Aaron Draplin, Draplin Design Co.’s Top 10
1. Polvo – Siberia
2. Red Fang – Whales and Leaches
3. Flaming Lips – Peace Sword EP
4. Califone – Stitches
5. Sebadoh – Secret EP
6. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Mind Control
7. Lord Dying – Summon The Faithless
8. Scud Mountain Boys – Do You Love The Sun?
9. The Delines – Colfax
10. John Moreland – In The Throes
Dave Hofer’s Top Releases of 2013
Artifacts – Between a Rock & a Hard Place (Artifacts) REISSUE
A$AP Ferg – Trap Lord (RCA)
A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP (RCA)
Blasted Diplomats – Blasted Diplomats (BLVD)
Botch – We Are The Romans (Hydra Head) REISSUE
The Bronx – IV (ATO)
Danny Brown – Old (Fool’s Gold)
Cave In – Until Your Heart Stops (Hydra Head) REISSUE
Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us is the Killer (Sumerian)
Discordance Axis – Jouhou (Hydra Head) REISSUE
El-P & Killer Mike – Run the Jewels (Fool’s Gold)
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die (original Adrian Younge mix & Apollo Brown remix) (Soul Temple)
Gigan – Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science (Willowtip)
Heliocentrics – 13 Degrees of Reality (Now Again)
Ill Bill – The Grimy Awards (Fat Beats)
Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy (Nuclear Blast)
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Kismet (Self-released)
Nails – Abandon All Life (Southern Lord)
Nedelle Torrisi – Nedelle Torrisi (Self-released)
Denmark Vessey & Scud One – Cult Classic (Dirty Science)
Wormed – Exodromos (Willowtip)
Jordan Mamone’s Top 10
1. VHK – Veled Haraptat Csillagot! (Bite the Stars!) (Full Contact/Ektro)
2. Swans – Not Here/Not Now (Young God)
3. Hebosagil – Lähtö (Full Cotact/Ektro)
4. Live Skull – Bringing Home the Bait (Desire)
5. Toiling Midgets – Live at the Old Waldorf, July 21, 1982 (Full Contact/Ektro)
6. Pissed Jeans – Honeys (Sub Pop)
7. Circle – Six Day Run (Full Contact/Ektro)
8. The Garbage & the Flowers – Eyes Rind As If Beggars (Bo’Weavil/Fire)
9. Live Skull – Live Skull (Desire)
10. Mamiffer & Circle – Enharmonic Intervals (for Paschen Organ) (Sige/Ektro)
Michael T. Fournier’s Top 10
Buke & Gase – General Dome
Coliseum – Sister Faith
Grant Hart – The Argument
Highness – Hold
His Electro Blue Voice – Ruthless Sperm
Jandek – Song of Morgan
Mark Kozelek/Desertshore – Mark Kozelek & Desertshore
Party Animal – s/t
Rodan – Fifteen Quiet Years
v/a – Cut The Shit! Vol.1
Mike Faloon’s Five Great Records
1. Big Kitty – Recordings of Ferns (Teaberry)
2. David Kilgour – “Christopher Columbus” b/w “Shifting Sands” 7” (Merge)
3. Sebadoh – Defend Yourself (Joyful Noise)
4. Superchunk – I Hate Music (Merge)
5. Worriers – Cruel Optimist 12” EP (Don Gionvanni)
Mike Faloon’s Five Great Books
1. Sean Carswell – Madhouse Fog (Manic D)
2. Mickey Hess – The Novelist and the Wrapper (Self published)
3. Matt Kindt – Mind Mgmt: The Manager (Dark Horse)
4. Matt Kindt – Red Handed (First Second)
5. Rev. Norb – The Annotated Boris (Bulge
Antonio DePietro’s Top 10 sad, male, white singer/songwriter albums for 2013
1. Bill Callahan – River Dream
2. Kurt Vile – Waking on a Pretty Daze
3. Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others
4. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
5. James Blake – Overgrown
6. Ty Segall – Sleeper
7. Mutual Benefit – Love’s Crushing Diamond
8. Andrew Bird – I Want to See Pulaski at Night
9. Original Soundtrack Recording – Inside Llewyn Davis
10. Drake – Nothing Was the Same
Ryan Ridge’s Top 10
1. Bill Callahan – Dream River
2. William Tyler – Impossible Truth
3. Eluvium – Nightmare Ending
4. Kurt Vile – Waking on a Pretty Daze
5. Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
6. Jonathan Wilson – Fanfare
7. Yo La Tengo – Fade
8. Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
9. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
10. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold