![ANIMAL COLLECTIVE](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61rY6yM8HWL._SL110_.jpg)
1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE : Merriweather Post Pavilion
(early entry in ’09and loved it all year)
![GRIZZLY BEAR](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iSO5%2BUJbL._SL110_.jpg)
2. GRIZZLY BEAR : Veckatimest
![DIRTY PROJECTORS](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BtH930%2B8L._SL110_.jpg)
3. DIRTY PROJECTORS : Bitte Orca
(all of the above from Brooklyn NY … what’s in the water? )
![YO LA TENGO](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HAQotTZ7L._SL110_.jpg)
4. YO LA TENGO : Popular Songs
![WILCO](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vfIxeNK3L._SL110_.jpg)
5. WILCO : The Album
![JEB LOY NICHOLS : Parish Bar](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qLrC2hRLL._SL110_.jpg)
6. JEB LOY NICHOLS : Parish Bar
(I played this more than his other great release this year Strange Faith & Practice)
![ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS : The Crying Light](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JhjnmxrQL._SL110_.jpg)
7. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS : The Crying Light
![DYLAN](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51su%2BnJV2PL._SL110_.jpg)
8. BOB DYLAN : Together Through Life
![THE FLAMING LIPS : Embryonic](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xvsB489HL._SL110_.jpg)
9. THE FLAMING LIPS : Embryonic
![AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE Visions Of A Psychedelic Africa](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511uXFuYxHL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
10. AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE : Visions Of A Psychedelic Africa
other favorites:
VOLCANO CHOIR : Unmap
ANDREW BIRD : Noble Beast
CORNERSHOP : Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
THE ORB : Baghdad Batteries
NELS CLINE: Coward
BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY : Beware
THE FELICE BROTHERS : Yonder Is The Clock
VIC CHESNUTT : Skitter On Take Off and At The Cut
DEVENDRA BANHART : What Will We Be
MICHAEL HURLEY : Ida Con Snock
JOHN ZORN : O’o
AKRON/FAMILY : Set ‘Em Wild Set ‘Em Free
CASS McCOMBS : Catacombs
THE FIERY FURNACES : I’m Going Away
collections:
DARK WAS THE NIGHT
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
GHANA SPECIAL
concerts:
DAVID BYRNE : Radio City
WILCO : Coney Island
BOB DYLAN : Bethel Woods
BOB DYLAN: United Palace Theatre
NEW YORK DOLLS : The Chance
RICKIE LEE JONES: Bardavon
LUCINDA WILLIAMS : Bardavon
JACKSON BROWNE : UPAC
THE FELICE BROTHERS: Syracuse
MIGHTY DIAMONDS : Bearsville
ANTONY : NYC