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Hilton orgy exec's wife speaks! by Beth Walton
When news broke of a Hilton beverage manager having group sex in the banquet room, we couldn't resist: We called his wife.
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Minn. smokers are really stubborn by Emily Kaiser
Smokers in Winona don't like to follow rules.
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Petters pleads not guilty, trial starts in February by Emily Kaiser
Tom Petters pleaded not guilty today on 20 counts in an alleged $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme against investors.
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Minn. recount update: Ramsey County finds 171 ballots by Emily Kaiser
Ramsey County says they found 171 previously uncounted ballots.
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12/2 Photo of the Day: Vikings aftermath by Emily Kaiser
Conclusion: Vikings fans litter and have terrible taste in beer.
Hi-tops, Headphones, Spraycans and Microphones by David Hansen
Tonight, Jimmy 2 Times, Plain Ole Bill, John Grider and others bring Triple Rock 241's back to the glory days of waxing chumps, serving fools in style.
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Michael Jackson's "Thriller," sung a capella by Andrea Swensson
The weirdest and most mesmerizing Michael Jackson cover the internet has ever seen.
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Kanye's Crate by Nate Patrin
Today, The Popstream proves Mr. West's production ain't like sausage: you actually benefit from finding out how it's made.
Best Spam videos by Rachel Hutton
Scenes from Monty Python, Spam carving, and Spam Jam--we've got it all right here.
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Tosca: Turtle Bread's newest eatery by Rachel Hutton
After years in the making, the restaurant has finally opened at the 44th Street Turtle Bread. You'll never guess who's in the kitchen...
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- Western Fifth: Stand Like A Thief
- Dillinger Four: C I V I L W A R
- Deerhunter: Microcastle
- Eagles of Death Metal: Heart On
- Chokecherry: In the Wine Press
- Dub Colossus: Dub Colossus in a Town Called Addis
- Greycoats: Setting Fire to the Great Unknown
- The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank: One for the Time Capsule
- Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak: Hand Over Fist
- Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
- Common Market: Tobacco Road
- Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
- Jeremy Messersmith: The Silver City
- High on Stress: Cop Light Parade
- Boston Spaceships: Brown Submarine
- One for the Team: Build It Up
- Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away
- Sick of Sarah
- Plagiarists: Literal Scene
- Muja Messiah: Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy
- K-Salaam & Beatnick: Whose World Is This?
- The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
- The ZMO Trio: The ZMO Trio EP
- Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
- French Kicks: Swimming
- Trama and Muja Messiah
- Ike Reilly Assassination: Poison the Hit Parade
- No Age: Nouns
- Prof: Kaiser Von Powderhorn
- The Plastic Constellations
- Frugalis McSpiteful
- Mute Era
- Vampire Hands
- Paul Metzger and Debashish Bhattacharya
- Why?
- Big Trouble featuring Crescent Moon
- Golden Delicious
- Irv Williams
- Various Artists
- Fuck Buttons
- Mercies May
- Matt Costa
- Levon Helm
- The Whigs
- Dead Meadow
- Twin Cities Electropunk
- Vampire Weekend
- Dallas Orbiter
- Atmosphere: Strictly Leakage
- Disco Not Disco
- Dan Israel
- New MC
- The Roches
- Ghostface Killah
- Skoal Kodiak
- Prof
- A Tribute to Fats Domino
- Jessica Hoop
- Glad Version
- Hezekiah
- Karen Dalton
- Soft
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- Jay-Z
- Dirty Sound System (various artists)
- Little Brother
- Bruce Springsteen
- ECID
- Radiohead
- His Name Is Alive
- Adam Franklin
- To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
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- Terry Eason
