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75 Alberta Cross
70 The Album Leaf
69 Alkaline Trio
66 Animal Collective
84 Animal Collective
50 Athlete
82 Beach House
81 The Besnard Lakes
75 Kasper Bjorke
65 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
64 Dan Black
75 Mary J. Blige
75 Blockhead
79 Blood Red Shoes
70 David Bowie
64 The Brian Jonestown Massacre
70 Broken Bells
65 V.V. Brown
72 The Brunettes
71 Basia Bulat
78 Carolina Chocolate Drops
79 Johnny Cash
79 Chew Lips
82 Chicago Underground Duo
79 The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder
76 Citay
66 Clem Snide
77 Clipd Beaks
78 Clogs
66 Cold War Kids
75 Easton Corbin
80 Crazy Heart
90 Crime In Stereo
70 Jamie Cullum
63 Fyfe Dangerfield
72 Delphic
89 The Dillinger Escape Plan
64 Dinowalrus
77 Drive-By Truckers
59 Editors
71 Eels
74 Efterklang
83 Eluvium
82 Erland And The Carnival
57 Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now
63 Excepter
78 Field Music
76 First Aid Kit
68 Josephine Foster
82 Four Tet
71 Nils Frahm
77 Freeway & Jake One
75 Frightened Rabbit
82 Fucked Up
64 Peter Gabriel
79 Charlotte Gainsbourg
80 Galactic
67 The Gilded Palace Of Sin
73 Ernest Gonzales
59 Good Shoes
79 Gorillaz
70 Adam Green
79 Patty Griffin
76 Groove Armada
67 H.I.M.
43 Hadouken!
73 Harvey Milk
68 Juliana Hatfield
67 Jimi Hendrix
88 High On Fire
80 Hot Chip
66 The Hot Rats
88 Ray Wylie Hubbard
54 Hurricane Chris
76 Jaga Jazzist
76 Jaheim
68 jj
79 Freedy Johnston
54 Nick Jonas And The Administration
57 Ke$ha
66 Alicia Keys
74 The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock
63 Lady Antebellum
65 Dawn Landes
82 Lawrence Arabia
74 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
82 Liars
72 Lightspeed Champion
37 Lil Wayne
82 Lindstrom & Christabelle
68 Little Boots
78 Local Natives
75 Los Campesinos!
67 Lostprophets
65 Ludacris
72 Magnetic Fields
74 Massive Attack
58 Katherine McPhee
60 Tom McRae
66 Daniel Merriweather
76 Pat Metheny
72 Midlake
64 Holly Miranda
79 Allison Moorer
83 Motion City Soundtrack
53 Mudvayne
65 Mumford & Sons
55 Never Shout Never
85 Joanna Newsom
81 Scout Niblett
76 Nneka
75 Oh No Ono
70 OK Go
71 Omarion
77 Owen Pallett
84 Pantha du Prince
77 Past Lives
84 Pavement
77 Phantogram
65 Pit Er Pat
86 Polar Bear
64 Priestess
69 Quasi
77 Corinne Bailey Rae
71 The Red Krayola With Art & Language
81 Fionn Regan
77 Retribution Gospel Choir
57 Martin Rev
64 Rjd2
63 Rogue Wave
82 Jack Rose
77 The Ruby Suns
78 Sade
77 Gil Scott-Heron
80 She & Him
77 Shearwater
69 Blake Shelton
84 Shining
68 Shout Out Louds
80 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
75 The Soft Pack
80 Spoon
63 Ringo Starr
68 Story Of The Year
71 The Strange Boys
74 Strong Arm Steady
78 Surfer Blood
60 Tape Deck Mountain
82 These New Puritans
71 Robin Thicke
76 Tindersticks
82 Titus Andronicus
72 Toro Y Moi
63 Josh Turner
81 Vampire Weekend
79 Laura Veirs
69 Via Audio
79 Butch Walker And The Black Widows
59 The Watson Twins
69 We Are Wolves
66 Kanye West
64 Wetdog
51 The Whigs
67 White Hills
79 The White Stripes
72 The Whitefield Brothers
68 Wu-Tang Clan
75 Xiu Xiu
78 Yeasayer
77 You Say Party! We Say Die!
63 Young Money
61 Rob Zombie

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Added 19 March 2010

Standing On Top Of Utopia

by Kasper Bjorke

The latest release for the award-winning Danish music producer is only his second full-length album. [Electronic/Dance]

The Alphabet Of Hurricanes

by Tom McRae

The Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter releases his first album on the Cooking Vinyl label. [Rock/Alternative]

I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone

by Crime In Stereo

This is the fourth album for the hardcore rock band from Long Island. [Rock/Alternative/Punk]

European

by Sambassadeur

The Swedish pop band named after the Serge Gainsbourg's song releases its third album. [Rock/Indie/Pop]

2009 High Scores

1 Nirvana
Live At Reading
93
2 Leonard Cohen
Live In London
91
3 Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
89
4 Raekwon
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
88
5 Sunn O)))
Monoliths & Dimensions
88
6 Vijay Iyer Trio
Historicity
88
7 Baroness
Blue Record
87
8 Brad Paisley
American Saturday Night
86
9 Amadou & Mariam
Welcome To Mali
86
10 Memory Tapes
Seek Magic
86

All-Time High Scores

1 Brian Wilson
SMiLE
97
2 Loretta Lynn
Van Lear Rose
97
3 Led Zeppelin
How The West Was Won
97
4 OutKast
Stankonia
95
5 Ali Farka Toure
Savane
94
6 Madvillain
Madvillainy
93
7 Nirvana
Live At Reading
93
8 Talking Heads
The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version]
93
9 Bob Dylan
Love And Theft
93
10 Tom Waits
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
92

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Added 17 March 2010

Peepers

by Polar Bear

The Mercury Prize-nominated experimental jazz band releases its fourth album. [Jazz/Experimental]

Hillbilly Bone

by Blake Shelton

The second EP album for the country singer features a duet with Trace Adkins. [Country]

Be Brave

by The Strange Boys

The follow-up to their 2009 debut full-length sees a new lineup, with Mika Miko's Jenna Thornhill and Seth Densham joining, while Darker My Love's Tim Presley also appears on this release. [Rock/Indie]

Presidence

by Excepter

The Brooklyn band's latest album is a two-disc release featuring live studio recordings and live performances. [Rock/Alternative/Live]

Added 16 March 2010

Fly Yellow Moon

by Fyfe Dangerfield

The debut album for the Guillemots singer-songwriter was produced by Adam Noble. [Rock/Indie/Pop]

The Big To-Do

by Drive-By Truckers

The debut on ATO Records leans more toward rock than the last studio release for the Athens, Georgia, band. [Rock/Alternative]

In The Dark

by The Whigs

The third album for the Athens, Georgia rock band was produced with Ben Allen and features new bassist Tim Deaux. [Rock/Alt-Country]

Under Great White Northern Lights

by The White Stripes

The live album features recording from the duo's summer tour of Canada in 2007 which was also filmed for a documentary of the same name. [Rock/Alternative/Live]

Added 12 March 2010

Quarantine The Past

by Pavement

With the band reunited and touring in 2010, here comes a 23-tracks greatest-hits compilation chosen by the band members. [Rock/Alternative]

Fire Like This

by Blood Red Shoes

The second album produced by Mike Crossey for Brighton's Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell was recorded on analogue tape but still retains its punk influences. [Rock/Alternative]

Tapestry Of Webs

by Past Lives

The debut full-length album for the rock band featuring members of Seattle's The Blood Brothers was produced by Steve Fisk. [Rock/Experimental/Indie]

White Hills

by White Hills

The latest album for the New York-based indie rock band was recorded in three days at Oneida's studio and Oneida's Kid Millions provided the drumming for the recording. [Rock/Indie]

Added 11 March 2010

Broken Side Of Time

by Alberta Cross

The debut full-length album for the band led by Swedish-born Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers was produced by Mike McCarthy. [Rock/Alternative]

The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night

by The Besnard Lakes

The indie rock quartet led by music producer Jace Lasek and his wife Olga releases its second album on the Jagjaguwar label. [Rock/Indie]

San Patricio

by The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder

The concept album about a group of Irish US soldiers who deserted to join the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War was an idea by The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney and co-producer Ry Cooder. [World/Folk]

Battle Of The Sexes

by Ludacris

The latest album for the actor/hip-hop artist features guest appearances from Eve, Flo Rida, Lil' Kim, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, and Trina. [Rap]

Added 10 March 2010

Beat The Devil's Tattoo

by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

With new drummer Leah Shapiro (who replaced Nick Jago), the rock band from San Francisco work to mix its rock side with the country/acoustic sound they revealed in 2005's Howl. [Rock/Alternative]

Valleys Of Neptune

by Jimi Hendrix

The 12 unreleased recordings by rock legend Jimi Hendrix include new versions of songs that were under consideration to be included on a follow-up to the 1968's "Electric Ladyland." [Rock/Blues/Psychedelic]

jj no 3

by jj

Until jj signed with Secretly Canadian to release its second full-length album, the identity of the Swedish duo was unknown to the industry at large. [Electronic/Indie/Pop]

The Brutalist Bricks

by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

The Ted Leo-led rock band moves to Matador Records for its sixth album. [Rock/Punk]

Added 9 March 2010

Broken Bells

by Broken Bells

This is the debut album for The Shins James Mercer and producer Brian Burton (aka as Danger Mouse). [Rock/Indie]

The Winter Of Mixed Drinks

by Frightened Rabbit

The third studio album for the Scottish indie band produced by Peter Katis is its first with new member Gordon Skene. [Rock/Indie]

Plastic Beach

by Gorillaz

The third album for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett animated group features guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, Kano, Mos Def, De La Soul, Gruff Rhys, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Fall's Mark E. Smith, Little Dragon, Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, The Clash's Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon. [Rock/Electronic/Alternative]

Tomorrow, In A Year

by The Knife In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock

The Knife, along with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, created a 90-minute opera about Charles Darwin. [Electronic/Dance]

Sisterworld

by Liars

The fifth album for the trio was recorded in Los Angeles with Tom Biller. [Rock/Experimental]

The Monitor

by Titus Andronicus

The first full-length album on XL Recordings for the rock band from New Jersey was named after a warship that fought during the American Civil War. [Rock/Indie]

Upcoming Releases

Option Paralysis

By The Dillinger Escape Plan

In Stores 23 March 2010

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