORA – Mama I’m Bad / OK snotty punk
- Mama Odé – Tales and Patterns of the Maroons / well done neosoul/hiphop from UK
- Man Man – Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between / via CLRC; oddball Tom Waits-like stuff; apprecite but not my thing
Manatee – Part Time Punks/KXLU Session/ forgetable prog rock from OAK- Manasota Music Scene (90’s/00’s) – Sewing Our Sails / good 90s emo rock
- manchester orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface /
- manchester orchestra – Cope Live at The Earl / missed Man Orch somehow…live album mabye not, but COPE/HOPE for sure
Mandy, Indiana – i’ve seen a way/ gloomy, haunting electro-instrumental rock- ManhattanSideProject – Desofisticate / interesting enough Restorations electronic side-project
- ManhattanSideProject – Retro Days / 7″ of more rock than electronic from Restorations side-project
- Manipulation – Manipulation / meh CHI HC
The Many – s/t/ not on BC anymoreManzanita – Wood and Steel/ fine alt-folk like Mum. and Sons/Band of Horses but 1 song- Maple Stave – V / adult punk via some other band IIRC
Maps & Atlases – Tree, Swallows, Houses/ meh indie- Mar – Pressed in the Earth / solid doom metal
- Marceese – BaDriver / interesting acoustic reinterpretations of Kiss songs (a lot of deep cuts)
- Marc Mac – The Power Tapes / good political hip hop?
Mariam Rezaei – BOWN/ FUCK no… such grating art noise- Marietta – summer death / good twinkly emo from Philly
- Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Neil – You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Mark Lanegan – One Way Street / box-set of 1st 5 albums on Sub Pop; i have 40% … prob easier to just get the other 3 CDs > this.
Marketa Irglova – ANAR/ OK but not enough- Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – Black Pudding / not breaking much new ground
- Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell – Hawk /
Marketa Irglova – MUNA/ too folky/ethereal- Mark Dignam – Re-Build / ok Irish indi folk
- Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – With Animals /good quiet Lanegan
- Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back / decent indie rock/punk
- The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – Suns Out Guns Out / parent punk; great name
- Maruja – Connla’s Well /ok indie rock from UK
Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders/ ethereal instrumental harp?- MASSA NERA – Derramar | Querer | Borrar / uneven screamo from NJ
- Massa Nera & Quiet Fear – Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles / ok screamo from NJ
- Mass Arrest – The Savage Season Continues: Demo 2017 / Oakland hardcore
- Mastiff – Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth / ok Doom metal from UK
- Matewan – Some Nerve (LIVE) / Just 1 live song but sounds like it’d b e good 90s postHC from Virginia
- Matt Pryor – May Day Companion
- Matthew Day – 2708 / fine solo emo folk
- Matthew Mullane – VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol. 4 / good acoustic instrumental
- Maulgruppe – Tiere in Tschernobyl /german lang album; part of Kurt-family tree? just ok
- The Max Levine Ensemble – Backlash Baby / fine pop punk
- Max Ochs – Hooray for Another Day / interesting ala John Fahey not Phil
- Maxwell Stern – Impossible Sum / Fairly good if a little uneven
- maxwell stern – In The Good Light / OK, not as strong as some of his other stuff
- maxwell stern – You Are With Me / not as engaging as his earlier solo stuff
- Mayflower – Second Best Sunsets /fine orgcore
- McKinley Dixon – Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? / interesting if uneven jazz/hip hop
- McKinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her / out of the ordinary hiphop/neosoul
McKinley Dixon – *The House That Got Knocked Down* / Good but a bit samey hiphop- Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime / intriguing but only 4 songs (added their latest)
- Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice / only 3 songs of LP but strong
- me and him call it us – Friends Applaud; the Comedy is Over / screamy HC/emo, good not great
Me and Him Call it Us – Home Demos/ added their full-length at another point; unnecessary instr. demosMedhane – Own Pace/ Hip hop that didn’t really hit for me- Meet Me @ The Altar – Changing States / well done pop punk
- Meg Paulette – Acoustic Nonsense / fine if unspectacular woman folk from MI
- Melted – ZIPTRIPPER / good long Beach CA indie-Garage
Melvins – The Bootlicker/ odd- Meniscus – Refractions
- Meniscus – War of Currents / post rock a la El Ten Eleven
- The Menzingers – After The Party / solid Menzingers
- The Menzingers – From Exile / Acoustic covers of Exile LP
- The Menzingers – Some Of It Was True /
- The Mercury Program – A Data Learn the Language / solid
- Meridian – Aging Truths / max stern’s latter solo stuff is a bit stronger
- The Mermers – Get Swell Soon / fine surf rock from GNV… not my thing tho
- Merriment – Sway / pleasant singer-songwriter stuff
- MESH – Mesh / OK Philly garage art-punk
- The Messthetics – Anthropocosmic Nest / Joe Satriani by way of Dischord??
- Method of Doubt – IOU #29 – Staring at Patterns / solid punk
- Methadones – Methadones / good final album
- Metroschifter – Carbonistas
Metroplex – Decade Diary/ Screamy Indie rock that was too samey- Metronomy – Small World / ok UK indiepop
- Metz – Atlas Vending / AmRep style loud rock
- Michael Elam Band – Mouth of the Holler / really good mix of appalachian music w/ a little punk or alt-country mixed in
Michelles – The Empty Promises of Rock and Roll/ psychadleic … prob added b/c ex Catfish Haven?- Microwave – Death is a Warm Blanket / uneven post HC/indie mix from ATL
Mike – “Disco!”/ Good enough hip hop just not my thingMike & the Nerve – Captive Audience/ OK, 1 song from Fest list?- Mike Reed – Decades / Just OK
- Mike Watt + The Missingmen / Chuck Dukowski Sextet – Sweet Honey Pie b/w My War / fine 2-song EP
- Mike Felumlee – The Bigger Empty / indie rock slash alt country via Alkaline Trio?
- Mike Watt + The Bobblymen – The Bobblymen EP / fun but brief EP
Mike – War in my Pen/ choppy hip hop, not great for end of the dayMikroboy – Die fehlenden Teile/german-language synth pop that was labelled emo- Milemarker – Live 2000
- Milhouse – Everything’s Coming Up… / good punk
- Milhouse – Everything’s Coming Up… / added a 2nd time 🙁 .. austrailian Dismemberment Plan w/o synths?
Milhouse – Obscenity in the Milk (2022 Remaster)/ meh HC- Militarie Gun – Life Under The Gun / pretty good espeically given the hype; from LA
- Militarie Gun – Demo / enough good post hardcore to check back with
- Milk Carton Kids – Live From Lincoln Center / starts underwhelming but good smart funny folk
- Milliseconds – So This Is How It Happens / Just ok indie (ex-Dismembermet Plan)
- The Mimes – Plastic Pompeii / lofi Lemuria like punk garagish
- Mimicking Birds – Eons / fine indie rock
- Mind Over Matter – Automanipulation (2025 Remaster) / fine NYC HC … more listenable than most
Minority Threat – Culture Control/ meh HC i added b/c of historical cover- Minor Threat – Out of Step Outtakes / fun 3-song blast
- Mint Mile – Amberton / ok Indie
- The Minus 5 – Down With Wilco / just OK; very Beatles-ish
- Minus the Bear – Fair Enough EP / just OK
- Minus the Bear – Lost Loves / solid
- Minus the Bear – VOIDS / more bland than their best, most vital work
- mira – mira (2024 remaster) / good 90s album shoegaze
- Miriam Makeba – Keep Me in Mind/ ok covers and orig but added other albums after reading up on her; (Kwame Ture’s one-time wife)
- Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata / good as other album by her
- Missouri Executive Order 44 – Salt Sermon / ok screamo
Mix Master Matty P! – Covers!/ bad acoustic covers incl. Trusty Chords- Mixtape Lovers – Stay Gold: Homenaje a The Get Up Kids / chilean TGUK covers of various quality
- Mižerija – S/T / interesting post-punk/riot-grrrl-eque from Croatia
- MJ Lenderman – Ghost of Your Guitar Solo / Also not as good as his self-titled, more meandering and lo fi, silly almost?
- MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs / Good but not as great as his self-titled?
- Moddi – Moddimiks (tour soundtrack) / odd operatic/soundtrack ish indie
- Moddi – Unsongs / Norwegian Damien Rice sound? pleasant but not as immediate
- Model/Actriz – Dogsbody / well done post punk just not my bag
- Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost / pretty good indie + rock
- Modern English – Mesh & Lace / pretty solid post-punk; heavier than I expected
- Modern English – Take Me to the Trees / fine post punk/80s college rock
- Modern Life Is War – Witness (Remastered) / fine, loud melodic HC
- Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All / good > great
- Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
- Mogwai – Les Revenants / strong, brooding
- Mohinder – The Mission / short blast postHC/emo on Numero
- Moin – Moot! / interesting post-rock/pastiche from UK
- MØL – Diorama / ok metalcore
- .moneen. – Hold That Sound EP / really interesting from TOR; added full length
- Monica Way – Monica Way / OK indie/folkish with terrific Avett Brothers cover
- MONO – Hymn to the Immortal Wind – Anniversary Edition / Grand post rock
- Mono – Rays of Darkness / great post rock
- Monplaisir – The Agreement / decent French indie/punk
- MONSTER TREASURE – s/t / good shoegazey indie from Stockton, CA
- The Montgomery Express – The Montgomery Movement / soul/funk from Martin County FL
- Moodymann – Taken Away / Good Dance music but not my thing
- Moonless Nights – s/t EP / new, one-off Adam Arcuragi project
- Moons Eat Stars – Exile / very good post rock from PHX
- Moonkisser – Summer’s Fleeting Majesty
- MOONBEARD – What a Life / mid-era lighter Title Fight from GNV
Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air/ ambitious and experimental not for meMoor Mother – Fetish Bones/ ambitious but doesn’t quite land for me (maybe need a 2nd listen?)- The Moore Family Band – Missy / less good Discount-y punk
- Moor Mother – The Great Bailout (Deluxe) / maybe too avant garde for me; non deluxe version higher up
- Moral Mazes – Gold Beach Fortress / just too songs, less J Robbins sound
- Morrow – The Quiet Earth / suprisingly not horrible ‘crust-emo’
- MORT MORT MORT / Aussitôt Mort – Le chant des sirènes / fine… just 2 song EP
- MORT MORT MORT / Aussitôt Mort – Montuenga / OK, sprawling good
- MORT MORT MORT / Aussitôt Mort – Nagykanizsa / just OK
- Moses Boyd – Dark Matter / no notes 🙁
Moses Sumney – Grae/ chunks of good songs form Asheville-Ghaniana, but prob too sprawling for repeated listens- The Most Distant Object – The Most Distant Object / OK, like a lesser Dianogah
- Motel Black – Culture Shock EP / QOTSA-ish with a little less heft from BOS
- The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
- the Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives / good MG
- Mount Shasta – Watch Out / Ok to good 90s CHI garage and instr.
- Mourn – s/t / really good indie rock outta Spain; reminds of PJ Harvey
- Mouse Rat – The Awesome Album / Fun for Parks & Rec fans — but less funny the further from the rewatch; too much a novelty to buy, but fun to listent to.
Mouthing – S/t/ screamy (?) mess just misses- Movies About Animals – Two Decades and Change / decent CHI indie/emo
- Mowgli – S/T / really good screamo post-HC
Mr. Beatnick – Honeycomb/ house music- Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo / amusing concept: rerecording H.S. demo, but just OK metalish
- MrENC – We Do Our Own Thing / meh indie rock
mssv – Main Steam Stop Valve/ Mike Watt + Gainesville?!? Well done but ulitmately free-jazzy isn’t my thing- Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge / solid
- Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity / solid
- mugger – DEMO 2022 / OK Austin HC
- Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information 3
- MUMIA ABU-JAMAL – Freedom For Mumia Abu-Jamal / jazzy spoken word
- Mundo Primitivo – Paisaje Interior / good political HC from or for Colombia
- MURDER IN THE RED BARN – Get In Before The Rain / good 90s emo/post rcok
- Murders & Mysteries – It’s All In Our Histories / designer electronica from Naz Hamid
- Murder in the Red Bard/Guns Blazing – Space Album/Smell Where the Real Power Is / pretty good like Quick Fix Kills from MIL
- MURMURS – Steam Electric / very good Miami low fi punk
- Museum Mouth – Sexy But Not Happy / good indi from Wilmington, NC; that 1st song LOL
- Mush – Thank You, We’re Mush / solid emo/punk from CHI
MusicGNV – Gainesville Road Trip/ meh mix of indie/folk/pop- Mutiny Mutiny – Don’t Quit Your Day Job / interesting PGMG/Unwound mix
- My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges / a little uneven but solid nonetheless
- My Morning Jacket – Okonokos / 2 CD is too long at one sitting of MMJ, but appreciate their work
- Myke Bogan – Joe Fontana / ok hip hop
- Myriam Gendron – Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found / sounds like cover looks; soft maudlin, decent
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- N0V3L – Non-Fiction / good dancey punk/post
- Naeder –Past is Prolouge / ok scream
- Nag – Observer / good goth punk from ATL
- Nakatomi Plaza – Private Property /
- Naked Raygun – Over the Overlords / pretty damn good for 1st album in 30 yrs!
- Name Taken – Hold On / Fine 00s pop-emo on Fiddler
- Nancy Dupree – Ghetto Reality / OK folk w/ kids choir … interesting idea
- Nape Neck – Look Alive EP / OK post punk from UK
- Narrow Head – Satisfaction / OK shoegaze, did i review for V89?
