Welcome to Bravenewworld.net. I'm Tricia Halloran, and this is the on-line map to my musical planet. Here you'll find my monthly recommendations for best new albums and links to all my musical projects, including my radio show, Brave New World, streaming live on-line at KCRW.com

September 12, 2005
Monthly Recommendations are posted for September. I'm all caught up! If you have iTunes, you can always find my latest Recommendations by going to the iTunes Store, clicking on 'iMix', and then typing in 'Tricia Halloran'.

SEPTEMBER 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
Anders Parker ~ The Wounded Astronaut (Baryon)
Bill Ricchini ~ Tonight I Burn Brightly (Transdreamer)
Bottom Of The Hudson ~ Holiday Machine (Absolutely Kosher)
Death Cab For Cutie ~ Plans (Atlantic)
Fruit Bats ~ Spelled In Bones (Sub Pop)
Gabin ~ Mr. Freedom (Astralwerks)
Idlewild ~ Warnings/promises (Capitol)
John Vanderslice ~ Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)
Knitters ~ The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters (Zoe)
Little Plastic Pilots ~ Little Plastic Pilots (Kanpai)
Magic Numbers ~ The Magic Numbers (EMI UK)
Michael Penn ~ Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (Mimeograph/spinART)
New Pornographers ~ Twin Cinema (Matador)
Orenda Fink ~ Invisible Ones (Saddle Creek)
Teenage Fanclub ~ Man-Made (Merge)
click here to view September Recommendations on iTunes

AUGUST 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
Benjamin Diamond ~ Out Of Myself (K7)
Bob Mould ~ Body Of Song (Yep Roc)
Concretes ~ Layourbattleaxedown (EMI)
Hockey Night ~ Keep Guessin' (Lookout )
Jim Yoshii Pileup ~ Picks Us Apart (Absolutely Kosher)
Kingsley ~ Kingsley (Blood Orange)
Maria Taylor ~ 11:11 (Saddle Creek)
Marjorie Fair ~ Self Help Serenade (Capitol)
Meat Beat Manifesto ~ At The Center (Thirsty Ear)
Oxford Collapse ~ A Good Ground (Kanine)
Snow & Voices ~ Snow & Voices (Parasol)
Son Volt ~ Okemah And The Melody Of Riot (Sony)
Statistics ~ Often Lie (Jade Tree)
Sufjan Stevens ~ Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
Summer Lawns ~ First We Waited Then It Started
                              (Stunning Models On Display)
White Stripes ~ Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
click here to view August Recommendations on iTunes

JULY 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
Brian Eno ~ Another Day On Earth (Rykodisc)
Devin Davis ~ Lonely People Of The World Unite (Mousse)
Dixie Dirt ~ Pieces Of The World (www.dixiedirtmusic.com)
Dressy Bessy ~ Electrified (Transdreamer)
Gang Of Four ~ Entertainment (Rhino)
Goldspot ~ Tally Of The Yes Men (Union)
Gorillaz ~ Demon Days (Virgin)
Hold Steady ~ Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss)
Matson Jones ~ Matson Jones (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
Nobody ~ And Everything Else (Plug Research)
Shout Out Louds ~ Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (Capitol)
click here to view July Recommendations on iTunes

JUNE 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
Aimee Mann ~ The Forgotten Arm (Superego)
Athlete ~ Tourist (Astralwerks)
Bruce Springsteen ~ Devils And Dust (Columbia)
Deathray Davies ~ The Kick And The Snare (Glurp)
Go-Betweens ~ Oceans Apart (Yep Roc )
Mike Doughty ~ Haughty Melodic (ATO)
Richmond Fontaine ~ Post To Wire (Union)
Sleater-Kinney ~ The Woods (Sub Pop)
Smog ~ A River Ain't Too Much Love (Drag City)
Son Volt ~ A Retrospective: 1995-2000 (Rhino)
Spoon ~ Gimme Fiction (Merge)
Vacation ~ Band From World War Zero (Echo)
click here to view June Recommendations on iTunes

MAY 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
The 22-20s ~ 22-20's (Astralwerks)
Damien Jurado ~ On My Way To Absence (Sub Pop)
The Eels ~ Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (Vagrant)
Heavy Trash ~ Heavy Trash (Yep Roc)
Hot Hot Heat ~ Elevator (Sire)
Husky Rescue ~ Country Falls (Minty Fresh)
The Kills ~ No Wow (Rough Trade)
Magnolia Electric Co ~ What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian)
Micah P. Hinson ~ And The Gospel Of Progress (Sketchbook)
Mountain Goats ~ The Sunset Tree (4ad)
The National ~ Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
The Perishers ~ Let There Be Morning (Nettwerk)
The Ponys ~ Celebration Castle (In The Red)
Ryan Adams ~ Cold Roses (Lost Highway)
Tim Burgess ~ I Believe (PIAS/Koch)
Us3 ~ Questions (Us3)
Various Artists ~ Friends And Lovers:songs Of Bread (Badman)
click here to view May Recommendations on iTunes

APRIL 2005 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS
John Doe ~ Forever Hasn't Happened Yet (Yep Roc )
Kathleen Edwards ~ Back To Me (Zoe)
Nic Armstrong ~ The Greatest White Liar (New West)
Various Artists ~ Verve Remixed 3 (Verve)
Moby ~ Hotel (V2)
Foxymorons ~ Hesitation Eyes (Heatstroke)
M.I.A. ~ Arular (XL)
Bloc Party ~ Silent Alarm (Vice)
Beck ~ Guero (Interscope)
South San Gabriel ~ The Carlton Chronicles: Not Until... (Misra)
Marbles ~ Expo (spinART)
click here to view April Recommendations on iTunes

2004 Top 40 CDs 01. Mountain Goats ~ We Shall All Be Healed 02. Sonic Youth ~ Sonic Nurse 03. Album Leaf ~ In A Safe Place 04. Autolux ~ Future Perfect 05. Angela McCluskey ~ The Things We Do 06. Jem ~ Finally Woken 07. Elliott Smith ~ From A Basement On The Hill 08. Casey Black ~ Vacations 09. Actionslacks ~ Full Upright Position 10. Earlimart ~ Treble & Tremble 11. Grant Lee Phillips ~ Virginia Creeper 12. Old 97's ~ Drag It Up 13. Blue Nile ~ High 14. Sam Phillips ~ A Boot & A Shoe 15. Lanterna ~ Highways 16. Matthew Sweet ~ Kimi Ga Suki Rafu 17. Will Johnson ~ Vultures Await 18. Patti Smith ~ Trampin' 19. Jim White ~ Drill A Hole In That Substrate & Tell Me 20. Zap Mama ~ Ancestry In Progress 21. Luna ~ Rendezvous 22. Modest Mouse ~ Good News For People Who Love Bad News 23. PJ Harvey ~ Uh Huh Her 24. Joseph Arthur ~ Our Shadows Will Remain 25. Lloyd Cole ~ Music In A Foreign Language 26. Mocean Worker ~ Enter The Mowo 27. Wilco ~ A Ghost Is Born 28. Faithless ~ No Roots 29. Richard Buckner ~ Dents & Shells 30. Standard ~ Wire Post To Wire 31. Helio Sequence ~ Love & Distance 32. Lisa Loeb ~ The Way It Really Is 33. Unkle ~ Never Never Land 34. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Abattoir Blues 35. Eleni Mandell ~ Afternoon 36. Ulrich Schnauss ~ A Strangely Isolated Place 37. Magnetic Fields ~ I 38. John Cale ~ Hobosapiens 39. Fatboy Slim ~ Palookaville 40. Ratatat ~ Ratatat