Nominees For The Best Albums Of 2010, From NPRs All Songs Considered

Admiral Radley I Heart California AfroCubism AfroCubism Agalloch Marrow Of The Spirit Ali Farka Tour/Toumani Diabat Ali & Toumani Aloe Blacc Good Things Anais Mitchell Hadestown Antony And The Johnsons Swanlights Arcade Fire The Suburbs Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today Asmara All-Stars Eritreas Got Soul Avey Tare Down There Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo B.o.B. B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray The Bad Plus Never Stop Band Of Horses Infinite Arms Basia Bulat Heart Of My Own Bassekou Kouyate I Speak Fula Baths Cerulean Beach House Teen Dream Belle And Sebastian Write About Love Ben Folds & Nick Hornby Lonely Avenue Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night Best Coast Crazy For You Bettye LaVette Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Dusty Chico The Black Angels Phosphene Dream Black Dub Black Dub The Black Keys Brothers Black Milk Album of The Year Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devil's Tattoo Blitzen Trapper Destroyer of the Void Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle

Bob Dylan The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy And The Cairo Gang The Wonder Show Of The World Bonobo Black Snads The Books The Way Out Brian Eno Small Craft On A Milk Sea Broken Bells Broken Bells Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record Bruce Springsteen The Promise The Budos Band The Budos Band III Buke And Gass Riposte Burnt Ones Black Teeth And Golden Tongues Caribou Swim Carolina Chocolate Drops Genuine Negro Jig Cee Lo The Ladykiller

Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM Christian Scott Yesterday You Said Tomorrow Clem Snide The Meat Of Life Cloud Cult Light Chasers The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (II) Damien Jurado Saint Bartlett Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Dark Night Of The Soul Darkstar Aidy's Girl Is A Computer David Byrne & Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love David Dondero # Zero With A Bullet Dead Weather Sea of Cowards Deer Tick Black Dirt Sessions Deerhunter Halcyon Digest Deftones Diamond Eyes Delta Spirit History From Below Devo Something For Everybody Dierks Bentley Up On The Ridge Dr. Dog Shame Shame Drive-By Truckers The Big To-Do Drums, The The Drums Dylan LeBlanc Paupers Field Electric President The Violent Blue Elton John and Leon Russell The Union Eluvium Similes Elvis Costello National Ransom Eminem Recovery Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) Extra Lens Undercard Fang Island Fang Island First Aid Kit The Big Black And The Blue Flying Lotus Cosmogramma Foals Total Life Forever Four Tet There Is Love In You Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam Free Energy Stuck On Nothing Freelance Whales Weathervanes Frightened Rabbit The Winter Of Mixed Drinks Future Islands In Evening Air The Gaslight Anthem American Slang Gayngs Relayted Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger Acoustic Sessions Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here Girl Talk All Day Glasser Ring Gogol Bordello Trans-Continental Hustle Gold Panda Lucky Shiner Goldfrapp Head First Gorillaz Plastic Beach

Grada Natural Angle Grinderman Grinderman 2 Guster Easy Wonderful Harvey Milk A Small Turn Of Human Kindness The Heligoats Goodness Gracious Helmet Seeing Eye Dog Here We Go Magic Pigeons The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever Horse Feathers Thistled Spring Hot Chip One Life Stand How To Dress Well Love Remains Interpol Interpol Jack Rose Luck In The Valley Jakob Dylan Women And Country Jamey Johnson The Guitar Song Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid Jenny & Johnny I'm Having Fun Now Jimi Hendrix Valleys Of Neptune jj jj n 3 Joanna Newsom Have One On Me John Legend & The Roots Wake Up! Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave Johnny Flynn Been Listening Jonsi Go Josh Ritter So Runs The World Away Julia And Angus Stone Down The Way Junip Fields Justin Bieber My World 2.0 Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kid Cudi Man On the Moon Vol. II: The Legend Of Mr. Roger King Sunny Ade Baba Mo Tunde Kings Of Leon Come Around Sundown Knife, The Tomorrow, In A Year KT Tunstall Tiger Suit Land Of Talk Cloak And Cipher Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can Laura Veirs July Flame Laurie Anderson Homeland Lawrence Arabia Chant Darling LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening Leonard Cohen Songs From The Road Les Savy Fav Root For Ruin Liars Sisterworld The Limousines Get Sharp Linkin Park A Thousand Suns Lissie Catching A Tiger Local Natives Gorilla Manor Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring Los Lobos Tin Can Trust

