2009 | Year End Favorites

The Avett Brothers :. I and Love and You (American)

Wilco :. Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

Neko Case :. Middle Cyclone (Anti-)

The Dead Weather :. Horehound (Third Man/Warner Bros.)

Phoenix :. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note)

The Decemberists :. The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

Animal Collective :. Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)

St. Vincent :. Actor (4AD)

Rosanne Cash :. The List (Manhattan/EMI)

Sonic Youth :. The Eternal (Matador)

M. Ward :. Hold Time (Merge)

A Place To Bury Strangers :. Exploding Head (Mute)

Franz Ferdinand :. Tonight (Domino)

The Felice Brothers :. Yonder is the Clock (Team Love)

Grizzly Bear :. Veckatimest (Warp)

Sunset Rubdown :. Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)

Mumford & Sons :. Sigh No More (Island UK)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart :. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)

Lucero :. 1372 Overton Park (Universal Republic)

Tegan & Sara :. Sainthood (Vapor/Sire)

2008 | Year End Favorites

Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal (Back Porch/Manhattan)

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig (Mute/Anti)

David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo)

Beck – Modern Guilt (DGC)

Sigur Rós –  Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (XL)

Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Columbia)

Dr. Dog – Fate (Park the Van)

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)

DeVotchKa – A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti)

TV on the Radio – Dear Science (Interscope)
Spiritualized – Songs in A&E (Sanctuary/Fontana)
Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)

Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)

Santogold – Santogold (Downtown)

Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic/Barsuk)

Portishead – Third (Mercury)

The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely (Third Man/Warner Brothers)
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (Modular)

Great Catalog 2008

The Clash – Live at Shea Stadium

New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies/Low-Life/Brotherhood (Deluxe Reissues)

U2 – Boy/October/War (Deluxe Reissues)

Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff (Deluxe Reissue)

Otis Redding – Otis Blue (Deluxe Reissue)

2007 | Year End Favorites

Wilco :. Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)

Band of Horses :. Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)

Okkervil River :. The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)

Iron & Wine :. The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)

The National :. Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

Patty Griffin :. Children Running Through (ATO)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss :. Raising Sand (Rounder)

M.I.A. :. Kala (XL/Beggars Banquet)

Modest Mouse :. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)

The Shins :. Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop)

Kings of Leon :. Because of the Times (RCA)

Joe Henry :. Civilians (Anti-)

Arcade Fire :. Neon Bible (Merge)

Feist :. The Reminder (Cherry Tree/Interscope)

Amy Winehouse :. Back to Black (Universal Republic)

A Place To Bury Strangers :. A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)

Spoon :. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)

Arctic Monkeys :. Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)

Menomena :. Friend and Foe (Barsuk)

LCD Soundsystem :. Sound of Silver (DFA)

2006 | Year End Favorites

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not (Domino)

Black Keys - Magic Potion (Nonesuch)

Bob Dylan - Modern Times (Columbia)

Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)

Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards (Downtown)

Damien Rice - 9 (Warner Bros.)

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant)

Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (V2)

M. Ward - Post War (Merge)

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL)

Solomon Burke - Nashville (Shout Factory)

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)

Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Beggars Banquet)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-)

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope/4AD)

Wolfmother - Wolfmother (Interscope)

Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones (Interscope)

10 Songs for your i-pod

Punkrocker - Teddybears & Iggy Pop

The Ruling Class - Loose Fur

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Funeral - Band of Horses

Hong Kong Garden (Marie Antoinette Mix) - Siouxsie & the Banshees

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

On The Radio - Regina Spektor

SexyBack - Justin Timberlake

Smile - Lily Allen

There's Always Someone Cooler Than You - Ben Folds

Bonus Track: Awww shit... Look who got a website - Ryan Adams

On the Tube

Alejandro Escovedo - Austin City Limits

Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure (Live in the Pacific Northwest) DVD 

2005 | Year End Favorites

Bright Eyes :. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

Beck :. Guero (Interscope)

Decemberists :. Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)

Sufjan Stevens :. Come on Feel the Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)

Youth Group :. Skeleton Jar (Epitaph)

Spoon :. Gimme Fiction (Merge)