- Kill the Vultures
- Panacea
- Liars
- Robber Barons
- Christopher Shillock and Tabatha Predovich: Invisible Jazz
- Thunder In the Valley: Where Oh Where Oh Where
- Vicious Vicious: Parade
- No Age: Weirdo Rippers
- Turbonegro: Retox
- Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
- Soulstice: Dead Letter Perfect
- Korpiklaani: Tervaskanto
- VHS or Beta: Bring on the Comets
- Corey Harris: Zion Crossroads
- Rush: Snakes & Arrows
- Various artists: Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
- Capaciti & A-Scratch: The Blind Cinema Sessions
- UGK: UGK (Underground Kingz)
- M.I.A.: Kala
- Caribou: Andorra
- Minnesota Mix: Best Friends Forever
- Pantha du Prince: This Bliss
- Derailers: Under the Influence of Buck
- Carnage Featuring Booka B: Sense of Sound
- The Puppini Sisters: Betcha Bottom Dollar
- Brad Paisley: 5th Gear
- James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing
- Lubomyr Melnyk: KMH
- Wise Intelligent: The Talented Timothy Taylor: Back 2 School (1st Period)
- Interpol: Our Love to Admire
- Paul Cebar: Tommorow Sound Now for Yes Music People
- Kelly Rowland: Ms. Kelly
- Cool Cee Brown: Magnificent Bastard
- The Alarmists: The Ghost and the Hired Gun
- ZibraZibra: 777
- Silverchair: Young Modern
- Mark Ronson: Version
- Handsome Furs: Plague Park
- Jana Hunter: There's No Home
- Andrew Hill: Change
- Kwang: For What It's Worth
- Sean Na Na: Family Trees - or - CoPe We Must
- T.I.: T.I. vs T.I.P.
- Raccoo-oo-oon: Behold the Secret Kingdom
- Robbers on High Street: Grand Animals
- Pharoahe Monch: Desire
- Bonde do Role: With Lasers
- The Polyphonic Spree: The Fragile Army
- Blue Scholars: Bayani
- Justice: †
- Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil: Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil
- Copperpot: WYLA
- Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up
- Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
- Land of Talk: Applause Cheer Boo Hiss
- Various artists: Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
- Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
- Chris Thile: How to Grow a Woman from the Ground
- Spiritual Mansions: Give Us Your Hearts
- Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet
- Battles: Mirrored
- Marco Polo: Port Authority
- Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
- Lifesavas: Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack
- Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different, Betty Davis
- John Anderson: Easy Money
- Björk: Volta
- Sage Francis: Human the Death Dance
- Chantal Kreviazuk: Ghost Stories
- Paul Wall: Get Money Stay True
- Amy LaVere: Anchors & Anvils, Paul Taylor: Open Closed
- Various artists: Spider-Man 3 Soundtrack
- The Bad Plus: Prog
- Various Artists: New York Latin Hustle! The Sound of New York
- The Umbrella Sequence: Events
- John Prine & Mac Wiseman: Standard Songs for Average People
- Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
- LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
- Bright Eyes: Cassadaga
- Missing Numbers: More Salt?
- The Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
- Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
- Blonde Redhead: 23
- Caetano Veloso: cê
- Good Charlotte: Good Morning Revival, Hilary Duff: Dignity
- Fountains of Wayne: Traffic and Weather
- J Dilla: Ruff Draft
- Big Quarters: Cost of Living
- Devin the Dude: Waiting to Inhale
- El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
- Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
- Trans Am: Sex Change
- Richie Spice: In the Streets of Africa
- !!!: Myth Takes
- Field Music: Tones of Town
- Air: Pocket Symphony
- Dr. Dog: We All Belong
- Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- The Future: Neon Black
- Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
- La Sista: Majestad Negroide
- Menomena: Friend and Foe
- Mandrew: The Wonderful World of Mandrew
- Cortney Tidwell: Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up, Lone Official: Tuckassee Take
- The Good, the Bad, and the Queen: Virgin
- The Apples in Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder
- Ted King and the Eighty-Sixed: Close to the Cool
- The Bird and the Bee: The Bird and the Bee
- Charlie Louvin: Charlie Louvin
- Mel Gibson & the Pants: Sea vs. Shining Sea
- Rivulets: You Are My Home
- Trampled by Turtles: Trouble
- Yoko Ono: Yes, I'm A Witch
- Various artists: Hyphy Hitz
- Mouthful of Bees: The End
- Various artists: The Mixed Up Tape, Vol. 1
- The Deaf: This Bunny Bites
- Over/Under: Line Out
- Ela: Real Blood on Fake Trees
- Tall Firs: Tall Firs
- Delfeayo Marsalis: Minions Dominion
- Spanic Boys: Sunshine
- T.Q.D.: Not Yet
- The Menstrual Tramps: No Hesitation, No Defeat
- Beirut: Gulag Orkestar
- Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
- The Slats: Boom Patrol
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Letting Go
- Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton: Knives Don't Have Your Back
- Trainwreck Riders: Lonely Road Revival
- Various Artists: Life of Monotony: Six Bands from Minneapolis
- Various Artists: The DFA Remixes, Chapter 2
- Irv Williams and Peter Schimke: Duo
- Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
- The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love
- Strike Anywhere: Dead FM
- Catfish Haven: Tell Me
- Lamb Of God: Sacrament
- Greg Brown: The Evening Call
- Snowden: Anti-Anti
- The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
- Various Artists: Rio Baile Funk—More Favela Booty Beats
- The 88: Over and Over
- Noxagt: Noxagt
- Various artists: The Rough Guide to West African Gold
- Zero 7: The Garden
- Lambchop: Damaged
- Kelis: Kelis Was Here
- The Sleepy Jackson: Personality (One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird)
- Towers of London: Blood Sweat & Towers
- J Dilla: The Shining, Donuts
- The Left: Jesus Loves the Left
- Todd Snider: The Devil You Know
- Voivod: Katorz
- Arrington de Dionyso: Breath of Fire
- Leigh Nash: Blue on Blue, Nina Gordon: Bleeding Heart Graffiti
- Howard Tate: A Portrait of Howard
- Various artists: "A Tom Moulton Mix"
- Vetiver: Find Me Gone
- Comets on Fire: Avatar
- Tuxedomoon: Bardo Hotel Soundtrack
- Various artists: Soul Gospel 2, Various artists: Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
- The Futureheads: News and Tributes
- Kashmere Stage Band: Texas Thunder Soul 1968-1974
- Ane Brun: A Temporary Dive
- Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out of This Country
- CSS: Cansei De Ser Sexy
- Keene Brothers: Blues and Boogie Shoes
- LL Cool J: Todd Smith
- Psalm One: The Death of the Frequent Flyer
- Carla Bozulich: Evangelista
- Human Television: Look at Who You're Talking To
- Kaada: Music for Moviebikers
- Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror
- The Rakes: Capture/Release
- Thom Yorke: The Eraser
- Various artists: Sounds of New York, U.S.A., Volume 1: The Big Break Rapper Party
- Ice Cube: Laugh Now, Cry Later
- Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint: The River In Reverse
- Ministry: Rio Grande Blood, and Revolting Cocks: Cocked and Loaded
- Various artists: From the Closet to the Charts - Queer Noises 1961-1978
- Sound Team: Movie Monster
- Phoenix: It's Never Been Like That
- Maritime: We, the Vehicles, Love of Everything: Superior Mold and Die
- Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
- John Williams & Dean Magraw: Raven
- The Black Angels: Passover
- The Boy Least Likely To: The Best Party Ever
- Zebulon Pike: Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight
- Espers: II
- Kal: Kal, Boban Markovic Orkestar: The Promise
- The Bangers: Jon Moskowitz Presents Purple Reign, John Shotti/Tapemasters Inc.: A Prince in Harlem
- Beatrix*Jar: I Love You Talk Bird
- Chihei Hatakeyama: Minima Moralia, Boris: Sound Track from Film "Mabuta No Ura"
- Various artists: Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads, Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
- Lansing-Dreiden: The Dividing Island
- Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curse
- Starlight Mints: Drowaton
- Pony Up: Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes
- The Coup: Pick a Bigger Weapon
- Mazta I: Thank the Lord and the Sword!
