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**I don't include any of our own releases in the lists for obvious reasons!**


2016

Top 20 Albums

  1. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
  2. Ignite - A War Against You
  3. Caskitt - Old Fires New Frontiers
  4. Wild Animals - Basements: Music to fight hypocrisy
  5. Make War - Developing A Theory Of Integrity
  6. Turkish Techno - Number Two
  7. Joyce Manor - Cody
  8. Shallow Cuts - Empty Beach Town
  9. Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart
  10. Pkew Pkew Pkew - S/T
  11. Mean Jeans - Tight New Dimension
  12. Arliss Nancy - Greater Divides
  13. Apologies I Have None - Pharmacie
  14. Sonic Avenues - Disconnector
  15. Great Apes - California Heart
  16. Low Culture - Places To Hide
  17. Touche Amore - Stage Four
  18. Toys That Kill - Sentimental Ward
  19. Basement Benders - Lydiad
  20. Face To Face - Protection

Just missed out: Problem Daughter, Murderburgers, Steve Adamyk Band, Get Dead, Ship Thieves, Joe McMahon, Pulley

2015


Top 20 Albums

  1. toyGuitar - In This Mess
  2. Night Birds - Mutiny At Muscle Beach
  3. Radioactivity - Silent Kill
  4. The Barreracudas - Can Do Easy
  5. Beach Slang - The Things We Do To Find...
  6. Red Dons - The Dead Hand Of Tradition
  7. Good Shade - S/T // Breakfast
  8. Western Settings - Yes It Is
  9. Make War - S/T
  10. Royal Headache - High
  11. No Weather Talks - Undoing Defeat
  12. Nervous Talk - S/T
  13. Atlas Losing Grip - Currents
  14. Legendary Wings - Do You See?
  15. Divers - Hello Hello
  16. Violent Reaction - Marching On
  17. Timeshares - Already Dead
  18. Worriers - Imaginary Life
  19. Strung Out - Transmission Alpha Delta
  20. Caskitt - This Machine Kills Sadness

Just missed out: Red City Radio, Widows Watch, Hollowpoints, Success, Lost Balloons



2014


Top 20 Albums

  1. Bear Trade - Blood & Sand
  2. Swingin Utters - A Fistful Of Hollow
  3. World Inferno Friendship Society - This Packed Funeral
  4. No Problem - We're Already Dead
  5. The Creeps - Eulogies
  6. Stay Clean Jolene - S/T
  7. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
  8. The Dwarves - Invented Rock & Roll
  9. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
  10. Pears - Go To Prison
  11. The Brokedowns - Life Is A Breeze
  12. Martha - Courting Strong
  13. Sonic Avenues - Mistakes
  14. Needles // Pins - Shamebirds
  15. The Copyrights - Report
  16. Cheap Girls - Famous Graves
  17. Restorations - LP3
  18. Only Crime - Pursuance
  19. Hospital Job - The Believer
  20. Smith Street Band - Throw Me In The River
Just missed out - No Marks, Cayetana, Sad & French, Blank Pages, The Manges, Crow Bait, Hard Girls, Banner PIlot, Dee Cracks



Top 10 EPs


  1. Beach Slang - Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken
  2. Shallow Cuts - Storm Watch
  3. Dead Bars - S/T
  4. RVIVR - Bicker & Breathe
  5. Prince - s/t
  6. Not Scientists - Leave Stickers On Our Graves
  7. Great Apes - Playland At The Beach
  8. Sundials - Kick
  9. Downtown Struts - Hope You're Dope
  10. Gateway District - Partial Traces

Top 5 Splits

  • Madison Bloodbath / Worthwhile Way
  • Dead Bars / Sunshine State
  • Low Culture / Iron Chic
  • Low Culture / Needles//Pins
  • Joyce Manor / Toys That Kill


