| 1 Rilo Kiley | Rkives | Little Record Co. |
| 2 Devendra Banhart | Mala | Nonesuch |
| 3 Eels | Wonderful, Glorious | Vagrant |
| 4 Adam Green & Binki Shapiro | Adam Green & Binki Shapiro | Rounder-Conchord |
| 5 Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite | Get Up! | Stax-Conchord |
| 6 David Bowie | The Next Day | Columbia |
| 7 Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 8 Telekinesis | Dormarion | Merge |
| 9 Billy Bragg | Tooth And Nail | Cooking Vinyl |
| 10 Foxygen | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic | Jagjaguwar |
| 11 Yo La Tengo | Fade | Matador |
| 12 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | We The Common | Ribbon |
| 13 Heidi Happy | On The Hills | Silent |
| 14 Strokes | Comedown Machine | RCA |
| 15 Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 16 Tegan & Sara | Heartthrob | Warner Brothers |
| 17 Charles Bradley | Victim Of Love | Dunham |
| 18 Replacements | Songs For Slim | New West |
| 19 Lisa Leblanc | Lisa Leblanc | Bonsound |
| 20 Paper Bird | Rooms | Paper Bird |
| 21 Robyn Hitchcock | Love From London | Yep Roc |
| 22 Matt Pond | The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hand | BMG |
| 23 Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside | Untamed Beast | Partisan |
| 24 Little Green Cars | Absolute Zero | Glassnote |
| 25 Various Artists | John Denver | Tribute |
| 26 Born Ruffians | Birthmarks | Yep Roc |
| 27 Cayucas | Bigfoot | Secretly Canadian |
| 28 Buke & Gase | General Dome | Brasslands |
| 29 Cloud Cult | Love | |
| 30 Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | Self-Released |
