Another six months, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here’s every title that found its way into my ears and onto the site in the first six months of 2023:
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Les Abranis | Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983
The Academic | Sitting Pretty
Acid Arab | ٣
Terry Adams & Steve Ferguson | Louisville Sluggers
Adrenochrome | In Memoriam
Afflecks Palace | The Only Light In This Tunnel Is The Oncoming Train
The Alarm | Forwards
Algiers | Shook
The Allergies | Reconcile EP
All Them Witches | Baker’s Dozen
ALO | Silver Saturdays
Altin Gün | Aşk
American Restless | Rust Belt Rock N Roll
Matt Andersen | The Big Bottle Of Joy
The Andretti | Chaos Arcadia EP
Ann-Margret | Born To Be Wild
Anti-Flag | Lies They Tell Our Children
The Answer | Sundowners
Arbor Labor Union | Yonder
The Arcs | Electrophonic Chronic
Avenged Sevenfold | Life Is But A Dream…
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Baby Charles | Baby Charles 15th Anniversary Edition
Baby Cool | Earthling On The Road To Self Love
Babymetal | The Other One
Bacchus | Celebration
Bad//Dreems | Hoo Ha!
The Bad Ends | The Power And The Glory
The Band Of Heathens | Simple Things
Del Barber | Almanac
The Barnestormers | The Barnestormers
Barnyard Stompers | Hellraisin’ Redneck Metalheads
The Baseball Project | Grand Salami Time
Bass Drum Of Death | Say I Won’t
Bdrmm | I Don’t Know
Beach Fossils | Bunny
Beach Moonsters | Walk Like A Moonster
Begonia | Powder Blue
Belle & Sebastian | Late Developers
Lakecia Benjamin | Phoenix
Bent Arcana | Live At Zebulon
The Bevis Frond | Long Stuff
Eric Bibb | Ridin’
Big|Brave | Nature Morte
Big Freedia | Central City
Bikini Beach | Appetizer
Gina Birch | I Play My Bass Loud
Black Honey | A Fistful Of Peaches
Black Rainbows | Superskull
Terry Blade | Ethos: Son Of A Sharecropper
Los Blenders | Playa Privada EP
Blondshell | Blondshell
Blood, Sweat & Tears | What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears Original Score
Blood, Sweat & Tears | What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears Soundtrack
Blowers | Blown Again
The Bohannons | Night Construction
The Bomboras | Songs From Beyond!
The Boo Radleys | Eight
Jake Borgemenke & Joey Joesph | Subliminal Clave
Boygenius | The Record
Boyo | Science Fiction
Pennan Brae | Arcade
Brainiac | Predator Nominate EP
David Brewis | The Soft Struggles
Brian Jonestown Massacre | The Future Is Your Past
Bronco Bullfrog | Bronco Bullfrog
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown | Dirty Work EP
Buck 65 | Super Dope
Buckcherry | Vol. 10
Buen Destino | Buen Destino
Buffalo Killers | Stay Tuff / Lost Cuts
The Buff Medways | A Box of Buffs
The Bug Club | Green Dream in F#
Bully | Lucky For You
Bobbo Byrnes | October
Bzdet | Daleko OD OK
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Cable Ties | All Her Plans
John Cale | Mercy
Calico | A Midnight Moon
Califone | Villagers
Carbellion | Weapons Of Choice
The Cash Box Kings | Oscar’s Motel
Catch As Catch Can | Rational Anthems
Chat Pile / Nerver | Brothers In Christ
Grian Chatten | Chaos For The Fly
Cheater Slicks | Ill-Fated Cusses
Atsuko Chiba | Water, It Feels Like It’s Growing
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies | Fall Line
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Failure Not Success
Choncy | Community Chest
Circa Waves | Never Going Under
City And Colour | The Love Still Held Me Near
Civic | Taken By Force
The Clamor | The Clamor
Eric Clapton | The Definitive 24 Nights
Brandy Clark | Brandy Clark
Class | But Who’s Reading Me?
