Julia Adams (CTD)
Calexico/Iron and Wine-In the Reins
Silver Jews-Tanglewood Numbers
Edith Frost-Calling Over Time
Rodney Crowell-The Outsider (except for that one song)
Spoon-Sister Jack
Chris Brokaw-Incredible Love
Beck-Guerolito
Richard Buckner & John Langford-Sir Dark Invader vs. The Fanglord
Amy Rigby-Little Fugitive
Tom Verlaine-Warm and Cool
Tony Adams (Web Geek/atoms.net)
Bluetech - Sines and Singularities
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Decemberists - Picaresque
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Damian "Junior Gong" Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
Morcheeba - Antidote
Niyaz - Niyaz
Palliard - Palliard EP
Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game
John Almonte (CTD/Unfortunaut)
1.) Ocean "Here Where Nothing Grows"
2.) Mono "You Are There" (Advance)
3.) Minus the Bear "Menos El Oso"
4.) Pelican "Fire In Our Throats..."
5.) Minsk "Out of a Center"
6.) Sunn 0))) "Black One"
7.) Kayo Dot "Dowsing Anemone" (advance)
8.) The Life and Times "Suburban Hymns"
9.) Jesu "s/t"
10.) Voivod "DVDOD"
Chris Berry (Soft Abuse)
Excepter – Self Destruction (Fusetron)
Lungfish – Feral Hymns (Dischord)
Cass McCombs – PREfection (Monitor)
Mountains – Mountains (Aperstaaje)
Of – The Buried Stream (Jewelled Antler)
Nils Okland - Bris (Rune Grammofon)
Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower (Drag City)
The Skygreen Leopards – Jehovah Surrender (Jagjaguwar)
Steven R. Smith – Crown of Marches (Catsup Plate)
James Bradley (Sound Fix)
1. The Deadly Snakes: Porcella (In the Red)
2. M. Ward: Transistor Radio (Merge)
3. Stars: Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
4. Eluvium: Talk Amongst the Trees (Temporary Residence)
5. Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
6. Lucksmiths: Warmer Corners (Matinee/Candle)
7. Green Milk from the Planet Orange: City Calls Revolution (Beca-Lactam Ring)
8. Vitalic: OK Cowboy (PIAS)
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (self-released)
10. The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned (Light in the Attic)
Marty Cardona (CTD)
Pete D'Angelo (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
1. The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday
2. The Occasion - Cannery Hours
3. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
4. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
5. The Evens - The Evens
6. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
7. My Morning Jacket - Z
8. Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
9. Pelican - the Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
10. Oneida - The Wedding
Joakim Haugland (Smalltown Supersound/Jazz)
1. LCD Soundsystem "LCD Soundsystem" (DFA)
Album of the year!
2. Boredoms "Sea Drum/House Of The Sun" (Warner Japan)
Wonderful and ultra groovy psychedelic kraut jams from the Japanese noisemasters.
3. The Fall "Fall Heads Roll" (Sanctuary)
Mark E. Smith returns with one of his best albums. Ever.
4. Devendra Banhart "Cripple Crow" (XL Recordings)
Devendra Banhart`s best album to date. Great!
5. Panico "Subliminal Kill" (Tigersushi)
The big surprise of the year. Post-punk from Chile on the great Tigersushi label.
6. The Mars Volta "Frances The Mute" (GSL/Universal)
No. 1 out-rock album of the year!
7. Black Dice "Broken Ear Record" (DFA)
No. 2 out-rock album of the year!
8. Vashti Bunyan "Lookaftering" (Fat Cat Records)
A hauntingly beautiful folk album, her first album in 30 years.
9. Boards Of Canada "The Campfire Headphase" (WARP)
Although not their best, still lightyears ahead of the copycats.
10. Annie "Anniemal" (679 Recordings)
Pop album of the year.
