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Last updated Monday, May 26th

May 6th
:wumpscut:: Preferential Legacy (Metropolis)
Acroma: Orbitals (Universal)
Adventure Time: Adventure Time (Plug Research) *
Alterations: Viola Enough (Atavistic)
Amazing Device: Quiet Room (Tribunal)
Amon Tobin: Collaborations and Remixes (Ninja Tune) *
Anberlin: Blueprints for the Black Market (Tooth & Nail)
Andrey Kiritchenko: Kniga Skazok (Ad Noiseam) *
Angry Amputees: Slutbomb (DeAd Teenager)
Anthrax: We've Come For You All (Sanctuary)
Apes: Oddeyesee (French Kiss)
Arab Strap: Cherubs EP (Jetset)
Blur: Think Tank (Virgin)
Bob Drake: 13 Songs and a Thing (Rer)
Bobby Bircman: Born Free Forever (Hush)
Bobby Sutliff: Perfect Dream (Not Lame)
Bone: Uses Wrist Grab (Cuneiform)
Brady Brock: Warm American Sweater (In Music We Trust)
Breaking Pangaea: Phoenix EP (Equal Vision)
Broadcast: Pendulum 12"/EP (Warp)
California Oranges: Oranges & Pineapples (Darla)
Cereberus Shoal / Guapo: The Ducks and Drakes of Guapo and Cereberus Shoal (Northeast Indie/Stella White)
Cex: Being Ridden (Temporary Residence)
Cex: Being Ridden Instrumentals (Temporary Residence)
Chromatics: Arm Slither Away 7" (K)
Client: Price of Love EP (Mute)
Cobra High: Sunset in the Eye of the Hurricaine (Cold Crush)
Cobra Verde: Easy Listening (Muscle Tone)
Copper Press: Issue #15 ()
Cryptopsy: None So Vile (reissue, Century Media)
D+: Deception Pass (KNW-Yr-Own)
Damone: From the Attic (RCA)
Darediablo: Bedtime Stories (reissue, Southern)
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars - The Motion Picture (reissue, Virgin)
Daycare Swindlers: This Is No Way to Make a Living (Vile Beat)
Dead Can Dance: Wake 2xCD (4AD) *
Death Threat/Over My Dead Body: Split EP (Bridge Nine)
Decembrists: Castaways and Cut-Outs (reissue, Kill Rock Stars)
Difranco/Brown/Larkin: Homeless Project (Silverwolf)
DK7: The Difference 12" (Output) *
Dog Fashion Disco: Committed to a Bright Future (Spitfire)
Down by Law: Windwardtidesandwaywardsails (Union Local)
Dropsonic: Big Nothing (reissue, 54-40 or Fight)
Drugstore: Songs for the Jet Set & Collector's Number One (The First Time)
Dub Narcotic Sound System: Handclappin' EP (KNW-Yr-Own)
Early Day Miners: Deep Harbor 12" (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
Elastica: Radio One Sessions (reissue, Koch)
Electrocute: Tribute To Your Taste (Emperor Norton)
Eluvium: Lambent Material (Temporary Residence)
Erasure: Make Me Smile (Mute)
Fall Out Boy: Take This to Your Grave (Fueled by Ramen)
Family Tree: Tree House Rock (All Natural)
Flare: Hung (Le Grande Magistery)
Fog: Ether Teeth (Ninja Tune)
Four Tet: Rounds (Text) *
Frogpocket: Fir Faas 7" (Planet Mu) *
Front 242: Pulse (Metropolis)
Gas Man: Remedial (Planet Mu)
Gathering: Souvenirs (Planet Mu)
George Gruntz: Mental Cruelty (Atavistic)
Giardini Di Miro: Revolution on Your Pins (2.nd Records) *
Gilbert/Lewis/Mills: Mzui (Boutique)
Goldfrapp: Black Cherry (Mute)
Gossip: Movement (Kill Rock Stars)
Gossip: Undead in New York (Dim Mak)
Guadalcanal Diary: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man/Jamboree (reissue, Collectables)
Guess Who: Platinum & Gold Collection (reissue, RCA)
Hidden Cameras: Smell of Our Own (Sanctuary)
Hint: Portacabin Fever (Hombre/Ninja Tune)
Hitch: Monolith (Divot)
Hor: How Much? (SST)
Hot Tuna: Platinum & Gold Collection (reissue, RCA)
Ian McCulloch: Slideling (Spin Art)
Igloo: TBA (Bubble Core)
Impaled: Medical waste (Deathvomit)
Jack Johnson: On and On (Universal)
Jaga Jazzist: The Stix CD/2xLP (Ninja Tune) *
Je Suis France: Fantastic Area (Orange Twin)
Jefferson Airplane: Platinum & Gold Collection (reissue, RCA)
John Hiatt: Beneath This Gruff Exterior (New West)
John Wesley Harding: Here Comes the Groom/The Name Above the Title (reissue, Collectables)
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Memorial Album/Your Cheatin' Heart (reissue, Beat Goes On)
Killing Tree: We Sing Sin (Eyeball)
Lamb of God: As the Palaces Burn (Prosthetic)
Laptop: Don't Try This at Home (Gammon)
Larval: Obedience (Cuneiform)
Late B.P. Helium: Kumquat Ma EP (Orange Twin)
Lazarus: Songs for the Unborn Sun (Temporary Residence)
Leftover Salmon/Cracker: O Cracker, Where Art Thou? (Pitch a Tent)
Lefty's Deceiver: Cheats (My Pal God)
Leisureworld: Double Wide Double High (reissue, Artist Direct BMG)
Long Winters: When I Pretend to Fall (Barsuk)
Maquiladora: What the Day Was Dreaming (Darla)
Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux (reissue, Eagle (Red))
Matt Elliott: The Mess We Made (Merge)
Mayday: I Know Your Troubles Been Long (Bar/None)
MC 900 Ft. Jesus: Hell With the Lid Off [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Nettwerk)
MC 900 Ft. Jesus: Welcome to My Dream [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Nettwerk)
Mystic: The Life (Imputor?)
Natural History: Beat Beat Heartbeat (Star Time)
New Pornographers: Electric Version (Matador)
Nick Forte: Pasted Lakes (Schematic)
NOFX: War on Errorism (Fat Wreck Chords)
Noise Ratchet: Noise Ratchet EP (Militia)
One Mile North: Minor Shadows (Ba Da Bing!)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture & Morality (reissue, Virgin)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Omd [US Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Virgin)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Organisation [US Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Virgin)
Outrageous Cherry: Supernatural Equinox (Rainbow Quartz)
Ozma: Spending Time On The Borderline (Kung Fu)
Pearlene: Murder Blues & Prayer (Dim Mak)
Pink Grease: All Over You (Horseglue/Mute) *
Plastiq Phantom: 492 Cups to China (Imputor?)
Pleasure Forever: Alter (Sub Pop)
Posies: At Least, At Last (reissue, Not Lame)
Prefuse 73: One Word Extinguisher (Warp) *
Procul Harum: Salty Dog/Home (reissue, Beat Goes On)
Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Queensryche [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Rage for Order [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Warning [Bonus Tracks] (reissue, Capitol)
Qui: Baby Kisses (Heart of a Champion)
Randy: Welfare Problems (Epitaph)
Read Yellow: Read Yellow EP (Fenway Recordings)
Richard Thompson: Old Kit Bag [Bonus CD] (reissue, Spin Art)
Ring, Cicada: Good Morning, Mr. Good (54-40 or Fight!)
Robin Guthrie: Imperial (Bellaire)
Roger Eno/Peter Hammill: The Appointed Hour (Tone Casualties)
Royal City: Alone at the Microphone (reissue, Sanctuary)
Scott Tuma: The River 1 2 3 4 (Atavistic)
Sea and Cake: Glass (Thrill Jockey)
Senor Coconut: Smoke on the Water 12"/EP (MultiColor/New State) *
Sin Ropas: Trickboxes on the Pony Line (Sad Robot)
Sloane: Divine Soul (Orchard)
Soilwork: Figure Number Five (Nuclear Blast America)
Sounds: Living in America (Scratchie/New Line)
Spandau Ballet: True (reissue, Capitol)
Steamhammer: Speech (reissue, Akarma)
Ten Grand: This Way to Rule (Southern)
Thompson Twins: Platinum & Gold Collection (reissue, Arista)
Tin Huey: Contents Dislodged During Shipment (reissue, Collectors' Choice Music)
Tomahawk: Mit Gas (Ipecac)
Treva Whateva: Dance Class (Ninja Tune)
Turbo AC's: Automatic (Gearhead)
Turbonegro: Scandanavian Leather (Epitaph)
Twenty Four Gone: The Spin (The First Time)
Uniform: Not a Word (Ad Noiseam) *
VA: An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music 1936-2003 Vol. 2 (Sub Rosa)
VA: Guitar Ace - A Tribute to Link Wray (Musick)
VA: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused AND Recycled (Important)
VA: Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (Animal World)
VA: The Sound of Warhammer 40.000 Chapter 2 (Art of Perception)
VA: Thrill Jockey 10th Anniversary DVD (Thrill Jockey)
Victor Krummenacher: Nocturne (Pitch a Tent)
Virtues: Ruminate (Zip)
Waifs: Up All Night (Compass)
Wakefield: American Made (Arista)
Warren Zevon: Sentimental Hygiene (reissue, Capitol)
Warren Zevon: Transverse City (reissue, Capitol)
Warren Zevon: Wanted Dead or Alive/A Leaf in the Wind (reissue, Capitol)
Wire: Send (Pink Flag)
Worthless United: Nation Under (Now or Never)
Zykos: Comedy Horn (Post-Parlo)

