Top 20 Records of 2010

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