My list 2005

Best LPs:

• Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
• Tarantula A.D. - Book of Sand
• American Analog Set - Set Free
• Castanets - First Light’s Freeze
• Cocorosie - Noah’s Ark
• Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree

Best live:

• Akron/Family - Angels of Light show (May 2005)
• Coachwhips - “I Made a Bomb” (live)
• Ben Chasny/Gary Higgins on WFMU (July 2005)

Best songs:

• Dungen - “Panda” ("She was mine / but I guess you don’t give a shit")
• Skeletons and Girl-faced Boys - “Git”
• Times New Viking - “Not High”

Best hoax: tie between Jada Pinkett Smith as nu-metal rocker and “J. T. Leroy,” Truck-stop ‘ho, scamming the NYT Book Review

Best band name - Gay for Johnny Depp (and yes, I am)

Reissues/Collections:
Dylan/Scorcese thing
Yo La Tengo 3 CD set
Songs for Nao (Japanese compilatoin)

Vinyl only stuff:
Devendra Banhart/Jana Hunter split 12"
Oneida/Plastic Crimewave
The Decemberist's Picaresque Double LP

Record label:
JagJaguwar

Online Music Store:
Forced Exposure