- 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)
