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2011: Dean's List
Albums
- Das Racist: Relax (Greedhead) 12
- Wussy: Funeral Dress II (Shake It) 12
- Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music) 12
- Frank Ocean: Nostalgia, Ultra (free download) 12
- tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l (4AD) 11
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Tell My Sister (Nonesuch) 11
- Blaqstarr: The Divine EP (N.E.E.T.) 8
- Wussy: Strawberry (Shake It) 8
- Teddybears: Devil's Music (Big Beat) 8
- Pistol Annies: Hell on Heels (Columbia) 6
- Jens Lekman: An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
- The Plastic People of the Universe: Magical Nights (Munster '10)
- Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminescent Orchestrii: Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminescent Orchestrii (Nonesuch)
- Withered Hand: Good News (Absolutely Kosher)
- Rave On Buddy Holly (Fantasy)
- Mekons: Ancient & Modern: 1911-2011 (Sin)
- Jay Z Kanye West: Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella)
- Pietra Montecorvino: Napoli Mediterranea (Taranta Power/Rai Trade)
- Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica (Software)
- Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx: We're New Here (XL)
- The Baseball Project: Volume 2: High and Inside (Yep Roc)
- Fountains of Wayne: Sky Full of Holes (Yep Roc)
- Miranda Lambert: Four the Record (RCA)
- Todd Snider: Todd Snider Live--The Storyteller (Thirty Tigers/Aimless)
- Merle Haggard: Working in Tennessee (Vanguard)
- Afro Latin Via Dakar (Syllart Productions/Discograph)
- Afro Latin Via Kinshasa (Syllart Productions/Discograph)
- Aaron Neville: I Know I've Been Changed (EMI Gospel/Tell It '10)
- Wild Flag: Wild Flag (Merge)
- Street Sweeper Social Club: The Ghetto Blaster EP (SSSC '10)
- Lady Gaga: Born This Way (Streamline/Interscope/KonLive)
- TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light (Interscope)
- Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton: Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center (Reprise Jazz)
- Poly Styrene: Generation Indigo (Future Noise Music)
- Low Cut Connie: Get Out the Lotion (lowcutconnie.com)
- Mates of State: Mountaintops (Barsuk)
- Ry Cooder: Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch)
- Raphael Saadiq: Stone Rollin' (Columbia)
- Those Darlins: Screws Get Loose (Oh Wow Dang)
- SebastiAn: Total (Big Beat/Atlantic/Because/Ed Banger)
- Emperor X: Western Teleport (Bar/None)
- Shabazz Palaces: Black Up (Sub Pop)
- Generation Bass Presents: Transnational Dubstep (Six Degrees)
- Steve Cropper: Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales (429)
- Bachata Roja: Amor y Amargue (iASO)
- The Extra Lens: Undercard (Merge '10)
- Eric Church: Chief (EMI)
- Deer Tick: Divine Providence (Partisan)
- Let's Wrestle: Nursing Home (Merge)
- Superchunk: Majesty Shredding (Merge '10)
- Lobi Traore: Bwati Kono "In the Club" (Kanaga System Krush)
- Brad Paisley: This Is Country Music (Arista Nashville)
- Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (Luna Park)
- Note of Hope (429)
- Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
- Saigon: The Greatest Story Never Told (Suburban Noize)
- The Russian Futurists: The Weight's on the Wheels (Upper Class '10)
- Gurf Morlix: Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream (Rootball)
- Vieux Farka Touré: The Secret (Six Degrees)
- Gang of Four: Content (Yep Roc)
- Bombino: Agadez (Cumbancha)
- Battles: Gloss Drop (Warp)
- Buck 65: 20 Odd Years (WEA)
- Terakaft: Aratan N Azawad (World Village)
- Fruit Bats: Tripper (Sub Pop)
- Drive-By Truckers: The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities) 2003-2008 (New West '09)
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Odditties (Querbeservice '10)
- The B-52's: With the Wild Crowd! (Eagle)
- Peter Stampfel and Jeffrey Lewis: Come on Board (no label)
- Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots (New West)
- Childish Gambino: Culdesac (free download '10)
- Serengeti: Family & Friends (Anticon)
- Dave Alvin: Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc)
- Stephin Merritt: Obscurities (Merge)
- David Bowie: Station to Station (Special Edition) (EMI '10)
- Nigeria 70: Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos (Strut)
- Ravid Kahalani: Yemen Blues (GlobaLev)
- Mayer Hawthorne: How Do You Do (Universal Republic)
- Tom Waits: Bad as Me (Anti-)
- Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol)
- Rihanna: Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition (Def Jam)
- 19 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's: Vol. 9 (Blues Images)
- Wire: 14 September 2002, Metro, Chicago (pinkflag.com '10)
- Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
- Middle Brother: Middle Brother (Partisan)
- Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque (Strut)
- Jill Scott: The Light of the Sun (Blues Babe/Warner Bros.)
- Shabazz Palaces: Of Light (Switchblade Music/Templar '09)
- Thurston Moore: Demolished Thoughts (Matador)
- M.I.A.: Vicki Leekx Mixtape (vickileekx.com download '10)
- The Lonely Island: Turtleneck & Chain (Universal Republic)
- Sorry Bamba: Volume One 1970-1979 (Thrill Jockey)
- Childish Gambino: Camp (Glassnote)
- Nine 11 Thesaurus: Ground Zero Generals (The Social Registry)
- Yuck: Yuck (Fat Possum)
- Jeffrey Lewis: A Turn in the Dream-Songs (Rough Trade)
- Pusha T: Fear of God II (GOOD/Decon/Re-Up Gang)
- Shabazz Palaces: Shabazz Palaces (Switchblade Music/Templar '09)
- The Klezmatics: Live at Town Hall (Klezmatics Disc)
- Tinariwen: Tassili (Anti-)
- Scott Miller: Christmas Gift (FAW)
- Nils Petter Molvaer: Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear)
- Neil Young International Harvesters: A Treasure (Reprise)
- BLNRB: Welcome to the Madhouse (Out Here)
- Rainbow Arabia: Boys and Diamonds (Kompakt)
- Jazmine Sullivan: Love Me Back (J '10)
- Gold Panda: Lucky Shiner (Ghostly International '10)
Singles
- Das Racist: "Michael Jackson"
- Jens Lekman: "An Argument With Myself"
- Garland Jeffreys: "Til John Lee Hooker Calls Me"
- Low Cut Connie: "Shit, Shower and Shave"
- Mamani Keita: "Gagner l'Argent Français"
- Teddybears: "Rocket Scientist"
- Jackson Browne: "You Know the Night"
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle: "Saratoga Summer Song"
- Poly Styrene: "Beautiful Sneakers"
- Wussy: "Don't Leave Just Now"
Barnes & Noble Review, Jan. 12, 2012
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