Charlotte Hatherley (Bats For Lashes, Ash, solo)
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
2. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Squarepusher – Just A Souvenir
4. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
5. Fever Ray – Fever Ray

Petter Ericson Stakee (Alberta Cross)
Phosphorescent – To Willie
PJ Harvey and John Parish – A Woman a Man Walked By
Dead Confederate ‘Wrecking Ball’ (We are aware it’s from last year but still think it should be on there as it didn’t receive enough credit in 2008.)
John Alexander Ericson- Songs from the White sea
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears- Tell Em What Your Name Is
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid

Darker My Love
1. Thee Oh Sees- HELP
2. Cass McCombs- Catacombs
3. King Tuff- Was Dead
4. Strange Boys- …and Girls Club
5. A Place To Bury Strangers- Exploding Head
6. Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country
7. Kurt Vile- Childish Prodigy
8. Pearl Harbor- Something About Chaparrals
9. Mocky- Saskamodie
10. Girls / Album

Brad Laner (Medicine/Solo)
1. Beatles Remasters / Beatles Rock Band
2. Neil Young – Archive Vol. 1
3. Baby Champ – Faya/Maya
4. Shits and Giggles – Trick or Treat
5. Helado Negro – Awe Owe
6. Where The Action Is! (Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968)
7. Bell Gardens – A Series Of Farewells
8. Slaraffenland – We’re on Your Side
9. Baths – http://www.myspace.com/bathsmusic
10. The Silent League -But You’ve Always Been the Caretaker

Milo (The Big Pink)
1. Comanechi – Crime of Love
2. A Grave With No Name – Mountain Debris
3. Pre – Hope Freaks
4. Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
5. The Horrors – Primary Colours
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Its Blitz

Max Tannone (Jaydiohead)
1. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
2. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon
3. Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
4. La Roux – La Roux
5. Boys Noize – Power

Aurelio Valle (Calla)
1. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s-It’s Blitz
2. Fever Ray-S/T
3. Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon:End of the Day
4. Flaming Lips-Embryonic
5. Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. Raekwon-Only Built for Cuban Linx pt.2
7. Antony and the Johnsons-The Crying Light
8. Jay-Z-The Blueprint
9. U2-The Unforgettable Fire Re-issue
10. Bat for Lashes-Two Suns

Simon Reynolds (author/music critic)
1. Micachu and the Shapes, Jewellry (Rough Trade)
2. The Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca (Domino)
3. Moon Wiring Club — Striped Paint for the Last Post (Gecophonic)
4. Dolphins Into The Future, On Sea Faring Isolation (No Not Fun)
5. Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (No Fun)
6. Belbury Poly, From An Ancient Star (Ghost Box)
7. Roj, The Transactional Dharma of Roj (Ghost Box)
8. Broadcast & The Focus Group, Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
9. Woebot, East Central One (Hollow Earth)
10. Mordant Music, SyMptoMs (Mordant Music)

Matty (The Soft Pack)
Kurt Vile- Constant Hitmaker
Women- Self Titled
Cold Cave- Love Comes Close
Pearl Harbor- Something about the Chapparals EP
So Cow- So Cow
Obits- I Blame You
Bill Callahan- Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Abe Vigoda- Reviver EP
Friendly Fires- Self Titled
Micachu and the Shapes- Jewellery

Adam (Apteka)
1. The Horrors-Primary Colours
2. Nirvana-Live at Redding
3. Girls-Album
4. Washed Out-Life of Leisure
5. Sonic Youth-The Eternal
6. The Warlocks-The Mirror Explodes
7. Wooden Shjips-Dos
8. The Big Pink-A Brief History of Love
9. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
10. A Place to Bury Strangers-Exploding Head

Home Video
1. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
2. School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. The Horrors – Primary Colours
6. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
7. Wave Machines – Wave If You’re Really There
8. Julian Plenti – Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper
9. JJ- no 2
10. Silk Lung – Just a Thread

Living Things
(in no particular order)
Jay Z- Blueprint 3
The XX – The XX
Girls – Album
Crocodiles – Summer of Hate
Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Phoenix – 1901
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
The Big Pink – A Breif History of Love
Living Things – Habeas Corpus !!!!