May 13th
Agent Orange: Harmonic Convergence (reissue, Restless)
Alkaline Trio: Good Mourning (Vagrant)
Andy Votel: Komedahead EP (Twisted Nerve/XL) *
Biting Tongues: After the Click (LTM) *
Black Tape for a Blue Girl: With a Million Tear Stained Memories (Projekt)
Blue Epic: Love and Hate EP (TVT)
Brassy: Getting' Wise (Wiiija) *
Chimaira: Impossibility of Reason (Roadrunner)
Dream Into Dust: The Lathe of Heaven (Chthonic Streams)
Duece Project: Stone Cold (Warner Bros.)
Dying Fetus: Stop at Nothing (Relapse)
Eaves: The Eaves (Ace Fu)
George Clinton: Six Degrees of P-Funk: The Best of George Clinton (Sony)
George Ratliff: Hell House DVD (Plexifilm)
Giorgio Marauder: To Hell With Everyone 7" (Mirex) *
John Fahey & His Orchestra: Old Fashioned Love (Presitge)
Lemko Hall: Lemko Hall (Fork Series) *
Les Jardiniers: Train to Reofa (Hautec)
Love and Rockets: So Alive (Psychobaby)
Low Profile Society: 3-D Concepts Part 3 (Toytronic) *
Majesticons: Suburb Party 12" (Big Dada/Ninja Tune)
Marilyn Manson: Golden Age of Grotesque (Interscope)
Nasum: Helvete (Relapse)
Nersoton: Moonbug (Fliesskoma) *
Noah23: Quicksand (2.nd Records) *
Passage: Enflame (LTM) *
Passage: For All and None (LTM) *
Pleasure Forever: Alter (Vinyl) (GSL)
Pulseprogramming: Tulsa For One Second (Aesthetics/Cargo) *
Rima: This World (JCR/Compost)
Sigur Ros: Untitled 1 10"/CD3/DVD (FatCat) *
Six Organs of Admittance: Six Organs of Admittance (reissue, Holy Mountain)
Third Eye Blind: Out of the Vein (Elektra)
Ugliness Man: Interim (Piehead) *
Young People: The Single (Hand Held Heart)

