There's No Such Thing as 'Slam Poetry'.

It’s coming up to ten years since me and Stu Freestone ran our first Say Owt Slam. I can’t quite remember the first slam I took part in, but I remember Bang! Said The Gun in London and Hammer & Tongue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe being much learning moments for me. I’d nervously unpack and repack poems in my head beforehand, gauging the audience and responses to other poet’s pieces. I started writing poems that would fit the three minute format, that would elicit the emotional response from an audience, that would give room to stretch my performing skills. I was writing Slam Poetry. And I’m here to tell you…don’t do that.

There’s no such thing as ‘Slam Poetry’. Only Poetry That Tends To Do Well At Slams.

There don’t seem to be so many slams these days, but we’ve kept Say Owt Slam as our flagship event, usually attended by around 100 people cheering on poets vying to be titled a Say Owt Slam Champion! Some of these people come back and keep gigging with us, others we never see again! And that’s OK, there’s something thrilling, strange and scary about slams. And sometimes, once you’ve cracked the competitive code, you don’t need to keep on proving it.





I recently did a PechaKucha talk in York: HOW TO WIN A POETRY SLAM which you can watch here:

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/how-to-win-a-poetry-slam-henry-raby


And maybe it’s because slams are becoming less part of the UK poetry ecology, but I have been asked a few times about ‘slam poetry’ and I don’t actually think it exists as a genre.

A slam exists as a structure to share poems and spoken word pieces. As a format, it can vary depending on time limits, how judging works or even whether props are allowed. It’s essentially a competitive open mic, and an excuse to add some stakes and energy into the dynamics.

(a Literature Festival once ran an ‘Open Mic Competition’, claiming the term ‘Slam’ puts people off. For me, this boils down to semantics and branding).





So what is a perceived ‘slam poem’?

Slams were born from a need to shake off the stuffiness of traditional poetry. Within that competitive structure, some poems work better than others. Most obviously, on a blunt level, it’s those delivered with energy and stage presence. This means poets bubbling in spoken word/rap/hip-hop scenes (or even punk scenes) which are rooted in confident performance do better than readings born from literary/page poetry. Poetry (as story-telling) has existed as an oral form across the centuries as communities share tales around fire and use rhyme in ballads to pass down epic tales across the centuries, from Beowulf to The Lion & Albert (both about devouring people…).

In defying norms and part of a marginalised, underground scene, the poetry at slams lends itself to political poetry. Critics also cynically claim that political poems - those urgent pieces about class, disability, race, gender, sexuality - do well because they appeal to an echo chamber and judges dare not give low scores to these important topics. But all art spaces should a space to share politicised stories of self and poems of resilience, defiance, anger and hope, it's no surprise this yeilds good scores when spoken with power and purpose.

The fact Harry Baker is a World Slam Champion does challenge this perception, as Harry’s style of poetry is playful, cheeky and geeky. In my experience of slams, a poem is scored well if it causes a reaction in the audience, whether stirring political feelings, personal, powerful connection or hilarious humor. I think people want to laugh and it’s actually a rare skill for poets to get that kind of reaction. So comedy poems have their place as well as the personal and political. I’ve seen all types of content win, and sometimes a clever fusion of forms, topics and deliveries will take the winning scores.

Slams have been associated with Button Poetry and American scenes, and have been parodied in different media, and those tend to focus on the performance rhythms, and raw politics. So when people say ‘Slam Poetry’, I think this is what they tend to imagine.




I stopped nervously rewriting and sussing out the judge’s vibes before a slam long ago. I stopped writing poems specifically to win slams and just wrote for myself.

Poems That Do Well At Slams are the ones which cut out the BS. Poems crafted knowing they will be shared live to eager ears. Ones which reflect this moment, right here and now, in this space. Whether that’s to erupt laughter, joy, anger or grief. They make our brains fizz, our hearts skip and hands clap. Poems which you want to perform because you love them. Poems that say more about you than a hundred biographies. So really the secret to a successful slam poem, is a fucking good live poem.

Or maybe I’ve got no clue whatsoever. If so, score me a 1/10.

My top 475 albums of 2023

In 2020, I started listening to a new album every day in lockdown. As the world opened up in 2021 and 2022, that little routine faded away. But as 2023 ticked into the autumn, I realised I’d been checking out a lot of recent albums.

Now, listening to is too many albums. I listen to/from work (a handy 30ish mins), while walking, shopping, writing, eating and painting little models. Criticisms are often: how can you actually take in and enjoy an album? Broadly, my brain works fast. It likes content. It’s a guzzling machine. And, after loving music for 20 years, I feel like I know what I love.

So yes, the ska, punk, reggae and folk albums grabbed my attention the most, like the favoured children of a busy, administrator God.

And I was still discovering great albums and artists deep into December. Even as I type this!

The problem is, I can only listen to all this music thanks to the digital age. Even up until the mid-2000s, broadly, if you wanted to listen to an album you had to buy it. Or borrow it. Or sit in Virgin Megastores with headphones.

So I’ll make sure the bands that I really clicked with will get money through Bandcamp, or merch, or find a place on my playlists. Music is great.

Here’s my top 12 albums, in no particular order.

Punch Up - The Prizefighters

My 21st Century Blues - RAYE

Doom Loop – Dream Nails

s/t - Random Hand

The Road To Sedition - Faintest Idea

Poor Little England - Undercover Hippy

Inarticulate - CHEWIE

Worlds End FM - Hak Baker

Thanks For Reaching Out - Jim Bob

Let’s Go Goodbye Blue Monday - Goodbye Blue Monday

I Love You - Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

s/t - Dead Pioneers

Here’s a list of honourable mentions:

Vertiginous Drops - Carol Hodge

Endofunctor EP - The Buttress

All Of Us Or None - J Navarro & The Traitors

Quit - The Great Awake

Bad Taste - Private Wives

Escape Somehow - Peuk

Constant Crisis - Trash Sound Conglomerate

Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book - Dead Billionaires

Smile - The Robocop Kraus

Mad Half Hour - Panic Pocket

Lucky For You - Bully

You Are Who You Hang Out With - The Front Bottoms

If You’ve Got Nothing - Class

Devo Challenge Cup - Yonic South

What’s On TV? - Tee Vee Repairman

Incendiara EP - Tomar Control

Black Classical Music - Yussuf Dayes

HAZE WAVE - LONE WOLF

Wet - Dick Move

Learn To Swim, A Mixtape - Joshua Idehen

Raw Liquid Power EP - Water Machine

Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi - Miesha and the Spanks

A For Effort, E For Attainment - Common Sense Kid

A New Tomorrow - Zulu 

Cheap Fiction - Steady Hands

Set Your Pussy Free - NOBRO 

Expired Candy - Body Types 

Some Of It Was True - The Menzingers 

Sundial - Noname 

What Are We Trying To Say? - Megson 

Against The Rest - Omnigone 

Attention!! - saba sister 

Anarchist Gospel - Sunny War 

Mommy - Be Your Own Pet 

Concrete Cowboys - Buggin 

Don’t Forget To Leave It All Behind - Beyond the Lamplight 

Smile - Skindred

Quaker City Quiet Pills - The Dead Milkmen 

Guts for Starters - Smoking Gives You Big Tits 

False Starts, Open Endings - Katie MF 

The Village Is On Fire - Guvna B 

GOD SAVE THE STREETS - Avelino 

This Is Crime Wave - Codefendants 

Black Rainbows - Corinne Bailey Rae 

Blouse Club - Problem Patterns 

Sightseeing & Short Negotiations - Cut Capers

Integrated Tech Solutions - Aesop Rocks

playing w/ fire - redveil

Runaway - Tess & The Details

ICHIJIKOKOKU - ATARASHII GAKKO!

Emergency, Vol. 1 - Rootweave

LIME - Ming City Rockers 

Here’s the full list:

 

