Best of 2009 JamBase Staff List

Brian Bavosa – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Brock Butler - Lately Here Though
2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
3. Phish - Joy
4. Monsters of Folk - self-titled
5. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Basically, Phish is back!!!

Sarah Hagerman – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Danny Barnes - Pizza Box
2. Elliott BROOD - Mountain Meadows
3. Sometymes Why - Your Heart is a Glorious Machine
4. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
5. The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock

Jake Krolick – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
2. The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
3. The Mother Hips - Pacific Dust
4. Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
5. Floating Action - Floating Action

Susan J. Weiand – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Phish - Joy
2. Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
3. The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
4. Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band - Five Peace Band, Live
5. Jimmy Herring Band – Lifeboat

Josh Miller – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
2. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. The Black Crowes - Before The Frost…
4. The Dead Weather – Horehound
5. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

Ron Hart – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II
2. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
3. Iggy Pop - Preliminaires
4. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
5. Dam-Funk - Toeachizown

Steven Walter – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
3. The Felice Brothers - Yonder is the Clock
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom

Andrew Bruss - JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
3. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt. II

Shows
1. My Morning Jacket At Madison Square Garden on NYE 2008.
Technically the second set was this year and it was the best musical performance I saw this year.
2. Phish at Fenway Park
3. Animal Collective at the House Of Blues in Boston, MA 5/14

Wesley Hodges – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Passion Pit - Manners
2. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
3. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Atlas Sound - Logos
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

B Getz – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Jerry Garcia Band - Let It Rock - Keystone '75
2. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
4. (tie) Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II/Wu-Tang Clan - Chamber Music
5. (tie) Lil Wayne No Ceilings (official mixtape)/Clipse - Til the Casket Drops

Cal Roach – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
3. BLK JKS - After Robots
4. Themselves - CrownsDown
5. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

Casey Flanigan – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Phish - Joy
2. Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy
3. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Court Scott – JamBase Contributor

Eric Podolsky – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
2. Return to Forever - Returns
3. Steve Martin - The Crow: New Songs For The 5-String Banjo
4. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost... After the Freeze
5. Vetiver - Tight Knit

JC Mcilwaine – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes
2. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer
3. White Rabbits - It's Frightening
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Soulsavers - Broken

Kevin Schwartzbach – JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Super Furry Animals -Dark Days/Light Years
3. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
4. Wilco - Wilco (the Album)
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11

Zack Sampsel – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Dâm-Funk – Toeachizown
Pantyraid – The Sauce
Drake – So Far Gone
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms

Ryan Dembinsky - JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
2. The Avett Bros - I and Love and You
3. Devendra Banhart - What We Will Be
4. Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
5. Bela Fleck - Throwdown Your Heart

Norman Sands – Photographer, JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Anthology
2. AC/DC - Backtracks
3. Mark Karan - Walk through fire
4. Tea Leaf Green - Coffee Bean Brown Comes Alive
5. Cornmeal - Live

Andy Tennille – BLURT & JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
2. Dave Rawlings Machine – Friend Of A Friend
3. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
4. Monsters of Folk – self-titled
5. Alberta Cross – The Broken Side of Time

Fred Mills – BLURT Managing Editor & JamBase Contributor

Albums
1. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
2. Reigning Sound – Love & Curses
3. Doveman - The Conformist
4. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – self-titled
5. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You

Justin Gillett - JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Pretty Lights – Passing Before Your Eyes
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Big Gigantic – Fire it Up
4. Eliot Lipp – Peace Love Weed 3D
5. Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms

Lindsay Colip – JamBase contributor

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Vetiver - Tight Knit
4. White Lies - To Lose My Life
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Alex Borsody – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Gov't Mule - By a Thread
2. Garage a Trois - Power Patriot
3. Math Head - Stab City
4. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
5. Greensky Bluegrass - Five Interstates

Mike Bookey – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Monsters of Folk - self-titled
2. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
3. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
4. Dusty Rhodes and the River Band - Palace and Stage
5. The Decemberists - Hazards of Love

Jeff Terich - JamBase Contributor, Editor at www.treblezine.com

Albums
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. The Antlers - Hospice
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
5. Baroness - Blue Record

Tim Dwenger – JamBase contributor

Albums
1. Smoove, Turrell - Antique Soul
2. M Ward - Hold Time
3. Everest - Ghost Notes
4. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

J Gibson – reapandsow

Albums
1. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
2. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Big Rock Candy Mountain - self titled

Top Tracks
1. "Here to Fall" by Yo La Tengo
2. "These are my twisted words" by Radiohead
3. "Broken Side of Time" by Alberta Cross

Best Music Industry Article
"Smashing the CD... to Bits" by Paul Resnikoff (Digital Music News)

Jonathan Zwickel – Music Writer At Large

Albums
1. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
5. The Heliocentrics with Mulatu Astatke - Information Inspiration Vol. II

Melissa Adair – Elevation Group

Albums
1. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
2. Monsters of Folk - self-titled
3. The Dead Weather – Horehound
4. The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
5. Nicki Bluhm – Toby’s Song

Jonathan Fordin - Camp Bisco Promoter, MCP Management

Albums (in no order)
1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
3. Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
4. Muse - The Resistance
5. Kings of Leon - Only by Night (Technically 2008 but tour was 2009)

Shows
1. U2
2. Muse (Opening for U2)
3. Camp Bisco - Nas and Damian Marley

Mike Greenhaus – Relix

Albums
1. Levon Helm - Electric Dirt
2. Passion Pit - Manners
3. Phish - Joy/Party Time
4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled
5. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost…
6. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

Ted Kartzman – IODA, reapandsow

Albums
1. Dawes – North Hills
2. The Mother Hips – Pacific Dust
3. Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy
4. Alberta Cross – Broken Side of Time
5. The XX – self-titled

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