| # | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinoise |
| 2 | Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake It's Morning / Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| 3 | The Go! Team | Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
| 4 | Spoon | Gimme Fiction |
| 5 | M.I.A | Arular |
| 6 | The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan |
| 7 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| 8 | The Hold Steady | Separation Sunday |
| 9 | Shout Out Louds | Howl Howl Gaff Gaff |
| 10 | Low | The Great Destroyer |
| 11 | Smog | A River Ain't Too Much to Love |
| 12 | Andrew Bird | The Mysterious Production of Eggs |
| 13 | Beck | Guero |
| 14 | Animal Collective | Feels |
| 15 | Gorillaz | Demon Days |
| 16 | Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| 17 | Nouvelle Vague | Nouvelle Vague |
| 18 | The Decemberists | Picaresque |
| 19 | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm / Silent Alarm Remixed |
| 20 | Antony & the Johnson | I Am a Bird Now |
| 21 | Mountain Goats | Sunset Tree |
| 22 | The New pornographers | Twin Cinema |
| 23 | Atmosphere | You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having |
| 24 | Death Cab For Cutie | Plans |
| 25 | Calexico / Iron & Wine | In the Reins |
| 26 | Cloud Cult | Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus |
| 27 | Sleater-Kinney | The Woods |
| 28 | Broadcast | Tender Buttons |
| 29 | Sigur Ros | Takk |
| 30 | Best Friends Forever | Best Friends Forever |
| 31 | Broken Social Scene | Broken Social Scene |
| 32 | My Morning Jacket | Z |
| 33 | Josh Rouse | Nashville |
| 34 | Lavender Diamond | Lavender Diamond |
| 35 | Maximo Park | A Certain Trigger |
| 36 | Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane | At Carnegie Hall |
| 37 | Feist | Let it Die |
| 38 | Magnolia Electric Co. | What Comes After the Blues? |
| 39 | Ryan Adams | Cold Roses |
| 40 | Lightning Bolt | Hypermagic Mountain |
| 41 | Son Volt | Okemah and the Melody of Riot |
| 42 | M83 | Before the Dawn Heals Us |
| 43 | Neil Young | Prairie Wind |
| 44 | Eluvium | Talk Amongst the Trees |
| 45 | eels | Blinking Lights and Other Relevations |
| 46 | Kaiser Chiefs | Employment |
| 47 | Deerhoof | The Runners Four |
| 48 | Various Artists | World Psychedelic Classics 3 |
| 49 | Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt |
| 50 | Black Dice | Broken Ear Record |
| 51 | Fruit Bats | Spelled in Bones |
| 52 | Eyeball Skeleton | # 1 |
| 53 | Stephen Malkmus | Face the Truth |
| 54 | The Evens | The Evens |
| 55 | Danger Doom | The Mouse and the Mask |
| 56 | Nada Surf | The Weight is a Gift |
| 57 | Tina Schlieske | Slow Burn |
| 58 | Archer Prewitt | Wilderness |
| 59 | Why? | Elephant Eyelash |
| 60 | Boards of Canada | The Campfire Headphase |
| 61 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Howl |
| 62 | LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem |
| 63 | Imogen Heap | Imogen Heap |
| 64 | Eagle Seagull | Eagle Seagull |
| 65 | Great Lakes Swimmers | Bodies and Minds |
| 66 | Patrick Wolf | Wind in the Wires |
| 67 | Willie Nelson | Countryman |
| 68 | Against Me! | Searching for a Former Clarity |
| 69 | Crooked Fingers | Dignity and Shame |
| 70 | Fiery Furnaces | Rehearsing My Choir |
| 71 | Coco Rosie | Noah's Ark |
| 72 | Sybris | Sybris |
| 73 | Gogol Bordello | Gypsy Punks |
| 74 | Thievery Corporation | The Cosmic Game |
| 75 | Super Furry Animals | Love Kraft |
| 76 | Numbers | We're Animals |
| 77 | Caribou | The Milk of Human Kindness |
| 78 | The Bell Orchestre | Recording a Tape the Color of Light |
| 79 | Devendra Banhart | Cripple Crow |
| 80 | Burmese | Men |
| 81 | Buck 65 | This Right Here is Buck 65 |
| 82 | A Band of Bees | Free the Bees |
| 83 | Dirty Three | Cinder |
| 84 | Divorcee | Music for Cleanup Men, Breakdown and Inbetweeners |
| 85 | Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Iron | Exploration |
| 86 | Jens Lekman | When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog |
| 87 | Jose Gonzalez | Veneer |
| 88 | M. Ward | Transistor Radio |