Best of 2010

50 Favorite Albums From 2010, Alphabetically

• the Apples in Stero - Travellers in Space and Time - Yep Roc
• Aloha - Home Acres - Polyvinyl
• Bare Wires - Seeking Love - Castle Face
• Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love - Matador
• The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night - Jagjaguwar
• the Black Angels - Phosphene Dream - Blue Horizon
• Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart - Jagjaguwar
• Bottomless Pit - Blood Under the Bridge - Comedy Minus One
• Cinema Red and Blue - Cinema Red and Blue - What's Your Rupture?
• Clinic - Bubblegum - Domino
• the Corin Tucker Band - 1,000 Years - Kill Rock Stars
• Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be - Sub Pop
• Eighteen Individual Eyes - Slightly Frightened, Mostly Happy - Self
• Eux Autres - Broken Bow - Bon Mots
• the Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter - Domino
• Frightened Rabbit - Winter of Mixed Drinks - Fatcat
• Grass Widow - Past Time - Kill Rock Stars
• Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday - Sub Pop
• Harlem - Hippies - Matador
• Here We Go Magic - Pigeons - Secretley Canadian
• Interpol - Interpol - Matador
• Jaill - That's How We Burn - Sub Pop
• Joey Ryan and the Inks - Well, Here We Are Then - Self
• Lightspeed Champion - Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You - Domino
• the Like - Release Me - Downtown
• Love is All - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries - Polyvinyl
• the Magnetic Fields - Realism - Nonesuch
• Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern - Kill Rock Stars
• Menomena - Mines - Barsuk
• Mondo Topless - Freaking Out - Get Hip
• the New Pornographers - Together - Matador
• Of Montreal - False Priest - Polyvinyl
• Past Lives - Tapestry of Webs - Suicide Squeeze
• Pigeons - Liasons - Soft Debris
• Pomegranates - One of Us - Afternoon
• Pontiak - Living - Thrill Jockey
• Quasi - American Gong - Kill Rock Stars
• Robert Pollard - Moses On A Snail - GBV, Inc.
• Jonathan Richman - O Moon, Queen of Night On Earth - Vapor
• the Salteens - Grey Eyes - Boompa
• Shout Out Louds - Work - Merge
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway - Polyvinyl
• Spoon - Transference - Merge
• Superchunk - Majesty Shredding - Merge
• Teenage Fanclub - Shadows - Merge
• the Vaselines - Sex With An X - Sub Pop
• the Whisperlights - Wake Up Dead - Self
• Wolf & Cub - Science and Sorcery - Last Gang
• Wolf Parade - Expo 86 - Sub Pop
• World Atlas - World Atlas EP - Magic Marker

Playlist for December 27, 2010

Best of 2010 Show!

9:00pm

• 9:04 PM - Spoon - I Saw The Light - Transference - Merge - 2010
• 9:09 PM - Love is All - The Birds Were Singing With All Their Might - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries - Polyvinyl - 2010
• 9:13 PM - Robert Pollard - Big Time Wrestling - Moses On A Snail - GBV, Inc. - 2010
• 9:20 PM - the Whisperlights - Death - Wake Up Dead - Self - 2010
• 9:25 PM - Mondo Topless - Magic Potion - Freaking Out - Get Hip - 2010
• 9:28 PM - Black Mountain - Let Spirits Ride - Wilderness Heart - Jagjaguwar - 2010
• 9:33 PM - Marnie Stern - Gimmie - Marnie Stern - Kill Rock Stars - 2010
• 9:36 PM - Quasi - Little White Horse - American Gong - Kill Rock Stars - 2010
• 9:41 PM - the Fall - Hot Cake - Your Future, Our Clutter - Domino - 2010
• 9:49 PM - Lightspeed Champion - Marlene - Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You - Domino - 2010
• 9:53 PM - the New Pornographers - Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk - Together - Matador - 2010
• 9:57 PM - Jaill - Everyone's Hip - That's How We Burn - Sub Pop - 2010

