Your Best of 2005

Alexandre Mayakovsky - RFC reader 1. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl 2. Delia & Gavin - The Days of Mars 3. Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth 4. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now 5. Dead Meadow - Feathers 6. Kanye West - Late Registration 7. M.I.A. - Arular 8. The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human 9. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze 10. The Clientele - Strange Geometry Tyler Coates - RFC reader ALBUMS: 1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 2. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now 3. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir 4. Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds 5. Broken Social Scene - [self-titled] 6. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow 7. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll 8. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema 9. Iron & Wine with Calexico - In The Reins 10. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan SONGS (Not on the previous albums): 1. LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" (from LCD Sounsystem) 2. Black Lipstick - "B.O.B. F.O.S.S.E." (from Sincerely, Black Lipstick) 3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" (from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) 4. Animal Collective - "Grass" (from Feels) 5. Voxtrot - "The Start of Something" (from Raised By Wolves EP) 6. Iron & Wine - "Jezebel" (from Woman King EP) 7. Feist - "Mushaboom" (from Let It Die) 8. Elliott Smith - "Thirteen" (from Thumbsucker soundtrack) 9. Aimee Mann - "Video" (from The Forgotten Arm) 10. Magnolia Electic Co. - "Werewolves of London" (from Hard To Love A Man EP) SHOWS: 1. Liz Phair w/ Cary Brothers, The Birchmere (Alexandria, Virginia), August 4th. 2. Broken Social Scene w/ Feist, Metro, October 28th. 3. Art Brut w/ The Hot Machines, Schuba's, November 15th. 4. Sufjan Stevens w/ Laura Veirs, Metro, September 16th. 5. Feist w/ Great Lake Swimmers, Schuba's, September 8th. 6. Neko Case w/ The Sadies, Starr Hill (Charlottesville, Virginia), February 16th. 7. Magnolia Electric Co, MACRoCk (Harrisonburg, Virginia), April 2nd. 8. Le Tigre w/ Electrolane, The Vic, August 10th. 9. Black Mountain, MACRoCk (Harrisonburg, Virginia), April 1st. 10. Shout Out Louds w/ The Essex Green and The Sun, Double Door, November 9th.