BestOf

• 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)

• The Fugs - Be Free! Final CD (Part 2) (Fugs)
• The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
• Yuka Honda - Heart Chamber Phantoms (Tzadik)
• Ann Millikan - Ballad Nocturne (Innova)
• Wimpy Dicks - Homegrown Terror (Bopp n'Skin)
• The Barbarellatones - Surf Narcs (S/R)
• D.O.A. - Talk-Action=0 (Sudden Death)
• Foetus - Hide (Ectopic Ents)
• Hammerlock - Let the Bad Times Roll (Colorado Mountain Goat)
• Wages of Fear - Broken System (Bite Me)

• A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbow (Mis Ojos Discos)
• Bare Wires - Seeking Love (Castle Page)
• The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon)
• The Brothers Comatose - Songs From The Stoop (S/R)
• Rosanne Cash - The List (Manhattan)
• Clouldland Canyon - Fin Eaves (Holymountain)
• Dave Douglas & Keystone - Spark Of Being (Greenleaf)
• Elf Power - Elf Power (Organge Twin)
• Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Warp)
• Mary Gauthier - The Founding (Razor & Tie)
• Gidon Kremer Kremerata Baltica - De Profundis (Nonesuch)
• Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
• Meklit Hadero - On A Day Like This (Porto Franco)
• Hawkwind - Blood Of The Earth (Eastworld)
• Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Propellor Time (Sartorial)
• Lali Puna - Our Inventions (Morr)
• Jon Langford & The Skull Orchard - Old Devils (BloodShot)
• Audra Mae - The Happiest Lamb (Sideonedummy)
• Emma Pollock - The Law Of Large Numbers (4AD)
• Richard Thompson - Dream Attic (Shout Factory)
• Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - For The Ghosts Within (Domino)
• Jane Weaver Septieme Soeur - The Fallen By Watch Bird (Bird)

• Aphrodite's Child - It’s The End Of The World (Esoteric)
• Aphrodite's Child - It’s Five O’Clock (Esoteric)
• Sandy Denny & The Strawbs - All Our Own Work (Witchwood)
• Hawkwind - Choose Your Masques ( Atomhenge)
• Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (Atomhenge)
• Irmin Schmidt - Kamasutra (Inner Space)
• Ivy Green - Ivy Green (S/R)
• Various Artists - Cave Of Clear Light: The Pye and Dawn Records Underground 1967-1975 (Esoteric)

• Common Eider, King Eider - Worn (Root Strata)
• Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
• Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
• Brian Eno - Small Craft On a Milk Sea (Warp)
• Masaoka, Chen, Grusel, Nagai - Self Titled (Resipiscent Records)
• Core of the Coalman - Box of the Last Help (Zum)
• Liz Albee - Theseus Vs. the Ship of Fools (Resipiscent)
• Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
• Thomas Carnacki - The Disappearance of This Terrible Spool (Alithiometer)
• Sujo - Dahma (Inam)
• Acid Mothers Temple - Are We Experimental? (Prophase)
• Faun Fables - Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)

Most memorable shows of 2010

• Barn Owl and Jim Haynes with video projections @ The Hauntology exhibit at BAM
• Irr, app ext with Thomas Carnacki, and Jim Haynes @ The Lab
• Evangelista and Oxbow @ 21 Grand
• Core of the Coalman @ 21 Grand, Zum Anniversary
• Dan Higgs @ Andrew’s house
• Uke of Spaces Corners Counties and John Benson @ Vanessa’s house
• Peace, Loving with Selaroda @ the Bootstrap

1. Dom - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (Burning Mill)
2. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
3. Crystal Castles - S/T II (Fiction)
4. Holy Fuck - Latin (Young Turks)
5. Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner Bros.)
6. Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)
7. The Roots - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
8. Spoon - Transference (Merge)
9. Girls - Broken Dreams Club (True Panther)
10. Jonsi - Go (XL)
11. The National - High Violet (4AD)
12. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (XL)
13. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (Virgin)
14. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
15. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)

Top Ten Live Performances of 2010

1. Explosions in the Sky - Great American Music Hall
2. Manchester Orchestra - Great American Music Hall
3. The Album Leaf - Berkeley Art Museum
4. The National - Treasure Island Music Festival
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Fillmore
6. Pavement - The Greek Theater
7. Atoms for Peace - The Fox Theater
8. Jonsi - Palace of Fine Arts
9. Arcade Fire - The Greek Theater
10. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - The Fillmore

1. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
2. El Guincho - Pop Negro (Young Turks)
3. Warpaint - The Fool (Rough Trade)
4. Owen Pallett - Heartland (Domino)
5. The National - High Violet (4AD)
6. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
7. Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
9. Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
10. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
11. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD)
12. Baths - Cerulean (Anticon)
13. Vampire Weekend - Contra (XL)
14. Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back (Luaka Bop)
15. Dreamers - Ipos (Tzadik)

• Autechre - Move of Ten (Warp)
• Bonobo - Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
• Brilliantes Del Vuelo - As Above, So Beloved EP (The Outer On)
• Connie Lim - S/T (S/R)
• Easy Star All-Stars - Dubber Side of The Moon (Easy Star)
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
• Frikstailers - Bicho De Luz EP (ZZK)
• The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea (Glass Air)
• Gonjasufi - The Caliph's Tea Party (Warp)
• James Blake - Klavierwerke EP (R&S)
• Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly)
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
• Nate Mars - Concentric Circles (Blipswitch Digital)
• Onra - Long Distance (Traffic Entertainment Group)
• Shigeto - Full Circle (Ghostly)
• Shlohmo - Shlomoshun Deluxe (Friends of Friends)
• Strangeloop - 2010 (Brainfeeder)
• Teebs - Ardour (Brainfeeder)

