Michael Patrick Brady

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2010
3.09 These New Puritans - Hidden [The Phoenix]
3.04 Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton [The Phoenix]
2.12 The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester [PopMatters]
1.27 Pit Er Pat - The Flexible Entertainer [The Phoenix]
1.14 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis [PopMatters]
1.13 RJD2 - The Colossus [The Phoenix]

2009
12.16 The Roman Forum by David Watkin [PopMatters]
11.24 Trans Am - What Day Is It Tonight? [The Phoenix]
11.16 Boston Noir by Dennis Lehane, et al [PopMatters]
11.13 Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd [PopMatters]
10.06 The Black Heart Procession - Six [The Phoenix]
9.30 The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham [PopMatters]
9.22 Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold [The Phoenix]
9.15 Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts [The Phoenix]
9.09 Wild Beasts - Two Dancers [The Phoenix]
9.08 Marcus Aurelius: A Life by Frank McLynn [PopMatters]
8.19 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs [The Phoenix]
8.12 The Landmark Herodotus by Robert B. Strassler [PopMatters]
8.10 Robert Pollard - Elephant Jokes [The Phoenix]
8.05 The Evolution of God by Robert Wright [PopMatters]
8.03 Zu - Carboniferous [ALARM]
8.03 Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans [The Phoenix]
7.22 Sax Ruins - Yawiquo [The Phoenix]
6.09 Meriwether Lewis by Thomas Danisi and John Jackson [PopMatters]
6.08 The Horse's Ha - Of The Cathmawr Yards [The Phoenix]
6.03 Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar [PopMatters]
6.01 Sonic Youth - The Eternal [The Phoenix]
5.18 You Are Here by Christopher Potter [PopMatters]
5.07 Paris From The Ground Up by James H.S. McGregor [PopMatters]
4.28 Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free [The Phoenix]
4.21 Takeo Toyama - Etudes [The Phoenix]
4.14 Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle [The Phoenix]
4.06 Black Dice - Repo [The Phoenix]
3.17 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware [The Phoenix]
3.03 Arbouretum - Song of the Pearl [The Phoenix]
2.09 Mi Ami - Watersports [The Phoenix]
1.28 John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by John Brackett [PopMatters]
1.27 Dalek - Gutter Tactics [The Phoenix]
1.20 Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscopic [The Phoenix]
1.19 The Inventon of Air by Steven Berlin Johnson [PopMatters]
1.12 A.C. Newman - Get Guilty [The Phoenix]
1.07 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [The Phoenix]
1.05 London Rising by Leo Hollis [PopMatters]

2008
11.24 Miles on Miles by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr [PopMatters]
11.18 Giants: Douglass and Lincoln by John Stauffer [PopMatters]
11.01 Boston Spaceships (Robert Pollard) - Brown Submarine [ALARM]
11.01 Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us [ALARM]
10.24 The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell [PopMatters]
10.08 Benoit Pioulard - Temper [The Phoenix]
9.16 TV on the Radio - Dear Science, [The Phoenix]
9.10 Tanya Tagaq - Auk/Blood [The Phoenix]
8.26 Byrne / Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today [The Phoenix]
8.19 Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl [The Phoenix]
8.18 The Black Death: A Personal History by John Hatcher [PopMatters]
8.12 Zach Hill - Astrological Straits [The Phoenix]
7.29 Oneida - Preteen Weaponry [The Phoenix]
7.22 Nico Muhly - Mothertongue [The Phoenix]
7.07 The Balustrade Ensemble - Capsules [ALARM]
6.30 Canon ZR950 Camcorder [LAPTOP]
6.14 JVC GR-D850 Camcorder [LAPTOP]
6.14 Sony DCR-HC62 Camcorder [LAPTOP]
6.09 Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard is Off to Business [The Phoenix]
6.09 Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG9 Camcorder [LAPTOP]
6.09 Pure Digital Flip Video Ultra Camcorder [LAPTOP]
6.06 Young J. Edgar by Kenneth D. Ackerman [PopMatters]
6.06 Jason Ajemian's Smokeless Heat - The Art of Dying [PopMatters]
5.15 Canon Vixia HF100 Camcorder [LAPTOP]
5.12 Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic [PopMatters]
5.07 Fern Knight - Fern Knight [PopMatters]
4.17 Black Francis - Svn Fngrs [PopMatters]
3.17 John Adams by David McCullough [PopMatters]
2.25 Richard and John: Kings at War by Frank McLynn [PopMatters]
2.12 Jazz: An Introduction... by Bob Blumenthal [PopMatters]
2.04 Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra [PopMatters]
1.21 Union 1812 by A.J. Langguth [PopMatters]
1.15 Keefe Jackson's Project Project - Just Like This [PopMatters]
1.11 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy [PopMatters]
1.04 Amir ElSaffar - Two Rivers [PopMatters]

