Lode/Load: July 26, 2009

Big things in the works. Until then, though, just some big purchases. Embarking on a Robert Pollard collection that will probably destroy me. Such is life.

EP's:

Fergus & Geronimo | Harder Than It's Ever Been b/w Last Letter | Woodsist | Black

Real Estate | Fake Blues b/w Pool Swimmers | Woodsist | Black

LP's:

Amen Dunes | Dia | Locust Music | Black

Built to Spill | Keep It Like a Secret | City Slang | Black

Circus Devils | Five | Fading Captain Series | Black | |#34

Cold Cave | Love Comes Close | Heartworm | Black

Earthmen and Strangers | S/T | FDH | Black

Generation of Vipers | S/T | Landmark | Black

Go Back Snowball | Calling Zero | Fading Captain Series | Black | #17

Songs for Moms | I Used to Believe in the West | Thrillhouse | Black

Summer Cats | Songs for Tuesdays | Slumberland | Rainbow Splatter

Teenage Cool Kids | Foreign Lands | Protagonist | Translucent Teal

Waits, Tom | Mule Variations | Anti- | Black 2xLP

Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones | Interscope | Black

Lode/Load: July 19, 2009

EP's:

Brain Killer | S/T | Deranged | Black

Brain Killer | Demo | Deranged | Black

Mantles | Don't Lie b/w Secret Heart | Mt. St. Mtn. | Black

Social Circle | S/T | Violent Horror Comedy/Retarded | Black

Style Council | Money-Go-Round (Parts1+2) | Polydor | Black

Vile, Kurt | Fall Demons | Skulltones | Black

Whatever Brains | Mt. Whatever | Bull City | Black

Woven Bones | Your Sorcery b/w Howl 'n Woof | Sweet Rot | Black

Bri White/James Fella | Split | Gilgongo | Blue

LP's:

Barfield, Cecil | South Georgia Blues | Mississippi | Black

Cohen, Tim | The Two Sides of... | Empty Cellar/Secret Seven | White | 54/250

Cribs | Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever | Warner Bros. | Black

Future of the Left | Curses | Too Pure | Black

Future of the Left | Travels With Myself and Another | 4AD | Black

Gaslight Anthem | '59 Sound | SideOneDummy | Black

Gaslight Anthem | Sink or Swim | Hellbent | Clear

Mount Eerie | Live in Cophenhagen | Burnt Toast | Black 3xLP

Shitty Limits | Beware the Limits | Sorry State | Black

War on Drugs | Wagonwheel Blues | Secretly Canadian | Black

Lode/Load: July 12, 2009

First missive coming to you from the left coast. Strange, but good. As rough as it was to leave the New York shops, San Francisco does not slack, and I forgot about that. First week, and Amoeba and Aquarius are already treating me great again.

EP's:

Mantles | S/T | Dulc-I-Tone | Black

LP's:

Animal Collective | Danse Manatee | Fat Cat | Black

Bellafea | Cavalcade | Southern | Clear

Blues Control | Local Flavor | Siltbreeze | Black

Bowerbirds | Upper Air | Dead Oceans | Black

Discovery | LP | XL | Black

Fearless Iranians From Hell | Foolish Americans | Boner | Black

Murrow, Edward R. | I Can Hear It Now... | Columbia | Black

Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop | Black 2xLP

Rainy Day Regatta | Living As We Do in the Midst of So Much Ordered Light and Noise | S/R | Black | One-Sided

Wrangler Brutes | Tape | X-Mist | Black

Black Time/Ty Segall | Split | Telephone Explosion | Black