2010

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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