Best of International / World Music 

• AfroCubism - S/T ( Nonesuch)
• Club 8 - The People's Record (Labrador Sweden)
• Etran Finatawa - Tarkat Tajje/ Lets Go! (Riverboat)
• Konono Nº1 - Assume Crash Position ( Crammed Disc)
• v/a - Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 1 (Vampi Soul)
• v/a - Beginner's Guide To Cumbia
• v/a - Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway)
• v/a - Palenque Palenque - Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-91 (Soundway)
• v/a - Welcome To The Party (Jazzman)

Favorite Hip Hop Singles of the Year

• Big Boi - "Shine Blockas" (Def Jam)
• DJ D Sharp - "Definition Of A Star" (S/R)
• Freddie Gibbs - "Oil Money" (Decon)
• Greg Nice - "Get It Get It" (One Haven Music)
• J Dilla - "Sycamore" (Stones Throw)
• King Fantastic - "Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic" (Hollyrock)
• The Roots - "Right On" (Def Jam)
• Us3 - "Turn It Up" (S/R)

Favorite Releases from Bay Area Producers

• Ample Mammal - Mating Season (S/R)
• Bassnectar - Wildstyle (Amorphous)
• Eprom - Bay Area EP (S/R)
• Eskmo - S/T (Ninja Tune)
• Lokae - City Lights (Daly City)

Favorite Videos

• Arcade Fire - "The Wilderness Downtown" - An interactive film by Chris Milk
• Connie Lim - "Sugar" - Directed by Basak Erol & Connie Lim
• Eskmo - "We Got More" - Directed by Cyriak Harris
• Flying Lotus - "Mmmhmm" Directed by Special Problems, commissioned by Warp Films
• Flying Lotus - "Zodiac Shit" Directed by Lilfuchs
• OK Go - "This Too Shall Pass" (Rube Goldberg Machine version) - Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs.
• Strangeloop - "2010: (or) How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Technological Singularity" - Directed by David Wexler

Most Memorable Shows of the Year

Ordered by date

• Dead Prez @ Shattuck Down Low, February 14th
• The Polish Ambassador @ Elbo Room, May 7th
• Booka Shade @ Lightning In A Bottle, May 28th
• The Glitch Mob @ The Fillmore, June 12th
• Eskmo, Strangeloop, Teebs, Shlohmo @ Milk Bar, June 25th
• Crystal Castles / Rusko @ The Fox, August 6th
• Jimmy Cliff @ Mezzanine, August 13th
• Rock The Bells: Wu-Tang Clan, Tribe Called Quest @ Shoreline, August 22nd
• Flying Lotus live band @ Mezzanine, September 24th
• Caribou @ Regency Grand Ballroom, October 6th
• Baths @ Bottom of The Hill, October 12th
• Ninja Tune XX: Amon Tobin, DJ Food, Eskmo @ 1015 Folsom,  October 31st
• Nosaj Thing @ The Rickshaw Stop,  November 12th
• Bonobo live band @ Mezzanine, November 27th
• Del The Funky Homosapien @ Yoshi's SF, December 15th

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

Rock/Pop

• Jefferson Starship - "Sunrise" - Blows Against The Empire(RCA Victor)
• Jefferson Airplane - "Crown of Creation" - If You Feel (RCA Victor)
• Jimi Hendrix - "Hear My Train A Comin'" - Valleys of Neptune (Sony)

Folk/Americana

• Greg Brown - "Smell of Coffee" - Milk of the Moon (Red House)
• Richard & Linda Thompson - "Wall of Death" - Shoot out the Lights (4 Men with Beards)
• Terry van Zandt & The Keys - "Ride All Night" - The Buffalo Session Singles (Sllabfoog)

Best New Releases

Americana

• Brian Langlinais - Tonight I Might (Blue Boot)
• Laura Veirs - July Flame (Raven Marching Band)
• Smokin Joe Kubek & Bnois King Have Blues Will Travel (Alligator)
• Tara Linda - Tortilla Western Serenade (Physalia)
• John Prine - In Person and On Stage (Oh Boy)
• Audra Mae - The Happiest Lamb (Planetary)

Hip Hop

• Beats Antique - Blind Threshold (S/R)
• Bonobo - Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (Virgin)
• Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
• NNeka - Concrete Jungle (Yo Mama's)

Jazz

• Ella Fitzgerald - 12 Nights in Hollywood (Verve)
• Hot Club of Detroit - It's About That Time (Mack Avenue)
• Mose Allison - The Way of the World (Anti-)
• Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass (Heinz)
• Scott Amendola Trio - Lift (Sazi)

Rock/Pop

• Betty LaVette - Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (Anti-)
• Chairmen of the Board - A Little More Time (Music Club)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (Because)
• Drive By Truckers - The Big To-Do (ATO)
• Gogol Bordello - Transcontinental Hustle (American)
• Hacienda - Big Red and Barbacoa (Alive)
• Hot Toddies - Get Your Heart On (Asian Man)
• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk (Vanguard)
• Mad Sin - Burn & Rise (People Like You)
• Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Jesus Let Me Down (Alternative Tentacles)
• Stereo Total - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
• The Bird and The Bee - Interpreting The Masters Vol. 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates (Blue Note)
• The Like - Release Me (Downtown)

Difficult

• Rasputina - Sister Kinderhook (Filthy Bonnet)
• Rykarda Parasol - For Blood and Wine (S/R)

World

• Afrocubism - S/T (Nonesuch)
• Baris Manco - Turkish Freakout Bouzouki Joe)
• Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Sub Pop)
• Cilibrinas Do Eden - Cilibrinas Do Eden (Philips)
• De Temps Antan - Les habits de papier (L-Abe)
• Fela Kuti - The Best of the Black President (Knitting Factory)
• Marta Kubisova - The Soul of Marta Kubisova (Vampi Soul)