Stars :. Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)

White Stripes :. Get Behind me Satan (Third man/V2)

Son Volt :. Okemah and the Melody of Riot (Columbia)

Shannon McNally :. Geronimo (Back Porch)

Coldplay :. X&Y (Capitol)

Matt Pond PA :. Several Arrows Later (Altitude)

Broken Social Scene :. Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)

Okkervil River :. Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah :. Clap Your Hands Say yeah (self released)

Josh Rouse :. Nashville (Ryko)

Sigur Ros :. Takk... (Fat Cat/Geffen)

Mike Doughty :. Haughty Melodic (ATO)

Death Cab For Cutie :. Plans (Atlantic)

Bloc Party :. Silent Alarm / Silent Alarm Remixed (Vice)

Other Good Stuff

Wilco :. Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (Nonesuch)

Lucinda Williams :. Live at the Fillmore (Lost Highway)

Bob Dylan :. No Direction Home (CD/DVD) (Columbia/Legacy)

Patti Smith :. Horses (2CD Re:-issue) (Columbia/Legacy)

The Stooges :. Fun House (2CD Re-issue) (Elektra)

A dozen songs for your i-pod

Entertain :. Sleater-Kinney

My Little brother :. Art Brut

You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son :. Wolf Parade

7/4 (Shoreline) :. Broken Social Scene

List of Demands :. Saul Williams

I Turn My Camera On :. Spoon

Handshake Drugs (live version) :. Wilco

Abel :. The National

Saeglopur :. Sigur Ros

Just Like Love :. Charlie Sexton

Road To Joy :. Bright Eyes

Bitches Ain't Shit :. Ben Folds

2004 | Year End Favorites

The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows (Record Collection)

Ray Lamontagne - Trouble (RCA)

Snow Patrol - Final Straw (Fiction/A&M)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)

TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (Touch & Go)

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)

A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder (Matador)

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (Island)

Elliot Smith - From A Basement on the Hill (Anti-)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti-)

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Anti-/Fat Possum)

!!! - Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)

The Dears - No Cities Left (Spin Art)

Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)

Patti Smith - Trampin' (Columbia)

Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti-)

Pinback - Summer In Abaddon (Touch& Go)

More 2004

Calexico - Convict Pool EP & Black Heart EP (Quarter-Stick /City Slang)

Talking Heads - Reissue: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (Rhino/Sire)

The Faces - Box Set: Five Guys Walk Into A Bar (Rhino)

A Dozen Songs for your i-Pod

Make It Rain - Tom Waits           

99 Problems - Jay Z

Irish Blood, English Heart - Morrissey

Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives

It's A Hit - Rilo Kiley

TKO - Le Tigre

Ghetto Rock - Mos Def

All Falls Down - Kanye West

American Idiot - Green Day

Hounds of Love - The Futureheads

Hiding All Away - Nick cave & The Bad Seeds

Bury Me With it - Modest Mouse

10 Great Shows I saw in 2004

The Pixies - Milwaukee Theater

Wilco - Otto's (DeKalb, IL)

David Bowie - Rosemont Theater (Chicago)

Ray Lamontagne - ACL Fest (Austin)/Schubas (Chicago)

TV On The Radio - Onopa (Milwaukee)/Catacombs (Madison)

Rhett Miller - Cactus Cafe (Austin)

Sufjan Stevens - Schubas (Chicago)

Constantines -The Ritz (Austin)

Josh Ritter - Schubas (Chicago)

Snow Patrol - Metro (Chicago)

2003 | Year End Favorites

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)

The Postal Service - Don't Give Up (Sub Pop)

M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Goom)

Beulah - Yoko (Velocette)

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (Barsuk)

Damien Rice - O (Vector)

Calexico - Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)

The New Pornographers - Electric Version (Matador)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (Interscope)

Four Tet - Rounds (Domino)

Colder - Again (Output)

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)

Kathleen Edwards - Failer (Zoe/Rounder)

Broken Social Scene - You Forget It In People (Arts & Crafts)

White Stripes - Elephant (V2)

Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside (Virgin)

The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas (Columbia)

The Rapture - Echoes (DFA)

Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)

Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance (Matador)