Mad Season
[mad season website]

Above

Madder Rose
[madder rose website]

Tragic Magic

Madness
[madness website]

Total Madness... The Very Best of Madness

Madvillain
[madvillain website]

Madvillainy

Maggie's Dream

Maggie's Dream

The Magic Magicians
[the magic magicians website]

Girls

The Magic Magicians

Magnapop
[magnapop website]

Hotboxing

Magnetic Fields
[magnetic fields website]

69 Love Songs, Pt. 1

Main Source

Breaking Atoms

Makaveli
[makaveli website]

The Don Killuminati the 7 Day Theory

Stephen Malkmus
[stephen malkmus website]

Face the Truth I was reading somewhere recently about ageing indie guys. It was scary how much of me I saw in the article. There's no denying we've gotten older. That teen angst and slacker shit is too hard to pull off when we're working behind a desk every day and paying a mortgage. Luckily for us there's Stephen Malkmus. The once brash and pissy leader of Pavement has settled into his life as a thirty-something with a sudden comfort and understanding that makes the rest of us know that it's okay that you'd rather listen to that new Grandaddy album than your stack of old Jesus Lizard CDs. Malkmus has put away his bratty thing that has so far been his trademark in his solo career and opted for what can only be called Adult Indie. I mean there are tinges of The Steve Miller Band in there! The tunes are less cutesy and pop-laden. There aren't the light, breezy tunes of the last couple of albums. He's--and I know it sounds like a bad thing, but it's actually good--more of an adult. Good stuff.

Pig Lib

Stephen Malkmus

Manmade God

Manmade God

Aimee Mann
[aimee mann website]

Bachelor No. 2

Marilyn Manson
[marilyn manson website]

Antichrist Superstar

Maritime
[maritime website]

We, the Vehicles

Marley Marl

In Control Volume 1

Bob Marley & the Wailers
[bob marley & the wailers website]

Babylon By Bus

Burnin'

Legend

Live!

Natural Mystic

Natty Dread

Rastaman Vibration

Doug Martsch
[doug martsch website]

Now You Know

J Mascis

Martin and Me

Matchbox 20
[matchbox 20 website]

Yourself or Someone Like You

Mates of State
[mates of state website]

Bring it Back

My Solo Project

Our Constant Concern

Team Boo

Matt Pond PA
[matt pond pa website]

The Green Fury

The Nature of Maps

Sarah McLachlan
[sarah mclachlan website]

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

McLusky
[mclusky website]

The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire

McLusky Do Dallas McLusky fuckin' rock! Really, they do. All frat boy outbursts aside, McLusky is like a Welsh Nirvana with a good sense of humor. They'll make you tap your foot, bang your head and laugh your ass off all at the same time. The great thing about this album is that it gets better with every listen. You'll find yourself mimicking lead singer, Andy Falkous', gnarly Welsh accent as he screams and snarls his way through tight guitar driven punk-pop rock. Steve Albini does the producing, giving the trio that quintessential powerhouse sound that is all at once raw and grandiose. There's nothing like some old school, raucous punk (with some nice Budweiser longnecks) to get your heart racing.

My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours

Meat Beat Manifesto
[meat beat manifesto website]

Original Fire

Meat Puppets

No Strings Attached

Medications
[medications website]

Your Favorite People All In One Place

Mercury Rev
[mercury rev website]

Deserter's Songs

Yerself is Steam

The Meters
[the meters website]

Good Old Funky Music

Look-ka Py Py

Method Man
[method man website]

Tical

Tical 0: The Prequel

Method Man & Redman
[method man website]

Blackout!

MF Doom
[mf doom website]

Mm..Food?

Operation: Doomsday Love him or hate him, MF Doom is the choice of all white guy hipsters when it comes to hip-hop. Who else can mix up cartoons, stoner humor, Godzilla movies and bad sci-fi? I can't really pretend to understand what the hell is going on in his head, but it's a place I could maybe visit, but certainly wouldn't want to live. He comes with references so diverse you'd think he was, dare I say, a pretty well-read and worldly guy. Granted, I watched a lot of television growing up too, so who the hell knows where he gets it? His delivery is always on point. He has so much control over his patter, not going all over the beat like that sloppy mumble-mouth Jay-Z. Maybe I'm just old school, but I like a guy who can stay on beat. I mean what's the point of having a beat if you're just going to ignore it? The samples are all over the place, using weird jazz stuff and what sounds like 70s soul and old sci-fi and Godzilla movie clips and cartoon stuff. He's the master of the twisted originality. His voice has certainly changed since his KMD days, and so has his physique. Covering his face with a metal mask probably doesn't help either. But any guy who can rap to the Scooby-Do theme is my man.

