| 4.5 superb |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags & Codes |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad Knife Man |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady |
| Camel Mirage |
| Chuck Ragan Covering Ground |
| Chuck Ragan > Chuck Norris |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets |
| Dave Matthews Band The Central Park Concert |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code |
| Dropkick Murphys Blackout |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes To Move Forward |
| Eric's Trip Love Tara |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Jets to Brazil Perfecting Loneliness |
| John Frusciante Curtains |
| John Frusciante The Will to Death |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Old Canes Early Morning Hymns |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd Pulse |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere... (DVD) |
| R.E.M. Automatic For the People |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sundowner Four One Five Two |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love |
| The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Men Open Your Heart |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The Menzingers Hold on, Dodge |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck |
| What Tuna meant to say is that you don't want to see him without his mask on |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Alligator |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| The Veils Nux Vomica |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The War on Drugs Slave Ambient |
| One of the most beautiful things about modern music is that the spirit of Americana has never come close to declining, as the likes of the Gaslight Anthem, the Hold Steady, and the State Lottery have carried on the legacy sparked by Bruce Springsteen and the Replacements. Although existing most commonly in punk rock, a few outliers have come into the mix of modern Americana; most recently the War on Drugs. There is something oh so familiar about the band?s second LP Slave Ambient, whether has to do with the fact that lead singer Adam Granduciel sounds like a Bob Dylan/Tom Petty hybrid, or that the music is perfectly on point in capturing the sentiment of Americana. And yet, it isn't clear that something like this has been done before. Fusing together your typical rock music with shoegaze influences, Slave Ambient sits back and takes the scenic route to the promised land, eventually exploding into its stunning climax. Slowing down even more towards the middle of the record and reaching a point of immense tranquility with "City Reprise #12," Slave Ambient transitions into the ultimate underscore in "Baby Missles;" a moment which cannot be rivaled by nearly any release over the past decade. Elevated by everything from the keyboards, driving rhythm section, smooth leads, and harmonica solos, "Baby Missles" is the Springsteen-esque Americana classic that catapults Slave Ambient to the top of the 2011 list, essentially summing up everything that the record is about in three and a half compelling minutes. And god damn is it a resounding ride. |
| The Weakerthans Left and Leaving |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Who Live At Leeds (Deluxe Edition) |
| Third Eye Blind Blue |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| When it comes down to it all, one does not need to even have a clue about what WU LYF’s message is about. Inevitably, the more we find out about WU LYF, the less significant they will become. Go Tell Fire to the Mountain isn’t just striking because of its uniqueness and oddly infectious hooks, or the fact that the record is ballsy, jubilant, or flat-out beautiful at any given time. The Manchester natives’ debut brings about the remarkable sentiment of unity within its anthems, just as Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor had done. And isn’t that the greatest message of all? |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 311 311 |
| 311 Greatest Hits |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| Against Me! Black Crosses |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity |
| Against Me! Against Me! |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| Ambulance LTD. Ambulance LTD. |
| American Football American Football |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad Can't Maintain |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific |
| Barenaked Ladies Rock Spectacle |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Blanks 77 Killer Blanks |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!! |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| For the longest time this year, Vacation was the most frustrating release in some time. No ska, clean vocals, and almost devoid of that vintage Bomb the Music Industry! chaos, Vacation was ticketed for a one-way trip to the honorable mentions list in July; an unsettling position for a BTMI! record. Yet, after finally accepting Vacation for an uplifting pop-record as it is, BTMI’s 2011 installment serves the spirit of orgcore punk with a sheer enjoy-ability factor: whether this is conveyed through the ever infectious “Vocal Coach,” “Why, Oh Why, Oh Why,” and “Hurricane Waves” or the fact that “Can’t Complain” and “Campaign for a Better Weekend” are some of the best lower-key tracks in Rosenstock and crew’s arsenal. Vacation is far from BTMI’s best record and that’s just fine, because it stands on its own enough to be celebrated as one of the better releases of 2011. |
| Boston Boston |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bridge and Tunnel Indoor Voices |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Bruce Springsteen The River |
| Bruce Springsteen Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. |
| Bruce Springsteen Magic |
| Built To Spill Perfect From Now On |
| Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension |
| Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen |
| Camel Camel |
| Chuck Ragan Gold Country |
| Chuck Ragan Live at Cafe Du Nord |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love |
| Classics of Love Walking in Shadows EP |
| Collective Soul 7even Year Itch |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst |
| Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Dan Mangan Nice, Nice, Very Nice |
| Dan Mangan Oh Fortune |
| Dan Mangan Postcards and Daydreaming |
| Dave Matthews Band Live at Mile High Music Festival |
| Dave Matthews Band Crash |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... |
| Dead to Me Cuban Ballerina |
| Dead to Me Little Brother |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got |
| Demians Mute |
| Demians Building An Empire |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs Of The Americas |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud! |
| Dropkick Murphys Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA |
| Dropkick Murphys Going Out In Style |