- Nasalrod – Building Machines / tongue in cheek funk-punk? ugh.
- Nations – I / good St. Aug emo
National Wrecking Co. – The Sound of Music/ Fine ambient, not my thing; Added b/c thought was Lars’ PHI band- Native Nod – This Can’t Exist / good post HC from Numero
Navy Blue – Ada Irin/ well done not my thing- Neckscars – Don’t Panic / pretty good but at times uneven mix of orgcore and ~Lucero
- The Necks – Three / interesting austrailian post-rock-jazz but just ok
- Needles//Pins – S/T / good loud indie rock a la OWTH?
- Negative Space – Gestalt / UK post punk… gotta be in the mood
- Nelson Dialect & Nu Tone – Opal Mind / solid hip hop
- Neon Piss – Vinyl Rites 7″ / fun 2 songs punk
NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM – Éons/ Wierd psych metal instrumentals from BelgiumNervous Curtains – I Tried To Fight It But I Was Inside It/ Anti-fascist synth punk… wish i liked it more.- Nervous Systems – Needs Medicines / GNV and Joe Bacca so respect; but not my thing
Neutral Milk Hotel – Everything Is/ cool cover art, but meh home recordings from 1993ishNevasca – Горки / Slides/ Russian language but sounds like Rocky Votolato- Never – Cloudy / heavy shoegaze (member went on to join Freezing Cold)
- Never Loved – Over It / OK pop punk from FLA
- New End Original – Thriller / very good early 00s emo; a pastiche of sytles takes a little away from overall to get.
- New Lands – s/t / solid NOLA skramz
- New Tongues – We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For / really strong 90s CHI/San Diego (Shellac, RFTC, etc) loud rock from Missouri
New Boy – Blue Maze/ Paul Baribeau electronic projectThe New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest/ meh- New Forms – I don’t want to live my life again / ~ 8m of screamo from MA
- New Junk City, Rutterkin – New Junk City / Rutterkin Split / good Fest punk
New Wet Kojak – New Wet Kojak/ quieter, more ironic Morphine? GBV side project- New Junk City – Revisions / acoustic punk?
- New Junk City – Same Places / good smoke or fire like punk
- Newgrounds Death Rugby – Hideaway / pleasant emo
Nick Shoulders – Okay, Crawdad./ Country, but not my jam today- Nightmares for a Week – Civilian War / not quite as good as their debut, but still good
- nightmarathons – *Hidden Vigorish* / good punk a la Iron Chic from Pittsburgh
- Night Court – Nervous Birds! One /
- THE NIGHTMARES – Séance / intersting indie/post punk from UK
- Nightmares on Wax – Shout Out! to Freedom / v89 review, hosu
Nightshift – Zöe/ proficient post punk but a bit trying- Nilufer Yanya – PAINLESS / well made indie pop — but not my thing
- Nina Nastasia – The Blackened Air / enjoyable 2nd record
- Nine Pound Hammer – Sex, Drugs & Bill Monroe / fine to good cow punk
- NNAMDÏ – Please Have A Seat / solid
- ИO///sé – Lower Berth / not as YL/desperate as 1st album
- no funeral records – It’s Raining In My Heart – A Tribute To Elliott Smith / Punk E. Smith covers.
- No Longer at Ease – No Longer at Ease / decent HC from NC
Nø Man – Erase/ screamy metalish punk- NØ MAN – Glitter and Spit / good DC (post?) HC
- No Plan – No Plan / Astrid Oto like from CA
- No Weather Talks – Undoing Defeat FHH like
- No Weather Talks – Irish Handcuffs split
No, It’s Fine – s/t/ Fairly generic 3rd wave emo- Noah Roth – Breakfast of Champions / fine indie pop from CHI
Noah Kahan & Post Malone – Dial Drunk (DJ 52 Downtempo Redrum) 112/ 1 song, unnecessary- Nobody’s Peach – Nobody’s Peach / Good alt country like Cowboy Junkies or Thick as Thieves
- Nocturnal Projections – Complete Studio Recordings / good post-punk
- Nocturnal Habits – New Skin For Old Children / post-Unwound project; more poppy than Survival Knife
NOFX / Frank Turner – West Coast vs. Wessex/ not bad, just not enough- Noise Real Records – Learn to Relax! A Tribute to Jehu / just 2 songs
- Noise Addict – Noise Addict: 10,000 Kids With Guitars / OK… starts meh, ends stronger
- NOMORE – See You Next Earth / terrific
- non-a – Aesop Bach /not eenough to grab onto but fun idea
non-a – Wu-Tang vs. Beethoven/ can’t really tell if this has enough- Nonagon – The Last Hydronaut / Solid GNV style punk rock
- Nonagon – They Birds / solid loud emoish rock from CHI
- Noorvik – S/T / ok post metal instrumental
- Nordsind – Lys / solid post rock from Denmark on Bellladonna
- Nordsind – Efterår / good post rock like EITS
- North Lincoln – Singles Collection / Love NL but this is everythign else and like 55 tracks
- NORTH of America – This is Dance Floor Numerology / very good, like a slightly less awesom Q and Not U; just missed to-get
- NORTH of AMERICA – Elements of an Incomplete Map Pt. II / sprawling indie that’s not as good as This is Dance Floor Numerology
- Northcote – Hope Is Made Of Steel / just oK… not as great as I anticipated
- Northern Primitive – S/T / good indie
North Collins – s/t/ well done but forgettable indie folk pop- North of America – These Songs Are Cursed / solid canadian rock ala Pavement
- North Lincoln – Xorlias
- Nos Da – S/t / fine if a little plain CA punk
- The Not-Its! – Are You Listening? /
- The Not-Its! – We Are The Not-Its! / good “kindie rock” w Sarah Shannon from Velocity Girl
- Notches – New Kind of Love / great anthemic punk a la Failure’s Union; from NH
- Nothing – Guilty of Everything / philly hype
- Noumenon – Tro / really great instrumetnal music
- Noun – Peace Meter / just OK?
- The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Nuclear.Sad.Nuclear / like IWouldetc.
numün – voyage au soleil/ meh to good ambient-ish- Nuvolascura – As We Suffer from Memory and Imagination / pretty good screams
- Nuvolascura – S/T / pretty good screams
- Nuzzle – No Love Like That: Stanford Sessions 1997 / good 90s emo-ish
- Nuzzle – Junk of Myth ’92-’95 / solid 90s local punk from Santa Cruz; reminds me of Seaweed in vibe
- Knxwledge – Meek, Vol. 4 / OK hip hop
- Nymb – The Breathing Out Vapors Single / reminds of pogoh here
- Nymb – y.c.d.w.y.w.w.y.g.e. / good 90s emo/punk female fronted 7″ that Mockaitis left in his car
- No Joy – Motherhood / Kinda cool rock but not enough there
- Oceanator – Tear the Fascists Down / well done EP
The Ocean – Aeolian/ meh metalThe Ocean – Aeolian/ meh metalThe Ocean – Holocene/ well done but feeels unfocussed and overly glossy/techincalThe Ocean – Holocene/ well done but eh… metal that’s unfocusssed and overly glossy and technical- Oceanator – Nothing’s Ever Fine / really solid
- Odd Duck – You’re The One / really good Bloomington pop punk
- Oddisee – Odd Tape / well done hip hop
- Oddisee – Rock Creek Park / well done hip hop
- Off With their Heads – Don’t Tell Me How to (Live) good live album
- Off With Their Heads – From the Bottom /
- Off With Their Heads – Home /
- Off With Their Heads – All Things Move Toward Their End /
- Off With their Heads – Character / good but not OWTH great.
- Off With Their Heads – Live Dec 9th 2017 / good live set
- Off Minor – Off Minor – The Heat Death of the Universe, LP / 12HT-like screamo
- Off With Their Heads – In Desolation /
- Ogbert the Nerd – EP / Good 3 song EP from NJ spazzy emo
- ØJNE – prima che tutto bruci / good punk on La Agonía de Vivir, explore more of label
- Øjne – *LHL034: Øjne – Sogno #3 EP / pretty good stuff; lable is out of UK and I’ve added other releases
- OK Go – Hungry Ghosts / good indie
- Okara – Second 7″ Session / just OK mathy-emo 90s from Ontario
Okkyung Lee – Yeo-Neun/ classical ish music- Old Gray – Slow Burn / very good postHC/screaming … an earlier record is on Final LC011; Track 7 is devastating
- Old Junior – Crossbars / ex-Twelve Hour Turn, less jarring
- Old Neighbors – Discography
- Old Salt Union – Where The Dogs Don’t Bite / fine alt-bluegrass w/ Jay Farrar’s nephew
- OMNIGONE – AGAINST THE REST /punk ska that’s OK
- On The Strings Of – 7 Songs / meh TAL punk singer songwriter
- One Fifth – Tell Me the Words / J Kutchma (His backing band post-Red Collar is the Five Fifths.. get it?) solo, quiet, but just misses keeper
One Watt Sun – Death Folk/ weird but fine slow art punk folk?One Watt Sun – Limited Edition EP/ ok but not enough; included JM tribute song- One Reason/Defiance, Ohio – One Reason/Defiance, Ohio split EP / 4-song 7″
- One Step Closer – This Place You Know / fine, not great or bad
- Ono – Red Summer / strong, scary, less rythmic Algiers
- Onsloow – Full Speed Anywhere Else / just ok sugary norwegian indie pop on Tiny Engines
- OOF – Mirror Mirror / meh post punk from NY … not the Gville OOF
- Oolong – Oolong / fine new emo
- Oort Patrol – Captains Union /fun superchunk like
- Oort Patrol – Sagan Youth /
- Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream / solid hip-hop
- Open City – City Of Ash / just 2 songs, PHI hardcore
- Open City – Hands In The Honey Jar / Good HC from PHI
- Operation Makeout – Hang Loose / reminds me of poppier FHH
- orangepurplebeach – d E A T h ~ b U g /oddish eletcropop from john Vanderslice
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi/ well done black metal but not my thing- Orange Island – One Night Stay / enjoyable post HC from MA
- Orbiter – Distorted Folklore /good old guy GNV punk/shoegazey
- Orbiter – Head Wounds / fine gville punk rock
Orbiting Human Circus – Quartet Plus Two/ cool album art; 30s show tunes from Elephant 6 guy?- Orbits – Rising Tide in the Spirit Room / just OK indie
- Orchid – Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! / good (historic?) screamo
- Orchid – Skull Sessions / fine > good
- Order of Abraxas – Scarabs / layered and creative but prob a 1x thing; was initially in LC011 as Secret Temple of the Waterhorse
- Ordinary Elephant – dusty words & cardboard boxes / not as good as latter LP
- Ordination of Aaron – Immersion in a 90 MPH World / OK mid90s post HC from MI
- Ordinary Elephant – Ordinary Elephant / solid
- organelles – organelles / fine indie pop w GNV or M. White connection?
- Origami Angel – GAMI GANG / Good new emo
- Origami Angel – Somewhere City / Good pop-punk
- Orkestra Mendoza – ¡Vamos A Guarachar! / ok cumbia
Orville Peck – Pony/ smiths-ish; well done but meh- OSB – Ottawa Sparks Bullshit / OK but not as good as the other One Speed Bike
- Oscar Bait – Everything Louder Than Everything Else / good orgcore EP, kinda like Fucked Up?
- oso oso – basking in the glow / solid emo
- oso oso – sore thumb / enjoyable power pop/emo
- ostraca – faces of the moving year split / fine to good screamo from RVA
- ostraca – last / fine to good screamo from RVA
- Other Form (Remixes by Distant Echoes and Magna Pia) – Measure, Adapt, Repeat / fine techno, not really my thing but not horrible
- Ottawa – The Third Age / fine 90s screamo from Michigan
- You Could Be A Cop – Collected Discography / OK… like a faded, photocopied Macabees/Jejune (no longer on BC)
- The Ovens – s/t / Good snotty female punk
Overhill Ln – Fum/ weird: sounds like Elvis Costello demos on Casio- Overgrow – This All Will End / fine but largely uninspired indie/emo
- Owen – I do perceive / reminds of KOLS in tone/effect
- Owls – Two / enjoyable enough
OWTH/JPool split/ 1 sog each- Oxbow – Thin Black Duke / reasonable art punk that is trying at times
- Ozean – Ozean / fine Lush-like shoegaze
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- p.s.you’redead – Sugar Rot / decent spazzy punk from Buffalo
- P22 – Human Snake / well done no wavey punk
- Paint Branch – Paint Branch / good EP but not as good as LP
- Paint It Black – Paradise / ok
- Palatka – End of Irony / pretty sure i have a copy
Palberta – Hot on the Beach/ Tedious electro-annoying punk- Pale Blue – You Stopped Dying / ok house music
- Палисад – Истории / Band’s name is Palisade in english? Good Russian emo
- Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive / well done if not my thing
Pan Am – Ceux qui inventent n’ont jamais vécu/ good post rock, but too much screechy discordance/noisePance – Horseshit/ one man punk rock?- Paper Thin – Paper Thin / fun Austrailian emo
PAPER (Mike Marsh of The Avett Brothers, ex-Dashboard Confessional)) – Sunbeam/ blah indie, 2 songs- The Papercuts – S/T / just ok acoustic EP`
Parannoul – After the Magic/ 3rd album of his(?) too electronic-y- Parallel – EP / good > great GNV post punk
- Parannoul – To See the Next Part of the Dream / interesting but just OK Korean emo/indie
- Parannoul – White Ceiling / Black Dots Wandering Around / odd chaotic indie rock from Seoul
- Part Chimp – Drool / good HC-post-loud rock
- Partial Traces – Low Definition / mix between melodic AM! and Concrete Blond?