1. CACTI - Billy Nomates 

2. LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN - Anti-Flag 

3. Never Going Under - Circa Waves 

4. Belabour - Haest 

5. RUSH! - Måneskin 

6. Trial By Error - Pat Butcher 

7. Bubblegum - Biig Piig 

8. Shapka - Russkaja 

9. Prize - Rozi Plain 

10. Gigi’s Recovery - The Murder Capital 

11. Let Her Burn - Rebecca Black 

12. Batwölf - 35 For Life 

13. s/t - Bilk 

14. Desire Pathway - Screaming Females 

15. Cracker Islane - Gorillaz 

16. Reverse Alchemy EP - The Bricks 

17. Food for Worms - shame 

18. But Who’s Reading Me? EP - Class 

19. Land of Sleeper - Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs 

20. It’s Cosmit EP - Cosmit 

21. UK GRIM - Sleaford Mods 

22. Future Primitives - Wind In His Hair 

23. Black Canticles - Lolth 

24. The Road To Sedition - Faintest Idea 

25. False Lankum - Lankum 

26. s/t - Grade 2 

27. What Are We Trying To Say? - Megson 

28. Our Club, Our Rules - Knife Club 

29. This Is Crime Wave - Codefendants 

30. Against The Rest - Omnigone 

31. Common Nation of Sorrow - Rachel Baiman 

32. GOD SAVE THE STREETS - Avelino 

33. Vibrations from the Bionic Tabernacle - The Co-Operators 

34. Noticeably Cheerless - The Abruptors 

35. Cocktails & Fairytales - The Magnetics 

36. God Bless You All - The Baboon Show 

37. Ignore Grief - Xiu Xiu 

38. Above the Static - The Bar Stool Preachers 

39. That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware 

40. Poor Little England - Undercover Hippy 

41. The Altruistic Soul Sound of Pama International - Pama International 

42. Raving Ghost - Olivia Jean 

43. Drag On Girard - Purling Hiss 

44. Timeline - Suarasumsara 

45. Green Willow - The Dreadnoughts 

46. Human Algebra - The Selecter 

47. Warm Blanket - Worriers 

48. Ride Or Die - ARXX 

49. Inarticulate - CHEWIE 

50. Useless for Something - Bruise Control 

51. You’re Welcome - Lambrini Girls 

52. Disposable Everything - AJJ 

53. Tomorrow Never Comes - Rancid 

54. Smalltown Stardust - King Tuff 

55. s/t - Death Pill 

56. Trickle Down Town - Steve White & The Protest Family 

57. more-AA-janaica - Dohatsuten 

58. Su凸ko D凹koi wo Shinjiruna - Su凸ko D凹koi 

59. I Saw The Future - The Hard Aches 

60. Fuse - Everything But The Girl 

61. The Age of Pleasure - Janelle Monae 

62. The Darkness Tour 1979 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 

63. High Voltage! - Gum Disease 

64. O Monolith - Squid 

65. Worlds End FM - Hak Baker 

66. Live at Rock City - Ferocious Dog 

67. Clean Weird Prone - Frankie Cosmos 

68. My Soft Machine - Arlo Parks 

69. Beneath The Turning Wheel - Holy Locust 

70. A State Of A Nation - Andy McGregor 

71. Past // Present // Future - Meet Me @ The Alter 

72. Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands - Toodles & The Hectic Pity 