2007
12.13 The Murder of Regilla by Sarah B. Pomeroy [PopMatters]
12.04 Kiln - Dusker [ALARM]
10.22 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough [PopMatters]
10.18 How the Irish Invented Slang by Daniel Cassidy [PopMatters]
9.27 Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog [ALARM]
9.18 Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends [ALARM]
9.18 In the Shadow of the Moon by Francis French, Colin Burgess [PopMatters]
8.30 The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman [PopMatters]
8.27 Liars - Liars [PopMatters]
8.08 Immaculate Machine - Fables [ALARM]
7.24 Circus Devils (Robert Pollard) - Sgt. Disco [ALARM]
7.19 Through the Sparks - Lazarus Beach [ALARM]
7.19 Up the Empire - Light Rides the Super Major [ALARM]
6.18 Clinic - Funf [PopMatters]
5.07 Trans Am - Sex Change [ALARM]
5.04 Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death [PopMatters]
4.18 Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean [Weekly Dig]
4.05 Winning - This is an Ad for Cigarettes [ALARM]
4.04 Glenn Jones - Against Which the Sea Continually Beats [PopMatters]
3.29 John Prine: Live on Soundstage 1980 [PopMatters]
3.15 Ghost - In Stormy Nights [ALARM]
3.01 Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower [PopMatters]
2.28 !!! - Myth Takes [ALARM]
2.27 Willard Grant Conspiracy - Let it Roll [PopMatters]
2.19 Jed and Lucia - Candles in Daylight [NowOnTour]
2.19 Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets [NowOnTour]
2.19 Golem - Fresh Off Boat [NowOnTour]
2.01 Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness [PopMatters]
1.24 Menomena - Friend and Foe [Weekly Dig]
1.19 Johnny Cash - Live from Austin TX [PopMatters]
1.18 Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else [Amp Camp]
1.03 Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens - Ready Everyday [PopMatters]

2006
12.19 David Krakauer - Bubbemeises [ALARM]
12.19 Pinebender - Working Nine to Wolf [ALARM]
12.19 Forro in the Dark - Bonfires of Sao Joao [ALARM]
12.19 Dmonstrations - Night Trrors, Shock! [ALARM]
12.08 Cul de Sac - ECIM [PopMatters]
11.29 Exploding Hearts - Shattered [Weekly Dig]
11.22 Various - The World is Gone [Weekly Dig]
9.18 Idgy Vaughn - Origin Story [Stylus]
9.01 Various Artists - The Sound the Hare Heard [M+]
9.01 Danielson - Ships [M+]
9.01 Wooden Wand - Second Attention [Stylus]
8.28 Early Day Miners - Offshore [Amp Camp]
8.14 Fence Kitchen - Beading the Rook [Amp Camp]
8.11 Alec K. Redfearn - The Smother Party [Amp Camp]
7.25 Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace 1969 [Amp Camp]
7.21 Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky [Amp Camp]
7.13 Alan Sparhawk - Solo Guitar [Stylus]
7.12 The Sadies - In Concert, Volume One [Stylus]
6.20 Asobi Seksu - Citrus [The Phoenix]
6.19 Broadcast - The Future Crayon [Amp Camp]
6.19 Noxagt - Noxagt [Amp Camp]
6.19 Metalux & John Wiese - Exoteric [Amp Camp]
6.07 David Byrne - Ile Aiye (The House of Life) [Amp Camp]
5.25 Mission of Burma - The Obliterati [Stylus]
4.27 Mae Shi - Lock the Gun, Load the Skull [Amp Camp]
4.17 Oneida - The Wedding [Amp Camp]
4.17 Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You [Amp Camp]
4.17 Neva Dinova - The Hate Yourself Change [Amp Camp]
4.17 Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid [Amp Camp]
4.17 Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy [Amp Camp]
3.30 Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth [Stylus]
3.30 Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album [Stylus]
3.30 Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts [Stylus]
3.20 Raising the Fawn - The Maginot Line [Stylus]
3.16 Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You [Stylus]
2.27 Fred Lonberg-Holm - Bridges Freeze Before Roads [Stylus]
1.20 Bright - Bells Break Their Towers [Stylus]
1.19 Hudson Bell - When the Sun is the Moon [Stylus]
1.05 Landing - Brocade [Stylus]