10:00pm

• 10:01 PM - Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You - Winter of Mixed Drinks - Fatcat - 2010
• 10:03 PM - Menomena - Taos - Mines - Barsuk - 2010
• 10:09 PM - Here We Go Magic - Old World United - Pigeons - Secretley Canadian - 2010
• 10:13 PM - Of Montreal - I Feel Ya' Strutter - False Priest - Polyvinyl - 2010
• 10:18 PM - the Apples in Stero - Dream About The Future - Travellers in Space and Time - Yep Roc
• 10:23 PM - Joey Ryan and the Inks - Yellow Bird - Well, Here We Are Then - Self - 2010
• 10:25 PM - the Like - Release Me - Release Me - Downtown - 2010
• 10:28 PM - World Atlas - Girl On A Boys Bike - World Atlas EP - Magic Marker - 2010
• 10:31 PM - *new* - Belle & Sebastian - I'm Not Living in the Real World - Write About Love - Matador - 2010
• 10:34 PM - the Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out Of Your Mind - Realism - Nonesuch - 2010
• 10:41 PM - *new* - Cinema Red and Blue - Ballad of an All-Nite Worker - Cinema Red and Blue - What's Your Rupture? - 2010
• 10:44 PM - Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La - I Will Be - Sub Pop - 2010
• 10:46 PM - Harlem - Torture Me - Hippies - Matador - 2010
• 10:49 PM - Happy Birthday - 2 Shy - Happy Birthday - Sub Pop - 2010
• 10:52 PM - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Sink - Let It Sway - Polyvinyl - 2010
• 10:55 PM - Eighteen Individual Eyes - Indian Princess - Slightly Frightened, Mostly Happy - Self - 2010

Playlist for December 20, 2010

Merry Christmas!

9:00pm

• 9:02 PM - the Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
• 9:07 PM - *new* - the Russian Futurists - 100 Shopping Days 'Til Christmas - The Weight's On the Wheels - Upper Class - 2010
• 9:10 PM - *new* - Jail Weddings - Staring at the Stars - Love Is Lawless - White Noise/Tru Vow - 2010
• 9:17 PM - *new* - Circle - Into The Sun - Molasses Sandwich - Monday - 2010
• 9:21 PM - V/A - Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel - Christmas Eve (live) - This Is Christmas - Eskimo Labs - 2002
• 9:24 PM - *new* - Pancho-san - Kick The Fences Down - Oh, Mellow Melody - Self - 2010
• 9:27 PM - *new* - Jonathan Richman - These Bodies That Came To Cavort - O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth - Vapor - 2010
• 9:30 PM - *new* - Cinema Red and Blue - You're Gonna Screw My Head Off - Cinema Red and Blue - What's Your Rupture - 2010
• 9:34 PM - Five Gears In Reverse - Happy Birthday Jesus Christ - Merry Xmas Distant Planet - Montesano - 1998
• 9:37 PM - *new* - Wolf & Cub - Spider's Web - Science and Sorcery - Last Gang - 2010
• 9:41 PM - *new* - Kelley Stoltz - Rock & Roll With Me - To Dreamers - Sub Pop - 2010
• 9:50 PM - the New Pornographers - In The Arms of Mary/Looking At A Baby - Spirit of Giving EP - Matador
• 9:54 PM - *new* - Eux Autres - Wind Me Up - Broken Bow - Bon Mots - 2010
• 9:57 PM - *new* - Superchunk - My Gap Feels Weird - Majestry Shredding - Merge - 2010

10:00pm

• 10:01 PM - V/A - Yo La Tengo - It's Christmastime - A Very Indie Christmas
• 10:04 PM - *new* - Pomegranates - The Positive Light - One of Us - Afternoon - 2010
• 10:08 PM - *new* - No Joy - Indigo Child - Ghost Blonde - Mexican Summer - 2010
• 10:13 PM - *new* - the Superions - Fruitcake - Destination... Christmas! - Fanatic - 2010
• 10:19 PM - Bryan Adams - Reggae Christmas
• 10:22 PM - *new* - the Extra Lens - How I Left the Ministry - Undercard - Merge - 2010
• 10:24 PM - *new* - Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love - Write About Love - Matador - 2010
• 10:27 PM - V/A - the Aislers Set - Christmas Song - A Very Indie Christmas
• 10:29 PM - *new* - Pigeons - No Other Way - Liasons - Soft Abuse - 2010
• 10:38 PM - The Monarch & Dr. Girlfriend - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Fred Entertainment - 2004
• 10:44 PM - V/A - William Burroughs - The Junky;s Christmas - Island Radio Holiday Sampler - 1995

Playlist for December 13, 2010

9:00pm

• 9:04 PM - Destroyer - Hey, Snow White - This Night - Merge - 2002
• 9:11 PM - *new* - the Russian Futurists - To Be Honest - The Weight's on the Wheels - Upper Class - 2010
• 9:14 PM - *new* - Jail Weddings - When We're Together (We Let Ourselves Go) - Love is Lawless - White Noise/Tru-Vow - 2010
• 9:21 PM - *new* - Birds and Batteries - Strange Kind Of Mirror - Panorama - Spune/VBM - 2010
• 9:26 PM - *new* - Hellogoodbye - Betrayed By Bones - Would It Kill You - Wasted Summer - 2010
• 9:29 PM - the Golden Dogs - Construction Worker - Big Eye Little Eye - Yep Roc - 2007
• 9:32 PM - *new* - Eux Autres - Go Dancing - Broken Bow - Bon Mots - 2010
• 9:35 PM - *new* - Cinema Red and Blue - Jesse Lee Kincaid - Cinema Red and Blue - What's Your Rupture - 2010
• 9:39 PM - *new* - Pigeons - Pure - Liasons - Soft Abuse - 2010
• 9:47 PM - *new* - Kelley Stoltz - I Remember, You Were Wild - To Dreamers - Sub Pop - 2010
• 9:50 PM - *new* - Superchunk - Hot Tubes - Majesty Shredding - Merge - 2010
• 9:54 PM - *new* - No Joy - Hawaii - Ghost Blonde - Mexican Summer - 2010
• 9:58 PM - *new* - Pomegranates - Between Two Dreams - One of Us - Afternoon - 2010

