Pissed Jeans Don’t Need Smoke To Make Myself Disappear (Sub Pop)
Om Coference of the Birds (Holy Mountain)
Boris Pink (Southern Lord)
Melvins A Senile Animal (Ipecac)
Boris/Sunn O))) Altar (Southern Lord)
Cheap Trick Rockford (Big3)
The Thermals The Body The Blood The Machine (Sub Pop)
Be Your Own Pet Self Titled (Ecstatic Peace!/Universal)
Dan Sartain Join Dan Sartain (Swami)
The Hold Steady Boys and Girls In America (Vagrant)
The Drones Gala Mill (ATP)
The Long Winters Putting the Days To Bed (Barsuk)
Okay, so the new Cheap Trick record wasn’t hyped at all, but I do have to give it up to Brian Walsby for convincing me that Rockford is easily one of the best summer records ever made.