2013


Top 20 Albums


  1. THE BRONX - IV
  2. RESTORATIONS - LP2
  3. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - Home
  4. CRUSADES - Perhaps You Deliver This Judgment...
  5. RED CITY RADIO - Titles
  6. ROUGH KIDS - The State I'm In
  7. NIGHT MARCHERS - Allez Allez
  8. ARLISS NANCY - Wild American Runners
  9. FUTURE VIRGINS - Late Republic
  10. LOW CULTURE - Screens
  11. DEAD MECHANICAL - OK Night
  12. NATO COLES & THE BLUE DIAMOND BAND - Promises To Deliver
  13. RADIOACTIVITY - S/T
  14. THE FLATLINERS - Dead Language
  15. GREAT APES - Thread
  16. WIL WAGNER - Laika
  17. CALVINBALL - Last Orders
  18. THE STEVE ADAMYK BAND - Third
  19. WRINGER - Bullfighter
  20. RVIVR - The Beauty Between
Just Missed Out: Peeple Watchin, Iron Chic, The Visitors, Druglords of The Avenues, Swingin' Utters, Night Birds, Have Mercy, Rumspringer, Slow Death, A Wilhelm Scream, Failures Union



Top 10 EPs


  1. THE SMITH STREET BAND - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams
  2. GAMEDAY REGULARS - Nobody Likes A Quitter
  3. PAINT IT BLACK - Invisible
  4. THE CREEPS - Our Time
  5. THE MOMS - Viva
  6. BREAK UPS - It's Complicated
  7. DOWNTOWN STRUTS - Victory
  8. THE RED DONS - Notes On The Underground
  9. FAR FROM FINISHED - Let's Be Frank
  10. MUNCIE GIRLS - Sleepless
Just Missed Out: Lucero, Good Crime, Mall'd To Death, Neon Piss, Who Needs You, Bear Trade, Astpai



TOP 10 SPLIT 7"s (in no particular order)


  • MAKE DO AND MEND / THE FLATLINERS
  • FUTURE VIRGINS / TOYS THAT KILL
  • MEAN JEANS / UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND
  • DOWNTOWN STRUTS / NOTHINGTON
  • NATO COLES / YOUR PEST BAND
  • OLD FLINGS / BREAK UPS
  • CITY MOUSE / WEEKEND DADS
  • SHOOK ONES / DEATH IS NOT GLAMOROUS
  • SLOW DEATH / BROKEDOWNS
  • REAL DANGER / WINDOWSILL
  • LIPSTICK HOMICIDE / TURKLETONS


2012


Top 20 Albums:

  1. Downtown Struts - Victoria!
  2. Arms Aloft - Sawdust City
  3. The Smith Street Band - Sunshine & Technology
  4. Masked Intruder - S/T
  5. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
  6. Mean Jeans - On Mars
  7. Classics of Love - S/T
  8. Dopamines - Vices
  9. Sonic Avenues - Television Youth
  10. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
  11. The Victim Party - The Worst Party On Earth
  12. The Jealous Sound - A Gentle Reminder
  13. Hot Water Music - Exister
  14. White Wires - III
  15. Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
  16. Toys That Kill - Fambly
  17. Nude Beach - II
  18. The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds
  19. Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
  20. Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!
Just Missed Out: The Titus Andronicus, Wide Angles, Forgetters, Sundials, Fear Of Lipstick, Dan Padilla, Astpai, Audacity, OFF! and Like Bats.


Top 20 EPs

  1. Post Teens - The Heat
  2. One Man Army - She's An Alarm
  3. Low Culture - S/T
  4. Crusades - Parables
  5. Martha - S/T
  6. Holy Fever - Ghost Story & S/T
  7. Warsong - Caravan
  8. Bad Advice - Do Not Resuscitate
  9. No Problem - Living In The Void
  10. Youth Avoiders - Time Flies
  11. Red Dons - Auslander
  12. Masked Intruder - First Offense
  13. The Creeps - AOTU 7"
  14. Holy Mess - Cold Goodbyes
  15. Swingin Utters - The Librarians Are Hiding Something
  16. Borderlines - Magical Paths
  17. Elway - Hence My Optimism
  18. Stay Clean Jolene - S/T
  19. Crashbangboom - S/T
  20. Heat Tape - S/T
Just Missed Out: Terrible Feelings, Wax Phantom, No Weather Talks, Muncie Girls, Bangers, Bear Trade, Safe Hands


Top 10 Splits (in no particular order)

  • Dan Vapid / Jetty Boys
  • Brokedowns / Wide Angles
  • Criminal Culture / Rubrics
  • Direct Hit / Haverchucks
  • Credentials / Steelhorse
  • City Mouse / Homewreckers
  • Shang A Lang / Rumspringer
  • People Watchin / Nona
  • Dwarves / Riptides
  • Sister Kisser / Rumspringer