- Part Chimp – Reduce To Clear / Like Idles, good noise rock
- Pass Away – Thirty Nine / anthemically similar to Nightmares for a Week
Pastor Champion – I Just Want To Be A Good Man/ meh gospel- Patterns Make Sunrise – Patterns Make Sunrise / good emo/indie on Numero
- The Payroll Union – Devil Bug’s Dream / interesting indie a la The National
- Peanut Butter Wolf – Peanut Butter Breaks / beats… eh.
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava/ 3 tracks of weird 60s folk rock (resissued on Drag City)- PEARS – PEARS / meh FAt Wreck punk
- Pedro The Lion – Havasu / V89 review?
- Pedro the Lion – Progress / fine EP
- Pegboy – Strong Reaction
- Pelican – For Your Entertainment (Unwound Cover) / solid 7″ on Numero
- Pelican – What We All Come to Need
- The Penske File – A Restless Symphony / really solid org-anthem-core from Ontario
- The Penske File – Half Glow / (same)
- Pentimento – Pentimento / good fest punk
- Perennial – The Symmetry of Autumn Leaves / terrific art-punk from New England
- Perennial – Food For Hornets EP / sought out other releases
- Perennial – In The Midnight Hour / good > great spazzy lite punk
Perfect Strangers – Unlikely Partners/ jangly popPerspective, a lovely hand to hold – Phantasmagorialand/ weird mix of sounds; well done but doesn’t make sense- Pet Symmetry – Vision / chicago latter day emo
- Pez – World Within Skin / spazzy GNV punk on Belladona
Pezzati – The First EP/ Fine, just not really enough- PG. 99 – Document #8 / good loud scream
- Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love / ok folk from British Columbia
- Pharoah Sanders – Live in Paris (1975) / solid jazz
- Phil Ochs – Live Again! May 26, 1973
- Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher / need adtl listens to engage?
- Pianos Become The Teeth – Old Pride /
- Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After / good, screamy and progressive
- Pictures of Vernon – s/t / great new school “midwest emo” on Counter Intuitive
- Picturesque – Picturesque EP / next gen Hankshaw vox? from Lex KY
- Piebald – All Ears, All Eyes, All The Time / fine light punk
- Piet Onthel – demo(loni)taksupo(mulo) / Malasyian skramz!
Pijn – Desperately Held / ambient interpretation of their really good record From Low Beams Of Hope- Pile – Dripping / last of the blog albums I knew of? worth a 2nd listen
- Pilgrimage – Creature of Habit | Heavy rock from Lakeland
- Pillow Queens – Leave The Light On / OK mellow indie rock from Ireland
- Pinback – Summer in Abaddon /
- Pinegrove – Marigold / Didn’t strike me like their other stuff, but will register
- Pinegrove – 11:11 / just 3 songs but prob worth getting
Pinegrove – Amperland, NY/ incomplete, just 3 songs but reworkings? Inessential- The Pines of Rome – If you don’t love me it’s your fault / good slow core; interesting softer companion IHM’s “4 songs”
- The Pines of Rome – The Everlasting Arms / Good adult indie rock
- The Pines of Rome – The Unstruck Bell / really enjoy (think i have others in LC 011)
- Pinhead Gunpowder – UNT / good > great
- Pink Razors – Leave Alive / on No Idea
Pink Siifu – Negro/ Death Grips like mess aurally- Pinkshift – Saccharine / decent emo punk
- Pink Film – S/T EP / OK punk, enough to seek other releases
The Pipettes – Judy/ 7″ of female fronted doo-wop- Pipe – Slowboy / 90s garagey on Merge
- Pique – Discography 2018-2022 / OK but too long discography… of NY screamo band
- Piri Reis – Ritma / decent screamo from Malaysia
Piroshka – Love Drips & Gathers/ ex-Lush, just not dynamic enoughPiss Test – 7 Songs 7 Inches/ GNV rawk- Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now / good not great loud rock
- Pity Sex – Feast of Love / good indie
- PJ Harvey – All About Eve / Just 2 OK soundtrack songs
- PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying / ok, quiet
- Plains – I Walked With You a Ways / Waxahatchee side-project duo
- Planning For Burial- Below the House / added for cover art, good stuff
- Planes Mistaken For Stars – Do You Still Love Me? / solid, haunting
- Planes Mistaken for Stars – Prey / Solid
Plaque Marks – Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship/ Well done loud rock from PHI… just not my thing here.- Pleasure Leftists – The Gate / great name, seem to remember this being strong
- Pocket Full Of Crumbs – In My Hands I Hold A Lucky Cricket / interesting Built to Spill/emo like sound from San Fran
- Pohgoh – du und ich / solid from them
- Pohgoh – Secret Club / Tampa stalwarts
- The Poison Arrows – First Class, and Forever / solid CHI rock
- Polaris – Fatalism / well done but more metalcore than is my thing
- Police Teeth – Real Size Monster Series / good adult Indie punk
- Poncho – S/T / pretty good pop-punk
Ponychase – Parade of Youth/ well done indie/synth, but too 80s for me- Pool Kids – Music to Practice Safe Sex To / ex-V89 indie rock
- Pool Kids, POOL – Pool Kids // POOL / pool is the HC side project of Pool kids
- Pop Unknown – If Arsenic Fails, Try Algebra / good 90s indie rock on Deep Elm
Pop. 1280 – Way Station/ well done industrial and rad cover but not my bagPopcorn – “Prime Choice”/ good boogie/funk but not essentialPorcupine – Carrier Wave/ fine but inessential indie- porcupine – carrier wave (deluxe edition) / fine but inessential indie
- Porridge Radio – Every Bad / pj harvey ish
- Portraits of Past – Cypress Dust Witch / 12ht-ish if you squint; EP post reformation?
- Portraits Of Past – Discography 1994-1995 / really good Post HC
portrayal of guilt – We Are Always Alone/ metalcore- Post Pink – No Problem, Probably / decent female punk
- The Postal Service – Everything Will Change / great live set
Potomac Accord – Let Me Get Lost/ not as dynamic as 1st 2 records- The Potomac Accord – In One-Hundred Years the Prize will be Forgotten / 2nd best album
- Potty Mouth – SNAFU / aboove avg pop punk
- Praise – All In A Dream / fine
- The Pretty Flowers – Why Trains Crash / really good indie, really good cover art
- Priests – Nothing Feels Natural / lauded but ok post-punk
- Primus – Green Naugahyde / not enough to relisten?
- Primes – Millions / NY boy-girl punk rock
- Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble / better idea than execution
- Principium – A Better Place From Here / just OK indie
- Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Prince Daddy & The Hyena / OK poppish punk
- PRINCESS – PRINCESS / ok Pittsburgh HC
- Private Mind – Private Mind / decent emo punk
Privacy Issues – s/t/ low-fi post-punk; good but not my thing for repeated listens- Procedure Club – Doomed Forever / OK dream pop
Product 19 – Discography/ fine but chunky 90s post HC- Propaghandi – Victory Lap / solider than i expeted; respect
- Proper – I Spent The Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better / a lot like imadethismistake
- Prophets Of Rage – Prophets of Rage / Just OK
Protest the Hero – Kezia/ metal emo? blech- Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today / good rawk
- Prozac Memory – Discography / good old 90s punk/emo
- Psychic Flowers – Gloves to Grand Air / Dave Settle project a la Title Tracks
Psychic Temple – Plays Music for Airports/ good but a one-timer; part of the Watt complete works- Public Opinion – Modern Convenience / Really fun punk/garage
- Pudge – Backstabber / good noise rock but only 15 min
- Pullman Strike – Silver Lining /ok alt-countryish
- pulses. – Speak Less / Just OK VA HC
- pulses. – Yo! Champ in the Making! / well done VA multi-racial punk/emo but off by like a degree or 2 from great.
punchbrothers – The Phosphorescent Blues/ meh alt Mumford and Sons like but less engaging and less coherent- PUNCH – They Don’t Have to Believe / pretty good screamy punk from CA
- Punitive Damage – Legacy / solid HC, 3songs 3min; added LP
- Punitive Damage – Strike Back / 3 song, 3 min HC blast
- PUNITIVE DAMAGE – This is the Blackout / well done screamy HC/postHC from Providence
Pup – Pup Unravels Live in Front of Everyone They Know/ unessential- PUP – PUP / Like the other PUP record better, but very solid
- PUP – This Place Sucks Ass / good PUP rock
- PUP – The Dream is Over / really good, but starts to wane at end
PUPIL SLICER – Mirrors/ chaotic grindcore… not my bag of teaPupils – s/t/ more psychedelic NMH? on Discord- Pure Noise Records – Dead Formats, Vol. 1 /
- Pure Noise Records – Dead Formats Vol. 3 /
- Pure Noise Records – Dead Formats Vol 2 /Fine punk covers — the best of the 3 vol
- Pure Disgust – S/T / D.C. hardcore
- Purple-X – Purple-X / quick ’77 punk
Purr – Like New/ well done indie pop- Push Pals – She’s In Season EP / solid indie rock
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QOQEQA – Axuxa/ too ephemeral and experimental folk electronic music- Quad – Quad | OK 2 song art rock ep from NC
- Queen Crescent – Queen Crescent / we done if not terribly exciting 60s psych in current dya
- Quicksand – Distant Populations /
- The Quick Fix Kills – Saint Something / Never reaches the level of that one opening track
- Quieter – Won’t Call Back / Really good emo/post HC (“jock emo” they call it) from Seattle; added otehr EP
- Quit – Earlier Thoughts / seminal Miami punk
- Quits – QUITS / good rock from DEN, latter Soungardenish
- R.A.P. Ferreira – Purple Moonlight Pages / cool hip hop
- R.I.O.T.S. – R.I.O.T.S. EP / just OK garage
- Raccoon City – For Nobody, Nowhere / interesting screamy
- Rachel’s – Selenography / good… prob in LC 001
- Racingpaperplanes – Life is not for beginners / not as good as their JM covers
- Racingpaperplanes – Morning Scars (REMASTERED) /not as good as their JM covers
- Racingpaperplanes – We were lightning (Tribute to Jason Molina) / really good 2 songs; ok 3 other songs; added other RPP albums
- Rad Owl – Rage Gracefully /good old MN Fest punk
- Radar Eyes – Radiant Remains / fine CHI Post punk
- Radar State – Strays / Matt Pryor project
Radical Face – Audiotree Live/ mehRadkey – Aint No Sunshine/ good but inessential Bill Withers cover- Radura – Effetto Della Veduta D’Insieme / italian emo, a littel poppier than last EP which ended on TO GET list
- Raein – Il n’y a pas d’Orchestre 12″ / good screamo powerviolence
Raging Nathans / Dead Bars split/ Just the RN side, just fine punk- Rah Digga – Everything Is A Story (unreleased) / good old school hip hop sound
- Rahsheed & Ill Advised – RAHSHEED & ILL ADVISED INTERNAL AFFARIRS 1998 UNRELEASED / good old school hip hop sound
- Rainbow Crimes – We Disappear / Interesting Post Punk from PHI (w/ Kay Otto)
Rain Like the Sound of Trains – Singles/ funky like early RHCP- The Ramonas – Haphazard / good Tilt-like pop punk w a sneer
- Ramshackle Glory – Live the Dream / fine folk punk
- The Rapture – In the Grace of Your Love / decent disco punk
Rarity – The Longest Lonesome/ not good indieRas G – Raw Fruit vol. 5 & 6/ random beats and stuff- Ras Kass – Soul On Ice: Revisited / Solid, if a bit dated language
- Ratboys – The Window / good CHI indie/punk
- Rational Anthem – Whatevermind / really fun pop punk
- Rave Ami – Let It Be / fine poppy indie rock from PBGH
- RAVI – Masses / good French punk w/ Chuck Ragan cover
- Ravi – We Also Are What We Have Ruined / good 90s emo
Rays – s/t/ well done, Talking Heads/VU likeRaz Meinai – How to Kill a Boombox: Underground Cassette Productions, 1989-92/ well done just not my thingThe Readhead Band – after moments after/ band has 81(!) releases … all digital; feels jokey, music is just okThe Readhead Band – SUMMIT OF SCIENCE/ WUT? Death Grips by way of GBV?- Real Life – tHE aRT pROJECT / political hip hop from Tampa; dream defenders hsout out
- Real Friends – Everyone That Dragged You Here / decent pop/midwwest emo from Tinley Park, IL
- Real Friends – Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing / decent pop/midwwest emo from Tinley Park, IL
- Really From – Really From / renamed from “People You Know” but not as good as thier LP Verse
- Really Great – So Far, No Good / fine MA pop punk
- REALLY RAD RECORDS – The Ultimate Emo Album / fine 6 song, 3 band emo comp
- Real Friends – There’s Nothing Worse Than Too Late / hot topic-ish pop punk but well done if not relaly for me
- Real Live Tigers – Tomboys/Even Still / 2 song 7″ not enough; but added LP
- Rebelmatic – Eat The Monster / good afro-opunk EP
- Rebekah – Murder In Birmingham EP / Fine techno
- Reconciler – I / good post-GNV rock from ATL (derron nuhfur) sounds like Unitas + AM!?
- Record Setter – I Owe You Nothing / OK post HC
- Reconciler – Set Us Free / interesting mis of Gaslight Anthem and latter-day AM!
