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Albums 
Singles and EP’s 
remixes, compilations and endless mixes 
compendums and reissues 
Live recordings 
Too late for review 
01 The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow 
02 The Dirtbombs – Dangerous Magical Noise 
03 The Black Keys – Thickfreakness 
04 New Pornographers – Electric Version 
05 Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood 
06 Calexico – Feast of Wire 
07 The Kills – Keep on Your Mean Side 
08 The Decemberists – Her Majesty 
09 U.N.K.L.E. – Never Never Land 
10 The White Stripes – Elephant 
11 Spiritualized – Amazing Grace 
12 Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers 
13 Gemma Hayes – Night on My Side 
14 The Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium 
15 Steve Burns – Songs for Dustmites 
16 +/- – You Are Here 
17 Nicolai Dunger – Tranquil Isolation 
18 Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash 
19 Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher 
20 Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic 
21 Alicia Keys – Diary of Alicia Keys 
22 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell 
23 The Raveonettes – Chain Gang of Love 
24 The Tyde – Twice 
25 Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears 
26 – 50 
Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk 
Isobel Campbell – Amorino 
The Constantines – Shine A Light 
The Damnwells – Bastards of the Beat 
Al Green – I Can’t Stop 
Guided by Voices – Earthquake Glue 
Kid Loco – Another Late Night 
Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won 
Stephen Malkmus & Jicks – Pig Lib 
Pretty Girls Make Graves – The New Romance 
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief 
Sam Roberts – We Were Born in A Flame 
Clem Snide – Soft Spot 
Joss Stone – Soul Sessions 
The Strokes – Room on Fire 
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Streetcore 
Rosie Thomas – Only With Laughter Can You Win 
The Thorns – The Thorns 
The Thrills – So Much For The City 
Tosca – Delhi 9 
Turin Brakes – Ether Song 
Twilight Singers – Blackberry Belle 
Verbena – La Musica Negra 
Ween – Quebec 
Wrens – The Meadowlands 
51 – 75 
 
Akasha – Love Philtre Magick 
Ashanti – Chapter II 
Baby Mammoth – Octo Muck 
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress 
Calla – Televise 
Cinematic Orchestra – Man With A Movie Camera 
Detroit Cobras – Seven Easy Pieces 
Missy Elliott – This Is Not A Test 
The Fire Theft – The Fire Theft
FortDax – Folly 
Friends of Dean Martinez – On the Shore 
The Hiss – Panic Movement 
Honey OST 
K-Otix – The Black Album 
Lamb – Between Darkness and Wonder 
Lyle Lovett – My Baby Don’t Tolerate 
John Mayer – Heavier Things 
Liz Phair – Liz Phair 
Britta Philips & Dean Wareham – L’Avventura 
Damien Rice – O 
Smog – Supper 
Stars – Heart 
Twinemen – Madison, WI 01-02-03 
Paul Westerberg – Come Feel Me Tremble 
Pete Yorn – Day I Forgot 
76 – 100 
 
Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll 
AFI – Sing the Sorrow 
Aislers Set, the – How I Learned to Write Backwards 
Architecture in Helsinki – Fingers Crossed 
Erykah Badu – Worldwide Underground 
The Black Lips – The Black Lips 
Cat Power – You Are Free 
Clientele, the – The Violet Hour 
The Darkness – Permission to Land 
Jay Farrar – Terroir Blues 
Adam Green – Friends of Mine 
Jane’s Addiction – Strays 
Junior Senior – D-d-don’t Don’t Stop the Beat 
Kashmir – Zitilites 
Kelis – Tasty 
King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader 
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Shaheedullah and Stereotypes 
