- Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Columbia)
- Jack White – Blunderbuss (Third Man)
- Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
- Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Mute)
- Quantic & Alice Russell – Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
- Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth (Sunpower)
- The Coup – Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
- Social Studies – Developer (Antenna Farm)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Meat and Bone (Mom and Pop)
- Kelly Hogan – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Anti-)
- Magic Bullets – Much Ado About (Mon Amie)
- John K. Samson – Provincial (ADA?Epitaph)
- Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
- First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
- The New Kinetics – Contact (Aural Gravy)
Best Reissues of 2012
- Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch)
- Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
- The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol)
- Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute)
- The Avengers – S/T (Water)