- Red Arms – WELCOME TO THE NEW COLD WAR / LIke a lot more than the latter full-length from them; solid Grabass style punk w/ jo
- red sun – best buds 🙂 / fine new emo from OKC
- Red Scare –Live 2000
The Red Rippers – Over There and Over Here/ Pensacola boogie rock, post Vietnam War- Red City Radio – Paradise
Red Rosa – Quietism/ OK post punkRed Arms – Critical State/ Punk that i wanted to like but vox distracted too much- Redbait – Cages / respect politically, but not my musical bag
RedBlueBlackSilver – Five Flora/ odd ambient.. not for me- Redbird – Redbird / good but not as elite as REM cover
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Uncommon Weather / good indie a la Mojave 3 from SF
- Redshift – Worst Timeline Possible / good rock instrumental; not as surfy as I feared
- Freedom Machine – Manifesto Single
- Reese McHenry – High Comma / ‘I wanna garage rock’… similar to Bad Magic sorta
Reflections of Stars – Nothing’s Ever Silent/ well done but not very engaging instrumental from OH- Refused – *Deluxe: Songs to fan the flames of discontent – 25 year anniversary / Good to very good
- Reggae 90210 – S/T / it’s not reggae,
- Regional Justic Center – Crime and Punishment / ok political HC
- Regulate – FSR62 – Regulate / less bad HC
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time with Reigning Sound/ uninspiring indie-classic rock- Reignwolf – Hear Me Out / reminds of Black Keys, Afghan Whigs
- Remainderfour – On With The Experiment / Very good female-fronted punk from UK (ala FHH)
- Remember Sports – Like a Stone / PHI emo/indie a la Hop Along or Swearin
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Before the Flood Soundtrack / good atmospheric but just 3 songs
- Rescue – Volume Plus Volume Plus / really good ATDI-like-lite punk
- Reservoir – I Heard You As you Walked Away / good emo/punk
- Reservoir – Mirage Sower / decent heavy emo
- Respire – Black Line / good metalish screams
- Respire – Hiraeth / big sound a la GYBE or Foxing, from Ontario
- Result of Choice – Place of My Dreams / CA hardcore
- Reversal of Man – Revolution Summer / fine
- Reversal of Man – This Is Medicine / better than I expected but not my bag
- Rex – 3 / thoughtful slow indie
Rex – C/ disappointingly bland- Richard J. Birkin – A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets / good mellow stuff
- Richard Swift – Dressed Up For the Letdown / decent pop songs, more accessible than the stuff w/ D Jurado
- Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki / weird Finnish Metal + Barouque folk? should be / but so strange have to respect it?
- Richard Buckner – Richard Buckner Folkadelphia Session 9/14/2013 / fine R. Buckner
- Rick Deitrick – Coyote Canyon / Leo Kottke style guitar
- Rid Of Me – Traveling / OK indie/punk
- Ride – Nowhere (2022 reissue) / Good UK Indie shoegaze
Right On – Reality Vacation/ meh boring-ish HC- Rise Against – The Unraveling (Reissue) /
- Risk Relay – After Fake End Times / Really , really good mortgage punk
- Rituals of Mine – Hype Nostalgia / good pop
- River Whyless – A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door / nice indie folks/bg
- River City Tanlines – Coast to Coast / ok indie garage from Memphis
- River Rats – Enchantment / good punk from IND
- River Whyless – Monoflora / good > great NC indie/folk
- Rivulets – I Remember Everything / Jose Gonzalez + Mojave 3 vibe;
- RJD2 – Visions Out Of Limelight / Good but nothing jumped out
- Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes / fine Leo Kottke style guitar
- Robert Glasper – Black Radio III / Starts strong, wanes in end
- Rocky Votolato – Live at Black Belt
- Rocky Votolato – Sawdust & Shavings EP
- Rocket – Versions of You / by the numbers pop punk/indie rock
- Rod Wave – Beautiful Mind [Explicit] / good St. Pete hip hop
- Rodan – Rusty / LC001?
- Rodan – The Hat Factory 93 /
- Rodeo Boys – Home Movies / better live than here (saw at FEst 22)
- Roger Harvey – Gold / Calming folk
- Roger Manning – Roger Manning (RM2) / still better than 95% of folk punk
Ron Carter – Ron Carter’s Great Big Band/ big bandish jazz- Ron Carter & Eric Dolphy & Mal Waldron – Where? / solid jazz from good WTF guest
RonCarter – Panamahattam/ great WTF guest but sounds like a carnival 🙁- The Room Outside – The Room Outside / perfectly fine indie soft rock from TX
- Roosevelt’s Inaugural Parade – 7 Split Extras / fine 90s emo/post HC
- The Rootsman – Essentials 1996-1998 / solid dub anthology for the background
Roots Magic – Take Root Among The Stars/ just ok jazzRope – Fever EP/ weird, annouying sound cacophony- Rosa Brunello – Sounds Like Freedom / good Italian by way of LA jazz/instrumental
- Rosetta/Restorations – Rosetta/Restorations SPLIT / just OK, droney
- Rosetta – Utopioid / ok loud indie/soft punk from PHI
Rotten Blossom – Get Lict/ generic but well done punk- Routines – Routines / really interesting Gville indie … like a poppier Argentina?
Roy Ayers – Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings/ well done, just not my jazz thingRoy Ayers – JID002/ really well done neo-soul jazz; just not enough there to repeatRP Boo – I’ll Tell You What/ Repeition (footwork?) is too much (though at times well done- Rubber Factory Records – Leatherface Tribute / good but not big enough fan for 2xCD worth
- Ruiner – Prepare to Be Let Down / solid ago
- Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels / solid
- Russian Circles – Gnosis / not as good as other albums; more ethereal
- Russian Baths – Penance / engaging 4-song EP… dark wave punk
- The Rutabega – Unreliable Narrator / Jay ryan cover art
- RUTTERKIN – TERROR IN COMFORT / good tampa org-core
RVG – Feral/ sounds like mindnight oil a bit, meh 90s indie just 3 songs- Ryan Harvey, Kareem Samara & Shireen Lilith – Thin Blue Border – Vol. 1 / good political indie folk
- Ryan Harvey – Can’t Turn Back / Still a bit grating but a bit more tolerable and nuanced
- Ryan Porter – Force for Good / enjoyable dynamci jazz
Ryan Harvey (w/Ani DiFranco & Tom Morello) – Old Man Trump/ just 1 song okRyan Harvey – You Have No Country/ shouldn’t be cynical but this feels performative and the politics oversimplified and music trite (maybe being too harsh after reading more about Anti-Flag this am.)
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- S. Carey – Break Me Open / not as good as the other record I reviewed, more poppy
- sabotagerecords – Enamorados – S/T 12” / fine spanish-language garage-y punk
- The Sad Tomorrows – The Sad Tomorrows / meh NJ power pop
Sad Daddy – Way Up in the Hills/ well done but too much middle of the road folk/bluegrass- Saetia – Collected / good screamo
safe home – previously…/ ok indie pop- Sai Wai – Elements Create The Soul / OK beats, prob not enough overall; 1st so sounds like Ani D rythym
- Saito – Sky [one EP for Nujabes and J Dilla] / Fine boom bap
Sam Mickens – Kayfabe: Laamb of G.O.D./ odd, grand and well done diverse R&B art rock? .. not my thing- Samiam – Billy / can hear influence of Samiam on ALK3, Blink etc.
- Samiam – Stowaway / solid album from these punk vets
- Samiam – You Are Freaking Me Out / no longer on BC maybe Samiam pulled from NIR
- Sammy Kay – 22098 / good gravelly vox alt-country-ish
- Sand Fleas – For Those Who Can’t / St Aug bluegrass punk
Sankara Future Dub Resurgence – Anarchist Africa::When Visions Fall From Sky/ interersting dub but a bit repetitiveSarah Harmer – Are You Gone/ Good indie pop; dueted with Bry Webb somewhere?Sarah Harmer – I’m a Mountain/ good folky stuff but doesn’t quite hit it- Sass Dragons – True Adventure / CHI pop punk that moves toward OWTH at times
- saturdays at your place – always cloudy / fun emo
- SAULT – UNTITLED (Black Is) / very good UK indie soul
- Sault – Untitled (Black Is) / hyped
- Savant – Discography / good Idle-ish loud rock
- SAVAK – Rotting Teeth In The Horse’s Mouth / enjoyable indie rock with ex-members of bands
- Save Face – Another Kill For The Highlight Reel / good epitaph emo/punk
- Save Your Generation Records – The Get Up Kids Tribute (SYG-008) / Fine TGUK covers
- Saving Lives – From, Here / decent if unspectacular pop/emo from NJ
- Saw Wheel – End of the Line / fine
- Saw Wheel – Raw Words EP / wanna like more than i do; sitll OK to good
Saw Wheel – Song from The Milkcrate Rustlers Split/ just one song- Saw Wheel – Songs from the O Pioneers!!! Split /
Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together/ well done but pedestrian indie pop from S. KoreaSCALPING – Void/ OK industrial; a.k.a. Scaling- The Scientists – The Scientists: A Place Called Bad / decent 80s punk from Austraila on Numero
- Scouts Honor – A Spirited Conversation Between a Blind Man and a Mute / Fine SH ep
- Scouts Honor – Buried
- Scouts Honor – M’Lady Serene (Tales of Achilles) / good EP
- Scouts Honor – Playing in Peoria: Another Side of Town / 1 song Floor cover
- Scouts Honor – Remembrance of This That I Loved / Six Skeletons / Fiune SH ep
Scoville Unit – See What Can Be/ forgettable poppy indie rock- Scowl – FSR69 – Psychic Dance Routine /fine HC
- Scowl – How Flowers Grow / decent HC.punk
- Scowl – Reality After Reality… / Decent
- Screaming Females – Desire Pathway /
- Scream – Fumble / fine but very 90s
Scrubz – Scrubz Is Petty/ Meh, Petty and white guy rapper mashup- Seagulls – The Royal We / solid org-core from ATL
- Seam – Headsparks / good slow core-ish
- Seam – Days Of Thunder / OK 3 song EP
- Second Letter – Cicatrix / forgettable indie rawk
- Secret Lives – Fortune Teller / members of Iron Chic filtered through Dischord sound?
- Sed Non Satiata – Mappō / grand french screamy punk
See Through Person – Chariot/ pretty good pop punk, just not enough to keepSeefeel – Succour/ electro-ambient meh- SeeYouSpaceCowboy… – Coup De Gráce / meh metal core skramza mix?
- SeeYouSpaceCowboy… – Fashion Statements of the Socially Aware / sounds exactly like the cover art 🙂
SeeYouSpaceCowboy… – The Romance Of Affliction/ barely tolerable scream0/metalcore but still misses cut- Segun Bucknor – Who Say I Tire / Nigerian funk/rock
- Self Defense Family – Have You Considered Punk Music / really good — might should consider getting for LC 011; but feelsl like just missed cut
- Self Defense Family – Long Island / strong, lound HC
- self-evident – What We Sound Like / jazz punk from WI
- Self Defense Family – You Are Beneath Me / good stuff… Challenger-like
- Semantics – Paint Me Blue / good Aussie indie/punk on S1D
- Sensor Ghost – 3 Songs / less bouncy Primus? arty punk from DC
- Sense Field – Building / really good but not
- Sensual World – Feeling Wild / not as great as other Julie Karr stuff but good
Sensaround – heart/noise/ too dischordant- Senses Fail – Still Searching / Better than I thought it’d be; decent 00s post HC/emo
- Senza – Even a Worm Will Turn / good loud screamo
- set and setting – Tabula Rasa / OK instrumental metalish?
- seven days of samsara – Since by Man split 12″ / fine EMO/HC from MIL
- sewingneedle – entry level position / ok to good CHI rock
- sewingneedle – pallet session / good indie rock from CHI… a little like Shellac
- sewingneedle – user error / (same)
- sewingneedle – vote of no confidence / (same)
- The Sh-Booms – The Blurred Odyssey / enjoyable ORL garage
- THE SHAKING HANDS – s/t / 1/2 of Young Livers; not as good as i remembered
- Sham Family – A Deaf Portrait of Peace / post punk from Toronto
- shame – Drunk Tank Pink / sounds like 85% of the Idles, down to the vox
- Sham Family – Sham Family / Decent post punk from Toronto; added full-length
Shannon Lay – Geist/ meh quiet folk on Sub Pop- Shannen Moser – The Sun Still Seems To Move / Blandish indie folk
- Sharon Van Etten – (it was) because i was in love / Good
- Sharhabil Ahmed – Habibi Funk 013: The King Of Sudanese Jazz / good but kinda have to be in the mood for Sudanese Jazz
- Shark Anatomy – In Shallow Waters / gville punk; alan bushnells’ kid
- Shark Anatomy – Lost at Sea / fun, like sloppier or starter-ver of One Reason (a. bushnell’s kid)
Sharptooth – Transitional Forms/ well done metalcore, but not my thing- Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong (Deluxe Edition) / OK indie rock
- Sheena, Anika and Augusta – Simple Pleasures / OK ep … less than the sum of its parts
- Shell of a Shell – Away Team / good, good cover art, try others
- Shellac – Dude Incredible /
- Shellac – Terraform /
- Shellac – The End of Radio /
- Shellac – To All Trains /
Shenandoah Davis – Souveniers/ fine female fronted indie rock folky- Shin Guard – 2020 / chaotic schreamo
- Shintaro Quintet – Evolution / solid japanese/japanese-american(?) jazz
Shiner – Lula Divine/ eh… kinda disappointing- Shipping News – Flies the Fields / very very good but jus misses
- Shipping News – One Less Heartless to Fear / Shellac like rock from Louisville back in the day; almost good enough
- Ship Thieves – Irruption / good not great
Ship Theives – Progress (Midnight Oil)/ meh cover- shonen bat – Shonen bat / just OK Spanish indie/emo
- Shopping – All Or Nothing / decent post-punk via V89
- Short Fictions / Fates Worse Than Death / really good “new” emo
- Short Fictions – Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler) / just OK indie pop ala NMH; think i really liked an earlier ablum
- shores – precedents / good
- Shores – S/T (july)
- shores – S/T (oct) /
- Short Fictions – There’s a Dark Shadow on the Flames of the Burning Sun Pt. I / good scramz, post-hc
- Should – A Folding Sieve (2002) / shoegaze og’s? from Baltimore c. 1995
- Shovels & Rope – By Blood / good enough to listen to otehrs
- Show Me The Body – Dog Whistle / interesting NIN-liek punk
- Show Me The Body – Trouble The Water / ok diverse loud rock from NYC
- Shroud Eater – Strike the Sun / MIA sludge
Shudder to Think – Get Your Goat/ Historic, but not enough for me; maybe takes multiple listens- Shy Layers – Enter At The Edges / ok ATL indie pop
SI DIOS QUIERE – No Angels/ meh HC/metalcore- Sideshow – Lip Read Confusion / Great ‘90s sound like Superchunk
- Signals Midwest – Pin / Good, but not as great as their best stuff, just missed the cut.
