Albums of 2010: Record Labels and Music Industry
Tom Beck (Walnut Tree Records/Walnut Tree Distribution)
1. Straight Lines - Persistence In This Game
2. Futures - Holiday EP
3. Goonies Never Say Die - No Words To Voice Our Hopes And Fears
4. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
5. Ursine Vulpine - Fenir EP
6. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
7. Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost
8. Junior Battles - Junior Battles
9. Mae - (A)fternoon
10. The Republic Of Wolves - Varuna
Tip for 2011: Delta/Alaska
Mark Orr (LAB Records)
1. Ellie Goulding - Lights
2. B.O.B - The Adventures Of Bobby Ray
3. Futures - The Holiday
4. The Morning Of - The Way I Fell In
5. Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
6. The Script - Science & Faith
7. Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
8. Emarosa - Emarosa
9. Maroon 5 - Misery
10. Kids In Glass Houses - Dirt
Jack Clothier (Alcopop Records)
1. The Xcerts -Scatterbrain
2. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
3. My First Tooth -Territories
4. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
5. The Attika State - Measures
6. Pulled Apart by Horses – Pulled Apart by Horses
7. Fang Island – Fang Island
8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
9. Mimas - Lifejackets
10. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening or Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Tip(s) for 2011: Esben and the Witch, Fixers and Delta/Alaska
Chase Igliori(No Sleep Records)
1. S. Carey - All We Grow
3. Jónsi - Go
3. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
4. Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
5. Daughters - Daughters
6. Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
7. Foals - Total Life Forever
8. Envy - Recitation
9. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?
10. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
Tom Bennett (Pandy Cane Clothing and Music)
1. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
2. Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost
3. Francesqa - We Lived
4. The Candle Thieves - Sunshine and Other Misfortunes
5. Futures - The Holiday
6. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
7. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses
8. Talons - Hollow Realm
9. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
10. The Maine - Black and White
Tip(s) for 2011: Francesqa, Brother, In Gratitude, The Lion and The Wolf, Burn The Fleet and Mirrors.
Chris Brownless (Right On! Management)
1. Alexisonfire - Dog's Blood
2. Francesqa - We Lived
3. Carl Barat - self titled.
4. We Are Scientists - rules don't stop.
5. You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
6. Performance - Red Brick Hear
7. Wavves - King Of The Beach
8. Guards - Guards EP
9. Gaslight anthem - American slang
10. The Flatliners - cavalcade
Tip For 2011: Middle Finger Salute
David Marsh (The Standard Agency)
1. Drake - Thank Me Later
2. Mike Posner - 31 Minutes To Takeoff
3. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
4. 3OH!3 - Streets Of Gold
5. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
6. Passion Pit - Manners (deluxe edition)
7. Anarbor - The Words You Don't Swallow
8. The Maine - Black & White
9. Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans
10. The Limousines - Get Sharp
Tip for 2011: Saddles
Eddie Horn (Another Reybee Production)
1. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
2. The Wonder Years - The Upsides (deluxe edition)
3. Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
4. Minus The Bear - Omni
5. Girl Talk - All Day
6. Iron Chic - Not Like This
7. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
8. Fitz & The Tantrums - Pickin' Up The Pieces
9. Bars Of Gold - Of Gold
10. Relics - Natyasastra
Manchester Scenewipe
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
3. Caribou - Swim
4. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
5. The National - High Violet
6. Menomena - Mines
7. Maps and Atlases - Perch pPtchwork
8. Mount Kimbie - Crookes & Lovers
9. Everything Everything - Man Alive
10. Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin
Sameer Sadhu (P Is For Panda)
1. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
2. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
3. Ellie Goulding - Lights
4. Delta Spirit - History from Below
5. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
6. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now
7. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
8. Lakes - The Agreement
9. Vampire Weekend - Contra
10. Andy Shauf - Waiting for the Sun to Leave
Tip(s) for 2011: Damion Suomi & the Minor Prophets, The Cape Race, The Head and the Heart, All Get Out, Life in Film, I Am David Sparkle and Andy Zipf.
John Allen (Disconnect Disconnect Records)
1. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
2. Counterpunch - Heroes & Ghosts
3. Iron Chic - Not Like This
4. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
5. Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
6. From Plan To Progress - Ink Stains & Incidents
7. We Are The Union - Great Leaps Forward
8. Smoke Or Fire - The Speakeasy
9. Transit - Keep This To Yourself
10. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You
Tip for 2011: Radicus
Chris Mason (Shang-A-Lang/Dirt Cult Records)
1. The Arrivals - Volatile Molotov
2. Young Offenders - Leader of the Followers
3. Masshysteri - 2nd
4. Tiltwheel - The High Hate Us
5. Dan Padilla - The Ox Plows
6. ADD/C - Busy Days
7. Rumspringer - Empty Towners
8. Hot New Mexicans - Hot New Mexicans
9. RVIVR - RVIVR
10. Dead Mechanical - Adict Rhythms
Chuck Daley (Beartrap PR / Tiny Engines)
1. The Conversions - Spineless Wonders
2. Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms
3. End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
4. Forming - Forming
5. Hot New Mexicans - Hot New Mexicans
6. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
7. Merchandise - (Strange Songs) In The Dark
8. The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
9. Tre Orsi - Devices + Emblems
10. Young Adults - Black Hole
