White Stripes -- White Stripes
White Stripes -- De Stijl
White Stripes -- White Blood Cells
White Stripes -- Elephant

(I'm working on a WS Trouser Press entry today, hence the overload)

Xiu Xiu -- Knife Play
Xiu Xiu -- A Promise
Xiu Xiu -- Chapel of the Chimes

(And I'm working on a Xiu Xiu piece for another pub...)

Anyway, the annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll was released yesterday, check it here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/02/

The album's list is boring (as it always is), but the singles are worth looking through.

Coldplay-Parachutes
Beck-Sea Change
A Perfect Circle-Mer de Noms
Common-Electric Circus

moe. - Wormwood
Prince - One Nite Alone Live
Hobex - U Ready, Man?
Trey Anastasio/Tom Marshall - Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove
The Herbaliser - Blow Your Headphones

Bill Ward's currently out-of-print first album: "Along The Way".

The Vines - Highly Evolved
Bach, Vivaldi Violin Concertos
Lyle Lovett - You Can't Resist It EP
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Borodin String Quartets #s 1 & 2

Borrowed the Vines album from the library. Eh. If I wanted to listen to Nirvana or Pink Floyd, I'd listen to the original.

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Some mp3s by The Postal Service. Has anyone heard their entire album? I want to check it out but don't know anymore than 3 songs.

Few left standing: Wormwood

Alison Krauss & Union Station: New Favorite

Loose Fur - self-titled
Eleni Mandell - Country for True Lovers
The Corn Sisters - The Other Women
Moistboyz II

Large Professor - 1st Class
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut soundtrack
Buster Poindexter - Buster's Happy Hour

And since today is a work-out day for me, a buttload of mp3s

Massive Attack-100th window
Supergrass- Life on Other Planets
All the Smiths' records

You write for Trouser Press? Is their third book on rock out yet? If not, do you know when it's coming out?

long list today, for me, since i was unfortunately mailed a 10% off coupon for borders (*d'oh*)

The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Kraftwerk The Mix
Pulp Different Class
The Clash Sandinista
The Clash Super Black Market Clash
Iggy Pop Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues
New Order Technique
Roxy Music Siren
De la Soul 3 Feet High and Rising...
Alphaville Salvation

for those of you who are curious, YES, a majority of these purchases are a result of this frickin' forum. this forum is destined to drive me broke... (i don't have a fast enough connection to download mp3)..

FWIW, i'm really digging The Walkmen right now. they definitely feel like a "new NY rock" band. i'm really pleased with this blind buy.. blind to an extent, i guess.. since i had seen the Ion ad on tv.
-di doctor-

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Been listening to the mp3s a while now, and going to their concert on 2/26 in NO)

White Stripes - Elephant

Feeder - Comfort in Sound

Medicine8 - Iron Stylings "grab my dancing shoes, the best house album of last year - woohoo!"

Yeah, I write for Trouser Press. The third book is actually the guide to the 90s one, which came out in 94. As of now, Ira Robbins (the founder of the original mag) is putting up new entries on the website (trouserpress.com), and once there are enough new entries, a new book will be printed. But this is probably a couple of years away. But yeah, I've been doing TP entries for a few months now. The most recent one I did was Spoon...

Better Late Than Never:
Ted Leo - "Hearts of Oak"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Ease Down the Road"
Loose Fur - s/t
Superchunk - "No Pocky For Kitty"
Gang of Four - "Peel Sessions"

MxPx - Teenage Politics
Dream Theater - Scenes
Elvis Costello - Aim

acdc back in black[new reissue] and opeth[the latest one i forgot the title]

Long days at work with lots of paperwork require a lot of music.


Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello - various artists
Fountains Of Wayne - s/t
Electric Sweat - The Mooney Suzuki
"Chicago" soundtrack
Don't Give Up On Me - Solomon Burke
When I Was Cruel - Elvis Costello
Soul Mining - The The
Superhits International - Mark Eitzel
Summer In The City - Joe Jackson
Another Shot Of Red Eye - various artists
Just Another Band From East L.A. - Los Lobos
Three Sheets To The Wind - Idaho
One Chord To Another - Sloan

jim