A weekly roundup of releases that didn't fit the standard review format — 7"s, 12"s, 3" CDs, EPs, cassette-only releases, DVDs, and MP3-only releases. Todd Burns, Scott McKeating, Mike Shiflet, Jon Dale, and Leon Neyfakh contributed capsule reviews covering everything from Animal Collective and Bright Eyes singles to noise, microhouse, and experimental drone. 96 installments of the stuff between the cracks.
| Caravan of Love |
Peter Parrish |
(0) |
2007-09-07 |
| Bridge Abutments |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2006-08-03 |
| Expertly Unexpected |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2006-07-13 |
| Cursed Sleep |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2006-06-15 |
| Ghetto Goofy |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2006-05-11 |
| Copy Machine Repairmen |
Thomas Inskeep |
(0) |
2006-04-27 |
| Attractive / The Village Green |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2006-01-05 |
| Sharon Jones / The Happy Couple / Film School |
Patrick McNally |
(0) |
2005-12-22 |
| Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan / Okkervil River |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-12-15 |
| Panda Bear / Hot Chip / Tender Trap / The Advisory Circle / Kukkiva Poliisi / Terracid |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-12-08 |
| Number None / Two Gallants / Euros Childs / Yokomono 2 / HiSoft |
Scott McKeating and Cameron Macdonald |
(0) |
2005-12-02 |
| Ben Reynolds / Algebrassiere / Rebecca Pronsky / The Lucksmiths |
Bryan Berge |
(0) |
2005-11-17 |
| Devastation Duo / Headlights / Vulgar Pigeons |
Bryan Berge |
(0) |
2005-11-10 |
| King Creosote / Final / The Rakes / Clay’s Festering Lungs / Vapaa / fm3 |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-11-03 |
| Cary Brothers / Avant featuring Lil' Wayne |
Stylus Staff |
(1) |
2005-10-27 |
| Rhymefest feat. Kanye West / The Commercials vs. Shadow Agency / Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment |
Bryan Berge |
(0) |
2005-10-20 |
| The Magnolia Electric Co. / The Long Winters / B. Rich |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-10-13 |
| Jimmy Eat World / Crime in Stereo / Caroline |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-10-06 |
| The Witnesses / Fok Rotkop Magazine / Formatt / Oneida / Plastic Crimewave Sound / Gudrun Gut |
Bryan Berge and Adam Park |
(0) |
2005-09-29 |
| The Rogers Sisters / Amina / The Goons of Doom / Skygreen Leopards / Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim / Haswell and Hecker |
Bryan Berge |
(0) |
2005-09-22 |
| Cantankerous / Hey Willpower |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-09-15 |
| Ceramic / Liz Janes & Create(!) / New Electric / The Fever / Birchville Cat Motel / Wooden Cupboard |
Bryan Berge |
(0) |
2005-09-08 |
| Sigur Rós / Mushi Mushi / Pit er Pat / Schneider TM (Dr Drek) / Her Space Holiday |
Scott McKeating and Adam Park |
(0) |
2005-08-25 |
| Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney / Jazzfinger / Ultra Shit Inferno / Terrapin |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-08-18 |
| Grandaddy / Wolf Parade / The Research / Four Tet |
Andrew Gaerig and Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-08-11 |
| 31 Knots / Mimir / Nine Black Alps / Headucation |
Scott McKeating and Chi Tung |
(0) |
2005-07-21 |
| Miss Kittin / Fennesz Sakamoto / Hard-Fi / Davenport / It’s Jo and Danny / King Creosote |
Bryan Berge and Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-07-14 |
| Saxon Shore / Owen / Joan of Arc / Make Believe / Love of Everything / Stamen & Pistils / Greater Than One / Sybarite / Jessica Bailiff / Aranos / Mea |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-07-07 |
| !!! / The Arcade Fire / Benoit Pioulard / Windy & Carl / The Early November / Make Believe / Headucation |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-06-30 |
| Cetacea / DaKAH Hip Hop Orchestra / Kiss Me Deadly / Ricardo vs. Jay / Jay Haze vs. Robag Wruhme / Pheek vs. Vivianne Project |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-06-23 |
| The Once and Future Herds / The Drift / Mobius Band / Beatz By The Pound |
Bryan Berge and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-06-09 |
| Merzbow |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-06-02 |
| Antony and the Johnsons / Feathers / Sistema / Donnacha Costello / Metro Area / Nid and Sancy |
Scott McKeating and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-05-26 |
| Clearlake / Common feat. The Last Poets / The Track Record / FULC / Nurse with Wound / Self Against City |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2005-05-19 |
