- Weezer
- Turn blue, The Black Keys
- Her Majesty, the Decemberists
- Within and without, Washed Out
- The Nashville sound, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Modern vampires of the city, Vampire Weekend
- 3 rounds and a sound, Blind Pilot
- Angel miners & the lightning riders, AWOLNATION
- 19, Adele
- Sunshine state of mind, We the Kings
- Naked, Talking Heads
- Naive, Andy Grammer
- Finding it hard to smile, Lovelytheband
- It's blitz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Southeastern, Jason Isbell
- Destroyer of the void, Blitzen Trapper
- Heights, Walk the Moon
- Make yourself, Incubus
- Black hours, Hamilton Leithauser
- Believers never die, greatest hits, Fall Out Boy, V. 2
- Gorilla manor, Local Natives
- WIXIW, Liars
- Here come the runts, Awolnation
- Boxes, the Goo Goo Dolls
- De Stijl, the White Stripes
- Weezer
- Mount Wittenberg orca, Dirty Projectors + Björk
- Daddy's home, St. Vincent
- Heart of nowhere, Noah and the Whale
- Pacific daydream, Weezer
- Love this giant, David Byrne & St. Vincent
- Part of the light, Ray Lamontagne
- The slow rush, Tame Impala
- Deer Creek Canyon, Sera Cahoone
- The year of magical drinking, Apex Manor
- Big bad world, Plain White T's
- 180/365, OK Go
- Benji, Sun Kil Moon
- Everything hits at once, the best of Spoon
- Concrete and gold, Foo Fighters
- The historical conquests of Josh Ritter
- Ogilala, WPC
- Head above water, Avril Lavigne
- Sheezus, Lily Allen
- Madness, Sleeping with Sirens
- Codes and keys, Death Cab for Cutie
- Memphis rock and soul, Melissa Etheridge
- Suburbia, I've given you all and now I'm nothing, the Wonder Years present
- MTV unplugged in New York, Nirvana
- All eternals deck, The Mountain Goats