73. All Her Plans - Cable Ties 

74. unsociabilities… - A Great Notion 

75. On A Mission - Gentleman's Dub Club 

76. Attention!! - saba sister 

77. Dead Bands - Bedsit 

78. Blow Wind Blow - The Nextmen 

79. Let’s Go Goodbye Blue Monday - Goodbye Blue Monday 

80. s/t - Headstone Horrors 

81. Heartache Radio - The Bloodstrings 

82. Goody Goody Gumdrops - Tropical Fuck Storm 

83. In the Store - The Lost Days 

84. Drag On Girard - Purling Hiss 

85. Nails - Benefits 

86. s/t - Guadalupe Plata 

87. War Is Nightmare - Dummy Toys 

88. Only Constant - GEL 

89. Anarchist Gospel - Sunny War 

90. Anywhere But Here - Sorry 

91. A New Tomorrow - Zulu 

92. Ra To The Rescue - Sun Ra 

93. Take A Picture - Popes of Chillitown 

94. The Reset - Macy Gray & The California Jet Club 

95. I Am The River, The River Is Me - Jen Cloher 

96. Slogan Machine - Gumm 

97. Psychic Dance Routine EP - Scowl 

98. Satisfaction - SPY 

99. The The Earth’s Core - The Hearmorrhoids 

100. Bottom of the Pomps - The Pomps 

101. Thanks For Reaching Out - Jim Bob 

102. Guts for Starters - Smoking Gives You Big Tits 

103. Bonzo Bonanza EP - The Chase 

104. We Want Revenge for Every Minute Lost - Empire Down 

105. Caesar Salad Days - Adolescents 

106. s/t - The Enforcers 

107. I Inside the Old Year Dying - PJ Harvey 

108. No Experts - Illiterates 

109. The Chain of Infection EP - Perp Walk 

110. HEY ASSHOLE EP - nascar aloe 

111. The Ballad of Darren - Blur 

112. Smile - Skindred 

113. Past and Present - Mungo’s Hi Fi 

114. Games Of Power - Home Front 

115. No Joy - Spanish Love Songs 

116. Big Noise - Kimberly Steaks 

117. The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons 

118. Wavebreaker 4 EP - Joe Gittleman (2023

119. Big Trouble EP - Be Your Own Pet 

120. Watering Dead Flowers - Voiid 

121. 370HSSV 0773H - Private Function 

122. Quaker City Quiet Pills - The Dead Milkmen 

123. I Told Them… - Burna Boy 

124. Fa To The World - Female Allstars 

125. s/t - The Astronauts 

126. Adultish - Substantial 

127. Through The Lowlands - Will Varley 

128. HELLMODE - Jeff Rosenstock 

129. Mommy - Be Your Own Pet 

130. Attachment Styles - Mhaol 

131. A Part Of Everything - Perkie 

132. Eye On The Bat - Palehouse 

133. The Window - Ratboys 

134. There or Thereabouts - Spoilers 

135. Laurels of the End of History EP - Cime 

136. Reinventing Against Me! - Austin Lucas 

137. Death Is Nothing To Us - Fiddlehead 

138. Currency // Castration - Geld 

139. Fine: A Ska EP - Devon Kay & The Solutions 

140. Burning Throne - Acres 

141. Human Outline - Wound Man 

142. Concrete Cowboys - Buggin 

143. Don’t Forget To Leave It All Behind - Beyond the Lamplight 

144. RETAS - Voice of Baceprot 

145. Penelope - Small Crush 

146. The Illuminaughty - Killdren (2023

147. Brave, Willing Strong - Shanghai Treason 

148. KILLYJOY - Coach Party 

149. But Who’s Reading Me EP? - Class 

150. s/t - HOUSE Of ALL 

151. Dooom - Shoe 

152. The Yuppies are Winning - Harrison Gordon 

153. 69 Spotify Listeners Can’t All be Wrong! - The Crash Mats 

154. Most Likely To_ - ShyGodwin 

155. Doppel-Feature - North Alone 

156. New Paradise I EP - Cobra Man 

157. Where Did All My Friends Go? - Mustard Plug 

158. Et Cetera EP - The Dollheads 

159. It Will Never Be The Same EP - Michigander 

160. I’ve Loved You For So Long EP - The Aces 

161. Platinum Statue - Riskee & The Ridicule 

162. BRAND NEW SOUL - Angel Du$t 

163. Altomare - Modena City Ramblers 

164. Sunday Dinner On a Monday - Speech Debelle 

165. Pacific Standard Time - Velvet Starlings 

166. PUNK TACTICS - Joey Valance & Brae 

167. Cobweb in a Storm - Pog 