Muse – Absolution 
Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts 
Postal Service – Give Up 
Prefuse 73 – Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher 
Serart – Serart 
Sponge – For All The Drugs In The World 
Starsailor – Silence is Easy 
Twinemen – Chicago, IL 02.02.03 
100 + 
Ryan Adams – Love is Hell, Vol. 1  & 2 
American Analog Set – Promise of Love 
American Hi-Fi – The Art of Losing 
And Also The Trees – Further From the Truth 
Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy of the Enemy 
Athlete – Vehicles & Animals 
Barnyard Playboys – Corn Dog Love 
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master and Everyone 
Black Eyes – Black Eyes 
Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right 
David Bowie – Reality 
Johnny Cash – Duets/American Outtakes 
June Carter Cash – Wildwood Flower 
Lisa Carbon – Standards 
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Nocturama 
Cheap Trick – Special One 
Cinder – Break Your Silence 
Cold – Year of the Spider 
Elvis Costello – North 
 
Bart Davenport – Game Preserve 
Daredevil OST 
	
Dashboard Confessional – A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar 
Dido – Life For Rent 
Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner 
Electric Six – Fire 
Endo – Songs For the Restless 
Enigma – Voyageur 
Gloria Estefan – Unwrapped 
Everclear – Slow Motion Daydream 
Ibrahim Ferrer – Buenos Hermanos 
Fleetwood Mac – Say You Will 
Folk Implosion – The New Folk Implosion 
Forty Foot Echo – Forty Foot Echo 
Grandaddy – Sumday 
Groove Armada – Love Box 
Josh Groban – Closer 
Ben Harper – Diamonds on the Inside 
Robyn Hitchcock – Luxor 
John Lee Hooker – Face To Face 
John Hyatt & the Goners – Beneath This Gruff Exterior 
Iron Maiden – Dance of Death 
Jack Johnson – On and On 
JS – Ice Cream 
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Most Wanted Live 
KRS One – The Kristyle reissue 
Annie Lennox – Bare 
Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow 
Lillix – Falling Uphill 
Live – Birds of Prey 
Living Color – Collideoscope 
High Llamas – Beet, Maize and Corn 
Marilyn Manson – The Golden Age of Grotesque 
Massive Attack – 100th Window 
Matrix Reloaded OST 
A Mighty Wind OST 
Microphones – Mt. Eerie 
Minus 5 – Down With Wilco 
Mu-Ziq – Bilious Paths 
Matt Nathanson – Beneath These Fireworks 
Offspring, the – Splinter 
Oleander – Joyride 
Orb, the – Back to Mine 
Peaches – Fatherfucker 
Pernice Brothers – Yours Mine And Ours 
Pipas – Golden Square 
Plastikman – Closer 
Iggy Pop – Skull Ring 
Rancid – Indestructible 
Roxy Music – Live! 
Saloon – If We Meet In the Future 
Dr. Lonnie Smith – Boogaloo to Beck 
Son Doobie – Funk Superhero 
Britney Spears – In the Zone 
Starlight Mints – Built on Squares 
Static – Flavour Has No Name 
Static-X – Shadow Zone 
Stereophonics – You Gotta Go There To Come Back 
Styrofoam – I’m What’s There To Show That Something’s Missing 
James Taylor Quartet – The Oscilator 
Tamia – Still 
Thicke – A Beautiful World 
Train – My Private Nation 
Travis – 12 Memories 
Tricky – Vulnerable 
UB40 – Homegrown 
Paul Weller – Illumination 
Fred Wesley – Wuda Cuda Shuda 
The Wiggles – Toot Toot 
Andrew W.K. – The Wolf (JA release) 
X-Men 2 OST 
Year of the Rabbit – Year of the Rabbit 
Yohimbe Brothers – Front End Lifter 
Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea 
ZZ Top – Mescalero 
Calexico – Alone Again Or single 
Flaming Lips – Ego Tripping At the Gates of Hell EP 
Liz Phair – Come and Get It EP 
Von Bondies, the – Raw and Rare EP 
The Album Leaf – Seal Beach EP 
