ALBUMS (10 each)
1. M.I.A. Kala Interscope
2. Jay-Z American Gangster Island Def Jam
3. Gogol Bordello Super Taranta! Side One Dummy
4. Grinderman Grinderman Anti/Epitaph
5. Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Sony BMG
6. Public Enemy How Do You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?" Slam Jamz
7. Various Artists Hyphy Hits TVT
8. Levon Helm Dirt Farmer Vanguard
9. Richard Thompson Sweet Warrior Shout Factory
10. Fratellis Costello Music Interscope

TRACKS
1. Amy Winehouse Rehab Universal Republic
2. Grinderman No Pussy Blues Anti/Epitaph
3. Rilo Kiley Smoke Detector Warner
4. LCD Soundsystem North American Scum Capitol
5. A Band of Bees Love in the Harbour Astralwerks/EMI
6. Bruce Springsteen Girls in Their Summer Clothes Sony BMG
7. Loudon Wainwright III Gray In L.A. Concord
8. Rihanna Shut Up and Drive Island Def Jam
9. Fountains of Wayne New Routine S-Curve
10. Luke Bryan All My Friends Say Capitol

COMMENTS
My picks suck, as usual. But not as badly as my Johnny Cash pick last year or Neil Young/Pearl Jam in 1995 or Arrested Development in 1992, I hope.