2011 | Year End Favorites

Tom Waits : Bad As Me Anti

My Morning Jacket : Circuital ATO

The Decemberists : The King is Dead Capitol

Tune-Yards : W H O K I L L 4AD

Washed Out : Within and Without Sub Pop

Charles Bradley : No Time for Dreaming Daptone

Handsome Furs : Sound Kapital Sub Pop

Cut Copy : Zonoscope Modular

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks : Mirror Traffic Matador

Beirut : The Rip Tide Pompeii

Bon Iver : Bon Iver Jagjaguwar

Wilco : The Whole Love dBpm

TV on the Radio : Nine Types of Light Interscope

Radiohead : The King of Limbs TBD

St Vincent : Strange Mercy 4AD

Fleet Foxes : Helplessness Blues Sub Pop

The Antlers : Burst Apart French Kiss

The War on Drugs : Slave Ambient Secretly Canadian

Destroyer : Kaputt Merge

Yuck : Yuck Fat Possum

Ryan Adams : Ashes & Fire PaxAmericana

Wire : Red Barked Tree Pinkflag

2010 | Year End Favorites

Broken Bells :. Broken Bells (Sony)

Arcade Fire :. The Suburbs (Merge)

LCD Soundsystem :. This is Happening (DFA)

Band of Horses :. Infinite Arms (Columbia)

Surfer Blood :. Astro Coast (Kanine)

Spoon :. Transference (Merge)

The Black Keys :. Brothers (Nonesuch)

Local Natives :. Gorilla Manor (French Kiss)

The National :. High Violet (4AD)

Deerhunter :. Halcyon Digest (4AD)

Dr. Dog :. Shame, Shame (Anti-)

The Dead Weather :. Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

The Tallest Man on Earth :. The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)

The Morning Benders :. Big Echo (Rough Trade)

The Gaslight Anthem :. American Slang (SideOneDummy)

Sleigh Bells :. Treats (Mom + Pop)

Wavves :. King of the Beach (Fat Possum)

No Age :. Everything In Between (Sub Pop)

Delorean :. Subiza (True Panther)

Broken Social Scene :. Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)

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