ihatemusic

Hair Police - Let's See Who's Here and Who's Not Kevin Drumm - Turning Point Wolf Eyes - Stabbed in the Face Merzbow - Cannibalism of Machine John Zorn - Never Again Peaches of Infinity - 18.Jan.86 Yellow Swans - Neon War Thurston Moore - Derek Bailey Prurient - Memory Repeating Whitehouse - A Cunt ...

I love Mastodon's "Leviathan", and whilst ignoring the majority of their music, I think Mayhem still has to be one of the metalest things out there.

would it be considered bitchy and presumptuous to ask which favorite releases people actually /bought/ this year?
Though I imagine that this forum is probably one of the best for people actually buying the music they listen to...

"This is your head on a canvas looking my way"

I'm really only familiar with the Radio release, and though it takes some getting used to, I think they're all fucking great (especially India and Algeria) though Radio Pyongyang was a little too schmaltzy for my tastes (though I love playing the first track for people--a whole stadium of people sin...

you rule my ASS

the music isn't bad either...

i play guitar in a rock band who you could listen to a crappy mp3 at http://www.listenrecords.com/no_hands" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;

the mp3 isn't all that's crappy

I found elf power pretty hard to get into,
they always seemed too "cutsie" and w/o the music to back it up.

I dunno about old of montreal, but the new disc, "satanic panic in the attic", is totally bitchin,
and yeah, neutral milk hotel rules the airwaves,