2010

• Music is Not Fun – “Mes Shoes” – Rendez-vous Francais (P-Box)
• Stereo Total – “Elles te Bottent mes Bottes?” – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
• La Patere Rose - “Decapote” – Pacemaker (Grosse-Boite)
• Camelia Jordana - “Non non non” – S/T (Jive-Epic)
• Yelle - “La Musique” – La Musique (Astralwerks)
• Stromae - “Alors on Danse” – Cheese (Vertigo)
• Jim Murple Memorial - “Amant Passione” – A La Recherche du Son Perdu (Murple & Cie)
• Feloche - “Reste Avec Moi” – La Vie Cajun (Ya Basta)
• Eric Elmosnino & Katerine - “Je Bois” – Gainsbourg, Vie Heroique (Polydor)
• Alain Chamfort - “A La Droite de Dior” – Une Vie Saint-Laurent (Tessland)

1. The Baseball Project – Broadside Ballads (S/R)
2. Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
3. Agent Ribbons – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
4. Magic Bullets – S/T (Mon Amie)
5. The Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
6. The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (S/R)
7. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (Glassnote)
8. She & Him – Volume Two (Merge)
9. Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone (Anti-)
10. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
11. Evelyn Evelyn – S/T (Eleven)
12. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-a-Fella)
13. Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
14. Stereo Total – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
15. Audra Mae – The Happiest Lamb (Side -One Dummy)
16. Guitar Shorty – Bare Knuckle (Alligator])
17. Marty Stuart – Ghost Train – The Studio B Sessions (Sugar Hill)
18. Bettye LaVette – Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (Anti-)
19. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
20. The National – High Violet (Extended Edition) (4AD)

Top 5 Reissues of 2010

1. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (Universal)
2. The Soft Boys – A Can Of Bees (Yep Roc)
3. Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962–1964 (Columbia)
4. Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run [Special Edition] (Concord)
5. John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy Stripped Down (Capitol)

Favorite singles of 2010

• Secret Sisters – “Big River” (Third Man)
• Shane MacGowan & Friends (feat. Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Paloma Faith & Eliza Doolittle) – “I Put A Spell On You” (IRL)

Favorite shows of 2010

• The World Champion San Francisco Giants @ AT&T Park, all season long
• Rykarda Parasol @ The Hemlock Tavern, February 18th
• Explode Into Colors @ The Independent, March 10th
• Camera Obscura @ Great American Music Hall, April 21st
• Sadies @ Great American Music Hall, June 9th
• Grinderman @ The Warfield, November 29th
• Agent Ribbons @ The Burritt Room in The Crescent Hotel, December 17th

• Go BANG!
• Steve Fabus
• HONEYSOUNDSYSTEM
• Tres Lingerie
• DJ Eddy Bauer
• Ion The Prize
• Marke B, San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Electronic Music Bears
• Glenn Rivera
• Christina Li & SFStation
• Kuze & Nitewise
• Jim Provenzano & BarTab

11 Favorite Albums!

• v/a – Brotherhood (Honey Soundsystem)
• v/a – Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization Boxset Volume 1: Savoir Faire (Warner France)
• v/a – Groove Merchant 20 (Ubiquity)
• v/a – Disco Discharge (multiple volumes)
• v/a – BBE presents Strange Games & Funky Things Volume 5. Compiled By DJ Spinna & BBE Soundsytem (BBE)
• v/a – Lagos Disco Inferno (Academy LPs)
• Joy Revision (Shawn Ryan) – Joy Revision (Gazeebo Disco)
• v/a – The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1985 (Strut)
• Janelle Monae – The Arkandroid (Bad Boy)
• Lindstrom & Christabelle – Lovesick b/w Baby Can’t Stop (Smalltown Supersound)
• v/a – Back To Peru Vol. 2 (Vampisoul)

• Agent Ribbons – “Oh, La La!” – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
• Alice Clark – “You Hit Me (Right Where it Hurt Me)” – Complete Studio Recordings 68-72 (BGP)
• Amy Bezunartea – “All the Things We Were Supposed to Be” – Restaurants & Bars (Kiam)
• Bearsuit – “Please Don’t Take Him Back” – 7″ Single (Fortuna Pop)
• Betty & the Werewolves – “Paper Thin” – Teatime Favourites (Damaged Goods)
• Calibro 35 – “Eurocrime!” – Ritornano Quelli Di (Nublu)
• Dark Dark Dark – “Daydreaming” – Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
• Darren Hanlon & Rose Melberg – “Our Days in Kansas” – Wish I’d Kept a Scrapbook [A Tribute to Tullycraft] (Unchickun)
• Dum Dum Girls  - “Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout” – I Will Be (Sub Pop)
• Eux Autres – “Queen Turner” – Broken Bow (Bons Mots)
• Ferraby Lionheart – “Harry & Bess” – The Jack of Hearts (Thirty Tigers)
• Fever Fever – “Monster” – 7″ Single (Cherryade)
• Hunx and His Punx – “Gimme Gimme Back Your Love” – Gay Singles (True Panther Sounds)
• Janelle Monae – “Tightrope” – The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
• Kelley Stoltz – “Pinecone” – To Dreamers (Sub Pop)
• Land of Talk – “Quarry Hymns”  - Cloak & Cypher (Saddle Creek)
• Mondo Topless – “Left in the Dark” – Freaking Out (Get Hip)
• Morning Benders – “Excuses” – Big Echo (Rough Trade)
• Mountain Man – “How’m I Doin'” – Made the Harbor (Partisan)
• Nick Waterhouse & the Turn-Keys – “Some Place” – 7″ Single (PRES)
• Nobunny – “Gone for Good” – First Blood (Goner)
• Quasi -“Bye Bye Blackbird” – American Gong (Kill Rock Stars)
• Salteens – “Last Train From London” – Grey Eyes (Boompa)
• Samantha Crain – “Lions” – You Understood (Ramseur)
• Sonny & the Sunsets – “Strange Love” – Tomorrow is Alright (Fat Possum)
• Stereo Total – “I Wanna Be a Mama” – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
• Sufjan Stevens – “Vesuvius” – Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
• The Eels – “I Like the Way this is Going” – Tomorrow Morning (E Works)
• The Like – “Release Me” – S/T (Downtown)
• Parting Gifts – “Keep Walkin'” – Strychnine Dandelion (In the Red)

• Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Man (S/R)
• Charanjit Singh – Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (Bombay Connection)
• Pantha du Prince – Black Noise (Rough Trade)
• Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
• The Drums – S/T (Moshi Moshi)
• Freelance Whales – Weathervanes (Frenchkiss / Mom & Pop)
• How to Dress Well  - Love Remains (Lefse)
• Agent Ribbons – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
• Surfer Blood – Astro Coast (Kanine)
• The Rej3ctz – Cat Daddy [Single] (S/R)
• The Bird and The Bee – Interpreting The Masters Vol. 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates (Blue Note)

• Joe Colley – Disasters of Self (Crippled Intellect Productions)
• Alva Noto, anbb & Blixa Bargeld – ret marut handshake (raster-noton)
• Oval – O (Thrill Jockey)
• Ambarchi, O’Rourke, Haino – Tima Formosa (Black Truffle)
• Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type)
• Smegma – Mirage (Important)
• Richard Pinhas – Metal/Crystal (Cuneiform)
• Ava Mendoza – Shadow Stories (Resipiscent)
• Faravelliratti – Lieu (Boring Machines)
• Grex – Live At Home (S/R)

Best Reissues of 2010

• Conrad Schnitzler – Zug (m=minimal)
• CAN – Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
• Irmin Schmidt & The Inner Space – Kamasutra (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!)
• Zwischenfall – Heute (Dark Entries)