2005
11.09 Fern Knight - Blithewold [Weekly Dig]
11.08 Animal Collective - Feels [Kevchino]
11.02 Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering [Weekly Dig]
11.02 Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain [Weekly Dig]
10.26 Magnolia Electric Co - Hard to Love a Man [Weekly Dig]
10.19 T. Monk/Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall [Weekly Dig]
10.12 The Dirty Three - Cinder [Weekly Dig]
9.21 Iron and Wine/Calexico - In the Reins [Weekly Dig]
9.15 Sigur Ros - Takk [Weekly Dig]
9.15 Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow [Weekly Dig]
8.31 Ladytron - Witching Hour [Weekly Dig]
8.30 Interpol Re-Releases Antics For Some Reason [Kevchino]
8.29 Bjork - Drawing Restraint 9 [Kevchino]
8.22 New Pornographers - Twin Cinema [Kevchino]
8.16 Mountain Goats Tour in October [Kevchino]
8.09 Sigur Ros Slightly Comprehensible [Kevchino]

2004
[all published at Brainwashed]
10.11 Landing - Sphere
9.27 Asobi Seksu - Asobe Seksu
9.20 The Arcade Fire - Funeral
9.05 The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
7.26 Glenn Jones This is the Wind That Blows it Out
7.26 A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
6.20 The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
6.13 The New Year - The End is Near
6.07 Liars - W.F.O.G.W.T.B.O.O.O
6.07 Pink Grease - This is For Real
6.07 Catheters - Howling...It Grows and Grows
5.31 David Cross - It's Not Funny
5.31 Seachange - Lay of the Land
5.10 Mission of Burma - ONoffON
5.10 Raising the Fawn - The North Sea
5.02 Andre Ether with Christopher Sandes featuring Pickles and Price
3.28 Begnagrad - Begnagrad
3.14 TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
3.14 Califone - Heron King Blues
3.01 Chicago Underground Trio - Slon
2.23 Liars - They Were Wrong so we Drowned
2.16 Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
2.02 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
1.26 Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End
1.19 Kyrie Elieson - Complete Recordings

2003
[all published at Brainwashed]
12.14 Mountaineers - Messy Century
11.23 Electric Six - Dance Commander
11.17 The Love Depression - The Love Depression
11.10 Cul de Sac - The Strangler's Wife
10.13 The Sick Lipstick - Sting Sting Sting
9.29 Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
9.29 Various - Feedback to the Future
9.29 East River Pipe - Garbageheads...
9.15 Paula Kelley - The Trouble With Success
9.15 Consonant - Love and Affliction
9.08 Quasi - Hot Shit
9.08 Tsurubami - Gekkyukekkaichi
9.01 Rebel Powers, - Not One Star...
8.25 Gardenbox, - Gardenbox
8.25 Butchy Fuego, - Butchy Fuego
8.11 The Swords Project, - Entertainment is Over
8.01 Antipop Consortium - vs. Matthew Shipp
7.28 Two By Bukowski - Drink From My Bastard Grail
7.21 Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium
7.14 TV on the Radio - Young Liars
7.14 Fern Knight - Seven Years of Severed Limbs
7.07 DJ Spooky - Optometry
7.07 1 Mile North - Minor Shadows
6.23 Mountaineers - Mountaineers
6.23 Cut Out - Interlude with the Fun Machine
6.16 Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
6.16 A Northern Chorus - Spirit Flags
6.02 Electric Six - Fire
5.19 Nacha Atlas - Something Dangerous
5.19 New Pornographers - Electric Version
5.05 Arab Strap - Monday the Hug and Pint
4.14 Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
4.07 Howe Gelb - The Listener
3.17 Steffen Basho-Junghans - Rivers and Bridges
3.10 Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
3.03 Helms - McCarthy
2.24 Ampbuzz - This is My Ampbuzz
2.24 Puerto Muerto - Your Bloated Corpse...
2.17 Cul de Sac - Death of the Sun
2.03 The Baptist Generals - No Silver, No Gold
2.03 The Thermals - No Culture Icons
1.27 Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
1.20 Neko Case - Blacklisted
1.20 Torrez - The Evening Drag
1.13 Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas