- Sleepy Sun – Fever (ATP)
- Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime (In the Red)
- Billy Nayer Show – BNS Presents (BNS)
- Shining – Blackjazz (Indie Recrodings)
- Ty Segall – Melted (Goner)
- Budos Band – III (Daptone)
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
- High on Fire – Snakes For the Divine (E1 Music)
- Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)
- Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)
- The Fall – Your Future, Our Clutter (Domino)
- Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Warp)
- Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
- Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
- Acid Mothers Temple – Are We Experimental? (Prophase)
- Faun Fables – Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
- Stereo Total – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sun City Girls – Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
- Kihlstedt-Bossi-Ismaily - Causing a Tiger (Les Disques Victo)
- Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type)
- The Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
- Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
- AIDS Wolf – March to the Sea (Ipecca)
- Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here (XL Recording)
- Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go (Supply and Demand)
Best Reissues
- Brainticket – Psychonaut (Esoteric)
- Dwarr – Animals (Drag City)
- Tirogo – Float (Now-Again)
- Sun Ra – Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP)
- Fumio Hayasaka & Masaru Sato – Kurosawa soundtrack box (Doxy)
- Les Rallizes Denudes – Blind Baby Has Its Mother’s Eyes (Phoenix)
- Lee Hazlewood – Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood (Ace)
- The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street (Universal)
- Top Drawer – Solid Oak (Still Looking)
- Zartong – Zartong – (Still Looking)
- Frank Zappa – Greasy Love Song (Zappa Records)
- Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power (Sony Legacy)
- Galaxie 500 – On Fire/Peel Sessions (Domino)
- Arthur Brown – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Esoteric)
- David Bowie – Station to Station (EMI)
Best Shows
- Sonic Youth @ the Fillmore, 1/2010
- Melvins @ the GAMH, 1/2010
- Magnetic Fields @ the Fox, 2/2010
- Sleepy Sun/Wooden Shjips @ the New Parish, 2/2010
- The Pee-Wee Herman Show @ Club Nokia, 2/2010
- Gilberto Gil @ Zellerbach, 3/2010
- Dave Chappelle @ the New Parish, 3/2010
- Acid Mothers Temple @ Bottom of the Hill, 3/2010
- Misisipi Rider @ the Cafe DuNord, 5/2010
- Flight of the Conchords @ the Greek, 5/2010
- Oxbow @ the Berkeley Art Museum, 6/2010
- The Residents @ the Berkeley Art Museum, 6/2010
- Sleepy Sun/Fresh & Onlys/Moon Duo @ the GAMH, 6/2010
- Jello Biafra/Guantanamo School of Medicine @ the GAMH, 8/2010
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Thee Oh Sees @ Bimbos, 9/2010
- Stereo Total @ Slim’s, 9/2010
- Billy Nayer Show @ the DuNord 10/2010
- The Coup @ the New Parish, 12/2010