Clavicule | Full Of Joy
Harry Cloud | The Cyst
Clouds Taste Satanic | Tales Of Demonic Possession
Cat Clyde | Down Rounder
Bruce Cockburn | O Sun O Moon
Codefendants | This Is Crime Wave
Coilguns | Live At Soulcrusher
Lloyd Cole | On Pain
Colony House | The Cannonballers
Combustible Edison | Forbidden Isle Of Demos
Common Wounds | Common Wounds
Communism | Lovespeech
Gaz Coombes | Turn The Car Around
Alice Cooper | Killer Deluxe Edition
Alice Cooper | School’s Out Deluxe Edition
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach | The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello
Country Westerns | Forgive The City
The Courettes | Back in Mono B-Sides & Outtakes
The Courettes | Boom! Dynamite (An Introduction To The Fabulous Courettes)
Cowboy Junkies | Such Ferocious Beauty
Crocodiles | Upside Down In Heaven
Crossed Keys | Believes In You
Rodney Crowell | The Chicago Sessions
Crown Lands | Fearless
The Crust Brothers | Marquee Mark
Cut | Dead City Nights
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Daddy Long Legs | Street Sermons
Roger Damawuzan | Seda
The Damned | Darkadelic
The Darts | Snake Oil
Claire Davis | Get It Right
Dayglo Abortions | Upside Down World
Dead Bird | In The Absence Of
Deadeye Navigator | Retronoid
The Dead Milkmen | Quaker City Quiet Pills
Death Valley Girls | Islands In The Sky
Angelo De Augustine | Toil And Trouble
Deerhoof | Miracle-Level
Deer Tick | Emotional Contracts
Ben de la Cour | Sweet Anhedonia
Depeche Mode | Memento Mori
Mike Derrick | Shades Of You
dEUS | How To Replace It
DeWolff | Love, Death & In Between
Diminished Men | Damage Mécanique
The Dirty Nil | Free Rein To Passions
Dobbeltgjenger | The Twins
DoctoR DooM | A Shadow Called Danger
The Dogs | Starvation
Dommengang | Wished Eye
Gord Downie & Bob Rock | Lustre Parfait
Dozer | Drifting In The Endless Void
The Dream Syndicate | History Kinda Pales When It And You Are Aligned: The Days Of Wine and Roses
Dream Wife | Social Lubrication
The Drin | Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
Drive-By Truckers | The Complete Dirty South
Dropkick Murphys | Okemah Rising
The Ducks | High Flyin’
Dudes | Eternal Is The Fruit
Richard Duguay | Beautiful Decline
Baxter Dury | I Thought I Was Better Than You
Dust Bowl Faeries | Carnival Dust
The Dust Collectors | Filtered Gems
Bob Dylan | Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17
Bob Dylan | Shadow Kingdom
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Easy Star All-Stars | Ziggy Stardub
Ecstatic Vision | Live At Duna Jam
Elephant Rifle | Broken Water
Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter | Guilty Pleasures (ft. Nate Smith)
Scott Ellison | Zero-2-Sixty
El Michels Affair & Black Thought | Glorious Game
Endless, Nameless | Living Without
Equipment Pointed Ankh | From Inside The House
Tianna Esperanza | Terror
Alexis Evans | Yours Truly
Everything But The Girl | Fuse
Erol Evgin | Deli Divane
Evil Drop | Evil Drop
Ex Pilots | Ex Pilots
Eyelids | A Colossal Waste Of Light
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Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward | Happy Hearts
Andy Fairweather Low | Flang Dang
Fake Hands | Fake Hands
Fall Out Boy | So Much (For) Stardust
Fantastic Negrito | Grandfather Courage (Acoustic)
The Features | The Mahaffey Sessions 1999
Feist | Multitudes
Fews | Glass City
Robert Ffrench | Wondering
FIDLAR | That’s Life
Alex Figueira | Mentallogenic
The Kevin Fingier Collective | El Sonido De Fingier Records
Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton | Death Wish Blues
Fixtures | Hollywood Dog
Florry | Sweet Guitar Solos
Ben Folds | What Matters Most
Foo Fighters | But Here We Are
Forever Pavot | L’Idiophone
Freeroad | Do What You Feel!
John Frusciante | .I:
John Frusciante | :II.
