Yearly Rock Report for 2003 |
# | Artist | Title | Label |
1 |
Yo La Tengo |
Summer Sun |
Matador |
2 |
Downbeat 5 |
Downbeat 5 |
Sympathy For The Record Industry |
3 |
Scenic |
Acid Gospel Experience |
Hidden Agenda |
4 |
Mendoza Line |
If They Knew This Was The End |
Barnone |
5 |
Various |
Tales From The Australian Underground Singles 1976-1989 |
Feel Presents |
6 |
American Analog Set |
Promise of Love |
Tiger Style |
7 |
Cat Power |
You Are Free |
Matador |
8 |
Lightning Bolt |
Wonderful Rainbow |
Load |
9 |
Clem Snide |
Soft Spot |
Spin Art |
10 |
Ponys |
Shishimumu |
Time Lag |
11 |
New Pornographers |
Electric Version |
Matador |
12 |
Woggles |
Ragged But Right |
Telstar |
13 |
Liars |
We No Longer Knew Who We Were |
Hand Held Heart/Sound Virus |
14 |
Marked Men |
The Marked Men |
Rip Off |
15 |
Stratford 4 |
Love + Distortion |
Jetset |
16 |
Cul De Sac |
Death of the Sun |
Strange Attractors |
17 |
Kinski |
Airs Above Your Station |
Sub Pop |
18 |
A Frames |
2 |
S-S |
19 |
Deerhoof |
Apple O' |
KRS |
20 |
Mexican Blackbirds |
Just to Spite You |
Dirtnap |
21 |
Various |
I'm Walkin' Babe |
Sundazed |
22 |
Aislers Set |
How I Learned To Write Backwards |
Suicide Squeeze |
23 |
Sea & Cake |
One Bedroom |
Thrill Jockey |
24 |
Mogwai |
Happy Songs for Happy People |
Matador |
25 |
Various |
Songs the Cramps Taught 3 |
STCTU |
26 |
Belle and Sebastian |
Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
Rough Trade |
27 |
Sonny Vincent |
The Good The Bad The Ugly |
Acetate |
28 |
Marvels |
Marvels |
Marvels |
29 |
Henry Flynt |
Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol 1 + 2 |
Locust |
30 |
Consonant |
Love & Affliction |
Fenway |
31 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
Fever To Tell |
Interscope |
32 |
FM Knives |
Useless & Modern |
Broken Rekkids |
33 |
Saturday Looks Good To Me |
All Your Summer Songs |
Polyvinyl |
34 |
D4 |
6Twenty |
Flying Nun |
35 |
Calexico |
Feast of Wire |
Quarter Stick |
36 |
Crybabies |
How The Other Half Lives |
Dino |
37 |
Clean |
Anthology |
Merge |
38 |
Soltero |
Defrocked and Kicking the Hobbit |
Handsome |
39 |
A Frames |
A Frames |
S-S |
40 |
Pretty Girls Make Graves |
New Romance |
Matador |
41 |
Broadcast |
Ha Ha Sound |
Warp |
42 |
Mark Dwinell |
Non-Loc |
Ba-da-bing! |
43 |
Surface of Eceyon |
Dragyyn |
Strange Attractor |
44 |
Devandra Banhart |
Oh Me Oh My . . . |
Young God |
45 |
Dishes |
3 |
File 13 |
46 |
Curses |
Curses |
Empty |
47 |
Pernice Brothers |
Yours Mine and Ours |
Ashmont |
48 |
Kenne Highland & His Vatican Sex Kittens |
Be More Flamboyant |
Stanton Park |
49 |
Legendary Shack Shakers |
Cockadoodledon't |
Bloodshot |
50 |
Manitoba |
Up In Flames |
Domino |
51 |
Kaada |
Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuble Time |
Ipecac |
52 |
British Sea Power |
The Decline Of British Sea Power |
Rough Trade |
53 |
Clone Defects |
Shapes Of Venus |
In The Red |
54 |
Comets On Fire |
Comets On Fire |
Alternative Tentacles |
55 |
Erase Errata |
At Crystal Palace |
Troubleman Unlimited |
56 |
Various |
Velvet Tinmine: 20 Junk Shop Glam Rockers |
RPM |
57 |
Haley Bonar |
Size of Planets |
Chairkicker's Music |
58 |
Read Yellow |
Read Yellow |
Fenway |
59 |
Postal Service |
Give Up |
Sub Pop |
60 |
Various |
Protest Records.com |
Protest Records |
61 |
+/- |
Holding Patterns |
Teenbeat |
62 |
Mean Red Spiders |
Still Life Fast Moving |
Clairecords |
63 |
White Stripes |
Elephant |
V2 |
64 |
Detroit Cobras |
Seven Easy Pieces |
Rough Trade |
65 |
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists |
Heart of Oak |
Lookout! |
66 |
Angus MacLise |
Cloud Doctrine |
Sub Rosa |
67 |
Swamp Rats |
Disco Still Sucks! |
Get Hip |
68 |
Smog |
Supper |
Drag City |
69 |
Triple Thick |
Honeychile |
Leisure King |
70 |
Various |
Dirtnap Across the Northwest |
Dirtnap |
71 |
Lucinda Williams |
World Without Tears |
Lost Highway |
72 |
Iggy Pop |
Skull Ring |
Virgin |
73 |
Testors |
Complete Recordings |
Swami |
74 |
Land of Nod |
Reality Channel |
Elephant Stone |
75 |
Guitar Wolf |
UFO Romantics |
Narnack |
76 |
Sons of Hercules |
Right Now |
Suprema |
77 |
Charms |
Charmed I'm Sure |
thecharms.net |
78 |
Limited Teenage Noise Orgasm |
Sea Sex and Burn |
Emmanuel Hubaut |
79 |
Dressy Bessy |
Little Music |
Kindercore |
80 |
Tobin Sprout |
Lost Planet + Phantom Voices |
Luna |
81 |
Atom Smashers |
Drop the Bomb |
Rip Off |
82 |
Killing Joke |
Killing Joke |
Zuma/Epic |
83 |
Royal City |
Alone at the Microphone |
Rough Trade |
84 |
Little Killers |
Little Killers |
Crypt |
85 |
Arrivals |
Exsenator Orange |
Thick |
86 |
Radio Dept. |
Lesser Matters |
Shelflife |
87 |
Need New Body |
UFO |
File 13 |
88 |
Bonnie Prince Billy |
Master & Everyone |
Palace/Drag City |
89 |
Califone |
Quicksand/Cradle Snakes |
Thrill Jockey |
90 |
Soviettes |
LP |
Adeline |
91 |
High Strung |
These Are Good Times |
Tee Pee |
92 |
Long Winters |
When I Pretend to Fall |
Barsuk |
93 |
Outrageous Cherry |
Supernatural Equinox |
Rainbow Quartz |
94 |
Decemberists |
Her Majesty |
Kill Rock Stars |
95 |
Kaito |
Band Red |
SpinART |
96 |
Knockout Pills |
Knockout Pills |
Dead Beat |
97 |
Lucksmiths |
Naturaliste |
Drive In |
98 |
Various |
Raw Deal |
Damaged Goods |
99 |
Clientele |
The Violet Hour |
Merge |
100 |
All Girl Summer Fun Band |
2 |
K |