i hate the sound of guitars

Every new release I listened to in June:
Jun
Christina Aguilera – Bionic
Amplive – Murder at the Discotech
Archipelago – Have Here
Melissa Auf der Maur – Out of Our Minds
Bomb the Music Industry! – Adults!!!…Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!!!!!!
The Challenged – Loaded Language
The Cute Lepers – Smart Accessories
The Depreciation Guild – Spirit Youth
Die So Fluid – Mercury
Elk [...]

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Every new release I listened to in May:
May
65daysofstatic – We Were Exploding Anyway
The Alarm – Direct Action
The Alps – Le Voyage
Arctic Monkeys – My Propeller (single)
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
The Bats – How Pop Can You Get?
Bicycle Voice – Tis the Ghost of Martinellis
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Calories/William – (split single)
Camera Obscura – [...]

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Every new release I listened to in April
Apr
Animal Names – Let It Been
Apollo Ghosts – Mount Benson
Best Coast – Something in the Way (single)
Black Francis – Nonstoperotik
Black Tambourine – Black Tambourine
The Blanche Hudson Weekend – The Letters to Daddy (ep)
Brilliant Colors – Never Mine (single)
Roger Bryan & the Orphans – Wolves
Circus Devils – Mother Skinny
De [...]

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Every new album I listened to in March.
Mar
AFCGT – AFCGT
Aloha – Home Acres
The Art Museums – Rough Frame
David Bazan – Live at Electrical Studio
Boston Spaceships – Camera Found the Ray Gun (ep)
Broken Bells – Broken Bells
Cast of Coraline – Original Off Broadway Cast Recording
Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
Cotton Candy – [...]

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Every new album I listened to in February.
Feb
Buzzcocks – Love Bites (reissue)
Paula Carino – Open on Sunday
Giant Drag – Swan Song (ep)
Juliana Hatfield – Peace & Love
Hussalonia – Dear Hussalonia: Letters from Animals, Mostly Ducks
Magnetic Fields – Realism
Robert Pollard – We All Got Out of the Army
Quasi – American Gong

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Every new album I listened to in January. Also 2009 records I heard for the first time this year.
Jan
Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy of Love
Hussalonia – Know Your Eastern European Anthems
Freedy Johnston – Rain on the City
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
Adam Marsland – Hello Cleveland
OK Go – Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
Spoon -Transference
Laura [...]

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How I learned to stop worrying and love Auto-Tune

Not to imply that Auto-Tune is “the bomb.” Overuse of Auto-Tune is a scourge we have to learn to live with somehow. Maybe if we all pretend we’re all Peter Sellers it will help.
All of this music was new to me in 2009. Most, but not all, [...]

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Back in April, I wrote this about Big Dipper:
But if they pull a “Mission of Burma”-style return to active duty (and I hope they do), I would love to see/hear them again when they have another few shows under their belt, hopefully in a better-sounding room, and when I’ve had a chance to rein in [...]

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Breaking all kindsa rules: I haven’t even listened to this record all the way through once, and it’s already one of my favorites of the year. It’s got me bouncing around in my seat so much, I just have to tell someone about it right now!!! Manhattan Love Suicides (from Leeds; the name is [...]

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I had just enough leftover affection for Kay Hanley’s 90’s act Letters to Cleo to check out the previews for her new record, even though the only thing I remember about her solo debut Cherry Marmalade is that I felt like I didn’t need to hear anything on it twice. I’m really glad I gave [...]

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