- The Congos and Friends: Fisherman Style
- Stook: The Soundtrack to My Minneapolis
- Bridge Club: The Scorched Capsule
- The Vestals: Songs About Girls...And Other Mysteries
- Chris Corsano & Ben Chasny/Paul Metzger: Split LP
- Pretty Girls Make Graves: Élan Vital
- Spank Rock: YoYoYoYoYo
- Luc Ferrari: Son Mémorisé
- The Stills: Without Feathers
- Tom Zé: Estundando O Pagode
- Derek Trucks Band: Songlines
- Simon Joyner: Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999, Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Young People: All At Once
- Cabruêra: Proibido Cochilar: Sambas for Sleepless Nights, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars: Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge
- Edith Frost: It's a Game
- Various Artists: Soul Sides Volume One
- Moochy C: "R.A.S.B."
- Space Camp: If You Find the Old Beat, Play It
- Nick Robin: Back from the Dead
- Various Artists: Shite 'n' Onions Volume 2: What the Shite
- Panic! At the Disco:
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Stereolab: Fab Four Suture
- Orthrelm: OV
- High on Stress: Moonlight Girls
- Low Lustre: Low Lustre
- Colonial Vipers Attack: Colonial Vipers Attack
- The Rogers Sisters: The Invisible Deck
- Early Man: Closing In, The Sword: Age of Winters
- Malachi Constant: Pride
- The Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
- The Knife: Silent Shout
- Various Artists: DUNation.com--Volume Won
- Trampled By Turtles: Live at Lucé
- Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat
- Super Numeri: The Welcome Table
- Elvin Bishop: Gettin' My Groove Back
- Superdanger: Fight! Fight! Fight!
- Flavor Crystals: On Plastic
- Mel Gibson and the Pants: w/Guitar
- The Darkness: One Way Ticket to Hell and Back
- Various artists: MySpace Records, Vol. 1
- No-Neck Blues Band: Qvaris
- Todd Tamanend Clark: Nova Psychedelia (1975-1985)
- The Earlies: These Were the Earlies, Micah P. Hinson: And the Gospel of Progress
- Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor
- Noisy Neighbors
- Various Artists: Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
- Big Ditch Road: Suicide Note Reader's Companions
- Cage: Hell's Winter
- DangerDoom: The Mouse and the Mask
- David Banner: Certified
- Whitey:The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train
- Endless Blue: Smoke Through It
- Ashlee Simpson: I Am Me
- Murzik: Murzik EP
- Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
- Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene, The Most Serene Republic: Underwater Cinematographer
- The Ex: Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
- Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
- Portastatic: Bright Ideas, John Vanderslice: Pixel Revolt
- Steven R. Smith: Crown of Marches, Oren Ambarchi: Triste
- Marty Ehrlich: News on the Rail
- Opeth: Ghosts of Perdition
- T. Raumschmiere: Blitzkrieg Pop, Crazy Frog: Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits
- Scharpling and Wurster: Hippy Justice: The Best of Scharpling and Wurster on the Best Show on WFMU Volume 3
- Virgin Insanity: Illusions of the Maintenance Man
- Various Artists: Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-1995
- Various Artists: Não Wave, The Sexual Life of the Savages: Underground Post-Punk from São Paulo, Brasil
- The Juan Maclean: Less Than Human
- Caro: The Return of Caro
- Various Artists: Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story 1962-1979
- Acid House Kings: Sing Along with the Acid House Kings
- Teenage Fanclub: Man-Made
- The Dead 60s: The Dead 60s
- Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth
- Raul Midón: State of Mind
- R. Kelly: TP.3 Reloaded
- Hair Police: Constantly Terrified
- Weezer: Make Believe
- Sentenced: The Funeral Album
- The Melismatics: Turn It On
- The Ponys: Celebration Castle
- The Rough Guide to Boogaloo, The Rough Guide to Celia Cruz
- The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
- Foo Fighters: In Your Honor
- Sims: Lights Out Paris
- Amerie: Touch
- Fall Out Boy: From Under The Cork Tree
- Currituck Co.: Ghost Man on Second
- Mike Jones: Who Is Mike Jones?
- Cloud Cult: Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
- Basement Jaxx: The Singles: Special Edition
- Fannypack: See You Next Tuesday
- Robbie Fulks: Georgia Hard
- Vitalic: OK Cowboy
- Godfrey Daniel: Take a Sad Song...
- Redstart: So Far from Over
- M83: Before the Dawn Heals Us
- Moby: Hotel
- Blueprint: 1988
- The Perceptionists: Black Dialogue
- Nobody: And Everything Else...
- Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
- Hella: Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard
- Lau Nau: Kuutarha
- The Kills: No Wow
- Tweet: It's Me Again
- Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
- The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
- The Midnight Evils: Breakin' It Down
- Slunt: Get a Load of This
- The Evens: The Evens
- Fog: 10th Avenue Freakout
- Various Artists: Run the Road
- Edan: Beauty and the Beat
- Various Artists: World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing: The Funky, Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
- Dälek: Absence
- Clem Snide: End of Love
- Intocable: X (Diez)
- Black Mountain: Black Mountain
- Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me
- Jeff Parker: The Relatives
- Coachwhips: Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge
- DJ ESP Woody McBride: I'm Psychic You Know
- Shivaree: Who's Got Trouble
- Tim Rally Gold: With Us, Not At Us
- Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now
- The Game: The Documentary
- LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem
- Low: The Great Destroyer
- Aimee Mann: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
- Lee Ann Womack: There's More Where That Came From
- Brice: Cabin Capers
- Urban Sun: Guilty of Dreaming
- Ol' Dirty Bastard: Osirus, the Official Mixtape
- Cam'Ron: Purple Haze
- The Gleam: The Chisago County EP
- The Slits: Cut
- Samara Lubelski: The Fleeting Skies
- David Ball: Freewheeler
- Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection
- Various Artists: Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats
- Various Artists: Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
- Various Artists: DFA Compilation #2
- Various Artists: Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
- Popcycle: Welcome to the World
- Food for Animals: Scavengers
- Triakel, Wimme Saari, Väsen
- Valet: Life on the Installment Plan
- Various Artists: Rough Trade Shops: Indiepop 1
- The Violettes: The Violettes
- Anchorhead: Disaster
- Aneuretical: When You Were a Kid
- Wire: Wire on the Box
- Various Artists: Minnesota sur Seine
- Burnt Sugar: Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets
- Handsome Boy Modeling School: White People
- The Arcade Fire: Funeral
- Reviews of new CDs by Ada, Ellen Allien, and Ricardo Villalobos
- Devin the Dude: To Tha X-Treme
- The Rolling Blackouts: Black Is Beautiful , The Alleged Gunmen: Return To Zero
- Jill Scott: Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2
- Clinic: Winchester Cathedral
- Die Electric: Push Pull
- Milo Fine/Davu Seru/Elliot Fine: Percussion Music; Improvised
- The Organ: Grab That Gun
- Irv Williams: That's All?
- Tom Waits: Real Gone
- The Ex: Turn
- Travis Morrison: Travistan
- Rob Sonic: Telicatessen
- Rokia Traoré: Bowmboï
- Pearls Before Swine: Wizard of Is, and Patty Waters: You Thrill Me
- Radio 4: Stealing of a Nation
- Heiruspecs: A Tiger Dancing
- Jonathan Rundman: Public Library
- Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld , and Six Organs of Admittance: The Manifestation
- Mouse on Mars: Radical Connector
- Billy Holloman: This Is Organ Night
- Bridge Club: Summer of the Jackal
- The Faint: Wet From Birth
- Björk: Medulla
- Various Artists: Radio India and The Conet Project
- Northern State: All City
- Little Dirt: the land and the feet down before us
- Ol' Yeller: Sounder
- Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
- Talking Heads: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
- Alva Star: Escalator
- The Willie August Project: Surrender to the Wind
- The Red Krayola: The Red Krayola
- Masta Ace: Long Hot Summer
- Charalambides: Joy Shapes
- Let It Blurb
- Jolie Holland: Escondida
- Michel Petrucciani: So What: Best of Michel Petrucciani
- Let It Blurb
- Various Artists: Hungry Ghost
- The Roots: The Tipping Point
- Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
- Beastie Boys: To The 5 Boroughs
- Ozomatli: Street Signs
- VA: Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
- Doctor Alimantado: Born for a Purpose
- Animal Collective: Sung Tongs , and Black Dice: Creature Comforts
- Coach Said Not To: Self-released EP
- Mandrew: Mandrew
- PARU: The Upcoming and R.D.M. Three-song demo
- The Stunning: Split 7" single with the Means
- Antibalas: Who Is This America?
- The Beta Band: Heroes to Zeros
- The Soviettes: LP II
- Morrissey: You Are the Quarry
- Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands
- !!!: Louden Up Now
- various artists: Marmalade and various artists: Grime
- Chris Potter Quartet: Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
- Brother Ali: Champion EP
- Vast Aire: Look Mom...No Hands
- Thelonious Monster: California Clam Chowder
- Willie Walker and the Butanes: Right Where I Belong
- Lansing-Dreiden: The Incomplete Triangle
- Glenn Branca: Lesson No. 1
- Ghostface: The Pretty Toney Album
- Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes ; Frank Kimbrough: Lullabluebye
- J-Kwon: Hood Hop
- Judas Priest: Metalogy
- The Vestals: The Vestals
- Felix da Housecat: Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever
- RJD2: Since We Last Spoke
- Depeche Mode: Singles Box, Volumes 1-6
- VCR: VCR
- Mel Gibson and the Pants: A Mannequin American
- The Great Depression: Unconscious Pilot
- Dios: Dios
- Now It's Overhead: Fall Back Open
- Volante: Static Until Sunrise
- Eyedea and Abilities: E&A
- DJ Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
- Walker Kong: Transparent Life
- Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine
- CocoRosie: La Maison de Mon Rêve
- Junior Boys: Birthday
- Romantica: It's Your Weakness That I Want
- Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
- Xiu Xiu: Fabulous Muscles
- Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: The Best of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (The Elektra Years)
- Kanye West: College Dropout
- Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed
- Habib Koité and Bamada
- Weird War: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em
- Mason Jennings: Use Your Voice
- Dave Douglas: Strange Liberation
- Future Wives: Dark Side of the Man EP
- The Howard Dean Remixes
- El-P: High Water (Mark)
- various artists: Goodbye, Babylon
- Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway
- Blue Orchids: The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain)
- LCD Soundsystem: "Yeah" (12-inch single)
- Arthur Russell: The World of Arthur Russell
- The Books: The Lemon of Pink
- Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner
- Missy Elliott: This Is Not a Test!
- Pelican: Australasia
- Tim Berne: The Sublimine And
- Greg Ashley: Medicine Fuck Dream
- My Favorite: The Happiest Days of Our Lives
- Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: Streetcore
- various artists: Let's Get Rid of L.A.
- The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir
- Superhopper: Does This Sound Exciting Yet?
- Various Artists: No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion
- Anthony Hamilton: Comin' From Where I'm From
- Belle and Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
- Fra Lippo Lippi: The Early Years and The Best of Fra Lippo Lippi
- Lyrics Born: Later That Day...
