2011

• 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

• Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming (Daptone)
• WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (LYF)
• YACHT – Shangri-la (DFA)
• Dntel – Life Is Full of Possibilities (Reissue on Sub Pop)
• Stone Coal White – S/T (Reissue on Numero Group)
• The Most Serene Republic – Pre Serene: Thee Oneironauts (Home of the Rebels)
• St Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
• Mikal Cronin – S/T (Trouble In Mind)
• Father’s Children – Who’s Gonna Save The World (Reissue on Numero Group)
• Holy Ghost! – S/T (DFA)
• The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions (Capitol)

Honorable Mentions

• Jens Lekman – An Argument Myself EP (Secretly Canadian)
• The Explorer’s Club – The California Suite (S/R)
• Cults – Go Outside [Menahan Street Band Remix] (RCRDLBL) (http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Cults/track/Go_Outside_Menahan_Street_Band_Re…)

• Les Shades – “La Nouvelle Ecole” – Contre la Montre (Tricatel)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Memoir” – Stage Whispers (Because)
• Keren Ann – “My Name is Trouble” – 101 (Blue Note)
• Nouvelle vague – “Week-end a Rome” – Couleurs sur Paris (Kwaidan)
• Francois and the Atlas Mountain – “Les Plus Beaux” – E Volo Love (Domino)
• Benjamin Biolay – “C’est Magnifique” – Pourquoi tu Pleures? (Naïve)
• BB Brunes – “Gaby Oh Gaby” – Tels Alain Bashung (Barclay)
• Emilie Simon – “Rocket to the Moon” – The Big Machine (Barclay)
• France French Electro Band – “Grand Tour” – Grand Tour (Rectangle Astral)
• General Elektriks – “The Spark” – Parker Street (Discograph)

• Bleached – Carter (Art Fag)
• Brain F≠ – So Dim (Grave Mistake)
• Cheap Time – Another Time (Cass)
• Cuffs – Privilege (Ride the Snake)
• Grass Widow – Milo Minute (HLR)
• OBN III’s – S/T (Tic Tac Totally!)
• Real Numbers – Tear It in Two (Florida’s Dying)
• The Mantles – Raspberry Thighs (SDZ)
• The Sleaze – Weird Truck (Three Dimensional)
• The Sleaze – Called You Once (Total Punk)
• Terry Malts – I’m Neurotic (Slumberland)
• Woolen Kits – Maths (R.I.P. Society)

LPs

• Mikal Cronin – S/T (Trouble in Mind)
• Estrogen Highs – Friends & Relatives (Gramery)
• Household – Items (Dull Knife)
• Human Eye – They Came From the Sky (Sacred Bones)
• Total Control – Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
• Video – Leather Leather (Play Pinball)
• Wax Idols – No Future (Hozac)
• The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble in Mind)

1. June Tabor & Oysrerband – Ragged Kingdom (Topic)
2. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti-)
3. Wild Flag – S/T (Merge)
4. Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing (Sub Pop)
5. Wilco – The Whole Love (Anti-)
6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
7. The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (S/R)
8. The Baseball Project – Vol. 2: High And Inside (Yep Roc)
9. The Bachata Legends – The Bachata Legends (iASO)
10. Rumer – Seasons of My Soul (Atlantic)
11. Big Tree – This New Year (S/R)
12. tUnE-yArDs – Who Kill (4AD)
13. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD)
14. Marble Party – Lyle (Floating)
15. The Jim Jones Revue – Burning Your House Down (Punk Rock Blues)
16. Smoke Fairies – Through Low Light And Trees (Year Seven)
17. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol)
18. Pistol Annies – Hell On Heels (Sony Nashville)
19. Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)
20. The Horrors – Skying (XL)

Favorite  Reissues

• The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Universal Republic)
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)
• Ray Charles – Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (Concord)
• The Who – Qudrophenia: The Director’s Cut (Geffen)
• Jim Ford – Harlan County (Light In The Attic)
• Can – Tago Mago: 40th Anniversary Edition Remastered (Spoon)

Favorite Compilations

• This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982 (Tompkins Square)
• Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-1972 (Soundway)

Favorite single

• Japandroids – “Art Czars” (Polyvinyl)

DVD of the Year

• George Harrison: Living in the Material World – Martin Scorsese (Lions Gate)