Buying stuff off other people’s year-end lists for the roadtrip home…

• Dyme Def “Space Music (rap/hip hop from Seattle)
  
• Mavis Staples “We’ll Never Turn Back” (takes you back)
  
• The Avett Brothers “Enthusiasm” (twangy poppy fun)
  
• Hard-Fi “Stars of CCTV” (an older album as I love the new one I got earlier this fall)
  
• Jay Brannan “Unmastered” (the dude from “Shortbus” if that means anything to you. great sassy lyrics)
  
• UGK “Underground Kingz (rap)