Amon Amarth – Once Sent From the Golden Hall (reissue) [2 CDs] (Metal Blade) Antigama – Warning (Relapse) BellX1 – Blue Lights on the Runway (Yep Roc) The Bitter Tears – Jam Tarts in the Lake (Carrot Top) Buried Inside – Spoils of Failure (Relapse) Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (Anti-) Coheed and Cambria – Neverender (box set) (Columbia) Drowning Pool – Loudest Common Denominator (Eleven Seven) Justin Townes Earle – Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot) Bla Fleck & Toumani Diabate – Throw Down Your Heart/Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3/Africa Sessions (Rounder) Laura Gibson – Beasts of Seasons (Hush) Grandmaster Flash – The Bridge: Concept of a Culture (Strut Records) Svarte Greiner – Kappe (Type) Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (Warp) Marissa Nadler – Little Hells (Kemado) Nashville Pussy – From Hell to Texas (Spitfire) Of Machines – As If Everything Was Held in Place (Rise) Orcustus – Orcustus (Southern Lord) The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die (Cooking Vinyl) Revolting Cocks (Revco) – Sex-O Olympic-O (13th Planet) Saros – Acrid Plains (Profound Lore) Say Hi – Oohs and Aahs (Barsuk) Soundtrack of Our Lives – Communion [2 CDs] (Yep Roc) U2 – No Line on the Horizon (Interscope) The Whip – X Marks Destination (Razor & Tie) Who Made Who – The Plot (Gomma) | |
Rock/Misc. — Top Alela Diane – To Be Still (Rough Trade) Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You (Capitol) …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – The Century of Self (Richter Scale ) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) The Appleseed Cast – Sagarmatha (Militia Group) Asobi Seksu – Hush (Polyvinyl) Dan Auerbach (of Black Keys) – Keep It Hid (Nonesuch) Laura Barrett – Victory Garden (Paper Bag) Beirut – March of the Zapotec EP (Pompeii/ Ba Da Bing) Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand (Vice) Mike Bones – A Fool for Everyone (Social Registry) Boston Spaceships – Planets are Blasted (Gbv. Inc) BPA (Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim) – I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (Southern Fried) J.J. Cale – Roll On (Rounder) Clem Snide – Hungry Bird (429) Loren Connors – The Curse of Midnight Mary (Family Vineyard) Death – For the Whole World To See (Drag City) Dexter Romweber Duo – Ruins of Berlin (Bloodshot) Sarah Dougher – Orestes (Cherchez La Femme) The Drones – Havilah (ATP) Faunts – Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (Friendly Fire) Benjy Feree – Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee (Domino) Final – Reading All the Right Signals Wrong (No Quarter) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2 CD reissue) (Sub Pop) Fol Chen – Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made (Asthmatic Kitty) Gentleman Reg – Jet Black (Arts & Crafts) Gun Outfit – Dim Light (PPM) Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew (ATO/ Red Ink) Heartless Bastards – The Mountain (Fat Possum) Henry’s Funeral Shoe – Everything’s Fore Sale (Bomp/Alive) Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl) Maia Hirasawa – Though, I’m Just Me (Thrive) Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 – Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc) Hot Panda – Volcano…Bloody Volcano (Mint) Iran – Dissolver (Narnack) Chris Isaak – Mr. Lucky (Reprise) Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod Records) Tommy Keene – In the Late Bright (Second Motion) Ben Kweller – Changing Horses (ATO) Ladyfinger (NE) – Dusk (Saddle Creek) Adam Lipman – From Your Mouth To God’s Ear (Shrimper) The Lovetones – Dimensions (Planting Seeds) M. Ward – Hold Time (Merge) Malajube – Labyrinthes (Dare to Care) Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. – Catnip Dynamite (Oglio) Dent May – The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Paw Tracks) Mi Ami – Watersports (Quarterstick) Mono – One Step More And You Die / New York Soundtracks (Temporary Residence LTD) Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen to the Lion) Morrissey – Year of Refusal (Universal) N.A.S.A. – The Spirit of Apollo (Anti-) Nickel Eye – The Time of Assassins (Rykodisc) Odawas – The Blue Depths (Jagjaguwar) Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready for the Flood (New West) Outrageous Cherry – Universal Malcontents (Alive) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Slumberland) Phosphorescent – To Willie (Dead Oceans) Psapp – The Camel’s Back (Domino) Radio Moscow – #2 (Bomp/Alive) Realpeople – Holland (Pompeii/ Ba Da Bing) The Republic Tigers – Keep Color (Chop Shop) Omar Rodriquez-Lopez – Old Money (Stones Throw) Ethan Rose – Oaks (Holocene) Julie Ruin – Julie Ruin (Kill Rock Stars) Sabbatoge Soundsystem – The Boto Machine Gun (Volcom) Sabertooth – Old Days & The Island (Arena Rock) Sholi – Sholi (Quarterstick) Sin Fang Bous – Clangour (Morr Music) The Sleepover Disaster – Hover (Devil in the Woods) Southeast Engine – From the Forest to the Sea (Misra) Charles Spearin – The Happiness Project (Arts & Crafts) Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream (Columbia) The Strange Boys – And Girls Club (In The Red) Telepathe – Dance Mother (IAMSOUND) The O’s – We Are The O’s (101) These Are Powers – All Aboard Future (Dead Oceans) Thrice – The Alchemy Indexes: I-IV (Vagrant) Throw Me The Statue – Purpleface (Secretly Canadian) Thursday – Common Existence (Epitaph) Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances (reissue) (XL) Trentalange – Awakening, Level One (Coco Tauro) Two Tongues – Two Tongues (Vagrant) Various Artists – Dark Was the Night (benefitting AIDs charity) [2 CDs] (4AD) Various Artists – War Child Presents Heroes (Astralwerks) Vetiver – Tight Knit (Sub Pop) The Vibrarians – Red Light (K) The Von Bondies – Love, Hate and Then There’s You (Majordomo/Shout! Factory) The Watson Twins – Live at Fingerprints [EP] (Vanguard) Weird Owl – Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed (Tee Pee) Jim White – A Little Cross To Bear (Luaka Bop) William Elliott Whitmore – Animals In the Dark (Anti-) Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree) – Insurgentes (K-Scope) Yonlu – A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luaka Bop) Zero Boys – History Of (Secretly Canadian) Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian) Electronic/Dance — Top Hip Hop — Top Metal — Top Punk — Top |
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