May 20th
24 Gone: Spin (reissue, First Time)
7 Hurtz: tba CD/LP (Output) *
A Northern Chorus: Spirit Flags (Sonic Unyon)
Acceptance: Black Lines to Battlefields (Militia)
Agency-X: Mission Impossible (Delicious)
Akrobatik: Balance (Coup d'Etat)
Alkaline Trio: Live at the Metro DVD (Kung Fu)
Amber Asylum: Learn to Love Your Cancer (United States Distribution)
Amon Tobin: Collaborations and Remixes (Ninja Tune)
Anathema: Silent Enigma (Peaceville/Snapper)
Angie Aparo: One With the Sun (Oarfin)
Articles of Faith: Fortunate Son EP (Alternative Tentacles)
Bad Brains: Banned in DC: Bad Brains Greatest Riffs (Caroline)
Bedroom Heroes: Sea Change (Standard Recordings)
Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny: Home, Volume V (Post-Parlo)
Betty Blowtorch: Last Call: Memorial Rarities Collection (Foodchain)
Big Dismal: Believe (Wind-up)
Black Cross: Art Offensive (Equal Vision)
Brave: Searching for the Sun (The End)
Cabaret Voltaire: Methodology (Mute)
Canyon: Canyon Live in NYC (DCN)
Cass McCombs: A (Monitor)
Celebrity: Lovesick (Doghouse)
Chaos Engine: Escape Ferocity (United States Distribution)
Children's Hour: SOS JFK (Minty Fresh)
Chris Clark: Ceramics is the Bomb (Warp) *
Commercials: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It (Blackout)
Confront James: Wa Are Humored (SST)
Converge: The Long Road Home DVD (Deathwish)
Daniel Givens: Freedom's Myth 12" (Aesthetics)
Daniel Johnston: The Complete Early Recordings (Dualtone)
Darkest Hour: Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (Victory)
Daughter: Skin (Aum Fidelity)
Dave Beegle: Beyond the Desert (Hapi Skratch)
Death on Wednesday: Songs to To (Sidecho)
Deftones: Deftones (Warner Bros.)
Die Monitr Batss: Youth Controllerzzz (Dim Mak)
Discharge: Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing (reissue, Castle)
Discharge: Never Again (reissue, Castle)
Discharge: Why (reissue, Castle)
Donnie: Colored Section (Universal)
Dynarec: R Cam (Delsin) *
Earwigs/Dataclast: Split (Crucial Blast)
Ed Harcourt: From Every Sphere (Astralwerks)
Electric Six: Laughing City EP (Beggars XL)
Enslaved: Below the Lights (The End)
Esmerine: If Only a Sweet Surrender (Ninja Tune)
Fastgato: Feral (SST)
Faux Jean: Dead Lover (reissue, Susstones)
Feeder: Comfort in Sound (Universal)
Flaming Sideburns: Sky Pilots (Jetset)
Forgotten: Out of Print (Better Youth Organization)
Fresh Blueberry Pancake: Heavy (Shadoks Music)
Good Riddance: Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection (Fat Wreck Chords)
Government Issue: Strange Wine: Live at CBGB (Dr. Strange)
Gravenhurst: Flashlight Seasons (Sink & Stove) *
Hanzel und Gretyl: Uber Alles (Metropolis)
Helicopter Helicopter: Wild Dogs With X-Rays Eyes (Initial)
Hello Defective: Kill Us Now (Element 115)
Hollies: Greatest Hits [EMI] (Capitol)
Homesick for Space: Unison (Lakeshore)
Hoobastank: 7 Series Sampler: Hoobastank (Def Jam)
Ikara Colt: Basic Instructions EP (Epitaph)
Iota: Iota (Shadoks Music)
Iron and Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle LP (Sub Pop)
Jamez: Dreamchasing (Mute)
Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos: Secret Sun (Blue Thumb)
Joe Pernice: Yours, Mine and Ours (Ashmont)
Kaito UK: Band Red (Spin Art)
King's X: Black Like Sunday (Metal Blade)
KPT.Michi.Gan: Player, Player (Aesthetics)
Less Than Jake: Anthem (Warner Bros.)
Libretto: Dirty Thangs (One Drop)
Like Young: Art Contest (Parasol)
Lilys: Precollection (reissue, Manifesto)
Live: Birds of Pray (MCA)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Vicious Cycle (Sanctuary)
M.O.D.: Rebel You Love to Hate (Nuclear Blast America)
Mark Bacino: Million Dollar Milkshake (Parasol)
Mendelbaum: Mendelbaum (Shadoks Music)
Miracle Chosuke: 7/8 Wonders of the World (Dim Mak)
Mojack: Rub a Dub (SST)
Murs: Risky Business (Definitive Jux)
My Dying Bride: Angel and the Dark River (reissue, Peaceville/Snapper)
Natacha Atlas: Something Dangerous (Mantra) *
Nedelle: Republic of Two (Kimchee)
Neil Hagerty & the Howling Hex: Howling Hex (Drag City)
Network: Best of: View from the Bar (Wenlock)
Network: Corroded Path (reissue, Wenlock)
Noxagt: Turning It Down Since 2001 (Load) *
On Trial: Blinded by the Sun (Tee Pee)
Paint it Black: CVA (Jade Tree) *
Paradise Lost: Gothic (reissue, Peaceville/Snapper)
Party of One: Caught in the Blast (Fatcat) *
Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine and Ours (Ashmont)
Pink & Brown: Shame Fantasy II (Load) *
Pixies: Bossanova (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Come On Pilgrim EP (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Complete B-Sides (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Doolittle (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Pixies at the BBC (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Surfer Rosa (reissue, 4AD)
Pixies: Trompe le Monde (reissue, 4AD)
Playwrights: Good Beneath the Radar (Sink & Stove) *
Poor Rich Ones: Joe Maynard's Favourites (reissue, Five One Inc.)
Powerman 5000: Transform (Dreamworks)
Presence: Rise (Curb)
Pseudo Heroes: Prison of Small Perceptions (Go Kart)
Railer: Frame of Mind (Resolute)
Ralph Myerz: A Special Album (Emperor Norton)
Real McKenzies: Oot & Aboot (Honest Don's Hardly)
Red Hot Valentines: Summer Fling (Polyvinyl)
Revis: Places For Breathing (Sony)
Rexway: Last Call Scars (Hapi Skratch)
Richard Hawley: Lowedges (Beggars XL)
Righteous Boy: I Sing Because of You (Future Farmer)
Robot Ate Me: They Ate Themselves (reissue, Standard Recording)
Rocky Votolato: Light and Sound EP (Second Nature)
Rooney: Rooney (Geffen)
Saga: Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes (reissue, Steamhammer/SPV)
Saga: Full Circle (reissue, Steamhammer/SPV)
Saga: Generation 13 (reissue, Steamhammer/SPV)
Saga: Phase, Vol. 1 (reissue, Steamhammer/SPV)
Science Fiction: Walls Don't Exist (Third Earth Music)
Seatrain: Watch (reissue, Wounded Bird)
Senor Coconut: Fiesta Songs (MultiColor/New State) *
Seth P. Brundel: Beyond Murky Drapes (Aesthetics)
Shai Hulud: That Within Blood Ill-Tempered (Revelation)
Simple Minds: Empires and Dance (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Life in a Day (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Reel to Real Cacophony (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Sparkle and Rain (reissue, Virgin)
Simply Saucer: Cyborgs Revisited (Sonic Unyon)
Solefald: In Harmonia Universali (Century Media)
Soundtrack of Our Lives: Gimme Five! (reissue, Hidden Agenda)
Speedranch & Jansky Noise: Migrate (Planet Mu) *
Speedy J: Tanga 12" (Mute)
Spring Heel Jack: Live (Thirsty Ear)
Staind: 14 Shades of Grey (Elektra)
Starflyer 59: Old (Tooth & Nail)
Starlight Mints: Built on Squares (Pias America)
Stateless: Art of No State (Ubiquity)
Suede: Introducing the Band (MVD)
Sum 41: 7 Series Sampler: All Killer No Filler (Def Jam)
Suntan: Send You Home (Kimchee)
Suntanama: Another (Drag City)
Swimming Pool Q's: Royal Academy of Reality (Bar/None)
T. Rex: Electric Warrior LP (Rhino)
Testors: Complete Recordings ('76-'79) (Swami)
The Dining Rooms: Tre (Gudance) *
The Divorce: There Will Be Blood Tonight (Tooth & Nail)
Thorns: Thorns (Sony)
Those Peabodys: Unite Tonight (Tiger Style)
Threats: Demos and Rarities (Dr. Strange)
Tim Blake: Tide of the Century (United States Distribution)
To/Die/For: Jaded (Nuclear Blast America)
Toshack Highway/Sianspheric: Magnetic Morning/Asperin Age (Sonic Unyon)
Traffic: Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory (reissue, Def Jam)
Troys: Massaging Your Ego (Elektra)
Tyde: Go Ask Yer Dad EP (Sanctuary)
Ultimate Fakebook: Before We Spark (Initial)
Ultramarine: Companion: Every Man & Woman Is A Star Versions (LTM) *
V/Vm: HelpAphexTwin 4.0 (V/Vm Test) *
VA: Black Music (LTM) *
VA: Idol Tryouts: Ghostly International Volume I (Ghostly International)
VA: Punk vs. Emo (Fast Music)
VA: State of the Union (Spectral Sound/Ghostly International)
VA: Tribute to Bruce Springsteen (Big Eye)
VA: Lexoleum (Warp)
VA: Punk-O-Rama, Vol. 8 (Epitaph)
Vader: Black to the Blind (reissue, The End)
Vader: De Profundis (reissue, The End)
Vader: Live in Japan (reissue, The End)
Vanderhoof: Blur in Time (Steamhammer/SPV)
Venetian Snares: Making Orange Things (reissue, Planet Mu)
Verbena: Musica Negra (Capitol)
Visionfest: Vision DVD (Thirsty Ear)
Winfred E. Eye: The Dirt Tier (Luckyhorse Industries)
Winston Tong: Miserere (reissue, LTM) *
Wizard: Bound by Metal (Limb)
Wizard: Odin (Limb)
Women & Children: Women & Children (Attack 9)
X27: Your Neu Favorite Band (Narnack)

