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Brian Howard

  1. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  2. The Wedding Present El Rey (Manifesto)
  3. The Roots Rising Down (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
  4. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  5. Mogwai The Hawk is Howling (Matador)
  6. The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Yep Roc)
  7. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]
  8. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited) [CP Top 21]
  9. Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  10. The Dead C Secret Earth (Ba Da Bing)

Dianca Potts

  1. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  2. Megapuss Surfing (Vapor)
  3. The Smiths The Sound of The Smiths (WEA)
  4. Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair (DFA)
  5. TV On the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  6. My Brightest Diamond A Thousand Sharks (Asthmatic Kitty)
  7. Deerhoof Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
  9. Girl Talk Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)
  10. Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)

Maura Johnston

  1. Ne-Yo Year Of The Gentleman (Def Jam)
  2. Portishead Third (Mercury) [CP Top 21]
  3. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  4. Solange Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams (Geffen)
  5. Panic At The Disco Pretty. Odd. (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic)
  6. Estelle Shine (Atlantic) [CP Top 21]
  7. Ponytail Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free)
  8. Marnie Stern This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)
  9. Fall Out Boy Folie A Deux (Island)
  10. Maybe It's Reno Maybe It's Reno (Teen Beat)

Reseca Glasser

  1. Britney Spears Circus (Jive)
  2. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (Island Def Jam)
  3. Girl Talk Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)
  4. Beyonce I am... Sasha Fierce (Columbia)
  5. LL Cool J Exit 13 (Def Jam)
  6. Akon Freedom (Konvict Muzik/Universal Motown)
  7. Yelle Pop-Up (EMI/Virgin France)
  8. Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination (Interscope)
  9. The Roots Rising Down (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
  10. Madonna Hard Candy (Warner Bros)

A.D. Amorosi

  1. Joan as Police Woman To Survive (Cheap Lullaby)
  2. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing This is Our Moosic (Hot Cup)
  4. David Byrne and Brian Eno Everything That Happens will Happen Today (Todo Mundo)
  5. Matthew Herbert Big Band There's Me and There's You (CFP)
  6. Aterciopelados Rio (Nacional)
  7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  8. Ximena Sarinana Mediocre (Warner Latino)
  9. Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It (Columbia)
  10. Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak (Def Jam)

Justin Bauer

  1. Portishead Third (Mercury) [CP Top 21]
  2. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust (Vice) [CP Top 21]
  4. Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
  5. Lykke Li Youth Novels (LL)
  6. King Khan and His Shrines The Supreme Genius Of (Vice)
  7. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)
  8. The Black Keys Attack and Release (Nonesuch)
  9. Wale The Mixtape About Nothing (Self-released)
  10. Duffy Rockferry (Mercury)

Clay Cansler

  1. Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  2. Nobunny Love Visions (Bubbledumb)
  3. Deerhunter Microcastles (Kranky)
  4. The Muslims The Muslims (1928 Recordings)
  5. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  6. Hot Chip Made in the Dark (Astralwerks) [CP Top 21]
  7. Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  8. Cut Copy In Ghost Colours (Modular)
  9. Times New Viking Rip It Off (Matador)
  10. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited) [CP Top 21]

Dennis Crowley

  1. Sic Alps Us Ez (Siltbreeze 88)
  2. Blitzen Trapper Furr (Sub Pop)
  3. Psychedelic Horseshit Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
  4. War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  5. Dirty Projectors Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
  6. The Dodos Visiter (Frenchkiss)
  7. Holy Fuck LP (young turks)
  8. Deerhunter Microcastles (Kranky)
  9. Aesop Rock None Shall Pass (Def Jux)
  10. King Khan and the Shrines The Supreme Genius Of (Vice)

Felicia D'Ambrosio

  1. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  2. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  3. Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair (Phantom Sound & Vision)
  4. Man Man Rabbit Habits (Anti)
  5. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  6. She & Him Volume One (Merge)
  7. Lykke Li Youth Novels (LL)
  8. Dr. Dog Fate (Park the Van)
  9. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic) [CP Top 21]
  10. The Black Keys Attack and Release (Nonesuch)

Will Dean

  1. Hurray For the Riff Raff It Don't Mean I Don't Love You (Self-released)
  2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  3. Man Man Rabbit Habits (Anti)
  4. Emily Bate The Fever in the Feast (i am janet!)
  5. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic) [CP Top 21]
  6. Die! Die! Die! Promises Promises (S.A.F.)
  7. Vermillion Lies What's in the Box (A Small Tribe)
  8. Los Campesinos! We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
  9. Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune (Red Pig/Constant Artists)
  10. Clinic Do it! (Domino)

