2005 Recap

December 19th, 2005

Here's a quick list in no particular order of some mighty tasty albums that hardly left the stereo this year. Some of these weren't released in 2004, but I picked them up this year.

Tricky Woo - First Blush (Last Gang)
Le Nombre - Scenario Catasrophe (Blow the Fuse)
Gorilla - Gimme Some... (Beard of Stars)
Whitey Houston - S/T (Rectangle)
The Deadly Snakes - Porcella (Paper Bag)
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Double Pumpers - II (Indie)
The Greenhornes - East Grand Blues (V2)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
The Black Halos - Alive Without Control (Liquor and Poker)
C'Mon - In the Heat of the Moment (MapleMusic)
The Tangiers - The Family Myth (Baudelaire)
Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love (V2)
Joel Plaskett - La De Da (MapleMusic)
Feist - Let it Die (EMI)
The Bellrays - A Bellrays Christmas
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed (Vice)
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin Vol. 1 (Republic)
The Hellacopters - Rock and Roll Is Dead (Gearhead)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (Echo)
The Illuminati - On Borrowed Time (INDIESTRUCKTABLE)
Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets are Kept (Atlantic)
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico - Soundtrack (Darius Films)
Buff Medways - Medway Wheelers (Damaged Goods)
Black Mountain - S/T (Scratch)

Good Shows
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Tricky Woo @ The Dom
Tricky Woo @ CMW
Motorhead @ Capital Music Hall
Illuminati @ Zaphods
Le Nombre @ Barrymores
Ted Leo @ Babylon
Nashville Pussy @ Zaphods
Bellrays @ Babylon

Awesome Discoveries
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Dave Chapelle
(I got into this show after it went off the air... thank god for DVDs)
Marriage
(if it's awesome enough for all the other Setbacks then I'm in too!)
WOXY
Pandora
Del.icio.us
Flickr

Happy holidays and happy new year to everybody.

sp