Larry Herweg (Pelican/Lair of the Minotaur/Tusk)
1.The Life and Times "Suburban Hymns"
2.Boards Of Canada "the campfire headphase"
3.Nine inch Nails "with teeth"
4.Corrupted "se hace por los suenos asesinos"
5.Enslaved "isa"
6.Cave In "perfect pitch black"
7.Knut "terraformer"
8.Joy Circuit "EP one"
9.Torche "s/t"
10.Paik "satin black"
Robert Iwanik (CTD)
1. John Coltrane "A Love Supreme" (timeless)
2. Miles Davis "Cellar Door Sessions '70" (re-issue)
3. John Coltrane "One Down, One Up: Live @ The Half Note" (re-issue)
4. Autechre "Untilted"
5. Murcof "Remembranza"
6. Ikue Mori "Myrninerest"
7. Jacques Coursil "Minimal Brass"
8. Konono No.1 "Congotronics"
9. Mutamassik "Definitive Works"
10. Josephine Foster "Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You"
Ed Mazzucco (Shelflife)
British Sea Power - Open Season lp
Broadcast - Tender Buttons lp
Silver Screen - The Greatest Story Never Told cd
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us lp
The Clientele - Strange Geometry lp
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll lp
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm lp
The Warlocks - Surgery cd
Malory - The Third Face cd
The Primary 5 - North Pole cd
Sean McCarthy (Illinois Institute of Art/Unfortunaut)
Life & Times - 'Suburban Hymns'
SUNN0))) - 'Black One'
Ocean - 'Here Where Nothing Grows'
Spoon - 'Gimme Fiction'
Mogwai - 'Government Commissions'
Jesu - 'Jesu'
Monk w/ Coltrane - 'Live at Carnegie Hall'
Cluster & Eno - 'S/T' (reissue)
Sigur Ros - 'Takk'
Pelican - 'The Fire In Our Throats'
Patrick Monaghan (CTD/Carrot Top Records)
Andrew Bird-Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
The Books-Lost and Safe (Tomlab)
Rodney Crowell-The Outsider (Columbia)
Darling Downs-How Can I Forget This Heart of Mine? (Darling Downs)
Cole Guerra-Scarves and Knives (Cleave)
Mercury Rev-The Secret Migration (V2)
Stina Nordenstam-The World Is Saved (V2)
Patrick Porter-Lisha Kill (Camera Obscura)
Roots Manuva-Awfully Deep (Ninja Tune/Big Dada)
Emiliana Torrini-Fisherman's Woman (Rough Trade)
Randall Nieman (Füxa/Mind Expansion)
1. george harrison "concert for bangladash" re-issue
2. john lennon "walls and bridges" re-issue
3. kraftwerk "minimum-maximum"
4. the telescopes #4
5. broadcast "tender buttons"
6. the stooges "fun house" re-issue
7. the stooges s/t re-issue
8. stephen malkmus "face the trouth"
9. tuung "mother's doughter and other songs"
10. mazarin "we're already there"
Sanford Parker (Minsk/Volume Studios)
1.) Ocean "Here Where Nothing Grows"
2.) Mono "You Are There" (Advance)
3.) Minus the Bear "Menos El Oso"
4.) Pelican "Fire In Our Throats..."
5.) Minsk "Out of a Center"
6.) Sunn 0))) "Black One"
7.) Kayo Dot "Dowsing Anemone" (advance)
8.) The Life and Times "Suburban Hymns"
9.) Jesu "s/t"
10.) Voivod "DVDOD"
Mark Robinson (Teenbeat, Flin Flon, Unrest)
1. THE EVENS "The Evens" LP (Dischord)
2. THE BOOKS "Lost and Safe" CD (Tomlab)
3. KAREN O. AND SQUEAKY CLEAN "Hello Tomorrow" single (Interscope)
4. RICKY GERVAIS podcast (Guardian Unlimited)
5. NETHERS 'In Fields We Will Lie' CD (Box Theory)
6. BENJAMIN WALKER'S THEORY OF EVERYTHING podcast (WZBC)
7. LESLIE & THE LYS "Gold Pants" CD
8. AMERIE '1 Thing' (itunes single)
9. U.V. PROTECTION "Consumer Material" CD
10. OF MONTREAL 'Wraith Pinned to the Mist' (Polyvinyl)
Karen Tepps (CTD)
1. ? and the Mysterians - Best of
2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit reissue
3. Punk Attitude DVD
4. Johnny Cash - Man, World & Music DVD
5. Death from Above 1979 - You're Woman, I'm a Machine
6. White Sox World Series!!!!
7. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (yes, I like them...)
8. Holly Golightly - My First Holly Golightly Album
9. Seu Jorge - Life Aquatic sounds
10. Ladytron - Witching Hour
Allison Wasilewski (CTD)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Sigur Ros- Takk
Decemberists - Picaresque
Books - Lost & Safe
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Amina - Animamina EP
Final Fantasy - Has A Good Home
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
New Pornographers - Twin Cities
Katie Weld (CTD)
Albums
1. Common - Be
2. Concretes- LayYourBattleAxeDown
3. Edan -Beauty & Beats
4. Herbaliser - Take London
5. Love's a Real Thing: World Psychedelic Classics 3 V/A
6. Mutamusik - Definitive Works
7. Nano Machine - Gemini
8. Nobody - And Everything
9. Roots - Tipping Point
10. Yawning Man - Rock Formations
Songs
Millie "My Boy Lollipop"
Snoop "Drop It Like It's Hoooooot"
Rufus & Chaka "Sweet Thing"