Top 20 albums of 2010
1. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (4AD)
2. The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange (In The Red)
3. Toro Y Moi – Causers of This (Carpark)
4. Beach House – Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
5. Jónsi – Go (XL)
6. Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
7. Mountain Man – Made The Harbor (Partisan)
8. Field Music – Field Music (Measure) (Memphis Industries)
9. Wild Nothing – Gemini (Captured Tracks)
10. Wavves – King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
11. Woods – At Echo Lake (Woodsist)
12. Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise (Rough Trade)
13. Frankie Rose and The Outs – S/T (Slumberland)
14. Tame Impala – InnerSpeaker (Modular)
15. Gonja Sufi – A Sufi and a Killer (Warp)
16. Woven Bones – In and Out and Back Again (HoZac)
17. Prince Rama – Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)
18. Eddy Current Supression Ring – Rush To Relax (Goner)
19. ceo – White Magic (Sincerely Yours)
20. The Parting Gifts – Strychnine Dandelion (In The Red)
Top 10 EPs of 2010
1. Lord Huron – Mighty (Self-Released)
2. Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People (Asthmatic Kitty)
3. Nite Jewel – Am I Real? (Gloriette)
4. YellowFever – Bermuda Triangle (Self-Released)
5. Cloud Nothings – Leave You Forever (True Panther)
6. Dominant Legs – Young at Love and Life (Lefse)
7. Puro Instinct – Something About The Chaparrals (Mexican Summer)
8. Megafaun – Heretofore (Hometapes)
9. Twin Sister – Color Your Life (Infinite Best)
10. Parenthetical Girls – Privilege: Pt. 1 – On Death & Endearments
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Favorite Live shows of 2010
1. Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona
2. Panda Bear, Glass House, Pomona
3. Pavement, Fox Theatre, Pomona
4. Wild Flag, Spaceland, Los Angeles
5. Ariel Pink, Mercury Lounge, New York
6. Prince Rama / Sun Araw / Fennesz / Deakin, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
7. Reigning Sound / Parting Gifts / The Ettes, Spaceland, Los Angeles
8. Fun Fun Fun Festival, Austin
9. Lord Huron, Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles
10. Smith Westerns, Upset The Rhythm @ CAMP Basement, London
11. Lightning Bolt, Pitchfork Fest, Chicago
12. Guided By Voices / Times New Viking, Wiltern, Los Angeles
13. Tennis / Sonny and the Sunsets, The Echo, Los Angeles
14. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Blow / Screaming Females, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
15. Toro Y Moi / Caribou, El Rey, Los Angeles
Top 10 Singles of 2010
1. Panda Bear – Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
2. Ariel Pink – Round and Round (4AD)
2. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beats & The RZA – So Appalled (G.O.O.D. Music)
3. Tennis – Baltimore (Underwater Peoples)
4. Cee Lo Green – Fuck You (Elektra)
5. Rihanna feat. Drake – What’s My Name (Island Def Jam)
6. Real Estate – Out of Tune (True Panther)
7. Craft Spells – Party Talk (Captured Tracks)
8. Big Boi feat. Cutty – Shutterbug (Island Def Jam)
9. Dent May – That Feeling (Forest Family)
10.MINKS – Ophelia (Captured Tracks)
Best Live Shows
1)Arcade Fire @ Lollapalooza
2)Kanye West @ Brooklyn Bowl for Offline Festival
3)My Morning Jacket @ The Greek in LA
4)Phoenix @ Lollapalooza
5)Ariel Pink @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
6)Toro Y Moi @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
7)Neon Indian @ Music Box in LA
8)Beach House @ Hollywood Bowl
9)Lord Huron, La Sera, Violens, Woven Bones, Wild Nothing and So So Glos @ Pianos NYC Force Field CMJ Showcase
10)The Blow, Pains of Being Pure At Heart, and Screaming Females @ Music Hall of Williamsburg for CMJ
Best Albums
1)Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2)The Black Keys – Brothers
3)Beach House – Teen Dream
4)Toro y Moi – Causers of This
5)Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
6)Ariel Pink – Before Today
7)Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
8)Warpaint – The Fool
9)Girl Talk – All Day
10)LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Best EPs
1)James Blake – Klavierwerke
2)James Blake – CMYK
3)Lord Huron – Mighty
4)Lord Huron – Into The Sun
5)Twin Sister – Color Your Life
6)Girls – Broken Dreams Club
7)Dominant Legs – Young At Love And Life
8)Generationals – Trust
9)Wild Nothing – Golden Haze
10)The So So Glos – Low Chain Back Shift
Best Singles
1)James Blake – Limit to Your Love
2)Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
3)The Black Keys – Tighten Up
4)Kanye West – Devil In A New Dress
5)Robyn – Dancing On My Own
6)Sufjan Stevens – I Walked
7)Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
8)Beach House – Walk In The Park
9)Wavves – King of the Beach
10)Ariel Pink – Beverly Kills
11)Gayngs feat. Justin Vernon – The Gaudy Side of Town
12)Toro y Moi – You Hid
13)Gorillaz – Empire Ants
14)Les Sins – Lina
15)Warpaint – Undertow
16)Deerhunter – Helicopter
17)Twin Shadow – Castles in the Snow
18)Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand
19)Beach House – Silver Soul
20)Atlas Sound – Green Glass Bottles
Best Movies
1)Exit Through The Gift Shop
2)Animal Kingdom
3)Inception
4)The Social Network
5)The Town
6)Shutter Island
7)Date Night
8)Circo
Best TV Shows
1) LOST
2)30 Rock
3)Mad Men
4)Bored To Death
5)Curb Your Enthusiasm
6)Eastbound and Down
7)The League
8)Modern Family
9)The Office
10)It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Best albums of this year:
1. Beach House – Teen Dream
2. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
3. Drake – Thank Me Later
4. Wild Nothing – Gemini
5. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
6. Caribou – Swim
7. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
8. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
9. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
10. The Dream – Love King
Barely made the cut
Gucci Mane – The State vs Radric Davis
Honorable Mention:
1. The Minimal Wave Tapes – Volume One
2. Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers
3. The National – High Violet
4. Four Tet – There Is Love In You
5. Houses – All Night
6. Maker – Maker vs. Now Again
Best shows of this year:
1. Lord Huron at Grandstar Jazz Club in Los Angeles
2. Erykah Badu at El Rey in Los Angeles
3. Sun Araw and Pure Ecstasy at Show Cave in Los Angeles
4. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti at The Cornfields in Los Angeles (FYF Fest)
5. CocoRosie at Music Box in Los Angeles
6. POPO at The Smell in Los Angeles
7. Mount Kimbie at Downtown Independent in Los Angeles
EPs:
1. Lord Huron – Into The Sun EP
2. James Blake – Klavierwerke EP
3. Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow EP
4. Palmbomen – Moon Children EP
5. Beach House – iTunes Session EP
Singles:
1. Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
2. Das Racist – Fake Patois
3. Mount Kimbie – Before I Move Off
4. James Blake – CMYK
5. Vampire Weekend – Diplomat’s Son
6. Rihanna – Rude Boy / What’s My Name ft. Drake
7. Kisses – Lovers
8. How To Dress Well – Ecstasy With Jojo
9. Mathemagic – Breaststroke
10. Phantogram – As Far As I Can See
Albums:
1. Weekend – Sports
2. Earl Sweatshirt – Earl
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Wild Nothing – Gemini
5. Caribou – Odessa
6. Drake – Thank Me Later
7. Women – Public Strain
8. Waka Flocka Flame – Flockaveli
9. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
10. Curren$y – Pilot Talk
11. Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement
12. Ty Segall – Melted
13. Andrew Cedermark – Moon Deluxe
14. Bonobo – Black Sands
15. Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers
16. Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
17. Prince Rama – Shadow Temple
18. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
19. Julian Lynch – Mare
20. Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
EPs:
1. Girls – Broken Dreams Club
2. James Blake – Klavierwerke
3. Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
4. FLIGHT – The Lead Riders
5. The So So Glos – Low Back Chain Shift
Live Shows:
1. Arcade Fire at Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
2. Odd Future at The Echo in LA
3. Smith Westerns / Harlem / Pearl Harbor at Madame Wong’s in LA
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Weekend / Sonny & the Sunsets at The Echoplex in LA
5. Drake (feat. Lil Wayne) at The Hard Rock in Las Vegas
Singles:
1. Fountains – Teen Inc
2. Art Vandelay – Ducktails
3. Heart in Your Heartbreak – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
4. Returnal – Oneohtrix Point Never (featuring Antony)
5. Hard In da Paint – Waka Flocka Flame
6. Fluffy Lumbers – Adoration
7. EarlWolf – Orange Juice (Gucci Mane / Lemonade)
8. Girls – Carolina
9. James Blake – CMYK
10. The Fresh & Onlys – Waterfall
Albums:
1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Robyn – Body Talk Pt. 1
3. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
4. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
5. Cloud Nothings – Turning On
6. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
7. Sharon Van Etten – epic
8. Bruce Spingsteen – Darkness On the Edge of Town (reissue)
9. Black Keys – Brothers
10. Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement
Movies of 2k10:
1. Cyrus
2. The Social Network
3. The Town
4. Scott Pilgrim v. The World
5. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl Who Played with Fire / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
7. Toy Story 3
8. Inception
9. Somewhere
10. Shutter Island
Live Shows:
1. Arcade Fire at Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
2. Robyn – The Music Box
3. Titus Andronicus – in Chicago, IL for the Pitchfork afterparty
4. Kanye West – Brooklyn Bowl
5. Drake (feat. Lil Wayne) at The Hard Rock in Las Vegas
6. LCD Soundsystem – Hollywood Palliadaum
Best singles:
Lykke Li- Paris Blue
PJ Harvey- Written on the Forehead
Wavves- King Of The Beach
Houses- Soak it Up
Kanye West- Runaway
Lower Dens- I Get Nervous
Dignan Porch- Footsteps
Joanna Newsom- Baby Birch
James Blake- I Only Know What I Know
The National- Sorrow