Here are our top picks of 2009...

David:

Top 20 Albums:

Really tough this year - I have copies of over 150 albumss from this year and at least 30 of them deserve to be on this list.  That said, although the quantity of great albums this year was high, there wasn't a single album I would give 5/5 to.  I think my favourite 3 albums of 2007 and 2008 would all beat Propagandhi to #1 if they had been released this year...

  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. Riverboat Gamblers - Underneath The Owl
  9. The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
  10. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
  11. Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
  12. The Sidekicks - Weight Of Air
  13. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
  14. House Boat - The Delaware Octopus
  15. Above Them - Blueprint For A Better Time
  16. The Hex Dispensers - Winchester Mystery House
  17. The Jetty Boys - Sheboygan
  18. Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
  19. The Takers - Taker Easy
  20. Social Circkle - City Shock
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Snuggle - Zero Real Hearts, Chuck Ragan - The Gold Country, A Death In The Family - Small Town Stories, Over Stars & Gutters - Consider This Your Curse, Parasites - Solitary, Nakatomi Plaza - Ghosts, Fun - Aim & Ignite, Cobra Skulls - American Rubicon, Attica Attica - Napalm & Nitrogen, AFI - Crash Love, Adorkables - She Loves Me Not, Calvinball - Live Fast, Go To Bed Early, Reaganomics - Get Lost, Stay Lost.

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. Capital - Blind Faith
  10. Psyched To Die - Sterile Walls
HONOURBALE MENTIONS: Daylight - Demo, Anchor Down - Steel To Dust, Rumpsringer - s/t, Iron Chic - Shitty Rambo, The Haddonfields - Tickets Still Available, Captain We're Sinking - It's A Trap

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