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We’ve already said goodbye to 2010 with various debaucherous shenanigans on New Year’s Eve — but before we completely move on, let’s take a quick look in the rear-view.
   
Listed below are the albums, songs and concerts that rocked the worlds of Uptown’s friends and contributors last year. Peruse all that was great about music in 2010 — and be sure to compile some Best Of playlists for your iPod.

Mike Alexander, Mount Elgon Productions
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Knelt Rote – Insignificance
2. Electric Six – Zodiac
3. Man Is the Bastard – A Culture of Monsters
4. Nails – Unsilent Death
5. Bloody Phoenix – Death To Everyone
6. Autopsy – The Tomb Within
7. Torche – Songs for Singles
8. Leatherface – Stormy Petrel
9. Masshysteri – 2nd
10. Samiam – Orphanworks

Anthony Augustine, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Matthew Dear – Black City
3. Caribou – Swim
4. Broken Bells – Broken Bells
5. Beach House – Teen Dream
6. Pip Skid – Skid Row
7. Magnum K.I. – Magnum K.I.
8. Ben Klock – Berghain 04
9. The National – High Violet
10. OFF! – First Four EPs

Jonathan Ball, registered fraud
Top 10 songs, according to JB’s iPod
1. Electric Candles – We Got the Poison
2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3. Stars – I Died So I Could Haunt You
4. Imaginary Cities – Say You
5. Wolf Parade – Ghost Pressure
6. Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You
7. The National – Little Faith
8. Black Mountain – Rollercoaster
9. Kanye West – All of the Lights
10. Interpol – Lights

Don Beat, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Personal & the Pizzas – Raw Pie (LP)
2. Apache – Radical Sabbatical (LP)
3. TIE: Various Artists – Live to Ride (LP); Rip Off Records Compilation (LP)
4. Orbits ­– Break the Rules (45)
5. Injections – Prison Walls (45)
6. Ty Segall – Melted (LP) and My Sunshine (45)
7. Ozzie – Parabolic Rock (double LP)  
8. Protex – Strange Obsessions (LP)
9. TIE: Chrisma – Chinese Restaurant (LP); Jon Wayne – Texas Funeral (LP)
10. Hawkwind – Blood of the Earth (LP)

Marlo Campbell, Uptown
Top 10 songs, in order
1. Tyler Shipley – Step The Fuck Off, Tyler Shipley
2. Basia Bulat – Go On
3. Woodhands – CP24
4. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver – Monster
5. Caribou – Odessa
6. Etran Finatawa – Aitma
7. Tyler Shipley – Marx & Angels
8. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – You Gotta Get It
9. M.I.A. – XXXO
10. Wintersleep – Blood Collection

Julijana Capone, Uptown
Top 10 songs, in order
1. Anika – Yang Yang
2. Royal Baths – Nikki Don’t
3. !!! – AM/FM
4. Kurt Vile – Invisibility: Nonexistent
5. Pepper Rabbit – Harvest Sun
6. Land of Talk – Quarry Hymns
7. Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
8. Twin Shadow – Slow
9. Holy Ghost! – Say My Name
10. Caribou – Odessa

Sabrina Carnevale, FAB 94.3/99.9 BOB FM
Top 10 songs, in no particular order
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round
• Vampire Weekend – Giving Up the Gun
• Big Boi ft. Cutty – Shutterbug
• Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
• Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
• Deerhunter – Helicopter
• Kanye West feat. Pusha T – Runaway
• Yeasayer – Madder Red
• Robyn – Dancing on my Own
• Beach House – Norway

Catskill, rapper
Top 10 songs by local artists, in order
1. Catskill – U Must B Lame
2. Catskill – Weekend Get Down
3. Young Kidd – Wonderful Winnipeg
4. Rupness Monsta – Princess
5. Young Kidd – home town
6. The Lytics – Be Humble
7. Sierra Noble – Possibility
8. Winnipeg’s Most – What you in it for?
9. Young Kidd feat. Kobe – Rider
10. Winnipeg’s Most – All that I know

