Sam Adams

1. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) [CP Top 21]
2. Espers Espers II (Drag City)
3. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
4. Lily Allen Smile (EMI/Regal)
5. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]
6. Pere Ubu Why I Hate Women (Smog Veil)
7. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti) [CP Top 21]
8. Pernice Bros. Live a Little (Ashmont)
9. Mission of Burma The Obliterati (Matador)
10. The Trolleyvox Presents the Karaoke Meltdwns (Transit of Venus)

A.D. Amorosi

1. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti) [CP Top 21]
2. Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
3. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped (Geffen) [CP Top 21]
4. Beretta 76 Black Beauty (self-released)
5. Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo (Big Dada)
6. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu) [CP Top 21]
7. Ruth Naomi Floyd Root to the Fruit (Contour)
8. Plastic Little She's Mature (Tonearm)
9. Theo Bleckman Las Vegas Rhapsody (Winter & Winter)
10. The Situation The Situation (Elephant Stone)

Justin Bauer

1. Bishop Allen July (none)
2. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
3. The Black Keys Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
4. Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Downtown)
5. Tapes 'n' Tapes The Loon (xl)
6. The Roots Game Theory (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
7. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
8. Clipse Hell Hath No Fury (Startrak)
9. Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet (Universal)
10. Spank Rock Yoyoyoyoyo (Big Dada)

Shaun Brady

1. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) [CP Top 21]
2. Robert Pollard From A Compound Eye (Merge)
3. Ghostface Killah Fishscale (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
4. Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse (New West)
5. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
6. Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death (Sanctuary)
7. Carl Hancock Rux Good Bread Alley (Thirsty Ear)
8. Built To Spill You In Reverse (Warner Bros.)
9. Magnolia Electric Co. Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian)
10. Charalambides A Vintage Burden (Kranky)

Will Dean

1. Various Artists Eccentric Soul, Vol. 9: The Big Mack Label (Numero Group)
2. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu) [CP Top 21]
3. Black Keys Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
4. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
5. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti) [CP Top 21]
6. Muse Black Holes and Revelations (Warner)
7. Erase Errata Night Life (Kill Rock Stars)
8. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
9. The Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics (Warner)
10. Ratatat Classics (XI)

Jesse Delaney

1. Mastodon Blood Mountain (Reprise)
2. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
3. Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit (Matador) [CP Top 21]
4. Wolfmother Wolfmother (Interscope/Merge)
5. Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)
6. The Decemberists The Crane's Wife (Capitol)
7. Islands Return to the Sea (Equator)
8. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
9. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) [CP Top 21]
10. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)

Deesha Dyer

1. Jamie Lidell Multiply Additions (Warp)
2. DJ Jazzy Jeff Hip-Hop Forever III (Rapster)
3. Los Amigos Invisibles Superpop Venezuela (Gozadero)
4. Robin Thicke The Evolution of Robin Thicke (Interscope)
5. Various Artists Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Geffen)
6. Tortured Soul Introducing Tortured Soul (R2)
7. Carol Riddick Moments Like This (Axis Music Group)
8. Alice Smith For Lovers, Dreamers, & Me (BBE)
9. DJ Spinna Intergalactic Soul (Shanachi)
10. Nina Simone Forever Young, Gifted & Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit (RCA)

Megan M. Erwin

1. CSS Let's Make Love... (Sub Pop)
2. Annuals Be He Me (Ace Fu)
3. Morningwood Morningwood (Capitol)
4. The Black Keys Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
5. The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love (UMVD)
6. Jurassic 5 Feedback (A&M)
7. Fleshies Scrape the Walls (Alternative Tentacles)
8. Mates of State Bring it Back (Barsuk)
9. Born Ruffians Born Ruffians (Warp)
10. Death from Above 1979 Heads Up (Last Gang)

M.J. Fine

1. The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries Ltd.) [CP Top 21]
2. Irving Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers (Eenie Meenie)
3. Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) [CP Top 21]
4. Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet (Universal)
5. Metal Hearts Socialize (Suicide Squeeze)
6. The Bird and The Bee The Bird and the Bee (Metro Blue)
7. The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia… (Roadrunner)
8. Lauren K. Newman Postulate I (Grey Day)
9. Psapp The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (Domino)
10. Ani DiFranco Reprieve (Righteous Babe)

Rachel Frankford

1. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
2. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
3. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
4. Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast)
5. Diam's Dans Ma Bulle (EMI International)
6. The Roots Game Theory (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
7. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones (Interscope)
8. Lily Allen Alright, Still (EMI International)
9. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
10. Taha, Khaled, et Faudel 1,2,3 Soleils (Wrasse)

