The
Walkmen - Bows and Arrows (Record Collection)
Ray
Lamontagne - Trouble (RCA)
Snow
Patrol - Final Straw (Fiction/A&M)
Arcade
Fire - Funeral (Merge)
TV
on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
Franz
Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Sonic
Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
A.C.
Newman - The Slow Wonder (Matador)
Iron
& Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
PJ
Harvey - Uh Huh Her (Island)
Elliot
Smith - From A Basement on the Hill (Anti-)
Nick
Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti-)
Loretta
Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
The
Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Anti-/Fat Possum)
!!!
- Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)
The
Dears - No Cities Left (Spin Art)
Rogue
Wave - Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)
Patti
Smith - Trampin' (Columbia)
Tom
Waits - Real Gone (Anti-)
Pinback
- Summer In Abaddon (Touch& Go)
More
2004
Calexico
- Convict Pool EP & Black Heart EP (Quarter-Stick /City Slang)
Talking
Heads - Reissue: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (Rhino/Sire)
The
Faces - Box Set: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar (Rhino)
A
Dozen Songs for your i-Pod
Make
It Rain - Tom Waits
99
Problems - Jay Z
Irish
Blood, English Heart - Morrissey
Walk
Idiot Walk - The Hives
It's
A Hit - Rilo Kiley
TKO
- Le Tigre
Ghetto
Rock - Mos Def
All
Falls Down - Kanye West
American
Idiot - Green Day
Hounds
of Love - The Futureheads
Hiding
All Away - Nick cave & The Bad Seeds
Bury
Me With it - Modest Mouse
10
Great Shows I saw in 2004
The
Pixies - Milwaukee Theater
Wilco
- Otto's (DeKalb, IL)
David
Bowie - Rosemont Theater (Chicago)
Ray
Lamontagne - ACL Fest (Austin)/Schubas (Chicago)
TV
On The Radio - Onopa (Milwaukee)/Catacombs (Madison)
Rhett
Miller - Cactus Cafe (Austin)
Sufjan
Stevens - Schubas (Chicago)
Constantines
-The Ritz (Austin)
Josh
Ritter - Schubas (Chicago)
Snow
Patrol - Metro (Chicago)