- Signals Midwest – DENT / good not great
- Sigur Rós – Ágaetis byrjun / fine but don’t know if I see/hear hype
- SILENT ERA – O Horizon / good thoughtful punk from OAK w/ woman singer
Silicone Prairie – My Life on the Silicone Prairie/ Devo-ish when good … mathy, blah- The Silos – Cuba / historic but not a repeater
- sinai vessel – Brokenlegged / ok alt from Asheville
- Singing Lungs – Groan / Good Fest punk; ex-Cheap Girls drummer; added addtl album
- SINGLE MOTHERS – Negative Qualities / solid loud rock from London
- Single Mothers – S/T / good loud rock
- Sinking Ships – Disconnecting / metalcore, ok but not my thing
- Sirius Blvck – Sirius Blvck on Audiotree Live / indie hiphop punk… interesting if not relisten
Sister Fortune – bunny/ fairly bland alt-folk, but KOLS coverSixx:A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack/ sounds like it looks- Skegss – MY OWN MESS / CLRC; good pop punk
- Skeletonbreath – Eagle’s Nest, Devil’s Cave / post rockish instrumental w/ fiddle
The Skies Beg to Differ – The Skies Beg to Differ/ really meh old emo from Canada (where added from?)- Skullcrusher – Song for Nick Drake / just 1 song; added fine female punk
- Skyzoo – Milestones / just OK hiphop
- Skzoo & Dumbo Station – The Bluest Note / decent jazzy hiphop
Slauson Malone – Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak)/. perfromance art + hip hop?- Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness / fine but disappointing vs. S-K apex
- Sleater-Kinney – Live in Paris / good not great
- sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography / good post rock
- Sleeping Giant Glossolalia – Nastie Band / interesting post-punk FNM-like oddity
- sleeping spiders – Rock and roll master plan / good TAL punk w Ouikut?
- The Slinkees – Who Cares? / historic DC but othrwize sloppy
- Sloane Peterson – Why Go Out? / really good Miami pop punk
- Slobberbone – Bees And Seas The Best Of Slobberbone / have all but last 2 songs from Slippage
- Sloping – Completed Songs / OK ATL indie folk
- Slotcar – Slotcar (demo cassette) / pre-KOLS? more rockin’ but just OK
- Sløtface – Try Not to Freak Out / really fun pop-punk like BYOP/Tilt from Norway
- Slow Death – Casual Majesty / on KOD at one time; great anthemic punk with ex-OWTH, D4, Soviettes? Couple great songs mostly just good/really solid
- Slowness – Part Time Punks / Really solid SF, CA slowcore
- Slow Death – Born Ugly, Got Worse / good pop punk
- Slow Fiction – Crush EP / more poppy than s/t kinda reminds of bettie Serveert
- Slowdive – everything is alive / quiet UK mellow indie
- Slowcoaches – Nothing Gives / solid punk from London
- Slow Mass – On Watch / chicago punk /w good cover art
- Slow Fiction – Slow Fiction / good, kinda Yeah Yeah Yeahs-ish from BKN
- Slow Country – The Late Great Slow Country /pleasant alsmot Holopaw-ish but not as good; makes sense Todd Weisfield in NYC
- Slumb Party – Happy Now LP / off kilter punk w/ sax that’s not ska
- Slum of Legs – S/T / 6 person female post punk, good not great
Sly & The Family Drone – Moon is Doom Backwards/ amusing band name; discordant jazz mess- Small Leaks Sink Ships – Golden Calf / well done cinematic indie rock from Portland
- Small Sur – Labor / Pleasant, quiet slowcore/folk
- Small Stresses – Small Stresses / Good pop-punk/emo from Columbus OH
- Small Crush – s/t / pop punk fun but just 3 songs
- Smidley – Here Comes The Devil / as good or better than the first Smidley record?
Smidley – Smidley/ the direction of newer Foxing; not as desperate as the older stuff- Smile – 7th Free Record / good > Great indie
- Smiling Face – Tartar Control / def a 1st album; messy, noisy punk… not horribel
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy / really solid
- Smoke – Another Reason to Fast / better, more haunting representation of the sad beauty i remember from the doc
- Smoke – Heaven On A Popsicle Stick / Loved the documentary, stoked to find this here
- Smoking Popes – Into the Agony / reminds of like a punk version of the Beach Boys :-/
- The Smudjas – What we have is today / good but not as compelling as earlier ablum
- The Smudges – February EP
- Snacking – Painted Gold / OK indie emo
- snag. – Death Doula / pretty good scream0
- Snag. – s/t / good not great emo
- snarls – Burst / good emo
- Sniffany & the Nits – The Greatest Nits / fun snotty female fronted punk
- Snip Snap – Survival Spells / excellent female 2-piece punk maybe from Chicago
- SNST – It’s Hard to Be Loved by You / meh; electronica from Chris Broach and his wife
- So Pastel – Up Please / gville adult punk
- So Totally – Double Your Relaxation / decent shoegaze on Tiny Engines
Sobs – Telltale Signs/- Soccer Mommy – Color Theory / better than i expected, good indie pop
- soccer mommy – Karaoke Night / fine covers EP
- Soccer Team – Real Lessons In Cynicism / good Dischord indieish
- The Soft Pink Truth – Am I Free To Go? / dimilar to Consolidated
- soft clicks – Pick Up The Weight / loud TAL punk
The Soft Pink Truth – Shall We Go on Sinning So that Grace May Increase?/ too ethereal- Softy – Sometimes I Wait For You / fine chill ambient
Something Mary – TV Tunes: A Retrospective of TV Theme Songs/ not enogh here, a few recongizable, but meh- Somos – Prison On A Hill / synth emo? meh.
- Sonagi – Precedent / well done screamo from PHI
- The Sonder Bombs – Clothbound / solid pop punk
Songs: Molina – “Songs: Molina” – A Benefit Compilation for Jason Molina’s Survivors/ not very enjoyable; mostly non-Molina songs but tributes- Songs For Snakes – Forced Pleasantries / ok SF indie rock
- Songhoy Blues – Optimisme / interesting, reminiscent of BLK JKS
- Sonic Youth – In/Out/In / instrumentals and outtakes? ok
- Sonic Liberation Front – Justice – The Vocal Works of Oliver Lake / ok free(?) jazz
- Sonic Youth – Live at All Tomorrows Parties 2000 / OK but not essential.
- Sonic Youth – Live At Brixton Academy 1992 /
- Sonic Youth – Live At The Warfield 1993 / fine live set
- Sonic Youth – Live in Brooklyn 2011 / fine… their last US show
- Sonic Youth – SYR 1 Anagrama
- Sonic Youth (Ciccone Youth) – The Whitey Album
- Sonna – We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight / pleaasant post rock
- The Sonora Pine – II /
- The Sonora Pine – The Sonora Pine / OK
Sons of the James – Everlasting/ well done contemporary soul, but not enough meat- Sons Of Kemet – Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do / pretty interesting, jazzy-like
- sonskull – Wiped Clean EP / ok garage-y DIY punk
- Sonya Cohen Cramer – You’ve Been a Friend to Me / nexus of Ida and Smithsonian Folkways
- Sophia Chablau e Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo – Sophia Chablau e Uma Enorme Perda De Tempo / OK Brazillian indie rock
- Soul Tornados – The Complete Recordings / fun
- Soulside – A Brief Moment in the Sun / Less Dischord-y than Less Deep and Trigger but interesting in its popiness… more rootsy?
- Soulside – Less Deep / good > great 1980s Dischord
- Soul Glo – Songs to Yeet at the Sun / good, loud and screams
- Soulside – Trigger + Bass•103 / good Dischord
- Soul Glo – Untitled LP
Soul Liberation – Who Are you?- sound sleeper – A Perfect Sea For Drowning / miami alt-rock thought would be metal
- Soundtrack to Sleep – East Coast Anxiety / reverby emo, sounds like the cover art
- SPACED – DEMO / good HC from Buffalo
Space Afrika – hybtwibt?/ 3 songs- Spanish Love Songs – Doom & Gloom Sessions / good > great
- Spanish Love Songs – Little Giants / ok collection of acoustic songs/demos
- Spanish Needles – Sifting Through the Wreckage / good St Pete orgcore
- Sparta – Sparta / Interesting, like a heavier U2??
- Sparta – Trust The River / Interesting, like a heavier U2??
Speaker Music – Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry/. great politics but mostly bleeps and scratchesThe Spears – Ghosts/ kind of grating; kind of beer-swill punk- Speak The Truth… Even If Your Voice Shakes – Speak The Truth… Even If Your Voice Shakes / good heartfelt punk
Special What – Pleasure in Return/ sax + drum… a bit much- Speedy Ortiz – Rabbit Rabbit OK maybe more Veruca Salt here
- Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse / OK reminds a little of mid-to-late Liz Phair
- Spider Bags – Someday Everything Will Be Fine / ok indie roots/cow pung ATL
- Spielbergs – This Is Not The End / really good like Japandroids
- Spielbergs – Distant Star EP / Good enough that I added some of theif full lengths
- Spielbergs – Running All The Way Home EP
- Spirit and the Cosmic Heart – MEMORIES / OK indie rock shoegaze from Lakeland
Spiritual Camp – Television/ Kinda Clash-ish, better album art- Spitboy – Body Of Work (1990-1995) / Historic collection
- Split Single – Callado / fine folk from Evanston (one of many Jason Narducy projects here)
- Sports Reference – Blue Room / solid enough cachy Gville org core
- Spotlights – Love & Decay / Good heavy shoe gaze
- Spraynard – Mayble / Came to by way of Big Nothing I think, solid punk
- SPRINTS – Manifesto EP /
- Springtime – Night Raver EP / OK Austrailian instrumental
- SQUEEZE USA – HEAVY PULP / Good TAL HC …w/ “fuck ron desantis” lyric
- Squint – Big Hand / reminds of poppier Fucked Up from STL
- Squirrel Flower – early winter songs from middle america / good not great moody stuff from CHI
- Squint – Feel It / solid aggressive rock/punk
- Squirrel Flower – Tomorrow’s Fire / good not great moody stuff from CHI on Polyvinyl
- Squint – Wash Away / fine STL HC … 2nd EP from them on this list
- Staircase Spirit – Apart / meh indie rock from Davie, FL; 2 songs + 3 remixes
- Standby – We Need More Mountains I / decent CT indie Rock
- Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid / well done soul from Miss.