Wendy Ginsberg

1. The Killers Sam's Town (Island)
2. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
3. Bob Dylan Modern Times (Sony)
4. Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (Astralwerks/EMD)
5. Elvis Costello Live with the Metropole Orkest My Flame Burns Blue (Deutsche Grammophon)
6. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
7. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
8. My Chemical Romance The Black Parade (Reprise/Wea)
9. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers (V2/Third Man)
10. KT Tunstall Eye to the Telescope (Virgin)

Ryan Godfrey

1. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
2. Adam Arcuragi Adam Arcuragi (High Two) [CP Top 21]
3. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti Inc.) [CP Top 21]
4. Beirut Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)
5. The Be Good Tanyas Hello Love (Nettwerk)
6. Asobi Seksu Citrus (Friendly Fire)
7. The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries) [CP Top 21]
8. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
9. Gomez How We Operate (ATO)
10. Sol Seppy The Bells of 1 2 (Gronland)

Ashlea Halpern

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones (Interscope)
2. The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love (Universal)
3. Swan Lake Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
4. Various Artists Future Retro (Rhino)
5. Mates of State Bring It Back (Barsuk)
6. Old Crow Medicine Show Big Iron World (Nettwerk)
7. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)
8. Girl Talk Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
9. The Sleepy Jackson Personality (Astralwerks)
10. Nouvelle Vague Band A Parte (Peacefrog)

Matt Hotz

1. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
2. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
3. Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana/Fierce Panda)
4. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
5. The Pernice Brothers Live a Little (Ashmont)
6. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
7. Beirut Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)
8. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
9. Lilys Everything Wrong is Imaginary (Manifesto)
10. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (4AD) [CP Top 21]

Brian Howard

1. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
2. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
3. The Evens Get Evens (Dischord)
4. Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit (Matador) [CP Top 21]
5. Ms. John Soda Notes and the Like (Morr Music)
6. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
7. Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
8. Ellen Allien and Apparat Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch Control)
9. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
10. James Figurine Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (Plug Research)

Maura Johnston

1. Scritti Politti White Bread, Black Beer (Nonesuch)
2. Amerie Because I Love It (LoveAmerie.com)
3. The Knife Deep Cuts (Mute)
4. Young People All At Once (Too Pure)
5. Love Is All 9 Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture)
6. Wilderness Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)
7. The Evens Get Evens (Dischord)
8. Ghostface Fishscale (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
9. Mew And The Glass-Handed Kites (Columbia)
10. Jarvis Cocker Jarvis (Rough Trade UK)

Nyjia Jones

1. Ghost Face Killa Fishscale (DefJam) [CP Top 21]
2. Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
3. JDavey JDavey (Warner)
4. Brazilian Girls Talk to La Bomb (Verve Forecast)
5. Spank Rock YoYoYoYoYo (Big Dada)
6. Chrome Children Chrome Children (Adult Swim/Stones Throw)
7. Ken Starr Starr Status (Raptivism)
8. JDilla The Shining (BBE)
9. Gnarls Barkley St. Elseware (Downtown)
10. The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics (Warner)

Billy Kekevian

1. Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens (Drag City)
2. Josephine Foster Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Locust)
3. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
4. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu) [CP Top 21]
5. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) [CP Top 21]
6. Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go (Drag City)
7. Neil Young Living With War (Reprise)
8. Loose Fur Born Again in the USA (Drag City)
9. Sun City Girls Djinn Funnel (NASHAZPHONE)
10. New York Dolls One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This (Roadrunner)

J. Edward Keyes

1. Ghostface Fishscale (Island/ Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
2. Scott Walker The Drift (4AD/Beggars)
3. T.I. King (Atlantic)
4. My Chemical Romance The Black Parade (Warner Bros.)
5. Lily Allen Alright Still (Regal UK)
6. Various Artists Congo: Rumba By the River (Syllart)
7. Clipse Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up Gang)
8. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
9. Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)
10. Deftones Saturday Night Wrist (Warner Bros.)

Drew Lazor

1. Clipse Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up/Star Trak Entertainment/Jive)
2. The Gossip Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
3. T.I. King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
4. TK Webb Phantom Parade (The Social Registry)
5. Ghostface Killah Fishscale (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
6. Mates of State Bring It Back (Barsuk)
7. Say Hi To Your Mom Impeccable Blahs (Euphobia)
8. Muse Black Holes & Revelations (A&E/Helium 3)
9. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
10. The Late Cord Songs From the Wheelhouse (4AD)

Natalie Hope McDonald

1. The Divine Comedy Victory for the Comic Muse (Parlophone)
2. Liza Minnelli The Complete Capitol Collection (Drg)
3. Dolly Parton Ultimate Dolly Parton (RCA)
4. Various Artists Shortbus Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Team Love)
5. The Killers Sam's Town (Island)
6. Peggy Lee Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen (Harbinger)
7. Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet Duper Sessions (Astralwerks)
8. Snow Patrol Eyes Open (A&M)
9. Various Artists Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast (Nonesuch)
10. Leslie and the LYs Doorman's Daughter (Leslie Hall)

