2011

• SBTRKT – S/T (Young Turks)
• Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Ghostly International)
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah – Back for More (S/R)
• Trentemøller – Reworked and Remixed (In my Room)
• Wugazi – 13 Chambers (S/R)
• Dirtbombs – Party Store (In the Red)
• Alias – Fever Dream (Anticon)
• Emika – S/T (Ninja Tune)
• Magnetic Man – S/T (Columbia)
• Fennesz – Seven Stars (Touch)

• Louis C.K. - Hilarious (Comedy Central)
• Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled (Alternative Tentacles)
• Dub Is A Weapon – Vaporized (Harmonized)
• Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol)
• Hillbilly Herald – S/T (S/R)
• Mocean Worker – Candygram for Mowo (Mowo!)
• Radio Moscow – The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (Alive NaturalSound)
• Bass Nectar – Divergent Spectrum (Amorphous)
• Mike Birbiglia – Sleepwalk with Me (Comedy Central)
• Chancha Via Circuito – Rio Arriba (ZZK)
• Cumbia Tokeson – Cuchos Vol. 1 (Tokeson Music)
• Brad Goode – Tight Like This (Delmark)
• Heavy Tin – Refused (Concinnity)
• John Mellencamp – No Better Than This (Rounder)
• Truckstop Honeymoon – Homemade Haircut (Squirrel)
• The Devil Makes Three – Stomp and Smash (Milan)
• Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three – Middle of Everywhere (Free Dirt)
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Drive Time (Mountain Home Music Co.)
• Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest (Acony)

• AM & Shawn Lee – Celestial Electric (ESL)
• The Bandana Splits – Mr. Sam Presents The Bandana Splits (Boy Scout)
• The Bangles – Sweetheart Of The Sun (Waterfront)
• David Bazan – Strange Negotiations (Barsuk)
• Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)
• Blue Sky Black Death – Noir (Fake Four)
• The Bye Bye Blackbirds – Fixed Hearts (Rainbow Quartz)
• Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep (Heavenly)
• Cut Off Your Hands – Hollow (French Kiss)
• Fleet Floxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
• The Generationals – Actor-Caster (Park The Van)
• Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats And Follies (Galaxia)
• House of Wolves – Fold In The Wind (S/R)
• IVY – All Hours (Nettwerk)
• The Jezabels – Prisoner (S/R)
• The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Atlantic)
• David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights – Left By Soft (Merge)
• Lumerians – Transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)
• Moby – Destroyed (Mute)
• Noveller – Glacial Glow (Weird Forest)
• The People’s Temple – Sons of Stone (Hozac)
• The Red Button – As Far As Yesterday Goes (Grimble)
• Redondo Beat – Meet Redondo Beat (Dionysus)
• The Dex Romweber Duo – Is That You In The Blue? (Bloodshot)
• Rivulets – We’re Fucked (Important)
• Los Shimmy Shakers – Shake ‘Em If Ya Got ‘Em (Puerile)
• Stricken City – Losing Colour (The Kora)
• Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
• The TomorrowMen – It’s About Time! (Double Crown)
• The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia)
• Young Galaxy – Shapeshifting (Paper Bag)

• Antlers – Burst Apart (Frenchkiss)
• James Blake – James Blake (Polydor)
• Casiokids – Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen (Polyvinyl)
• Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door (Sacred Bones)
• Brian Eno with Rick Holland – Drums Between the Bells (Warp)
• Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
• Fredrik – Flora (Kora)
• Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer (Merge)
• Gem Club – Breakers (Hardly Art)
• Myrmyr – Fire Star (Under the Spire)
• Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
• Sister Crayon – Bellow (Manimal)
• Soley – We Sink (Morr)
• 13 & God – Own Your Ghost (Anticon)
• Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On (Arts & Crafts)
• Tom Waits – Bad As Me (Anti-)
• Widowspeak – Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)
• Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum)

• Cheap Time - Another Time (Cass)
• Cyclops - Cyclops (Johnny Cat/Portland Mutant Party)
• Giuda - Get It Over (White Zoo)
• Happy Thoughts - S/T (HoZac)
• The Ketamines – Line by Line (HoZac)
• Mickey – Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreamer (HoZac)
• Peach Kelli Pop - S/T (Infinity Cat)
• Reatards – Teenage Hate [reissue]/Fuck Elvis Here’s the Reatards (Goner)
• Vernons Girls – We Love the Vernons Girls 1962-1964 (RPM, 2010)
• Wrong Words - S/T (Trouble in Mind)

Best Videos of 2011

• Big Freedia – “Y’all Get Back Now” (Directed by Bob Weisz & Josh Ente)
• Hunx and His Punkettes – “Too young to be in Love” (Directed by Justin Kelly)
• Shannon & the Clams – “Sleep Talk” (Directed by Hannah Lew)

Best Live Shows of 2011

• Erase Errata – 924 gilman, 12/11/11 (Girl Rock Camp Benefit)
• Nobunny, Lil Queenie – white horse, 12/8/11 (down at lulus holiday party)
• King Lollipop, Swiftumz, Peach Kelli Pop – 1234 Go!, 12/5/11
• Okmoniks, Midnite Snaxxx, etc. – Thee Parkside, 10/23/11 (Budget Rock day three)
• Green Day – 1234 GO!, 9/22/11
• Nobunny, Bananas – Oakland Metro, 7/22/11 (1234go showcase)
• King Tuff, Personal & the Pizzas, Wrong Words – Thee Parkside, 3/25/11 (Burger Boogaloo)
• The forgetters – BOTH, 1/27/11