Here are our top picks of 2008...

David's Top 20 Albums:

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

Bands that didn't quite make the cut: Sloppy Seconds, Ben Nicholls,  Have Heart, The Tim Version, Deadly Sins, Foundation, Lemuria and Kay Kay and His Weather Underground.  I thought it was a really good year for music, the best in a while - there are another 50 bands I could mention here that deserve a lot of credit.

Top 10 EPs:

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

Alex's Top Albums:

0. Off With Their Heads - From The Bottom
0. Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
0. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
0. Banner Pilot - Resignation Day
0. Shot Baker - Take Control
0. Paint It Black - New Lexicon
0. Loved Ones - Build & Burn
0. Landmines - S/T
0. Shorebirds - It's Gonna Get Ugly
0. Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope
0. Down In The Dumps - Dumps Luck
0. Dillinger Four - Civil War
0. Annihilation Time - III, Tales Of The Ancient Age
0. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb - Convertible

Some really good stuff came out this year, and next year promises to be just as good.  New Bomb The Music Industry! album isn't too far away, not to mention new Propagandhi, Riverdales, and Riverboat Gamblers albums all due in the next few months.

Top EPs:

0. Sick Mormons 7"
0. Iron Chic - Demo
0. Used Kids 7"
0. Get Bent - Demo
0. The Ergs! - That's It...Bye
0. Dead to Me - Little Brother
0. Deep Sleep - Manic Euphoria
0. Anchor Arms - Milligrams

Sick Mormons, from Holland (I believe), are highly recommended - you can order the record from our friends over at Modern Problems, but we should hopefully have their stock listed on this site before too long.  You can download (legally) both the Iron Chic and Get Bent demos online, and I urge you to do it if you haven't already - free music!!!