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – The Secret Of Elanas Tomb EP 
 
The Bens – EP 
Thrills, the – Big Sur single 
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Emergency 7″ 
Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into the Sun EP 
Brendan Benson – Metarie single 
Saturday People – The Saturday People EP 
Matchbox Twenty – EP 
Ozomatli – Coming Up EP 
Dakona – Perfect Change promo 
The Kills – Fried My Little Brain single 
Stephen Malkmus – Dark Wave EP(UK) 
Flaming Lips – Flight Test EP 
Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone EP 
Wilco – More Like the Moon EP 
Stereolab – Instant O in the Universe EP 
Styrofoam – A Heart Without A Mind EP 
Calla – Miscellaneous 2 EP (tour-only) 
Ben Folds – Speed Graphic EP 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps single 
White Stripes – 7 Nation Army 
Radiohead – There There single 
Sigur Ros – Vaka single 
Thrills, the – One Horse Town single 
VAST – Turquoise 
Rammenstein – Feuer Frei 
Jack Johnson – On and On sampler 
Limp Bizkit – Just Drop Dead (promo) 
Eric Clapton – Higher Ground 
Senor Coconut – Smoke on the Water remixes 
Young People – The Single 
Loose Fur – Loose Fur EP 
remixes, compilations and continuous mixes
01 Stoned Soul Picnic – Ilicit Grooves from the Atlantic & Warner Vaults 
 
02 Cold Mountain OST 
03 CafÈ del Mar, vol. 10 
04 Secret Shine – After Years comp  
05 Thievery Corporation – Den of Thieves (the sounds of ESL)  
06 Wig in a Box: Songs from and inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch 
07 Putomayo Presents – Euro Lounge 
08 No Thanks! The 70’s Punk Rebellion (4cd)  
09 600% Dynamite 
10 Verve Remixed Vol. 2 
Friends We Met Along the Way (Cactus Island Recordings) 
Putumayo Presents – African Groove 
Indica Brazilica 
Supper Club Lounge vol. 5  
Ninja Tune Bluffers Guide, vol.5 
Putumayo Kids – African Playground 
We’re A Happy Family : Ramones Tribute 
Tigerbeat6 : Paws Across America  
Amon Tobin – Verbal Remixes 
Spezial Material 3 
Vestibule & Sperarate : Cottage Industries 3  
Chillout 2003 – The Ultimate Chillout v.3  
Grand Central 
Born to Run, Vol. 1&2 (Uncut Mag.) 
Spacemen 3 – Forged Prescriptions 
The Beatles – Let it Be Ö Naked 
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (2 cd remaster) 
Jimmy Buffett – Living and Dying in 3/4 Time 
High Llamas – Retrospective, Rarities and Instrumentals 
Stone Temple Pilots – Thank You 
Beth Orton – Pass the Time (The Definitive Collection) 
Sonic Youth Dirty (deluxe version) 
 
No Doubt – Singles 1992-2003 
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Greatest Hits 
Mouse on Mars – Rost Pocks 
Eric Clapton – Ballads (JA-only release) 
Jayawks – Rainy Day Music (remastered + bonus disc) 
Chemical Brothers – Singles ’93 – ’03 
Tall Dwarfs – The Sky Above, The Mud Below 
Counting Crows – Films About Ghosts (the best of Ö) 
Love and Rockets – Sorted! The Best of… 
Very Best of MTV Unplugged 2 
Michael Jackson – Number Ones 
Elliott Smith – Los Angeles, CA 01-12-03 
Audioslave – Milan 01-21-03 
The Crimea – Peel Sessions 2-3-03 
Rolling Stones – San Jose, CA (02-04-03?) 
Cat Power – Peel Sessions 02-12-03 
Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Guy Clarke & John Hiatt – Santa Cruz 02-17-03 
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Bimbo’s SF, CA 02-25-03 (Noise Pop fest) 
Ben Kweller – 20th Century Theatre, Cincinnati, OH 03-06-03 
Coldplay – The Palace, Louisville, KY 03-10-03 
Detroit Cobras – Peel Session 03-11-03 
Norah Jones/Marian McPartland – McPartland’s Piano Jazz (03-12-03?) 