M.I.A.
[m.i.a. website]

Arular

The Minders
[the minders website]

Cul de Sacs & Dead Ends

Down in Fall ep

The Future is Always Perfect

Golden Street

Hooray for Tuesday

Mineral
[mineral website]

EndSerenading

The Power of Failing

Minus the Bear
[minus the bear website]

Highly Refined Pirates

Minutemen

Double Nickels on the Dime

Mission of Burma
[mission of burma website]

OnOffOn

MK Ultra
[mk ultra website]

The Dream Is Over

MK Ultra

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Modest Mouse
[modest mouse website]

Building Nothing Out of Something

Good News for People Who Love Bad News It's as if the Talking Heads and Tom Waits got together at a hash party with your redneck cousins. That's the only comparison I can come up with when it comes to Modest Mouse's music. An incredibly strange amalgam of styles accompanied by a lispy, hallucinogen-infused lead singer who might get confused with the manic depressive Daniel Johnston leads to a sound that can only be attributed to this particular band. This album continues an inevitable arc towards a poppier sound, and has produced their most accessible album to date. The Moon and Antarctica is one of my favorite albums of all time, so this one will have to be pretty special to top it--and it does on some levels but not on others. The songs are more cohesive, and the production terrific, and while I really do love this album, I can't help but feel it doesn't quite live up to their last album in terms of indelible songs and timelessness. In terms of pop albums, songs like "Float On" and the completely awesome "Bury Me With It" will be remembered on top ten lists at the end of the year, and one might even get some radio play here and there--and hopefully avoid being immortalized in a minivan commercial.

The Lonesome Crowded West

The Moon and Antarctica

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About

MOM

Music for Our Mother Ocean

Music for Our Mother Ocean II

Momma Stud

Cockadoodledo

Thelonious Monk
[thelonious monk website]

Monk's Music

The Mooney Suzuki
[the mooney suzuki website]

Electric Sweat

People Get Ready

Morphine
[morphine website]

Cure for Pain

Good

Like Swimming

Yes

Travis Morrison
[travis morrison website]

Travistan Lord, Jesus, this album is not good. I wanted so badly to like this thing, but Morrison, the former lead singer of The Dismemberment Plan, decided to turn up the cheese-meter so high that he made that practically impossible do do so. The mid-80's arcade game samples and electronic noodling would be semi-cool if it weren't for the damn lyrics--those horrible, horrible lyrics. The Plan, as they were known, always walked that thin line between cutesy and hipster. There was an edgy sarcasm that managed to relay a situation without pushing their tongue complete through their cheek. Morrison has taken the worst of that and turned it just plain ugly. The album is just filled with awful puns and double entendres and terrible similes and whatever those other things are called. It's just too cutesy to believe. Seriously cringe-worthy stuff. The title Travistan is obviously an illusion to some fictional land that exists inside Morrison's head--a land that should be nuked and wiped from the world map forever.

Morrissey
[morrissey website]

Bona Drag

My Early Burglary Years

Vauxhall and I

You Are the Quarry

Mother Love Bone
[mother love bone website]

Apple

The Mountain Goats
[the mountain goats website]

The Sunset Tree

Mr. Lif
[mr. lif website]

I Phantom

Mo' Mega

The Mr. T Experience
[mr. t experience website]

Revenge is Sweet and So Are You

The M's
[the m's website]

Future Women

Mucky Pup
[mucky pup website]

Act of Faith

The Muffs
[the muffs website]

Blonder and Blonder

Happy Birthday to Me

The Muffs

Mule
[mule website]

If I Don't Six

The Murmurs
[the murmurs website]

The Murmurs

Murphy's Law
[murphy's law website]

The Best of Times

Murs and 9th Wonder
[murs website]

Murray's Revenge It's good to see L.A. representin', yo! And I can't believe there is a modern hip-hop record that isn't made by Will Smith that doesn't have anything about white-ts, spinners, gats or jail. I'm not saying those things don't surface at any point, but he's not a trend kind of guy. Murs is like the perfect old school fan's transition to 2007. There ain't no Birdman shit here. No bleeping and blooping. It's just good story-telling, funny and coherent in a way that so few rap albums are these days. And the production is simple, but sprinkled with nice touches. It's the perfect hazed out album to that reminds me of the old days of drinking beers in somebody's pool house and imbibing whatever we could fit in that dented Coke can with the sweet forkholes.

mxpx
[mxpx website]

Life in General

My Bloody Valentine

Loveless

My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket

My Teenage Stride
[my teenage stride website]

Ears Like Golden Bats

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