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December 23, 2008 21:12

MICHAEL BARCLAY
1. James Pants, Welcome
2. Pas Chic Chic, Au Contraire
3. Veda Hille, This Riot Life
4. Forest City Lovers, Haunting Moon Sinking
5. Chad VanGaalen, Soft Airplane





STUART BERMAN
1. Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
2. TV on the Radio, Dear Science
3. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
4. Portishead, Third
5. The Dutchess and the Duke, She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke






CHRIS BILTON

1. Deerhoof, Offend Maggie
2. Fiery Furnaces, Remember
3. Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna
4. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
5. Black Mountain, In the Future




KEITH CARMAN

1. Toxic Holocaust, An Overdose of Death
2. Lords, Fuck All Y'All Motherfuckers
3. Arson Anthem, Arson Anthem
4. Cursed, III: Architects Of Troubled Sleep
5. Mötorhead, Motorizer





DEL F. COWIE

1. Q-Tip, The Renaissance
2. Invincible, Shapeshifters
3. Foreign Exchange, Leave It All Behind
4. Black Milk, Tronic
5. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Pt. 1





DAVID DACKS

1. Dubmatix, Renegade Rocker
2. Ocote Soul Sounds featuring Adrian Quesada, The Alchemist Manifesto
3. Various, Soul Messages from Dimona
4. Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath, Eclipse at Dawn
5. La India Canela, Merengue Tipico From The Dominican Republic





ROB DUFFY

1. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
2. Glasvegas, Glasvegas
3. Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
4. The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of The Understatement
5. MGMT, Oracular Spectacular




ALEX NINO GHECIU

1. Opeth, Watershed
2. Zach Hill, Astrological Straits
3. Q Tip, The Renaissance
4. Portishead, Third
5. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals





PAUL ISAACS

1. David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
2. Lindstrom, Where You Go I Go Too
3. Half Man Half Biscuit, CSI Ambleside
4. Herman Dune, Next Year in Zion
5. Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun










VISH KHANNA

1. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 — Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006
2. Noah23, Rock Paper Scissors
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Lie Down in the Light
4. HILOTRONS, Happymatic
5. Eric Chenaux, Sloppy Ground






CHANDLER LEVACK

1. One Hundred Dollars, Forest of Tears
2. Lil Wayne, The Carter 3
3. Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
4. Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
5. Chairlift, Does You Inspire You

DAVE MORRIS
1. Nine Inch Nails, The Slip
2. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
3. Castlemusic, You Can’t Take Anyone
4. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colors
5. Flying Lotus, Los Angeles









ADAM RADWANSKI

1. Okkervil River, The Stand-Ins
2. Elliott Brood, Mountain Meadows
3. The Walkmen, You & Me
4. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Cardinology
5. The Killers, Day & Age





CHRIS RANDLE

1. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
2. Marnie Stern, This Is It...
3. Feuermusik, No Contest
4. Ne-Yo, Year of the Gentleman
5. The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride





CHRIS ROLFE

1. Black Mountain, In the Future
2. Man Man, Rabbits Habits
3. Onedia, Preteen Weaponry
4. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
5. The Sword, Gods of the Earth





HELEN SPITZER

1. Veda Hille, This Riot Life
2. Joan As Police Woman, To Survive
3. Valery Gore, Avalanche to Wandering Bear
4. Glen Campbell, Meet Glen Campbell
5. Feuermusik, No Contest





JORDAN TIMM

1. Black Milk, Tronic
2. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 — Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006
3. GZA, Pro Tools
4. Portishead, Third
5. Vast Aire, Dueces Wild

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