Fucked Up | One Day
Robbie Fulks | Bluegrass Vacation
Fvzz Popvli | III
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Gadsby & Sköl | Gadsby & Sköl
Galen & Paul | Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Council Skies
Ron Gallo | Foreground Music
Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford | I Need Your Lovin’: The Fire Sessions
GA-20 | Live in Loveland
Geese | 3D Country
Ghost | Phantomime EP
Ghost Woman | Anne, If
Giant Brain | Grade A Gray Day
Glyders | Maria’s Hunt
Gnoomes | Ax Ox
Godcaster | Godcaster
Golden Grass | Life Is Much Stranger
Gorillaz | Cracker Island
The Go! Team | Get Up Sequences Part Two
Gov’t Mule | Peace…Like A River
Grade 2 | Grade 2
Grandma’s Ashes | This Too Shall Pass
The Grateful Dead | Here Comes Sunshine 1973
Great Lake Swimmers | Uncertain Country
Guided By Voices | La La Land
Guitar Fight from Fooly Cooly | Drought
Gypsy Wizard Queen | Gypsy Wizard Queen
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Albert Hammond Jr. | Melodies On Hiatus
Håndgemeng | Ultraritual
Cory Hanson | Western Cum
Hard-Ons | Ripper ’23
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows | Hail To The Underground
Ben Harper | Wide Open Light
Ron Hawkins | Trash Talkin’ At The Speed Of Sound EP
H. Hawkline | Milk For Flowers
Hawkwind | The Future Never Waits
Hayden | Are We Good
Thee Headcoats | Irregularis (The Great Hiatus)
Kevin Hearn & Hugh Marsh | Dreaming Of The ’80s
The Heavy | Amen
Heavy Blanket | Moon Is
Heavy Mother | Comical Uncertainty
Helpful Hands | Racklin’ Uptown
Helvetia | Dream Faster III
Joe Henry | All The Eye Can See
Rip Hickie & King Khan | Haunted & Hunted
Highway 61 | Driving South
Susanna Hoffs | The Deep End
Hokus Poke | Earth Harmony
The Hold Steady | The Price Of Progress
Lonnie Holley | Oh Me, Oh My
Home Is Where | The Whaler
Hotel Lux | Hands Across the Creek
Ian Hunter | Defiance Part 1
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Ibex Clone | All Channels Clear
Rob Ickes And Trey Hensley | Living In A Song
The Inspector Cluzo | Horizon
Intercourse | Halo Castration Institute
Isaak | Hey
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Weathervanes
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Olivia Jean | Raving Ghost
Eilen Jewell | Get Behind The Wheel
JIP | Thought This Was Over
Billy Joel | Live At The Great American Music Hall
Elton John | Honky Château 50th Anniversary Reissue
Benny Johnson | Visions of Paradise
Calvin Johnson | Gallows Wine
Durand Jones | Wait Til I Get Over
Ian Jones | Results Not Typical
Rickie Lee Jones | Pieces Of Treasure
Ivan Julian | Swing Your Lanterns
July Talk | Remember Never Before
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Joe Keithley | Stand
Killer Mike | Michael
Kinetic Orbital Strike | Kinetic Orbital Strike
King Ayisoba | Work Hard
Elle King | Come Get Your Wife
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Live At Red Rocks ’22
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Petrodragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation
King Howl | Homecoming
King Khan | The Nature Of Things
King Krule | Space Heavy
King Size | King Size
King Tuff | Smalltown Stardust
Klimaforandringer | Mørket På Solens Krop
Knuckle | Life’s A Bench, Then They Put Your Name On It
Kool Keith | Black Elvis 2
Koyo | Drives Out East Deluxe Edition
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Alex Lahey | The Answer Is Always Yes
The Laissez Fairs | Singing In Your Head
Lambrini Girls | You’re Welcome EP
The Lancasters | Standard Family Size
Bettye LaVette | LaVette!
Leeches! | Periodical Fits
The Lemon Twigs | Everything Harmony
The Len Price 3 | Chinese Burn Deluxe Edition
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists | Heaven’s Off EP
//LESS | Social Disappointment EP
Jenny Lewis | Joy’All
Murray A. Lightburn | Once Upon A Time In Montreal
Lightning Dust | Nostalgia Killer
Little Feat | Dixie Chicken Deluxe Edition
Little Feat | Sailin’ Shoes Deluxe Edition
Liturgy | 93696
Live Skull | Party Zero
Lo! | The Gleaners
Loki’s Folly | Sisu
The Long Ryders | September November
The Lords Of Altamont | To Hell With Tomorrow The Lords Are Now!
The Lost Days | In The Store
LOTEC | Squares
Lowland Brothers | Lowland Brothers
Lucero | Should’ve Learned By Now
Lüger | Revelations Of The Sacred Skull
The Luka State | More Than This
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Madee | Conundrum
Taj Mahal | Savoy
Måneskin | Rush!
Desire Marea | On The Romance Of Being
Master Danse | Feelin Dead
Glen Matlock | Consequences Coming
Mike Matteson | I’m A Sketchy Freak
Dave Matthews Band | Walk Around The Moon
Maximillian | Maximillian
Eamon McGrath | A Dizzying Lust
Eamon McGrath | Death & Taxes
Eamon McGrath | Fireworks & Roses
Eamon McGrath | Ghosts Of The 401
Eamon McGrath | In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
Eamon McGrath | Liar’s Paradise
Eamon McGrath | March 22, 2022
Eamon McGrath | Trout River Conspiracy
Dan Melchior Band | Welcome To Redacted City
John Mellencamp | Orpheus Descending
Alex Melton | Southern Charm
Memorrhage | Memorrhage
The Men | New York City
Natalie Merchant | Keep Your Courage
Metallica | 72 Seasons
M(h)aol | Attachment Styles
Miesha & The Spanks | Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi
Militarie Gun | Life Under The Gun
Minami Deutsch | Fortune Goodies
The Minus 5 | Calling Cortez: Neil Vol. 3
Moby | Resound NYC
Molina, Talbot, Lofgren & Young | All Roads Lead Home
Janelle Monáe | The Age Of Pleasure
Moonlight Benjamin | Wayo
Moonpedro & Sinking Ship | Kin
Kevin Morby | More Photographs (A Continuum)
Van Morrison | Moving On Skiffle
Motorpsycho | Yay!
Mozart Estate | Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping
Mudhoney | Plastic Eternity
Mule Haggard | No Choice But To Carry On
The Murder Capital | Gigi’s Recovery
The Murlocs | Calm Ya Farm
Nat Myers | Yellow Peril
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Nag | Human Coward Coyote
Graham Nash | Now
The National | First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
Bill Nelson | Marvellous Realms
Bobbie Nelson & Amanda Shires | Loving You
Willie Nelson | I Don’t Know A Thing About Love
Neon Leon | 1979-84 Singles Collection
The New Old | The New Old
The New Pornographers | Continue As A Guest
Jared James Nichols | Jared James Nichols
Nickel Creek | Celebrants
Night Court | Humans!
The 1984 Draft | Best Friends Forever
The No Ones | My Best Evil Friend
NRBQ | Tiddlywinks Reissue
The Nude Party | Rides On
Nutana | Nutana
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Object Heavy | Love & Gravity
Thee Oh Sees | Live at Levitation
Oliver | Stone Unturned
Henrik Olsson | Hand of Benediction II
Onoskelis | Unheard Horrors of the Third Dimension
Oof | What’s Bad Is Good
Oozing Wound | We Cater To Cowards
Orchestra Gold | Medicine
Sir Alhaji Waziri Oshomah & His Traditional Sound Makers | Vol. 2 Reissue
Ottis Cœur | Léon
Ottto | Life Is A Game
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Panthervision | Now In 3-D
Paramore | This Is Why
Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine
Pascow | Sieben
Joe Perry | Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII
Peuk | Escape Somehow
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Land Of Sleeper
Pikacyu-Makoto | Galaxilympics
Pink Floyd | The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Edition
The Pink Stones | You Know Who
Pollo Del Mar | Speed Of Dark
Iggy Pop | Every Loser
Portugal. The Man | Chris Black Changed My Life
Posh Swat | Post Swat
Louise Post | Sleepwalker
Margo Price | Strays
Tommy Prine | This Far South
Protomartyr | Formal Growth In The Desert
The Psychotic Monks | Pink Colour Surgery
Public Body | Big Mess
Pure Adult | II
Purling Hiss | Drag On Girard
Pynch | Howling at a Concrete Moon
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Quasi | Breaking The Balls Of History
Queens Of The Stone Age | In Times New Roman…
Quiz Show | Quiz Show
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Sun Ra & His Arkestra | Ellingtonia, Vol. 2
Rachael & Vilray | I Love A Love Song!
The Ragged Jubilee | Mulholland Overdrive
Rainbows Are Free | Heavy Petal Music
Rancid | Tomorrow Never Comes
The Revivalists | Pour It Out Into The Night
The Ringo Jets | Radio Ringo
Rival Sons | Darkfighter
Álex Rodríguez | Búsqueda
The Rolling Stones | GRRR Live!