Lost In The Trees All Alone In An Empty House Lower Dens Twin Hand Movement Ludacris Battle Of The Sexes M.I.A. Maya The Magnetic Fields Realism Mary Halvorson Saturn Sings Massive Attack Heligoland Matt & Kim Sidewalks Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone Maximum Balloon Maximum Balloon Menomena Mines MGMT Congratulations Michael Franti & Spearhead The Sound Of Sunshine Midlake The Courage Of Others Miniature Tigers Fortress Minus The Bear Omni The Moondoggies Tidelands The Morning Benders Big Echo Mount Kimbie Crooks And Lovers Mountain Man Made The Harbor Mumford & Sons Sigh No More Murder By Death Good Morning, Magpie The Mynabirds What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood Nada Surf If I Had A Hi-Fi Natalie Merchant Leave Your Sleep Nathaniel Rateliff In Memory Of Loss The National High Violet Neil Young Le Noise Nels Cline Singers Initiate New Pornographers Together Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Of Montreal False Priest OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky The Old 97's The Grand Theatre, Volume One Olof Arnalds Innundir Skinni Owen Pallett Heartland Patty Griffin Downtown Church Pete Yorn Pete Yorn Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back Phantogram Eyelid Movies Phil Selway Familial Portugal. The Man American Ghetto Preservation Hall Jazz Band Preservation Punch Brothers Antifogmatic Ra Ra Riot The Orchard The Radio Dept. Clinging To A Scheme Ratatat LP4 Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise Rebecca Martin When I Was Long Ago Regina Carter Reverse Thread

Richard Skelton Landings Richard Thompson Dream Attic RJD2 The Colossus Robert Plant Band Of Joy Robyn Body Talk Rogue Wave Permalight Roky Erickson And Okkervil River True Love Cast Out All Evil The Roots How I Got Over Ryan Bingham Junky Star S. Carey All We Grow Sade Soldier Of Love Sadies, The Darker Circles Sarah Jaffe Suburban Nature School of Seven Bells Disconnect From Desire Scissor Sisters Night Work The Secret Sisters The Secret Sisters Seu Jorge & Almaz Seu Jorge & Almaz Shad TSOL Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings I Learned The Hard Way Sharon Van Etten Epic She And Him Volume II Shearwater Golden Archipelago Shooter Jennings & Hierophant Black Ribbons Shout Out Louds Work Sleigh Bells Treats Small Sins Pot Calls Kettle Black The Soft Pack The Soft Pack Spoon Transference Stars The Five Ghosts Sufjan Stevens The Age Of Adz Sun Airway Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises Superchunk Majesty Shredding Surfer Blood Astro Coast Suuns Zeroes QC The Tallest Man On Earth The Wild Hunt Tame Impala Innerspeaker Ted Leo And The Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks The Weepies Be My Thrill The Thermals Personal Life These New Puritans Hidden Titus Andronicus The Monitor Tobacco Maniac Meat Tokyo Police Club Champ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Mojo Toro Y Moi Causers Of This Tracey Thorn Love And Its Opposite Trampled By Turtles Palomino Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross The Social Network Soundtrack Twin Shadow Forget

Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History Usher Raymond V. Raymond Vampire Weekend Contra Villagers Becoming a Jackal The Walkmen Lisbon Warpaint The Fool Wavves King Of The Beach Weekend Sports The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Wolf Parade Expo 86 Women Public Strain Xiu Xiu Dear God, I Hate Myself Yeasayer Odd Blood Yelawolf Trunk Muzik 0-60