Jay Churko, Transistor Sound & Lighting Co./Chords of Canada
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• Baths – Cerulean
• The Roots – How I Got Over
• Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles II
• Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Pt 2: Return of the Ankh
• Beach House – Teen Dream                                                                                                               
• Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts, Vol. 1
• Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
• Poirier – Running High
• Madlib – Medicine Show No. 10: Black Soul
• Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts

Robin Dudgeon, The Uniter
1. The Flatliners – Calvacade
2. Flying Fox & the Hunter Gatherers – The Wild Things
3. Various Artists – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
4. Stars – The Five Ghosts
5. The Acorn – No Ghost
6. Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own
7. Bedouin Soundclash – Light the Horizon
8. The Bombpops – Like I Care
9. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
10. Jess Reimer – Sweet Darling & Sorrow
 
Michael Elves, UMFM
Top 10 albums, in order
1. The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
2. Shad – TSOL
3. Quadron – Quadron
4. Beach House – Teen Dream
5. Boats – Cannonballs, Cannonballs
6. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
7. Cris Derksen – The Cusp
8. Baths – Cerulean
9. Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
10. Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Danishka Esterhazy, filmmaker
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Broken Bells – Broken Bells
3. Foals – Total Life Forever
4. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
5. Spoon – Transference
6. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
7. Four Tet – There is Love in You
8. Loreena McKennitt – The Wind That Shakes the Barley
9. Trouser Mouth – Rock N’ Roll Whore
10. Tokyo Police Club – Champ

Donna Evans, Manitoba Music
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
2. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
3. Nobunny – First Blood
4. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Mojo
5. The Lonely Vulcans – Night Date
6. The National – High Violet 
7. Sleigh Bells – Treats
8. Winnipeg’s Most – Winnipeg’s Most
9. The Sadies – Darker Circles
10. M.I.A. – Maya

Chris Frayer, Winnipeg Folk Festival
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells
• Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
• Spoon – Transference
•The Roots – How I Got Over
• Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
• Josh Ritter – So Runs The World Away
• Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues
• Zeus – Save Us
• Ray Lamontagne – Good Willin & The Creek Don’t Rise
• Cee-Lo Green – The Lady Killer

Nicholas Friesen, Uptown/KICK FM
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Line & a Dot – Songs from the Cabin EP
2. Kathryn Calder – Are You My Mother?
3. Eels – Tomorrow Morning
4. Departures – Kino-Pravda EP
5. Library Voices – Denim on Denim
6. Postdata – Postdata
7. The New Pornographers – Together
8. No Age – Everything in Between
9. Courier News – Fixtures EP
10. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record

Randy Frykas, filmmaker
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Pip Skid – Skid Row
2. The Flatliners – Cavalcade
3. Kids On Fire – Kids On Fire
4. Antillectual – Start From Scratch
5. Comeback Kid – Symptoms + Cures
6. Atmosphere – To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy
7. Against Me! – White Crosses
8. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
9. Rebel Yell – Kitchen Party EP
10. The Queers – Back to the Basement

Ingrid Gatin, singer/songwriter
Top 10 albums and songs, in order
1. Andrew Bird – Fingerlings 4
2. Cocorosie – Grey Oceans
3. Mumford and Sons – Sigh no More
4. Owen Pallet – Heartland
5. Hindi Zahra – Handmade
6. Emily Wells – Passenger (song)
7. Lhasa de Sela – Fools Gold and De Cara a la Pared (songs)
8. Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra – Grenada Pt II (song)
9. Antony and the Johnsons – Swanlights
10. Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz

Jesse Green, StrongFront A/V Productions Inc.
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• Jimi Hendrix – West Coast Seattle Boy
• Disturbed – Asylum
• Cypress Hill – Rise Up
• Buffy Sainte-Marie – The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures
• Slash – Slash
• Sade – Soldier of Love
• Stevie Salas – Jam Power
• Jeff Beck –Emotion & Commotion
• Godsmack – The Oracle
• Daft Punk – Tron Soundtrack

