1) Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
2) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
3) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4) Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
5) Mitch Easter - Dynamico
6) Githead - Artpop
7) Interpol - Our Love To Admire
8) New P's - Challengers
9) Wire - Read & Burn 03 EP
10) Feist - The Reminder
11) Editors - An End Has a Start
12) Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
13) Lily Allen - Alright Still
14) You Am I - Convicts
15) Bruce Springsteen - Magic
16) The Gourds - Noble Creatures
17) Kylie Minogue - X
18) The Good, the Bad, and the Queen - The Good, the Bad, and the Queen

Best Live Shows:
Scott Miller multiple times including opening for Patty Griffin @ the Ryman, Interpol @ the Ryman, Gourds/David Childers @ Mercy Lounge

Reissue o' th' Year:
T-Bone Burnett - Proof Through the Night / Trap Door EP / Behind the Trap Door EP
(Rhino Handmade finally downing the #1 on my "Why Isn't This on CD Yet?"
list)

Not Mentioned Lest It Be Taken As Any Kind of Endorsement:
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Most Disappointing in the Ones I Do Endorse:
Really, really wanted to love the new Bruuuuuuuuce as much as most people did, but instead I found it pretty darn dull.

Don't Have/Haven't Listened To Enough Yet:
Krauss/Plant, Dean & Britta, Radiohead, Shalini, Ian Hunter, Okkervil River, Sloan, White Stripes, David Childers, Black Francis

2008 Preseason Favorite:
Goldfrapp - 7th Tree

later,

Miles