 | Bad Veins by Bad Veins
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.47 Highly anticipated debut album of the Cincinnati indie-duo delivers, and then some. After this long wait, it's so nice to have the album out. Simply the best album of the year, period. Key tracks: Gold & Warm; Crosseyed; Falling Tide
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 | Manners by Passion Pit
Buy used from: $7.49 Impressive debut album is fun from start to finish. Key tracks: Little Secrets; The Reeling; Sleepyhead
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 | Psychic Chasms by Neon Indian
Buy new: $13.99 Thrilling debut album of Texas duo bringing electro-disco sounds for the 21st century. Key tracks: title track; Local Joke; Ephemeral Artery.
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 | Fantasies by Metric
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.95 Metric finally breaks through with this album which contains no weak songs, period. Key tracks: Help I'm Alive; Satellite Mind; Stadium Rock
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 | It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $8.93 YYYs' most consistent, and satisfying, album to date. Key tracks: Heads Will Roll; Zero; Dragon Queen
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 | Tonight:Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.81 Surprisingly robust third album that is not nearly as 'experimental' as we were lead to believe, but for one mega-exception, namely Lucid Dreams. The companion "Blood" dub-album is quite enjoyable as well. Key tracks: Lucid Dreams; Ullysses; No You Girls
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 | Phrazes For The Young by Julian Casablancas
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.48 The Strokes' singer-songwriter solo debut strays just far enough from the Strokes to keep things interesting. Solid from start to finish. Key tracks: Out of the Blue; 11th Dimension; Glass
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 | Glasvegas by Glasvegas
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.23 Excellent debut from the UK (ok, Scottish) indie-rockers, who may find success in the US a little harder to come by, though. Key tracks: Flowers and Football Tops; Daddy's Gone; Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Korgis cover).
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 | Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.45 Critical, if not commercial, breakthough album that is as good as the pre-release buzz was expecting us to believe. Key tracks: Two Weeks; Ready Able; While You Wait For Others.
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 | Ruminant Band by Fruit Bats
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.22 Excellent 4th album, probably the best of the band's output so far. Great mix between folk and americana rock. Key tracks: Primitive Man; title track; My Unusual Friend
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 | Oh My God Charlie Darwin by The Low Anthem
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.99 (And those bubbling under...) More excellent Americana for the 21st century. Key tracks: To Ohio; Cage the Songbird; Home I'll Never Be.
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 | It's Frightening by White Rabbits
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.99 Very solid second album from the NY indie-rockers. Key tracks: Percussion Gun; Rudie Fails; Midnight and I
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 | Light of X by Miranda Lee Richards
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $1.90 Long delayed second album from this promising singer-songwriter is well worth the wait. Key tracks: Breathless; Lifeboat; Hideaway.
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 | Divide & Conquer by Vandaveer
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.55 DC indie-folk rockers come back with a second album that showcases the growth of the band. Key tracks: Fisfull of Swoon; Turpentine; Before the Great War
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 | XX by xx
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.69 Strong debut from the UK indie-band, bringing a hard to describe mix of post-punk-indie rock. Just enjoy it already. Key tracks: Heart Skips a Beat; Basic Space; Crystalized
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 | These Four Walls by We Were Promised Jetpacks
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.49 Mood-rock at its best, brought with a Scottish twist. Key track: It's THunder and It;s Lightning; Roll Up Your Sleeves; A Half Built House.
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 | Pains of Being Pure at Heart by Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $21.91 The art of shoegazing brought up to date by the NY rockers on their debut album. Key tracks: Contender; Come Saturday; Everything With You.
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 | Mean Everything To Nothing by Manchester Orchestra
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.58 Heavy-sounding, but irresistable, album from the Atlanta indie-rockers. Key tracks: The Only One; Shake It Out; Pride
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 | Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $1.99 EP of the Year. Excellent companion EP to 2008's "Furr" album, and a sure sign that Blitzen Trapper is going up, up, up. Key tracks: Silver Moon; Going Down
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 | Dark Was the Night by Various Artists
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $12.79 Compilation of the Year. An indie-rock compilation for the ages, and for a good cause no less. Key tracks: The National's Far Around the Bend; the Kronos Quartet's title track; the Dirty Projectors and David Bowie's Knotty Pine
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 | Live In London by Leonard Cohen
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.50 Live Album of the Year. The old master and living legend shows us how it's done. Key tracks: Dance Me To the End of Love; First We Take Manhattan; The Future.
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 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack by Various Artists
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.85 Soundtrack of the Year. While the music has little to do with the movie, this is a must-have compliation for any indie-rock fan. Key tracks: Hearing Damage (Thom Yorke); Done All Wrong (BRMC); Meet Me on the Equinox (DCFC)
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 | KOYAANISQATSI (Complete Original Soundtrack Version) by Philip Glass
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $103.76 Soundtrack Reissue of the Year. The brilliant 1983 soundtrack by Philip Glass is finally restored in its full length and glory. Not to be missed.
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 | The Beatles Stereo Box Set by The Beatles
Buy new: $169.99 / Used from: $120.00 Box Set of the Year. What more is there to say? It's s imply a must have for any fan of rock history. Still blowing minds 40 years on.
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 | The Catalogue by Kraftwerk
Buy new: $140.99 Co-winner Box Set of the Year. Kraftwerk's 8 essential studio albums, remastered and presented in a way never heard or seen before. Essential for any fan of Kraftwerk and of electronic music.
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 | Woodstock: 40 Years on: Back to Yasgur's Farm (6CD, Limited Edition)
Co-winner Box Set of the Year. Woodstock's 40th anniversary is celebrated appropriately with this 6CD set. Highlights a-plenty, and if you weren't there (neither was I), this is as good as it's gonna get.
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