• v/a - Ninja Tune XX (Ninja Tune)
• Soundpool - Mirrors in your Eyes (Killer Pimp)
• Pale Sketcher - Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed (Ghostly International)
• M.I.A. - Maya (XL)
• Massive Attack - Heligoland (Virgin)
• Gonjasufi - The Caliph's Tea Party (Warp)
• !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It? (Warp)
• DJ Hell - U Can Dance EP (International Deejay Gigolos)
• Caribou - Swim (Merge)
• Autechre - Move of Ten (Warp)

• Crocodiles - Mirrors (Fat Possum)
• Morning Benders - Big Echo (Rough Trade)
• Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (Barsuk)
• J. Cole - Friday Night Lights (Roc Nation)
• Sun Airway - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
• Delta Spirit - History From Below (Rounder)
• Kanye West - My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam/Rock-A-Fella)
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (Virgin)
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
• Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner (Ghostly International)
• Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
• The Soft Pack - S/T (Kemado)
• Pearly Gate Music - S/T (Barsuk)
• Balam Acab - See Birds (Tri Angle)
• Abe Vigoda - Crush (PPM)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (Elektra/Asylum)
• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
• Health - Disco 2 (Lovepump United/City Slang)
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
• Wild Nothing - Gemini (Captured Tracks)
• Big Troubles - Worry (Olde English Spelling Bee)

Best Songs of 2010

• Broken Social Scene - "All To All" - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
• Dinosaur Feathers - "Family Waves" - Fantasy Memorial (S/R)
• Keep Shelly in Athens - "Running Out Of You" - In Love With The Dusk
• (Forest Family)
• Twin Shadow + Hooray For Earth - "A Place We Like" - Forget (4AD/Terrible)
• Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall" - Play It Strange(In The Red)
• Pantha Du Prince feat. Noah Lennox - "Stick To My Side" - Black Noise
• (Rough Trade)
• Wavves - "Baby Say Goodbye" -  King Of The Beach(Fat Possum)
• Delorean - "Stay Close" - Subiza (True Panther Sounds)
• Gonjasufi - "Sheep" - A Sufi And A Killer(Warp)
• Beach Fossils - "Daydream" - S/T (Captured Tracks)
• Wild Nothing - "Summer Holiday" - Gemini (Captured Tracks)
• El Guincho - "Bombay" - Pop Negro (Young Turks)
• Autolux - "Highchair" - Transit Transit (TBD)
• Weekend - "End Times" - Sports (Slumberland)
• Violens - "Acid Reign" - Amoral (Friendly Fire Recordings)
• Kanye West feat. Raekwon - "Gorgeous" - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• (Def Jam/Rock-A-Fella)
• The Brother Kite - "Isolation" - Isolation (Clairecords)
• J. Cole - "Blow Up - Friday Night Lights (Roc Nation)
• Crocodiles - "Mirrors" - Mirros (Fat Possum)
• Phantogram - "Running From The Cops" - Eyelid Movies (Barsuk)

1. Kissing Party - The Hate Album (S/R)
2. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
4. Future Islands - In Evening Air (Thrill Jockey)
5. Tender Trap - Dansette Dansette (Slumberland)
6. Allo Darlin' - S/T (Fortuna Pop!)
7. The Drums - S/T (Moshi Moshi)
8. Woom - Muu's Way (Ba Da Bing)
9. The National - High Violet (4AD)
10. Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love (Matador)
11. The Like - Release Me (Geffen)
12. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
13. The Innocence Mission - My Room in the Trees (Badman)
14. School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire (Vagrant)
15. Banda de Turistas - Magical Radiophonic Heart (Nacional)
16. The Splinters - Kick (Double Negative)
17. The Hot Toddies - Get Your Heart On (Asian Man)
18. Hunx and His Punx - Gay Singles LP (True Panther)
19. Electric Pop Group - Seconds (Matinee)
20. Pont des Arts - S/T (S/R)
21. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II (Universal Motown)
22. Sleigh Bells - Treats (Mom & Pop)
23. Social Studies - Wind Up Wooden Heart (Antenna Farm)
24. The School - Loveless Unbeliever (Elefant)
25. The Clientele - Minotaur (Merge)

• Chosen Few - New World Symphony (Hiero Imperium)
• DaVinci - The Day The Turf Stood Still (Sweetbreads Creative Collective)
• Do D.A.T. - Oakland In Blue (Inde)
• E-40 - Revenue Retrievin’: Day Shift/Night Shift (Heavy on the Grind Entertainment)
• Erk Tha Jerk - Nerd’s Eye View (SMC Recordings)
• Kero One - Kinetic World (PLUG)
• Moe Green - Rocky Maivia: Non Title Match (s/r)
• Raashan Ahmad - For What You’ve Lost (Trad Vibe Records)
• Richie Cunning - Night Train (Routine Fly)
• Zion I - Atomic Clock (Gold Dust)

10 Favorite Outside-of-Hip-Hop Releases of 2010

• Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer (Elektra)
• Deerhunter - Halycon’s Digest (4AD)
• Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 2 (Universal Motown)
• Fitz & the Tantrums - Pickin’ Up the Pieces (Dangerbird)
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
• The Foreign Exchange - Authenticity (Foreign Exchange Music)
• Free The Robots - Ctr Alt Del (Alpha Pup)
• Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
• Orgone - Cali Fever (Ubiquity)
• Teebs - Ardour (Brainfeeder)