Chris (Criz) Jacques,Prairie Fire Tapes/Dub Ditch Picnic Records
Top 10 albums (LPs, cassettes and CD-Rs), in no particular order
• Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (LP)
• No UFO’s – Soft Coast (cassette)
• D’EON/MacIntosh – Swans Covers (cassette)
• Hype Williams – Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Getting Real (LP)
• Tonstartssbandht – Parson Sounds (cassette)
• Bitchin Baja’s – Tones/Zones (LP)
• L.A. Vampires – So Unreal (LP)
• Boredoms – 77 Boa Drum (DVD)
• Datashock – Para Dieswärts Dull (cassette)
• Fletcher Pratt – Death Dubs (CDR)

Jack Jonasson, Lo Pub & Bistro
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
2. Meligrove Band – Shimmering Lights
3. Comeback Kid – Symptoms + Cures
4. The National – High Violet
5. Propagandhi/Sacrifice – Split 7"
6. Budos Band – III
7. Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks
8. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
9. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
10. Baby Eagle – Dog Weather

Joanne Kelly, Shaw TV
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• Imaginary Cities – Temporary Resident
• Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – The Falcon Lake Incident
• The Roots – How I Got Over
• Caribou – Swim
• Neil Young – Le Noise
• Vampire Weekend – Contra
• The Black Keys – Brothers
• Luke Doucet – Steel City Trawlers
• Jason Collett – Rat a Tat Tat
• The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever

John Kendle, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in order
1. The New Pornographers – Together
2. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang 
3. The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever 
4. Magnum K.I. – Magnum K.I. 
5. Pip Skid – Skid Row 
6. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs 
7. Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles – The Grand Bounce 
8. Greg MacPherson – Mr. Invitation
9. John K. Samson – Provincial Road 222 
10. The Roots – How I Got Over 

Wab Kinew, CBC 
Top 10 local songs, in order
1. Burnt Project 1 – Hit By A Car
2. Winnipeg’s Most – What you in it for?
3. Young Kidd – Wonderful Winnipeg
4. Del Barber – Tell Me Where To Start
5. Chic Gamine – Closer
6. Lorenzo – Fly Away
7. The Lytics – Last Bit (Lovely Words)
8. Ridley Bent – I Can’t Turn My Back On The Bottle
9. Don Amero – Life’s Been Sweet
10. Magnum K.I. – Dreams

Dominic Lloyd, Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
2. Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
3. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
4. The Black Keys ­– Brothers
5. Neil Young – Le Noise
6. The National – High Violet
7. AfroCubism – AfroCubism
8. Ben Folds & Nick Hornby – Lonely Avenue
9. Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – The Falcon Lake Incident
10. Massive Attack – Heligoland

Cam Loeppky, Prairie Recording Co.
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Imaginary Cities – Temporary Resident
2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3. Spoon – Transference
4. Boats – Cannonballs, Cannonballs
5. John K. Samson – Provincial Road 222
6. Greg MacPherson –  Mr. Invitation
7. MGMT – Congratulations
8. Tame Impala – Expectation
9. Caribou – Swim
10. Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – The Falcon Lake Incident

Nicholas Luchak, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• The Black Keys – Brothers
• Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
• Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame
• Women – Public Strain
• Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People EP
• Caribou – Swim
• Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
• Holy Fuck – Latin
• Gayngs – Relayted
• Morning Benders – Big Echo

Romi Mayes, singer/songwriter
Top 10 live shows, in no particular order
• Joan Jett @ MTS Centre, September 2010
• Iron Maiden @ MTS Centre, June 2010
• ZZ Top @ MTS Centre, June 2010
• Righteous Ike and The Perpetrators @ Times Change(d), April 2010
• Monotonix @ Pyramid, January 2010
• The Sheepdogs @ Times Change(d) February 2010
• Flash Lightnin @ Times Change(d), April 2010
• C’mon @ The Albert, June 2010
• Levon Helm @ The Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 2010
• Luke Doucet @ The West End Cultural Centre, November 2010

Jared McKetiak, UMFM
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Freeway & Jake One – The Stimulus Package
2. Poirier – Running High
3. Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
4. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
5. Toro Y Moi – Causers Of This
6. Women – Public Strain
7. The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange
8. Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
9. Best Coast – Crazy For You
10. The Cannon Bros – The Cannon Bros EP

David McLeod, NCI-FM
Top 10 Aboriginal radio singles on NCI-FM
1. Digging Roots – Spring To Come
2. Shane Yellowbird – Bare Feet on the Blacktop
3. Crystal Shawanda – Beautiful Day
4. Lucie Idlout – Tonight
5. Donny Parenteau – Turn It Up
6. Ray St. Germain – Cause I’m A Travelin’ Man
7. Jason Burnstick – I Pray
8. John McLeod – Metis Indian Song
9. Evan Reeve – Not OK
10. Darrelyne Bickel – M.I.A.

