Subject: Conor Oberst

• Second Spin: Jackson Browne, Hold Out

  October 14, 2008

• Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

  Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the album'

  December 23, 2008

• Little Brazil

  March 18, 2009

• Joe Buck Yourself

  January 7, 2009

• We made you a mixtape! 2008: The year in music.

  December 17, 2008

• The Whiskey Ring

  Better than Some, Worse than Others
  (self-released)

  May 14, 2008

• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

  April 30, 2008

• Cursive

  April 2, 2008

• Bright Eyes

  Lua/Take it Easy: Love Nothing (Saddle Creek)

  November 24, 2004

• Bright Eyes

  Motion Sickness (Team Love)

  November 30, 2005

• The Ike Reilly Assassination

  June 20, 2007

• Bright Eyes

  March 14, 2007

• Little Brazil

  March 14, 2007

• Whether they’re playing all-ages venues or arenas, indie superstars the Faint make their fans dance, dance, dance.

  March 14, 2007

• Built to Last

  Doug Martsch runs the biggest little band on Earth

  May 18, 2005

• Jenny Lewis

  Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

  January 25, 2006

• Poison!

  B-Sides lays down the law with Criteria, contemplates potential rock-star deaths and plays a rousing game of Tic-Tac-DeVoe

  January 11, 2006

• Living on Video

  The Buggles were so, so wrong

  December 7, 2005

• Good Advices

  We have an intervention for An Angle, talk baseball and Moz with Joe Pernice, and learn some rock rules by which to live

  August 3, 2005

• Slow Dazzle

  The View from the Floor (Misra)

  June 15, 2005

• James Curd

  Friday, March 11; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard

  March 9, 2005

• Magnolia Electric Co

  Trials and Error (Secret Canadian)

  January 26, 2005

• The Faint

  Wet from Birth (Saddle Creek)

  September 22, 2004

• Letters

  Week of September 15, 2004

  September 15, 2004

• The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

  (Besides Sting)

  September 1, 2004

• Ultimate Rock Fantasy

  Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  August 11, 2004

• Play the Horn

  The Unicorns strike it rich with their unique brand of sloppy pop

  June 16, 2004

• Yo La Tengo

  Thursday, June 10; Mississippi Nights

  June 9, 2004

• Cursive with Neva Dinova and Low Skies

  Sunday, January 19; Hi-Pointe

  January 15, 2003

• Glorious Glut

  Could '02' mean "Oh, too many records?"

  December 25, 2002

• Bright Eyes

  Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek Records)

  August 28, 2002

• Bright Eyes with Phut and Grandpa's Ghost

  July 28, 1999

• Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of June 15-21

  Here's a new feature on A to Z: Every Monday, we'll publish the best-selling releases from area independent record stores for the preceding week. And so without further ado: [Update, 4 p.m.: Apop's top sellers are also below now!] Euclid Records' Top Ten 1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND: Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King 2. GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest 3. ELVIS COSTELLO: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 4. SONIC YOUTH: The Eternal 5. ST. VINCENT: Actor 6. YUSUF: Roadsinger 7. DIRTY PROJECTORS: Bitte Orca 8. STEVE

  June 22, 2009