2011

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)

• Bare Wires – “Sweet Little Stranger” – Cheap Perfume (Southpaw)
• Battles – “Ice Cream” – Gloss Drop (Warp)
• Bleeding Knees Club – “Truth or Dare” – Virginity (I Am Sound)
• Dum Dum Girls – “He Gets Me High” – He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)
• Emily’s Army – “Broadcast This” – Don’t Be a Dick (Adeline)
• Eleanor Friedberger – “My Mistakes” – Last Summer (Merge)
• Graham Repulski – “Bulletproof Skull” – Into an Animal Together (Shorter)
• Hauschka – “Cube” – Salon Des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
• Low Anthem – “Apothecary Love” – Smart Flesh (Nonesuch)
• Buddy Miller – “I Want to Be With You Always” – Majestic Silver Strings (New West)
• Personal & the Pizzas – “I Don’t Feel So Happy No More” – Raw Pie (1-2-3-4-Go!)
• War on Drugs - “Baby Missiles” – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
• Misisipi Mike Wolf – “I Don’t Miss You Anymore” – The Cold Hard Facts of Mike (Western Independent)

• Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart (Jocoserious)
• Prurient – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
• Bjork – Biophilia (Nonesuch)
• Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
• Cornershop with Bubbley Kaur – Cornershop & the Double ‘O’ Groove of (Ample Play)
• Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (Matador)
• Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
• Goodbye the Band – Uncle Narratologist (soundcloud.com/goodbyetheband)
• Kool A.D. – “DUMMO” (S/R)
• James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual (Hippos in Tanks)
• James Blake – S/T (Universal Republic)
• Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
• PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Island)
• Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
• Matthew Friedberger – Old Regimes (Thrill Jockey)
• Radiohead – The King of Limbs (S/R)
• Julia Holter – Tragedy (Leaving)
• John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon)
• Meshell Ndegeocello – Weather (Naive)
• Van Hunt – What Were You Hoping For? (godless-hotspot)

In Which Certain Songs of Two Thousand Eleven, Either Contained Within or Apart from Aforementioned Albums, Endeared Themselves to DJ Sharkey

• Controlled Bleeding - “A Love Song (in Two Parts)” – Odes to Bubbler (Soleilmoon)
• Prurient – “A Meal Can Be Made” – Bermuda Drain (Hydra Head)
• tUnE-YaRdS - “Bizness” – w h o k i l l (4AD)
• They Might Be Giants – “Can’t Keep Johnny Down” – Join Us (Idlewild)
• Todd Edwards – “Head Held High” – toddedwards.bandcamp.com (S/R)
• DJ Quik – “Killer Dope” – The Book of David (Mad Science)
• Reggie Watts – “Panther Quest” – Daytrotter Session 5/23/2011 (Daytrotter)
• Lindsey Buckingham – “Seeds We Sow” – Seeds We Sow (Mind Kit)
• R. Kelly – “Shut Up!” – twitter.com/kellzodiac (Twitvid)
• S*A*M – “STRAWBERRY LOVERR” – youtube.com/user/samtvofficial1 (YouTube)
• Planningtorock – “The One” – W (DFA)

• Celer – Dying Star (Dragon’s Eye)
• Steve Daubenspeck – Driftin’ With Our Shadows (Magnetic)
• Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits (Cruz Del Sur)
• Odean Pope – Universal Sounds (Porter)
• Hélène Renaut – The Deer Convention (S/R)
• Chris Forsyth – Paranoid Cat (Family Vineyard)
• Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
• The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble In Mind)
• Carlos Forster – Family Trees (Hush)
• Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers’ Guild)

1. Sims – Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree)
2. Qwazaar & Batsauce – Bat Meets Blaine (Galapagos4)
3. Open Mike Eagle – Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Hellfyre Club)
4. Gel Roc – Beautiful Tragedy (Abolono)
5. Blueprint – Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers)
6. Void Pedal – Omni-Colour (Fieldwerk)
7. Astronautalis – This is Our Science (Fake Four Inc.)
8. One Be Lo – L.A.B.O.R (Subterraneous)
9. Moka Only & Chief – Crickets (Feelin)
10. Candy’s .22 – A Girl And Her Gun (Grimm Image) 

Honorable Mentions

• IAME - Lame (Taxidermy)
• Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
• Senor Kaos – The Kaos Effect (High Water Music)
• Doomtree – No Kings (Doomtree)
• Sole & the Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World (Fake Four Inc.)
• Noah23 – Fry Cook on Venus (Fake Four Inc.)
• Knives & Gasoline – Love Songs for Crime Scenes (Grimm Image)

• Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
• Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest (Fortuna Pop!)
• Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps – Little Wind (S/R)
• The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze)
• The Drums – Portamento (Moshi Moshi)
• Generationals – Actor-Caster (Park the Van)
• Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
• Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)
• Mike James Kirkland – Don’t Sell Your Soul (Luv N’ Haight)
• Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On (Full Time Hobby)
• Shannon & The Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)