May 27th
Beauty Pill: You Are Right to be Afraid (Dischord)
Big Moe: Moe Life (Wreckshop)
Burnt Friedman and the Nu Dub Players: Can't Cool (reissue, Nonplace/SRD) *
Califone: Deceleration Two (Perishable)
Cinematic Orchestra: Man With a Movie Camera (Ninja Tune) *
Colder: Crazy Love (Output) *
David Bowie: Tonight (reissue, Simply the Best)
David Gahan: Dirty Sticky Floors (Mute) *
De La Soul: Timeless: The Singles Collection (Rhino)
Devendra Banhart: Black Babies (Young God)
Dot: Dot (Twisted Nerve) *
Erase Errata: The Dancing Machine (Remixes) (Troubleman Unlimited)
Ex-Models: Zoo Psychology (French Kiss)
Fing Fang Foom: With the Gift Comes the Curse (Lovitt)
Flying Lizards: Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards (reissue, Mister E)
Hell House: DVD (Plexifilm)
I.A. Bericochea: Rojo (Minus)
Kill Me Tomorrow: Skin's Getting Weird (GSL)
Labtekwon: Hustlaz Guide to the Universe (Morphius)
Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won (reissue, Atlantic)
Lillix: Falling Uphill (Warner Bros.)
Lithium Project: Majik Kiosk (Hydrogen Dukebox) *
Local H: No Fun (Thick)
Megan Reilly: Arc of Tessa (Carrot Top)
Mountain: Roll Over Beethoven (Simply the Best)
Nikakoi: Shentimental (WMF/komfort.labor) *
O.A.R.: In Between Now and Then (Atlantic)
Party of One: Caught in the Blast (Fat Cat)
Paul Brill: Sisters (Scarlet Shame Record)
Pet Shop Boys: Disco: The Remix Album (Simply the Best)
Phantom Tollbooth: Beard of Lightning (Off)
Pietasters: 92-96 (Morphius)
Sal Valentino: Positively 12th and K: A Bob Dylan Tribute (Dig Music)
Salvo Beta: Evil Against Evil Vol.1 (Someoddpilot)
Sex Pistols: The Heyday (Boutique) *
Sixtoo: Antagonist Survival Kit Instrumentals (Vertical Form) *
Sullen: Paint the Moon (Thick)
Swans: Children of God/World of Skin (reissue, Young God)
Swans: Swans Are Dead (Live '95-'97) (reissue, Young God)
Trembling: Seduce the Government (Top Quality Rock & Roll)
VA: Danza De La Muerte: 10 Years of Syntactic/Klanggalerie (Klanggalerie)
VA: Rock Underground (Sony International)
VA: The Patty Duke Fanzine #4 (Top Quality Rock & Roll)
Xiu Xiu: Fag Patrol (Absolutely Kosher)

