J Mascis -- Tied To A Star

  The album I always wanted to hear from J Mascis, striped down and flailing away from the Dinosaur Jr. Marshall stacked power rock, instead it's a neo-folk-psych-gazer record reminiscent of Led Zepplin III.  I'm so glad my local dude was playing this in-store when I had some money to burn!

Ty Segall -- Goodbye Bread

  I wrote off Segall way too soon, Goodbye Bread is a brilliant Indie-psych masterpeice.  Funny thing is when I picked this up, the owner's buddy was manning the store with his all too friendly sticky dog, while I'm getting an album that is rittled with pooch pictures, coincidence, I don't believe in them, just another mini-epic moment of the fateadlyesque hobby of collecting.

The Stooges

  Super stoned, raw and primitive, The Stooges, John Cale produced, opening album was and is an instant classic.  I had no idea how tough these guys actually were until I read Please Kill Me ... squatting in a house at war with bikers over heroin, they meant and were every sound they made, the real deal all the way ... f*ck you!