Staff Picks
BEST OF 2006

John:
Gomez - How We Operate
Tom Petty- Highway Companion
The Pennies - 10,000 Things
The Beatles - Love

Rebecca:
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - FUTURESEXLOVESOUNDS
One of the few albums the entire staff gets into, even if they won't admit it. There's some amazing songs on this album and it allows us the opportunity to bring the sexy back.

VINCE GILL - THESE DAYS
You can't go wrong with this guy and this is his best yet. Four cds for under $30 and each is as strong as the last. You owe it to yourself to check it out! His show in Louisville was one of the best I've seen in years!

HANK WILLIAMS III - STRAIGHT TO HELL
TONY LUCCA - CANYON SONGS
DIXIE CHICKS - TAKING THE LONG WAY
This in your face and beautiful album is amazingly well done and proves everyone wrong who doubted them. Every last song is great and the lyrics will leave an impression for quite some time.


Jamie:
THIS HEAT - OUT OF COLD STORAGE
BAD BRAINS - LIVE AT CBGB DVD
YOUNG WIDOWS - SETTLE DOWN CITY
CRIMINAL DAMAGE - ST
VA/GOOD GOD! A GOSPEL FUNK HYMNAL

Bryan:
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Built to Spill -You in Reverse
GirlTalk - Night Ripper
T.I. - King
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Peter:
Jo Jo - High Road
Soundtrack - Grease
Soundtrack - Mamma Mia
Young Joc - New Joc City
Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

Rob:
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale and More Fish
Dudley Perkins - Expressions :2012 A.U.
Dosh - The Lost Take
Brightback Morning Light - ST
J-Dilla - Donuts
Snowden - Anti-Anti
Spank Rock - YoYo YoYo Yo
Clipse/Hell Hath No Fury
Sitar Beat - Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol.1

Will:
Scott Walker - The Drift
Neko Case -Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
Beirut - Gulag Orchestra
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

Dwight:
Strange Fruit Project- The Healing on Records
Robb Scott - Afro Odyssey
Amp Fiddler - Afro Strut
DJ Junior - Lend Me Your Ear
Lauren Cunningham & Noizejoi - Sunny Days

Matt:
Ice Cube - Laugh Now Cry Later
Nina Simone - Remixed & Reimagined
Michael Cleveland - Let Er Go Boys
Black Angels - Passover
TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Doug:
BOB DYLAN - MODERN TIMES
After 45 years of making records and a tour that never ends, Bob Dylan's voice is now a ghost-like snarl, a big black bird circling over the song. This specter of a voice crackles and croons through 10 deceptively simple and complex blues songs about Proletariats, floods, and love. This album is one of the best of his career.

BEIRUT-GULAG ORKESTAR
JOANNA NEWSOM - Ys
TOM WAITS - ORPHANS
ALI FARKA TOURE - SAVANE

Sean:
GirlTalk - Night Ripper
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Destroyer - Destroyers Rubies
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys - Centennial: Legends of Country Boxset
Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
Juana Molina - Son
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
M. Ward - Post War
Jamie Barnes - Re Calibrated Heart

Jason:
Uzeda - Stella
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Liberation Prophecy - Last Exit Angel
Juana Molina - Son
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Todd:
Meshuggah - Nothing Special Edition 2 Disc
This Heat - Out of Cold Storage
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope Remastered +Bonus tracks
Neko Case - Live from Austin TX DVD
Uzeda - Stella
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
A Scanner Darkly DVD
The Melvins - Senile Animal
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
Juana Molina - Son

Randy
VA - How Low Can You Go
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Josef K - Entomology
Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World

Brad:
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Tool - 10,000 Days
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Peeping Tom - ST

Ryan C.:
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
Noel Ellis - ST
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Kokanko Sata - ST

Mark:
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Josh Turner - Your Man
Emmylou Harris/Mark Knopfler - All the Roadrunning
Paul Simon - Surprise

Ben:
Extra Golden - OK Oyot System
Tom Waits - Orphans:Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
VA - Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
Nels Cline - New Monastery
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

Benny:
J. Glenn/Long Time No See
The Pennies - Come We Go
The Phantom Family Halo - The Legend of Black Six
Stonecutters - ST
Valley of Ashes - Cave Hill Hunter

Will Mc:
J-Dilla - Donuts
VA - Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
Beck - Information
Madlib - Beat Konducta Volumes 1 & 2
Radio Citizen - Berlin Serengeti

Sam:
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Ibrahim Ferrer - Best of Buena Vista
Scofield,Medeski,Martin, and Wood - Out Louder
Amos Lee - Supply and Demand
Dallas Alice - Social

Alexis:
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Captain Beefheart - Under Review DVD
Spanky Wilson - Quantic Soul Orchestra
Black Angels - Passover

Chip:
The 3 Foot People - 3 Foot High & Rising
A Freddie Cruger project. Smooth, Infectious Stuff.
The Black Keys - Chulahoma
Tribute to the late, great Juniour Kimbrough. Man, Those guys are good.

Rob Symeonn - The Chosen One
Haven't heard a reggae record this good in years. Hopefully this genre has more like this guy in the que.

AfterLife - The Afterlife Lounge
Damn, pour me a Martini(or two). Hard to keep yourself from groovin' to this one.

The Lemonheads - ST
Glad to see these boys are back. Old school power pop at it's best.

Dani:
Portugal. the Man - Waiter: You Vultures!
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Russian Circles - Enter
Fear Before the March of Flames - Always Open Mouth
As Tall As Lions - ST

Ryan H.:
Beatles - Love
P.O.S. - Audition
Johnny Cash - American V
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

Jake:
Peeping Tom - ST
Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
The Melvins - Senile Animal
Miho Hatori - Ecdysis
Hulk Hogan The Ultimate Anthology DVD