Some of my favourite releases of this year, in no particular order:
Geister - Living Lies (From "Nostalgia" EP on Geister Records)
Peace - The Uma Uma Truth List (From "My Face" LP on Pop Echo Records)
Ben Disaster - One Fist Pounding Against the Stage (From "One Fist Pounding / Not Running" single on Close Call Records)
No Problem - I've Got a Bomb (From "And Now This" LP on Deranged Records)
Heavy Chains - Insane Pain (From "A Very Real Hell" on Broadway to Boundary Records)
Rhythm of Cruelty - Black Hole (from demo cassette, self released)
Best gigs of the year (with tracks not necessarily released this year)
Full Blast Trio - Crumbling Brain
Nu Sensae - Don't Panic
Nomeansno - It's Catching Up
Mudhoney - Need
Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (I didn't see Modern Lovers, but I saw Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins, which is basically the same thing.)
Back to our regularly scheduled programming....
Poison Girls - Hole in the Wall
Delta 5 - Shadow
Specials - Rat Race
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Embrace - End of a Year
Husker Du - Diane
Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady
Mort Garson - Three Five Zero Zero
Kraftwerk - the Model
Angst - Worker Bee
Free Beer - Premature Enlistment
Flipper - Sacrifice
the Ex - Maybe I Was the Pilot