10:00pm

• 10:01 PM - Viva Voce - Tornado Alley - Rose City - Barsuk - 2009
• 10:05 PM - *new* - Wolf and Cub - One To The Other - Science and Sorcery - Last Gang - 2010
• 10:08 PM - *new* - We Landed On The Moon - On Our Last Legs - This Will Be One For The Books - Self - 2010
• 10:15 PM - *new* - the Parting Gifts - Stychnine Dandelion - Strychnine Dandelion - In The Red - 2010
• 10:18 PM - the Coach and Four - Girl Arms - Unlimited Symmetry - Makeshift - 2004
• 10:22 PM - *new* - Belle & Sebastian - Ghost of Rockschool - Write About Love - Matador - 2010
• 10:26 PM - *new* - Jonathan Richman - My Affected Accent - O Moon, Queen of Night On Earth - Vapor - 2010
• 10:29 PM - *new* - the Extra Lens - Communicating Doors - Undercard - Merge - 2010
• 10:32 PM - *new* - Pancho-san - A Mile Up The Track - Oh, Mellow Melody - Self - 2010
• 10:39 PM - the Dismemberment Plan - Change - De Soto - 2001
• 10:43 PM - *new* - Ricer - Birthday Cake - #2's - Wedestroythefamily - 2010
• 10:48 PM - the Fastbacks - Only At Night - Everyday Is Saturday - No Threes - 1984
• 10:51 PM - Circle - Molasses Sandwiches - Molasses Sandwiches - Monday - 2010

Playlist for December 6, 2010

9:00pm

• 9:05 PM - the Smittens - Good Migrations - A Little Revolution - North of January/Dangerfive - 2005
• 9:07 PM - *new* - the Extra Lens - Some Other Way - Undercard - Merge - 2010
• 9:10 PM - *new* - Pancho-san - There Were Trumpets Blaring - Oh, Mellow Melody - Self - 2010
• 9:19 PM - Eux Autres - Rosehill - Broken Bow - Bon Mots - 2010
• 9:22 PM - *new* - Pomegranates - Anywhere You Go - One Of Us - Afternoon - 2010
• 9:27 PM - *new* - Wolf & Cub - The Loosest of Gooses (Go On Your Own) - Science and Sorcery - Last Gang - 2010
• 9:30 PM - the Wrens - She Send Kisses - The Meadowlands - Absolutely Kosher - 2003
• 9:36 PM - *new* - No Joy - Ghost Blonde - Ghost Blonde - Mexican Summer - 2010
• 9:42 PM - Guided By Voices - Striped White Jets - Alien Lanes - Matador - 1995
• 9:49 PM - Television - Marquee Moon - Marquee Moon - Elektra - 1977

10:00pm

• 10:00 PM - *new* - Circle - Mr. Man - Molasses Sandwiches - Monday Records - 2010
• 10:04 PM - *new* - Air Traffic Controller - The One - The One - Sugarpop - 2010
• 10:07 PM - *new* - We Landed On The Moon! - Across The Sun - This Will Be One For The Books - Self - 2010
• 10:11 PM - *new* - Superchunk - Digging For Something - Majesty Shredding - Merge - 2010
• 10:17 PM - *new* - Cinema Red and Blue - Melanie Down - Cinema Red and Blue - What's Your Rupture - 2010
• 10:20 PM - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow - No More Shall We Part - Reprise - 2001
• 10:25 PM - *new* - Belle and Sebastian - Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John- Write About Love - Matador - 2010
• 10:30 PM - *new* - Jonathan Richman - Winter Afternoon by B.U. in Boston - O Moon, Queen of Night On Earth - Vapor - 2010
• 10:37 PM - Kenseth Thibideau - Black Hole - Repetition - Temporary Residence - 2010
• 10:43 PM - *new* - Tristeza - A Traves de los Ojos de Nuestras Hijas - Paisajes - Sanity Muffin - 2010
• 10:48 PM - Pinback - Seville - Blue Screen Life - Ace Fu - 2001
• 10:53 PM - British Sea Power - Lights Out For Darker Skies - Do You Like Rock Music - 2006