Albums of 2010: Artists and Bands
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Colin Frangicetto (Circa Survive)
1. Portugal the Man - American Ghetto
2. Autolux - Transit Transit
3. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
4. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
5. The Black Keys - Brothers
6. The National - High Violet
7. Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
8. Cheap Seats - Truth and Soul Sessions
9. Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
10. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Neil Westfall (A Day To The Remember)
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Local Natives- Gorilla Manor
3. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
4. The Black Keys - Brothers
5. Minus The Bear - OMNI
6. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
7. Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam
8. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
9. RJD2 - The Colossus
10. Vampire Weekend - Contra
LIGHTS
1. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
2. Jonsi - Go
3. Shad - TSOL
4. Gorillaz - Plastc Beach
5. The Black Keys - Brothers
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
7. Jeremy Fisher - Flood
8. The Golden Filter - Voluspa
9. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
10. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Frank Turner
1. Tim Barry - 28th & Stonewall
2. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
3. Retrospective Soundrack Players - Cool Hand Luke
4. Possessed By Paul james - Feed The Family
5. Nail - Unsilent Death
6. Murder By Death - Good Morning Magpie
7. Ed Harcourt - Lustre
8. Dive Dive - Potential
9. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
10. Danny & The Champions Of The World - Streets Of Our Time
Tip For 2011: Ben Marwood
Gustav Wood (Young Guns)
1. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
2. Comeback Kid - Symptoms And Cures
3. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
4. Your Demise - The Kids We Used to be
5. Middle Class Rut - No Name No Colour
6. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
9. The Swellers - Ups And Downsizing
10. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.
Tip for 2011: Deaf Havana
Murray MacLeod (The Xcerts)
1. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
2. No Age - Everything In Between
3. Bad Books - Bad Books
4. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
7. Wavves - King Of The beach
8. Tim Kasher - The Game of Monogamy
9. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
10. Eminem - Recovery
Scott Peters (Canterbury)
1. Foals - Total Life Forever
2. Twin Atlantic - Vivarium
3. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
4. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
5. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
6. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
7. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
8. The Script - Science & Faith
9. You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
10. Tinie Tempah - The Disc-Overy
Tip for 2011: Canterbury - Twelve Months
Jimmie Deeghan (Every Avenue)
1. Val Emmich - Looking For A Feeling You Never Knew You Needed
2. Steel Train - Steel Train
3. The Stationary Set - Hip Hip Hooray! EP
4. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
6. You Me and Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out
7. Futures - The Holiday
8. Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans
9. Wilson - Standing On The Reel
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless
Tay Jardine (We Are The In Crowd)
1. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
2. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
3. You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
4. Go Radio - Do Overs and Second Chances
5. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
6. The Morning Of - The Way I Fell In
7. Terrible Things - Terrible Things
8. Bruno Mars - Doo-wops & Hooligans
9. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
10. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.
Tip for 2011: He Is We
Man Overboard
1. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
2. Fireworks - All I Have To Offer
3. Coliseum - House With A Curse
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
6. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
7. Trash Talk - Eyes and Nines
8. Tigers Jaw/Balance and Composure - Split
9. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
10. Sleigh Bells - Treats
Transit
1. The Menzingers- Chamberlain Waits
2. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
3. Tigers Jaw / Balance & Composure - Split
4. The Dopamines - Expect the Worst0
5. Bad Books - Bad Books
6. Grown Ups - More Songs
7. Iron Chic - Not Like This
8. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion
9. Seahaven - Ghost
10. Sleigh Bells - Treats
The Cape Race
1. Ellie Goulding - Lights
2. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
6. The Graduate - Only Every Time
7. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
8. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
9. Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
10. The Morning Of - The Way I Fell In
Peter "JR" Wasilewski (Less Than Jake)
1. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
2. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
3. Vampire Weekend - Contra
4. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
6. B.o.B. - Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
7. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
10. Never Shout Never - Harmony
Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake/Paper + Plastick)
1. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
2. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile
3. Off! - The First 4 EP's
4. Teenage BottleRocket - Skate or Die
5. Blacklist Royals - Semper Liberi
6. The Dopamines - Expect the Worst
7. Carpenter - Sea To Sky
8. Iron Chic - Not Like This
9. The Arrivals - Volatile Molotov
10. Flatliners - Cavalcade
Matt Arsenault (A Loss For Words)
1. Man Overboard - Real Talk
2. The Ghost Inside - Returners
3. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
4. Terror - Keepers of the Faith
5. Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
6. Trey Songz - Passion, Pain, and Pleasure
7. Justin Beiber - My World
8. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
9. NEYO - Libra Scale
10. Cee Lo Green - Lady Killer
Tip(s) for 2011: Bad Rabbits, Such Gold, Transit, and Man Overboard
Brendan McHugh (Everyone Everywhere)
1. No Age - Everything In Between
2. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
4. Wild Nothing - Gemini
5. The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth
6. Twin Sister - Color Your Life
7. Baths - Cerulean
8. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
9. LCD Soundsytem - This Is Happening
10. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Matt Scottoline (Everyone Everywhere)
1. Best Coast - Crazy For You
2. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
3. Wild Nothing - Gemini
4. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
5. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
6. Eux Autres - Broken Bow
7. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
8. Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love
9. Twin Sister - Color Your Life
10. No Age - Everything In Between
Tommy Manson (Everyone Everywhere)
1. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
3. Best Coast - Crazy For You
4. Spraynard - Cut and Paste
5. It's a King Thing - Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo
6. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
7. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Ted Leo - The Brutalist Bricks
10. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Matt Carroll (Make Do And Mend)
1. La Dispute/Touche Amore - Searching For A Pulse/Worth Of The World
2. Seahaven - Ghost
3. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
4. Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds
5. Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
6. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You to Someone
7. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
8. Tigers Jaw/Balance and Composure - Split 12”
9. The Flatliners – Cavalcade
10. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
Mike O'Toole (Make Do And Mend)
1. The National - High Violet
2. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
3. Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
4. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
5. Carpenter - Sea to Sky
6. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
7. Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
8. Tobacco - Maniac Meat
9. Time Crisis - Time Crisis
10. End of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
Mike Poulin (Make Do And Mend)
1. The Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears
2. Balance And Composure/La Dispute
3. Seahaven - Ghost
4. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
5. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
6. End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
7. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
8. The Stereo State - Cafeine, Beer and Quoting Movies
9. La Dispute/Touche Amore - Searching For A Pulse/Worth Of The World
10. Carpenter - Sea To Sky
Jumping Ships
1. The National - High Violet
2. The Xcerts - scatterbrain
3. Foals - Total Life Forever
4. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
5. Everything Everything - Man Alive
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
7. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
8. Mew - Eggs Are Funny
9. Periphery - Periphery
10. Straight Lines - Persistance In This Game
Tip for 2011: My Chemical Romance
Tiger Please
1. Straight Lines - Persistence In This Game
2. Airborne Toxic Event - All I Ever Wanted
3. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Foals - Total Life Forever
6. Cee-lo Green - The Lady Killer
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
8. The National - High Violet
9. The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun (UK release)
10. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place
Tip for 2011: Cuba Cuba
Chris T-T
1. Gill Sandell - Tarry Awhile
2. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
3. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
4. The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
5. Thirty Pounds Of Bone - Method
6. Grasscut - 1 Inch 1/2 Mile
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Far - At Night We Live
9. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
10. Bellowhead - Hedonism
Tip(s) for 2011: Singing Adams and Ben Marwood
Rob Lynch (Lost On Campus)
1. The Candle Thieves - Sunshine And Other Misfortunes
2. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
3. You, Me And Everyone We Know - Some Things Just Don't Wash Out
4. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell Believe I've Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret
5. Jason Derulo - Jason Derulo
6. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
7. Jonsi - Go
8. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
9. Tiger Please - Seasons
10. Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost
Ciarán Parnell (Starters)
1. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
2. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
3. Enemies - We've Been Talking
4. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
5. Brighten - Be Human
6. And So I Watch You From Afar - Letters EP
7. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
8. Pierce The Veil - Selfish Machines
9. Such Gold - Pedestals
10. Sleeping At Last - Yearbook Project
Tip for 2011: And So I Watch You From Afar
Ian Kelly (Starters)
1. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
2. Man Overboard - Real Talk
3. Basement - Songs About The Weather
4. Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds
5. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
6. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
7. Such Gold - Pedestals
8. True Things - Alone In a Room
9. Terror - Keepers Of The Faith
10. No Guts No Glory - Hidden In The Light
Tip(s) for 2011: Basement, Fireworks, Crucial Dudes and Title Fight
Luke Leighfield
1. Ellie Goulding - Lights
2. Israel Houghton - Love God. Love People.
3. Jonsi - Go
4. Mates of State - Crushes
5. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
6. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
7. Nicholas Stevenson - Phantom Sweetheart
8. The Candle Thieves - Sunshine and Other Misfortunes
9. The Rocket Summer - Of Men and Angels
10. The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
Chris Pennings (Thieves and Villains)
1. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
2. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
3. Wavves - King of the Beach
4. The National - High Violet
5. Kanye West - G.O.O.D Friday mixtapes
6. Vampire Weekend - Contra
7. Hellogoodbe - Daytrotter session
8. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
9. Such Gold - Pedestals
10. Andy Hull - Daytrotter Session
Tip for 2011: Manchester Orchestra
Sergio Otaegui (Thieves and Villains)
1. Curren$y - Pilot Talk
2. Beach House - Teen Dream
3. Toro y Moi - Causers of This
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
6. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh
7. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
8. Marvia Staples - You Are Not Alone
9. The Roots - How I Got Over
10. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Luke Barham (Stagecoach)
1. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
2. Sky Larkin - Kaleide
3. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
4. Standard Fare - The Noyelle Beat
5. She & Him - Volume Two
6. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
7. My First Tooth - Territories
8. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
9. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
10. Diana Vickers - Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree/Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology
Tip for 2011: The JCQ
Matt Emery (Stagecoach)
1. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
2. Baths - Cerulian
3. Talons - Hollow Realm
4. Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
5. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
6. My First Tooth - Territories
7. Bad Books - Bad Books
8. War Paint - The Fool
9. Nicholas Stevenson - Phantom Sweetheart
10. Hold Your Horse Is - Rammin' It Home
Ross Witt(My First Tooth)
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy
3. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
4. Perfume Genius – Learning
5. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
6. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
7. Baths - Cerulean
8. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
9. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
10. Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now
Tip For 2011: Stagecoach, Tellison, Frontier Ruckus and Abie Budgen.
David Fidler (Close Your Eyes)
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. MGMT - Congratulations
3. The Black Keys - Brothers
4. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
5. Kele - The Boxer
6. Local Natives - Local Natives
7. No Age - Everything In-Between
8. Vampire Weekend - Contra
9. Tim Kasher - The Game of Monogamy
10. Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love
Auggie Rampolla (You Me and Everyone We Know)
1. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
2. Hello Goodbye - Would It Kill You
3. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
4. Good Old War - Self-Titled
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra
6. Steel Train - Self-Titled
7. Anarbor - The Words You Don't Swallow
8. The Young Veins - Take A Vacation
9. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
10. Miniature Tigers - Fortress
Nicholas Stevenson
1. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
4. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
5. Little Sea Monsters - Bear On My Back
6. Bayonets - So Afraid of Different
7. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
9. Miniature Tigers - Fortress
10. Chief - Modern Rituals
Tip for 2011: Little Sea Monsters, Stagecoach, Ute, Oliver Wilde and Chief.
