Employee Picks

Justin Sowers





Justin's  Best Of 2012

1. Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats - Blood Lust
2. Oh Sees - Putrifiers II EP
3. Windhand - s/t
4. Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic
5. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
6. Ty Segall - Twins
7. Colleen Green - Milo Goes To Compton
8. Koi Pond - So Higher
9. Allah-Las - s/t
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Don't Bend, Ascend
11. Kadavar - s/t
12. Radar Eyes - s/t
13. Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale
14. White Fence - Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2
15. Samothrace - Reverence To Stone
16. Sunflare - Ghetto Blast
17. Beach House - Bloom
18. Goat - World Music
19. Bell Witch - Longing
20. Ty Segall/White Fence - Hair 

Top 20 of All Time (in alphabetical order):
Beatles - Revolver
Beck - Mellow Gold
Dead Meadow - s/t
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
Gerbils - Are You Sleepy?
Hickey - Various States of Disrepair
Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Monks - Black Monk Time
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Dusk At Cubist Castle
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Queens of the Stone Age - s/t
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t
Woods - Songs of Shame
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle



Travis Searle





Travis's  Best Of 2012

1. Wild Nothing – Nocturne
2. Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
3. Niki & the Dove - Instinct
4. David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
2:54 - S/T
Beach House - Bloom
Dan Deacon - America
Diiv - Oshin
Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Holograms - S/T
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Ty Segall - Twins
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Terry Malts - Killing Time
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
Twin Shadow - Confess
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Violens - True
Windhand - S/T

Favorites of All Time (6/1/2010 version):
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Ramones - S/T
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Mika Miko - We Be XUXA
Replacements - Let It Be
David Bowie - Scary Monsters



Will Muir





Will's  Best Of 2012

Allah-Las – S/T
Beach House – Bloom
Cat Power - Sun
Cate LeBon – Cyrk
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
Death Grips – The Money Store
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
The Fresh & Onlys – Long Slow Dance
Grimes – Visions
Off! – OFF!
A Place To Bury Strangers – Worship
Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
Seapony – Falling
Slug Guts – Playin’ In Time With The Deadbeat
Terry Malts – Killing Time
Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II
Tim Maia – Nobody Can Live Forever
Ty Segall – Twins
Violens – True
Wymond Miles – Under The Pale Moon

Top 20 All Time (at least so far):
Prince - Dirty Mind
New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
Velvet Underground - S/T
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
The Cure - Japanese Whispers
The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Stone Roses - S/T
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Caberet
New York Dolls - S/T



Jon Lambeth





2012
A TO AUSTR - musics from holyground - anazitisi
DEAD MEADOW - peel sessions - prune pendant
ETERNAL TAPESTRY - a world out of time - thrill jockey
KOI POND - so higher - sonic meditations
MOUNT CARMEL - real women - siltbreeze
RAAJMAHAL - raajmahal - kelippah
SIC ALPS - sic alps - drag  city
SUNFLARE - ghetto blast - bat shit
WHITE FENCE - family perfume - woodsist
ZELIENOPLE - the world is a house on fire - type
 
2011
THE BACHS - out of the bachs - time-lag
CHARALAMBIDES - exile - kranky
GROUPER - a i a - yellow electric
KING BLOOD - eyewash silver - permanent
SEAN MCCANN - the capital - aguirre
LEE NOBLE - no becoming - sweat lodge guru
THEE OH SEES - carrion crawler - in the red
JAKOB OLAUSSON - morning & sunrise - de stijl
SIC ALPS - napa asylum - drag city
WOODEN WAND - briarwood - mad monk

2010
BIG BLOOD - dead songs - time-lag
PAUL CARY - ghost of a man - stankhouse
FRACTION - moon blood - mexican summer
LES RALLIZES DENUDES - heavier than a death in the family - phoenix
MV & EE - liberty rose - arbitrary signs
ROBEDOOR - burners - important
SUN ARAW - on patrol - not not fun
TWELLS & CHRISTENSEN - coasts - digitalis
WOODEN WAND - death seat - young god
YELLOW SWANS - going places - type