Starlings, TN – All The Good Times/ meh AmericanaStars of the Lid – and their Refinement of the Decline/ 3LP of ambient- Staring Problem – Equinox / sounds a lot like Lush from CHI
- Starter Castles – Exceptional Americas / Mike Taylor pandemic electronica
- Stars Hollow – I Want To Live My Life / good not great emo
- Starter Castles – Live at the Preamble to the Outtakes / fine, weird, clearly outtakes
Stars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of/ too quiet ambient- Starflyer 59 – Vanity / intersting mix o fthe National and 80s post-punk
- The Starting Line – With Hopes Of Starting Over / OK 00’s emo ((with the cover to match ))
- State Lines – For The Boats / good anthemic punk
- STATESIDE – It’s What We Do / really good posi-pop punk from CHI
- State Faults – Resonate/Desperate / OK newer screamo
Static Dress – Rouge Carpet Disaster/ meh alt rock- Static Era – S/T / great Mike Stotlz band
- State Champion – Send Flowers / Just enough here to relisten (see track 6)
- STATESIDE – Songs to Remember You By / good poppy punk
- The Staves – Dead & Born & Grown / not as great as As I Was but i listedn to that like 20 times
- Stay Inside – Ferried Away / intresting indie/punk w varied sound
- Stay Inside – Viewing / really good emo/indie from NY
- Steadfast Records – Steadfast Records Label Sampler 001 / fine… samplers are too hard to eval here
- Stegosauro – Stegosauro / decent twinkly italian emo
- Stella Splendens – Stella Splendens / GNV art punk
- stella – stella / really good late 90s emo from NY
- Stephanie Arizpe – Jawbreaker Covers / good
- Stephanie Lauren – Masquerade / Pleasant pop covers for good and bad
- Step Forward Look West – Step Forward Look West / 10 min, 11 song CHI HC
- Steve Grozier & The Wildcats – Goodbye Rose/Jason Molina’s Blues – single / good indie; love the JM nod
- Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T. / just OK
Stick to Your Guns – *The Meaning Remains* / not bad…but weird compared to 1 song Metal HC “More of Us than Them”Stirrup+6 – The Avondale Addition/ Free expression jazz- Stormlight – Natoma / ok scremo
- Storefront Church – S/T / interesting indie rock
- Storm & Stress – Storm&Stress / just OK intstr. rock from PITT on Touch and Go
- Story of the Sea – Story of the Sea /really good, thoughtful, mellow indie rock
- Stragelight – Adult Themes / solid loud rock like Idles; great artwork
- Straw Man Army – SOS / Interesting synth-adjacent punk
- Strange Joy – 5 Tracks / good HC
- Straw Man Army – Age of Exile / bouncy, earnest postpunk
Strange Boutique – Easter Island/ interesting but just meh post punk from old people from DC- Straylight Run – Straylight Run / suprisingly solid emo on Victory
- Stress Positions – Walang Hiya / good old sckool CHI punk
- Stretch Arm Strong – Rituals Of Life / reissued “iconic” HC record from 90s… just OK IMO
- Street Dogs – Rust Belt Nation / decent EP; got via V89
- STREET DIAMONDS – Scenester Citizens / ok Tampa punk 7″
- Street Stains – Street Stains / similar to Title Tracks
- Street Eaters – The Envoy / solid stuff, abit rougher than i remember
- Strike Anywhere – Nightmares of the West / solid RVA punk long-timers
- Studying – Sophomoronic / decent post rock/grand emo
Subterranean Street Society – Saudade/ OK indie- Suburban Eyes – Suburban Eyes / less than the sum of of its parts? just OK emo ”supergroup” ex-Boys Life, Mineral, CF
- SUCK – FROG / fun punk
- Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen / really good, well-done R&B/pop electronic music from LA
- SUDS – The Great Overgrowth / good UK indie, a la louder The Sundays
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell / OK but dont’ see the big deal on this record
- Sufjan Stevens – Michigan / pretty and well done
- Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition) / enjoyable
- Sufjan Stevens – The Assencion /
Suicide – Ghost Riders/ historic, but messy here- Suicidal Tendencies – S/T / historic and holds up
- The Suicide File – Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For / OK HC
Sumac – *May You Be Held* / good but a bit too tedious- SUMAC – The Healer / musically interesting but growled vox and 79 mins is a bit much
- Summer Of ’92 – Saskatchewan / fine heartland punk
- Sun Rise Above – Every Day I Wake Up on the Wrong Side of Capitalism/ great album title; good political hip hop
Sun June – Somewhere (Expanded)/ too quiet indieSUNFLARE – ON/ Portugese stoner rock instrumentals; well done but too grating/dischordant?Sunny War – Can I sit with you?/ not bad, just not for meSunny Side Up – s/t/ well done jazz, fun album cover, just not my bagSSunshine Hysteria – Initial Mutilation/ forgetable if well done indie rock- Sunshine Hysteria – Initial Mutation / forgettable if well done indie rock
- Sunshine State – The Mess / Solid if unspectacular Gville punk rock
- Super Chincilla Rescue Mission – S/T / good tampa-gville 90s-core
- Super Unison – Super Union / Loud
- Superbloom – Pollen / Good 90s-style alt rock that’s well done — if a bit over-cribbed from Nirvana in parts
- Supertwin – Fortress / OK doom psych from GNV; dru martin?
- Superheaven – Jar / find indie/emo… better than the cover art
- Supercrush – Melody Maker / OK indie rock/power pop from SEA
- Supernatural – Natural Disasters / fascinating weirdo hip hop
Superball – Shorty’s Diner/ 90s frat-bar rock from GNV?Supertouch – The Earth Is Flat/ prtty boring NYC HC lite?- Superchunk – Wild Loneliness / good super chunk
- Supine – No Altar For The Company Man / solid if unspectacular sreamy punk
- Surf Curse – Heaven Surrounds You / ok new emo (like AGP likes)
- Survival Knife – Survivalized / Good punk (post Unwound or side project)
- Survival Knife – Loose Power / Not as good as Survivalized
- Suss – Promise / really good mellow-er Dirty Three like music
Swakhile – Never EP/ Well done R&B- Swan Wash – The Upstairs Museum / decent post punk but only 2 songs
- Swearing At Motorists – While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth /very very good from S@M confirming them as a band I like
- Sweat – Gotta Give It Up / really good LA HC/punk
- Swearing At Motorists – Last Christmas / 2 xmas covers
- Sweet Pill – Where the Heart Is / good PHI emo in the vain of Pool Kids
- Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out / enjoyable upbeat bouncy post-punk from Lawrence, KS
- Sweethearts – S/T / intriguing cover art
- SWEET FA LABEL – SHARK ATTACK (unheard Southern punk) / OK archival 3-song punk from Arkansas
- Sweetheart – The Unbearable Tightness of Being / good post HC, emo from Columbus
- Swing Kids – Discography / good SD screamo/skramz from 90s
Swordman Kitala – Swordman Kitala: Remixes/ just 2 songs of instrumental electronicSyd Straw – War and Peace (1996)/ meh indie rock- Symposium – Do You Remember How It Was? The Best Of Symposium 1996-1999 / good UK indie rock that sounds like Green Day at times.
- syndrome 81 – prisons imaginaires / French punk ala Street Dogs
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- Tad – Salt Lick / solid heavy
Taken – Taken – Carry Us Until There Is Nothing Left/ meh- Taking Meds – Dial M For Meds / Good 90s style indie rock
- Taking Meds – Terrible News From Wonderful Men / OK new emo
- Talk Show Host – Not Here to Make Friends / good pop punk
- Talking Props – Passive Aggressive /good chilean Orgcore
Talquin – Tomorrow’s Calm/ welldone but forgettable ambientish instr.- Tangled Hair – Two EPs / midwest emo via UK
- Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Yield to Despair / Good gloomy doomy instrumentals
Tanlines – Presents EP/ amusing but not enough of a fan- Taqbir – Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause / good fiesty punk from Morocco
- Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
Tara Jane O’Neil and WIlder Zoby – Music to Clean to/ Ambient minimalism- Tara Jane O’Neil – s/t / it’s not Retsin 🙁
- Tation 天聲樂隊 – Coordinate Plan 2018 / solid math rock
- Taylor Vick – Wayfinder / OK indie folk (said Boy Scouts as artist when added…)
- Ted Leo – For Coit and Killie EP / very good but digital only makes the choice
- Ted Leo & Jeppesen Airplane – Into the Conquering Sun / just 1 track but classic political Ted Leo
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Heaven’s Off EP, April 2023 / very good; could get for completism but digital only
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Andy, Come Out EP /
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – August 2023 Bandcamp EP / 2 songs, just OK
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – *SHAKE THE SHEETS: The Demos 2003-2004 * / not much new ground here
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Old 200 EP / just OK
- Teenage Cool Kids – “Queer Salutations” / good Built to Spill like indie/punk
- Teenage Halloween – S/T / OK punk
- Teenage Sequence – The City is Hungover/All This Art / dance pop 7″
- Telethon – Hard Pop / goofy indie/punk like a mix of BTMI and Pinegrove but less good
the telescopes – Taste/ fine 80s college rock, but not great (wonder how this ended up on LC 011)- The Templars – La Premiere Croisade / solid old school NYC punk, not HC
- Ten Volt Shock – Strasbourg / decent to good
- Ten Volt Shock – Strasbourg
- Ten Volt Shock – Strasbourg
- Tenci – My Heart is an Open Field / slower Neko Case
Tenement – Music Composed for the Motion Picture ‘Smother Me in Hugs’/ scattered and not like their album from V89- Tenement – Predatory Highlights / Remember playing cuts off at V89, full album not as good as I remember there.
- Tenue – Territorios / strong blast of post HC like 12HT at times from Spain
- TERMINAL BLISS – BRUTE ERR/ATA / fine RVA HC
- The Terminal Orchestra – Leave Home, Rabbit /
- Terry Green – LP / scatterpunk
- Tess Wiley – Not Quite Me / fine but uninspried?
- Tess Wiley – The Energy You Keep / better than Not Quite but still…
- Texas Is The Reason – Do You Know Who You Are? (Remastered Edition) / OK, historic
- Texas Is The Reason – s/t EP / OK, historic
- Thank You – Mother’s Nose / solid arty 7″ punk
- The Bark, The Bite – The End of the Beginning / old 90s TAL punk almost good enough to keep
- The Carters – Daniel Rowden’s Pants Seven Inch / Like tamer Moonraker on Expert Work Rec
- The Coathangers – S/T / solid debut, riot grrlish
- The Farewell Bend – In Passing / Good midwest emo/punk… pretty Superchunk-y
- The Flatliners – Cavalcade / Very good but just not enogh to get
- The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Ways of Hearing / interesting mix of Modest Mouse artsy-ness/KOLS-emo
- The Hal Al Shedad – Description: Singles And Unreleased Recordings: 1995 – 1999 / really good punk
- The Hated – Every Song / Good enough to explore the Numero reissue
- The Hussy – Looming / rock from Madison, WI
- The Intima – No Lullaby For Sleep / really good art punk/emo
- The Jesus Years – are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John / really solid post rock
- The Last Mile – Respect the Frequency / Reminds a lot of Smoke or Fire
- The Left – Gas Mask / good enough to listen to more
- The Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray (30th Annivesary Edition) / great record but 2nd disc is just demos, acoustic radio live versions, inessential but fun
- The New Lows – All Our Roads / adult punk
- The Path of Increased Indifference – Songs from the Beltway / tampa bay post HC -listen to others
- The Pines of Rome – On All Fours / this album reminds on repeated listens of The Glow by The Microphones; one band member played on Didnt’ It Rain
- The Shivering – Brand the Lion’s Mouth / enjoyable early 90s emo 7”
- The Stick Figures – Archeology / Tampa punk from late 70s a la Hardback, fun
- The Terminal Orchestra – The Seasons / VERY good. just missed cut? instrumental like GYBE but less GYBE than that…
- The Trouble Starts – West / really interesting
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything / just OK
- Their / They’re / There – Their / They’re / Three / good if predictable stuff
- TheNeedleandTheGroove – The Summer Tape. / very good mashups
- THEO BUTTS – SKATEPARK / solid TAL pop punk
- There Were Wires – Somnambulists / very good post HC
- The Thermals – A Pillar Of Salt / Fine 4 song 7″ after the awesome lead track
- These Arms Are Snakes – Duct Tape & Shivering Crows / V89 review, decent
- These Arms Are Snakes – Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home / really solid 00s emo punk
- They Hate Change – Finally, New / OK Fla. hip hop on Secretly Canadian (!)
- They and the Children – Thoughts on Becoming a Ghost / good scramz/sludge
- THICK – Would You Rather? / fun snotty punk
Thin White Rope – Moonhead- thirdface – Do It With A Smile / OK multi-racial, mixed gender HC
- Third Root – Passion of the Poets / good old-school hip hop
- This Patch of Sky – Heroes and Ghosts /
- This Patch of Sky – Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine /
- This Will Destroy You – S/T (10th Anniversary Edition) / fine post rock from LA CA
- This White Light – S/T Demo / Jen Wood + doomish metal ?!?
- This Patch of Sky – S/T /
- Thisismenotthinkingofyou – S/T / decent screamo
- This Is Hell – Sundowning / better than avg/fine HC
- This Patch of Sky – The Immortal, The Invisible / good post rock from Eugene, OR
- This Will Destroy You – Young Mountain / solid post rock from LA
- This Frontier Needs Heroes – *Hooky* / good enough to tkae a listen to more
- Thomas Azier – Love, Disorderly / well done electronic pop just not my thing
- Thousand Arrows – thousand arrows / ex-MEC/Coke Dares solo stuff.. moody indie meh
- Thousandaire – s/t / atlanta fuzz rock
- Threestepstotheocean – Del Fuoco / not as good as, say, Russian Circles
- Three Mile Pilot – Maps / shrug?
- Threshing – S/T (SC019) / OK TAL doom
Throwing Muses – Sun Racket/ fine but only a few songs- Thrushes – Exposing Seas / good grunge-gaze? 🙂
- Thunderclap – Inebriocean (LP) / well done doom sludge from GNV
- Thunderclap – Knife/Fist / same
Thurston Moore – screen time/ unnecessary noodlingTica Douglas – Lo/ good & well done, just not my thing (no longer on BC?)- TIDES / GOLF WAR – Tides / Golf War split / really good Fest punk (1 band from Gville)
- Tied To A Bear – True Places / BOS sorta-beard punk
- Tigers Jaw – I Won’t Care How You Remember Me / Really good but just 1/3 of album; added earlier records
- tigers jaw – Charmer / very good
- Tight Night – Volume / Young Livers like punk from CHI
- Tilly and the Wall – I Want to Fck It Up:Tilly and the Wall 2002-2013 / good best of collection
- Tim Barry – Carolina’s RV / good but jsut an EP
- Tim Kasher – Middling Age / uneven but weird and playfully somber in an interesting way
- Tim Campbell – Tim Campbell / fine mellow indie
- Timelost – Gushing Interest / big fuzzy rock, enough to see more
- Timeshares – Out There / very good, singer sounding like Tom Ptty and Maxwell Stern ‘cover’; added subsequent full length
- Time and Pressure – Halfway Down / meh HC
- Timeshares – In The Ground / ok/good
- Time Spent Driving – Just Enough Bright / ok but generic 90s rock from Santa Cruz
- Timeshares – On Life Support / just good
- Time Thieves – Space / Fountains of Wayne like power pop from CHI
- Tin-ear – Cadastral Maps / interesting tweemo
- Tina Sparkle –Welcome to the No Fun House / Better Yet host shouted out as the crown jewel of the Peoria scene in the (?) 90s.