O'Brother
1. Clint Mansell - Black Swan Soundtrack
2. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn in Human Kindness
3. Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
4. Colour Revolt - The Cradle
5. Beach House - Teen Dream
6. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
7. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
8. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
9. Hans Zimmer - Inception Soundtrack
10. The National - High Violet
Handguns
1. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
2. Man Overboard - Real Talk
3. Terror - Keepers Of The Faith
4. The Story So Far - Split
5. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
6. To New Beginnings - Friends Of Famous Men
7. A Loss For Words - The Kids Can't Loose
8. Fireworks - All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion
9. I Call Fives - Bad Advice
10. Major League - The Truth Is
Tilian Pearson (Tides of Men)
1. Periphery - Periphery
2. Pierce The Veil - Selfish Machines
3. Oceana - Clean Head EP.
4. Analog Rebellion - Ancient Electrons
5. Maps and Atlases - Perch Patchwork
6. Veil Of Maya - Id
7. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
8. Minus the Bear - Omni
9. Woe Is Me - Numbers
10. Chiodos - Illuminadio
Cuba Cuba
1. Foals - Total life forever
2. Tiger Please - Seasons
3. Straight Lines - Persistence in this game
4. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
5. In Gratitude - Only in Youth
6. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
7. The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. Tubelord - First American Friends
10. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Tip for 2011: Our yet untitled album!
Sam Little
1. Maroon 5 - Hands All Over
2. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
3. The Candle Thieves - Sunshine and Other Misfortunes
4. Bring Me The Horizon - There is a Hell
5. Michael Buble - Crazy Love
6. Ellie Goulding - Lights
7. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
8. You, Me and Everyone We Know - Something Don't Wash Out
9. Eminem - Recovery
10. Pixie Lott - Turn It Up (Louder)
Tip for 2011: Portia Conn
Reed Wolcott (We Are The Union)
1. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
2. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
3. Bad Religion - Dissent Of Man
4. Against Me - White Crosses
5. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
6. Punchline - Delightfully Pleased
7. Hellmouth - Graveyard Skylines
8. Off With Their Heads - In Desolation
9. Go Rydell - The Golden Age
10. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
Tip for 2011: Fireworks
Jim Margle (We Are The Union)
1. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
2. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
3. Heartsounds - S/T (Rerelease)
4. Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton - S/T
5. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
6. Hostage Calm - S/T
7. Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy
8. The Dopamines - Expect The Worst
9. Go Rydell - The Golden Age
10. Hellmouth - Gravestone Skylines
Tip for 2011: No Trigger
Pat Kim (Thousand Watt Stare/Unwritten Law)
1. Bob Seger - Mongrel
2. The Cramps - Smell Of Female
3. Slayer - World Painted Blood
4. Death (not the death metal band, the Detroit rock band)- For The Whole World To See
5. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
6. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
7. Cavalaera Conspiracy - Inflikted
8. Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move
9. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
10. Danzig - Danzig
Landon Tewers (The Plot In You)
1. Underoath - Disambiguation
2. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is a Hell Trust Me, I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
3. Oceana - Clean Head
4. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
5. It Prevails - Findings
6. The Devil Wears Prada - Zombie EP
7. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
8. Lydia - Assailants
9. For Today - Breaker
10. The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
Tyron Layley (What Now)
1. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
2. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
3. Mumford & Sons - Sign No More
4. Vampire Weekend - Contra
5. The Temper Trap - Conditions
6. Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
7. Weezer - Death to False Metal
8. The National - High Violet
9. Jonsi - Go
10. Bryan Adams - Bare Bones
Ryan Morris (What Now)
1. My Chemical Romance - The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
2. Weezer - Hurley
3. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
4. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
5. 3OH!3 - Streets Of Gold
6. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place
7. Good Charlotte - Cardiology
8. Angels & Airwaves - Love
9. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
10.OK GO - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
Barry Parkinson (Goonies Never Say Die)
1. Foals - total Life Forever
2. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
3. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
4. And So I Watch You From Afar - The Letters EP
5. Dorena - About Everything And More
6. Nigel Godrich - Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Original Motion Picture Score
7. Athletics - Why Aren't I At Home
8. Mauser - Row Yer Boat
9. Makers Of Venice - Makers Of Venice
10. Midas Fall - Eleven Return And Repeat
Tips for 2011: Baby Godzilla, Mauser, You Animals and Makers Of Venice
Paul Pendley (Red City Radio)
1. The Riot Before - Rebellion
2. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
3. Gamits- Parts
4. Dopamines - Expect the Worst
5. Iron Chic - Not like this
6. RVIVR - RVIVR
7. Superchunk - Majestic Shredding
8. Bars of Gold - Of Gold
9. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile
10. Johnny Polygon - Rebel Without Applause
Alex Awn (Hellmouth)
1. Coliseum - House With A Curse
2. Watain - Lawless Darkness
3. Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons
4. Black Anvil - Triumvirate
5. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
6. the Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore
7. Alcest - Ecailles De Lune
8. Immolation - Majesty And Decay
9. Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
10. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Tip for 2011: Black Anvil
Justin Malek (Hellmouth)
1. The Devils Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore
2. Lantlos - .neon
3. Watain - Lawless Darkness
4. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
5. Bars of Gold - Of Gold
6. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt II
7. Energy - Walk into the Fire
8. Child Bite - The Living Breathing Organ Summer
9. Minus The Bear - Omni
10. Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy
Tip for 2011: My Name is Drew
Let Me Run
1. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
2. Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
3. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
4. Jonsi - Go
5. Ben Folds & Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
6. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
7. Tom Petty And The Hearbreakers - Mojo
8. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
9. The Arteries - Dead Sea
10. Melissa Etheridge - Fearless Love
Tip for 2011: Gates
Snævar Njáll Albertsson (Mimas/Dad Rocks)
1. Fang Island - Fang Island
2. Baths - Cerulean
3. Maps And Atlases - Perch Patchwork
4. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
5. Beach House - Teen Dream
6. Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
7. Talons - Hollow Realm
8. Menomena - Mines
9. Caribou - Swim
10. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Tip for 2011: Tall Ships
Brad Wiseman (This Time Next Year/Misser)
1. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
2. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
3. Letlive - Fake History
4. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone
5. Stay Ahead of the Weather - Better Get Goin If Were Gunna
6. Terror - Keepers of The Faith
7. Balance and Composure / Tigers Jaw - Split
8. Menzingers - Chamberlin Waits
9. Mozart Season - Nightmares
10. Noisia - Split The Atom
Pete Dowdalls (This Time Next Year)
1. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
2. Terror - Keepers of the Faith
3. Tigers Jaw/Balance and Composure - Split EP
4. Harm's Way - No Gods, No Masters
5. Grown Ups - More Songs
6. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
7. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
8. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
9. Good Old War - Good Old War
10. Heartsounds - Until We Surrender
Layla Brooklyn Allman (Picture Me Broken)
1. Eminem - Recovery
2. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
3. The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
4. Rihanna - Loud
5. We Are The Fallen - Tear The World Down
6. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
7. Usher - Raymond vs Raymond
8. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
9. Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
10. Alesana - The Emptiness
Andrew Baylis (Life On Repeat)
1. Periphery - Periphery
2. Conditions - Fluorescent Youth
3. Sent By Ravens - Our Graceful Words
4. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
5. This or The Apocalypse - Haunt What's Left
6. Underoath - Disambiguation
7. Pierce The Veil - Selfish Machines
8. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
9. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
10. Mychildren Mybride - Lost Boys
Dan Briggs (ORBS)
1. Field Music - Measure
2. Oceansize - Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
3. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
4. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
5. Jonsi - Go
6. Junior Astronomers - I Just Want To Make A Statement
7. Margot And The Nuclear So And So's - Buzzard
8. John McLaughlin - To The One
9. Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam
10. Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Giles Bidder (Cynics)
1. Iron Chic - Not Like This
2. Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw
3. The Sidekicks - Weight Of Air
4. ONSIND - Dissatisfactions
5. Weezer - Pinkerton (Reissue)
6. Crazy Arm - Born To Run
7. The Arteries - Dead Sea
8. None More Black - Icons
9. The Skints - Live. Breathe. Build. Believe.
10. The Riot Before - Rebellion
Tip for 2011: Sam Russo (not just 2011 - the rest of your life) and Apologies, I Have None.
Drive A
1. The Damned Things- We've Got A Situation Here
2. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
3. Converge - You Fail Me
4. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
5. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
6. Terror - Keepers Of The Faith
7. Comeback Kid - Symptoms + Cures
8. After The Burial - In Dreams
9. Fake Problems- Real Ghosts Caught On Tape
10. Drive A - Loss Of Desire
This Drama
1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2. Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
3. Minus The Bear - Omni
4. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
7. Weezer - Hurley
8. Danko Jones Below The Belt
9. Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
10. Hole - Nobody's Daughter
Tip for 2011: The Night Marchers
Moonlit Sailor
1. Foals - Total Life Forever
2. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
3. Marina & the Diamonds - The Family Jewels
4. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
5. Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
6. The Radio Dept - Clinging to a scheme
7. Daniel Adams Ray - Svart, Vitt Och Allt Däremellan
8. The Drums - The Drums
9. Dorena - About Everything and More
10. Miike Snow - Animal
Dorena
1. The National - High Violet
2. Håkan Hellström - 2 Steg Från Paradise
3. Masshysteri - Masshysteri
4. Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entrophy
5. Jónsi - Go
6. Holy Fuck - Latin
7. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
8. No Age - Everything In Between
9. Envy - Recitation
10. EF - Mourning Golden Morning
Tip for 2011: Explosions In The Sky
Late Night Condition
1. Bad Religion - the dissent of man
2. Interpol - Interpol
3. Boys Noize - Power
4. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
5. The Weakerthans - Live At The Burton Cummings Theater
6. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?
7. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
8. Les Sages - Share This
9. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
10. She sears - I Found Myself Asleep
Tip for 2011: Athletics
Ben Marwood
1. Chris T-T - Love Is Not Rescue
2. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
3. Elliot Smith - An Introduction To..
4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. Two Men Gentlemen Band - Dos Amigos Una Fiesta
6. Black Keys - Brothers
7. Pavement - Quarantine The Past
8. Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
9. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
10. Johnny Flynn - Been Listening
Tip For 2011: Hold Your Horse Is
Next Stop Atlantic
1. Chunk!No Captain Chunk - Something for Nothing
2. Rufio - Anybody Out There
3. Lower Than Atlantis - Far Q
4. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. Pulled Apart By Horse - Pulled Apart By Horses
6. Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World
7. Weezer - Hurley
8. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
9. The Script - Science and Faith
10. Last Lungs - Look At That Old Grizzly Bear
Sam Hague (The Rookie League)
1. The Wonder Years – The Upsides
2. Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
3. Bring Me The Horizon – There’s a hell…
4. A Day To Remember – What separates me from you
5. Just Surrender – Phoenix
6. The Swellers – Ups and Downsizing
7. Jimmy Eat World – Invented
8. Angels and Airwaves – LOVE
9. Me Vs Hero – The Days That Shape Our Lives
10. Chunk! No Captain Chunk! – Something For Nothing
Final Round...FIGHT!
1. Look What I Did - Atlas Drugged
2. Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed and Cursed
3. The Chariot - Long Live
4. Far - At Night We Live
5. Lower Than Atlantis - FAR Q
6. Periphery - Periphery
7. Blitz Kids - Scavengers
8. Sombulance - A Cynics Response
9. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
10. Rinoa - An Age Among Them
Mike Moak (After The Fall)
1. Leatherface - Stormy Petrel
2. Coughing Fit - Getting Natural 7"
3. Stephen Egerton - 7 Degrees of Stephen Egerton
4. Nomo's - Notes From The Acheron 12"
5. The Stereo State - Matt Goes To Baltimore 7"
6. Iron Chic - Not Like This
7. Nightmares For A Week - Don't Die
8. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
9. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
10. Such Gold - Pedestals
Kylewilliam Campol (Imadethismistake)
1. One Night Stand in North Dakota - Dissatisfactions
2. Howl - Full of Hell
3. Against Me! - White Crosses
4. Weak Teeth - Weak Teeth
5. Apologies, I Have None - Joiners + Windmills
6. Mose Giganticus - Gift Horse***
7. Look Mexico - To Bed to Battle
8. Balance & Composure / Tigers Jaw - Split
9. Bars of Gold - Of Gold
10. Run Forever - The Devil and Death and Me
Andy Thomas (Tin Horn Prayer)
1. Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
2. Murder by Death – Good Morning, Magpie
3. Deftones – Diamond Eyes
4. Possessed by Paul James – Feed Your Family
5. Fake Problems – Real Ghosts Caught On Tape
6. Jared Grabb – Where Do You Hide Your Love Songs?
7. Joe Pug – Messenger
8. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
9. The Riot Before – Rebellion
10. Drive By Truckers – The Big To-Do
Dan Doggett (Monument)
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Grown Ups - More Songs
3. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
4. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
5 Iron Chic - Not Like This
6. Castevet - The Echo and the Light7. Duck, Little Brother, Duck! - Survival Is Not A Workout
8. Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere
9. Malegoat - To Face the Music
10. Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms
Tip for 2011: Bandname
Jeremy Barnes (Only Thieves)
1. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Against Me! - White Crosses
4. The National - High Violet
5. Spoon - Transference
6. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
7. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
8. Drake - Thank Me Later
9. Vampire Weekend - Contra
10. Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught on Tape
Tip for 2011: Movers and Shakers
Teresa Morini (Love Amongst Ruin)
1. You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
2. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
3. Massive Attack - Heligoland
4. Goldfrapp - Head First
5. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I can
6. Seth Lakeman - Hearts & Minds
7. The Destroyers - Out Of Babel
8. Foals - Total Life Forever
9. Hurts - Happiness
10. Love Amongst Ruin - Love Amongst Ruin
Tip for 2011: Band Of Skulls
Greg Karlowitsch (The Great Explainer)
1. Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
2. Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
3. The Riot Before - Rebellion
4. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
5. Iron Chic - Not Like This
6. Pacer - No. 1
7. Torche - Songs For Singles
8. The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. None More Black - Icons
10. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Drew Conte (I Call Fives)
1. The Wonder Years - The Upsides
2. Seahaven - Ghost
3. Born Without Bones - Say Hello
4. You, Me, & Everyone We Know - Some Things Don't Wash Out
5. Valencia - Dancing With a Ghost
6. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
7. Thieves & Villains - South America
8. Veara - What We Left Behind
9. Second To Last - Runaway EP
10. Heartsounds - Until We Surrender
Tip for 2011: Seahaven
Sean Morris (The Reveling)
1. Iron Chic - Not Like This
2. RVIVR - RVIVR
3. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile
4. Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy
5. Nightmares For A Week - Don't Die
6. RVIVR - Dirty Water EP
7. None More Black - Icons
8. Against Me! - White Crosses
9. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
10. The Joy Formidable - A Balloon Called Moaning
The Young International
1. The National - High Violet
2. Jonsi - Go
3. Dan Black - Dan Black
4. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
5. Andrew Belle - The Ladder
6. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
7. Keane - Night Train
8. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
9. The Civil Wars - Poison in Wine
10. Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
Jay Vanschelt (Within The Ruins)
1. The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
2. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
3. The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza - Danza III
4. Ion Dissonance - Cursed
5. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
7. Eminem - Recovery
8. The Chariot - Long Live
9. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
10. Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
Terry Dechenes (Blackguard)
1. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
2. Dakr Tranquility - We Are The Void
3. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
4. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
5. Catamenia - Cavalcade
6. Kataklysm - Heaven's Venom
7. Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned
8. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was
9. Lyzanxia - Locus
10. Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Justine Ethier (Blackguard)
1. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
2. Kalmah - 12 Gauge
3. After The Burial - In Dreams
4. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
5. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
6. Accept - Blood Of The Nations
7. Cradle Of Filth - Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa
8. Kataklysm - Heaven's Venom
9. Kamlelot - Poetry For The poisoned
10. The Dilinger Escape Plan - Ooption Paralysis
Kim Gosselin (Blackguard)
1. Equilibrium - Rekreatur
2. Powerglove - Saturday Morning Apocalypse
3. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
4. Marty Friedman - Bad DNA
5. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
6. Limbonic Art - Phantasmagoria
7. Sabaton - Coat Of Arms
8. Dream Evil - In The Night
9. Brain Drill - Quantum Catastrophe
10. Wumpscut - :Siamese
