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here goes: Year end List: Jazz / Classical / Creative / Improv / Experimental • Dave Douglas ‘Strange Liberation’ (RCA / Blue Bird) • Electric Masada (Tzadik) • Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quartet • Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone (Sony Classical) • Locus Solus Live (John Zorn birthday series volume 3) (Tzadik) Rock / Pop / Indie / Whatever • Brian Wilson ‘Smile’ (Nonesuch) • Green Day ‘American Idiot’ (Reprise) • Bjork ‘Medulla’ (Elektra) • Channels ‘Open’ (Desoto) • Black Eyes ‘Cough’ (Dischord) • ISIS ‘Panopticon’ (Ipecac) • Fantomas ‘ Delirium Cordia’ (Ipecac) • Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant ‘Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac) • Beastie Boys ‘To The 5 Bouroughs’ (Capitol) • Dillinger Escape Plan ‘Miss Machine’ (Relapse) • Converge ‘You Fail Me’ (Epitaph) • Neurosis ‘ ‘ (Neurot / Relapse) • Mission Of Burma ‘ On Off On’ (Matador) • Beta Band ‘Heroes to Zeros’ (Astralwerks) • Sonic Youth ‘Sonic Nurse’ (DGC) • Instruction ‘God Doesn’t Care’ (Geffen) • C4RT s/e demo (s/r) • Dechahedron Hip Hop • EL P ‘Collecting The Kid’ (Def Jux) • EL P ‘High Water (Mark) (Thirsty Ear) • Ghostface Killah ‘Tony Starks LP’ (Def Jam) • Eminem ‘Encore’ (Interscope / Aftermath) • Handsome Boy Modeling School ‘White People’ Reissues/Archival/Box sets/Etc. • Albert Ayler ‘Holy Ghost’ 10Xcd Box (Revenant) • Clash ‘London Calling’ 2Xcd / DVD reissue (Columbia / Sony) • Miles Davis ‘Seven Steps’ 7Xcd box (Columbia/Sony) • The Warmers ‘Wanted: More’ cd ep (Dischord) • Pavement ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’ 2xcd (Matador) • Nirvana ‘With The Lights Out’ (3Xcd 1 DVD) (DGC) • DNA • NIN ‘Downward Spiral’ 2Xcd 10 yr anniversary SACD 5.1 surround (Interscope) Most Welcome Comebacks: • Boredoms • Beastie Boys • Page Hamilton / Helmet (even though the new album wasn’t the best)\ • J. Robbins (comeback) / Channels (debut)