Tom Goheen





Tom's  Best Of 2012

Arcing - Doubt
Anvil Salute - Black Bear Rug
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior
Evan Caminiti - Dreamless Sleep
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance
Golden Retriever - Occupied With the Unspoken
Gravenhurst - The Ghost In Daylight
Grimes - Visions
How To Dress Well - Total Loss
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Visiting This World
JJ Doom - Keys to the Kuffs
Jon Porras - Black Mesa
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
Panabrite - The Baroque Atrium
Pulse Emitter - Aeons
Purity Ring - Shrines
The Sea and Cake - Runner
Serengeti - C.A.R.
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Steve Hauschildt - Sequitur
Terry Malts - Killing Time
Tim Hecker/Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist
Ty Segall - Twins
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be
Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon
Zelienople - The World Is A House On Fire

Favorite Albums (in no order):
The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Unwound - New Plastic Ideas and Future of What and Repetition
Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving
Billy Bragg - Workers Playtime
Kind of Like Spitting - Thrill of the Hunt
Stars of the Lid - And the Refinement of Their Decline
Growing - The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Why? - Alopecia
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... 
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
OCS - S/T (Orinoka Crash Suite)
Joan of Arc - How Memory Works and The Gap
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Bedhead - Beheaded
Mount Eerie - Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie
Odd Nosdam - Burner
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Elliott Smith - Self-Titled
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend
The New Year - The End Is Near
The Party of Helicopters - Please Believe It
The Bananas - Forbidden Fruit
Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
American Football - S/T Album + EP
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
Shellac - At Action Park
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Tiny Hawks - Fingers Become Bridges
Wipers - Is This Real?
Windy & Carl - Consciousness
Hickey - Self-Titled
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Ween - The Pod
Papa M - Whatever, Mortal
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Sonic Youth - Dirty or Sister
J Church - Nostalgic For Nothing (singles collection)
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
Beck - Sea Change
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock



Joey Powell





Joey's  Best Of 2012

1) Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
2) Windhand - S/T
3) Terry Malts - Killing Time
4) Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
5) Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
6) EL-P - Cancer 4 Cure
7) High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
8) Wild Nothing - Nocturne
9) Ty Segall/White Fence - Hair
10) Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
11) Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale
12) NAILS - Unsilent Death
13) Danny Brown - XXX
14) Niki & The Dove - Instinct
15) DIIV - Oshin
16) JEFF The Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights
17) Summer Girlfriends - Shockwaves
18) Intelligence - Everybody's Got It But Me
19) Twin Shadow - Confess
20) Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior



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Johnny Carleton





Johnny's  Best Of 2012

1. Wild Nothing – Nocturne
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2. Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
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3. Joey Bada$$ - 1999
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4. Kadavar - S/T
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5. Ty Segall - Twins
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6. Terry Malts - Killing Time
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7. Windhand - S/T
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8. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Don't Hear It...Fear It
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9. Blue Sky Black Death and Nacho Picasso - Exalted
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10. All of the following:
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Colleen Green - Milo Goes to Compton
El-P - Cancer For Cure
Danny Brown - XXX
Samothrace - Reverence to Stone
David Byrne and St. Vincent - Love This Giant
Summer Girlfriends – Shockwaves



Blake Hight





Blakes's  Best Of 2012

1.)Lilacs & Champagne – Lilacs & Champagne
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2.)Liars – WIXIW
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3.)Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
4.)Ty Segall - Twins
5.)Grizzly Bear – Shields
6.)Daughn Gibson – All Hell
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7.)Thee Oh Sees – Putifiers II
8.)Sinkane – Mars
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9.)Alt J – Awesome Wave
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10.)Tame Impala – Lonerism
11.)Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
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12.)Gap Dream – Gap Dream
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13.)Shintaro Sakamoto – How To Live With A Phantom
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14.)Mac Demarco – 2
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15.)Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
16.)Goat- World Music
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17.)Ultraísta - Ultraísta
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18.)Allah Las - Allah Las
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19.)Hundred Waters- Hundred Waters
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20.) Chromatics - Kill For Love

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