01) Brakes – Give Blood [quirky, frivolous, and fun rock]
02) Sleater-Kinney – the Woods
03) Buck 65 – This Right Here Is [country indie rap is the best description I can come up with]
04) New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
05) M Ward – Transistor Radio
06) Soviettes – III [energetic, playful punk]
07) Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah – CYHASY
08) Russian Futurists – Our Thickness [one man indie-pop band]
09) Band of Bees – Free the Bees [new psychedelia – wonderful]
10) Rakes – Capture/Release [not to be confused with the Brakes – snotty British punk-rock ala the Clash]
11) Josh Rouse – Nashville [a great Americana follow-up to 2003's winning "1972"]
12) Supergrass – Road to Rouen [just when I had given up on them they make a great record]
13) Joseph Arthur – Our Shadows Will Remain [alt-pop songs that get into your brain]
14) Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations [2 discs is too long, but incredible songs throughout]
15) Sons and Daughters – Repulsion Box [folk-rock songs that m-o-v-e]
16) MIA – Arular [dance music is usually not my thing, but something about this works for me]
17) Andrew Bird – Mysterious Production of Eggs [I hate to use the phrase 'adult alternative pop', but it seems to fit here. Beautiful songs]
18) Perceptionists – Black Dialogue [political rap that thumps]
19) Decemberists – Picaresque
20) White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Bands just missing the cut:
Of Montreal – Sunlandic Twins
Spoon – Gimme Friction
Brights Eyes – I'm Awake…
Mando Diao – Hurricane Bar
Antony and the Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
Adrian Belew – Side One
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