MICHAEL COOPER

• Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks LP
  
• Shirley Collins - False True Lovers & Power of the True Love Knot LP’s
  
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park
  
• No Direction Home DVD
  
• The Dilettantes
  
• Jack Rose at Hemlock
  
• The Stooges Book by Mick Rock
  
• Bauhaus on Halloween
  
• Bella Vista
  
• Kelley Stoltz - The Sun Comes Through ep
  
• Echo & the Bunnymen at the Fillmore
  
• Dirty Three - Cinder
  
• Devendra Banhart & the Hairy Fairy at Bimbo’s
  
• Espers - The Weed Tree
  
• Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
  
• Man Who Fell to Earth on Criterion DVD
  
• Sugar & Gold
  
• Hitchcock’s Lifeboat on DVD
  
• The Thin Man box set on DVD
  
• Akron/Family & Angels of Light CD
  
• Kelley Stoltz - Below the Branches
  
• Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

ELISE
There is no truer truth obtainable By man than comes of music. ~ Robert Browning

• Jamie Lidell
  Vibrant soul for the digital age. Perfection. This man was born to sing.
  
• Fat Freddy's Drop
  New Zealand dub soul with vocals that go down like honey.
  
• Curumin
  This Brazilian captures the sound of ‘70s soul, samba and hip-hop beautifully.
  
• Mophono
  Expansive, atmospheric beats that play like DJ Shadow's little brother.
  
• Me and You and Everyone We Know DVD
  Truly magical. Back and forth. Forever.

KAITLIN
I am Meg who lost her drumsticks.

A few DVDs from the last year or so…

• I (heart) Huckabees DVD
  -"How am I not myself?"
  
• Me and You and Everyone We Know DVD
  -"Poop."
• Walk the Line - soundtrack
  I grew-up listening to Johnny Cash and The Carter Family. Johnny and June singing "Jackson" on the Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison album is one of the best recordings ever. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon gave me chills when I heard them singing together.
  

A few albums from the last year or so…

• The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
  The third and best of their albums. "Razorblade" and "Ask Me Anything" are definitely my favorite tracks.
  
• Beck - Guero
  The ever evolving adorable scientologist goes a little old school. Shake your boo-tay to "Hell Yes."
  
• Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
  Somehow every time I listen to these versions, I forget David Bowie's lyrics. "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with." - David Bowie
  
• Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
  Especially the acoustic album. Dave Grohl is the man.

"I always tell the girls never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt. If you never get hurt you always have fun. And if you ever get lonely you just go to the record store and visit your
friends."

JOSH POLLACK

• Boris - Pink
  Jesus Christ, this thing's insane - just about the rockinest rock that ever rocked rock. (Sorry, but I gotta be a geek and specifically recommend the ridiculously expensive, almost-certainly-no-longeravailable
  vinyl version which has a superior mix and track order. Yeah, I know…)
• Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
  Jesus Christ, this thing's insane - like how Broadway musicals wound sound if they actually totally ruled instead of sucked, which is something I don't think I could've even imagined until I heard this.
  
• Scott Walker - The Drift
  Jesus Christ, this thing's insane - his last album, "Tilt," was one of the darkest, most relentless, most harrowing, bleakly beautiful records I'd ever heard, and this one makes it sound like a walk in the park. In fact, don't bother buying it; you're just gonna hate it.