June 3rd
!!!: Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard 12" (Touch & Go)
5uu's: Hungers' Teeth (reissue, Rer 17)
A Sudden Sway: Seventysix Kids Forever (Cherry Red)
Adam Forkner: [[[[VVRSSNN]]]] (K)
Adequate Seven: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Household Name)
ADULT.: The Controlled Edition 7" (Ersatz Audio)
Alex Cortex: Inward (Ann Aimee) *
Amazing Transparent Man: Taking Back the Covers EP (Springman)
Aspera: Oh Fantastica (Jagjaguwar)
Audio Bullys: Ego War (Astralwerks)
Beehive and the Barracudas: In Dark Love (Swami)
Belvedere: Twas Hell Said Former Child (Household Name)
Biff Bang Pow!: Best of Biff Bang Pow (Rev-Ola)
Big Star: Big Star Story (Rykodisc)
Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys: Metarie (Star Time)
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Spacegirl and Other Favorites (reissue, Committee to Keep Music Evil)
Bride of No No: Bride of No No (Atavistic)
Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham: Awentura (Jetset)
Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It In People (Arts & Crafts)
Canned Heat: Friends in the Can (Varese)
Chris Lee: Cool Rock (Misra)
Clique: Vanburgh Park (De Tour)
Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Garlands/Peel Sessions (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Heaven or Las Vegas (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Stars and Topsoil: A Collection 1982-1990 (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Treasure (reissue, 4AD)
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand (reissue, 4AD)
Cure: Trilogy 2xDVD (Eagle)
Curse of the Golden Vampire: Mass Destruction (Ipecac)
D.R.I.: Dirtiest…Rottenest (Restless)
David Gahan: Paper Monsters (Warner Bros.)
Dead Meadow: Shivering King and Others (Matador)
Death Comet Crew: DCC America (Troubleman United)
Deathray Davies: Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory (Glurp)
Dee Rangers: Pretty Ugly Beat (White Jazz)
Depswa: Two Angels and a Dream (Interscope)
Dirt Bike Annie: Show Us Your Demons (Dirtnap)
Divine Empire: Nostradamus (Olympic)
DNA: Influences (Tommy Boy)
Doctor & the Medics: Laughing at the Pieces (reissue, Tin Toy)
Dragons: Sin Salvation (Gearhead)
Durutti Column: Someone Else's Party (Artful)
Dust to Dust: Sick (Music Cartel)
E*Rock: Conscious (Audio Dregs)
Eels: Shootenanny (DreamWorks)
Elephant Micah: Elephant Micah, Your Dreams are Feeding Back (Bluesanct)
Enon: In This City (Touch & Go)
Erase Errata: Dancing Machine [Remixes] EP (Troubleman United)
Essential Logic: Fanfare in the Garden: An Essential Logic Collection (Kill Rock Stars)
Extreme Noise Terror: From One Extreme to Another (Anag Punk)
Fall: It's the New Thing (Sanctuary)
Federation-X: X-Patriot (Estrus)
From Monument To Masses: Impossible Leap in 34 Simple Steps (Dim Mak)
Gasman: Remedial (Planet Mu)
Gift Machine: Don't Turn Me Off (KNW-Yr-Own)
Give Up the Ghost: Background Music (Equal Vision)
Hotwire: Routine (RCA)
Husbands: Introducing the Husbands (Swami)
James William Hindle: Prospect Park (Badman Recording)
Jealous Sound: Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
Karsh Kale: Liberation (Six Degrees)
Lali Puna: Lefthanded EP (Morr Music) *
Landing: Passages Through (K)
Langhorns: Mission Exotica (Bad Taste)
Last Days of April: Ascend to the Stars (Crank)
Limecell: It's Gonna Get Ugly (TKO)
Lisa Gerrard: Whale Rider Soundtrack (4AD)
Lonesome Organist: Form and Follies (Thrill Jockey)
Lou Reed: NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection (RCA)
Lousy: Babylon District (Knockout)
Love and Rockets: Sorted: The Best of Love and Rockets (Beggars Banquet)
Marc Bolan: Work in Progress (Edsel)
Mea Culpa: They Put You in a Mask (Empty)
Millencolin: Battery Check (Burning Heart)
Mink Lungs: I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
Mistreaters: Playa Hated to the Fullest (Estrus)
Moly: Your Life is in Danger (Tenor Vossa) *
Movies: In One Era out the Other (Gern Blandstein)
mu-Ziq: Bilious Paths (Planet Mu) *
Nina Nastasia: Run to Ruin (Touch & Go)
None More Black: File Under Black (Fat Wreck Chords)
Northern State: Dying in Stereo (Star Time)
Nuclear Saturday: Best Time You Never Had (New School)
Nurse With Wound: She And Me Together Fall Like Free Death (Beta-Lactam Ring)
Paloalto: Heroes and Villains (Island/Def Jam)
Paradise Island: Lines Are Infinitely Fine (Dim Mak)
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't: Individualized Shirts (reissue, Orange Twin)
Playdoh: Fragments (Peter I'm Flying) *
Puffball: Leave Them All Behind (Burning Heart)
Rapider than Horsepower: Stage Fright Stage Fright (Essay)
Riffs: Death or Glory (TKO)
Rip-off Artist: In Through the Out Door (Tigerbeat6)
Riverboat Gamblers: Something to Crow About (Gearhead)
Roxy Music: Live (Eagle (Red))
San Agustin: The Expanding Sea (Table of Elements)
Scruffs: Teenage Gurls (reissue, Rev-Ola)
Si Begg: Moveup EP (Mute) *
Simon Joyner & the Fallen Men: To Almost No One: Singer/Songwriter Series, Volumes 1-5 (Wee Black Skelf)
Skinless: Sacrifice to Survival (Relapse)
Snuff: Kilburn/Caught in Session (Golf)
Souls She Said: Rub the Sleep Out EP (Buddyhead)
Steve Roach: Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces 2xCD (Projekt)
Strung Out: Live in a Dive (Fat Wreck Chords)
Tall Blonde: Playing the Bass is Easy 12" (Output) *
Tegan & Sara: If It Was You (Sanctuary)
Teledubgnosis: Magnetic Learning Center (Wordsound)
Terence Trent D'Arby: Wild Card (Compendia)
Them: Now & Them (reissue, Rev-Ola)
Throwdown: Haymaker (Trustkill)
Unseen: Explode (Better Youth Organization)
VA: It's Fan-Dabi-Dozi! 2xCD (V/VM Test) *
VA: Liberation Songs to Benefit PETA (Fat Wreck Chords)
VA: Lost on Arrival (Naked/Astralwerks)
VA: Night School 7" (Kill Rock Stars)
VA: Swami Sound System, Vol. 1 (Swami)
VA: Traveler '03 (Six Degrees)
VA: We Are Tottenham (Cherry Red)
VA: Yes New York (Atlantic)
Vanilla Muffins: Drug is Football (Knockout)
Vanishing: Songs for Psychotic Children (Gold Standard)
Venus Magazine: No. 16 - Summer 2003 ()
Verbose: Observe (Neo Ouija)
White Light Motorcade: Thank You, Goodnight! (Octone)

