the magik band- back to the front
others mentioned

hella- total bugs bunny on wild bass
ween-quebec
mogwai-happy songs...

Cheer Accident - Introducing Lemon. also the best live show i saw this year, hands down. best band around today, i think.
Ween - Quebec
Ruins - Tzomborgha (this may have been late '02)
Bride of No No - S/T
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
US Maple - Purple on Time

larry bird wrote:mogwai-happy songs...

yeah...i am surprised no one else has mentioned this yet. It seemed like at the time it came out everyone was talking about it. Great album.

-Andrew

This is really tough, i dont really buy any new albums... but so far...

Hella/Dilute - Live Split
Mercury Program/Maserati - Split
Volta Do Mar/Murder By Death - Split
Hella - bitches aint shit but good people
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
A Life Once Lost - Great Artist
American Analog Set - Promise of Love
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Cul de Sac - Death of the Sun
Jey by Day - Cascadia
Pretty Girls Make Graves - New Romance
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow


No more thinking, my brain hurts...

i liked these, but i'm sure there are more that i'm forgetting...

low: 'muderer' 10"
wire: 'send'
mogwai: 'happy songs for happy people'
arab strap: 'monday at the hug and pint'
consonant: 'love and affliction'
the angels of light: 'everything is good here/please come home'
chris brokaw: 'wandering as water'
silkworm: 'you are dignified'
whitehouse: 'bird seed'

I second Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People... good stuff!

And I concur... 2003 ain't over yet!

I just got the new Fall record today, there are still weeks lefts to 2003, plenty of records to hear/buy

In addition to agreeing w/the Maple, L. Bolt...

-Animal Collective "Here Comes The Indian" (my favorite of '03)
-Deerhoof, "Apple O"
-Sightings, "Absolutes"

PW long-remembered
desert city soundtrack-funeral car
explosions in the sky-The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
oh and.....
rome for a day-helmets for the king (my new fav.)