Music Archive: O

O

• Operatica: Volume 1 (E-Magine Entertainment)

Robin O'Brien

• Eye and Storm (Luxotone)

Tim O'Brien

• Chameleon (Proper American)
• News: Hot Rize's Tim O'Brien made his latest album in the company of instruments

Jennifer O'Connor

• Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars (Matador)

Mark O'Connor & Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

• Double Violin Concerto (Omac)
• In Full Swing (Sony Classical)

Nora O'Connor

• Til the Dawn (Bloodshot)

Sinead O'Connor

• News: Sinead O'Connor mounts a spiritually informed, low-key comeback
• Theology (Koch/Rubyworks)

O'Death

• Head Home (Ernest Jenning)

Patrick O'Donnell

• Limbo (Skoda)

Roger O'Donnell

• Truth In Me (Great Society)

The O'Jays

• For the Love (MCA)
• Ship Ahoy (Epic/Legacy)
• The Ultimate O'Jays (Epic Associated/Legacy)
• Love Songs (Sony/Legacy)
• The Essential O'Jays (Legacy)
• The Essential O'Jays (Sony Legacy)

Lisa O'Kane

• It Don't Hurt (New Light)

Marykate O'Neil

• 1-800-Bankrupt (Nettwerk)

Tara Jane O'Neil

• In Circles (Quarterstick)

Tim O'Reagan

• Tim O'Reagan (Lost Highway)

Christopher O'Riley

• Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute (World Village)
• Second Grace: the Music of Nick Drake (World Village)
• News: Pianist lures classical fans into the indie rock world

Jim O'Rourke

• Osorezan: Mimidokodesuka; Jim O'Rourke: Tamper

O.A.R.

• In Between Now and Then (Lava)

O.C.

• Smoke & Mirrors (Hiero Imperium)

O.M.F.O.

• We Are the Shepherds (Essay)

O.P.M.

• Menace to Sobriety (Atlantic)

OK Ikumi

• Spirits (Blue Bell)

OOIOO

• Taiga (Thrill Jockey)

  Featured Article

  

  It's exhausting, it's exhilarating, it's excellent.

   

OSI

• Free (SPV)

The OaKs

• Songs for Waiting (Self-released)

Paul Oakenfold

• A Lively Mind (Maverick)
• Bunkka (Maverick)
• Greatest Hits & Remixes (Perfecto/Ultra)

Oakley Hall

• Second Guessing (Amish)
• I'll Follow You (Merge)
• Concert: 4 September 2007: Maxwell's — Hoboken, NJ
• Feature: Flux as Inspiration: An Interview with Oakley Hall

Oasis

• Stop The Clocks (Columbia)
• Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (Epic/Creation)
• The Masterplan (Epic)
• Don't Believe the Truth (Epic)

Jackie Oates

• The Violet Hour (Chudleigh Roots)

Oberon

• Sonnet (Koch)

The Ocean Blue

• Waterworks (Ocean Tours Ltd.)
• Davy Jones' Locker (March)

Ocean Colour Scene

• A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad (Sanctuary)
• Mechanical Wonder (Ark 21)

The Ocean

• Aeolian (Metal Blade)

Oceania

• Oceania (Point/Decca)

Oceansize

• Everyone into Position (Beggars Banquet)
• Effloresce (Beggar's Banquet)

Eliádes Ochoa

• Various: Cuban Essentials
• Estoy Como Nunca (Higher Octave World)

Luis Mario Ochoa & Friends

• Cimarron (Cuban Music Productions)

Phil Ochs

• The Early Years
• Feature: Part 1: Beethoven to Phil Ochs (1824-1965)

Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada

• El Nino Y El Sol (ESL Music)

Ocote Soul Sounds + Adrian Quesada

• The Alchemist Manifesto (ESL)

Ocrilim

• Annwn (Hydra Head)

Ocs

• 3 & 4 (Songs About Death and Dying/Get Stoned) (Songs About Death and Dying/Get Stoned)

Octant

• Shock-No-Par (Up)
• Car Alarms and Crickets (Up)

Octet

• Cash and Carry Songs (Plain Recordings)

