| ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
| New This Week |
| Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam | Coming Up For Air | Blix Street |
| The Lemonheads | Varshons | The End |
| Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears | Tell 'Em What Your Name Is | Lost Highway |
| The Low Anthem | Oh My God Charlie Darwin | Nonesuch |
| Ongoing |
| Among The Oak & Ash | Among The Oak & Ash | Verve Forecast |
| Assembly of Dust | Some Assembly Required | Rock Ridge |
| Ben Harper and Relentless7 | White Lies for Dark Times | Virgin |
| Ben Lee | The Rebirth of Venus | New West |
| Bob Dylan | Together Through Life | Columbia |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Beware | Drag City |
| Booker T. | Potato Hole | ANTI |
| Camera Obscura | My Maudlin Career | 4AD |
| Chris Isaak | Mr. Lucky | Reprise |
| Coldplay | LeftRightLeftRightLeft | Capitol |
| Company of Thieves | Ordinary Riches | Wind-up |
| Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band | Outer South | Merge |
| Dave Matthews Band | Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King | RCA |
| Death Cab For Cutie | The Open Door EP | Atlantic |
| Depeche Mode | Sounds of the Universe | Capitol |
| Diane Birch | Bible Belt | S-Curve |
| Eels | Hombre Lobo | Vagrant |
| Eleni Mandell | Artificial Fire | Zedtone |
| Elvis Costello | Secret, Profane & Sugarcane | Hear Music |
| Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood | Live From Madison Square Garden | Reprise |
| Eric Lindell | Gulf Coast Highway | Alligator |
| Gomez | A New Tide | ATO |
| Great Lake Swimmers | Lost Channels | Nettwerk |
| Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | Warp |
| Heartless Bastards | The Mountain | Fat Possum |
| Hill Country Revue | Make a Move | Razor & Tie |
| Iggy Pop | Preliminaries | Astralwerks |
| Indigo Girls | Poseidon and the Bitter Bug | Vanguard |
| Iron and Wine | Around the Well | Sub Pop |
| Jason Lytle | Yours truly, The Commuter | Anti |
| Jenny Owen Youngs | Transmitter Failure | Nettwerk |
| Jesse Harris | Watching the Sky | Mercer Street/Secret Sun |
| Jill Sobule | California Songs | Pinko |
| John Doe & The Sadies | Country Club | Yep Roc |
| John Wesley Harding | Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead | Popover Corps. |
| Jonatha Brooke | The Works | Bad Dog |
| Justin Townes Earle | Midnight at the Movies | Bloodshot |
| K'naan | Troubadour | Interscope |
| Levon Helm | Electric Dirt | Vanguard |
| M.Ward | Hold Time | Merge |
| Madeleine Peyroux | Bare Bones | Rounder |
| Maria Taylor | Ladyluck | Nettwerk |
| Marianne Faithfull | Easy Come Easy Go | Naive |
| Marshall Crenshaw | Jaggedland | 429 |
| Meat Puppets | Sewn Together | Mega Force |
| Melody Gardot | My One and Only Thrill | Verve |
| Michelle Shocked | Soul of My Soul | Mighty Sound |
| Modest Mouse | No One's First and You're Next EP | Epic |
| Morrissey | Years of Refusal | Attack/Lost Highway |
| Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens | What Have You Done, My Brother? | Daptone |
| Neil Young | Fork in the Road | Reprise |
| Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | ANTI |
| Oren Lavie | The Opposite Side of the Sea | Quarter Past Wonderful/Adrenaline |
| Pete Yorn | Back and Fourth | Columbia |
| Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | Glassnote |
| Regina Spektor | Far | Sire |
| Richard Shindell | Not Far Now | Signature Sounds |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Goodnight Oslo | Yep Roc |
| Rocco DeLuca | Mercy | Ironworks/Universal Republic |
| Sam Roberts | Love at the End of the World | Zoe/Rounder |
| Sara Watkins | Sara Watkins | Nonesuch |
| Slaid Cleaves | Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away | Music Road |
| Son Volt | American Central Dust | Rounder |
| Steve Earle | Townes | New West |
| Susan Werner | Classics | Sleeve Dog |
| The Decemberists | The Hazards of Love | Capitol |
| The Felice Brothers | Yonder is the Clock | Team Love |
| Tori Amos | Abnormally Attracted to Sin | Universal Republic |
| Various Artists | Dark Was The Night | 4AD |
| Wilco | Wilco (The Album) | Nonesuch |
| Willie Nile | House of a Thousand Guitars | River House |
| Yusuf | Roadsinger | UMe |
| Zee Avi | Zee Avi | Brushfire/ Universal |