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| Best of '03 | BREAK | ***** | |
| Nina Simone | Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter | It Is Finished | RCA |
| Othar Turner | Shimmy She Wobble | Everybody Hollarin' Goat | Birdman |
| Ruben Gonzalez | Tres Lindas Cubanas | Introducing | World Circuit |
| Johnny Burnette Trio | Lonesome Train on a Lonesome Track | Rockbilly Boogie | Bear Family |
| Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash | Jackson | Essential 1953 - 1983 | Columbia |
| Gary Stewart | She Actin' single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles) | Essential | RCA |
| Elliot Smith | The Biggest Lie | s/t | Kill Rock Stars |
| Best Reissues of '03 | BREAK | ***** | |
| Miles Davis | Go Ahead John Part 2B | Complete Jack Johnson Sessions | Columbia |
| Stark Reality | Junkman's Song | Now | Stone's Throw |
| Michael Yonkers Band | Microminiature Love | Microminiature Love | Sub Pop |
| Simply Saucer | Mole Machine | Cyborgs Revisited | Sonic Unyun |
| Baby Dodds | Spooky Drums I | Talking & Drum Solos | Unheard Music Series |
| Byard Lancaster | It's Not Up To Us | It's Not Up To Us | Water |
| Best Singles of '03 | BREAK | ***** | |
| White Stripes | 7 Nation Army | Elephant | XL |
| Belle & Sebastian | Step Into My Office Baby | Dear Catastrophe Waitress | Rough Trade |
| Postal Service | Such Great Heights | s/t | Sub Pop |
| !!! | Me & Giuliani Down by The Schoolyard | 12" Single | Touch & Go |
| Kelis | Milkshake | 12" | Arista |
| Rolling Stones | Sympathy (Neptunes Remix) | 12" | Virgin |
| Punjabi MC | Beware of the Boys | 12" | Sequence |
| Missy Elliott | Pass The Dutch | 12" | Elektra |
| Kid 606 | The Ilness | 12" Mix | Tigerbeat 6 |
| Basement Jaxx | Cish Cash | Kish Kash | XL |
| Victor Lundberg | An Open Letter to my Teenage Son | 7" | Liberty |
| Best LPs and CDs of '03 | BREAK | ***** | |
| Blithe Sons | The Book of Names | We Walk The Young Earth | Family Vineyard |
| Cerberus Shoal | The Real Ding | Vim & Vigour of Avarius B & Cerberus Shoal | NorthEast Indie |
| Scout Niblett | Miss In Love With Her Own Fate | I Am | Secretly Canadian |
| The Decemberists | Los Angeles I'm Yours | Her Majesty | Jealous Butcher |
| Aisler's Set | Catherine Says | How I Learned To Write Backwards | Suicide Squeeze |
| Richard Youngs | Oh My Stars | Airs of the Ear | Jagjaguwar |
| Six Organs of Admittance | For Octavio Paz Part 6 | For Octavio Paz | Time-Lag |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | Sangaredi | Tribute to Lester | ECM |
| Cul De Sac | Half Lost in Nothingness | Death of the Sun | Strange Attractors |
| Animal Collective | Too Soon | Here Comes The Indian | Paw Tracks |
| Growing | A Painting | The Sky's Run Into The Sea | Kranky |
| Jack Rose | Black Pearls | Opium Musick | Eclipse |
| Ray's Vast Basement | By A River Burning Blue | By A River Burning Blue | RVB |
| Christina Carter | School Song/Desire To Play and Play | Bastard Wing | Eclipse |
| Bonnie "Prince" Billy | Joy & Jubilee | Master and Everyone | Drag City |
| TV On The Radio | Satellite | TV on the Radio | Touch & Go |
| El Guapo | Just Don't Know | Fake French | Dischord |
| Plastikman | Disconnect | Closer | Mute |
| Chicks On Speed | Culture Vulture | 99 Cents | Chicks on Speed |
| Outkast | The Way You Move | Speakboxx/The Love Below | Arista |
| Outkast | She Lives in My Lap | Speakboxx/The Love Below | Arista |
| Cerberus Shoal | Tonguedrum | MP3 from cerberusshoal.com | |
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