June 10th
Agony Scene: Agony Scene (Tooth & Nail)
Al Green: Very Best of Love (Madacy)
Andrew Bird: Weather Systems (Righteous Babe)
Annie Lenox: Bare (J)
Autoform: Dualsystem (Fliesskoma) *
Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys (Capitol)
Bitch & Animal: Sour Juice and Rhyme (Righteous Babe)
Blueskins: User Friendly EP (Domino) *
Bonobo: Dial M for Monkey (Ninja Tune) *
Bruce Cockburn: You've Never Seen Everything (Rounder)
Buzzcocks: Inventory (Capitol)
Cabaret Voltaire: Methodology: The Attic Tapes 1974-1978 3xCD (Mute) *
Cabaret Voltaire: Yashar 12" (Novamute) *
Cinerama: Cinerama Holiday (Manifesto)
Clearlake: The Mind is Evil/Come into the Darkness EP (Domino) *
Closer Than Kin: Machineries of Breath (Arctic)
Cyndi Lauper: Essential Cyndi Lauper (reissue, Sony)
Darkthrone: Blaze in the Northern Sky (reissue, Peaceville/Snapper)
Darkthrone: Transilvanian Hunger (reissue, Peaceville/Snapper)
Darkthrone: Under a Funeral Moon (Peaceville/Snapper)
Dropkick Murphys: Blackout (Epitaph)
Duran Duran: CD Singles 80-85 (reissue, Capitol)
East West: Hope in Anguish (Word Entertainment)
Eddie Money: Essential Eddie Money (Sony)
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (S-curve)
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me (reissue, Collectables)
Grandaddy: Sumday (V2)
Hella: Bitches Ain't Sit But Good People (Suicide Squeeze)
HiM: Many in High Places Are Not Well (Fat Cat) *
Isengard: Vinterskugge (Peaceville/Snapper)
Joy Electric: Tick Tock Treasury (Tooth & Nail)
Katatonia: Tonight's Decision (reissue, Peaceville/Snapper)
Kenna: New Sacred Cow (Sony)
KRMTX (Chromatics): Ice Hatchets 7" (GSL)
Magic Magicians: The Magic Magicians (Suicide Squeeze)
Martin Stephenson: Haint of the Budded Rose (United States Dist.)
Marvin Gaye: Soulful Sound of Marvin Gaye (Collectables)
Metallica: St. Anger (Elektra)
Minibar: Fly Below the Radar (Foodchain)
Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People (PIAS) *
Motor: 0503 12" (Novamute) *
Pearl Jam: Live: 02-23-03 #10 Perth (Sony)
Pearl Jam: Live: 03-03-03 #13 Tokyo (Sony)
Peter Green: Blues by Green (Varese)
Pinback: Offcell (Absolutely Kosher)
Planes Overhead: Distant CD3" (Leaftone)
Queensryche: Empire (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Hear in the Now Frontier (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Promised Land (reissue, Capitol)
Queensryche: Revolution Calling (Capitol)
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
Ral Partha Vogelbacher: Kite vs Obelisk (Monotreme) *
Rip-off Artist: Little Tiny 1/8" Jack 12" (Vertical Form) *
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth: Upside Downside (Sugar Hill)
Simple Minds: Good News From the Next World (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Live in the City of Light (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Neapolis (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Once Upon a Time (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Real Life (reissue, Virgin)
Simple Minds: Street Fighting Years (reissue, Virgin)
Speedy J: Tanga 12" (Novamute) *
Steely Dan: Everything Must Go (Warner Bros.)
Strand: Messages (Delsin) *
Stranglers: UA Singles '79-'82 (reissue, Capitol)
Surface of Eceon: Dragyyn (Strange Attractors Audio House)
Treble Charger: Detox (Nettwerk)
Trevor Rabin: 90124 (United States Dist.)
Ulrich Schnauss: A Strangely Isolated Place (City Centre Offices) *
Vincent Segal: T-Bone Guarnerius (Label Bleu)

