- The Standard – Wire Post To Wire
- Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Shake the Sheets
- Troubled Hubble – Making Beds In a Burning House
- John Vanderslice – MGM Endings: Cellar Door Remixes
- Pinback – Summer In Abaddon
- Tom Waits – Real Gone
- The Decemberists – The Tain
- Yesterday’s New Quintet – Stevie
- Devendra Banhart – Nino Rojo
- 01.14
- 12.22
- 11.19
- 08.03
- 05.07
- 04.29
- 03.26
- 02.19
- 02.12
- 02.11
- Randy Bishop: Union reform is definitely a necessity. I grew up in a union family (father was/is a member of UAW...
- George: Along with the automakers, the union built the middle class of this country. I really think that that should...
- George: Nice post. Agree with everything of the above. When I was just a guitar player in a band, I never worried...
- Cas Kopacki: Sweet! I always wanted a reason to visit the father Portland. Some day we’ll have to make it over...
- timothy allen brown: how ironic, i’ll be moving to the other portland in 2 weeks! we’ll be bi-coastal...
holy crap, i heard ted leo for the first time ever last month on morning sedition on air america… i was sleeping, & in my sleep i was thinking “this is the best song ever” & he was playing “me & mia” live…. & then i woke up & thought, i’m just dreaming, it can’t have been that good… & then he played a cover of some rush song w/ “radio” in the title (i um, don’t know any rush, sorry), & it was GREAT & sounded, bizarrely enough, like squeeze… & by the time he (not sure if there were pharmacists involved in the whole live, acoustic thing or not) played the third song, i felt like there was a lightbulb over my head.
it felt like an epiphany. but then, i felt the same way the first time i heard stabbing westward…
Hmmm… I haven’t quite compiled a best of ‘04 list, but the following albums rox my sox, yo!
Dykehouse – Midrange (Ghostly International)
The Libertines – Libertines (Rough Trade Records)
Blonde Redhead – Misery is a Butterfly (4AD)
Solvent – Apples and Synthesizers (Ghostly International)