168. Gener8ion X - Breezy Supreme 

169. Part-Timer EP - Proper. 

170. False Starts, Open Endings - Katie MF 

171. Trust Your Gut - Worriers 

172. Βάκχες - Thrax Punks 

173. Alive At The End Of The World : Set Two - Dizraeli 

174. The Village Is On Fire - Guvna B 

175. s/t - Random Hand 

176. Siick Days - Pkew Pkew Pkew 

177. Cries EP - Human Petting Zoo 

178. Till You Return - Teenage Halloween 

179. Again - Physique 

180. Colour - Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun 

181. Sundial - Noname 

182. Black Rainbows - Corinne Bailey Rae 

183. RESET! EP - Ovrkast.

184. Zero Tolerance - Giggs

185. Good Vibes / Bad Vibes - Oh No & Roy Ayers 

186. Poetic Justice - Soul Supreme 

187. Sheesh! EP - Boy Jr. 

188. Guants blancs EP negre - The Upshitters 

189. Cheap Grills - Sincere Engineer 

190. To What End - Oddisee 

191. Doom Loop – Dream Nails 

192. Some Of It Was True - The Menzingers 

193. FLSD EP - OFF! 

194. King of Ska - The Bakesys 

195. Walang Hiya EP - Stress Positions 

196. Voice Notes - Yasmin Lacey 

197. Full Moon Forever - Kepi Ghoulie 

198. RHYME&REASON - Captain Kaiser 

199. Giant Elk - ME REX 

200. LIME - Ming City Rockers 

201. Silver Living Hooray! EP - Confession Kids 

202. Serpientes Y Escaleras - Inspector 

203. Expired Candy - Body Types 

204. Conditions EP - Chalk 

205. Irish Rock N Roll - The Mary Wallopers 

206. Spunky! - Grrrl Gang 

207. Sanguivore - Creeper 

208. Song Machine - The Exbats 

209. s/t - SPLIT DOGS 

210. Holey War - Thelma and the Sleaze 

211. Buddy’s Magic Toy Box - Mega Ran 

212. more-AA-janaica - Dohatsuten 

213. ¡!¡!¡!¡! - ni-hao!!!! - 

214. Self-Medication - The Slackers 

215. The Weight of the Mask - Svalbard 

216. The Price of Progress - The Hold Steady 

217. Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token 

218. Dead Meat - The Tubs 

219. Water Made Us - Jamila Woods 

220. Blouse Club - Problem Patterns 

221. Bauhaus Staircase - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 

222. History Books - The Gaslight Anthem 

223. A Feast On Sorrow - URNE 

224. Nation EP - Home Front 

225. Olive EP - Yvone Hercules 

226. You OK? EP - Shelf Life 

227. 反骨 (Born Rude) - RUMKICKS 

228. Sittin’ On The Outside (Live California ‘89) - Living Colour 

229. Too Busy Eating Gruel to Contemplate the Cosmos - Pi$$er 

230. Jenny from Thebes - The Mountain Goats 

231. I Hope We Can Still Be Friends EP - Nettles 

232. Set Your Pussy Free - NOBRO 

233. The Hopeful Boy Replacement Service - Sandra’s Wedding 

234. 一年后 EP - Schoolgirl Byebye 

235. Endurance - Josiah and the Bonnevilles 

236. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski 

237. Old Kanawha - Philip Bowen 

238. The Temple - Leo Robinson 

239. In A Perfect World EP - Äyanna 

240. Call Me Terry - Terry 

241. Call Of The Knife - Chain Whip 

242. Rivoltella - Jagger Holly 

243. DON’T PANIC! - The Brislingtonez 

244. I Killed Your Dog - L’Rain

245. somethingpet - June Henry

246. The Farewell Show Live from the Moon - The Spook School

247. The CARR Show - CARR

248. s/t - Dirty Talons

249. Valhalla, Definitely - World/Inferno Friendship Society

250. Let’s get Together (Live Boston 78) - The Meters

251. New Future City Radio - Damon Locks

252. Pharaoh - Pharaoh Sanders

253. Sightseeing & Short Negotiations - Cut Capers

254. Integrated Tech Solutions - Aesop Rocks

255. playing w/ fire - redveil

256. Beautiful and Brutal Yard - J Hus

257. Runaway - Tess & The Details

258. Cleaning Up With - Big Mess

259. ICHIJIKOKOKU - ATARASHII GAKKO!

260. Tokens - ¡Ay Carmela!

261. Theatre of the Absurd presents: C’est La Vie - Madness

