more Bon Iver is needed on these lists...

The top of andrea is like the bottom of everyone else hahaha. Simple plan, all time low & save your breath higher than wonder years & swellers. Good joke

1. Title Fight "Shed"
2. The Swellers "Good For Me"
3. The Wonder Years "Suburbia I've Given You All & Now I'm Nothing"
4. Touché Amoré "Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me"
5. The Story So Far "Under Soil & Dirt"
6. Living With Lions "Holy Shit"
7. The Vaccines "What Did You Expect from the Vaccines'"
8. Foster The People "Torches"
9. Balance & Composure "Separation"
10. Spraynard "Funtitled"

honorable mention
Atlas Losing Grip "State of Unrest"
Foo Fighters "Wasting Light"
The Get Up Kids "These Are Rules"


Growning on Me:
Manchester Orchestra "Simple Math"
Fireworks "Gospel"
Nightlights "So it Goes"
The Holy Mess "Self Titled"
Friendly Fires "Pala"
Snowing "I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted"
Death Cab For Cutie "Code & Keys"

Eps:
1. Half Hearted Hero "Running Water"
2. Daytrader "Last Days Of Rome"
3. Growns Up "Handholder"
4. Man Overboard "The Absolute Worst"
5. Turnover Self Titled

Disappointing:
Set Your Goals "Burning at Both Ends"
F2F "Laugh Now, Laugh Later"
The Strokes "Angles"

Favorite's artwork
Man Overboard "The Absolute Worst"
The Swellers "Good for Me"
Daytrader "Last Days of rome"
Death Cab For Cutie "Code & Keys"

Shit:
All Time Low "Dirt Work"
Lady Gaga "Born This Way"

Most anticipated releases for the second half:
Blink-182
Basement
The Ataris
Man Overboard
The Strokes ha
MGMT
Transit
The Lawrence Arms?

Originally Posted by inthemidst

Sleeping at Last - Seasons EP Series
William Fitzsimmons - Gold in the Shadow
Jonathan Jones - Community Group
Cool Hand Luke - Of Man
Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful
Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes

it's actually yearbook, but i forgive you because those eps are fucking incredible and sadly overlooked by everyone else.

Some great stuff I don't remember seeing on a single staff list (for anyone looking for more shit):

Meg and Dia - Cocoon
The Damnwells - No One Listens to the Band Anymore
Raphael Saddiq - Stone Rollin
Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Sit Resist
The Cars - Move Like This
Caroline - Verdugo Hills
Destroyer - Kaputt
William Fitzsimmons - Gold in the Shadow
Ha Ha Tonka - Death of a Decade
The Hotel Year - It Never Goes Out
Mountain Goats - All Eternal's Deck
Those Dancing Days - Daydreams and Nightmares
Lucinda Williams - Blessed
Musiq Soulchild - MUSIQINTHEMAGIQ
Ben Harper - Give Til It's Gone
Friendly Fires - Pala
Matt Nathanson - Modern Love

Glad Jason Tate included Daybreakers - The Northbound Train EP. that is an amazing cd

My list goes something like:
1. Rise Against - Endgame (saw them live also this year, AMAZING)
2. Daybreaker - The Northbound Trains EP
3. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
4. Panic at the Disco - Vices and Virtues
5. Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
6. Childish Gambino - EP
7. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - D.R.U.G.S.
8. Bayside - Killing Time
9. Foo Foghters - Wasting Light
10. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math

Some of these might get knocked off by Blink-182, New Found Glory, and The Devil Wears Prada's new one

Looking at my iTunes, it's really depressing to see how little music I've bought that was released this year and even sadder that it's mostly EPs. I doubt I could even make a list. ;.;

i'd have to say Tate's takes the cake.

Originally Posted by cshadows2887

Some great stuff I don't remember seeing on a single staff list (for anyone looking for more shit):


Laura Stevenson and the Cans - Sit Resist

This totally needs more love.

Originally Posted by PlanetDahmz

This totally needs more love.

It really does. Though I'm not surprised. Don Giovanni is a pretty small label. Can't get the same kind of press.

Matt, Paul, and Jeremy clearly had the best list

In no particular order
Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
August Burns Red - Leveler
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
The Wonder Years - Suburbia...
City and Colour - Little Hell
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Yellowcard - When You're...
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys

Top 10:

1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. Yuck - Yuck
3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
4. Smith and Westerns - Dye It Blonde
5. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
6. Jeff the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions
7. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
8. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
9. Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
10. Lemuria - Pebble

Honorable Mentions:

Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Cave In - White Silence
Cults - Cults
Thursday - No Devolucion
Big Kids - Phone Home
Low - C'mon
Parts & Labor - Constant Future
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Esben and the Witch - Violent Cries
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
Face to Face - Laugh Now, Laugh Later
Touche Amore -Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
Rival Schools - Pedals
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Tv on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights

What do I win for having the best list?

Originally Posted by Mariosux!

Top 10:

1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. Yuck - Yuck
3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
4. Smith and Westerns - Dye It Blonde
5. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired
6. Jeff the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions
7. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
8. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
9. Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
10. Lemuria - Pebble

Honorable Mentions:

Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Cave In - White Silence
Cults - Cults
Thursday - No Devolucion
Big Kids - Phone Home
Low - C'mon
Parts & Labor - Constant Future
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Esben and the Witch - Violent Cries
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
Face to Face - Laugh Now, Laugh Later
Touche Amore -Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
Rival Schools - Pedals
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Tv on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights

What do I win for having the best list?

Nothing, because it's just "Smith Westerns"!!!!!

Seriously though, good list. If we could have honourable mentions in ours, mine would look a lot different too, but I like the majority of yours.

My current top 10:

1. Balance and Composure
2. Defeater
3. Fireworks
4. Fucked Up
5. August Burns Red
6. Eisley
7. Red City Radio
8. The Swellers
9. The Wonder Years
10. Lower Than Atlantis