Yo La Tengo – live on WFMU 03-15-03 (cover call-in show) 
Camper Van Beethoven – Austin, TX in-store (SXSW) 03-15-03 
The Bens – The Basement radio, Australia 03-17-03 
Smog – Criminal Records in-store, Atlanta 03-19-03 
The Bens – The Palais, Melbourne 03-24-03 
Sigur RÛs – The Tabernacle, Atlanta GA 03-27-03 
Beth Orton – Live at the Royal Albert Hall 03-29-03 
Elliott Smith – Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa CA 04-01-03 
Cinerama – Peel Session 04-06-03 
Mountain Goats – Will’s Pub, Orlando FL 04-09-03 
White Stripes – Brixton Academy 04-11-03 (BBC Radio) 
Coldplay – Manchester 04-14-03 
Turin Brakes – Black Sessions 04-14-03 
Saloon – Peel Session 04-16-03 
Camper Van Beethoven – Echo Lounge, Atlanta 04-18-03 
White Stripes – Boston 04-20-03 
Neil Young – Stockholm 04-22-03 
White Stripes – Warfield, SF 04-28-03 
Beck – Union Chapel, London 04-28-03 
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – El Rey Theatre, LA 04-29-03 
Elliott Smith – Steamboat, Austin TX 05-03-03 
Kings of Leon – The Roadhouse, Manchester 05-04-03 
 
The Dawn Parade – Maida Vale 05-05-03 
Laura Cantrell – Peel Acres 05-08-03 
JJ72 – Conor Hall, Belfast 05-09-03 
White Stripes – Berlin, Ger 05-19-03 
Metallica – Fillmore 05-22-03 
Radiohead – Shepherd’s Bush Empire 05-25-03 
Cranebuilders – Gideon Coe 05-27-03 
Radiohead – Montreal 06-02-03 
Elliott Smith – Northsix, Brooklyn NY 06-06-03 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Live on Zane Lowe 06-08-03 
Solomon Burke – Pinkpop 06-09-03 
Sonic Youth – Bonnaroo Festival 06-13-03 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Jools Holland 06-13-03 
Cranebuilders – Peel 06-24-03 
The Tyde – Morning Becomes Electric, KCRW 06-23-03 
Seedling – Peel Session 06-24-03 
Flaming Lips – Glastonbury 06-28-03 
Gemma Hayes – Witnness Festival, Dublin 07-12-03 
Spoon – Fillmore, SF 07-15-03 
Young People – Peel Session 07-22-03 
Turin Brakes – Portsmouth, VA 07-23-03 
Rolling Stones – SARS concert, Toronto 07-30-03 
Black Keys, the – Peel Acres 07-31-03 
French, the – Peel Session 08-20-03 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Reading Festival 08-24-03 
Stephen Malkmus & Jicks – Red Rocks 08-26-03 
Belle & Sebastian – KCRW 08-26-03 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal 08-28-03 
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Peel Session 09-11-03 
Spiritualized – CafÈ de la Danse, Paris 09-21-03 
Shins, the – Austin City Limits Festival 09-21-03 
Interpol – Ogden Theatre, Denver 09-23-03 
Fire Theft, the – KDXP radio, Seattle WA 09-23-03 
Turbo Negro – Mason Jar, Phoenix AZ 10-01-03 
Camera Obscura – Peel Session 10-07-03 
Cinerama – Live on Gideon Coe 10-08-03 
Ween – Twist and Shout Records, Denver CO 10-10-03 
Spiritualized – Avalon Ballroom, Boston MA 10-11-03 
Mars Volta – The Fillmore, SF 10-11-03 
Simon and Garfunkel – Wilkes-Barre, PA 10-16-03 
Calexico – Bluebird Theatre, Denver CO 10-19-03 
Clem Snide – Luthers, Madison WI 10-26-03 
Black Keys, the – Brighton Old Market 10-28-03 
Electrelane – Brighton Old Market 10-29-03 
The Strokes – Tsongas Arena, Lowell MA 10-31-03 
Chris Isaak & Norah Jones – Austin City Limits 11-02-02 
Spiritualized – Gothic Theatre, Englewood CO 11-04-03 
Ben Lee – Waterloo Records in-store, Austin TX 11-21-03 
Ryan Adams – Manchester 11-24-03 
Mark Lanegan – Rainbow, Milan Italy 12-03-03 
Beth Orton – Fordham University NYC 12-04-03 
The Strokes – Alexandra Palace London 12-05-03 (Lamacq) 
Laura Cantrell – Peel Acres 12-23-03 
Too late for review:
Chip Taylor & Carie Rodriguez – The Trouble With Humans 
Manitoba – Up in Flames 
Musiq – Soulstar 
Bill Frisell – The Intercontinentals 
Dolorean – Not Exotic 
Mya – Moodring 
Spearmint – My Missing Days 
Jason Mraz – Waiting For My Rocket to Come 
Conceptions : An Interpretation of Stevie Wonder 
Acid Jazz Vol. 79 
Baby Woodrose – Money For Soul 
British Sea Power – The Decline of British Sea Power 
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People 
Dears, the – No Cities Left 
Gothic Archies – New Despair 
Hurricane Lamps – Sing Me A Song 
Lost in Translation OST 
M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts 
Ulrich Schnauss – A Strangely Isolated Place 
Acid Jazz, Vol. 75 
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham – Sonic Souvenirs EP 
Fu Manchu – Go For It Ö Live (2cd) 
Radio Dept., the – Lesser Matters 
Robert Pollard – Edison’s Demos 
Ronderlin – Wave Another Day Goodbye 
Cracker – Countrysides 
Stills, the – Logic Will Break Your Heart 
Charlie Hunter Quintet – Right Now Move 
Decemberists, the – 5 songs EP 
Dropkick Murphys – Blackout 
Monade – Socialisme ou Barbarie : The Bedroom Recordings 
Fiery Furnaces – Gallowbird’s Park 
TV on the Radio – Young Liars 
Clem Snide – A Beautiful EP 
The Rapture – Echoes 
Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain (reissue) 
Libertines – I Get Along EP 
Philippe Saisse Acoustique Trio feat.Kelli Sae – Ready To Go 
The Unicorns – Are People Too 
Bob Log III – Log Bomb 
Califone – Deceleration Two 
Frog Eyes – The Golden River 
Night School Split 7″ (Kill Rock Stars #393) 
Rosalia De Souza – Gorata Moderna 
The Sleepy Jackson – The Sleepy Jackson EP 
The Sleepy Jackson – Vampire Recourse EP 
Kings of Leon – Holy Roller Novocaine EP 
Deerhoof – Apple O’ 
Neil Young – Greendale 
Some Girls – Feel It 
Twin Atlas – Bring Along the Weather 
Of Montreal – Then Who Will Protect Big Oil 
The Veils – Guiding Light CDS 
The Veils – Lavinia CDS 
Rough Trade Country, vol.1 
Turin Brakes – Average Man CDS 
Nada Surf – Let Go 
Rooney – Rooney 
Luminous Orange – Drop You Vivid Colors 
Ai Phoenix – I’ve Been Gone – Letter One 
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 
Juana Molina – Segundo 
John Eddie – Who The Hell Is John Eddie? 
Arcade Fire – Arcade Fire EP 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Take Them On, On Your Own 
The Faint – Danse Macabre remixes 
R.L. Burnside – No Monkeys On This Train 
R.L. Burnside – R.L. Burnside’s First Recording 
Richard Cheese – Tuxicity 
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks (Best of) 
Chicken Lips – DJ-Kicks