1. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
2. Tom Waits, Blood Money and Alice (ANTI-)
3. Beck, Sea Change (Interscope)
4. Six Feet Under, Music from the HBO Original Series (Universal)
5. N.E.R.D., In Search Of... (Virgin)
6. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells (V2)
7. Doves, The Last Broadcast (Capitol)
8. eels, Souljacker (DreamWorks)
9. Pleasure Club, Here Comes the Trick (Purified)
10. Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
Top 10 Live Shows
1. DJ Shadow: October 2, Gypsy Tea Room
2. System of a Down: February 18, Bronco Bowl Theatre
3. Prince/Erykah Badu: April 17, after hours at The Red Jacket
4. X: November 14, Trees
5. David Sedaris: April 3, Meyerson Symphony Center
6. Frank Black: December 5, Gypsy Tea Room
7. Queens of the Stone Age: September 29, The Granada
8. Snoop Dogg: June 6, Gypsy Tea Room
9. Slayer: May 8, Bronco Bowl Theatre
10. Doves: September 27, Gypsy Tea Room
10 Records to Revisit Before the United States Invades Iraq
Grandaddy, He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot
Fear, The Record
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire
XTC, Black Sea
Gravediggaz, The Pick, the Sickle, and the Shovel
War, Why Can't We Be Friends?
System of a Down, Toxicity
Minor Threat, Out of Step
Slayer, Reign in Blood
Who We Be (Influence or Tribute? The Joke's On Us)
The Strokes = The Knack
The White Stripes = Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Peaches = Ruth Buzzi
Nappy Roots = Arrested Development
Nashville Pussy = White Zombie
The Polyphonic Spree = Barney
Queens of the Stone Age = Monster Magnet
Poverty = Eminem
Doves = Swervedriver
Everclear = Bush
Yo, Brother! Where Art Thou? (Musical Expatriates)
Clark Voegler, Toadies: Los Angeles, film school student
Ian Beach, Buck Pets: New York, chef
Mike Jerome, Course of Empire: Los Angeles, plays drums with Blind Boys of Alabama and Pleasure Club
Reed Easterwood, Junky Southern: Albuquerque, New Mexico; actually works in a junkyard
Spyche: San Diego, studying Chinese medicine
Zac Baird, Billygoat/cottonmouth, texas: Los Angeles, playing keyboards with Colin Hay of Men at Work
John Freeman and Corn Mo, Dooms UK: New York, musicians
Brandon and Ben Curtis, UFOFU: New York, playing with Secret Machines
Bob Watson, Shallow Reign: Hohenwald, Tennessee; stay-at-home dad
Meredith Miller: Austin, studying sports medicine