- Matmos: The Civil War
- The Sealed Knot and Lê Quan Ninh
- Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash
- Remarc: Sound Murderer
- A Frames: A Frames 2
- Luomo: The Present Lover
- Various Artists: DFA Records Compilation #1
- Black Box Recorder: Passionoia
- Party of One: Caught the Blast
- Fennesz: Live in Japan
- FannyPack: So Stylistic
- The Evolution Control Committee: Plagiarhythm Nation V. 2.0
- Giddy Motors: Make it Pop
- Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power
- Simply Saucer: Cyborgs Revisited
- Cooler Kids: Punk Debutante
- Rapture: Songs for the Withering
- Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
- Patrick Park: Loneliness Knows My Name
- Nina Simone: Anthology
- Motion City Soundtrack: I Am the Movie
- The Clientele: The Violet Hour
- The Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
- Junior Senior: D-d-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
- The Hidden Cameras: The Smell of Our Own
- Vells: Vells
- Grandaddy: Sumday
- Liz Phair: Liz Phair
- The King of France: Salad Days
- The Cramps: Fiends of Dope Island
- The Lilys: Precollection
- Mono: One Step More And You Die
- The New Pornographers: Electric Version
- The Spectors: Beat is Murder: Cockfights & Cakefights 1992-1996
- Glass Candy: Love Love Love
- 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun
- The White Stripes: Elephant
- The Blood Brothers: Burn, Piano Island, Burn
- A.R.E. Weapons: A.R.E. Weapons
- Howe: The Listener
- Gogol Bordello: Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
- Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow
- Azita: Enantiodromia
- White Light Motorcade: Thank You, Goodnight!
- Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around
- The Angels Of Light: Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
- Common: Electric Circus
- Majesticons: Beauty Party
- Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike: Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee
- The Clean: Anthology
- Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak
- Cat Power: You Are Free
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama
- The Raveonettes: Whip It On
- Wasteland: Amen Fire
- Hecker: Sun Pandämonium, Aleph Empire: Playback Confusion Device Volume One
- Happy Apple: Youth Oriented
- Triple R: Friends
- Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
- Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
- The Roots: Phrenology
- Ikara Colt: Chat and Business
- Seiichi Yamamoto: Crown of Fuzzy Groove
- Languis: Untied
- Various Artists: Total 4, Ellen Allien: Weiss.Mix
- Carei Thomas Feel Free Ensemble: Mining Our Bid'ness
- Jason Moran: Modernistic
- Missy Elliott: Under Construction
- The Beatifics: The Way We Never Were
- MC Paul Barman: Paullelujah!
- Fennesz: Field Recordings 1995:2002
- Various Artists: Chilly Northern Women
- Lateduster: Lateduster, and Five Easy Pieces
- Liars: They Threw Us All in a Trench
- Franklin Bruno: A Cat May Look At A Queen , Jenny Toomey: Tempting: Jenny Toomey Sings the Songs
- Eyes Adrift: Eyes Adrift
- Various Artists: Boom Selection_Issue 01
- Amon Tobin: Out from Out Where
- Thievery Corporation: The Richest Man in Babylon
- Babalu: The Ultra Wide Band Meets the Mighty Babalu Pt. 2
- Girls Against Boys: You Can't Fight What You Can't See
- Iron and Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle
- Jimmy Fallon: The Bathroom Wall
- Sleater-Kinney: One Beat
- Steve Earle: Jerusalem
- Deerhoof: Reveille
- Iannis Xenakis
- Milemarker: Satanic Versus
- Tommy Keene: The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
- Dälek: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
- Múm: Finally We Are No One
- Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me
- Mike Doughty: Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Arto Lindsay: Invoke
- Andrew Broder: Modern Hits EP
- City of New Orleans
- Trans Am: TA
- Consonant: Consonant
- cLOUDDEAD: S/T
- Archer Prewitt: Three
- American Gigolo, and Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau
- Chris Bowden: Slightly Askew
- Akufen: My Way
- Mike Ireland & Holler: Try Again
- Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth
- Luna: Romantica