June 17th
American Analog Set: Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
Clem Snide: The Soft Spot (Spinart)
Death in Vegas: Scorpio (Sanctuary)
Erasure: Loveboat (Mute)
Fever: Pink on Pink (Kemado)
Firewater: Man on the Burning Tightrope (Jetset)
Giardini Di Miro: Punk … Not Diet! (2.nd Rec.)
Glen Branca: The Ascension (Acute)
Har Mar Superstar: EZ Pass (Amp)
High Strung: These Are Good Times (Tee Pee)
Juana Molina: Segundo (Doimino)
Love Scene: Blood is the New Black (Fenway)
Mark Tranmer: Bright Days in Winter: Bliss Out v.20 (Darla)
Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium (Strummer/Universal)
Mogwai: Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
Pole: 90/90 (Mute)
Saloon: If We Meet in the Future (Darla)
Seen: Many in High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
Sick Lipstick: Sting Sting Sting (Tiger Style)
Sweet Trip: Verlocity:Design:Comfort (Darla)
Swell: Bastards & Rarities (Badman Recording Co.)
Tindersticks: Waiting for the Moon (Beggars Banquet)
Von Bondies: Raw and Rare (Dim Mak)
William Parker: Scrapbook (Thirsty Ear)

June 24th
Badgerlore: Of Things Too Sorrowful to be Reminded Of, and Things Too Beautiful to Posess (Free Porcupine Society)
GC5: Horseshoes and Handgrenades (reissue, Thick)
GC5: Kisses From Hanoi (reissue, Thick)
Lazy 9: Sweet Jones (Ninja Tune)
Liz Phair: Liz Phair (Capitol)
Locust: Plague Soundtracks (Epitaph)
Rick Charnoski and Coan Nichols: Northwest (Plexifilm)
UI: Answers (Southern)
VA: Branches And Routes (Fat Cat)

July 1
Arrington De Dionyso & the Old Time Relijun: Varieties of Religious Experience (K)
Kevin Blechdom: Botches Without Britches (Dudini)
Minmae: Microcassette Quatrains (Bluesanct)
Old TimE Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
Static Films: Force Over Distance (Bluesanct)
Sufjan Stevens: Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty/Soundsfamilyre)
Summer Hymns: Clemency (Misra)
VA: Invisible Shield (K)
Viva Voce: Lovers, Lead the Way! (Asthmatic Kitty)
Zumm Zumm: Crusp Srexstling (Orange Twin)

July 8
Clientele: The Violet Hour (Merge)
Vaz: Dying to Meet You (GSL)

July 15
Methadones: Career Objective (Thick)
Paris, Texas: Are You Ready? (Polyvinyl)
Rob Crow: My Room Is a Mess (Absolutely Kosher)
Vortis: God Won't Bless America Again (Thick)

July 22
Ballboy: A Guide to the Daylight Hours (Manifesto)
Constantines: Shine a Light (Three Gut) *
Good For Cows: Less Than or Equal To (Free Porcupine Society)
Michael Yonkers: Microminiature Love (Sub Pop)
Sixteen Horsepower: Olden (Jetset)

July 29
Dan Sartain: Dan Sartain (Swami)
Dead Science: Submariner (Absolutely Kosher)

August 5
Ten Benson: Benson Burner (Jetset)

August 12
Goldblade: Strictly Hardcore (Thick)

August 19
Black-Eyed Snakes: Mexican Half-Stick (Chairkickers Music)
Constantines: Shine a Light (Sub Pop)
Guided By Voices: Earthquake Glue (Matador)
Slumber Party: 3 (Kill Rock Stars)

August 26
Snapcase: Demos (Victory)

September 8th
Frank Black & the Catholics: Show Me Your Tears (What Are Records?)

December 18th, 2036
Guns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy (AOL Time Warner EMI Sony BMG Universal)

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10.0: Essential
9.5-9.9: Spectacular
9.0-9.4: Amazing
8.5-8.9: Exceptional; will likely rank among writer's top ten albums of the year
8.0-8.4: Very good
7.5-7.9: Above average; enjoyable
7.0-7.4: Not brilliant, but nice enough
6.0-6.9: Has its moments, but isn't strong
5.0-5.9: Mediocre; not good, but not awful
4.0-4.9: Just below average; bad outweighs good by just a little bit
3.0-3.9: Definitely below average, but a few redeeming qualities
2.0-2.9: Heard worse, but still pretty bad
1.0-1.9: Awful; not a single pleasant track
0.0-0.9: Breaks new ground for terrible