
1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE : Merriweather Post Pavilion
(early entry in ’09and loved it all year)

2. GRIZZLY BEAR : Veckatimest

3. DIRTY PROJECTORS : Bitte Orca
(all of the above from Brooklyn NY … what’s in the water? )

4. YO LA TENGO : Popular Songs

5. WILCO : The Album

6. JEB LOY NICHOLS : Parish Bar
(I played this more than his other great release this year Strange Faith & Practice)

7. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS : The Crying Light

8. BOB DYLAN : Together Through Life

9. THE FLAMING LIPS : Embryonic

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