---------------------- GRADE A ---------------------- Various Artists ~ Balkan Fever Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts ~ Temporary People Joseph Arthur ~ Could We Survive? Joseph Arthur ~ Crazy Rain Joseph Arthur ~ Foreign Girl Joseph Arthur ~ Vagabond Skies Devotchka ~ A Mad And Faithful Telling Ray LaMontagne ~ Gossip In The Grain Thee Emergency ~ Solid Elliott Brood ~ Mountain Meadows Firewater ~ The Golden Hour Cloud Cult ~ Feel-Good Ghosts The Decemberists ~ Always The Bridesmaid Colin Meloy ~ Colin Meloy Sings Live! Colin Meloy ~ Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke The Black Angels ~ Directions To See A Ghost The Foxboro Hot Tubs ~ Stop, Drop, And Roll!!! The Dandy Warhols ~ Earth To The Dandy Warhols Willie Nile ~ Live From The Streets Of New York Elbow ~ The Seldom-Seen Kid Boris ~ Smile Boris with Michio Kurihara ~ Cloud Chamber Spiritualized ~ Songs In A & E Ladytron ~ Velocifero The Hold-Steady ~ Stay Positive Black Mountain ~ In The Future Lindsey Buckingham ~ Gift Of Screws Lindsey Buckingham ~ Live At The Bass Performance Hall Two-Cow Garage ~ Speaking In Cursive Sera Cahoone ~ Only As The Day Is Long Bloc Party ~ Intimacy Buck 65 ~ Heck Buck 65 ~ The Dirtbike Project Buck 65 ~ with Symphony Nova Scotia Parts And Labor ~ Receivers Parts And Labor ~ Escapers Two Phantom Planet ~ Raise The Dead The B-52s ~ Funplex Greg Laswell ~ Three Flights From Alto Nido Bodies Of Water ~ A Certain Feeling Sam Phillips ~ Don't Do Anything The Tallest Man On Earth ~ Shallow Grave The Nightwatchman ~ The Fabled City One Day As A Lion ~ One Day As A Lion 31 Knots ~ Worried Well The Verve ~ Forth Darker My Love ~ 2 The Bad Things ~ It'll All Be Over Soon Laura Marling ~ Alas, I Cannot Swim Mates Of State ~ Re-Arrange Us The Fratellis ~ Here We Stand The Fuck-Buttons ~ Street-Horrrsing Grace Jones ~ Hurricane John Mellencamp ~ Life, Death, Love, And Freedom The Ting-Tings ~ We Started Nothing Grampall Jookabox ~ Ropechain Why? ~ Alopecia ---------------------- GRADE A- ---------------------- Slim Cessna's Auto Club ~ Cipher Destroyer ~ Trouble In Dreams Calexico ~ Carried To Dust The Raveonettes ~ Lust Lust Lust The Duke Spirit ~ Neptune The Dirtbombs ~ We Have You Surrounded Metric ~ Live At Metropolis David Vandervelde ~ Waiting For The Sun To Rise Sigur Ros ~ Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust Kristin Hersh ~ Speedbath The Moondoggies ~ Don't Be A Stranger Lou Reed ~ Berlin soundtrack Margot And The Nuclear So-And-Sos ~ Animal! Margot And The Nuclear So-And-Sos ~ Not Animal Ra Ra Riot ~ The Rhumb Line Jenny Lewis ~ Acid Tongue Nomo ~ Ghost-Rock Joan Osbourne ~ Little Wild One Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band ~ Conor Oberst The Cat Empire ~ So Many Nights Hayden ~ In Field And Town Grand Archives ~ The Grand Archives The Dears ~ Missiles The Zutons ~ You Can Do Anything Emiliana Torrini ~ Me And Armini The Cold-War Kids ~ Loyalty To Loyalty Gustav ~ Verlass Die Stadt Korperwelten ~ Avatars Of Rape And Rage Nordvargr ~ Helvete Nordvargr ~ Interstellar Nordvargr ~ Pyrrhula Ryan Adams & The Cardinals ~ Cardinology Korpiklaani ~ Korven Kuningas Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Pink Lady Lemonade Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso UFO ~ Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness The Airborne Toxic Event ~ The Airborne Toxic Event The Headlights ~ Some Racing, Some Stopping Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara ~ Soul Science The Helio Sequence ~ Keep Your Eyes Ahead Sonic Youth ~ Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth Sonic Youth ~ J'accuse Ted Hughes Wolf Parade ~ At Mt. Zoomer Johnny Flynn ~ A Larum The Foals ~ Antidotes ---------------------- GRADE B+ ---------------------- The Last Shadow-Puppets ~ The Age Of The Understatement Vetiver ~ Thing Of The Past Deerhunter ~ Microcastle Deerhunter ~ Weird Era Continued James McMurtry ~ Just Us Kids Weezer ~ The Red Album Weezer ~ Christmas With Weezer Clinic ~ Do It! The Duhks ~ Fast-Paced World Johnny Dowd ~ A Drunkard's Masterpiece TV On The Radio ~ Dear Science The Submarines ~ Honeysuckle Weeks British Sea Power ~ Do You Like Rock Music? The Welcome-Wagon ~ Welcome To The Welcome-Wagon Centro-Matic ~ Dual Hawks Robedoor ~ Closer To The Cliff Secret Chiefs Three ~ Xaphan Die Amsterdam Klezmer Band ~ Zaraza David Byrne and Brian Eno ~ Everything That Happens Will Happen To-Day The Aliens ~ Luna Earthless ~ Live At Roadburn Sheryl Crow ~ Detours Sheryl Crow ~ Home For Christmas Yann