Bobby Kittleman aka Capt AKAK / Admin

I have very little training in the study of genre. I know that music is a power greater than myself that provides me with release and escape from the daily grind of work, etc. I hope that no one finds my reviews in poor taste, it is only one set of eyes when there is a sea of many.

My loosely defined top ten albums of all-time (or the present moment if you prefer)

1. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Redux Edition
2. Brian Eno – Another Green World
3. Akron Family – Akron Family and Angels of Light s/t
4. Elliott Smith – Roman Candles
5. Tortoise – Standards
6. Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West
7. Built to Spill – Perfect from Now on
8. Man Man – The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face
9. Can – Tago Mago
10. Seth Olinsky- Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout  (I know…I thought about #10 for awhile and landed here)

Bruce Porter aka Stone Junkie

OK, from time to time people ask me what kind of music do I listen to.  I never know how to answer this in the four words or less the questioner implies.  These of some of my favorite records of the past year or so.

• Au – s/t.  Atlas Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See
• Beirut – The Flying Cup Club
• The Black Angels – Directions to See a Ghost
• Blitzen Trapper – Furr
• Bombay Bicycle Club – The Boy I Used To Be ep
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
• The Breeders – Mountain Battles
• Broken Social Scene presents Brendan Canning – Something For All of Us
• Calla – Strength in Numbers
• Canopy – Canopy//Anopy ep*
• Caribou – Andorra
• Clinic – Do It!
• Coldplay – Viva la Vida
• Crystal Antlers – s/t ep
• Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont*
• Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
• Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams*
• The Dodos – Visiter*
• Evangelicals – The Evening Descends
• Flying Lotus – L.A. EP1X3
• Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
• Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
• Glasvegas – s/t
• Health – Health/Disco
• Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08
• The Jesus And Mary Chain – The Power of Negative Thinking
• The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement
• Lovvers -’Think’
• Mirah – You Think It’s Like This But It’s Really Like This
• The Most Serene Republic – Population.  Mount Eerie – Lost Wisdom
• The New Year – s/t.  No Age – Nouns
• The Notwist – The Devil, You & Me
• Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
• Okkervil River – The Stand-Ins
• Parts & Labor – Receivers.  Paranthetical Girls – Safe As Houses
• A Place To Bury Strangers – s/t
• Plants & Animals – Parc Avenue
• Portastatic – Some Small History
• Portishead – Third
• Pumice – Quo*
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust
• Retrobution Gospel Choir – s/t
• Ruby Suns – Sea Lion
• Rykarda Parasol – Our Hearts First Meet
• The Sea & Cake – Car Alarm
• Shearwater – Rook
• Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea*
• Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Snowman – The Horse, The Rat and The Swan
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash*
• Stereolab – Chemical Chords
• A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Scribble Mural Comic Journal
• Times New Viking – Rip It Off
• TV On The Radio – Dear Science
• Vivian Girls – s/t
• The Walkmen – You & Me
• The War On Drugs – Wagonwheel Blues
• The White Stripes – Icky Thump
• Why? – Alopecia
• Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Heart
• Wire – Object 47
• Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer*
• Women – s/t
• Wooden Shjips – s/t
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is ep
• Yeasayer – All Hours Cymbals

* records I reviewed at length for Drowned In Sound dot com.