20 Favorite Hip-Hop Releases of 2010

• Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
• Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Was Here (DIrect Connect)
• Black Milk - Album of the Year (Decon)
• Boog Brown - Brown Study (Mello Music Group)
• Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now (No Sleep Recordings)
• Curren$y - Pilot Talk (DD172)
• El Da Sensei & The Returners - Global Takeover 2: Nu World (Coalmine)
• Eligh - Grey Crow (Legendary Music)
• Eminem - Recovery (Aftermath)
• Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (Def Jam)
• H.I.S.D. - The Weakend (Peace Uv Mine)
• Homeboy Sandman - The Good Sun (High Water Music)
• J. Cole - Friday Night Lights (mixtape) (Roc Nation)
• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (G.O.O.D. Music)
• King Mez & Commissioner Gordon - The Paraplegics (s/r)
• Qwel & Maker - Owl (Galapagos4)
• Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute (Warner Bros)
• Roc Marciano - Marcberg” (Fatbeats)
• The Roots - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
• Zion I - Atomic Clock (Gold Dust Media)

• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
• Billy Nayer Show – BNS Presents (BNS)
• Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown (RCA)
• No Age - Everything In Between (Sub Pop)
• The Parties - Coast Garde (Rainbow Quartz)
• Pont des Arts - S/T (S/R)
• The Roots - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
• Superchunk - Majesty Shredding Merge)

Top Reissues of 2010

• Bob Dylan - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (Bootleg Series Vol. 9) (Columbia)
• Bill Hicks - Bill Hicks: The Essential Collection (Rykodisc)
• Bruce Springsteen - The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story (Columbia)
• v/a - Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1968-1975 (Soul Jazz)

• Beach Fossils - Daydream (Captured Tracks)
• Cloud Nothings - Didn’t You (Old Flame)
• Half Rats - For the Sake of Love (Douchemaster)
• Home Blitz - Perpetual Night (Almost Ready)
• Lamps - Niels Bohr (Dull Knife)
• The Liminanas - I’m Dead (Hozac)
• Shark Toys - Stayed Up (Helter Felter)
• Veronica Falls - Found Love in a Graveyard (Captured Tracks)
• Wet Illustrated - Born Stoked (Corvette City)
• The Wrong Words - What Went Wrong (Trouble in Mind)

• Bare Wires - Seeking Love (Southpaw)
• Cloud Nothings - Turning On (Speakertree)
• Home Blitz - Out of Phase (Richie)
• The Intelligence - Males (In the Red)
• Real Numbers - S/T (Three Dimensional)
• The Rantouls - In the Village of Rantoul (Chocolate Covered)
• Tyvek - Nothing Fits (In the Red)
• The Whines - Hell to Pay (MEDS)
• Wounded Lion - S/T (In the Red)
• Yellow Swans - Going Places (Type)
• The Young - Voyagers of Legend (Mexican Summer)

• Nick Curran & The Lowlifes - Reform School Girl (Eclecto Groove)
• The Dahlmanns - S/T (Pop Detective)
• Dolly Mixture - Everything And More (Dolly Mixture)
• Jason & The Scorchers - Halcyon Times (Jerkin' Crocus)
• The Len Price 3 -  Pictures (Wicked Cool)
• Radio Birdman - Live In Texas (Citadel) 
• The Rubinoos - Biff-Boff-Boing! (Pynotic)
• Slade - Live At The BBC (Salvo)
• The Stooges - Have Some Fun: Live At Ungano's (Rhino Handmade)
• V/A - Nippon Girls - Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-70 (Big Beat)
• V/A - The Sherman Brothers Songbook (Walt Disney)
• V/A - R&B Hipshakers - Teach Me To Monkey (Gusto)

Best Singles of 2010

• Magic Christian - "Pins and Needles" (Wizard's Den)
• Jack Skuller - "Love Is A Drum" (Bar None)
• Suzy & Los Quattro - "Play On With The Rubinoos" (Wild Punk)
• Tranzmitors - "You Get Around" (Dirtnap)
• Tranzmitors - "Sunday Morning" (No Front Teeth)

1. Nice Nice – Extra Wow (Warp)
2. Polar Bear – Peepers (Leaf)
3. Legendary Shack Shakers - agri.dustrial (Colonel Knowledge)
4. Chico Trujillo - Chico De Oro (Barbes)
5. Ethel – Oshtali, Works by Chickasaw Student Composers (Thunderbird)
6. Kink Gong - Electronic World (Atavistic)
7. Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Position (Crammed Discs)
8. Girl Talk - All Day (Illegal Art)
9. Chicano Batman - S/T (Unicornio)
10. Grass Widow – Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
11. Spoon - Transference (Merge)
12. Pleasure Kills - Bring Me a Match (Goner)
13. The Hepburns - How the Fallen are Mighty (Radio Khartoum)
14. Joan Soriano – El Duque de la Bachata (IASO)
15. Max Richter – Infra (Fat Cat)
16. White Hinterland - Kairos (Dead Oceans)
17. Shigeto - Full Circle (Ghostly)
18. Scott Johnson - Americans (Tzadik)
19. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)
20. The Like - Release Me (Downtown)

1. Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit - "Burden Of Sea Captains" Ghost Of Good Manners (Heckabad)
2. Hank Williams III - "Drinkin Over Mama" Rebel Within (Sidewalk)
3. Caleb Klauder - "My Time Is Gonna Come" Western Country (Quicksilver)
4. Trampled By Turtles - "Victory" Palomino (Banjodad)
5. Madison Velvet - "Crying" No Fool For Trying (True North)
6. Marty Stuart - "Country Boy Rock And Roll" Ghost Train (Sugar Hill)
7. Dan Bern - "Osama In Obamaland" Live In Los Angeles (S/R)
8. Jimmy La Fave - "Buffalo Return To The Plains" Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)
9. Mumford And Sons - "Little Lion Man" (Clean Edit) Sigh No More (Glassnote)
10. Delaney Davidson - "Dirty Dozen" Self Decapitation (Voodoo Rhythm)
11. John Doe & The Sadies - "Cold Hard Facts" Country Club (Yep Roc)
12. Hot Toddies - "Rain Or Shine" Get Your Heart On (Asian Man)
13. Fugs - "I Am An Artist For Art's Sake" Be Free (Fugs)
14. B Stars - "Trouble Free State Of Mine" Behind The Barn (Rust Belt)
15. Very Be Careful - "La Furgonetta" Escape Room (Barbes)
16. Woodbox Gang - "Devil's Train" White Trash Voodoo (S/R)
17. TV Mike And The Scarecrows - "Paint The Town" Spittin’ In Cursive (Brave Scarecrow)
18. Tether Horse - "Thick Like Molasses" In The House That Took Me (Enteon)
19. James Talley - "The Girls From Kelowna" Heartsong (Cimarron)
20. Los Cenzontles - "La Luna" American Horizon (S/R)
21. Pokey La Farge And The South City 3 - "Sweet Potato Blues" River Boat Soul (Free Dirt)
22. April Smith And The Great Picture Show - "Movie Loves A Screen" Songs For A Sinking Ship (S/R)
23. Old Sledge - "Pretty Saro" EP (S/R)
24. Caguama - "Negra Tomasa" Caguama (The Union)
25. Quarter Mile Combo - "Kitten" Motels, Gas And Beer (6 Volt)
26. Joey Only - "Punk Rock Country Band" Transgraession Trail (HA4TLD)
27. Miss Li - "Bourgeois Shangri-La" Dancing The Whole Way Home (National)
28. Leslie And The Badgers - "It's Ok To Trip" Roomful Of Smoke (Lyricland)
29. Lay Low - "Little By Little" Farewell Good Night's Sleep (S/R)
30. Honey Blue - "It's Only A Matter Of Time" Broken Places (Paper Boat)
31. Brian Belknap - "Can't We Call It Even And Be Cool" Cradle To Grave (S/R)
32. Slim Cessna's Auto Club - "Angel" Buried Behind The Barn (Alternative Tentacles)
33. Robert Plant - "Central Two-O-Nine" Band Of Joy (Rounder)
34. County Line - "Heart Attack" Wildwood (Yep Roc)
35. Yard Sale - "Gravy Train" God Bless Our Camper (Clemezzie)
36. Citay - "Dream Get Together" Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans)
37. Gogol Bordello - "Trans-Continental Hustle" We Comin' Rougher (AR LLC)
38. Audra Mae - "Snakebite" Happiest Lamb (Side One Dummy)
39. TennesseeMafia Jug Band - "Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill" Poor Leroy's Almanac (S/R)
40. Marley's Ghost - "Goin' Back To Bowling Green" Ghost Town (Sage Arts)

Best Compilations

• v/a - Shatter The Hotel- A Dub Inspired Tribute To Joe Strummer (Mojo Brand)
• v/a - Spirit Of Bisbee (KBRP LP)
• v/a - A Tribute To Bad Lyrics (S/R)

Best Cover Art

• Apocalypse Meow "Spliff Burton vs Tom Brewnansky" Rational Anthem (Traffic Street) Featuring a cat mummy over the pyramids on a 7" single

Special thanks to those who appeared live on the Meatypaws show in 2010

• Mike Beck & Bohemian Saints (stops by whenever they’re not in Monterey or Elko)
• Brian Belknap (local musician and KALX mascot)
• Mike Coykendall (appearing with Brian Belknap)
• Brothers Comatose (Meatypaws’ favorite new local band)
• Teri Falini (local musician)
• Kinky Freidman (who gave his opinion on everything, "if you don’t like Jesus.. go to hell")
• 77 El Deora featuring Maurice Tani (local band)
• Tippy Canoe (Meatypaws’ DJ sidekick, agent and ukulele teacher)
• Julie Indelicato (local street musician)
• Vanessa Lew (local musician)
• Paul Corman Roberts (local poet)
• Jose Segue (the Hick with the biggest Stick, who appeared on Why Baby Why to showcase local country)

• Hot Chip - One Life Stand (Astralwerks/Caroline)
• !!! - Strange Weather Isn't It? (Warp)
• The Like - Release Me (Downtown)
• Sleigh Bells - Treats (Mom + Pop)
• Soundpool - Mirrors In Your Eyes (Killer Pimp)
• The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth (Kanine)
• Stereolab- Not Music (Drag City)
• Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (4AD)
• The Magic Kids - Memphis (True Panther Sounds)
• Morning Musume - Fantasy Juuchi (Up Front Works)
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
• Zola Jesus - Stridulum (Sacred Bones)
• Autolux - Transit Transit (TBD)
• v/a - SOUND CONCIERGE (Captain Trip Japan)
• AKB48 - Kamikyoku Tachi (King Records)
• SKE48 - Seifuku no Me (wint)
• Devo - Something For Everybody (Warner Bros.)
• Polysics - Absolute Polysics (MySpace/Interscope)
• Watarirouka Hashiritai - Roka wa Hashiruna (Pony Canyon)
• S/Mileage - Warugaki 1 (Forward Music)
• The Bird & The Bee - Interpreting The Masters Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates(Blue Note)
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy Stripped Down (Capitol)
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA)
• How To Destroy Angels - S/T (Null)
• v/a - BEST OF APPLE RECORDS (Apple)
• v/a - NIPPON GIRLS (Big Beat UK)

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (XL)
2. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (Kanine)
3. Owen Pallett - Heartland (Domino)
4. Allo Darlin' - S/T (Fortuna Pop!)
5. Wavves - King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
6. Gigi - Maintenant (Tomlab)
7. Japanther - Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream (Menlo Park)
8. Woom - Muu's Way (Ba Da Bing)
9. Half-handed Cloud - As Stowaways In Cabinets Of Surf, We Live-out in our Members a Kind Of Rebirth (Asthmatic Kitty)
10. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)