- Tiny Fractures – Perfect Moments / Really solid post HC from BOS
- Tiny Stills – Laughing into the Void / sugary pop punk from LA
- Tired From Now On – cliff richard simmons tapes / historic GNV but not really my thing
- Titan – Chrysanthemum / dynamic screamo
- Title Fight – Hyperview
- Tits Up – Greatest Tits / Good UK garage rock
- To Be Gentile – Discography 2017-2020 / really solid scrams
- To Be Gentle – A Haunting Admission / pretty good loud, screamy dynamic
- To Be Gentle – A Place To Rest My Ruined Head: A Sonic Memoir / Ambient?!? usted to be post-HC? maybe just an experiment
- The Toadies – Antiquiet Sessions #14 / fine, inessential
- toast – Home Run / 2 songs, 3 min, Indonesian pop punk
- Toasted Tomatoes – lofi hip-hop beats to organise/seize means to / amusing title, but just OK
- Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson In Crime / not all as great as “Citizens of Tomorrow”
Tolchock Trio – Mono Culture Demos/ meh folk indie pop from SLC- Tom Skinner – Voices of Bishara / free jazz from CHI; fairly listenable
- Tommy Guerrero – No Mans Land / chillout psych instr.
- Tommy Guerrero – Soul Food Taqueria / unexpectedly interesting; chill guitar instrumentals
Too Much Joy – We Are/Are Not The Clash/ 3 songs… shrug- Torche – Meanderthal / OK, just doens’t hit for me as much as i wanted
- Torche – Part Time Punks Session / too droney to listen to multiple times
- Toro y Moi – Anything In Return / great pop/dance music
- Toro y Moi – Hole Erth / more good dance music
- Toro y Moi – What For? / beatles-eque vibes in parts as dance music
- touche amore – …to the beat of a dead horse / not the biggest fan
- touche amore – Lament / post HC, a little glossier than my tastes
- Touché Amoré – Spiral In A Straight Line / more solid than i remember earlier stuff?
Touche Amore/The Casket Lottery split/ good but inessential- tough stuff – College / real good punk from Long Beach
- Tourneforte – Swimming Lessons / ok SC indie rock; mellow … heartfelt.
- Town Liar – Lies: One Through Seven / members of Kid Dynamite, Gaslight… well done heartfelt punk; just missed to-get
- Townes Van Zandt – In The Beginning / good classic folk-country
- TPS Fam – Hot Water Music (RVG005) / good old school hip hop from UK
- Traindodge – On A Lake Of Dead Trees +2 / ok loud rock from Oklahoma
- Trampoline Team – Trampoline Team / OK old NOLA punk
- trash the rental – ’til It All Falls Apart / OK GNV old guy punk
- Trauma Bond – Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone / a bit much grathing at 8 am but just miss
/ - trauma ray – Transmissions / Spacey post rawk; FFO: Hum?
- Trauma Bond – Winter’s Light / Well done industrial violence from UK just not really my thing
- The Travis Waltons – Separation Season / good UK indie pop-punk; Matt Pryor on 1 song
- Tree River – Time Being / really solid current emo/indie
Trent Walton – Voyager/ another good-designer electronica like Tycho- Trespassers – Trespassers EP / meh alt/emo-by-numbers from Syracuse
- Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan / interesting mix of Mali and Kronos
- Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – Old Jail / post MCD project, slower but good
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – S/T/ weird noise collage from ex-Murder City Devils/PGMG; latter release was a 2nd listener- Tropical Fuck Storm – Braindrops / meh weirdo indie rock
- Trophy Hunt – The Branches On Either Side / dynamic pretty good grindcore(?) from NYC
True Widow – AVVOLGERE/ Fine but a bit same-y and unexceptional- TRUPA TRUPA – Of The Sun / Lovitt Records, just OK
- Truth Cult – Off Fire / Just OK HC (reminds of Rollins band tempo)
- Truth Cult – S/T EP / solid punk rock from Baltimore
- Tsunami – Poodle b/w Old City / fine but just 2 songs
- Tunde Adebimpe – A WARM WEATHER GHOST / sounds like Adebimpe, but less focussed than TVOTR
- Tunde Adebimpe – Magnetic /just one song, good
- Tunde Adebimpe – OFF YOU / just one song, good breeders cover
- Tunde Adebimpe – ReelFeel / just one song
- Tundra Survey – Tundra Survey / 3 song 7″ of quiet CHI post rock from 90s
- Tunic – Exhaling / loud and good like Needs
tunng – Bricks/ 2 remixes, not enough there- Turkish Delight – IHN005 // Howcha Magowcha / 90s indie rawk
- Turnover – Magnolia / OK, reminds of latter day Title Fight
Turnstile – Step 2 Rhythm/ meh HC from Baltimore- TV Girl – French Exit / interesting indie-lounge pop
- TV on the Radio – New Health Rock / OK 3song EP not their best
- TW Walsh – Songs of Pain and Leisure / Enjoyable indie rock
Twain – Days of Effort and Ease/ Like a bad 70s folk parody.- Twin Peaks – Lookout Low / Chi Indie bar rock?
- Twin Thousands – lp / OK poppy shoegaze from NY (with Gretta Cohn)
- Two Houses – Unfriend / chicago punk
- Two Humans – Institute of Living / good indie, reminds of dirtier Walkmen
- typesetter – #7 / enjoyable, similar to Japandroids
Typhoon – White Lighter/ Arcade Fire-lite?- Tyranny Is Tyranny – The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism / solid angry socialist punk
- Buddy Moss – The George Mitchell Collection / good blues but wouldn’t listen again
- Ugly Shadows – EP / fine post punk 3 song ep
- Ugly Heroes – Ugly Heroes / OK old-school hip hop from DET
- Ui – The Fortunate One Knows No Anxiety / 1 song; added full-length
- Ui – The Headache Boat /
- the ultimate screamo band – Tout est fini / 1 guy, 10 min post HC,… fine
- Ultra Dolphins – Mar / good spazzy punk
- Ultra Deluxe – Quests / weird punk from NY … meh
- Um Quarto (¼) – De Nossas Vidas / fine Brazillian emo
- under.his.eye – Visions of Flames / unique post-screamo … very interesting and wll done
- UnderCover Presents – Paranoid (a Tribute to Black Sabbath) / good, diverse but not enough to get
- UnderCover Presents – Tribute to The Pixie’s Doolittle / interesting set of covers; not stnd but expansive reinterpretations
- Unions – BaLet Your Heart Be Humble / Replacements like high energy from Bloomington
- The United Sons of Toil – When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful / 2nd vocals grate, but settles down; hardcore
- Unsane – Improvised Munitions & Demo / sludge-y and not really their strongest form what i’ve heard
- Unsane – Blood Run / solid
- Unsane – Scattered, Smothered & Covered / solid
- Unwed Sailor – The Faithful Anchor / fine mellow post rock
- Unwound – The Light At The End of the Tunnel Is A Train / Good > Great
Up From Here – Words Left Unsaid/ cartel like pop punk- Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – Girl’s Names / short EP; maybe have 1-2 songs via Napster back in the day
- Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – Perris CA / good
- Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start – Worst Band Name Ever / ok; a little lighter than the one i have
- Upper Wilds – Jupiter / GBV-like but less anno
upsammy – Bend/ clingy electronic instr. music- Rust Belt Refugees – Slumlord / good punk jazz? gone from BC though
- UV-TV – Always Something / fine indie rock (diff album than first added)
- V/A – “Heartbreakers & Rumpshakers” comp 7″ / fine 4-song document but inessential
- V/A – Best of Soundgarden (Redux) / fun but nothing earth shattering and the orig are just better
V/A – Glory Daze Soundtrack/ meh pop-punk- V/A – Numero Group – If There’s Hell Below / solid if unspectaular comp of 70s Black rock
- V/A – Creep Records – Let The Bad Times Roll (a tribute to The Replacements) / enjoyable comp, but I’m not a ‘Mats connisuer
- V/A – Our Lips Are Sealed – A tribute to THE GO GO’s / fine
- Va Fa Napoli – VA FA NAPOLI / fine midwest emo from… Austria?!?
- Vacation Bible School – VBS Classic Part 2 / ok 90s indie from St. Pete
- Vagrants – Be Consumed / evanescence-like gothic metal core; not my jam but well done
The Vandermark 5 – Burn the Incline/ just 1 freakout jazz song- Vangas – Facial Tissue / Chaotic like early Ought
- Vangas – Dog Walker / Waltz in E Minor 7” / angry, bouncy; added full-length
- Vapid – Lake of Tears / good woman led punk
- The Vehicle Birth – rock / Recent emo/indie from BOS
- Vein.fm – This World Is Going To Ruin You / eh… metal core
- Velocity Girl – incidentals / fine 5 song EP of old, lost tracks and 2 live tracks
- Velocity Girl – UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixed and Expanded) / doesn’t expand much on original classic
- Vendino Pact – Refugees Soundtrack & Demo 1983 / OK 80s indie
Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – S/T/ electronica-house-ish?The Vernon Spring – s/t/ Ambient? Piano?- Verse – Aggression / solid HC/post-HC
Vex Ruffin – Emilio/ jazzy dancey but more background; well put together- VIAL – LOUDMOUTH / fine MN pop punk
- Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter / good > great
Vic Chestnutt – Silver Lake/ respect. but doesn’t hit- Vicious Dreams – S/T / good ORL punk a la Hole/Tilt
- Victor Shores – Sports In General / great Fest punk
- Victor Shores – You’ll Get Better At It / great; reminds of Smoke or Fire; added full length
- Victor Shores – S/T / good > great pop-punk-emo from MN
- Viejas Raíces – De Las Colonias Del Río De La Plata / OK jazz
- Vientre – Estado de Imago / good post HC, not great
- Vile Creature and Bismuth – A Hymn of Loss and Hope / 45 chill doom metal inst. track w/ ex-Imadethismistake
- Vintage Tux – Sound Track to the Movie You’ll Never See / TAL hip hop
- VINTAGE TUX – WORDZ VOLUME ONE / Dick Gregory words + TAL beats
- The Violets – Athens, GA 1988-1992 / OK power pop/garage
- Virginity – POPMORTEM / OK indie
- Visibly Choked – S/T / rawk from Montreal
- Vitreous Humor – Posthumous /good 90s midwest emo
- Viva Begrado – Bellavista / ATDI-like post HC w/ spanish lyrics
- Vivid Low Sky – Music For Movies Unmade / cinematic punk-like instrumental
Volcano Suns – All Night Lotus Party/ well done but kinda meh old-guy indie- Vulture Feather – It Will Be Like Now / Big, grand indie/post punk sound, OK to good
- Vulture Feather – Liminal Fields / interesting indie rawk … even if not repeated listens
- VULTURES UNITED – To Live And Die In Gainesville / 4 song EP; loud and fast on Kiss of Death
W-Z
- Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers / respect.. but maybe not enough musically here. maybe sitll get just for historic value?
- Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks / just 2 songs, but interesting
- Waffle Stomper – Waffle Stomper / By the numbers pop punk from Seattle
- Walking Boss (Remastered) – PORCH / reminds of Shellac
- Wallside – s/t / fine 90s emo from MI
Walter Schreifels – An Open Letter to the Scene/ Only really like (love) the last trackWalter Etc. – Dark Comedy Performance Piece of My Life/ meh indie pop- Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra – Overwhelmed and Underdressed / fine but uninspired emo-ish from pre-Walter, etc.
The War Between – Goth Beach/ Done well but not engaging enough- Wares – Survival / Good indie rock
- Warish – Next To Pay / well made metallish rock from CA — just not my thing
- warm girls – demo / just OK from RVA
- Warning – Watching From a Distance / doom metal precursor to 40 Watt Sun; really good but a little samey to get
- Warning – Bridges EP / just 1 live, 1 acoustic version of Bridge
Warren Ellis – This Train I Ride (Original Soundtrack)/ field recordings on train + minimal bckrnd music- Watchhouse – Duo / strong but just barely miss “to get”
- Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) – Watchhouse / not quite as strong as “Duo” but still very good
WATERSHED – Blow It Up Before It Breaks/ from book; kinda bland indie rock- Water Liars – Roll On / good indie rock from Miss.
watersdeep – Sunken Feelings/ fine acoustic pop punk?- watersdeep – Sunken Feelings / fine acoustic pop-punk
WATERSHED – wa-ter-shed/ 90s alt frat rock?- Water Liars – Wyoming / good alt country in the Will J vein
- waveform* – Last Room / very interesting mix of indie (like a more rocking Family Band?)
- waveform* – library / OK soft indie rock from CT
- The Wave Pictures – The Songs of Jason Molina / Not great covers of Jason Molina, but it’s still Jason Molina
- Wax Wings – Swarm / Gainesville indie-folk with Chelsea Carnes
- Waxahatchee – El Deafo (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) / good but inessential
- Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud / still a fan, but not as enjoyable as last 2
- Waxeater – Baltimore Record / really good loud rock that hit harder the first listen than subsequent.