2011


Top 20 Albums:

  1. Future Virgins - Western Problems
  2. Swingin Utters - Here, Under Protest
  3. Night Birds - The Other Side Of Darkness
  4. The Copyrights - North Sentinel Island
  5. Former Cell Mates - Presented As A Work Of Fiction
  6. Polar Bear Club - Clash Guilt Battle Pride
  7. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
  8. Heat Tape - Raccoon Valley Recordings
  9. Hidden Spots - Hundred Million Voices
  10. Crusades - The Sun Is Down...
  11. Spraynard - Funtitled
  12. Tenement - Napalm Dream
  13. The Steve Adamyk Band - Forever Won't Wait
  14. Too Many Daves - Weekend At Dave's
  15. Cute Lepers - Adventure Time
  16. World Inferno Friendship Society - The Anarchy & The Ecstasy
  17. Joyce Manor - S/T
  18. Banner Pilot - Heart Beats Pacific
  19. Credentials - Goocher
  20. Samiam - Trips

Just Missed Out: Frenzal Rhomb, Banquets, House Boat, Red City Radio, The Dwarves, Elway, Sundials & Chuck Ragan



Top 10 EPs:


  1. Chixdiggit - Safeways, Here I Come
  2. Hot Water Music - The Fire, The Steel, The Thread
  3. Post Teens - S/T
  4. New Rochelles - It's New
  5. Nato Coles - Play Loud
  6. Teenage Bottlerocket - Mutialte Me
  7. The Haverchucks - S/T
  8. Slow Death - Mitch Clem Comix Series
  9. Captain We're Sinking - With Joe Riley
  10. Sainte Catherines - Dead Dogs

Just Missed Out: Dead North, The Biters, Make Do & Mend, Great Apes, Boilerman, Rational Anthem, Sainte Catherines, Wide Angles, Red Dons, This Is A Standoff, Weekend Dads, Armalite


Top 10 Splits


  1. Arms Aloft / The Manix
  2. Banquets / Mayflower
  3. Steve Adamyk Band / Sonic Avenues
  4. Decay / Wayfarer
  5. Dear Landlord / Dopamines
  6. Spraynard / Sundials
  7. Gamits / Red City Radio
  8. Criminal Culture / Wax Phantom
  9. Direct Hit / Tit Patrol
  10. Rumpsringer / Calvinball. Mayflower / Dauntless Elite
2010



Top 20 Albums:

  1. The Arrivals - Volatile Molotov
  2. Iron Chic - Not Like This
  3. Off With Their Heads - In Desolation
  4. The National - High Violet
  5. Make Do & Mend - End Measured Mile
  6. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
  7. The Hollowpoints - Old Haunts On The Horizon
  8. Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
  9. Sainte Catherines - Fire Works
  10. Leatherface - The Stormy Petrel
  11. The Gamits - Parts
  12. Crime In Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You...
  13. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
  14. The Real Danger - Making Enemies
  15. The Great St Louis - In Your Own Time
  16. The Riot Before - Rebellion
  17. The Flatliners - Cavalcade
  18. The State Lottery - When The Night Comes
  19. Autistic Youth - Idle Minds
  20. Stephen Egerton - Seven Degrees Of...
Just Missed Out: Statues, The Dopamines, The Credentials, The Amistad, Fear Of Lipstick, Randy Thunderbird. Junker, The Flatliners, RVIVR


Top 10 EPs

  1. The Biters - S/T
  2. Forgetters - S/T
  3. Swingin Utters - Brand New Lungs
  4. Pacer - No. 1
  5. Frontier(s) - The Plains
  6. Junior Battles - S/T
  7. Slow Death - Demo
  8. House Boat - Processing Complaints
  9. Direct Hit - #4
  10. The Manix - Van Activities
Just Missed Out: A Death In The Family, Transgressions / Side Project, Wide Angles , Banquets


2009


Top 20 Albums:

  1. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
  2. Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
  3. Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H.
  4. Dear Landlord - Dream Homes
  5. Teenage Bottlerocket - They Came From The Shadows
  6. Banner Pilot - Collapser
  7. Nothington - Roads Bridges & Ruins
  8. A Death In The Family - Small Town Stories,
  9. Riverboat Gamblers - Underneath The Owl
  10. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
  11. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
  12. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
  13. The Sidekicks - Weight Of Air
  14. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
  15. House Boat - The Delaware Octopus
  16. Above Them - Blueprint For A Better Time
  17. The Hex Dispensers - Winchester Mystery House
  18. The Jetty Boys - Sheboygan
  19. Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
  20. Social Circkle - City Shock
Just Missed Out: Snuggle, Chuck Ragan, Over Stars & Gutters, Parasites, Nakatomi Plaza, Cobra Skulls, Attica Attica, AFI, Adorkables, Reaganomics



Top 10 EPs


Top 10 EPs

  1. Make Do And Mend - Bodies Of Water
  2. Red City Radio - To The Sons & Daughters Of Woodie Guthrie
  3. The Menzingers - Hold On Dodge
  4. Defeater - Lost Ground
  5. A Wilhelm Scream - s/t
  6. Paint It Black - Amnesia / Surrender
  7. Deep Sleep - Paranoid Futures
  8. Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat And Tears
  9. Captain We're Sinking - It's A Trap
  10. Psyched To Die - Sterile Walls
Just Missed Out: Daylight, Anchor Down, Rumpsringer, Iron Chic, The Haddonfields, Capital



Top 5 Splits


Top 5 Splits

  1. Brokedowns / Turkish Techno
  2. Jon Snodgrass / Cory Branan
  3. Copyrights / Brokedowns
  4. Los Di Maggios / McRackins
  5. Bangers / Break The Habit


2008


Top 20 Albums:

  1. Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear
  2. Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
  3. Off With Their Heads - From The Bottom
  4. The Riot Before - Fists Buried In Pockets
  5. The Gaslight Anthem - '59 Sound
  6. Shorebirds - It's Gonna Get Ugly
  7. How Dare You - Comfort Road
  8. The Loved Ones - Build and Burn
  9. Banner Pilot - Resignation Day
  10. Casting Out - Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks
  11. Steinways - Gorilla Marketing
  12. The Copyrights - Learn The Hard Way
  13. LaGrecia - On Parallels
  14. Defeater - Travels
  15. The Bronx - III
  16. Frank Turner - Love Ire & Song
  17. Nada Surf - Lucky
  18. Shot Baker - Awake
  19. The Arkells - Jackson Square
  20. Scream Hello - Everything Is Always Still Happening

Just Missed Out: Sloppy Seconds, Ben Nicholls, Have Heart, The Tim Version, Deadly Sins, Foundation,Lemuria


Top 10 EPs:


  1. Iron Chic - Demo
  2. Scream Hello - Smart & Stupid
  3. The Gaslight Anthem - SOS Demos
  4. Deny Everything - Speaking Treason
  5. Sakes Alive - Act I
  6. Let Me Run - s/t
  7. Arms Aloft - Comfort At Any Cost
  8. Deep Sleep - Manic Euphoria
  9. Everybody Out - Struggle and Strife
  10. Young Offenders - Saints


2007


Top 20 Albums:


  1. The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
  2. Far From Finished - Living In The Fallout
  3. The Copyrights - Make Sound
  4. Crime In Stereo - Is Dead
  5. Attack In Black - Marriage
  6. A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide
  7. Cobra Skulls - Sitting Army
  8. The Flatliners - Great Awake
  9. Smoke Or Fire - This Sinking Ship
  10. The National - Boxer
  11. The Methadones - This Won't Hurt
  12. Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times
  13. Chuck Ragan - Feast or Famine
  14. The Swellers - My Everest
  15. The Arrivals - Marvels Of Industry
  16. Capital - Homefront
  17. Nothington - All In
  18. The Sidekicks - So Long, Soggy Doggy
  19. Blueline Medic - 42:19
  20. Attica Attica - Dead Skin Dried Blood
Just Missed Out:Career Suicide, Signal To Noise, Jimmy Eat World, World Inferno Friendship Society



Top 5 EPs


  1. Re-Volts - S/T
  2. Shorebirds - S/T
  3. Short Attention - Clever, Maddening
  4. Hour Of The Wolf - Waste Makes Waste
  5. The Humanoids - Are Born

Just Missed Out: Potboiler, Steinways, Death Is Not Glamorous,