Bonnie Prince Billy - Ask Forgiveness EP
Bears the ultimate sign of a massively enjoyable record: I can never pick which track is my favorite. Today it’s “Cycles.”

Black Mountain - In the Future
Actual Rock n Roll!

Wooden Shjips - self-titled
SF’s best band, bar none.

Karen Dalton - Cotton Eyed Joe
KD live in Colorado. Never thought we’d get to hear anything else from this gal! Sad sounding songs.

My So Called Life DVD Box set
Yeah, I had the other, older box set, but this one comes with so many more irresistible extras! Ricky, why’d you have to go and get new teeth?

Paul McCartney In-store at Amoeba Hollywood
It was unreal, people.

The Love Boat Season One (DVD)
At last! Well, it’s not out quite yet as I type this, but (aside from that upcoming Sun Kil Moon record) this is my most anticipated release of 2008!

KTL

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Lustmord and B.Osborn - Juggernaut

Wildildlife - Six

Tip: Uhhh…read This Band Could Be Your Life, watch Pink Floyd Live In Pompeii and listen to more Jethro Tull.

Pylon - Gyrate
Re-issue of ‘80s Athens, GA female-fronted post-punk mania. All you can eat!

Mika Miko - 666
Hear the thrilling fury and wild, pure punk joy from our fave L.A. girls!

G3 - Un Nuevo Enemigo
Re-issue (on vinyl!) of fantastic ‘80s Peruvian hardcore!

Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Another piece of ‘60s pre-punk, garage influenced fuzz-mayhem!

M.I.A. - Kala
Will you civil union-me?

New Stuff:
New Pornographers - Challengers

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Wire - Read and Burn 3

Luke Haines - Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop

Reissues:
Pylon - Gyrate
Dictators - Every Day Is Saturday
The Eat - It’s Not the Eat, It’s the Humidity

The Red Balloon - DVD
This timeless GEM of a film won’t be out ‘til April, but I STRONGLY recommend getting this, not only for yourself, but for your loved ones... a piece of my past.

Bad Brains - Build a Nation
The godfathers of Hardcore STILL got that supertouch!!

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters DVD
I just wanna’ give Steve Wiebe a big old hug... & give Billy Mitchell (the Billy Ray Cyrus of
the video arcade world) not only a much deserved kick in the bum, but a righteous haircut - ‘nuff said. Great doc-fi lm.

Downtown 81 - soundtrack
When I heard that this hard-to-find No- Wave soundtrack was being re-released, I was overjoyed!! Not only get this soundtrack, but by all means, SEE THE DVD! R.I.P. Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The entire KISSOLOGY collection
If you’re a KISS Army soldier (like myself from 1976), then you’re probably going plum retarded over all the goodies Gene (lets be real folks, this is all his doing... as always) is giving us on these 3 volumes.

Music Tip: There are many great nations, but the greatest nation of them all is... IMAGINATION!!!!

Comedy CDs
Doug Stanhope - Deadbeat Hero
Bill Hicks - Philosophy
Joe Rogan - Shiny Happy Jihad
Bill Burr - Emotionally Unavailable
David Cross - Shut Up You Fucking Baby!

Hip Hop CDs
T-Kash - Turf War Syndrom
Dead Prez - RBG
Paris - Sleeping With the Enemy
DJ Revolution - In 12s We Trust
Paris - Sonic Jihad

Other CDs
The Pogues - Red Roses for Me
Operation Ivy - Energy
Dead Kennedys - Bed Time for Democracy
Crass - Feeding the 5000
Born Dead - The Final Collapse

Music tip: Turn off the radio!!

Noisy People DVD
A film by Tim Perkis

Sun Ra - On Jupiter

Henry Kaiser - Playola

Paul Mooney - Jesus Was Black....

Bob Dylan - Dylan

Chris Brown - Now That You’re Fed
A Bay Area filmmaker by day, Chris Brown crafts sophisticated pop tunes full of haunting melodies and sublime arrangements in the vein of Elliott Smith and Josh Rouse.

Mitch Easter - Dynamico
18 years after Let’s Active’s final record, the iconic Southern producer/musician releases his first solo album, and wow...is it ever a stunner! Time has not dulled his jangle pop, power pop, and guitar-hero genius.

The Feeling - Twelve Stops and Home
This British quintet channels the golden age of ‘70s AM rock with their lush harmonies, massive hooks, and stadiumsized production. Do yourself a favor and buy the original import version; the artwork and song order are far superior to the domestic release.

Mellowmen - Tomorrow’s Sound Today
Sweden’s retro-minded Mellowmen hit all the major touchstones (McCartney, Wilson, Rhodes, etc.) yet manage to keep their sound fresh and inspired. Brilliant from start to finish, this is absolutely my favorite
album of the year!

The Red Button - She’s About To Cross My Mind
11 tracks, 32 minutes of sugar-soaked, candy-coated, jangle pop heaven from Seth Swirsky and Mike Ruekberg.

The Singles - Start Again
Four years after their acclaimed debut, Detroit’s The Singles reformed as a trio, and are sporting a new garage-y crunch to their infectious power pop hooks.

More music that blew my skirt up in 2007:

Anton Barbeau with Sue Jordan - The Automatic Door

Candy Butchers - Making Up Time
(early recordings 1994-98)

Cloud Eleven - Sweet Happy Life

Future Clouds & Radar - s/t
(Robert Harrison of Cotton Mather)

Jason Falkner - I’m OK You’re OK
(Japanese Import)

The Family Tree - Miss Butters
(reissue)

Field Music - Tones Of Town

Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature

Richard X. Heyman - Actual Sighs

The Makes Nice - Candy Wrapper & Twelve Other Songs!
(Josh Smith of Fucking Champs)

The Makes Nice - This Time Tomorrow mas rapido! - Pity Party

Myracle Brah - Can You Hear The Myracle Brah?

New Pornographers - Challengers

P. Hux - Kiss The Monster

Mark Roebuck with Noonday Ruin - Some Half-Remembered Thing
(previously of The Deal)

Shalini - The Surface And The Shine

Greg Summerlin - All Done In Good Time

Superdrag - Changin’ Tires on the Road to Ruin
(B-sides & rarities)

Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely/ Twilley Don’t Mind
(reissue)

David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band