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- Bleached – Carter (Art Fag)
- Brain F≠ – So Dim (Grave Mistake)
- Cheap Time – Another Time (Cass)
- Cuffs – Privilege (Ride the Snake)
- Grass Widow – Milo Minute (HLR)
- OBN III’s – S/T (Tic Tac Totally!)
- Real Numbers – Tear It in Two (Florida’s Dying)
- The Mantles – Raspberry Thighs (SDZ)
- The Sleaze – Weird Truck (Three Dimensional)
- The Sleaze – Called You Once (Total Punk)
- Terry Malts – I’m Neurotic (Slumberland)
- Woolen Kits – Maths (R.I.P. Society)
LPs
- Mikal Cronin – S/T (Trouble in Mind)
- Estrogen Highs – Friends & Relatives (Gramery)
- Household – Items (Dull Knife)
- Human Eye – They Came From the Sky (Sacred Bones)
- Total Control – Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
- Video – Leather Leather (Play Pinball)
- Wax Idols – No Future (Hozac)
- The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble in Mind)
Cuppa Joe’s Top 20 for 2011
- June Tabor & Oysrerband – Ragged Kingdom (Topic)
- Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti-)
- Wild Flag – S/T (Merge)
- Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing (Sub Pop)
- Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti-)
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
- The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (S/R)
- The Baseball Project – Vol. 2: High And Inside (Yep Roc)
- The Bachata Legends – The Bachata Legends (iASO)
- Rumer – Seasons of My Soul (Atlantic)
- Big Tree – This New Year (S/R)
- tUnE-yArDs – Who Kill (4AD)
- St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
- Marble Party – Lyle (Floating)
- The Jim Jones Revue – Burning Your House Down (Punk Rock Blues)
- Smoke Fairies – Through Low Light And Trees (Year Seven)
- Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol)
- Pistol Annies – Hell On Heels (Sony Nashville)
- Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)
- The Horrors – Skying (XL)
Favorite Reissues
- The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Universal Republic)
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)
- Ray Charles – Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (Concord)
- The Who – Qudrophenia: The Director’s Cut (Geffen)
- Jim Ford – Harlan County (Light In The Attic)
- Can – Tago Mago: 40th Anniversary Edition Remastered (Spoon)
Favorite Compilations
- This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982 (Tompkins Square)
- Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-1972 (Soundway)
Favorite single
- Japandroids – “Art Czars” (Polyvinyl)
DVD of the Year
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World – Martin Scorsese (Lions Gate)
Pop Goes the Weasel’s Favorite Songs of 2011
- Bare Wires – “Sweet Little Stranger” – Cheap Perfume (Southpaw)
- Battles – “Ice Cream” – Gloss Drop (Warp)
- Bleeding Knees Club – “Truth or Dare” – Virginity (I Am Sound)
- Dum Dum Girls – “He Gets Me High” – He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)
- Emily’s Army – “Broadcast This” – Don’t Be a Dick (Adeline)
- Eleanor Friedberger – “My Mistakes” – Last Summer (Merge)
- Graham Repulski – “Bulletproof Skull” – Into an Animal Together (Shorter)
- Hauschka – “Cube” – Salon Des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
- Low Anthem – “Apothecary Love” – Smart Flesh (Nonesuch)
- Buddy Miller – “I Want to Be With You Always” – Majestic Silver Strings (New West)
- Personal & the Pizzas – “I Don’t Feel So Happy No More” – Raw Pie (1-2-3-4-Go!)
- War on Drugs - “Baby Missiles” – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
- Misisipi Mike Wolf – “I Don’t Miss You Anymore” – The Cold Hard Facts of Mike (Western Independent)
In Which Certain Albums of the Year Two Thousand Eleven Were Particularly Admired by DJ Sharkey
- Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart (Jocoserious)
- Prurient – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
- Bjork – Biophilia (Nonesuch)
- Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
- Cornershop with Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop & the Double ‘O’ Groove of (Ample Play)
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (Matador)
- Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
- Goodbye the Band – Uncle Narratologist (soundcloud.com/goodbyetheband)
- Kool A.D. – “DUMMO” (S/R)
- James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual (Hippos in Tanks)
- James Blake – S/T (Universal Republic)
- Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)
- Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
- Matthew Friedberger – Old Regimes (Thrill Jockey)
- Radiohead – The King of Limbs (S/R)
- Julia Holter – Tragedy (Leaving)
- John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon)
- Meshell Ndegeocello – Weather (Naive)
- Van Hunt – What Were You Hoping For? (godless-hotspot)
In Which Certain Songs of Two Thousand Eleven, Either Contained Within or Apart from Aforementioned Albums, Endeared Themselves to DJ Sharkey
- Controlled Bleeding - “A Love Song (in Two Parts)” – Odes to Bubbler (Soleilmoon)
- Prurient – “A Meal Can Be Made” – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
- tUnE-YaRdS - “Bizness” – w h o k i l l (4AD)
- They Might Be Giants – “Can’t Keep Johnny Down” – Join Us (Idlewild)
- Todd Edwards – “Head Held High” – toddedwards.bandcamp.com (S/R)
- DJ Quik – “Killer Dope” – The Book of David (Mad Science)
- Reggie Watts – “Panther Quest” – Daytrotter Session 5/23/2011 (Daytrotter)
- Lindsey Buckingham – “Seeds We Sow” – Seeds We Sow (Mind Kit)
- R. Kelly – “Shut Up!” – twitter.com/kellzodiac (Twitvid)
- S*A*M – “STRAWBERRY LOVERR” – youtube.com/user/samtvofficial1 (YouTube)
- Planningtorock – “The One” – W (DFA)
Roscoe 2000 Top 10 2011 / late 2010 (in order of release)
- Celer – Dying Star (Dragon’s Eye)
- Steve Daubenspeck – Driftin’ With Our Shadows (Magnetic)
- Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits (Cruz Del Sur)
- Odean Pope – Universal Sounds (Porter)
- Hélène Renaut – The Deer Convention (S/R)
- Chris Forsyth – Paranoid Cat (Family Vineyard)
- Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
- The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble In Mind)
- Carlos Forster – Family Trees (Hush)
- Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers’ Guild)
E. Lit’s Favorite Albums of 2011
- Sims – Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree)
- Qwazaar & Batsauce – Bat Meets Blaine (Galapagos4)
- Open Mike Eagle – Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Hellfyre Club)
- Gel Roc – Beautiful Tragedy (Abolono)
- Blueprint – Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers)
- Void Pedal – Omni-Colour (Fieldwerk)
- Astronautalis – This is Our Science (Fake Four Inc.)
- One Be Lo – L.A.B.O.R (Subterraneous)
- Moka Only & Chief – Crickets (Feelin)
- Candy’s .22 – A Girl And Her Gun (Grimm Image)
Honorable Mentions
- IAME - Lame (Taxidermy)
- Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
- Senor Kaos – The Kaos Effect (High Water Music)
- Doomtree – No Kings (Doomtree)
- Sole & the Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World (Fake Four Inc.)
- Noah23 – Fry Cook on Venus (Fake Four Inc.)
- Knives & Gasoline – Love Songs for Crime Scenes (Grimm Image)