| Starting to think this is the album I've always wanted from Dropkick |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue |
| Elliott Smith New Moon |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Elliott Smith Live at Largo |
| Elway Delusions |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Year Of the Rabbit 7" |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months Away |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies |
| Flogging Molly Swagger |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and The Shape (Expanded) |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week |
| Frank Turner Take to the Road |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Free Energy Stuck On Nothing |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Frightened Rabbit Quietly, Now |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi Furniture |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| fun. Live At Fingerprints |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Ghost Mice Europe |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Guster Keep It Together |
| Guster Lost And Gone Forever |
| Guster Goldfly |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Hey Mercedes Everynight Fireworks |
| Holy Esque Holy Esque |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash |
| Hot Water Music Exister |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Iron Chic Not Like This |
| Iron Chic Split N' Shit |
| J Mascis Several Shades of Why |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
| John Frusciante DC EP |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Latterman ...We Are Still Alive |
| Latterman Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing |
| Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost! |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview |
| Liam the Younger Revel Hidden Worlds |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring |
| Love Axe Phenomenomenons |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Manchester Orchestra You Brainstorm, I Brainstorm, But Brilliance... |
| Manchester Orchestra Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind EP/DVD |
| Marillion Script For A Jester's Tear |
| Matt Pond PA The Dark Leaves |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone is not exactly a complete shift in direction for Maybeshewill, but is evidence that the post-rockers are evolving in terms of musicianship and diversity. The haziness of the message is what prevents the record from reaching an astronomical level however, as I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone does not pack the same poignant punch as Sing the Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony or even Not For Want of Trying. Maybeshewill’s preceding releases were successful in the fact that the inspiration and sincerity was apparent, but with I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone, this is left open to debate. Regardless, Maybeshewill has made an elaborate statement with their third record, even if one thing remains true: Maybeshewill is post-rock without the bullshit. |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Neil Young Le Noise |
| Neil Young Zuma |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young Psychedelic Pill |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Northstar Pollyanna |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up |
| Old Canes Feral Harmonic |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| Owen Ghost Town |
| Paul Westerberg 14 Songs |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) |
| Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| R.E.M. Document |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant |
| R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth... |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology |
| Real Estate Days |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Bitter End |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush 2112 |
| RVIVR Dirty Water EP |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Rx Bandits Progress |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion |
| Shiner The Egg |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Social Distortion Sex, Love and Rock'n'Roll |
| Social Distortion Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell |
| Social Distortion Social Distortion |
| Social Distortion Prison Bound |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Spock's Beard X |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met |
| Spoon Transference |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Kill The Moonlight |
| Spraynard Funtitled |
| Spraynard Exton Square |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| Strike Anywhere Iron Front |
| Success! Success! |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| Ten Years After A Space in Time |
| The 1900's Return of the Century |
| The Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery & Imagination |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach |
| The Appleseed Cast Mare Vitalis |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Bouncing Souls The Gold Record |
| The Bouncing Souls How I Spent My Summer Vacation |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Flatliners Cavalcade |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America |
| The Holy Mess Benefit Sesh |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears |
| The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Men New Moon |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers |
| The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The National Boxer |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing |
| The Pogues Rum, Sodomy & The Lash |
| The Replacements Tim |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples |
| The Smith Street Band Sunshine and Technology |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore |
| The Steinways Missed the Boat |
| The Steinways Gorilla Marketing |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Taxpayers God, Forgive These Bastards |
| The Veils The Runaway Found |
| The War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour |
| The Wild A Collection |
| The Wild Set Ourselves Free |
| The Wrens Secaucus |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Third Eye Blind A Collection |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Two Gallants What the Toll Tells |
| Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight |
| Veil Veil Vanish Change in the Neon Light |
| We Are The U nion Who We Are |
| Wilco The Whole Love |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Wilco Being There |
| Wilco A.M. |
| William Fitzsimmons The Sparrow and the Crow |
| William Fitzsimmons Goodnight |
| Wintersleep New Inheritors |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky |
| Wipers Youth of America |
| Wipers Is This Real? |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Early AOTY candidate? I think so |