Tiersen ~ Tabarly soundtrack Dead Confederate ~ Wrecking-Ball Howlin' Rain ~ Magnificent Fiend Shogu Tokumaru ~ Exit El Guincho ~ Alegranza Lykke Li ~ Youth Novels Sid And Fancy ~ Barrelhouse Angelinas Merzbow ~ Anicca Merzbow ~ Dead Leaves Merzbow ~ Dolphin Sonar Merzbow ~ Eucalypse Merzbow ~ Here Merzbow ~ Hodosan Merzbow ~ Peace For Animals Merzbow ~ Protean World Merzbow ~ Tombo Porn and Merzbow ~ ...And The Devil Makes Three The Shortwave Set ~ Replica Sun-Machine Man Man ~ Rabbit Habits Amadou and Mariam ~ Welcome To Mali Puscifer ~ V Is For Viagra Puscifer ~ D Is For Dubby Rodrigo y Gabriela ~ Live In Japan Fujiya and Miyagi ~ Lightbulbs Matthew Sweet ~ Sunshine Lies Faun Fables ~ A Table Forgotten Kocani Orkestar ~ The Ravished Bride ---------------------- GRADE B ---------------------- Jason Collett ~ Here's To Being Here Creature ~ Creature The Magnetic Fields ~ Distortion The Bird And The Bee ~ Ray-Guns Are Not Just The Future Tokyo Police Club ~ Elephant Shell Mercury Rev ~ Strange Attractor Mercury Rev ~ Snowflake Midnight The Foo-Fighters ~ Live At Wembley Blitzen Trapper ~ Furr Colour Revolt ~ Plunder, Beg, And Curse PG Lost ~ It's Not Me, It's You! Louis XIV ~ Slick Dogs And Ponies Adem ~ Takes Ani DiFranco ~ Red-Letter Year The Fall ~ Imperial Wax Solvent The Notwist ~ The Devil, You + Me James Yorkston ~ When The Haar Rolls In Megapuss ~ Surfing Catfish Haven ~ Devastator The Vivian Girls ~ The Vivian Girls Andre Ethier ~ Born On Blue Fog The Kooks ~ Konk Jack Johnson ~ Sleep Through The Static Gnarls Barkley ~ The Odd Couple Ben Folds ~ Way To Normal The Tindersticks ~ The Hungry Saw The Broken West ~ Now Or Heaven Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Giant Sand ~ Provisions The Horror-Pops ~ Kiss Kiss Kill Kill Shearwater ~ Rook Portishead ~ Third Van Morrison ~ Keep It Simple Mogwai ~ The Hawk Is Howling R.E.M. ~ Accelerate Aimee Mann ~ Fuckin' Smilers Paul Weller ~ 22 Dreams The Whigs ~ Mission Control Helms Alee ~ Night Terror Elf-Power ~ In A Cave Department Of Eagles ~ In Ear Park Noah And The Whale ~ Peaceful The World Lays Me Down The Kills ~ Midnight Boom American Music Club ~ The Golden Age Glasvegas ~ Glasvegas Dead Meadow ~ Old Growth Santogold ~ Santogold The Do ~ A Mouthful The Walkmen ~ You And Me Earth ~ The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull Lizz Wright ~ The Orchard The Dutchess And The Duke ~ She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke Secret Machines ~ The Secret Machines The Mountain Goats ~ Heretic Pride The Gutter Twins ~ Saturnalia Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan ~ Sunday At Devil Dirt The Waco Brothers ~ Waco Express Kelley Stoltz ~ Circular Sounds Snow Patrol ~ A Hundred Million Suns The Management ~ Oracular Spectacular God Is An Astronaut ~ God Is An Astronaut Jolie Holland ~ The Living And The Dead Cheb I Sabbah ~ Devotion The Rosebuds ~ Life-Like Duffy ~ Rockferry Randy Newman ~ Harps And Angels Apollo Sunshine ~ Shall Noise Upon These New Puritans ~ Beat-Pyramid ---------------------- GRADE B- ---------------------- Crooked Fingers ~ Forfeit/Fortune The Black Keys ~ Attack And Release Frightened Rabbit ~ The Midnight Organ-Fight Nikka Costa ~ Pebble To A Pearl Mudcrutch ~ Mudcrutch The Dodos ~ Visiter Nurse With Wound ~ Huffin'-Rag Blues Damien Jurado ~ Caught In The Trees Herman Dune ~ Next Year In Zion Chicha Libre ~ ¡Sonido Amazonico! Judas Priest ~ Nostradamus Beach House ~ Devotion Sons And Daughters ~ This Gift Jackson Browne ~ Time, The Conqueror Ida Maria ~ Fortress Around My Heart Mostly Autumn ~ Glass Shadows Kathy Mattea ~ Coal White Denim ~ Workout Holiday Local H ~ Twelve Angry Months Okkervil River ~ The Stand-Ins Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks ~ Real Emotional Trash Eagles Of Death-Metal ~ Heart-On Ane Brun ~ Changing Of The Seasons Sparks ~ Exotic Creatures Of The Deep What Made Milwaukee Famous ~ What Doesn't Kill Us Dengue Fever ~ Venus On Earth The Flaming Lips ~ Christmas On Mars soundtrack The War On Drugs ~ Wagonwheel Blues The War On Drugs ~ Barrel Of Batteries Elvis Costello & The Imposters ~ Momofuku No Age ~ Nouns Rush ~ Snakes And Arrows Live Albert Hammond, Jr. ~ ¿Cómo Te Llama? El Perro Del Mar ~ From The Valley To The Stars Abigail Washburn ~ Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet Times New Viking ~ Rip It Off The Stills ~ Oceans Will Rise Brian Jonestown Massacre ~ My Bloody Underground Tracy Chapman ~ Our Bright Future Fleet Foxes ~ Fleet Foxes Of Montreal ~ Skeletal Lamping Beth Rowley ~ Little Dreamer