2003

Daft Punk – Daft Club (French electronic music, remix album)

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Poodle Hat (American comedy music)

Belle And Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Scottish indie pop)

Blue Man Group – The Complex (American experimental rock/performance art, concept album contrasting the urban workplace with rock concerts, guest appearances by Gavin Rossdale, Tracy Bonham, and Dave Matthews)

Cave In – Antenna (American alternative metal/space rock, major label debut)

The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic (American punk rock/power pop, their only full-length album)

Broadcast – Haha Sound (English indie electronic / dream pop)

Fountains Of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers (American power pop)

Mitch Hedberg – Mitch All Together (American stand up comedy)

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Streetcore (English alternative rock/reggae rock, final album by the former Clash frontman)

Cheap Trick – Special One (American power pop)

Ministry – Animositisomina (American industrial metal, their last album to feature long-time member Paul Barker)

Grails – The Burden Of Hope (American experimental rock, debut album)

Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (American southern hip hop/avant-soul, double album with each disc also functioning as a solo album for members Big Boi and Andre 3000)

The Crystal Method – Born Too Slow (UK) (American electronic rock, first single from 2004 album Temple Of Boom, featuring John Garcia of Kyuss and Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, single version of the song plus two extended remixes)

The Flaming Lips – Fight Test (American indie rock, EP/extended single for 2002 song “Fight Test”, featuring one remix, two original songs, and covers of Kylie Minogue, Beck, and Radiohead)

Evanescence – Fallen (American alternative metal/gothic metal, debut album)

Cat Power – You Are Free (American indie rock)

The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight (Swedish alternative rock)

The Flaming Lips – Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell (EP/extended single for 2002 song “Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell”, featuring 4 original songs and 3 remixes)

The Mars Volta – De-loused In The Comatorium (American progressive rock/post-hardcore, debut album for band featuring ex-members of At The Drive-In)

The Mars Volta – Live (EP, live versions of De-Loused songs)

The Postal Service – Give Up (American indietronica, only full-length album by the duo of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, Figurine))

The Postal Service – Such Great Heights (single featuring the Give Up track plus one previously unreleased song and covers of Postal Service songs by The Shins and Iron & Wine)

The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (single featuring the Give Up track plus two remixes and a Flaming Lips cover)

Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (American indie rock)

Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (American post-rock)

The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? (Canadian indie rock/lo-fi, their last album)

Dear Leader – The Good Times Are Killing Me (American rock, debut album for band featuring The Sheila Divine singer/guitarist Aaron Perrino)

Estradasphere – Quadropus (American experimental rock)

The Decemberists – Her Majesty The Decemberists (American indie rock/folk rock)

The White Stripes – Elephant (American garage rock/blues rock)

Dead Meadow – Shivering King And Others (American psychedelic rock)

My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves (American indie rock/southern rock)

Mates Of States – Team Boo (American indie pop)

Whirlwind Heat – Do Rabbits Wonder? (American noise rock/post hardcore, debut album)

Street Dogs – Savin Hill (American punk rock, debut album for band fronted by ex-Dropkick Murphys vocalist Mike McColgan)

Various Artists – A Mighty Wind: The Album (soundtrack to the 2003 American mockumentary , with original folk songs sung by the cast)

Electric Six – Fire (American dance-punk, debut album)

The Darkness – Permission To Land (English hard rock/glam metal)

Venetian Snares – The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (Canadian electronic music/breakcore)

Venetian Snares – Find Candace (Canadian electronic music/breakcore, companion piece to 2001 album Doll Doll Doll)

Various Artists – Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale – Music From The TV Series (UK/Latin America version) (second official soundtrack album from the tv show, featuring music from the final three seasons as well as songs that were in earlier episodes but weren’t included on the previous soundtrack album)

Fiery Furnaces – Gallowsbird Bark (American indie rock, debut album)

John Murphy/Various Artists – 28 Days Later: The Soundtrack Album (Soundtrack to the 2002 British horror film, also featuring Brian Eno, Grandaddy, and Blue States)

The Long Winters – When I Pretend To Fall (American indie rock)

The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir - "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing (Canadian post rock/neo-classical folk, featuring members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

David Bowie – Reality (English art rock)

Madlib – Shades Of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note (American jazz-rap/instrumental hip hop, remixes of material from the archives of jazz label Blue Note Records)

The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (American indie rock)

Metallica – St. Anger (American heavy metal)

Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (English alternative rock/experimental rock)

The Strokes – Room On Fire (American indie rock/garage rock revival)

Liz Phair – Liz Phair (American pop/rock, major label debut)

Halcali – Halcali Bacon (Japanese pop/hip hop)

Midnight Syndicate – Dungeons & Dragons (American dark ambient/neoclassical, official soundtrack to the role-playing game)

The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) (English post-punk)

TV On The Radio – Young Liars (American art rock, 5 song EP, their first major release)

Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher (American glitch/instrumental hip hop)

Prefuse 73 – Extinguished: Outtakes (EP/mini-album of songs produced during the same sessions as One Word Extinguisher but left off the album)

Ween – Quebec (American experimental rock)

Ween – All Request Live (Live performance originally broadcast on web radio, with a set-list based on fans’ requests from the band’s message board)

Rancid – Indestructible (American punk rock/ska punk)

Against Me! - As The Eternal Cowboy (American punk rock)

Bouncing Souls – Anchors Aweigh! (American punk rock/pop punk)

Sufjan Stevens – Michigan (American indie folk/baroque pop, concept album revolving around the artist’s home state of Michigan)

The Books – The Lemon Of Pink (American folktronica)

Black Moth Super Rainbow – Falling Through a Field (American experimental electronic/ synth pop, their fourth album overall, but first under their current name)

Jay-Z – The Black Album (American hip-hop)

Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain (American hip hop, alter-ego of the rapper better known as MF Doom)

Reggie and the Full Effect – Under the Tray… (American pop-punk/emo)

AFI – Sing The Sorrow (American post-hardcore/emo)

Blink 182 – Blink 182 (American pop punk/alternative rock)

Deftones – Deftones (American alternative metal)

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (American alternative metal/art rock, concept album about addiction and recovery)