The Octopus Project

• One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (Peek-A-Boo)
• Hello Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo)

The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow

• The House of Apples and Eyeballs (Graveface)

Odd Nosdam

• Level Live Wires (anticon)
• Pretty Swell Explode (Anticon)

Odetta

• Absolutely the Best (Fuel 2000)
• Blues Everywhere I Go (MC)
• News: Folk legend Odetta, 75, reflects on a pioneer's life

Of God and Science

• Of God and Science (Detach)

Of Montreal

• Of Montreal: The Early Four Track Recordings
• Deflated Chime, Foals Flower Sibylline Responses (Polyvinyl)
• Satanic Twins (Polyvinyl)
• Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Depression, isolation, infidelity, violence; Of Montreal once more in top form.

   
• Feature: The Best Indie-Pop of 2007
• Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies (Kindercore)
• Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): the Singles & Songles Album (No Elephants Allowed)
• Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
• Aldhills Arboretum (Kindercore)
• Icons, Abstract Thee (Polyvinyl)
• Concert: 13 March 2007: The Opera House — Toronto, ON
• Concert: 8 March 2007: Trocadero Theatre — Philadelphia, PA
• News: For indie-pop band Of Montreal, playing can be hard work

Office

• A Night at the Ritz (Scratchie/New Line)

The Offspring

• Greatest Hits (Columbia)
• Splinter (Columbia)
• Conspiracy of One (Sony)

Oh Astro

• Champions of Wonder (Illegal Art)

Oh No

• Dr. No's Oxperiment (Stones Throw Records)

Oh No Not Stereo

• Oh No Not Stereo (Takeover)

Oh No! Oh My!

• Between the Devil and the Sea (Dim Mak)

Oh-ok

• The Complete Recordings (Collector's Choice Music)

Ohgr

• Welt (Spitfire)

Terry Ohms

• Terry Ohms Plays Wes McDonald (Skybucket)

Oingo Boingo

• Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Universal)
• The Best of Oingo Boingo (20th Century Masters: the Millennium Collection) (20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection)

Ojos De Brujo

• Remezclas de la Casa: Remixes from "Barí" (World Village)

Ojos de Brujo

• Techarí (Six Degrees)
• Techarí Remixes (Six Degrees)
• Techarí Live (Six Degrees)

  Featured Article

  

  This live offering cements Ojos de Brujo's reputation as one of the fieriest collectives that world music has to offer.

   

Ok Go

• OK GO (Capitol)
• Oh No (Capitol)

Okay

• High Road / Low Road (Absolutely Kosher)

Okkervil River

• Sleep and Wake-Up Songs (Jagjaguwar)
• Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

  Featured Article

  

  This reviewer's early, although confident, pick for Album of the Year.

   
• Black Sheep Boy Appendix (Jagjaguwar)
• The President's Dead (Jagjaguwar)
• The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Okkervil River's new album is filled with moments that remind us again why this band is considered one of the finest indie rock groups in the US.

   
• Concert: 27 February 2008: Manning Bar — Sydney, AUS

Ola Podrida

• Ola Podrida (Plug Research)

Olatunji

• Drums of Passion [Expanded] (Columbia/Legacy)

Babatunde Olatunji

• Circle of Drums (Chesky)

Jakob Olausson

• Moonlight Farm (De Stijl)

  Featured Article

  

  A psychedelic folk-rock masterpiece. When the music-police take 99% of my collection, this will be in the bundle, under the floorboards.

   

Old 97's

• Hit by a Train: The Best of Old 97's (Elektra/Rhino)
• Blame It on Gravity (New West)
• Feature: Rhett Miller of the Old 97's

Old 97s

• Alive and Wired (New West)

  Featured Article

  

  The sweaty beautiful mess of the Old 97s in concert is finally captured on disc.

   
• Drag It Up (New West)
• Satellite Rides (Elektra)

Old Canes

• Early Morning Hymns (Second Nature Recordings)

The Old Ceremony

• Our One Mistake (sonaBLAST!)

Old Crow Medicine Show

• Big Iron World (Nettwerk)
• O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk America)

The Old Haunts

• Fallow Field (Kill Rock Stars)

Old Time Relijun

• 2012 (K)

  Featured Article

  

  Old Time Relijun are in many ways the anti-White-Stripes, an authentic and healthy alternative to the snake oil that Jack White is selling.