262. Prince Fatty Meets The Gorgon In Dub - Prince Fatty, The Aggrovators

263. Late night charge, 20% increase - chakura

264. Songs of Grief, Love & Rage - Sage Against The Machine

265. The Secret To Life - FIZZ

266. EMOTIONAL TRASH - GUMX

267. PUNK ROCK PRINCESS EP - Dizzy Sunfist

268. Moonflower - Flying Racoon Suit

269. Deluxe Recycle - Gelugugu

270. Rest In Punk - HEY-SMITH

271. STRENGTH TO STRENGTH - Headie One

272. The Small Things - Saied Silbak

273. Live & Loose In The USA - Show Me The Body

274. U Street Anthology - rum.gold

275. Emergency, Vol. 1 - Rootweave

276. Mouthakerti - Noel Kharman

277. Uburu - Basketmouth

278. New Blue Sun - Andre 3000

279. Brain Decanter EP - Mouthparts

280. The Perfume of Decay - Tigerclub

281. Back To The Swamp - Bas Jan

282. Strength - Samory I

283. Simplicity - Matt Berry

284. Australia Stops - C.O.F.F.I.N.

285. Years of Regret EP - Mutilated State

286. Violence EP - Liv Wynter

287. Cheap Fiction - Steady Hands

288. Phantasmal Bells Below The Devil’s Pulpit - Ysbryndnos

289. You Want It? We Got it! - Classic Traffic

290. A For Effort, E For Attainment - Common Sense Kid

291. Nighttime Nights EP - Church Girls

292. From Gaza, With Love EP - Saint Levant

293. Sail Away - Clover’s Curfew

294. SANTIAGO - Russ

295. Music Is Victory Over Time - Sunwatchers

296. Cans - Regal Cheer

297. This Heathen Land - Green Lung

298. This City Needs… Part Deux - Murkage Dave

299. Ocean Floor - Ayanna Witter-Johnson

300. I See A World - Peatbog Faeries

301. Dusk - Glass Pastures

302. The Power and The Glory - Bad Ends

303. One Day - Fucked Up

304. Gloria - Sam Smith

305. My 21st Century Blues - RAYE

306. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP - Nia Archives

307. Sangkar EP - Sial

308. Ghouls in the garage EP - The Dahmers

309. HANDCUFF EP - Handcuff

310. Raw Liquid Power EP - Water Machine

311. All Time Low - Scumbag Millionaire

312. Streams and Waterways - Witching Waves

313. Poems of Haf - Farah Chamma

314. STFU EP - REXREZ

315. Blackiss EP - Ekh & RT

316. s/t - Goodbye Viking

317. Vibes Don’t Lie - Skeete

318. Return Of The Loafer - Big Boss Sound

319. Punch Up - The Prizefighters

320. Light Up The Night - Babar Luck’s World Citizen Folk Band

321. I Hope Hell Isn’t Real - Roe Kapara

322. L.I.T. (Lost In Translation) - Tamera

323. Northern Gods - The Skapones

324. Let’s Start Here - Lil Yachty

325. Tinfoil Hat - Dolo Tonight

326. From Nothing To A Little Bit More - The Lanthums

327. Innit Innit Girl - Br3yana

328. DRAMA QUEEN - Kami Kehoe

329. Can’t Make Any Promises - Radiator Hospital

330. Expendables - Fake Names

331. All Gas No Breaks - Heavy Lungs

332. Escape the Compound - Landowner

333. Corner Tactics - Billiam

334. 13egin - INFINITE

335. 2023 S/S Collection - Kim Sung Kyu

336. Food for Worms - shame

337. Some Strange Notion - Rachel Baiman

338. Good Time/Hard Time - Teleman

339. The Chronicles of John Brute part 2 - Babar Luck

340. Endofunctor EP - The Buttress

341. Eulo Cramps - Call Super

342. Rat Saw God - Wednesday

343. Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? - Kara Jackson

344. Projecting - Seasaw

345. Amrat ا​م​ر​ا​ت - Rasha Nahas

346. s/t - Eyes of Others

347. Mangrove Big Head - Kontiki

348. Darkadelic - The Damned

349. Rewind - The Hardbeats

350. Workers States and Heartbreaks - Pavlov’s House

351. CLOWN BLOOD EP - Tokky Horror

352. Wet - Dick Move

353. Learn To Swim, A Mixtape - Joshua Idehen

354. A PROPHECY EP - Babebee

355. Telkin EP - Cihan Cengiz

356. Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi - Miesha and the Spanks

357. Sick Boi - Ren

358. Access To The Lonely - Rid Of Me

359. God Made Me An Animal EP - Better Lover

360. s/t EP - Vampire Slumber Party

361. This Is Why - Paramore

362. Poxy Pub EP - Blood or Whiskey

363. Suburban Condition - Dennis Cometti

364. Cocktails & FairyTales - The Magnetics

365. Leisureland - Wreckless Eric

366. JUNK or GEM - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

367. Black Classical Music - Yussuf Dayes

368. CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST - Tyler, The Creator

369. The Darker The Shadow, the Brighter The Light - The Streets

370. Be Lucky - Death Of Guitar Pop

371. Incendiara EP - Tomar Control

372. Zango - WITCH

373. Okemah Rising - Dropkick Murphys

374. Version Girl - Rhoda Dakar

375. The Altruistic Soul Sound of Pam International… part 2 - Pama International

376. Freak Frequency - Stuck

377. HAZE WAVE - LONE WOLF

378. Endless Summer Vacation - Miley Cyrus

379. Keep Drinking - Drinking Boys and Girls Choir

380. Sad Songs With Happy Endings - Atlas & Oracle

381. East Anglian Hardcore - The Domestics

382. Rich with Our Money - Rubella Ballet

383. come into your power - Blackbird Raum

384. s/t - Sister Wife Sex Strike

385. Feed Me To The Doves - Guardian Singles

386. s/t - Dead Pioneers

387. The Leaves of Autumn Symmetry EP - Perennial

388. If You’ve Got Nothing - Class

389. Super Snooper - Snooper

390. Devo Challenge Cup - Yonic South

391. Early Sessions - No Sports

392. What’s On TV? - Tee Vee Repairman

393. Smile - The Robocop Kraus

394. I Love You - Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

395. You Are Who You Hang Out With - The Front Bottoms

396. Title Track - UNIVERSITY

397. Taken By Force - CIVIC

398. Dial M For Meds - Taking Meds

399. Locked In Time - Restraining Order

400. For Palestine - Toumba

401. Ten Stories High - Bouncing Souls

402. In Blood - Hey Colossus

403. Suffer No Fool - No Time

404. Desire Pathway - Screaming Females

405. Nowhere To Go But Up - Guided By Voices

406. Salt EP - Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

407. Life Under The Gun - Militaire Gun

408. Treats - Poindexter

409. Good Times Can’t Last - Plastic Presidents

410. All Of Us Or None - J Navarro & The Traitors

411. s/t - The Atom Age

412. Peace Loving People - Pardoner

413. OTHERBOY - Dazy

414. City Lights - Wimps

415. Pealies - Emma Anderson

416. Mad Half Hour - Panic Pocket

417. A Moment In The Sun - silver biplanes

418. Fantastic Tales of the Sea - The Hannah Barberas

419. Unprofessional Conduct - The Photocopies

420. Top of the Pops - The Photocopies

421. Sunset Sea Breeze - Whitney’s Playland

422. War Poems, W rested - R. Ring

423. Symptoms of Survival - Dying Wish

424. Soft Covers - Soft Serve

425. s/t - Anya Baghina

426. The Greater Wings - Julie Byrne

427. Strange Disciple - Nation of Language

428. Afterpoem - Fatan Kanaan

429. We All Have Places That We Miss - Hollie Kenniff

430. Eye On The Bat - Palehound

431. The Candle and the Flame - Robert Forster

432. Lucky For You - Bully

433. Rabbit Rabbit - Speedy Ortiz

434. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You Bonnie Prince Billy

435. Improved Means To Deteriorated Ends - Washer

436. Chaos Magick EP - Mega Infinity

437. Kill The Dream - Tripsun

438. Rivers of Hersey - Empire State Bastard

439. Silver Zebra - Hammer No More The Fingers

440. The Alley Parade - Traindodge

441. Outta Sync - Don Letts

442. And It’s Goodbye From Him - Duncan Reid and the Big Hands

443. Destination Dusseldorf - Skids

444. Your Next Wolf - The High Water Marks

445. Fine Dying - Making Friends

446. It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This - Pulses.

447. Permanent Trash - Pussy Gillette

448. Out My Head EP - Gavin Cole

449. Cut Off From The Sun EP - Granite State

450. Square One EP - Uzumaki

451. …So Unknown - Jesus Piece

452. None Like Home - killusonline

453. Exile - Bondbreakr

454. Multitudes - Feist

455. Diamonds - Luluc

456. Alone In A Crow - Oliver Tree

457. Sultan of Squat - The Cowboys

458. Agitator - Buddie

459. All In Good Time - Blues Lawyer

460. Quit - The Great Awake

461. FBF- FinalBossFight!

462. Constant Crisis - Trash Sound Conglomerate

463. You Want It? We Got It! - Classic Traffic

464. Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book - Dead Billionaires

465. Bad Taste - Private Wives

466. summer camp - anees

467. Escape Somehow - Peuk

468. Blaspheme Queen - Blair Gun

469. There’s More To It Than Climbing - Decent Criminal

470. Vertiginous Drops - Carol Hodge

471. s/t - Your Best Nightmare

472. Chosen At Random - INTHEWHALE

473. it’s all good - Keep Your Secrets

474. Everything Is Cool EP - Super Reg

475. Hotbox Daydreams - Teenage Tom Petties