| Slim Thug featuring Jazze Pha / Hanne Hakkelberg / Wighnomy Brothers / Daniel Fritschi / Fax |
Adam Park and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-05-12 |
| The Album Leaf / Minotaur Shock / Spirit Catcher / Patrice Baumel / M.A.N.D.Y. / Luciano |
Adam Park and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-05-05 |
| Yasushi Miura / Neon / Jeff Samuel / Golden Red / The Kooky Scientist / Undo and Vicknoise |
Michael F. Gill and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-04-28 |
| Crooked Fingers / Undo and Vicknoise / Losoul / Heiko Voss / Imogen |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-04-21 |
| Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan / Speicher 26 / Roman Fluegel / Nathan Fake / Und |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-04-14 |
| Adult. / Death Cab for Cutie / Vitalic / Cosmic Sandwich / Cobblestone Jazz |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-04-07 |
| Home Video / AFX / Daniel Wang / Denis Karimani / Ziggy Kinder / Nid and Sancy / Tomas Andersson |
Kyle McConaghy and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-03-31 |
| Bright Eyes / Lese Majesty / A Million Lights / Crank Sturgeon / Sutekh |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-03-24 |
| M.I.A. / Michael Mayer / M of M / Hieroglyphic Being / The Field / Jesse Somfay |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-03-17 |
| White Magic/American Analog Set / Tarentel / The Raveonettes / Alex Under / Gabriel Ananda |
Dan Miron and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-03-03 |
| Iron & Wine / Cat Power/Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Apparat / Polmo Polpo |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-02-24 |
| Lucien N. Luciano/Pier Bucci / NSI / DJ Koze / Heib / Matthew Jonson |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2005-02-17 |
| Okkervil River / Dirty On Purpose / Rauhan Orkesteri / Lauhkeat Lampaat / Sean Booth / Jesse Somfay |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-02-10 |
| Embrace / Bloc Party / 21gunsalute / Pet Shop Boys / Koushik / Purple Patch |
Nick Southall |
(0) |
2005-02-03 |
| Menu:Exit / Accelera Deck / Onethema / EBSK / Rod |
Ronald Schepper |
(0) |
2005-01-27 |
| Vladislav Delay / Luomo and Raz O’Hara / Frog Holler / Bridle Wire / Chuck Bettis |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-01-20 |
| Mariah Carey feat. Snoop Dogg and Pharrell / NORE / Metope / The Sways / Josh Rouse |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-01-13 |
| El-P and Ghostface / Rashamon / Lim / Foetus / The Confusions / Ox/Kid Lightning |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2005-01-06 |
| Accelera Deck / Basteroid / Hair Police/Crystal Fantasy / Dialogue / The Body / Zoo Brazil |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-12-16 |
| Mum / The Orb / Heircraft Totem / Thread Pulls / Irene Moon/Ortho |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-12-09 |
| Ryan Adams / LFO vs !!! / Franz Ferdinand / Double Leopards & Wolf Eyes / 69corp / Audion / The Heavenly States |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-12-02 |
| U2 / Limp Bizkit / 2Pac with Sleepy Brown / Jay-Z & R.Kelly / Rufus Wainwright and Dido |
Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2004-11-18 |
| Two Lone Swordsmen / Wooden Wand / Wolf Eyes / Arnoux / SMM Vol. 1 and 2 |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-11-11 |
| Pawel / Jorge Gebauhr / Frank Martiniq / Markus Müller / Copacabannark |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2004-11-04 |
| The Go Find / Beezel & Juvenile / Andreas Tilliander / Caro / Clint Mansell of PWEI and Andrew Collins |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-10-28 |
| Lil Flip featuring Raekwon and Ghostface Killah / Black Strobe / Lawrence / Steve Bug / Mathias Schaffhaeuser / Horror, Inc. |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-10-21 |
| Wilco / Savath and Savalas / Deftones / Deerhoof / Detroit Underground Vol. 3 / Midnight Movies |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-10-14 |
| Pixeltan / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Lars Horntveth / Jeff Samuel / McEnroe |
Andrew Unterberger and Ron Schepper |
(0) |
2004-10-07 |
| J.O.Y. / Kim Hiorthøy / Daedelus / Ammon Contact / V.L.A.D. / Adventure Time / Scenic Railroads |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-09-30 |
| Benie Sigel / John Frusciante / Mos Def / Christina Carter / Isle of Citadel |
Scott McKeating and Ian Johnson |
(0) |
2004-09-23 |
| Eels / Team Sleep / HP Stonji / The Research / The Vanisher / Bill Wells / Cepia |
Scott McKeating and Ron Schepper |
(0) |
2004-09-16 |
| ODB and Ghostface / Daniel Wang / Dub Tractor / L. Pierre / Infusion |
Scott McKeating and Ron Schepper |
(0) |
2004-09-09 |
| Donnacha Costello / Magnet/Wighomny Brothers / Roan / Metope / Dan Friel / Giant Drag |
Scott McKeating and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2004-09-02 |
| 2Pac / Nicedisc / Avarus / Crankst Urge On / Hisato Higuchi / Undo and Vicknoise |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-08-26 |
| Lil Flip / Fisk Industries / Andre Kraml / Decomposed Subsonic / Einmusik / Stefan Schrom |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-08-19 |
| Korn / Cradle of Filth / What Made Milwaukee Famous / Jesu / Matthew Jonson / Apparat |
Todd Burns and Scott McKeating |
(0) |
2004-08-12 |
| Nick Oliveri / Six By Seven / John Wiese/Daniel Menche / Nurse with Wound/Cyclobe / The Radio Dept / Secret Mommy |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-08-05 |
| Keith Levene / Kites / Nautical Kites / Knifestorm / Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice / L. Rad |
Ian Johnson and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2004-07-29 |
| Carlos Giffoni/Lee Ranaldo/Jim O’Rourke / Warmdesk / Sakada / Beckett & Taylor/Spandex |
Jon Dale and Ron Schepper |
(0) |
2004-07-22 |
| Matthew Dear / Bravecaptain / I Am The World Trade Center/Paper Lions / Pekko Käppi / Thomas Fehlmann |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-07-15 |
| Metro Area / Efdemin / Jersey Devil Social Club / Dr. Phil Stumpf / John Spring / Metope |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2004-07-08 |
| Yasushi Miura / Newton/Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment / Erast / The Cherry Point/John Wiese / Laszlo Beckett and Steve Taylor / Various Artis |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-07-01 |
| Burning Star Core / Mahjongg / Sansava / Yasushi Miura / Cyne / Dynasty Yellow Swans with John Wiese / Noggin/John Wiese |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-06-24 |
| Animal Collective / The Clientele / The Apes / LHD / Narcotic Syntax / K.K. Null/John Wiese / Porn Sword Tobacco / Ceylon Mange |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-06-17 |
| Kaito / WB’s and Superpitcher / Donnacha Costello / Minimal Man / Markus Guentner / Melchior Productions / Various Artists |
Todd Burns |
(0) |
2004-06-10 |
| M.I.A. / Coil / Edward Ruchalski / White Mice / Taku Unami/Mark Wastell / Engineers / |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-06-03 |
| Rakim / Dave Miller / db / Repeat Orchestra / The Caribbean / Shyheim & Eamon / Skullpture / Redrot / Deaf Center / Hive Mind / Alessandro Bosetti/Gre |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-05-27 |
| Throbbing Gristle / Hair Police / Andrea Neumann/Michael Renkel/Olaf Rupp/Serge Baghdadassarian / Davenport / Shadow Huntaz / Connelly |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-05-20 |
| Wolf Eyes / Method Man / Lawrence English / The Game / Baikonour / Bacillus |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-05-13 |
| Gert-Jans Prins / The Cure / Organum & Z’ev / Proof / Jazzkammer |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-05-04 |
| Nas / Autechre/The Hafler Trio / Ferenc / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Dead Machines / Lloyd Banks |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-04-27 |
| Black Dice / Snoop Dogg / Kevin Drumm / Scenic Railroads / Anne Mccue / Evol / Cylob |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-04-20 |
| Ellen Allien / Matthew Dear / Fear Factory / Freeform / Silvah Bullet / Jimmy Edgar / Various Artists |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-04-06 |
| Bark Psychosis / Dykehouse / Cyclobe / Throbbing Gristle / Black Devil / Comet / Claro Intelecto / Hard Sleeper |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-03-02 |
| LCD Soundsystem / Courtney Love / Ghostface Killah / Living Ornaments / Spraggadat & Pirre / Ultra-Red |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2004-02-03 |
| Brave Captain, Heiko Voss, Allegorical Power Series and Living Ornaments |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2003-12-09 |
| Clever and Smart and Villalobos, Christopher Willits, Lionel Marchetti and Wevie Stonder |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2003-11-25 |
| Controller 7, Cappadonna, Mya and Paul Kalkbrenner |
Fredrick Thomas and Todd Burns |
(0) |
2003-10-21 |
| ...danzen jetzt, Matt Valentine, Subtitle/John Wiese/Adlib/The Cherry Point and Souls of Mischief... |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2003-09-30 |
| Voks, Manitoba, Styles of Beyond, and Black Dice |
Stylus Staff |
(0) |
2003-07-22 |