Amanda McKenna

1. Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) [CP Top 21]
3. Thom Yorke The Eraser (XL)
4. Anathallo Floating World (Artist Friendship)
5. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers (V2/Third Man)
6. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
7. The Bell Orchestre Recording a Tape the Color of the Light (Rough Trade)
8. David Bazan Fewer Moving Parts (Jade Tree)
9. Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go (Drag City)
10. The Silversun Pickups Carnavas (Dangerbird)

Dominic Mercier

1. Mogwai Mr. Beast (Matador)
2. The Walkmen A Hundred Miles Off (Record Collection)
3. Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit (Matador) [CP Top 21]
4. Tapes n' Tapes The Loon (Ibid)
5. Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat (V2)
6. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
7. Islands Return to the Sea (Equator)
8. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
9. Peter, Bjorn, and John Writer's Block (Wichita/V2)
10. Magnolia Electric Co. Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian)

Andrew Parks

1. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
2. Battle of Mice Day of Nights (Neurot)
3. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu) [CP Top 21]
4. Grizzly Bear Yellow House (Warp)
5. Editors The Back Room (Fader Label)
6. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
7. Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
8. The Black Angels Passover (Light in the Attic)
9. Trentem¿ller The Last Resort (Poker Flat)
10. My Chemical Romance The Black Parade (Reprise)

Michael Pelusi

1. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped (Geffen) [CP Top 21]
2. Jarvis Cocker Jarvis (Rough Trade)
3. Quasi When the Going Gets Dark (Touch and Go)
4. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
5. Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor (Atlantic)
6. Ray Davies Other People's Lives (V2)
7. Campfire Crush Lunar Moss (self-released)
8. Espers Espers II (Drag City)
9. Cheap Trick Rockford (Big 3)
10. Electrelane Singles, B-Sides and Live (Too Pure)

Nicole Pensiero

1. Snow Patrol Eyes Open (A&M)
2. Aterciopelados Oye (Nacional MNF Brasil)
3. Rosanne Cash Black Cadillac (Capitol)
4. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
5. The Little Willies The Little Willies (Milking Bull/EMI)
6. Alejandro Escovedo The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
7. Regina Spektor Begin To Hope (Sire)
8. KT Tunstall Eye To The Telescope (Virgin)
9. Beck The Information (Interscope)
10. Teitur Stay Under The Stars (Equator)

Lou Perseghin

1. The Slip Eisenhower (Bar/None)
2. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti) [CP Top 21]
3. The Tressels Prison Wine (self-released)
4. One Dead Three Wounded Moving Units (1x1 Music)
5. Converge No Heroes (Epitaph/Ada)
6. Badly Drawn Boy Born in the U.K. (Astralwerks/Emd)
7. Zox The Wait (Side One Dummy)
8. Norma Jean Redeemer (Tooth & Nail)
9. Muse Black Holes and Revelations (Warner Bros/Wea)
10. The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics (Warner Bros/Wea)

Zach Pontz

1. Muse Black Holes and Revelations (Helium/A&E)
2. Emily Haines & Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back (Last Gang)
3. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
4. Beirut Gulag Orkestar (Ba DA Bing!)
5. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
6. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
7. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]
8. Owen At Home With Owen (Polyvinyl)
9. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
10. Silversun Pickups Carnavas (Dangerbird)

Trey Popp

1. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) [CP Top 21]
2. Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 and '70 (Jazz Icons)
3. Thelonious Monk Live in '66 (Jazz Icons)
4. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]
5. Bob Dylan Modern Times (Sony)
6. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
7. Old Crow Medicine Show Big Iron World (Nettwerk)
8. Keith Jarrett The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM)
9. The Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed (Barsuk)
10. Roy Haynes Whereas (Dreyfus)

Neal Ramirez

1. Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)
2. Pipas Sorry Love (Long Lost Cousin)
3. The Mountain Goats Get Lonely (4AD)
4. Love is All Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture)
5. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
6. Math and Physics Club Math and Physics Club (Matinee)
7. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]
8. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Etiquette (Tomlab)
9. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
10. Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit (Matador) [CP Top 21]

Patrick Rapa

1. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
2. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
3. Adam Arcuragi Adam Arcuragi (High Two) [CP Top 21]
4. The Gossip Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
5. Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love) [CP Top 21]
6. The Roots Game Theory (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
7. The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
8. Quasi When the Going Gets Dark (Touch and Go)
9. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]
10. Rainer Maria Catastrophe Keeps Us Together (Grunion)

