| Year | Artist | Album |
|---|
| 2023 | Sufjan Stevens | Javelin |
| 2022 | Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| 2021 | Japanese Breakfast | Jubilee |
| 2020 | Waxahatchee | Saint Cloud |
| 2019 | Lizzo | Cuz I Love You |
| 2018 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| 2017 | Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit | The Nashville Sound |
| 2016 | Sonny Knight & The Lakers | Sooner or Later |
| 2015 | Charlie Parr | Stumpjumper |
| 2014 | Magic Castles | Sky Sounds |
| 2013 | Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze |
| 2012 | Father John Misty | Fear Fun |
| 2011 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues |
| 2010 | The Black Keys | Brothers |
| 2009 | The Decemberists | The Hazards of Love |
| 2008 | The Hold Steady | Stay Positive |
| 2007 | Radiohead | In Rainbows |
| 2006 | The Hold Steady | Boys And Girls in America |
| 2005 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinois |
| 2004 | TV on the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
| 2003 | Cat Power | You Are Free |
| 2002 | Paul Westerberg/Grandpaboy | Stereo/Mono |
| 2001 | Low | Things We Lost in the Fire |
| 2000 | Elliot Smith | Figure 8 |
| 1999 | Tom Waits | Mule Variations |
| 1998 | Beck | Mutations |
| 1997 | Radiohead | OK Computer |
| 1996 | Surahoolies | Underneath the Water (local) |
| 1995 | Jayhawks | Tomorrow the Green Grass (local) |
| 1994 | Sugar | File Under: Easy Listening |
| 1993 | Cracker | Kerosene Hat |
| 1992 | Sugar | Copper Blue |
| 1991 | Crash Test Dummies | The Ghosts That Haunt Me |
| 1990 | Trip Shakespeare | Across the Universe (local) |
| 1989 | Indigo Girls | Self Titled |
| 1988 | Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars |
| 1987 | The Bears | The Bears |
| 1986 | Paul Simon | Graceland |
| 1983 | Bob Dylan | Infidels |