- Way Harsh – The Effects of Gravity / good female fronted punk a la Fellow Project
- Ways Away – Torch Songs / good, Samiam side project
- We Are The Union – Great Leaps Forward / solid pop punk (bold b/c of title )
- We Are The Union – Ordinary Life / better than i thought it’d be
- We Are Baker – Prologue: The Farmer’s Daughter EP / good singer songrwritery
- We Lost the Sea – Departure Songs / by the numbers post rock but darker than most
- we set sail – Feel Nothing / ok emo
- Weakened Friends – Quitter / Good female fronted punk/emo indie
- weak teeth – weak teeth / fine punk from Providence RI
- The Weather Station – All of it Was Mine / good, not great indie folk
- Weatherstate – Born a Cynic / fine UK pop punk
- The Weather Station – Duets #1-3 / ??
- Weatherbox – Flies In All Directions / good > great
- The Weather Station – Ignorance / really solid female, soft indie rock/pop
- Wednesday – Rat Saw God / Good NC indie rock, maybe worth 2nd listen
- Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare / a little scrambled but OK
- Welcome the Plague Year – Welcome the Plague Year / OK screamo disaster/ brutal-ism
- Well Wisher – That Weight / reminds of Letters to Cleo; from NJ
- West King String Band – Achin’ / new-grass folk from St. Aug; just oK
- Wet Leg – Wet Leg / very good UK Indie rock
- Wetnurse – Invisible City / OK PDX metal punk
Whatever the Weather – s/t/ beeps and boops ambient- The Whip – Self Titled /decent sludge from SEA
The Whispers – Planets of Life/ uninteresting soul- White Lung – Sorry
- White Zombie – White Zombie: It Came from N.Y.C. / surprisingly good garage rock
- White Whale – WWI /just ok indie rock 1-off with members of TGUK on merge
whitney ballen – You’re A Shooting Star, I’m A Sinking Ship/ Babyish Joanna Newsom style voice, gratingThe Widow Cameron – The Widow Cameron/ Well done mellow indie rock, but not my thingWignut Dishwashers Union – Burn the Earth Leave it Behind/ Fine folk punk but not really essential- Wiki – Half God / good not great hip hop from NYC
- Wilco – Cruel Country / could get … but quiet for work eval
- Wilco – A Ghost is Born
- Wild Animals – Basements: Music To Fight Hypocrisy / Very good indie/emo from Spain
- The Wild Reeds – Blind and Brave / Staves-ish but funkier and bigger sound
Wild Reeds – Cheers/ well done indie pop-folk- Wild Pink – ILYSM / CLRC favorite; but not my thing… well done indie rock
Wild Sun – Little Truths/ meh indie rock- Wild Cat Strike – Rhubarb Nostalgia / souns like Built to Spill/modest mouse but just OK
Wilde Creatures – Summer Shine EP Demo/ TAL, done well just not my thing- Wild Flag – Wild Flag / good
- Wild Hum feat. Hannah Rooth – Wild Hum / LA mellow indie rock (via Hannah Rooth’s collected work on her BC)
- Wild Pink – Wild Pink / fine indie rock (via CLRC?)
- William Bonney – All Ten / ex-signals midwest; a little too screech, liek Touche Amore
- Willie Nelson – AMERICAN REBEL /
Willy Mason – Bok Bok Hill/ meh- Will Johnson – El Capitán / good Will Johnson
William Ryan Fritch – Freeland/ really minimal ambient- Will Beeley – Highways & Heart Attacks / some pretty good stuff, surprising 70s Austin folk rock… first album in 40 years.
- Willie Nelson – LEGENDARY OUTLAW /
- William Tyler – Music from First Cow / just OK … Leo Kotke like
- William Bell – Phases Of Reality / good soul music
- William Elliott Whitmore – Radium Death
- Willy Tea Taylor – Strings / nice happy, playful folk
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops/ intersteing 63 min ambient loop but can’t ssee repeated listens- Will Stewart – Way Gone / solid folk/alt-country from Alabama
- Willy Mason – Where The Humans Eat / good indie folk
Willy Tea Taylor – Willy Tea Taylor, Born and Raised/ not enought to grab onto- wimps – City Lights / decent pop-punk, jsut not my thing
- winded – schwartz provides / ethereal indie (ex-V89!)
The Window Smashing Job Creators – The Power of Friendship/ resepct the effort but that political-folk-punk by the numbers vox are ugh.- Wine Lips – Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party /fun
- Wine Lips – Super Mega Ultra / fun
- The Winter Passing – Double Exposure / upbeat FHH or heavier Letters to Cleo
- The Winter Passing – New Ways of Living / good sarge like pop emo
- winterforever – we’re all barely here / kind of 3rd wave emo/grunge mix
- Wired Up – Demo / Gville Oi rock w/ Pat Hughes on vox
- Wired Up – Gets Rich On Rock ‘N’ Roll / fine
With Honor – Heart Means Everything/ meh metalcore- Wives – So Removed / Sonic Youth/dinosaur jr. like indie rock
- Woke Up Falling – Dividing Blue From Blue / sounds exaclty like cover art looks
- wolves & wolves & wolves & wolves – cursecursecurse / Good Fest punk from NC
- The Wonder Years – No Closer To Heaven / decent emo stuff
- Woody Guthrie – Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti /
Wooden Maria – Hot Water Music/ boring indie; added b/c of HWM title- Woody Guthrie – Struggle
- The Working Poor – Eat the Middle Class / GBV-like, but would be x other than name/title
Work Drugs – Some You Leave Out/ ironic 80s style pop rock from PHIThe World/Inferno Friendship Society – All Borders Are Porous To Cats- worlds greatest dad – boredom blues / remnids of Tegan and Sara a bit; good EP
World Peace – Come and See/ overwhelming grindcore… 30 songs, 15 min- Worlds Worst – EP / like latter day Title Fight
World Quake Band – Everything is on the one/ 80s soul boogie- The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die – Formlessness / good grand emo
- World Be Free – One Time for Unity / posi HC
- Wormburner – DISCOGRAPHY / sounds like other good NL/Tapes Not Bombs stuff
Worm Ouroboros – What Graceless Dawn/ too plodding- The Wormholes – You Never See The Stars When It Rains 1994-99 / OK punk rokc from Ireland
- Worriers – Warm Blanket / less loud and agreessive than older stuff
- Worst Party Ever – Dartland / fine indie
- WORST GIFT – World’s Worst / loud shoegaze
- Wreath – s/t EP / good Tampa punk on New Grenada
- Wreath – Wave Of Pleasure b/w Seen In Dreams / fine 2 songs, tampa HC
Wristmeetrazor – Replica of a Strange Love/ bleh metal core- Wrong War – Fixed Against Forever / OK chicago HC
- Wye Oak – Civilian
- Wye Oak – Cut All the Wires: 2009–2011 / Fine Indie
Wylde Rattz – s/t/ great supergroup lineup, boring musicWylie Cable – Shimmer, Then Disappear/ welldone beats but not for me.Wynn Walent – Wynn Walent/ inide pop folk from Haiti? Not for mex.y.r. – Pilgramage/ ok ambient but not a register- xbxrx – Sixth in Sixes /
Xylouris White – The Sisypheans/ World-ish.. Guy Piciotto produced and Dirty Three member IIRCYall So Stupid – Originai 88.5FM Rhythm & Vibes (ATL) Promo via 1991/ one track, someone mentioned as ATL hip hop pioneers- YASS – Night Wire / 10volt shock side proj of electro punk
- Yazmin Lacey – Morning Matters / pleasant
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down / good… not as dynamic as i imagined them being
- Year of No Light – Ausserwelt / doomy post-metal?
- YEARNING – MMXXII / good powerviolence from Montreal
- Yes Sensei – In Escelsis / Long Island post punk that honors Fugazi?
- Yessh – Saw You Up There / now-defunct Chicago punk; cool, interesting; added their Tiny Engines release
- Yesterday’s Ring – Diamonds In The Ditch / uneven cowpunk from Canada
- Yesterday’s Ring – Onze Chanson Pour Faire Pleurer Les Morts-Vivants / just OK
- Yon Loader – Yon Loader / ok indie rock on Tiny Engines v2
- You Vandal – Pretend I Don’t Exist / fine gville pop punk
- you, me, and everyone we know – Something Heavy / kinda blah pop emo political music?
- You’ll Live – Above the Weather / good skramz
- You’ll Live – Moving Past This / good new emo
- Young Harts – Truth Fades / very good heartfelt indie/punk
- Young Ruins – Demo 2014 / Mike Taylor et al
- Young Ruins – Severence Play
- Young Widows – Settle Down City / very good loud rock/punk from RVA
- Young Widows – Power Sucker / good heavy rock
- Young Mountain – We’re Drowning In Slowmotion / good emo/screamo
- your arms are my cocoon – death of a rabbit / ok skramz
- your arms are my cocoon – fourwaysplit / good punk/skramz 4-song split
- Your Heart Breaks – The Wrack Line / good indie pop in between like Indigo Girls and Wilco from Bellingham with Nate Powell cover art
- Your Old Droog/Tha God Fahim – The YOD Fahim / forgetable hip hop
- Youth Novel – Lacquer / good but just one song; added discography
- Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson – Unnoticeable in a tiny town, invisible in the city / decent post rock of a diff variety
- Youth Fountain – Youth Fountain / fine poppish punk
- Youth Novel – s/t / decent skramz
- Yovel – Forthcoming Humanity / black metal meets Diabologum w/ lefty politics? Interesting
- Yuzo Iwata – Daylight Moon / Reminds of best of 70s psychadelia from H.S.
- Zach Barocas New Freedom Sound – Four Freedoms / jazzy not rock side project from Jawbox drummer
- Zach Barocas New Freedom Sound / Eight Freedoms / good jazz/post rock from punks
Zeal and Ardor – Stranger Fruit/ tu nu-metallyZeroh – BLQLYTE/ hip hop glitch noise 🙁- Zero Boys – Hollywood / OK, not as good as Yellow LP
Zero Boys – Pro-Dirt/ good but kinda bland proto-punk- zeta – Explosión Del Cosmos Del Alma / chaotic, earlier work
- zeta – Todo Bailarlo /strong Mars Volta vibe
- zeta – Was It Medicine To You? /solid chaotic HC
- Zoanoids – S/T / solid punk from MI, kinda Misfits-y
- Zombeaches – Keep Happy / Aussie garage rock
ZOMES – Near Unison/ Droney… not enough thereZOMES – The First Stone/ Droney… not enough there- Zubot & Dawson – Strang / solid old-time music
- Zulu – FSR66 – A New Tomorrow / powerviolence from BAL (surprising vis-a-vis cover art)
- Various – ‘Do I Have to be Alright, All of the Time?’ A Jason Molina Benefit Album / only good > great
- Various – Allegedly Records Showcase Compilation – 2024 / good as punk comps go
- Various Artists – Dad, Are We Punk Yet? / fine but barely keepable CHI punk from 90s
- Various Artists – Drinking From Puddles: A Radio History / GOod KRS 90s radio performance comp
- Various Artists – FEST 21 COMP / Fine comp
- Various Wax Trax! Artists – INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: The Story of Wax Trax! Records / good post-punk/industrial
- Various Artists – Long Distance Salvation: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska /
- Various Artists – Profiles in Courage / me punk from IL recorded on boombox?
- Various Artists – San Diego is Burning / fine comp, doesn’t grab me
- Various Artists – Superunknown (Redux) / fine but unspectacular < original SG
Comps
- Ageing B-Boys Unite! – ABU Album 2 – Eclectic Boogaloo (Part 1: Rock Steady Crew Side) / great old school hiphop
- Crafted Sounds – Bridges / comp of Pittsburgh bands, added some individual bands off this
- Hopestreet Recordings – Over Under Away, Vol. 1 / fun neosoul and funk comp
- KMT(IC) Slim – Pelon (Bronx) Now whY Cee / old school hip hop mixtape
- V/A – All of God’s money: A Tribute to Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot / Put together by Better Yet podcast in Chicago which had several good episodes
- V/A – BurntBerry x Straight Path Jewlz Mixtape / good hip-hop mixtape
- V/A – A Civic Media Center Comp! / uneven but for GREAT cause
- V/A – Dead Wax: A Rad Girlfriend Records Compilation / added RG to labels list
- V/A – Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach / Nirvana’s Bleach covered on Robotic Empire
- V/A – Fresh Fest 5 / good comp but not essential
- V/A – Funky Funky Baton Rouge / jsut as the title suggests
- V/A – Lone Star Horizons: A Texas Tribute to Jason Molina
- V/A – In Utero, In Tribute, In Entriety / Nirvana’s In Utero covered
- V/A – Our Band Could Be Your Life – A Tribute To D. Boon And The Minutemen / good but not a 2nd listen
- V/A – Panama! 2: Latin Sounds, Cumbia Tropical & Calypso Funk on the Isthmus 1967-77
- V/A – A Tribute To The Get Up Kids / Terrific pop songs and covers of TGUK classics
- V/A – UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walkerby Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker / Solid comp for a great cause
- V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati, 1975-82 / power pop, proto punk; back 1/2 is better
Splits
- Broken Things/Chagner – split / tampa bay punk rock
- Knife The Symphony / Smoke Signals… – split / no recollection
- Ottawa / Jihad split — not on BC anymore
Instrumental or Ambient / Good for background
- 2 Mello – Mindstreaming, Vol. 1 / enjoyable hip-hop beats
- El Jazzy Chavo – Lower Class Jazz / beats
- Richmond Fontaine – Don’t Skip Out On Me / southwestern sound via Portland
- Helios – Eingya / Had 2 tracks downloaded at some point that were engaging, but full album doesn’t hold the weight enough to get
- Lowercase Noises – Migratory Patterns / good slow, background intst.
- William Tyler – Lost Colony / Alt-country instrumental