Jesse Delaney

  1. Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
  2. Grand Archives Grand Archives (Sub Pop)
  3. Blitzen Trapper Furr (Sub Pop)
  4. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  5. Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
  6. Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  7. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  8. Born Ruffians Red Yellow and Blue (Warp)
  9. Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
  10. Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 (Matador)

M.F. DiBella

  1. Elzhi The Preface (Fat Beats)
  2. Heltah Skeltah D.I.R.T. (Duck Down)
  3. Lil' Wayne Tha Carter III (Cash Money) [CP Top 21]
  4. Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple (Downtown)
  5. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  6. Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
  7. Pacewon & Mr. Green The Only Color That Matters Is Green (Raw Poetix)
  8. Menahan Street Band Make The Road By Walking (Dunham/Daptone)
  9. Black Milk Tronic (Fat Beats)
  10. Gyptian I Can Feel Your Pain (VP)

Deesha Dyer

  1. Elizabeth Shepherd Parkdale (Do Right! Music)
  2. Estelle Shine (Atlantic) [CP Top 21]
  3. Q-Tip The Renaissance (Motown)
  4. Jazmine Sullivan Fearless (J)
  5. Lupe Fiasco The Cool (Atlantic Recording Group)
  6. Jamie Lidell Jim (Warp)
  7. Nas Nas (The Island Def Jam Group)
  8. Adele 19 (XL)
  9. Reef the Lost Cauze A Vicious Cycle (F.U. Pay Me)
  10. Hustle Simmons Hustle Simmons (Break Bread Projects)

Molly Eichel

  1. Lucinda Williams Little Honey (Lost Highway)
  2. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
  3. Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It (Sony)
  4. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  5. The Mae Shi HLLLYH (Team Shi)
  6. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  7. Black Mountain In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
  8. Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  9. Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
  10. Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)

David Faris

  1. The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust (Vice) [CP Top 21]
  2. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  3. Calexico Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
  4. Jolie Holland The Living and the Dead (Anti)
  5. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  6. Deerhunter Microcastles (Kranky)
  7. Tift Merritt Another Country (Fantasy)
  8. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  9. The Watson Twins Fire Songs (Vanguard)
  10. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]

M.J. Fine

  1. Frida Hyvönen Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
  2. CSS Donkey (Sub Pop)
  3. Finest Dearest Finest Dearest (Self-released)
  4. Tilly and the Wall o (Team Love)
  5. The Shondes The Red Sea (Self-released)
  6. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)
  7. Rebecca Pronsky Departures & Arrivals (Nine Mile)
  8. Theresa Andersson Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street)
  9. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
  10. Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)

Patrick Foley

  1. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  2. M83 Saturdays=Youth (Mute)
  3. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  4. Boris Smile (Southern Lord)
  5. portishead Third (Island) [CP Top 21]
  6. Health Disco (Lovepump United)
  7. Chairlift Does You Inspire You? (Kanine)
  8. The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (4AD)
  9. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  10. Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)

Wendy Ginsberg

  1. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  2. The Killers Day & Age (Island)
  3. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  4. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  5. Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads (Motown)
  6. Duffy Rockferry (Mercury)
  7. Leona Lewis Spirit (Syco Music/J)
  8. David Byrne and Brian Eno Everything That Happens will Happen Today (Todo Mundo)
  9. My Morning Jacket Evil Urges (ATO)
  10. Beck Modern Guilt (Interscope)

Ryan Godfrey

  1. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  2. The Rural Alberta Advantage Hometowns (eMusic Selects)
  3. Sam Phillips Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)
  4. The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
  5. Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
  6. Okkervil River The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  8. Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
  9. The Dodos Visiter (Frenchkiss)
  10. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]

Adam Goren

  1. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited) [CP Top 21]
  2. Marnie Stern This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)
  3. Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 (In The Red)
  4. Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  5. Paint It Black New Lexicon (Jade Tree)
  6. Harvey Milk Life... the Best Game In Town (Hydra Head)
  7. Oxford Collapse Bits (Sub Pop)
  8. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  9. Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  10. Times New Viking Rip It Off (Matador)

