| 4.0 excellent |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| As Cities Burn Hell Or High Water |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| blink-182 blink-182 |
| Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Davy Mooney Astoriano |
I discovered Davy Mooney at Bar 55 in NYC's own Greenwich Village when my girlfriend and I were going out for drinks one Sunday evening. I had never visited the famous prohibition-era jazz bar, but the sound of some lively jazz from the street was all it took to draw us in. Once we got inside, we were treated to a wonderful performance from Mooney and his backing band, which lead me to purchase this CD. As far as guitar goes, Mooney is extremely subdued and refined in his playing; don't expect John McLaughlin here. However, he is able to create some extremely good jazz tunes over the course of this 11-track disc. The tracks range from lively and fun (Countdown) to slow and deliberate (Moon Song) to the majestically flowing (The Hills of Earth). There is no real weak spots on this disc, except for the fact that some of the songs can drag on for a bit too long. Overall, if you enjoy rather traditional jazz guitar playing in the vein of Wes Montgomery, I would recommend Astoriano.
Recommended Tracks: Countdown, The Hills of Earth (Charybdis Slope), Wrinkles |
| Deerhunter Monomania |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Girl Talk All Day |
| Hovering between a 3.5 and 4.0 presently, but I'll go higher for now because of the fun factor. Not as immediately infectious as his past work but the focus on a more expansive and cohesive mash-up should do really well with repeat listenings. |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Mew No More Stories |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's all |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Muse Black Holes and Revelations |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Pigeon Big Survival |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| S. Carey All We Grow |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Slightly Stoopid Chronchitis |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique |
| Steel Train Trampoline |
| Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The Gentlemen's Club Call it What You Will |
| The Handsome Family Through the Trees |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The National Alligator |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Used The Used |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Various Artists (Indie) Dark Was The Night |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| 3.5 great |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Anchor & Braille Felt |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Bars of Gold Of Gold |
| Battle of Mice A Day Of Nights |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| C-Money & The Players Inc. The Rebirth of Hip Hop |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus |
| Coconut Records Davy |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Colour Revolt Colour Revolt |
| Cults Cults |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant EP |
| G. Love and Special Sauce G. Love and Special Sauce |
| This albums was a solid debut for G. Love and Special Sauce. Combining the elements of traditional blues with hip-hop, G. Love was able to create some fresh sounding tunes that he would build off of to become an underground legend in the alternative music scene. Though not entirely focused and somewhat immature, one can't argue that this is a solid, and fun, debut. |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Local Natives Hummingbird |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Mr. Bungle Mr Bungle |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Morning Jacket Circuital |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Om God is Good |
| Title alone is worth 6/5. Albini produces yet again, and first album with new drummer. Very pumped for this. |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| PSY/OPSogist Suffused With Static |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Slightly Stoopid Everything You Need |
| Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Bled Pass The Flask |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dodos No Color |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Gentlemen's Club Black Light Sex Rock |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Shouting Matches GrownassMan |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth |
| The xx xx |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Why? Alopecia |
