Clinton Street Store

Bob Roets- Owner
Bob started Wooden Nickel Music in 1982.  Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, he worked at several music stores in Madison, and later moved to Fort Wayne.  Besides being President of Wooden Nickel, he is also Co-President of the Carroll High School Band Boosters.
Picks:
Left Lane Cruiser - All You Can Eat
Beatles - Abbey Road

Best of 2009

Top 10 Albums

  1. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
  2. Gov't Mule - By a Thread
  3. Dirty Projectors
  4. Orange Opera - Year of the Beard
  5. Ben Gibbard/Jay Farrar - One Fast Move or I'm Gone

Ben
Ben is currently going to IPFW for a degree in English Literature.
Picks:
Brian Jones Massacre - Give It Back
Slade - Sladest

Best of 2009

Top 10 Albums

  1. Baroness - Blue Record
  2. Mission of Burma - Sound the Speed the Light
  3. Metric - Fantasies
  4. Art Burt - Art Brut vs. Satan
  5. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
  6. M. Ward - Hold Time
  7. Polvo - In Prism
  8. Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
  9. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
  10. Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Top 3 Local Albums

  1. Orange Opera - Year of the Beard
  2. Castles - Castles
  3. Kantis - Kantis

Top 3 Concerts

  1. Mastodon/Dethklok
  2. Les Savy Fav
  3. Lollipop Factory

Keith
Is the lead singer for the renowned B-Sharps.
Picks:
James Brown - In the Jungle Groove
Big Audio Dynamite - No. 10 Upping Street

Justin
Metal guitar player for the metal band Zephaniah.
Picks:
Manowar - Louder Than Hell
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony

North Anthony Store

Eric
Picks:
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
Stanton Moore - All Kooked Out

 

Time Corners Store

Chris - Manager
Chris is currently going to IPFW to get a degree in business.  He has worked at Wooden Nickel since December 2003.  He is very interested in music but is also a computer person and the webmaster for this site.  How exciting, I talked about myself in third person.
Picks:
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Ike Reilly - Hard Luck Stories

Best of 2009

Top 10 Albums

  1. Phish - Joy
  2. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
  3. Tim Easton - Porcupine
  Zero 7 - Ghost
  Pelican - What We All Come to Need
  Mono - Hymn to the Immoral Wind
  Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant

Top 3 Local Albums

  1. Goodbyewave - Sleight of Hand
  2. Orange Opera - Year of the Beard

Top 3 Concerts

  1. Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction
  2. Steely Dan
  3. Phish

Cindy
Has been working at this store since January 2004. 
Picks:
Mike Conley - It's a Conley Christmas
Wayman Tisdale - Rebound

Eric
Picks:
Jon Spencer - First Ten Years
Pearl Jam - Backspacer

Allison
Picks:
Greg Laswell - Take a Bow
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

Best of 2009

Top 10 Albums

  1. A.F.I. - Crash Love
  2. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal World
  3. Imogen Heap - Ellipse
  4. Nirvana - Live at Reading
  5. Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
  6. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
  7. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Through
      the Devil Softly
  8. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
  9. Paul Westerberg - PW and the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing
      Joy Boys
  10. Spinnerette - Spinnerette