Dean Pickles • clinic, "walking with thee" (domino) • film school "film school" (s/r) • flaming lips, "yoshimi battles the pink robots" (warner) • langley schools music project "innocence & despair" (bar-none) • mum, "finally we are no one" (fat cat) • pulp, "we love life" (island) • rjd2, "deadringer" (definitive jux) • yo la tengo, "the sounds of the sounds of science" (egon) • v/a, "nothing left to lose: a tribute to kris kristofferson" (incidental) Grassy Noel • film school - self-titled • tarentel - ephemera • yo la tengo - sounds of the sounds of science • v/a - nothing left to lose • v/a - Studio One Roots Carolyn 1. Tyrades "I Got A Lot" 7" 2. Cheater Slicks "Yer Last Record" CD 3. Tramps "s/t" CD 4. FM Knives "Useless And Modern" CD 5. Mr. California and The State Police "(I'm Gonna Kick You In The Head)" CD 6. Okmoniks "Take A Spin With The Okmoniks" 7" 8. Stud Cole "Burn Baby Burn" CD 9. Bad Times "s/t" LP 10. Lili Z "s/t" 10" 11. Mr. Airplane Man "Moanin'" LP 12. Baseball Furies "Greater Than Ever" LP 13. Coachwhips "Get Your Body Next To Mine" LP 14. Cool Jerks "Cleaned A Lot Of Plates In Memphis" LP 15. Dan Melchior's Broke Review, "Bitterness, Spite, Rage & Scorn" LP 16. Feederz "Vandalism: Beautiful As A Rock In A Cop's Face" LP 17. Henry Fiat's Open Sore "Alan Smithee" 10" 18. Konks "Three Mile Baby" 7" 19. Jumpin' Beans and Willie "The Milwaukee Sessions" LP 20. Songs For Emma "Red Lies, Black Rhymes" CD David Bassin • Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday (Ninja Tune) • Jazzanova - In Between (JCR) • Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (XL) • Lightning Head - Studio Don (Best Seven) • Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie: The Anthropological Mix Tape (Maverick) • Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz / It's Dancing Time - 12" (Ninja Tune) • Organic Grooves - Black Cherry (AUM Fidelity) • Quantic - Apricot Morning (Tru Thoughts) • Seelenluft - Out Of The Woods (Klein) • Steinski - Nothing To Fear (CDR) • Tony Allen - HomeCooking (Comet) • Afrika Underground: Jazz, Funk & Fusion Under Apartheid (Counterpoint) • V/A - Compilation 2 (Music For Speakers) • V/A - Fluid Ounce Unmeasured (Ubiquity) • V/A - Verve Remixed (Verve) Cathy's Bakers Dozen - scrambled (alphabetically): • Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Warp • Dalek - From Filthy Tongues & Griots - Ipecaca • Dzihan & Kamien - Gran Riserva - Six Degrees • Guillermo E. Brown - Soul at the Hands of the Machine - Thirsty Ear • Le Nombres - Le Nombres • Mathew Shipp - Nu-Bop - Thirsty Ear • Meat Beat Manifesto - R.U.O.K? -Lakeshore/Run • Mum - Finally We Are No One - Fat Cat • Radio Zumbido - Los Ultimos Dias Del Am - Palm • RJD2 - Dead Ringer - Def Jux • TTC - Ce N'est Pas un Disque - Big Dada • Up Bustle & Out - Master Sessions - Ninja Tune • Wayne Shorter - Live Nathalie • Circle "Sunrise". • Godspeed you! black emperor "Yanqui u.x.o". • Davendra Banhart "Oh me oh my the way the day goes by the sun is setting dogs are dreaming love songs of the Christmas spirit". • Wire "read and burn". • Raymond Scott Orchestrette "Pushbutton parfait"(if that can count) Voila! Happy Holidays. The Sixth Degree 1. Songs:ohia - let it rain? 2. Dap dippin with Sharon Jones and the Dap kings 3. The Flaming Lips - Yoshi 4. Low - Trust 5. Gillian Welch - Time/the Revelator Miles 1. lost sounds, "black-wave" (empty records) 2. the hunches, "yes. no. shut it." (in the red) 3. coach whips, "hands on the control" (black apple) 4. los olvidados, "listen to this" (alternative tentacles) 5. songs for emma, "red lies + black rhymes" (broken rekids) Cactus 1. flying luttenbachers: infection and decline 2. black dice: beaches and canyons 3. hair police: blow out your blood 4. circle: sunrise 5 5. godspeed you black emperor: yanqui u.x.o honorable mentions: crack w.a.r., erase errata, total shutdown, the white ring (live), monopause, burmese (live), friends forever (video documentary), nels cline. Stereo Steve top ten 2002 new releases: • Andrew Hill, "a beautiful day" (palmetto records) • Opium Jukebox, "a tribute to black sabbath" (underground inc.,) • Six Parts Seven, "things shaped in passing" • Ugly Casanova, "sharpen your teeth" (sub pop) • Zmrzlina "katastrophe vol. 3" (incidental) • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "yanqui uxo" • Nels Cline Singers, "instrumentals" • Sonic Youth, "murray street" • Fourtet, "pause" • Queens of the Stone Age, "songs for the deaf" Andrew Hill's one of the all time great jazz artists and deserves some props. Six Parts Seven from Ohio's post-rock stands out from a lot of stuff in this genre by virtue of it's lyrical melodicism. top seven 2002 reissues: • langley schools music project "innocence & despair" • link wray & the wraymen, "slinky (the epic sessions '58-'61)" • acid mothers temple, "do whatever you want, don't do whatever you don't want!!" • zakary thaks "form the habit" • fred frith, "gravity" • savage republic, "box set" • gary wilson, "you think you really know me" The 3 disc acid mother's temple thing is essentially a collection of rare ep's so I put it in reissues. Honorable Mention: • Major Stars: Distant Effects • VU (with DJ Zeph): Seven Grain • Phil Ranelin: Remixes • Sybarite: Placement Issues • Fridge: EPH Reissue And a big shout out and special thanks to local band MUSHROOM for dedicating a song to me ("Theme for Stereo Steve") on their last CD ("Oh but they're weird and wonderful").

