1. 13...Ex Hex...Rips...Merge

2. 10...The Budos Band...Burnt Offering...Daptone

3. 10...King Tuff...Black Moon Spell...Sub Pop

4. 10...Caribou...Our Love...Merge

5. 10...HTRK...Psychic 9-5 Club...Ghostly International

6. 9...Steve Gunn...Way Out Weather...Paradise of Bachelors

7. 9...Kline Coma Xero...Kline Coma Xero...Medical

8. 9...Hamish Kilgour...All of It and Nothing...Ba Da Bing

9. 8...Whatever Brains.../////// + 4...Sorry State

10. 8...Hiss Golden Messenger...Lateness of Dancers...Merge

11. 8...Roche...Stillhope...100% Silk

12. 8...Lower Plenty...Life/Thrills...Mexican Summer

13. 8...Yelle...Completement Fou...Kemosabe

14. 8...Electric Youth...Innerworld...Secretly Canadian

15. 7...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Innovative Leisure

16. 7...Ausmuteants...Order of Operation...Goner

17. 7...Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler...Slant of Light...Thrill Jockey

18. 7...Tinariwen...The Radio Tisdas Sessions...Modern Classics

19. 7...Goat...Commune...Sub Pop

20. 7...Useless Eaters...Bleeding Moon...Castle Face

21. 7...Generationals...Alix...Polyvinyl

22. 7...J Mascis...Tied to a Star...Sub Pop

23. 6...No Love...Tape #2...self-released

24. 6...YOU....Sunchaser...Dais

25. 6...Big Star...Live in Memphis...Omnivore

26. 6...Avi Buffalo...At Best Cuckold...Sub Pop

27. 6...Nashville Electric...Nashville Electric...Edgetone

28. 5...Daniel Bachman...Grey-Black-Green...Feeding Tube

29. 5...Alpha Cop...Cue the Cold Air...self-released

30. 5...Dilated Peoples...Directors of Photography...Rhymesayers

31. 5...Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark...Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark...Delicious Vinyl

32. 5...Black Slate...World Citizen...Unit 8

33. 5...Malcolm Holcombe...Pitiful Blues...self-released

34. 5...Bishop Allen ...Lights Out...Dead Oceans

35. 5...Purling Hiss...Weirdon...Drag City

36. 5...Justin Townes Earle...Single Mothers...Vagrant

37. 5...Ty Segall...Manipulator...Drag City

38. 4...David Childers...Serpents of Reformation...Ramseur

39. 4...Midnight Plus One...Like Camera/White Flowers...Negative Fun

40. 4...6 String Drag...The JAG Sessions - Rare & Unreleased 1996-1998...Little Criminal

41. 4...Locust...After the Rain...Editions Mego

42. 4...Electric Wizard...Time to Die...Spinefarm

43. 4...Awa Sangho...Ala Ta...Motema

44. 4...Half Japanese...Overjoyed...Joyful Noise

45. 4...Steve Arrington...Way Out (80-84)...Tummy Touch

46. 4...Mike and Cara Gangloff...Black Ribbon of Death, Silver Thread of Life...MIE Music

47. 4...O'Death...Out of Hands We Go...Northern Spy

48. 4...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nedir Ne Degildir?...Pharaway

49. 4...Various...Across the Mountains: A Macedonian Ambient Music Compilation...Silber

50. 4...Blursome...Heavy Resting...Locus Recordings

51. 4...The Residents...Residue of the Residents...Superior Viaduct

52. 4...Tennis...Ritual in Repeat...Communion

53. 4...PC Worship...Social Rust...Northern-Spy/Dull Tools

54. 4...So Cow...The Long Con...Goner

55. 4...All Day Breakfast Stringband...Shanghai...self-released

56. 4...Merchandise...After the End...4AD

57. 4...The Fauntleroys...Below the Pink Pony EP...Plowboy

58. 4...Various...Axels & Sockets: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project...Glitterhouse

59. 3...Ashrae Fax...Never Really Been Into It...Mexican Summer

60. 3...The Tills...Howlin'...s/r

61. 3...Irata/Solar Halos...Split 10"...CrimsonEye

62. 3...Souls of Mischief...There is Only Now...Linear Labs

63. 3...The Equity & Social Justice Quartet...The Whisper of Flowers...Edgetone

64. 3...Behemoth...Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)...Metal Mind

65. 3...Patrick Battstone and Richard Poole...The Last Taxi (A Conversation)...Battstone

66. 3...Flat Fix...An Unkempt House...Not Not Fun

67. 3...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

68. 3...Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas...Abundance...Culburnie