   
• Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
• Lost Light (K)
• La Sirena de Pecera (K)

Oleander

• Joyride (Sanctuary)
• Unwind (Republic/Universal)

Nathan Oliver

• Nathan Oliver (Pox World Empire)

Olivia Tremor Control

• Black Foliage: Animation Music By the Olivia Tremor Control

The Olivia Tremor Control

• Presents: Singles and Beyond (Emperor Norton)
• Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle [re-issue] (Cloud Recordings)

Ollo

• The If If (Groovescooter)
• If Thief EP (12 Apostles)

David Olney

• Migration (Loudhouse)
• The Wheel (Loudhouse)

Mark Olson & the Creekdippers

• Pacific Coast Rambler (Koch)

Carla Olson and Mick Taylor

• Carla Olson and the Textones: Detroit '85 - Live & Unreleased

Carla Olson and the Textones

• Carla Olson and the Textones: Detroit '85 - Live & Unreleased

Dave Olson

• #80 (Stumble and Fall)

Mark Olson

• The Salvation Blues (HackTone)

Bjorn Olsson

• Bjorn Olsson (The Lobster) (Gravitation/Parasol)

P.j. Olsson

• Words for Living (Columbia)
• Beautifully Insane (Brash Music)

PJ Olsson

• American Scream (CBS)

Olvis

• Bravado (Resonant)

Olympia

• Emergencies (Equal Vision)

Olympic Hopefuls

• The Fuses Refuse to Burn (Hidden Agenda)

Om

• Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)

Omar

• Sing (If You Want It) (Ether)

Omega One

• The Lo-fi Chronicles (Nature Sounds)

Omid

• Monolith (Mush)

On the Last Day

• Meaning in the Static (Victory)

On!air!library!

• On!Air!Library! (Arena Rock)

The One AM Radio

• This Too Will Pass (Dangerbird)

The One Am Radio

• A Name Writ in Water (Level Plane)

One Be Lo

• S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (Fat Beats)

  Featured Article

  

  De la asked where you were when you first heard Criminal Minded. The Rawkus era pined about Resurrection. One Be Lo seeks to be the Next Coming.

   
• The R.E.B.I.R.T.H. (Subterraneous)

One Ring Zero

• Wake Them Up (Barbes)

One Session

• Bobby B presents: The Hidden Treasures Vol. 1 (Suburban Noize)

One Small Step for Landmines

• One Small Step for Landmines (Civil Defense League)

One Star

• Triangulum (March)

One Star Hotel

• Good Morning, West Gordon (Stereo Field Recordings)

OneRepublic

• Dreaming Out Loud (Interscope)

Oneida

• Happy New Year (Jagjaguwar)
• Nice/Splittin' Peaches EP (Ace Fu)
• Come on Everybody Let's Rock (Jagjaguwar)
• Secret Wars (Jagjaguwar)
• The Wedding (Jagjaguwar)
• Enemy Hogs (Turnbuckle)

Onelinedrawing

• The Volunteers (Jade Tree)

Joe Ongie

• Lovefest (Granny Vegas)

The Only Children

• Change of Living (Glurp)
• Keeper of Youth (Sidecho)

Only Crime

• Virulence (Fat Wreck Chords)

The Only Ones

• Feature: The Only Ones, Special View (1979)

Ono

• Yang Yang (*69/Mind Train)

Yoko Ono

• Yes, I’m a Witch (Astralwerks/ Parlophone)
• Open Your Box (Astralwerks)

Ndidi Onukwulu

• The Contradictor (Jericho Records)

Oojami

• Boom Shinga Ling (Copeland International Arts)

Open Door

• So Close to Beautiful (Hipbone)

The Open Mind

• The Open Mind (Sunbeam)

Operation Makeout

• Hang Loose (Mint)

Opeth

• Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)

  Featured Article

  

  If you're going to buy one metal album this year, make it this one. If you're a metal fan, what are you waiting for?"

   
• Watershed (Roadrunner)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Nine albums in, and Opeth has still shown no signs of running out of ideas.