- Various Artists import; 2 Many DJs; KID606
- Pour Some Sugar On Me
- Pretty Girls Make Graves: Good Health
- High on Fire: Surrounded by Thieves
- A Certain Ratio: Early; and Various Artists: In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
- Dan Israel: Cedar Lake
- Ben Kweller: Sha Sha
- Denali: Denali
- Kid America And The Action Figures: Bandy
- J-Live: All of the Above
- Martin Devaney: Somebody Somewhere
- Josh Rouse: Under Cold Blue Stars
- Boards of Canada: Geogaddi
- Buffalo Daughter: I
- Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop
- Mates of State: Our Constant Concern
- Bob Mould: Modulate
- Ed Harcourt: Here Be Monsters
- Hefner: Dead Media
- Rye Coalition: On Top
- Heiruspecs: Small Steps
- Local H: Here Comes the Zoo
- Lambchop: Is a Woman
- Goodiepal: Narc Beacon
- Louie Austen: Only Tonight
- The Hidden Chord: The Captain and His Entourage
- NORMAN BLAKE AND PETER OSTROUSHKO: Meeting on Southern Soil
- RINOÇÉROSE: Music Kills Me
- THE DB'S: Stands for deciBels/Repercussion
- Princess Superstar: Princess Superstar Is
- Push Button Objects: 360° Remixes, Tosca: Different Tastes of Honey
- Lucky Jeremy: Happy Get Lucky
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
- Lost in Space
- Dub Taylor: Detect and Various Artists: Superlongevity
- Ryan Adams: Gold
- Circulatory System: Circulatory System
- Various Artists: False Object Sensor
- Yesterday's New Quintet: Angles Without Edges
- The Spacewurm : See You Later Oscillator
- Sensational: Get on My Page
- Ivy: Long Distance
- The Beta Band: Hot Shots II
- Baaba Maal: Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
- Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman: Nankuru Naisa
- Ted Leo/Pharmacists: The Tyranny of Distance
- DJ Christian Smith: Tronic Treatment: A DJ Mix
- Air: 10,000 Hz Legend
- Fantastic Plastic Machine: Beautiful.
- The Moldy Peaches: The Moldy Peaches
- The Clientele: Suburban Light
- Matmos: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
- The Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun
- Shipping News: Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
- Daft Punk Discovery
- Tortoise: Standards
- various artists: The Braindance Coincidence
- Lil Wayne: Lights Out
- Various Artists: Doity Records Vol. 1, and Flashbacks #3: Copulation Blues 1926-1940
- Buck 65: Man Overboard
- R. Kelly: TP-2.com
- Matthew Herbert: Globus Mix Vol. 5, and Frankie Bones: You Know My Name
- Martin Sexton: Wonder Bar
- Jay-Z: The Dynasty: Roc La Familia 2000
- Blur: The Best of Blur
- Smog: 'Neath the Puke Tree
- Great Plains: Length of Growth: 1981-89
- Yo La Tengo: Danelectro
- Smut Peddlers: Porn Again
- Doves: Lost Souls
- Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly
- Various Artists: Éthiopiques 8
- The Eternals: The Eternals
- Plastilina Mosh: Juan Manuel
- Libraness: Yesterday...and Tomorrow's Shells
- J. Mascis + The Fog: More Light
- Kasey Chambers: The Captain
- Gomez: Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
- Junior Vasquez: Twilo, Volume 1: Junior Vasquez
- various artists: Kwaito: South African Hip Hop
- The Twilight Singers: Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers
- Chicks on Speed: The Rereleases of the Unreleases
- Broadcast: Extended Play Two, Movietone: The Blossom Filled Streets
- Bettie Serveert: Private Suit
- Mocean Worker: Aural & Hearty
- Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain
- Green Day: Warning
- Analog Brothers: Pimp to Eat, and Kool Keith: Matthew
- Underworld: Everything, Everything
- Silkworm: Lifestyle
- Quasimoto: The Unseen
- Jurassic 5: Quality Control
- Richard Ashcroft: Alone With Everybody
- P.M. Dawn: The Best of P.M. Dawn
- Spring-Heel Jack: Disappeared
- ESG: ESG: A South Bronx Story
- Michael Bisio/Eyvind Kang: MBEK™ Also: Axel Dörner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang: Claque
- Lucy Pearl: Lucy Pearl
- The Glands: The Glands
- Saint Etienne: Sound of Water
- Everclear: Songs from an American Movie, Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
- Bellwether: Bellwether
- Brother Ali: Rites of Passage
- The Short Fuses: Get the Hell Down
- Cub Koda & the Points: Noise Monkeys
- Giant Sand: Chore of Enchantment