LR Rockets
Golden Silvers- True Romance
The Horrors- Primary Colours
The Maccabees- Wall of Arms
Florence and the Machine- Lungs
Julian Plenti- Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper

Odario Williams (Grand Analog)
1. Mos Def- The Ecstatic
2. Jay-Z- Blueprint 3
3. Little Dragon- Machine Dreams
4. Blakroc- Blakroc
5. Maiko Watson- Sweet Vibration
6. Raekwon- Only Built For Cuban Linx II
7. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus
8. Maxwell- Blacksummer’s Night
9. Nestor Wynrush- Trinnipeg!78
10. Easy Star All-Stars- Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band

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While My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Lush were ruling the UK alternative music scene, Medicine was making similar music that was as good, if not better. They were quickly snapped up by Rick Rubin’s then-fledgling label American in their effort to sign the “next big alternative band” in the U.S.. They proceeded to make a series of seminal records, but thanks to the dumbing of America, the U.S. music media and most American fans didn’t get it. Brad Laner created the sound that was Medicine and surrounded himself with a cast that would follow his lead. Their albums still stand up today and we were fortunate to track down Brad, so that he could describe the mystique behind the band.

TDOA: You were signed to Rick Rubin’s American label relatively quickly. Can you tell us the story of meeting Rick and how you came to join the label?

BL: We were signed to American by a fellow named Marc Geiger and we only met Rick Rubin once we were working on the first LP. They signed us based on a 4 song demo that I had made. Back in those days a band could make serious dough from weird/noisy music on major labels. No more.

TDOA: At the time, this was a pretty new style of music for American audiences. Did you feel like Rick and American understood your music and how to market it?

BL: Barely. I don’t think Rubin ever understood us. But they did their best.

TDOA: I remember reading about the band when the first couple of records came out and you were frequently portrayed as the “mastermind” of the band. Were you writing everything, including vocal melodies on the Medicine records?

BL: Yes indeed. There were a few moments here and there that represented contributions from the others but 99% of it came from me.

TDOA: Did you prefer to play live or record in the studio?

BL: Making records has always been my favorite thing to do and playing live was just something that we had to do.

TDOA: Can you discuss the break-up of the band, the decision to record an album under the Medicine tag in 2003?

BL: The original band was always a really stormy/unfriendly set up and it was bound to crash and burn from the moment it started. If I hadn’t gotten away from the others, I most certainly would have lost my mind. The album I did under the name Medicine in 2003 wasn’t a re-union, but rather a duo with Shannon Lee. We called it Medicine just for fun, but it wasn’t meant to be the same.

TDOA: How has growing older, getting married and having children changed your perspective on making music?

BL: Life experience makes everything richer and more meaningful. It’s great to have things in your life that are far more important than music.

TDOA: We’re intrigued by the resurgence of the dreampop/shoegaze movement with a lot of bands starting out now, who were clearly influenced by Medicine, MBV, et al. How do you feel about the renewed interest in the genre?

BL: Do you really want to know? I think it’s a bit lame. Look forward, not back, kids. But I never felt part of a genre anyways. Genres are so boring.

TDOA: Are there bands that you played with that you’d love to see reunite and play together again?

BL: Moonshake was awesome. I can’t think of any others off the top of my head.

TDOA: What are your plans for the next year and will we see you playing live again?

BL: You won’t ever see me playing live, but I have 3 new albums coming out next year :
A new solo album called “Natural Selections”, the debut album by my new group, The Internal Tulips and another solo instrumental double LP called “micro-awakenings”.

Purchase the albums of Medicine on iTunes

and visit Brad’s website to learn more about his solo work.

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