- The Baseball Project – Broadside Ballads (S/R)
- Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
- Agent Ribbons – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
- Magic Bullets – S/T (Mon Amie)
- The Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (S/R)
- Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (Glassnote)
- She & Him – Volume Two (Merge)
- Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone (Anti-)
- Spoon – Transference (Merge)
- Evelyn Evelyn – S/T (Eleven)
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-a-Fella)
- Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
- Stereo Total – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
- Audra Mae – The Happiest Lamb (Side -One Dummy)
- Guitar Shorty – Bare Knuckle (Alligator])
- Marty Stuart – Ghost Train – The Studio B Sessions (Sugar Hill)
- Bettye LaVette – Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook (Anti-)
- Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
- The National – High Violet (Extended Edition) (4AD)
Top 5 Reissues of 2010
- The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (Universal)
- The Soft Boys – A Can Of Bees (Yep Roc)
- Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962–1964 (Columbia)
- Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run [Special Edition] (Concord)
- 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
