2009

Micachu - Jewellery (English experimental pop, debut album)

Weezer - Raditude (American pop rock) 

Radiohead - “These Are My Twisted Words” (English art rock, non-album single originally released for free via the band’s official website) 

Paramore - Brand New Eyes (American emo pop / alternative rock) 

Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (American / English hard rock / alternative rock, debut for supergroup featuring members of Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin) 

Silversun Pickups - Swoon (American alternative rock / shoegaze) 

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (American psychedelia / indietronica) 

Powerman 5000 - Somewhere on the Other Side Of Nowhere (American industrial metal) 

They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science (American children’s music / edutainment, concept album themed around science) 

Sonic Youth - The Eternal (American alternative rock / experimental rock, their final studio album) 

The Crystal Method - Divided By Night (American electronic music, guest appearances by Peter Hook of New Order, Matisyahu, Justin Warfield of She Wants Revenge, LMFAO, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Stefanie King Warfield, and Meiko) 

Owl City - Ocean Eyes (American synthpop / indietronica) 

Mastodon - Crack The Skye (American progressive metal / alternative metal)

Passion Pit - Manners (American synthpop / indietronica, debut album) 

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz! (American synth-punk / alternative pop) 

Metric - Fantasies (Canadian indie rock / new wave) 

The Dead Weather - Horehound (American garage rock / blues rock, debut album for supergroup featuring members of The White Stripes, The Kills, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Greenhornes) 

Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted (American pop-rock) 

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (American electropop, bonus disc to a deluxe edition of her 2008 album The Fame re-released as its own 34 minute EP / mini album, guest appearance by Beyonce) 

Halestorm - Halestorm (American hard rock, debut album) 

Animal Collective -  Merriweather Post Pavilion (American neo-psychedelia / experimental pop) 

Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know (First and only full album by English/American heavy metal supergroup featuring members of Black Sabbath and Rainbow, also consisting of the same musicians who recorded the Black Sabbath albums Mob Rules and Dehumanizer) 

Slayer - World Painted Blood (American thrash metal, their final album to feature the full original lineup of the band)  

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (American drone metal / dark ambient)

Lamb of God - Wrath (American groove metal / thrash metal) 

Dethklok - Dethalbum II (American melodic death metal, collection of songs by “virtual band”  featured in the animated series Metalocalypse) 

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (American grunge / alternative metal, their first album in over 10 years and first to feature co-lead vocalist William DuVall)  

Megadeth - Endgame (American thrash metal) 

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (French indie pop) 

The xx - xx (English indie pop / dream pop, debut album) 

MF DOOM - Born Like This (British-American hip hop, his final solo album, guest appearances by J Dilla, Raekwon, Madlib, Tony Starks, Empress Stahhr tha Femcee, Kurious, Mobonix, Prince Paul, and Slug)

Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky (New Zealand musical comedy, songs from the second and final season of their comedy series of their same name)  

Modest Mouse - No One’s First, And You’re Next (American indie rock, compilation of non album singles and B-Sides from the same sessions of their previous two albums) 

Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (English synth pop) 

Miike Snow - Miike Snow (Swedish indie pop / electropop, debut album) 

Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant (American alternative rock / garage rock, debut album)
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel (American glam metal / comedy music, debut album, guest appearances by Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, and M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold) 

Cracker - Sunrise In The Land of Milk And Honey (American alternative rock / country rock, guest appearances by John Doe of X, Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers, and Adam Duritz of Counting Crows) 

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: At the End of the Day (American alternative hip hop, debut album, guest appearances by Billy Cravens, Ratatat, Kanye West, Common, MGMT, Chip Tha Ripper, and Wale) 

J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid (American rap / instrumental hip hop, posthumous album of unreleased material formatted to play out like a radio show, guest appearances by Pete Rock, Blu, Lil’ Fame, Phat Kat, Danny Brown, Black Thought, MF Doom, Diz Gibran, Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Frank Nitty, Illa J, and Que D) 

Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (American alternative rock, loose concept album based around the theme of desire) 

Electric Six - Kill (American dance punk / alternative rock) 

Mike Patton - Crank: High Voltage (American soundtrack music / avant garde metal, Faith No More and Mr Bungle vocalist’s instrumental score to the 2009 action movie) 

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (American pop punk / arena rock, the band’s second rock opera) 

Air - Love 2 (French electronic music, guest appearance by Françoise Hardy) 

Skindred - Shark Bites and Dog Fights (Welsh alternative metal / “ragga metal”, mini-album featuring seven original songs and an Eddy Grant cover) 

Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club (American rap rock, supergroup featuring members of Rage Against The Machine, The Coup, and Galactic) 

Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest (American technical death metal) 

Kittie - In The Black (Canadian groove metal) 

The Mars Volta - Octahedron (American progressive rock)

Muse - The Resistance (English alternative rock / progressive rock) 

Matt & Kim - Grand (American indie pop / dance rock) 

Dinosaur Jr - Farm (American alternative rock / grunge) 

Pearl Jam - Backspacer (American grunge / alternative rock) 

La Roux - La Roux (English synthpop / new wave) 

U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Irish rock) 

Big D and The Kids Table - Fluent In Stroll (American ska, featuring backing vocals by  Doped Up Dollies, who would go on to make music on their own) 

DevilDriver - Pray For Villains (American groove metal) 

Psychostick - Sandwich (American comedy rock / metalcore) 

Gwar - Lust In Space (American comedy rock / thrash metal) 

Converge - Axe To Fall (American metalcore, guest appearances include members of Cave-In, Ghengis Tron, and Neurosis) 

fun. - Aim & Ignite (American indie pop / baroque pop, debut album) 

Chris Cornell - Scream (American dance pop / pop rock, Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist collaborates with Timbaland) 

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (American psychedelic rock, guest appearances by MGMT and Karen O) 

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (English hard rock / psychedelic rock, co-produced by James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) 

Florence + The Machine - Lungs (English indie rock / baroque pop) 

Insane Clown Posse - Bang! Pow! Boom! (American hip hop / horrorcore) 

Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy (American indie rock) 

The Lonely Island - Incredibad (American comedy hip hop, debut album, guest appearances include E-40, Jack Black, Justin Timberlake, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, and Norah Jones) 

The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon (American alternative rock / psychedelic rock,  cover / “reimagining” of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album) 

Phish - Joy (American alternative rock / psychedelic rock) 

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (American indie rock / art pop) 

Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall (American punk rock)

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing (American indie rock) 

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (American indie rock / psychedelic folk) 

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdiand (Scottish indie rock / dance punk)