• Archie Bronson Outfit - "Magnetic Warrior" - Coconut (Domino)
• Bare Wires - "Seeking Love" - Seeking Love (Castle Rage)
• Boston Spaceships - "Track Star" - Our Clubhouse Still Rocks (GBVinc)
• Don McGlashan - "Inside" - V/A Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (Merge)
• Eels - "End Times" - End Times (Vagrant)
• Eli 'Paperboy' Reed - "Tell Me What I Want To Hear" - Come And Get It!                 
• Jesca Hoop - "Four Dreams" - Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
• Magnetic Fields - "From a Sinking Boat" - Realism (Nonesuch)
• Paul Collins - "Don't Blame Your Troubles on Me" - King of Power Pop (Alive)
• Perfume Genius - "Lookout Lookout" - Learning(Matador)
• Pleasure Kills - "Hearts Run Out" - Bring Me a Match (Polypore)
• Unthanks - "The Testimony of Patience Kershaw" - Here's the Tender Coming

A Couple of Fine Albums

• Bare Wires - Seeking Love (Castle Rage)
• Citay - Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans
• Kelley Stoltz - To Dreamers (Sub Pop)

• Fat Man Married My Motorcycle - Keepsake (Raunch)
• Brenda's Lonely Bunch - Live at Petersen's, NYC, 2009 (BluSox Music)
• Beltline - Not For The Owls (Hurt Me, Hurt You)
• We All Fall Down - Clap! Clap! Clap! (Sorry)
• Grftwt - III (S/R)
• Clap! Clap! Clap! - We All Fall Down (No Problem)
• The Little Sister of The Ex-Chiropractor for The Flute Player in The Moody Blues' Third Keyboardist's Side Project Backup Band - Dreamstate (Esoteric)
• Steve Kenakis' Band - Not Quite Good Enough for Radio, but Maybe They Did It That Way on Purpose, so Play It Just in Case to Look Hip (Jammed Tapes)
• Hard To Hold On To - Hold On To My H**d-on (6t9 Sounds)
• A¢h00 - This Is The Police, Drop Your Weapon, and Put Your Hands Up In The Ayer-Ayer-Ayer! (Unisony Bros)

• Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
• The Concretes - WYWH (Friendly Fire)
• Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
• First Aid Kit - The Big Black And The Blue (Wichita)
• The Hepburns - How The Fallen Are Mighty (Radio Khartoum)
• The Innocence Mission - My Room In The Trees (Badman)
• Javelin - No Más (Luaka Bop)
• Lawrence Arabia - Chant Darling (Bella Union)
• Magic Bullets - S/T (Mon Amie)
• Matorralman - Gauteque Estelar (Nacional)
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Glassnote)
• Northern Portrait - Criminal Art Lovers (Matinee)
• The Parties - Coast Garde (Rainbow Quartz)
• Pont Des Arts - S/T (S/R)
• Rabbit Velvet - Crows And Doves (S/R)
• The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)
• The Rebel Set - Poison Arrow (Silver Hornet)
• Neverever - Angelic Swells (Slumberland)
• Royksopp - Senior (Wall Of Sound)
• She & Him - Volume Two (Merge)
• Stricken City - Songs About People I Know (The Kora)
• Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain (Constellation)
• Twin Shadow - Forget (Terrible)

• 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)

• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD)
• Baths - Cerulean (Anticon)
• Bonobo - Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
• Caribou - Swim (Merge)
• Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Man (S/R)
• The Drums - S/T (Moshi Moshi)
• The Extra Lens - Undercard (Merge)
• Fang Island - S/T (Sargent House)
• The Ferocious Few - Juices (Birdman)
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramm (Warp)
• The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
• Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
• Magic Kids - Memphis (True Panther)
• LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (DFA)
• The National - High Violet (With the Extended Edition) (4AD)
• Perfume Genius - Learning (Matador)
• Robyn - Body Talk (Konichiwa)
• The Soft Pack - S/T (S/R)
• Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Women - Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)

1. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
2. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God)
3. Steve Reich / Bang on a Can - Double Sextet, 2x5 (Nonesuch)
4. Owen Pallett - Heartland (Domino)
5. Valentin Silvestrov / Kiev Chamber Choir - Sacred Works (ECM)
6. Scott Amendola Trio - Lift (Sazi)
7. Tracey Thorn  - Love and It's Opposite (Merge)
8. Baths - Cerulean (Anticon)
9. Max Richter  - Infra (Fat Cat)
10. Paul Hillier / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Baltic Runes (Harmonia Mundi)
11. Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Deluxe (Clean Feed)
12. Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly International)
13. Brooklyn Rider - Dominant Curve (In a Circle)
14. The Roots - How I Got Over" (Def Jam)
15. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
16. The National - High Violet (4AD)
17. Black Keys - Brothers (Nonesuch)
18. Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
19. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
20. Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (Anti)
21. Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)
22. Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
23. Dave Holland Octet  - Pathways (Dare2)
24. Guillermo Klein - Domador de Huellas (Sunnyside)
25. Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
26. Victoire - Cathedral City (New Amsterdam)
27. Marty Stuart - Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions (Sugar Hill)
28. Foals  - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
29. Konono Nº1 - Assume Crash Position (Crammed Disc)
30. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
31. The Budos Band - The Budos Band III (Daptone)

Five Favorite Reissues/Compilations

• The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (Universal)
• Ella Fitzgerald - 12 Nights in Hollywood (Verve)
• v/a - Palenque Palenque - Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-91 (Soundway)
• v/a - The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway)
• v/a - Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 1 (Vampi Soul)