69. 3...Fhloston Paradigm...The Phoenix...Hyperdub

70. 3...Bahamas...Bahamas is Alfie...Brushfire

71. 3...Empire Builder...Empire Builder...s/r

72. 3...Terry Malts...Insides EP...Slumberland

73. 3...Ark Life...The Dream of You and Me...Greater Than Collective/Misra

74. 3...Antibalas...Tattletale Pts. 1 & 2...Daptone

75. 3...Homeboy Sandman...Hallways...Stones Throw

76. 3...Otis Gibbs...Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth...Wanamaker

77. 3...Christopher Willits...OPENING...Ghostly International

78. 2...Drag Sounds...II...s/r

79. 2...Tashi Dorji...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

80. 2...Rosebuds...Sand + Silence...Western Vinyl

81. 2...Godflesh...Decline & Fall EP...Avalanche

82. 2...Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu...Gurrumul...Skinny Fish Music

83. 2...Microscopic Septet...Manhattan Moonrise...Cuneiform

84. 2...Caoimhin o Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman...Laghdu...Irishmusic.net

85. 2...James Blackshaw...Fantomas: Le Faux Magistrat...Tompkins Square

86. 2...Various...Algo Savaje Vol. 1...Munster

87. 2...Jennifer Castle...Pink City...No Quarter

88. 2...Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi...Tikkun...Cuneiform

88.7 2...Charles Bradley & LaRose Jackson...Luv Jones 7"...Daptone

RPM

1. 10...Caribou...Our Love...Merge

2. 10...HTRK...Psychic 9-5 Club...Ghostly International

3. 8...Roche...Stillhope...100% Silk

4. 8...Yelle...Completement Fou...Kemosabe

5. 4...Blursome...Heavy Resting...Locus Recordings

6. 4...Locust...After the Rain...Editions Mego

7. 4...Various...Across the Mountains: A Macedonian Ambient Music Compilation...Silber

8. 3...Flat Fix...An Unkempt House...Not Not Fun

9. 3...Fhloston Paradigm...The Phoenix...Hyperdub

10. 3...Christopher Willits...OPENING...Ghostly International

JAZZ

1. 3…Patrick Battstone and Richard Poole…The Last Taxi (A Conversation)…Battstone

2. 3…The Equity & Social Justice Quartet…The Whisper of Flowers…Edgetone

3. 2…Microscopic Septet…Manhattan Moonrise…Cuneiform

4. 2…The Whammies…Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 3 Live…Driff

5. 1…Frank Kimbrough and Scott Robinson…Afar…ScienSonic

6. 1…Hafez Modirzadeh…In Convergence Liberation…Pi

7. 1…Matthew Shipp…I've Been to Many Places…Thirsty Ear

8. 1…Michael Musillami Trio…Pride…Playscape

9. 1…Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet…Afterimage…Driff

10. 1…Peter van Huffel's Gorilla Mask…Bite My Blues…Clean Feed

WORLD

1. 7...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Khun Narin Electric Phin Band...Innovative Leisure

2. 7...Tinariwen...The Radio Tisdas Sessions...Modern Classics

3. 5...Black Slate...World Citizen...Unit 8

4. 4...Awa Sangho...Ala Ta...Motema

5. 4...Edip Akbayram and Dostlar...Nedir Ne Degildir?...Pharaway

6. 3...Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas...Abundance...Culburnie

7. 2...Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu...Gurrumul...Skinny Fish Music

8. 2...Caoimhin o Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman...Laghdu...Irishmusic.net

9. 1...Leticia Rodriguez Garza...Saguita al Bate EP...self-released

10. 1...Fela Kuti...Finding Fela Soundtrack...Knitting Factory

AMERICANA

1. 5...Daniel Bachman...Grey-Black-Green...Feeding Tube

2. 5...Malcolm Holcombe...Pitiful Blues...self-released

3. 5...Justin Townes Earle...Single Mothers...Vagrant

4. 4...David Childers...Serpents of Reformation...Ramseur

5. 4...6 String Drag...The JAG Sessions - Rare & Unreleased 1996-1998...Little Criminal

6. 4...Mike and Cara Gangloff...Black Ribbon of Death, Silver Thread of Life...MIE Music

7. 4...All Day Breakfast Stringband...Shanghai...self-released

8. 3...Smoke Dawson...Fiddle...Tompkins Square

9. 3...Otis Gibbs...Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth...Wanamaker

10. 2...Tashi Dorji...Tashi Dorji...Hermit Hut

LOUD

1. 4...Electric Wizard...Time to Die...Spinefarm

2. 3...Behemoth...Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)...Metal Mind

3. 2...Godflesh...Decline & Fall EP...Avalanche

4. 1...Pallbearer...Foundations of Burden...Profound Lore

5. 1...Tombs...Savage Gold...Relapse

6. 1...Power Trip...Manifest Decimation...Southern Lord

7. 1...Botanist...VI: Flora...The Flenser

8. 1...Witch Mountain...Mobile of Angels...Profound Lore

9. 1...Iron Claw...Iron Claw...Rockadrome...Rock