Greg Hoskins

  1. Metallica Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
  2. Spiritualized Song in A & E (Universal)
  3. Portishead Third (Universal) [CP Top 21]
  4. Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  5. Blood on the Wall Liferz (Social Registry)
  6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  7. Eagles of Death Metal Heart On (Universal)
  8. Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
  9. Deerhunter Microcastles (Kranky)
  10. Royal Bangs We Breed Champions (Audio Eagle)

Matt Hotz

  1. The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (4AD)
  2. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]
  4. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  5. Von Hayes Evident Eyelid (State Capital)
  6. Times New Viking Rip It Off (Matador)
  7. No Age Nouns (Sub Pop)
  8. War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  9. Dr. Dog Fate (Park the Van)
  10. The Spinto Band Moonwink (Park the Van)

Tom Howard

  1. Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  2. Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 (In The Red)
  3. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited) [CP Top 21]
  4. British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
  5. Conor Oberst Conor Oberst (Merge)
  6. Paint It Black New Lexicon (Jade Tree)
  7. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  8. Parts and Labor Receivers (Jagjaguwar)
  9. Billy Bragg Mr. Love and Justice (Anti/Epitaph)
  10. No Age Nouns (Sub Pop)

Carolyn Huckabay

  1. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  2. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  3. Mates of State Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
  4. Decemberists Always the Bridesmaid (EP) (Capitol)
  5. Chairlift Does You Inspire You? (Kanine)
  6. N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)
  7. Adele 19 (XL)
  8. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  9. Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
  10. R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros.)

J. Edward Keyes

  1. Erykah Badu New AmErykah: 4th World War (Motown)
  2. Portishead Third (Mercury) [CP Top 21]
  3. Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)
  4. The Roots Rising Down (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
  5. Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
  6. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  7. Shearwater Rook (Matador)
  8. R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros)
  9. Deastro Keeper's (eMusic Selects)
  10. Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)

Drew Lazor

  1. Hot Chip Made in the Dark (Astralwerks) [CP Top 21]
  2. Lil' Wayne Tha Carter III (Cash Money) [CP Top 21]
  3. Why? Alopecia (Anticon)
  4. Deerhoof Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  5. My Morning Jacket Evil Urges (ATO)
  6. Estelle Shine (Atlantic) [CP Top 21]
  7. The Cool Kids The Bake Sale (Chocolate Industries)
  8. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  9. T.I. Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
  10. Ratatat LP3 (XL)

Natalie Hope McDonald

  1. Adele 19 (XL)
  2. Duffy Rockferry (Mercury)
  3. Colin Meloy Colin Meloy Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars)
  4. Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes (Barsuk)
  5. Brett Dennen Hope for the Hopeless (Dualtone Music Group)
  6. Estelle Shine (Atlantic) [CP Top 21]
  7. Ed Harcourt Beautiful Lie (Dovecote)
  8. Melody Gardot Worrisome Heart (Verve)
  9. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]
  10. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cardinology (Most Highway)

Dominic Mercier

  1. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  2. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  4. R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
  5. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  6. Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  7. Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom (Southern)
  8. Foals Antidotes (Transgressive)
  9. Oxford Collapse Bits (Sub Pop)
  10. Tapes n' Tapes Walk it Off (XL)

Kevin Pearson

  1. Portishead Third (Mercury) [CP Top 21]
  2. Deerhunter Microcastles (Kranky)
  3. Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
  4. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic) [CP Top 21]
  5. Various Artists Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump (Strut)
  6. Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
  7. Bodies of Water A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian)
  8. Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
  9. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  10. Lambchop Oh (Ohio) (Merge)

Michael Pelusi

  1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  2. Sons and Daughters This Gift (Domino)
  3. The Photon Band Back Down to Earth (Empyrean)
  4. The Constantines Kensington Heights (Arts and Crafts)
  5. Various Artists The Wire ...And All the Pieces Matter (Nonesuch)
  6. Paul Westerberg 49:00:00 (no label)
  7. The Dears Missiles (Dangerbird)
  8. R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
  9. Mono in VCF Mono in VCF (no label)
  10. Monkey Journey to the West (XM)

Nicole Pensiero

  1. Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation (ESL Music)
  2. Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It (Columbia)
  3. Carlene Carter Stronger (Yep Roc)
  4. Back Door Slam Roll Away (Blix Street)
  5. John Legend Evolver (Columbia)
  6. Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns (Geffen)
  7. Noah & The Whale Peaceful The World Lays Me Down (Mercury)
  8. Paul Weller 22 Dreams (Yep Roc)
  9. Jessie Baylin Firesight (Verve)
  10. Kings of Leon Only By The Night (RCA)

