ALBUMS (10 each)
1. Mar Sultan - Sultanic Verses
2. Meg Baird - Dear Companion
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
4. Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono
5. Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra - Space And Time
6. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water is Life
7. Harlan T. Bobo - I'm Your Man
8. Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
9. Om - Pilgrimage

TRACKS
1. Live Fast Die - Pissing on the Mainframe
2. Jay Reatard - I Know a Place
3. Fucked Up! - Year of the Pig
4. Nina Nasasia & Jim White - Late Night
5. Ghost - Caledonia
6. Strange Boys - Nothing
7. Thomas Function - Relentless Machine
8. Times New Viking - (My head)

REISSUES
1. The Staple Singers - The Best of the Vee-Jay Years
2. The Eat - It's Not the Eat It's the Humidity
3. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Jukebox Explosion
4. V/A - TALES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN UNDERGROUND 1976-1989
5. V/A - CULT CRAGO: GRAND BAHAMA GOOMBAY

ARTISTS
1. Jay Reatard
2. Daniel Higgs
3. Fucked Up!
4. The Black Lips
5. Tinariwen

COMMENTS
It was very, very difficult for me to choose just 10 albums and songs, and 5 artists and reissues given the amount of music I've heard this year, so I tried to 1) stay within the genres I know best, and 2) shoot from the hip.