   

Opium Jukebox

• Music to Download Pornography To (Invisible)

Opsvik & Jennings

• Commuter Anthems (Rune Grammofon)

Optiganally Yours

• Exclusively Talentmaker! (Absolutely Kosher)

Optimo

• Optimo Presents Psych Out (Eskimo)

Optional 2

• Moment of Truth (self-released)

The Opus

• Breathing Lessons (Mush)

Or, the Whale

• Light Poles and Pines (Independent)

Orange 9mm

• Pretend I'm Human (Ng)

The Orange Alabaster Mushroom

• Space & Time: a Compendium of . . . (Hidden Agenda)

Orange Hat

• Pufferfish (Cringe)

Orange Park

• Songs from the Unknown (Young American)

The Orange Peels

• Circling the Sun (Parasol)

Oranger

• New Comes and Goes (Eenie Meenie)

The Oranges Band

• All Around (Lookout!)
• The World and Everything in It (Lookout!)

Oratory

• Illusion Dimensions (Limb Music Products)

The Orb

• Bicycles & Tricycles (Sanctuary)
• Back to Mine (DMC)
• The Dream (Six Degrees)

Roy Orbison

• The Essential Roy Orbison (Monument/Orbison/Legacy)

Orbit Service

• Songs of Eta Carinae (Beta-Lactam Ring)

Orbital

• Work 1989-2002 (ffrr/London)
• The Blue Album (ATO)
• Back to Mine (DMC)

Orbiter

• Mini LP (Loveless)

Orchestra Du Soleil

• Mondial: An Excursion in Nuclear Music (S.H.A.D.O.)

Orchestra Ethiopia

• Éthiopiques 23 (Buda)

Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark

• OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More (Eagle)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

• Dazzle Ships (Caroline/Virgin)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  OMD's concept album about Cold War-era technology and tension was a flop upon its original release in 1983. But seen through modern eyes, it's a brilliant precursor to OK Computer.

   

The Orders

• The Orders (PIAAF Records)

Oreskaband

• Oreskaband (Terry Dollar)

The Orgone Box

• Things That Happened Then (Minus Zero)
• The Orgone Box (Minus Zero)

Orgy

• Vapor Transmission (Elementree/Reprise)

Oriental Sunshine

• Dedicated to the Bird We Love (Sunbeam)

Original Soundtrack

• Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

  Featured Article

  

  Anton Cobijn's movie biopic has triggered the largest revival of interest in Joy Division in nearly a decade.

   

Orillia Opry

• Lighthouse for Stragglers' Eyes (Ships at Night)

The Orion Experience

• Cosmicandy (Sweet!)

Orphans and Vandals

• Orphans and Vandals: Terra Firma / Christopher 10" Single

Stacie Orrico

• Stacie Orrico (Virgin/Forefront)

Orso

• My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever (Perishable)
• Long Time By (Perishable)

Jeannie Ortega

• No Place Like Brooklyn (Hollywood)

Joell Ortiz

• The Brick: Bodega Chronicles (Koch)

Beth Orton

• Comfort of Strangers (EMI/Astralwerks)
• Feature: Best Albums of 2006
• The Other Side of Daybreak (Astralwerks)

Orwell

• Following Days (Hidden Agenda)
• Following Days (Hidden Agenda)

Jeffrey Osborne

• That's for Sure (Private Music/Windham Hill)

Joan Osborne

• Pretty Little Stranger (Vanguard)
• Righteous Love (Interscope)
• How Sweet It Is (Womanly Hips/Compendia Music)
• Breakfast In Bed (Time-Life)
• Feature: From Breakfast in Bed to Becoming a Deadhead: An Interview With Joan Osborne

Kelly Osbourne

• Shut Up (Epic)

Ozzy Osbourne

• The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (Epic/Legacy)
• Prince of Darkness (Epic)
• No More Tears (Epic)
• Blizzard of OzzDiary of a Madman (Epic)
• Tribute (Epic)
• Black Rain (Epic)
• News: An (expletive)-deleted chat with the Prince of Darkness
• Concert: 22 December 2007: Madison Square Garden — New York, NY

