CRAIG

TOP 10 IN 2010
1. Antony & The Johnsons Swanlights
2. Sade Soldier Of Love
3. Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
4. Babysitter cassette
5. Neil Young Le Noise
6. Noveller Red Rainbows
7. Wolf Parade Expo 86
8. Kristian Values cassette
9. Aloe Blacc Good Things
10. Brian Eno Small Craft On A Milk Sea

KARA

BEST OF 2010
The Black Keys Brothers
Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record
Beach House Teen Dream
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Sarah Harmer Oh Little Fire
Born Ruffians Say It
Junip Fields
Deer Tick Black Dirt Sessions
Jason Collett Rat A Tat Tat
Ray Lamontagne & The Pariah Dogs God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise

JR

2010 & REISSUES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Apollo Ghosts Mount Benson
Olof Arnalds Innundir Skinni
Aloe Blacc Good Things
Black Keys Brothers
David Bowie Station To Station
Club 8 The People’s Record
Kevin Coyne Marjorie Razorblade
The Cure Disintegration
Bill Fox Shelter From The Smoke
Goldfrapp Head First
Grinderman Grinderman 2
Michael Hurley Hi-Fi Snock Uptown
Jenny & Johnny I’m Having Fun Now
Syl Johnson Complete Mythology
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings I Learned The Hard Way
The National High Violet
Robyn Body Talk
Shout Out Louds Work
Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight
Bruce Springsteen The Promise
The Tallest Man On Earth The Wild Hunt
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Tom Ze Estudando A Bossa

LONGSHANKS

10 ALBUMS I LISTENED TO THE MOST IN 2010
Caribou Swim
Erykah Badu Return Of The Ankh
Autechre Oversteps/Move Of Ten
Flying Lotus Cosmagramma
Dreamboat Buddies
Aloe Blacc Good Things
Black Keys Brothers
Whitefield Brothers Earthology
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
The National High Violet

5 RAD SONGS
Aloe Blacc “I Need A Dollar”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Round & Round”
Yeasayer “Y.O.U.”
Caribou “Leaf House”
Kanye West, Rick Ross, Jay-Z & Nicki Minaj “Monster”

5 DANCEFLOOR HEATERS
Hrdvsion “Captivated Heart”
Ramadanman “Work Them”
Girl Unit “WUT”
Sepalcure “Every Day Of My Life”
Pixelord “Pixr7”

5 BEAT ALBUMS
Scuba Triangulation
Hrdvsion Where Did You Just Go?
Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers
Thomas Fehlmann Visions Of Blah
Jules Chaz Toppings

5 RAP ALBUMS
Yelawolf Trunk Muzik Mixtape
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Odd Future/Earl Sweatshirt OFWGKTA/EARL
Guilty Simpson & Madlib OJ Simpson

3 RAD COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Soul Jazz Presents Future Bass
Night Slugs Allstars Vol. 1
Juan Maclean DJ-Kicks

2009 DON’T STOP
Dam Funk Toeachizown
Tortoise Beacons Of Ancestorship
My Lovely Son The Hunt Is On
Mulatu Astatke Inspiration Information
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

VINTAGE THAT CONNECTED
Bert Jansch Bert Jansch, Jack Orion, Moonshine & It Don’t Bother Me
King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The Wake Of Posiedon & Lark’s Tongue In Aspec
Syl Johnson Is It Because I’m Black? & Diamond In The Rough
Coltrane Ole – Mingus Ah Uhm – Monk Brilliant Corners, The Genius Of Modern Music
Leonard Cohen New Skin For The Old Ceremony & Songs From A Room

KELLEN

Beach House Teen Dream
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Fresh & Onlys Play it Strange
LCD Soundsystem This is Happening
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Surfer Blood Astro Coast
Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
Spoon Transference
Black Angels Phosphene Dream

KRIS

TOP 5
1. Bruce Springsteen The Promise
2. Sun Kill Moon Admiral Fell Promises
3. Dead Weather Sea Of Cowards
4. Junip Fields / Aloe Blacc Good Things
5. Black Mountain Wilderness Heart

BEST REISSUES
1. Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2. The Cure Disintegration
3. Rolling Stones Exile On Main St.
4. Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
5. John Lennon Reissues

TOP SHOWS
Gaslamp Killer (Rifflandia/Lucky Bar)
Holy Fuck / Indian Jewelery (919)
Excision w/ Longshanks & sub|division Family (919)

TARA

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Four Tet There Is Love In You
Forest Swords Dagger Paths [EP]
Frog Eyes Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph
Autechre Oversteps
Women Public Strain
Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Zola Jesus Stridulum [EP]
Emeralds Does It Look Like I’m Here
Marnie Stern Marnie Stern

other good taste

Arp The Soft Wave
Broken Water Whet
Dustin Wong Let It Go
Caribou Swim
Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme
Roll the Dice Roll the Dice
Pantha du Prince Black Noise
Amen Dunes Murder Dull Mind [EP]
Wild Nothing Gemini
The Books The Way Out
Indian Jewelry Totaled

last year’s late discovered gem
Ben Frost By The Throat

not sure how I managed not to be consumed by
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me

high label appeal
digitalis, sacred bones

heavily-heeded history
X, The Gun Club, Suicide.