Neal Ramirez

  1. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]
  2. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  3. Bon Iver For Emma Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
  4. Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  5. She & Him Volume One (Merge)
  6. Vivian Girls Vivian Girls (In the Red)
  7. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  8. Tullycraft Every Scene Needs a Center (Magic Marker)
  9. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic Music) [CP Top 21]
  10. Coldplay Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)

Mike Rapa

  1. Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads (Motown)
  2. The Raconteurs Consolers Of The Lonely (Warner Bros.)
  3. Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Plus 1)
  4. Dr. Dog Fate (Park the Van)
  5. Kings of Leon Only By The Night (RCA)
  6. Secret Machines Secret Machines (Tsm Recordings)
  7. The Roots Rising Down (Def Jam) [CP Top 21]
  8. The Kills Midnight Boom (Domino)
  9. Photon Band Back Down to Earth (Empyrean)
  10. Brazilian Girls New York City (Verve)

Patrick Rapa

  1. The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride (4AD)
  2. Laura Marling Alas I Cannot Swim (EMI Europe Generic)
  3. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited) [CP Top 21]
  4. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  5. War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  6. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  7. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  8. Marnie Stern This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That (Kill Rock Stars)
  9. R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
  10. Fake You Are Not Dead (fakeproject.com)

James Saul

  1. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) [CP Top 21]
  2. Foals Antidotes (Sub Pop)
  3. No Age Nouns (Sub Pop)
  4. Girl Talk Feed The Animals (Illegal Art)
  5. Radiohead In Rainbows (Ato)
  6. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
  7. Squarepusher Just A Souvenir (Warp)
  8. Lil' Wayne Tha Carter III (Cash Money) [CP Top 21]
  9. Deerhoof Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  10. T.I. Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

Marc Steel

  1. Mudcrutch Mudcrutch (Reprise)
  2. The B-52s Funplex (Astralwerks)
  3. Anya Singleton The Other Side (Self-released)
  4. Randy Newman Harps And Angels (Nonesuch)
  5. Lil' Wayne Tha Carter III (Cash Money) [CP Top 21]
  6. Emory Joseph Fennario (Iris)
  7. The Raconteurs Consolers Of The Lonely (Warner Bros.)
  8. Muse H.A.A.R.P. (Helium-3, Warner Bros.)
  9. Phish Live @ the Roxy (JEMP)
  10. The Black Keys Attack and Release (Nonesuch)

Amy Strauss

  1. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  2. Radiohead In Rainbows (Ato)
  3. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  4. Thrice The Alchemy Index, Vol. III & IV: Air & Earth (Vagrant)
  5. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
  6. The Black Keys Attack and Release (Nonesuch)
  7. MGMT Oracular Spectacular (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  8. Burst Lazarus Bird (Relapse)
  9. The Danger O's Nineteen Ninety Four (Creep)
  10. Wovenhand Ten Stones (Sounds Familyre)

Paul Tsikitas

  1. Black Mountain In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
  2. David Byrne and Brian Eno Everything That Happens will Happen Today (Todo Mundo)
  3. The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust (Vice) [CP Top 21]
  4. Danava Unonou (Kemado)
  5. Portishead Third (Island) [CP Top 21]
  6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
  7. Beck Modern Guilt (Interscope)
  8. The Jet Age What Did You Do During the War, Daddy? (Sonic Boomerang)
  9. Electric Six Flashy (Metropolis)
  10. M83 Saturdays=Youth (Mute)

John Vettese

  1. Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
  2. The Kills Midnight Boom (Domino)
  3. Black Angels Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic)
  4. Death Vessel Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop)
  5. Paint It Black New Lexicon (Jade Tree)
  6. Dark Meat Universal Indians (Vice)
  7. War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  8. The Breeders Mountain Battles (4AD)
  9. Scary Monster Makeout Party At The Werewolf Club (Modern Soul)
  10. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]

Lauren Zalut

  1. The Magnetic Fields Distortion (Nonesuch) [CP Top 21]
  2. Santogold Santogold (Downtown) [CP Top 21]
  3. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend (XL) [CP Top 21]
  4. Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
  5. TV on the Radio Dear Science (DGC/Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  6. The Hold Steady Stay Positive (Vagrant) [CP Top 21]
  7. Tilly and the Wall o (Team Love)
  8. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic) [CP Top 21]
  9. Beck Modern Guilt (Interscope)
  10. Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
 
 
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