Romeo Void | Live From Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980
Esther Rose | Safe To Run
Dex Romweber | Good Thing Goin’
R. Ring | War Poems, We Rested
The Ruby Tuesdays | Food For Thought
Vic Ruggiero | Stuff In My Pockets
Rush | Signals 40th Anniversary Edition
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Angels In Science Fiction
The St Pierre Snake Invasion | Galore
Screaming Females | Desire Pathway
Screamin’ Witch Doctors | Back from Transylvania
The Secret Machines | The Moth, The Lizard, And The Secret Machines
Philip Selway | Strange Dance
7Seconds | Walk Together, Rock Together Remastered
Ron Sexsmith | The Vivian Line
Shame | Food For Worms
The Shang Hi Los | Aces Eights & Heartbreaks
Andy Shauf | Norm
Shit Present | What Still Gets Me
The Shits | You’re A Mess
Shoefiti | CityT error
Shonen Knife | Our Best Place
The Shootouts | Stampede
Sial | Sangkar
Sigur Rós | Átta
Silver Moth | Black Bay
Paul Simon | Seven Psalms
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Nancy & Lee Again 50th Anniversary Edition
Sir Douglas Quintet | Texas Tornado Live: Doug Weston’s Troubadour 1971
Skrillex | Quest For Fire
Skull Practitioners | Negative Stars
Slander Tongue | Monochrome
Sleaford Mods | UK Grim
Slowthai | Ugly
Slug | Thy Socialite!
Smashing Pumpkins | Atum Act 2
Smashing Pumpkins | Atum Act 3
Soft Shoulder | Real Good (Sorry We Opened It)
Son Volt | Day Of The Doug
Sparks | The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Steel Panther | On The Prowl
Stephen Stills | Live At Berkeley 1971
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys In The Campfire | Wronger
Stöner | Boogie To Baja
Stoner Bud’s | Vampires
Strange Attractor | Good Boy Bad Boy
Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives | Altitude
Dick Stusso | S.P.
Laurie Styvers | Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings
The Subways | Uncertain Joys
Sunny War | Anarchist Gospel
Swans | The Beggar
Sweat | Who Do They Think They Are?
Sweeping Promises | Good Living Is Coming For You
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma | The Battle of Images Suite: A Tribute to Paul Robeson
The Tearaways | And For Our Next Trick
Teke::Teke | Hagata
10 000 Russos | Live In Berlin
Thin Lizzy | Live and Dangerous Super Deluxe Edition
This Is The Kit | Careful Of Your Keepers
Those Pretty Wrongs | Holiday Camp
The 3 Clubmen | The 3 Clubmen
Tidal Wave | The Lord Knows
Los Tiki Phantoms | Papá Soy Una Zombie
Timmy’s Organism | Lone Lizard
Tinariwen | Amatssou
Titus Andronicus | Basement Brainstorm
Trading Aces | Rock ’N’ Roll Homicide
Triple Fast Action | Triple Fast Action
Andy Trithardt | I Am A Unique Flower
Tropical Fuck Storm | Submersive Behaviour
Tunic | Wrong Dream
Andrina Turenne | Bold As Logs
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth | Secret Stratosphere
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Kris Ulrich | Big In The USA
Ulaan Khol | Milk Thistle
Ulrika Spacek | Compact Trauma
U2 | Songs Of Surrender
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Steve Vai | Vai / Gash
Various Artists | Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip
Various Artists | Penny & The Quarters & Friends
Various Artists | RidingEasy Records: Scrap Metal Volume 2
Various Artists | Tapetopia 013: GDR Undergroundtapes 1980-1990
Various Artists | Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
The Velvet Underground | Loaded Fully Re-Loaded Edition
Ernie Vincent | Original Dap King
Vintage Trouble | Heavy Hymnal
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Waco Brothers | The Men That God Forgot
Rufus Wainwright | Folkocracy
Elder Jack Ward | The Storm
M. Ward | Supernatural Thing
The Watchmen | Silent Radar Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition
Nick Waterhouse | The Fooler
Muddy Waters | Hollywood Blues Summit: Live at the Ash Grove, July 30, 1971
The Watson Twins | Holler
Wednesday | Rat Saw God
Bobby Weir | Ace: 50th Anniversary Edition
Whitehorse | I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying
The White Stripes | Elephant Deluxe Edition
The Winery Dogs | III
W.I.T.C.H. | Zango
Wolf Eyes | Dreams In Splattered Lines
Why Bother? | A City Of Unsolved Miseries
Lucinda Williams | Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart
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Yo La Tengo | This Stupid World
Yonic South | Devo Challenge Cup
Young Fathers | Heavy Heavy
Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers | Somewhere Under The Rainbow
Richard Youngs | Heart Of The Creation Room
Yours Sincerely | Anna
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Frank Zappa | Funky Nothingness
Frank Zappa | Zappa ’80: Mudd Club / Munich
The Zombies | Different Game
