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NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The site has been updated with a lot more content. I'm going to work on getting some photos up soon. I'm working on some new reviews and interviews but in the meantime, here's some new releases to check out. The 10 Best Albums of the First Half of 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Pilot to Gunner Get Saved (Arena Rock Recordings Co.) 2 The Hold SteadyAlmost Killed Me (French Kiss Rec.) 3 Kill Creek The Will to Strike (Second Nature Recordings) 4 Leatherface Dog Disco (BYO Rec.) 5 Avoid One Thing Chopstick Bridge (Side One Dummy Rec.) 6 50 Foot Wave s/t EP 7 Alkaline Trio/One Man Army split CD (BYO Rec.) 8 Ollabelle s/t (Sony Music) 9 Casket Lottery Smoke and Mirrors EP (Second Nature Recordings) 10 Graig Markel Tall Tales on Tape (Sonic Boom Rec.)	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEST OF 2003 Click to read from the reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Constantines Shine a Light (Sub Pop) 2. Bronx, The s/t (White Drugs) 3. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Streetcore (http://www.strummersite.com; Hellcat/Epitaph) 4. AFI Sing the Sorrow (Dreamworks) 5. Jealous Sound, The Kill Them with Kindness(Better Looking) 6. The Fire Theft s/t (Ryko) 7. Superchunk Cup of Sand (Merge) 8. Nada Surf Let Go (Barsuk) 9. Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn (Merge) 10. Guided by Voices Best OfÄHuman Amusements at Hourly Rates (Matador) 11. Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Island) 12. Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance (Matador Records) 13. Electric Six Fire (XL Recordings/Beggars Group) 14. Jet By Day Cascadia (Kindercore) 15. Blueline Medic Text Bomb (Fueled By Ramen) 16. The Lot Six Major Fables(Tarantulas) 17. Caesars 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) (Astralwerks) 18. Alkaline Trio Good Mourning (Vagrant ) 19. Appleseed Cast Two Conversations (Tiger Style) 20. Millionaire Outside the Simian Flock (Play It Again Sam) 21. Give Up the Ghost We're Down 'til We're Underground (Equal Vision) 22. Idlewild The Remote Part (Capitol Records) 23. Cursive The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek ) 22. Radiohead Hail to the Thief (Capitol Records) 24. Sense Field Living Outside (Nettwerk America) 25. Paper Lions The Symptom and the Sick (Kindercore)





ROCKIST FAVORITES ON TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alkaline Trio Avail Avoid One Thing Bad Religion The Bronx Crooked Fingers Cursive The Dirtbombs The Fire Theft Hot Water Music Instruction The Long Winters Piebald Pilot to Gunner Click for current dates	HONORABLE MENTION Heavenly States s/t (Future Farmer) Slowride Building A Building (Deep Elm) V/A Swami Sound System ® Vol. 1: 2003 Sales Conference (Swami) Von Bondies, The Raw and Rare (Dim Mak) Milwaukees This is a Stickup (Boss Tuneage) Bad Brains Banned in DC: Their Greatest Riffs (Caroline) Tokyo Sex Destruction Le Red Soul Communitte (Dim Mak) Hey Mercedes Loses Control (Vagrant ) Communiqu¼ A Crescent Honeymoon EP (Lookout! Records) Kid Dynamite Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems (Jade Tree) Small Brown Bike The River Bed (Lookout! Records) Enon Hocus Pocus (Touch and Go) Hero Pattern Cut You Out (Lonesome) Soundtrak s/t (Ace Fu) Motion City Soundtrack I am the Movie (Epitaph)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INTERVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Actionslacks Interview The Faint Interview more to come	MAILING LIST/CONTACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rockist Magazine c/o Kevin S. Hoskins 43 Hano Street Allston, MA 02134 E-mail: kevin@rockist.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This site was last updated on July 7, 2004.