Greg Osby

• Inner Circle (Blue Note)
• Channel Three (Blue Note)
• Public (Blue Note)
• Symbols of Light (A Solution) (A Solution)
• St. Louis Shoes (Blue Note)

Oscar Peterson

• Perfect Peterson: The Best Of The Pablo And Telarc Recordings (Telarc)

Paul Oscher

• Down in the Delta (Blues Fidelity)

Oslo

• The Rise and Fall of Love and Hate (Six Feet)

The Osmond Family

• Osmondmania! (Polydor/Chronicles)

Donny Osmond

• News: As he reinvents himself again, Donny Osmond revisits the `70s

Osorezan

• Osorezan: Mimidokodesuka; Jim O'Rourke: Tamper

Peter Ostroushko

• Postcards (Red House)

Patton Oswalt

• Feelin' Kinda Patton (United Musicians)
• Werewolves and Lollipops (Sub Pop)

The Other 99

• At the Eleventh Hour (Cropduster)

Ottawa Bluesfest Days 1 and 2

• Concert: July 2007: LeBreton Flats — Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Bluesfest Days 10-12

• Concert: July 2007: LeBreton Flats — Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Bluesfest Days 3-5

• Concert: July 2007: LeBreton Flats — Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Bluesfest Days 6-7

• Concert: July 2007: LeBreton Flats — Ottawa, ON

Ottawa Bluesfest Days 8-9

• Concert: July 2007: LeBreton Flats — Ottawa, ON

Otto Von Schirach

• 8000 B.C. (Schematic)

Our Brother the Native

• Tooth and Claw (Fat Cat)

Our Lady Peace

• Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch (Columbia)
• Spiritual Machines (Columbia)
• Gravity (Columbia/Sony)
• Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)

Ours

• Distorted Lullabies (Dreamworks)
• Ours: Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)

Out Hud

• Let Us Never Speak of It Again (Kranky/!K7)
• S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)

OutKast

• Idlewild (LaFace/Zomba/Sony)
• Stankonia (Laface)
• Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Reinventing hip-hop is hard work. And yet it must be done, if for no other reason than to repromote the idea that it's been reinvented. Again.

   
• Aquemini (La Face)

Outlines

• Our Lives Are Too Short (Sonar Kollektiv)

Outrageous Cherry

• Why Don't We Talk About Something Else EP (Rainbow Quartz)
• Supernatural Equinox (Rainbow Quartz)
• The Book of Spectral Projections (Rainbow Quartz)
• Our Love Will Change the World (Rainbow Quartz)

Outrider

• All in a Hard Day's Work (JFG)

Oval

• Commers (Thrill Jockey)

Oval-teen

• A Million Shades of Oval-Teen (MOC)

Over It

• Step Outside Yourself (Virgin)

Over the Atlantic

• Junica (Carpark)

Over the Rhine

• Ohio (Back Porch)
• The Trumpet Child (Great Speckled Dog)
• Snow Angels (Great Speckled Dog)

Overkill

• Bloodletting (Metal-Is)

Owen

• At Home With Owen (Polyvinyl)
• I Do Perceive (Polyvinyl)
• Owen (Polyvinyl)
• No Good for No One Now (Polyvinyl)

Judith Owen

• Happy This Way (Courgette)

Owl & the Pussycat

• Owl & the Pussycat (Kill Rock Stars)

Owls

• Owls (Jade Tree)

The Owls

• Our Hopes and Dreams (Magic Marker)
• Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)

Owsley

• The Hard Way (Lakeview Entertainment)
• Owsley (Giant/Warner Bros.)

Ox

• Dust Bowl Revival (Second Nature)

Oxford Collapse

• Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop)
• A Good Ground (Kanine)

Ozark Mountain Daredevils

• Ozark Mountain Daredevils (New Era)
• It's Alive (New Era)

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

• Men from Earth (New Era Productions)
• Time Warp: the Very Best Of (A&M)

Mustafa Ozkent

• Gençlik Ile Elele (Finders Keepers/B-Music)

Ozomatli

• Don't Mess With the Dragon (Concord)
• Street Signs (Concord)
• Embrace the Chaos (Almo/Interscope)