Top 10s

Top 10 National

1) WARPAINT The Fool (Rough Trade)

2) GLASSER Ring (True Panther)

3) BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

4) SHARON VAN ETTEN Epic (Ba Da Bing)

5) EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING Rush to Relax (Goner)

6) SUPERCHUNK Majesty Shredding (Merge)

7) TY SEGALL Melted (Goner)

8) WYATT, ATZMON & STEPHEN For the Ghosts Within (Domino)

9) TWIN SISTER Color Your Life (Infinite Best Recordings)

10) BIG BOI Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)

Top 10 Texas

1) 'CASUAL VICTIM PILE' (Matador)

2) THE GARY Logan (Cedar Fever)

3) KB THE BOO BONIC Scars Are Sexy

4) SARAH JAFFE Suburban Nature (Kirtland)

5) NO MAS BODAS Erotic Stories From the Space Capsule

6) SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN Dead Friends (Tompkins Square)

7) WEIRD WEEDS Help Me Name Melody (Autobus)

8) SHEARWATER The Golden Archipelago (Matador)

9) MY EDUCATION Sunrise (Strange Attractors Audio House)

10) ST 37 High and Inside

Local Chorus Line

1) SOFT HEALER "Gentle One" b/w "Movie Light" (Captured Tracks)

2) SARAH JAROSZ The New 45 (Sugar Hill)

3) FOCUS GROUP Unicornography

4) YELLOWFEVER (Wild World)

5) THE YOUNG Voyagers of Legend (Mexican Summer)

6) SIMPLE CIRCUIT "Boarded Up Houses" b/w "Moon Druggies" (Super Secret)

7) HOLY WAVE EP

8) SILENT DIANE "Riverside" b/w "Juliet the Painting" (Answering Machine Recordings)

9) AGENT RIBBONS Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)

10) HOW I QUIT CRACK "Gone Away" b/w "In Realm" (Answering Machine Recordings)

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