Five Favorite Films of 2010

• Red Riding Trilogy (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker)
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)
• The Square (Edgerton Brothers)
• Mesrine: Killer Instinct & Public Enemy #1 (Jean-François Richet)
• I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)

• The Books - The Way Out (Temporary Residence)
• Chemical Brothers - Further (Freestyle Dust/Parlophone)
• CocoRosie - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
• Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood (Divine Comedy)
• Arnold Dreyblatt - Who's Who in Central & East Europe 1933 (Tzadik)
• E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift (Heavy on the Grind)
• El Guincho - Pop Negro (Young Turks)
• Field Music - Field Music (Measure) (Memphis Industries)
• Goodbye the Band - The Narratologists (Goodbyetheband.com)
• Momus - Hypnoprism (American Patchwork)
• Owen Pallett - Heartland (Domino)
• Squarepusher - Shobaleader One: D'Demonstrator (Warp)
• These New Puritans - Hidden (Angular/Domino)
• Reggie Watts - Why Shit So Crazy? (Comedy Central; CD + DVD)
• Matthew Welch - Blarvuster (Tzadik)
• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-a-Fella)

• 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)

• Swann Danger - Staccato 7” (Mess Me Up)
• Magick Daggers - Lions of Alchemy LP (EXO)
• Personal and the Pizzas - Raw Pie LP (1-2-3-4 Go!)
• V/A - Party Platter LP (Florida’s Dying)

• X featuring Ray Manzarek @ Slims, December 28th
• H.U.N.X. "Noel Noir" @ YBCA, December 10th
• Hunx and his Punkettes, Shannon + Clams (Devo covers) @ The White Horse / down at lulus halloween bash, October 28th
• Swann Danger, Magick Daggers @ Terminal, October 9th
• Harlem @ Ghost Town, July 7th
• Filth, Gr’ups reunion show @ 924 Gilman, June 4th
• NN, Nobunny, Younger Lovers, Endemics, Dirty Marquee @ 924 Gilman, May 2nd
• Pinhead Gunpowder @ 924 Gilman, February 12th

• Bare Wires - Don’t Ever Change (by Daniel Hilsinger)

• Sleepy Sun – Fever (ATP)
• Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime (In the Red)
• Billy Nayer Show – BNS Presents (BNS)
• Shining – Blackjazz (Indie Recrodings)
• Ty Segall – Melted (Goner)
• Budos Band – III (Daptone)
• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
• High on Fire - Snakes For the Divine (E1 Music) 
• Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig  (Nonesuch)
• Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)
• The Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter (Domino)
• Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Warp)
• Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
• Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
• Acid Mothers Temple - Are We Experimental? (Prophase)
• Faun Fables - Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
• Stereo Total - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
• Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
• Kihlstedt-Bossi-Ismaily  -  Causing a Tiger  (Les Disques Victo)
• Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type)
• The Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
• Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
• AIDS Wolf - March to the Sea (Ipecca)
• Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (XL Recording) 
• Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go (Supply and Demand)

Best Reissues

• Brainticket - Psychonaut (Esoteric)
• Dwarr - Animals (Drag City)
• Tirogo - Float (Now-Again)
• Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP)
• Fumio Hayasaka & Masaru Sato - Kurosawa soundtrack box (Doxy)
• Les Rallizes Denudes - Blind Baby Has Its Mother's Eyes (Phoenix)
• Lee Hazlewood - Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood (Ace)
• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (Universal)
• Top Drawer - Solid Oak (Still Looking)
• Zartong - Zartong – (Still Looking)
• Frank Zappa - Greasy Love Song (Zappa Records)
• Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power  (Sony Legacy)
• Galaxie 500 - On Fire/Peel Sessions (Domino)
• Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Esoteric)
• David Bowie - Station to Station (EMI)

Best Shows

• Sonic Youth @ the Fillmore, 1/2010
• Melvins @ the GAMH, 1/2010
• Magnetic Fields @ the Fox, 2/2010
• Sleepy Sun/Wooden Shjips @ the New Parish, 2/2010
• The Pee-Wee Herman Show @ Club Nokia, 2/2010
• Gilberto Gil @ Zellerbach, 3/2010
• Dave Chappelle @ the New Parish, 3/2010
• Acid Mothers Temple @ Bottom of the Hill, 3/2010
• Misisipi Rider @ the Cafe DuNord, 5/2010
• Flight of the Conchords @ the Greek, 5/2010
• Oxbow @ the Berkeley Art Museum, 6/2010
• The Residents @ the Berkeley Art Museum, 6/2010
• Sleepy Sun/Fresh & Onlys/Moon Duo @ the GAMH, 6/2010
• Jello Biafra/Guantanamo School of Medicine @ the GAMH, 8/2010
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Thee Oh Sees @ Bimbos, 9/2010
• Stereo Total @ Slim’s, 9/2010
• Billy Nayer Show @ the DuNord 10/2010
• The Coup @ the New Parish, 12/2010

1. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
2. Toro Y Moi – Causers of This (Carpark)
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)
4. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Merge)
5. Blondes – Touched EP (Merok)
6. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (Virgin)
7. Balam Acab – See Birds EP (Tri Angle)
8. Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner (Ghostly International)
9. Sleigh Bells – Treats (N.E.E.T./Mom & Pop)
10. Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
11. Beach House – Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
12. Caribou – Swim (Merge)
13. Glasser – Ring (True Panther)
14. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Horse Power EP (Quite Scientific)
15. Dominant Legs – Young at Love and Life EP (Lefse)
16. Guido – Anidea (Punch Drunk)
17. SALEM – King Night (IAMSOUND)
18. Chromeo – Business Casual (Atlantic)
19. Wiz Khalifa – Kush & OJ (Taylor Gang/Rostrum)
20. The Polish Ambassador – First Words (S/R)
21. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
22. Four Tet – There Is Love in You (Domino)
23. Baths – Cerulean (Anticon)
24. Lil Wayne – I Am Not a Human Being (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown)
25. Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
26. She & Him – Volume II (P-Vine/Merge/Double Six)
27. Broken Bells – Broken Bells (Columbia)
28. ceo – White Magic (Sincerely Yours)
29. Land of Talk – Cloak & Cipher (Saddle Creek)
30. Delorean – Subiza (True Panther)
31. Emeralds – Does It Look Like I'm Here (Editions Mego)
32. The Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
33. Daft Punk – Tron Legacy Soundtrack (Walt Disney)
34. Avey Tare – Down There (Paw Tracks)
35. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
36. Dom – Sun Bronzed Greek Gods EP (Burning Mill)
37. Best Coast – Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
38. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II (Last Gang/Universal Motown)
39. Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (Bad Boy/Wondaland Arts Society)
40. Girl Talk – All Day (Illegal Art)

• Joe Rut - Injured While Faking Own Death (Self Released)
• Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Buried Behind the Barn (Alternative Tentacles)
• Audra Mae - The Happiest Lamb (Side One Dummy)
• Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - The Wages (Side One Dummy)
• Balkan Beat Box - Blue Eyed Black Boy (National Geographic)
• Fishtank Ensemble - Woman in Sin (Self Released)
• Trampled By Turtles - Palomino (Banjodad)
• Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live (Anti-)
• Mike Beck and the Bohemian Saints - In Person (Self Released)
• California Honeydrops - Spreadin' Honey (Tub Tone)
• Devo - Something For Everybody (Warner Brothers)
• Gogol Bordello - Live From Axis Mundi (Side One Dummy)
• Lucero - 1372 Overton Park (Universal Republic)
• The Stone Foxes - Bears and Bulls  (Self Released)
• Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (Anit-)
• Orgone - Cali Fever (Ubiquity)
• John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (Rounder)
• Pokey Lafarge and the South City Three - Riverboat Soul (Free Dirt)
• Mad Sin - Burn and Rise (People Like You)
• Infected Mushroom - Legend of the Black Shawarma (Perfecto)
• Truckstop Honeymoon - Homemade Haircut (Squirrel)
• The Grascals - The Famous Lefty Flynn's (Rounder)
• Endless Boogie - Full House Head (No Quarter)
• Plastic Crimewave Sound - Self Titled (Prophase)
• Charnett Moffett - Treasure (Motema)

• Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (HoZac/Sub Pop)
• Fresh & Onlys - Play It Strange (In the Red)
• Mickey - S/T (FDH)
• Moonhearts - S/T (Tic Tac Totally)
• Nobunny - First Blood (Goner)
• Super Wild Horses - Fifteen (HoZac)
• v/a - Let's A Go-Go!: Singapore and Southeast Asian Pop Scene 1964-69 (Silver Tortoise)

• Box Elders - Tiny Sioux (HoZac)
• The Flips - I Just Don't Know Where I Stand (Hozac)
• Gentleman Jesse and His Men - You've Got the Wrong Man (HoZac)
• Half Rats - For the Sake of Love (Douchemaster)
• Outer Minds - Bloodshot Eyes (Hozac)
• The Touch-Me-Nots - Keep Talking Like That (Classic Bar Music)
• Wrong Words - What Went Wrong (Trouble in Mind)

• P. Umiliani, E.B. Marks - "Mah-Na Mah-Na" - The Best Movie Themes 1970 (Project Sound)
• Mills Brothers - "Paper Doll" - Paper Doll (MCA)
• Main Ingredient - "No Tears (In The End)" - all time greatest hits (BMG)
• Curtis Mayfield - "In Your Arms Again (Shake It)" - Give, Get, Take and Have (Curtom)
• Ann Peebles - "Doctor Love Power" - Tellin' It (Hi)
• Miles Davis - "Black Satin" - On The Corner (Columbia)
• Fun Boy Three Withbanarama - "Funarama Theme" - It Ain't What You Do...Just Do It (Chrysalis)
• Tomita - "The Old Castle" - Pictures At An Eexhibition (RCA)
• The Lettermen - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - She Cried (Lime Green Japanese Import)
• Humpback Whales - "Whales" - Deep Voices (EMI)
• Elo - "Tightrope" - Joyride (UA)
• Apollo 100 feat. Tom Parker - "Popcorn" - Master Pieces (Mega)
• Marjoe Gortner - "An Addict's Testimony: Can God Deliver a Dog?" - Marjoe (WB)
• Billy Storm - "Good Girl" - Teen Street (Vista)
• Merv Griffin - "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" - Dance Party! (Carlton)
• Tim Curry - "She's Not There" - Simplicity (A & M)
• Bill Wendell - "Spud" - Saturday Night Live (Arista)
• John Coltrane - "Locomotion" - Blue Train (Blue Note)
• Marty Rifkin - "Star Trek Theme" - Totally Hot Nashville Steel Guitar (CMH)
• Chocolate - "El Caravanero" - Brasilia Carnaval (CBS)
• Mississippi John Hurt - "Richland Women Blues" - The Best Of (Vanguard)
• Burt Reynolds - "Slow John Rairburn" - Ask Me What I Am (Phonogram)
• Nancy Sinatra - "Bang, Bang" - How Does Grab You? (Reprise)
• Barbara Manning - "George's Theme" - Fame Whore (Apathy)
• Fred Schneider - "Coconut" - For The Love of Harry: Everybody Loves Nillson (Music Masters)
• Lords of The New Church - "New Church" - Killer Lords (IRS)
• Midge Ure - "The Man Who Sold The World" - Party Party (A & M)
• Duran Duran - "Planet Earth" - S/T (Capital)
• Adam and The Ants - "Animals and Men" - Dirk Wears White Sox (Epic)

• 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)