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| The Almost: Monster Monster | AFI: Crash Love | |
| David Bazan: Curse Your Branches | Chevelle: Sci-Fi Crimes | |
| The Chariot: Wars and Rumors of Wars | Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown | |
| Emery: In Shallow Seas We Sail | Moby: Wait for Me | |
| He Is Legend: It Hates You | Muse: The Resistance | |
| mewithYou: it's all crazy! it's all false!... | Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall | |
| Project 86: Picket Fence Cartel | Son Volt: American Central Dust | |
| Showbread: The Fear of God | Thrice: Beggars | |
| Starflyer 59: Ghosts of the Past | Thursday: Common Existence | |
| Zao: Awake | Pete Yorn: Back and Fourth |
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| Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue | ||
| Brand New: Daisy | ||
| Mike Doughty: Sad Man, Happy Man | ||
| New Found Glory: Not Without a Fight | ||
| Our Lady Peace: Burn Burn | ||
| Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance | ||
| Silversun Pickups: Swoon | ||
Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream
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Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer |
U2: No Line on the Horizon
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| Anberlin: New Surrender | Counting Crows: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings | |
| Becoming the Archetype: Dichotomy | Death Cab for Cutie: Narrow Stairs | |
| Haste the Day: Dreamer | Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid | |
| Damien Jurado: Caught in the Trees | Metallica: Death Magnetic | |
| Lovedrug: The Sucker Punch Show | Nine Inch Nails: The Slip | |
| Norma Jean: Norma Jean vs. The Anti-Mother | Robert Pollard: Robert Pollard Is Off to Business | |
| Showbread: Anorexia/Nervosa | R.E.M.: Accelerate | |
| Starflyer 59: Dial M | Rise Against: Appeal to Reason | |
| Underoath: Lost in the Sound of Separation | Thrice: The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | |
| War of Ages: Arise and Conquer | Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer |
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| Ryan Adams: Cardinology | ||
| Alkaline Trio: Agony & Irony | ||
| The Killers: Day & Age | ||
| Gary Louris: Vagabonds | ||
| Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch | ||
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! | ||
| The Offspring: Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | ||
Seven Mary Three: Day&NightDriving
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Toadies: No Deliverance |
Scott Weiland: "Happy" in Galoshes
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| As I Lay Dying: An Ocean Between Us | Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell | ||||
| The Brothers Martin: The Brothers Martin | Coheed and Cambria: No World for Tomorrow | ||||
| The Chariot: The Fiancée | Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times | ||||
| Comeback Kid: Broadcasting... | Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | ||||
| Demon Hunter: Storm the Gates of Hell | Jimmy Eat World: Chase This Light | ||||
| Immortal Souls: Wintereich | Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero | ||||
| Lovedrug: Everything Starts Where It Ends | Radiohead: In Rainbows | ||||
| MxPx: Secret Weapon | The Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist | ||||
| Project 86: Rival Factions | Son Volt: The Search | ||||
| War of Ages: Fire from the Tomb | Bruce Springsteen: Magic | ||||
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| The Almost: Southern Weather | The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible | ||||
| Anberlin: Cities | Chevelle: Vena Sera | ||||
| Emery: I’m Only a Man | Interpol: Our Love to Admire | ||||
| Nodes of Ranvier: Defined By Struggle |
Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
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Seventh Star: The Undisputed Truth |
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Tiger Army: Music from Regions Beyond
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He is Legend: Suck out the Poison
AFI: Decemberunderground
Damien Jurado: And Now that I'm in Your Shadow
Bouncing Souls: The Gold Record
mewithoutYou: Brother, Sister
Bob Dylan: Modern Times
Norma Jean: Redeemer
Greg Graffin: Cold as the Clay
Showbread: Age of Reptiles
My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade
Society’s Finest: And I, the Drunkards
Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam
Starflyer 59: I Win
Tom Petty: Highway Companion
Stavesacre: How to Live with a Curse
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
Underoath: Define the Great Line
Rise Against: The Sufferer & the Witness
Zao: The Fear is What Keeps Us Here
Tool: 10,000 Days
Alove for Enemies: Resistance
Iron Maiden: A Matter of Life and Death
Bloodlined Calligraphy: Ypsilanti
Secret Machines: Ten Silver Drops
Day of Fire: Cut & Move
Soul Asylum: The Silver Lining
Dead Poetic: Vices
Thursday: A City By the Light Divided
War of Ages: Pride of the Wicked
Pete Yorn: Nightcrawler



Anberlin: Never Take Friendship Personal
Beck: Guero
As I Lay Dying: Shadows Are Security
Billy Corgan: TheFutureEmbrace
Blindside: Black Friday
Coheed and Cambria: Good Apollo...
Juliana Theory: Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat
Death Cab for Cutie: Plans
Damien Jurado: On My Way to Absence
Foo Fighters: In Your Honor
MxPx: Panic
Our Lady Peace: Healthy in Paranoid Times
Project 86: And the Rest Will Follow
Glen Phillips: Winter Pays for Summer
Starflyer 59: Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice
Son Volt: Okemah and the Melody of Riot
Stretch Arm Strong: Free at Last
System of a Down: Mesmerize/Hypnotize
War of Ages: War of Ages
The Wallflowers: Rebel, Sweetheart
Comeback Kid: Waking the Dead
Better Than Ezra: Before the Robots
Demon Hunter: The Triptych
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Discover America: Psychology
Low: The Great Destroyer
Haste the Day: When Everything Falls
Nada Surf: The Weight is a Gift
Norma Jean: O, God, the Aftermath
Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth



Demon Hunter: Summer of Darkness
Nick Cave: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Emery: The Weak's End
Green Day: American Idiot
He Is Legend: I Am Hollywood
Guided By Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Immortal Souls: Ice Upon the Night
Jimmy Eat World: Futures
O.C. Supertones: Revenge of...
The Lost Patrol: Songs About Running Away
Showbread: No Sir...
Powderfinger: Vulture Street
Third Day: Wire
Showbread: No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical
Trauma: Solidarity EP
U2: How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Underoath: They're Only Chasing Safety
Wilco: A Ghost is Born
Zao: The Funeral of God
Zao: The Funeral of God
Ace Troubleshooter: It’s Never Enough
Tanya Donelly: Whiskey Tango Ghosts
The Chariot: Everything is Alive...
New Found Glory: Catalyst
Haste the Day: Burning Bridges
R.E.M.: Around the Sun
Pedro the Lion: Achilles Heel
Social Distortion: Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Squad Five-0: Late News Breaking
Sum 41: Chuck
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| The Agony Scene: The Agony Scene | Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll | |
| Fighting Jacks: The Dying Art of Life | AFI: Sing the Sorrow | |
| Further Seems Forever: How to Start a Fire | blink-182: untitled | |
| Jars of Clay: Who We Are Instead | David Bowie: Reality | |
| The Juliana Theory: Love | Metallica: St. Anger | |
| MxPx: Before Everything & After | A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step | |
| P.O.D.: Payable on Death | Radiohead: Hail to the Thief | |
| Project 86: Songs to Burn Your Bridges By | Rancid: Indestructible | |
| Slick Shoes: Far From Nowhere | Thursday: War All the Time | |
| Stretch Armstrong: Engage | Zwan: Mary, Star of the Sea |
In-Depth Ten Best Mainstream Albums Write-Up (2003)
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| Blindside: Silence | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head | |
| Chevelle: Wonder What's Next | Counting Crows: Hard Candy | |
| Jars of Clay: The Eleventh Hour | Foo Fighters: One by One | |
| Living Sacrifice: Conceived in Fire | Hot Water Music: Caution | |
| Project 86: Truthless Heroes | Moby: 18 | |
| Slick Shoes: Slick Shoes | Pearl Jam: Riot Act | |
| Squad Five-0: Squad Five-0 | Tom Petty: The Last DJ | |
| Stavesacre: Stavesacre | Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way | |
| O.C. Supertones: Hi-Fi Revival | Snapcase: End Transmission | |
| Zao: Parade of Chaos | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising |
In-Depth Ten Best Mainstream Albums Write-Up (2002)
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| Craig's Brother: Lost at Sea | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft | |
| The Dingees: The Crucial Conspiracy | Elbow: Asleep in the Back | |
| Element 101: Stereo Girl | Jay Farrar: Sebastapol | |
| Huntingtons: Songs in the Key of You | Guided by Voices: Isolation Drills | |
| Last Tuesday: Dear Jessica | Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American | |
| One-21: One-21 | Radiohead: Amnesiac | |
| P.O.D.: Satellite | R.E.M.: Reveal | |
| Puller: What's Mine at Twilight | Seven Mary Three: The Economy of Sound | |
| Stretch Arm Strong: A Revolution... | System of a Down: Toxicity | |
| Zao: Zao | Pete Yorn: Musicforthemorningafter |
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| Bouncing Souls: How I Spent My Summer Vacation |
| Bush: Golden State |
| Deftones: White Pony |
| Hot Water Music: A Flight and a Crash |
| Jayhawks: Smile |
| Low: Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Muse: Origin of Symmetry |
| Thursday: Full Collapse |
| Tool: Lateralus |
| The White Stripes: White Blood Cells |
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| Blindside: A Thought Crushed My Mind | Collective Soul: Blender | |
| Ghoti Hook: Two Years to Never | Green Day: Warning | |
| Jason Harrod: Living in Skin | The Jayhawks: Smile | |
| The Juliana Theory: Emotion is Dead | The Nixons: Latest Thing | |
| Living Sacrifice: The Hammering Process | Our Lady Peace: Spiritual Machines | |
| MxPx: The Ever Passing Moment | Pearl Jam: Binaural | |
| Project 86: Drawing Black Lines | Rancid: Rancid | |
| Redeem: A Diadem of Beauty | Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/Machina II | |
| Selfmindead: At the Barricades We Fall | U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind | |
| The O.C. Supertones: Loud and Clear | The Wallflowers: Breach |
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