New acquisitions:
Lighterthief - 3 recent EPs (digital)
David Sylvian - Sleepwalkers
British Sea Power - Zeus EP (digital)
V/A - Twistable, Turnable Man - A Tribute To Shel Silverstein
Dirty Ray - Big World For A Little Man
Sally Timms - Somebody's Rocking My Dreamboat… (digital)

Sampled:
Devo - Something For Everybody: fun, much better than expected but hardly necessary.
Trolleyvox - Leap Of Folly / The Karaoke Meltdown: solid indie, very similar to The Bads, nothing that makes me want to give it another listen.
Chrome Hoof - Crush Depth: Really interesting Cabaret Voltaire meets Foetus but gets…

New acquisitions:
Tours - Album Of The Year… (That Never Was)
V/A - Avon Calling 2
Jon Langford - Old Devils
Street Chant - Means
Brian Dewan - Words Of Wisdom
XTC - Live At Rockpalast '82 (digital)
Black Watch - Led Zeppelin V
Surf City - Kudos (digital)
The Twilight Sad - The Wrong Car EP (digital)
Grinderman - Heathen Child EP (digital)
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (digital)
V/A - The Great Fire Of London (digital)
The Replacements - B-Sides And Rarities (digital)
Pine - Books And Magazines (digital)

Sampled:
Autolux - Future Perfect:…

New acquisitions:
Wire - Send Ultimate (digital)
Freur - EPs (digital)
Channel 3 - The Best Of Channel 3 (digital)
Versus - On The Ones And Threes
Versus - Numerous compilation and 7" tracks (digital)
Roxy Music - Live @ Musikladen TV (digital)
Perfect Disaster - Perfect Disaster & EPs (digital)
Stan Ridgway - Neon Mirage
Cathal Coughlan - Rancho Tetrahedron (digital)
Die! Die! Die! - Form
Lloyd Cole - Broken Record & bonus disc

Sampled:
Innocence Mission - My Room In The Trees: Nice, more of the same as their last album
Ingrid Chavez & David Sylvian - Little…

New acquisitions:
The Mutts - Life In Dirt / I Us We You: Solid punky Stooges stuff (digital)
Devo - Singles etc: self-made comp of random non-LP and later material (digital)
Dave Couse - Alonewalk
V/A - Les Filles Du Crepuscule
Dolly Mixture - Everything And More 3CD box set
Julian Cope - Floored Genius 2 expanded edition
Andy Prieboy - Don't Tell That Guy Anything EP (digital)
Robyn Hitchcock & Steve Wynn - Live 2010 (digital)

Sampled:
Quick sample of 3 Spanish bands recommended to me (Los Planetas - Una Semana En El Motor De Un Autobús / Surfin…

New Acquisitions:
Pernice Brothers - Goodbye, Killer (digital)
Innocence Mission - Street Map EP (digital)
Fiat Lux - Fac Ut Vivas (digital)
Killing Joke In Excelsis EP (digital)
Tender Trap - Dansette Dansette
The Dream Syndicate - The Medicine Show (reissue)

Sampled:
Adrian Borland - Harmony & Destruction Demos
Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth: Like Pale Saints meets Field Mice
Beauty Pill - The Cigarette Girl From The Future EP: title track is by far the best
Broken Bells - Broken Bells: Sounds like… the lead singer of the Shins and the Dangermouse guy (the point is - nothing more…

New acquisitions:
Justin Currie - The Great War
John Foxx - Metratronic (2CD+DVD)
TV21 - Snakes & Ladders
White Rose Transmission - Spiders In The Mind Web
V/A - Arch Hill 10th Anniversary (digital)
Stereolab - 1997 John Peel Session (digital)
V/A - Auteur Labels - Independent Project Records
Kimberley Rew - The Bible Of Bop
Robyn Hitchcock - Live at McCabe's, 1994 (digital)
Robyn Hitchcock - Live at Somerville Theatre, 2008 (digital)
TV Smith - Sparkle In The Mud
TV Smith - Live At The NVA

Sampled:
Adam & The Ants - Antbox: second disc has the heart of…

New acquisitions:
The Wheat Pool - Township
The Wheat Pool - Hauntario
Penetration - The Feeling (digital single)
Lush - Black Session 6-28-1994 (digital)
Patrick Duff - The Mad Straight Road (digital)
Robyn Hitchcock - Live At McCabe's, 9-95 (digital)

Sampled:
LiLiPUT - Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie: first half is mediocre sound quality, second is much better
Bob Mould - Best Of 2000-2009: Homemade comp of his recent work, which is bad when he uses a vocoder and feels recycled when it's otherwise solid
Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero: Borrowed the box from the library again…

New acquisitions:
Archie Bronson Outfit - Coconut
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Lloyd Cole - Black Session 93 & 93 (digital)
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (digital)
Stephen Fellows - Myspace Demos (digital)
Wir/Erasure - "Figures And Crumbs", a 1995 collaboration that I competely missed! (digital)
Jason & The Scorchers - Halcyon Times - added about half to my Scorchers playlist (digital)
Andy Prieboy - Higher Ground / Who Am I (digital single)
Tender Trap - Fireworks / Grand National (digital single)
Viv Albertine - Flesh EP
Robert Forster & Adele Pickvance - The True Story Of Butterfish…

New acquisitions:
Mission Of Burma - Snapshot (digital-only live album)
A-Frames - A-Frames
A-Frames - A-Frames 2
Peter Blegvad - Live In Brooklyn, 1992 (digital - excellent radio broadcast)
Dimmer - There My Dear
Family Cat - Peel Sessions (digital)
Dimmer - Degrees Of Existence
Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording bonus tracks (digital)
The Neats - 1981-84 The Ace of Hearts Years (CDr)
Wilderness - Wilderness (digital)
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Little Richard - The Georgia Peach

Sampled:
Erase Errata - Nightlife: still not quite into it as much as their first two
Pigbros - Singles etc: earliest…

2010 is starting off with a handful of digital tracks - 2 from a Jon Langford compilation, 2 from a Newtown Neurotics demo album and 1 from Oskar that guest-stars Astrid Williamson. Only the latter amounts to anything.

New acquisitions:
Plus Minus - Thrown Into The Fire EP (JP tour only, 6 excellent tracks)
V/A - Terrace Industry (4 CD box set of the best from Aussie post-punk label M Squared)
These New Puritans - Hidden
Jason Pegg (from Clearlake) - Jason Pegg (digital)
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back

Sampled:
Hotels - Where Hearts Go Broke: good but lots…