<BR>John In The Morning <BR>Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador) <BR>Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Capitol) <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers (Interscope) <BR>Sigur Ros - ( ) (MCA) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>Eels - Souljacker (Dreamworks) <BR>Beck - Sea Change (DGC) <BR>The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son (Real World) <BR>And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (Interscope) <P><BR>Jon Kertzer <BR>Bembeya Jazz(Guinea) - Bembeya (Marabi - France) <BR>Salif Keita (Mali) - Mouffou (Universal) <BR>Orchestra Baobab (Senegal) - Specialist in All Styles (World Circuit/Nonesuch) <BR>Sekouba Bambino (Guinea) - Sinikan (Next Music/Sono - France) <BR>Various Artists (Nigeria/USA/Mali/etc) - Red, Hot, and Riot (MCA) <BR>Kandia Kouyate (Mali) - Biriko (Stern's Africa - UK) <BR>Danyel Waro (Reunion) - Bwarouz (Cobalt - France) <BR>Hasni el-Becharia (Algeria/France) - Djazair Johara (Indigo - France) <BR>Mamar Kassey (Niger)- Alatoumi (World Village) <BR>Youssou N'Dour (Senegal)- Nothing's In Vain (Cuono Du Reer) (Nonesuch) <P> <BR>Darek Mazzone <BR>Los De Abajo - Cybertropic Chilango Power (Luaka Bop) <BR>Various Artists - Red, Hot, & Riot (MCA) <BR>Kinky - Kinky (Sonic360/Nettwerk) <BR>Mali Music - Mali Music (Honest Jons / Astralwerks) <BR>Zuco 103 - Tales of high fever (Crammed Discs) <BR>Various Artists - Arabesque (Ryko) <BR>B.O.P - Zabalaza: Project B (Kalawa-Jazmee Records) <BR>Eliades Ochoa - Estoy Como Nunca (Higher Octave) <BR>Saian Supa Crew - KLR (Source) <BR>1 Giant Leap 1 Giant Leap (Palm) <P> Michele Myers <BR>(Various Artists) - Verve Remixed (Verve) <BR>Morcheeba - Charango (Warner) <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (Interscope) <BR>Kad Achouri - Liberte (Stern's) <BR>Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon (ESL) <BR>(Various Artists) - Recline (Six Degrees) <BR>Dzihan and Kamien - Gran Riserva (Six Degrees) <BR>RJD2 - Deadringer (Definitive Jux) <BR>(Various Artists) Mundial Musique - V2 (Guidance) <BR>Zuco 103 - Tales of High Fever (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees) <P> <BR>Abe Beeson <BR>The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious (Warner Bros) <BR>Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note) <BR>Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (Merge) <BR>Model Rockets - Tell The Kids The Cops Are Here (Not Lame) <BR>Mirah - Advisory Committee (K) <BR>Various Artists/Damon Albarn - Mali Music (Astral Works) <BR>Maktub - Khronos (Ossia) <BR>Various Artists - Verve Remixed (Verve) <BR>Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador) <BR>Eels - Souljacker (Dreamworks) Amanda Wilde <BR>Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Capitol) <BR>Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Capitol) <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (Interscope) <BR>The Roots - Phrenology (MCA) <BR>Rick Holmstrom - Hydraulic Groove (Tone-cool) <BR>Sugarman 3 - Pure Cane Sugar (Daptone) <BR>eels - Souljacker (Dreamworks) <BR>Sondre Lerche - Faces Down (Astralwerks) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish? (Artist Direct) <P> <BR>Matt Nichols <BR>Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (Merge) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>The Long Winters - The Worst You Can Do is Harm (Barsuk) <BR>Elvis Costello - When I was Cruel (Island) <BR>Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings - I Know it By Heart (Cavity Search) <BR>Eight Mile - Soundtrack (Shady/Interscope) <BR>Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (Interscope) <BR>Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Touch and Go) <BR>The Anti Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp) <BR>Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son (RealWorld)<P> Larry Metro <BR>DJ Spooky - Optometry (Thirsty Ear) <BR>Underworld - A Hundred Days Off (V2) <BR>Maktub - Kronos (OSSiA) <BR>Onry Ozzborn - Alone (BSI) <BR>Henry Threadgill - Every Mouth's A Book (PI) <BR>Interfearance - Take That Train (Ubiquity) <BR>Six By Seven - The Way I Feel Today (Mantra) <BR>Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth) <BR>Kosheen - Resist (Kinetic) <BR>Low - Trust (Kranky) <P> <BR>Greg Jaspan <BR>Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp)<P>The following are in no particular order:<P>Brazzaville - Rouge On Pockmarked Cheeks (South China Sea)<BR>Various Artists - Urban Renewal Program (Chocolate Industries)<BR>Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (Ninja Tune)<BR>Caural - Stars On My Ceiling (Chocolate Industries)<BR>Boards of Canada - Twoism (Warp)<BR>People Under The Stairs - OST (Om)<BR>Aluminum Group - Happyness (Wishing Tree)<BR>Mice Parade - All Roads Lead To Salzburg (Bubblecore)<BR>Various Artists - Mondo Samba (Mondo Melodia) <P>Poptart <BR>Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop) <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (Interscope) <BR>Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek) <BR>Rosie Thomas - When We Were Small (Sub Pop) <BR>Various - The Bottle Let Me Down Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides (Bloodshot) <BR>Kinky - Kinky (Nettwerk) <BR>Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Warner Bros) <BR>The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>DJ Shadow - The Private Press (MCA) <P> <BR>Don Slack <BR>Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note) <BR>James King - Thirty Years of Farming (Rounder) <BR>Michael Cleveland - Flame Keeper (Rounder) <BR>Kelly Willis - Easy (Rykodisc) <BR>Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot) <BR>Mike Ireland & Holler - Try Again (Ashmont) <BR>The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious (Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph) <BR>Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Capitol) <BR>Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet (Island) <BR>Cee-lo - Cee-lo Green and his Perfect Imperfections (Arista) <P>Larry Rose <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat) <BR>Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go) <BR>Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp) <BR>Amon Tobin - Out from Out Where (Ninja Tune) <BR>Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp) <BR>Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear) <BR>Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot) <BR>Tom Waits - Alice/Blood Money (Anti-) <BR>Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Reckless Burning (Burn Burn Burn) <P> <BR>Stevie Zoom<BR>The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Capitol) <BR>Maktub - Khronos (Ossia) <BR>Zuco 103 - Tales Of High Fever (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees) <BR>Cee Lo - Cee Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections (Arista) <BR>Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel (Island) <BR>Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (In The Red) <BR>Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum) <BR>Hem - Rabbit Songs (Bar/None) <BR>Maraca - Tremenda Rumba (Ahi Nama) <P> John Gilbreath <BR>Matthew Shipp - NuBop (Thirsty Ear) <BR>Brad Mehldau - Largo (Warner Bros) <BR>Anouar Brahem - Les pas du Chat Noir (ECM) <BR>Guillermo Brown - Soul at the hands of the Machine (Thirsty Ear) <BR>Spring Heel Jack - Amassed (Thirsty Ear) <BR>Michael Blake - Elevated (Knitting Factory) <BR>John Hollenbeck Quartet - Lucy (CRI) <BR>Julian Priester - In Deep End Dance (Conduit Records) <BR>Jason Moran - Modernistic (Blue Note) <BR>Matt Jorgensen +451 - Quiet Silence (Origin) <BR>Quilty3000<BR>Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son (Real World) <BR>Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD) <BR>Richard Buckner - Impasse (Overcoat) <BR>Bill Frisell - The Willies (Nonesuch) <BR>Sugarman Three & Co. - Pure Cane Sugar (Daptone) <BR>Hem - Rabbit Songs (Bar/None) <BR>Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek) <BR>The Aluminum Group - Happyness (Wishing Tree) <BR>Rosie Thomas - When We Were Small (Sub Pop) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <P><BR> Jack Walters <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (Interscope) <BR>The Gourds - Cow Fish Foul or Pig (Sugar Hill) <BR>The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Vice) <BR>Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Capitol) <BR>Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon (ESL) <BR>Guided By Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador) <BR>N*E*R*D - In Search Of... (Virgin) <BR>Eliades Ochoa - Estoy Como Nunca (Virgin) <BR>Pris - This Should Help Reduce the Swelling (Bonkytunes) <BR>Rhett Miller - The Instigator (Elektra) <BR>Riz <BR>Meshelle Ndegeocello - Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Maverick) <BR>DJ Spooky - Optometry (Thristy Ear) <BR>Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>Mum - Finally, We Are No One (FatCat) <BR>Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation) <BR>Agent K - Feed The Cat (Laws Of Motion) <BR>Voyager One - Monster Zero (Loveless) <BR>Amir Koushkani w/ Eyvind Kang - The Path Of Love <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>Susumu Yokota - The Boy And The Tree <BR>Various Artists - Blue Skied And Clear (Morr) <BR>Recloose - Cardiology (K7) <BR>People Under The Stairs - O.S.T. (Om) <P>Honorable Mentions: CeeLo Green, Various - Red Hot and Riot, Jazzanova - In Between (The Remixes), Cam - Soulshine, The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day... <P>Records I ain't got yet but are prolly all that... Common, Jurassic 5, Godspeed You! Black Emperor... <P><BR>Kevin Cole <BR>The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Grandpaboy - Mono (Vagrant) <BR>Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season (Go Beat) <BR>Guided By Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador) <BR>Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads (4AD) <BR>Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note) <BR>Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All Styles/Pirates Choice (Nonesuch) <BR>Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum) <BR>Chuck Prophet - No Other Love (New West) <BR>Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars) <BR>Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)<P> <BR>DJ B-Mello <BR>Clipse - Lord Willin (Arista) <BR>Nas - Lost Tapes (Ill Will) <BR>Styles P - A Gangster & A Gentlemen (Rough Riders) <BR>Gza - Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA) <BR>Snoop Dogg - Paid Da Cost To Be Da Boss (Priority) <BR>Scarface - The Fix (Def Jam) <BR>Jay - Z - The Gift & The Curse (Rocafella) <BR>Nas - God's Son (Ill Will) <BR>Erick Sermon - React (J) <BR>Talib Kweli - Quality (MCA) <BR>WC - Ghetto Heisman (Def Jam) <BR>Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers (Interscope) <BR>Busta Rhymes - It Ain't Safe No More (J) <BR>Camron - Come Home With Me (Rocafella) <BR>Slum Village - Trinity Cheryl Waters<BR>Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Capitol) <BR>Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador) <BR>Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) <BR>Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (Merge) <BR>Guided By Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador) <BR>Eels - Souljacker (Dreamworks) <BR>Beck - Sea Change (DGC) <BR>Joseph Arthur - Redemption's Son (Real World) <BR>The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (4AD) <BR>Kosheen - Resist (Kinetic) <BR>Unbunny - Black Strawberries (Two-Ton Santa) <BR>No. 2 - What Does Good Luck Bring? (In Music We Trust) <BR>The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros) <BR>
