Best Local Releases (it was a tie!) The Rebel Set - Across the Relentless Sea Sleepybird - The Sadness will Last Forever     #1 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love #2 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone #3 David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens will Happen Today #4 Levon Helm - Electric Dirt #5 Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers #6 Heartless Bastards -  The Mountain    #7 Eels - Hombre Lobo - 12 Songs of Desire #8 Wussy - Wussy #9 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest     #10 Dexateens -  Singlewide #11 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes    - Up from Below    #12 Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway        #13 Andrew Bird - Noble Beast    #14 Iron & Wine - Around the Well #15 M. Ward - Hold time            #16 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion    #17 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career #18 Asylum Street Spankers - God's Favorite Band    #19 Cracker - Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey    #20 Bonnie Prince Billie - Beware #21 The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free #22 Joshua James - Build Me This #23 Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugar Cane    #24 They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science    #25 Lyle Lovett    Natural - Natural Forces    #26 Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk    #27 Ben Harper - White Lies for Dark Times #28 Alexi Murdoch - Away We Go Soundtrack    #29 Joe Henry - Blood from Stars    #30 Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine    #31 Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight    #32 Steve Earle    - Townes #33 Guy Clark - Some Days the Song Writes You    #34 State School - The Cats in Boxes EP    #35 Nickodemus - Sun People        #36 Brett Dennen - Hope for the Hopeless    #37 The Smug Brothers - Fortune's Rumors    #38 Holy Ghost Tent Revival - So Long I Screamed    #39 Paul Burch - Still Your Man    #40 Robert Earl Keen - The Rose Hotel    #41 Steve Martin - The Crow    #42 Mindy Smith - Stupid Love    #43 The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward    #44 Jeb Loy Nichols - Parish Bar    #45 Bebel Gilberto - All in One    #46 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light    #47 Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost      #48 Balkan Beat Box - Nu Made (Remixes)    #49 Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell 'Em What Your Name Is #50 Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up    #51 Rufus Wainwright - Milwaukee at Last    #52 Willie Nelson - American Classic #53 Peter Mulvey - Letters from a Flying Machine    #54 Sonos - SonoSings #55 Meat Puppets - Sewn Together            #56 Todd Snider    - The Excitement Plan #57 A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage    #58 Romeo Champagne - Guilt to Consume    #59 The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns are Not Just the Future #60 Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring!            #61 Rickie Lee Jones - Balm in Gilead    #62 The Swell Season - Strict Joy    #63 The Fireman (aka Paul McCartney) - Electric Arguments    #64 Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones    #65 Of Montreal    - Skeletal Lamping    #66 A.A. Bondy - When the Devil's Loose        #67 Dex Romweber Duo - Ruins of Berlin    #68 Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South      #69 John Fogerty - Rides Again    #70 William Elliot Whitmore - Animals in the Dark      #71 Amadou & Miriam - Welcome to Mali    #72 Baaba Maal - Television    #73 The Duhks - Fast Paced World    #74 David Bazan - Curse Your Branches #75 Zap Mama - ReCreation    #76 Fiction Family - Fiction Family    #77 Gomez - A New Tide #78 Guy Davis - Sweetheart Like You    #79 Hope Sandoval - Through the Devil Softly    #80 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit    #81 Jessica Lea Mayfield - With Blasphemy so Heartfelt #82 Jorma Kaukonen - River of Time    #83 Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew    #84 Miike Snow - Miike Snow    #85 Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut Rock    #86 Oumou Sangare - Seya    #87 Pink Martini - Splendor in the Grass #88 The Proclaimers - Notes & Rhymes    #89 Sarah Borges - The Stars are Out        #90 Sarah Jarosz - Song up in Her Head    #91 Son Volt - American Central Dust        #92 These United States    - Everything Touches Everything      #93 Trevor Hall - Trevor Hall    #94 Wake Up Mordecai - Too Young for the Disco    #95 WPA    - Works Progress Administration    #96 XL427 - Yesterdays Forever    #97 Casey Driessen - Oog #98 Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project    #99 Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - Tangled Tales    #100 Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies