Listmania: Favorite Albums of 2009 (50-26)
Wow. How is it possible that there was this much good music released in 2009? I've been frantically trying to play catch up throughout the Fall and have just been overwhelmed. Even so, this list was relatively easy to compile. It's made up of 30% what you might call punk albums, 32% what could loosely be classified as some type of Americana or alt-country, 10% are of the heavier variety, and the remaining 28% are all over the place. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of albums on my list were released by independent labels (41) but I [...]
- American Steel - Emergency House Party
- Castevet - Beating High Schoolers At Arcade Games
- Chris Wollard & the Ship Thieves - No Exception
- Coalesce - Wild Ox Moan
- Dinosaur Jr - Over It
- Foundation - Begging To Bleed
- Freshman 15 - Phoenix Can Keep You
- Julie Doiron - Nice To Come Home
- Left Lane Cruiser - Crackalacka
- Lightning Bolt - Sound Guardians
- Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
- Micah Schnabel - American Static
- Mike Hale - Lives Like Mine
- New Found Glory - Don't Let This Be The End
- Noise By Numbers - Paris In September
- Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
- Red Collar - Radio On
- Rehasher - No Eye In Team
- Russian Circles - Fathom
- Sara Watkins - Long Hot Summer Days
- The Bomb - Not Christmas Night
- The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
- The Mercury Program - Departed/Arrived
- The Thermals - Now We Can See
- Truckstop Coffee - Ghost or an Angel




















Fiona Apple - Werewolf
Iggy Pop & Ginger Baker – “Lonely Boy” (Black Keys cover)
Jaill - Traps (album stream)