Here are our top picks of 2009...

David:

Top 20 Albums:

  1. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
  2. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
  3. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H.
  4. Dear Landlord - Dream Homes
  5. Teenage Bottlerocket - They Came From The Shadows
  6. Banner Pilot - Collapser
  7. Nothington - Roads Bridges & Ruins
  8. A Death In The Family - Small Town Stories,
  9. Riverboat Gamblers - Underneath The Owl
  10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
  11. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
  12. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
  13. The Sidekicks - Weight Of Air
  14. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
  15. House Boat - The Delaware Octopus
  16. Above Them - Blueprint For A Better Time
  17. The Hex Dispensers - Winchester Mystery House
  18. The Jetty Boys - Sheboygan
  19. Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
  20. Social Circkle - City Shock
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Snuggle - Zero Real Hearts,The Takers - Taker Easy, Chuck Ragan - The Gold Country, Over Stars & Gutters - Consider This Your Curse, Parasites - Solitary, Nakatomi Plaza - Ghosts, Fun - Aim & Ignite, Cobra Skulls - American Rubicon, Attica Attica - Napalm & Nitrogen, AFI - Crash Love, Adorkables - She Loves Me Not, Calvinball - Live Fast, Go To Bed Early, Reaganomics - Get Lost, Stay Lost.

Top 10 EPs
  1. Make Do And Mend - Bodies Of Water
  2. Red City Radio - To The Sons & Daughters Of Woodie Guthrie
  3. The Menzingers - Hold On Dodge
  4. Defeater - Lost Ground
  5. A Wilhelm Scream - s/t
  6. Paint It Black - Amnesia / Surrender
  7. Deep Sleep - Paranoid Futures
  8. Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat And Tears
  9. Capital - Blind Faith
  10. Psyched To Die - Sterile Walls
HONOURBALE MENTIONS: Daylight - Demo, Anchor Down - Steel To Dust, Rumpsringer - s/t, Iron Chic - Shitty Rambo, The Haddonfields - Tickets Still Available, Captain We're Sinking - It's A Trap

Top 5 Splits
  1. Brokedowns / Turkish Techno
  2. Jon Snodgrass / Cory Branan
  3. Copyrights / Brokedowns
  4. Los Di Maggios / McRackins
  5. Bangers / Break The Habit