| Frightened Rabbit | The Twist | The Midnight Organ Fight | Fat Cat |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs | Garden | single | Polydor |
| WHY? | Whispers Into the Other | Elephant Eyelash | Anticon |
| Reptar | Ready or Not | | |
| Apostle of Hustle | One More Night | Do You Trust Your Friends? | Arts & Crafts |
| Portugal. The Man | The Sun | The Satanic Satanist | Equal Vision |
| Beck | Sing It Again | Mutations | Geffen |
| Christian Falk | Dream On | People Say | Bonnier |
| John Maus | Believer | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | Upset the Rhythm |
| The Hold Steady | Southtown Girls | Boys and Girls in America | Frenchkiss |
| Japandroids | The Boys Are Leaving Town | Post-Nothing | Polyvinyl |
| Your Heart Breaks | New Ocean Waves | New Ocean Waves | Plan-It-X |
| Cut Copy | Feel the Love | In Ghost Colours | Modular |
| Black Mountain | Don't Run Our Hearts Around | Black Mountain | Jagjaguwar |
| Real Estate | All the Same | Days | Domino |
| Desert Noises | Blue Skies | Desert Noises EP | Northplatte |
| The Bad Plus | Flim | These Are the Vistas | Columbia |
| jj | Things Will Never Be the Same Again | jj n° 2 | Sincerely Yours |
| Wilco | Art of Almost | The Whole Love | dBpm |
| TV on the Radio | Halfway Home | Dear Science | Interscope |
| Belle and Sebastian | Another Sunny Day | The Life Pursuit | Matador |
| The Unicorns | I was Born (a Unicorn) | Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | Alien8 |
| Titus Andronicus | A More Perfect Union | The Monitor | XL |
| Marvin Gaye | Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | What's Going On | Tamla |