Terrorbull Ted's top 5: 1) The Melvins "Hostile Ambient Takeover" 2) The Detroit Cobras "Life, Love and Leaving" 3) Tomahawk (S/T) 4) Queens of the Stone Age "Songs for the Deaf" 5) (tie) Dilated People "Expansion Team" and The Epoxies (S/T) Prem's 34 (no particular order other than alphabetical) • George Abdo and his Flames of Araby Orchestra - Belly Dance!|The Best of George Abdo and his Flames of Araby Orchestra (Smithsonian Folkways) • Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Electric Heavyland (alien8) • Tim Berne - The Sevens (New World Records) • Buffalo Daughter - I (Emperor Norton) • Dan Cantrell - Divided Loyalties (Odd Shaped Case) • Srikanth Chary - Tiger + Silk (Dhwani Productions) • DJ Cheb I Sabbah - Krishna Lila (Six Degrees Records) • Clarinet Trio Two - Translucent Tones (Leo Records) • The Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals (Cryptogramophone) • The Consumers - All My Friends Are Dead (In the Red Records) • Johnny Dowd - The Pawnbroker's Wife (Catamount) • Mark Dresser Trio - Aquifer (Cryptogramophone) • Jewlia Eisenberg - Trilectic (Tzadik) • Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra - Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra (Pax Recordings) • Fred Frith - Accidental (Fred Records/Cuneiform) • Rova Saxophone Quartet - Freedom in Fragments (Composed by Fred Frith; Label: Tzadik) • • The Hunches - Yes. No. Shut It. (CD) + Got Some Hate/Lost Time Frequency (7") (In the Red Records) • The Japonize Elephants From Zorlock, Land of the Lost - 40 Years of Our Family (TZME Productions) • Joan Jeanrenaud - Metamorphosis (New Albion) • Jeff Kaiser/Brad Dutz - The Order of Her Bones (pfmentum) • Lost Sounds - Rat's Brains & Microchips (Empty) • Mat Maneri featuring Joe McPhee - Sustain (Thirsty Ear) • Maneri Ensemble - Going to Church (Aum Fidelity) • Man Or Astroman? - A Spectrum of Finite Scale ([self-released]) • Mega-Mousse - Musical Monogram (TZME Productions) • Nekromantix - Return of the Loving Dead (Hellcat Records) • Ustad Mohammad Omar - Virtuoso from Afghanistan (Smithsonian Folkways) • The Quails - Atmosphere (Inconvenient) • Roger Reynolds - All Known All White (Pogus) • Jason Robinson - Tandem (Accretions Records) • Jimbo Trout and the Fishpeople - It's Breaktime! Live! With Jimbo Trout & the Fishpeople (Fishwrap) • Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (5 Rue Christine) • Xiu Xiu - Chapel of the Chimes (Absolutely Kosher) Farinaz (Guitar Journeys) 1- Krushevo- Vlatko Stefanovski and Mirsolav Tadic. Label m.a.recordings - 1998 2- Citron Doux - Roland Dyens - Label: GHA - 2002 3- Food for the bearded - Gyan Riley - label: New Albion -2002 4- Salammbo - Kamlo Trio - Label: Sacem - 1999 5- Guitar sèche - Djessou Mory Kanté - African guitar series - label: Popular african music - 1997 Jantine B 1. Mr Scruff - Trouser Jazz -Ninja Tune 2. Peven Everett - Testin' Me - ABB Soul 3. Peggy Honeywell - Honey For Dinner - Galaxia 4. LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge - DFA 5. Gangstarr - Skillz - 12" mtheo - Classics Without Walls's Bottom Five: The big labels with "classical" divisions continue their desperate hawking of: 5 - cheesy "crossover" jobs 4 - embarrassing holiday kitsch 3 - over-the-hill operatic schlock, usually in some ridiculous stadium 2 - "star" soloists goldbricking on gimmicks (reliable), huge mass- marketing onslaughts (more reliable), or undiluted T & A (most reliable) 1 - sclerotic big-time orchestras, with barely-awake Euro-retreads waving the baton on autopilot up front Toby 1. Flaming Stars, "Sunset & Void" 2. Giant Sand, "Cover Magazine" 3. Dan Melchoir's Broke Review, "Bitterness, Spite, Rge & Scorn" 4. Soledad Brothers, "Steal Your Soul & Dare your Spirit to Move" 5. Extra Glenns, "Martial Arts Weekend" Becky 1 Le Tigre "Feminist Sweepstakes" 2 Sonic Youth "Murry Street" 3 and you will know us by the trail of dead "Source tags an codes" 4 The Detroit Cobras " Love life and leaving" 5 Jucifer "I name you destroyer" Menace's Attic Top 5 of 2002 - Dennis The Menace (In no order whatsoever even though there are numbers) 1. Soft Like Me - Saint Etienne w/ Wildflower 2. Won't Go Hollywood - Bleu 3. Do You Realize? - Flaming Lips 4. All Fall Down - Robin Lane & The Chartbusters 5. "Don't Worry About Me" - Joey Ramone (entire album!) Esoteric Eric 1. Sleater-Kinney, One Beat 2. Desaparecidos, Read Music, Speak Spanish 3. Orchestra Baobab, Specialist in All Styles 4. Norah Jones, Come Away with Me 5. Youssou N'Dour, Nothing's in Vain