- TV On the Radio: Dear Science (4AD)
- Fieldwork: Door (Pi Recordings)
- Randy Newman: Harps and Angels (Nonsuch)
- Mostly Other People Do the Killing: This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup)
- Taylor Swift: Fearless (Big Machine)
- The Roots: Rising Down (Def Jam)
- Robert Forster: The Evangelist (Yep Roc Records)
- Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam)
- Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL Records)
- Les Amazones de Guinée: Wamato (Sterns Music)
- Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
- Ben Allison & Man Size Safe: Little Things Run the World(Palmetto Records)
- Los Campesinos!: Hold on Now, Youngster... (Witchita / Arts & Crafts)
- Hayes Carll: Trouble in Mind (Lost Highway)
- No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
- Anthony Braxton, Milfor Graves, William Parker: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
- Lil' Wayne: Tha Carter III (Cash Money/Universal/Motown)
- Bottomless Pit: Hammer of the Gods (Comedy Minus One)
- Santogold: Santogold (Downtown)
- Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic (Sunny Side)
- William Parker: Petit Oiseau (Aum Fidelity)
- So So Glos: Tourism/Terrorism (Green Owl)
- Mike Reed: People Places and Things: Proliferation (482 Music)
- White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Hobby)
- Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It (Sony)
- Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst (Merge)
- Nas: Nas (Untitled) (Def Jam)
- Rob Brown Ensemble: Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity)
- Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite (AUM Fidelity)
- Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (what's Your Rupture?)
- Vandermark 5: Beat Reader (Atavistic)
- Magnetic Fields: Distortion (Nonesuch)
- By Any Means (Rashied Ali/Charles Gayle/William Parker): Live at Crescendo (Ayler Records)
- K'Naan: The Dusty Foot Philosopher (IM Culture)
- T.I.: Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
- Report Suspicious Activity: Destroy All Evidence (Alternative Tentacles/Revolver)
- Jesus H Christ & the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse:Happier Than You (Jesus Christ Rocks)
- Jean Grae: Jeanius (Blacksmith)
- Q-Tip: The Renaissance (Motown)
- Fucked Up: Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
- Constantines: Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
- Matthew Shipp Quartet: Cosmic Suite (Not Two Records)
- Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Spark (New West)
- Black Milk: Tronic (Fat Beats)
- The Bronx: III (Witchita)
- Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker: Last Dances(Ayler Records)
- Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
- Adam Lane, Lou Grassi, Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly(Clean Feed)
- Lucinda Williams: Little Honey (Lost Highway)
- William Parker: Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Art for Arts/AUM Fidelity)
- Blitzen Trapper: Furr (Sub Pop)
- Lindsey Buckingham: Gift of Screws (Reprise)
- Hold Steady: Stay Positive (Vagrant)
- Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade, 2007)
- Fight the Bull: Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed)
- Dog & Sky. Lhasa Express (Crispin Gover Rec)
- Wussy: Left for Dead (Shake It)
- Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: Tabligh (Cuniform)
- Re-Up Gang: We Got It 4 Free vol. 3 (Re-Up Records)
- Empty Cage Quartet: Stratostrophic (Clean Feed)
- Atomic: Retrograde (Jazzland Rec.)
Singles/tracks:
- Taylor Swift: "Love Story" (Big Machine)
- Hayes Carll: "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart" (Lost Highway)
- The Bronx: "Young Bloods" (Witchita)
- No Age: "Sleeper Hold" (Sub Pop)
- TV On the Radio: "Red Dress" (4AD)
- Alejandro Escovedo: "Always a Friend" (Back Porch)
- Ne-Yo: "Miss Independent" (Def Jam)
- Alphabeat: "Fascination" (Copenhagen Records)
- White Denim: "Shake Shake Shake" (Full Time Hobby)
- Conor Oberst: "I Don't Want to Die (In a Hospital)" (Rough Trade)
- The Knux: "Cappuccino" (Universial)
- Wire: "One of Us" (Pink Flag)
- Kate Perry: "Hot N Cold" (Capitol)
- Estelle ft. Kanye West: "American Boy" (Atlantic)
- Santogold: "You'll Find a Way" (Downtown)
- Report Suspicious Activity: "Destroy All Evidence" (Alternative Tentacles)
- The Hold Steady: "Sequestered in Memphis" (Vagrant)
- Lykke Li: "Little Bit" (EMI)
- Neon Neon: "I Told Her on Alderaan" (Lex Records)
- Annie: "I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me" (Universal/Island)
- Jenny Lewis: "Carpetbaggers" (Rough Trade)
- Hot Chip: "Ready for the Floor" (EMI)
- The Ting Tings: "That's Not My Name" (Sony BMG)
- School of Language: "Rockist Pt. 1" (Thrill Jockey)
- Fucked Up: "No Epiphany" (Matador)
Reissues/vault:
- Franco: Francophonic - A Retrospective Vol. 1: 1953-1980(2CD) (Sterns Africa)
- Charles Gayle/William Parker/Rasied Ali: Touchin' On Trane (Jazzwekstatt, 1991/2007)
- Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (ATO Records, 1993/2008)
- Steinski: What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective(Illegal Art)
- Kid Creole: Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983(Strut Records)
- Pavement: Brighten the Corners (deluxe edition) (Matador)
- The Replacements: Hootenanny / Let It Be / Pleased to Meet Me / Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash / Stink / Tim(Rhino)
- New Order: Brotherhood / Low-Life / Movement / Power Corruption & Lies / Technique (Rhino)
- Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
- Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
The records outside of the enumerated list have been available in some shape or form fairly recently, but deserve mention as they are all great records.
