4Mula1, Let's Get It (Warner Brothers)Aztec Camera, Love/Stray, (Wounded Bird)Adrian Belew, Side One (Sanctuary)Birds of America, Current Carry (Plain)The Black Maria, Lead Us To Reason (Victory)The Brian Jonestown Massacre, We Are the Radio (Tee Pee)Emma Bunton, Free (Me 19)Peter Cetera, Faithfully (Compendia)Sean Costello, Sean Costello (Tone Cool)Bart Davenport, Maroon Cocoon (Plain)The Devlins, Waves (Nettwerk)Ani DiFranco, Knuckledown (Righteous Babe)DJ Revolution, Class of 85 (On the Corner)Dog Fashion Disco, City Is Alive Tonight (Artemis)Erasure, Nightbird (Mute U.S.)The Explosion, Sick of Modern Art (Bardic)Fast N Bulbous, Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform)John Frusciante, Curtains (Record Collection)Mark Geary, Ghosts (Signature)Hood, The Lost You (Domino)Glenn Hughes, Soul Mover (Sanctuary)Kataklysm, Victims of the Fallen World/Northern Hyperblast Live (Candlelight)Machine & The Synergetic Nuts, Leaf Second Neutral (Cuneiform)Magnapop, Mouthfeel (Daemon)Jan Norberg, Jan Made Sacred Spring (Plain)Pitty Sing, Pitty Sing (Or. Music)Radar, Easy Listening (Tzadik)Reign, Ghost Reign Ghost (Akarma)Mando Saenz, Watertown (Emergent / 92e)Screaming Monkey Boner, Process of Assimilation (Orchard)Melvin Seals, Melting Pot (Rainman)Seedy Gonzales, Seedy Gonzales (Gigantic)Sixpence None the Richer Early Years Compendia)Sean Smith, Sean Smith (Plain)Spirit, Model Shop (Sundazed)Streetlight Manifesto, Keasbey Nights, Vol. 2 (Victory)Tony Joe White, Hard to Handle (Fruit Tree)Wonderful Broken Thing, Scotch Tape and Threadspools (Long Live Crime)Wrecking Crew, 1987-1991 (Bridge Nine)Yamataka Eye/John Zorn, 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 10 (Tzadik)- Leilani Polk
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2005.