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Check out some Porcupine Tree (Stupid Dream & In Absentia highly recommended)

or...

Dive into some Frank Zappa. That'll keep you busy for years.

No love for the Gutter Twins "Saturnalia"?

Absolutely love that album!!!! It's my top of this year. I also love the 2nd Isobel Campbell & Lanegan album, Sunday at Devil Dirt.

There's a really great local (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) band that released an album on Ramseur this year: Bombadil's "A Buzz, A Buzz" They're great live, and anyone who has a chance to see them should. They have a great, upbeat folk sound.

Two other great local bands, American Aquarium and Bowerbirds, put out some good albums this year.

I'm really liking Vetiver's "Thing of the Past" and Murder By Death's "Red of Tooth and Claw"

Porcupine Tree's "live"/in-store show "We lost the Skyline" has some great stripped down versions of their material.

Be Your Own Pet - "Get Awkward"

Black Mountain - "In the Future"

The new Coldplay album is surprisingly okay.

Opeth's "Watershed" is also really solid.

... I should post here more.

I am crazy pissed!!!!! I LIVE in north carolina... but... I am on the other side of the country when he actually comes here...