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Top 20 Records of 2010

Posted on July 4, 2014

  1. The Baseball Project – Broadside Ballads (S/R)
  2. Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
  3. Agent Ribbons – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
  4. Magic Bullets – S/T (Mon Amie)
  5. The Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
  6. The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (S/R)
  7. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (Glassnote)
  8. She & Him – Volume Two (Merge)
  9. Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone (Anti-)
  10. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
  11. Evelyn Evelyn – S/T (Eleven)
  12. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-a-Fella)
  13. Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
  14. Stereo Total – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
  15. Audra Mae – The Happiest Lamb (Side -One Dummy)
  16. Guitar Shorty – Bare Knuckle (Alligator])
  17. Marty Stuart – Ghost Train – The Studio B Sessions (Sugar Hill)
  18. Bettye LaVette – Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (Anti-)
  19. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
  20. The National – High Violet (Extended Edition) (4AD)

Top 5 Reissues of 2010

  1. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (Universal)
  2. The Soft Boys – A Can Of Bees (Yep Roc)
  3. Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962–1964 (Columbia)
  4. Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run [Special Edition] (Concord)
  5. John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy Stripped Down (Capitol)

Favorite singles of 2010

  • Secret Sisters – “Big River” (Third Man)
  • Shane MacGowan & Friends (feat. Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Paloma Faith & Eliza Doolittle) – “I Put A Spell On You” (IRL)

Favorite shows of 2010

  • The World Champion San Francisco Giants @ AT&T Park, all season long
  • Rykarda Parasol @ The Hemlock Tavern, February 18th
  • Explode Into Colors @ The Independent, March 10th
  • Camera Obscura @ Great American Music Hall, April 21st
  • Sadies @ Great American Music Hall, June 9th
  • Grinderman @ The Warfield, November 29th
  • Agent Ribbons @ The Burritt Room in The Crescent Hotel, December 17th

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