Albums:

1. TV On the Radio: Dear Science (4AD)
   
2. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels (Nonsuch)
3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup)
4. Taylor Swift: Fearless (Big Machine)
5. The Roots: Rising Down (Def Jam)
6. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It (Sony)
   
7. Robert Forster: The Evangelist (Yep Roc Records)
8. Fieldwork: Door (Pi Recordings)
9. Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam)
10. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL Records)
11. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
12. Ben Allison & Man Size Safe: Little Things Run the World (Palmetto Records)
13. Les Amazones de Guinée: Wamato (Sterns Music)
14. Los Campesinos!: Hold on Now, Youngster... (Witchita / Arts & Crafts)
15. Hayes Carll: Trouble in Mind (Lost Highway)
16. No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
17. Anthony Braxton, Milfor Graves, William Parker: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
18. Lil' Wayne: Tha Carter III (Cash Money/Universal/Motown)
19. Bottomless Pit: Hammer of the Gods (Comedy Minus One)
20. Santogold: Santogold (Downtown)
21. Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic (Sunny Side)
    
22. William Parker: Petit Oiseau (Aum Fidelity)
23. So So Glos: Tourism/Terrorism (Green Owl)
24. Mike Reed: People Places and Things: Proliferation (482 Music)
25. White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Hobby)
26. Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst (Merge)
27. Nas: Nas (Untitled) (Def Jam)
28. Rob Brown Ensemble: Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity)
29. Roy Campbell: Akhenaten Suite (AUM Fidelity)
30. Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (what's Your Rupture?)
31. Vandermark 5: Beat Reader (Atavistic)
32. Magnetic Fields: Distortion (Nonesuch)
33. By Any Means (Rashied Ali/Charles Gayle/William Parker): Live at Crescendo (Ayler Records)
34. K'Naan: The Dusty Foot Philosopher (IM Culture)
35. T.I.: Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
36. Report Suspicious Activity: Destroy All Evidence (Alternative Tentacles/Revolver)
37. Jesus H Christ & the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse: Happier Than You (Jesus Christ Rocks)
38. Jean Grae: Jeanius (Blacksmith)
39. Q-Tip: The Renaissance (Motown)
40. Fucked Up: Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)
41. Constantines: Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
42. Matthew Shipp Quartet: Cosmic Suite (Not Two Records)
43. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Spark (New West)
44. Black Milk: Tronic (Fat Beats)
45. The Bronx: III (Witchita)
46. Hamid Drake/Anders Gahnold/William Parker: Last Dances (Ayler Records)
47. Bill Dixon: 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
48. Adam Lane, Lou Grassi, Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly (Clean Feed)
49. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey (Lost Highway)
50. William Parker: Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Art for Arts/AUM Fidelity)
51. Blitzen Trapper: Furr (Sub Pop)
52. Lindsey Buckingham: Gift of Screws (Reprise)
53. Hold Steady: Stay Positive (Vagrant)
54. Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade, 2007)
55. Fight the Bull: Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed)
56. Dog & Sky. Lhasa Express (Crispin Gover Rec)
57. Wussy: Left for Dead (Shake It)
58. Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: Tabligh (Cuniform)
59. Re-Up Gang: We Got It 4 Free vol. 3 (Re-Up Records)
60. Empty Cage Quartet: Stratostrophic (Clean Feed)
61. Atomic: Retrograde (Jazzland Rec.)

Last update: 26.01.2009

Singles/Tracks:

1. Taylor Swift: "Love Story" (Big Machine)
   
2. Hayes Carll: "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart" (Lost Highway)
3. The Bronx: "Young Bloods" (Witchita)
   
4. No Age: "Sleeper Hold" (Sub Pop)
5. TV On the Radio: "Red Dress" (4AD)
   
6. Alejandro Escovedo: "Always a Friend" (Back Porch)
7. Ne-Yo: "Miss Independent" (Def Jam)
   
8. Alphabeat: "Fascination" (Copenhagen Records)
9. White Denim: "Shake Shake Shake" (Full Time Hobby)
   
10. Conor Oberst: "I Don't Want to Die (In a Hospital)" (Rough Trade)
11. The Knux: "Cappuccino" (Universial)
    
12. Wire: "One of Us" (Pink Flag)
13. Kate Perry: "Hot N Cold" (Capitol)
    
14. Estelle ft. Kanye West: "American Boy" (Atlantic)
15. Santogold: "You'll Find a Way" (Downtown)
16. Report Suspicious Activity: "Destroy All Evidence" (Alternative Tentacles)
17. The Hold Steady: "Sequestered in Memphis" (Vagrant)
18. Lykke Li: "Little Bit" (EMI)
19. Neon Neon: "I Told Her on Alderaan" (Lex Records)
20. Annie: "I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me" (Universal/Island)
21. Jenny Lewis: "Carpetbaggers" (Rough Trade)
22. Hot Chip: "Ready for the Floor" (EMI)
23. The Ting Tings: "That's Not My Name" (Sony BMG)
    
24. School of Language: "Rockist Pt. 1" (Thrill Jockey)
25. Fucked Up: "No Epiphany" (Matador)

Note: Although jazz-tunes are frequently notable in their own right, and not just as album tracks, they have not been considered for this list.

Reissues/Vault:

1. Franco: Francophonic - A Retrospective Vol. 1: 1953-1980 (2CD) (Sterns Africa)
   
2. Charles Gayle/William Parker/Rasied Ali: Touchin' On Trane (Jazzwekstatt, 1991/2007)
3. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (ATO Records, 1993/2008)
   
4. Steinski: What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective (Illegal Art)
5. Kid Creole: Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983 (Strut Records)
6. Pavement: Brighten the Corners (deluxe edition) (Matador)

• The Replacements: Hootenanny / Let It Be / Pleased to Meet Me / Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash / Stink / Tim (Rhino)
• New Order: Brotherhood / Low-Life / Movement / Power Corruption & Lies / Technique (Rhino)
• Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
  
• Pere Ubu: Dub Housing

Yet to hear the full Anthony Braxton Mosaic box-set.
The records outside of the enumerated list have been available in some shape or form fairly recently, but deserve mention as they are all great records.