Mike Regan

1. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti) [CP Top 21]
2. The Roots Game Theory (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
3. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
4. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
5. Bob Dylan Modern Times (Sony)
6. TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
7. Adam Arcuragi Adam Arcuragi (High Two) [CP Top 21]
8. Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
9. JDilla The Shining (BBE)
10. Juana Molina Son (Domino)

Maria Tessa Sciarrino

1. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped (Geffen) [CP Top 21]
2. The Evens Get Evens (Dischord)
3. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
4. The Long Blondes Someone To Drive You Home (Rough Trade)
5. Erase Errata Nightlife (Kill Rock Stars)
6. Dixie Chicks Taking The Long Way (Sony)
7. Portastatic Be Still Please (Merge)
8. Matmos The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of The Beast (Matador)
9. Espers Espers II (Drag City)
10. Parts & Labor Stay Afraid (Jagjaguwar/Brah)

Jon Solomon

1. Adam Arcuragi Adam Arcuragi (High Two) [CP Top 21]
2. Jennifer O'Connor Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars (Matador)
3. Bottomless Pit Bottomless Pit (self-released)
4. Home Blitz Home Blitz 45 (self-released)
5. Uzeda Stella (Touch & Go)
6. Various Artists Messthetics Greatest Hits (Hyped 2 Death)
7. Various Artists Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days of Hip-Hop Culture in New York City 1979-1982 (Soul Jazz)
8. Parts & Labor Stay Afraid (Jagjaguar)
9. Armalite Armalite (No Idea)
10. Mountain High Mountain High 7" (Hot Dog City)

Marc Steel

1. Wolfmother Wolfmother (Interscope/Merge)
2. Pearl Jam Pearl Jam (J Records)
3. The Beatles Love (Apple, Capitol, EMI)
4. Tom Petty Highway Companion (Warner)
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (Warner)
6. The Who Endless Wire (Universal Republic)
7. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Atlantic, Downtown)
8. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers (V2/Third Man)
9. Phish Live in Brooklyn (JEMP)
10. The Decemberists The Crane Wife (Capitol) [CP Top 21]

Gary Sullivan

1. "Weird Al" Yankovic Straight Outta Lynnwood ((Volcano)
2. Elton John The Captain and the Kid (Interscope)
3. Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
4. The Silence Live from the Tin Angel (Wonderbox)
5. Pearl Jam Pearl Jam (J)
6. Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas (Razor & Tie)
7. Robert Pollard Moon (Merge)
8. Prowler Communizzle (self-released)
9. Say Hi to Your Mom Impeccable Blahs (Euphobia)
10. Senses Fail Still Searching (Vagrant/Drive-Thru)

Bret Tobias

1. The Research Breaking Up (At Large)
2. El Perro Del Mar El Perro Del Mar (Control Group)
3. Cat Power The Greatest (Matador) [CP Top 21]
4. Various Artists Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days of Hip-Hop Culture in New York City 1979-1982 (Soul Jazz)
5. The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries) [CP Top 21]
6. Blood Feathers Curse and Praise (Box Theory)
7. Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)
8. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
9. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) [CP Top 21]
10. Field Music Field Music (Memphis Industries)

John Vettese

1. The Gossip Standing In The Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
2. The Lesser Birds of Paradise The Space Between (Contraphonic)
3. Hot Chip The Warning (Astralwerks / DFA)
4. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped (DGC) [CP Top 21]
5. The Avett Brothers Four Thieves Gone (Ramseur)
6. The Knife Silent Shout (Mute)
7. Mates of State Bring It Back (Barsuk)
8. The Capitol Years Dance Away The Terror (Park The Van)
9. Frida Hyvönen Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian)
10. Beth Orton Comfort of Strangers (Astralwerks)

Dayna Vickery

1. Dresden Dolls Yes Virginia… (Roadrunner)
2. Snow Patrol Eyes Open (A&M)
3. Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Sire) [CP Top 21]
4. Tool 10,000 Days (Volcano)
5. The Red Paintings Walls EP (Modern Music)
6. Gorillaz Demon Days Live (EMI/Capitol)
7. Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions (Geffen)
8. DeVotchKa Curse Your Little Heart (Ace Fu)
9. Ani DiFranco Reprieve (Righteous Babe)
10. Keane Under the Iron Sea (Interscope)

Kelly White

1. Hot Chip The Warning (DFA/Astralwerks)
2. The Strokes First Impressions of Earth (RCA)
3. Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
4. Spank Rock Yoyoyoyoyo (Big Dada)
5. Espers Espers II (Drag City)
6. Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) [CP Top 21]
7. Man Man Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu) [CP Top 21]
8. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
9. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
10. Beirut Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)