Sarah Michaelson aka Mama Cutsworth
Top 10 live shows, in chronological order
• Peggers’ Banquet Rolling Stones Tribute @ The Ukrainian Labour Temple, Mar. 27
• Ólöf Arnalds w/ Christine Fellows @ Núna (now) Festival, The West End Cultural Centre, May 7
• Aloe Blacc @ The Academy, June 22
• Christian Scott @ Winnipeg Jazz Festival, Pantages Playhouse Theatre, June 26
• Marco Benevento Trio @ Winnipeg Jazz Festival, Rachel Browne Theatre, June 27
• Budos Band @ Winnipeg Jazz Festival, The Pyramid, June 30
• Andrew Bird w/ Konono No. 1 @ The Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 11
• Lady Daisey and Batsauce @ The Lo Pub, Sept. 11
• Jamie Lidell @ The Pyramid, Oct. 7
• The Weakerthans performing Fallow @ The Albert, Dec. 15

Joe Myles, UMFM
Top 10 albums, in order
1. The Walkmen – Lisbon
2. Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises
3. The Twilight Sad – The Wrong Car EP
4. Neil Young – Le Noise
5. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
6. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
7. Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here
8. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
9. Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
10. The National – High Violet

Rob Pachol, Telepathic Butterflies/The Wind-Ups
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Bushman’s Revenge – Jitterbug
2. Neil Young – Le Noise
3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
4. Orange Juice – Coals to Newcastle
5. Iggy Pop & James Williamson – Kill City (Restored Remixed)
6. Nels Cline – Dirty Baby
7. Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching… (30th Anniversary Ed.)
8. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
9. The Sheepdogs – Learn and Burn
10. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

Michael Petkau Falk, West End Cultural Centre/Les Jupes/Head In The Sand
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Jonsi – Go
3. Beach House – Teen Dream
4. Liars – Sisterworld         
5. The National – High Violet
6. The Knife – Tomorrow, In A Year       
7. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter Of Mixed Drinks   
8. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me           
9. Menomena – Mines
10. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor           

Stu Reid, CKUW
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans – The Falcon Lake Incident
2. Leeroy Stagger – Little Victories
3. The Master Plan – Maximum Respect
4. Bright Little Field – Treatment Bound: A Ukelele Tribute To The Replacements
5. Imelda May – Mayhem
6. Hatcher Briggs – Getting There From Here
7. Jason & The Scorchers – Halcyon Times
8. Jon Dee Graham – It’s Not As Bad As It Looks
9. Girl in a Coma – Adventures in Coverland
10. Sit Down Tracy – Roaring Noon

Sara Stasiuk, Manitoba Music
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. The National – High Violet
3. Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
4. Greg MacPherson – Mr. Invitation
5. Hawksley Workman – Meat
6. Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature
7. Vampire Weekend – Contra
8. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
9. Sarah Harmer – Oh Little Fire
10. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang

Melissa Spence, Streetz FM 
Top 10 Winnipeg hip hop singles on Streetz FM
1. Winnipeg’s Most – All That I Know
2. Magnum K.I. – No Way
3. Young Kidd – Wonderful Winnipeg
4. Pip Skid – Tens Of Dollars
5. The Lytics – Stay Humble
6. Brakada – Ain’t Everything
7. Lorenzo – What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
8. Len Bowen – Big Dreamer
9. Abstract Artform feat. Doodle Bug –  Summer In The City
10. Scott Nixx feat. Dtyhee – Ridin’ Shotgun

Jared Story, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
2. Bison B.C. – Dark Ages
3. The Sadies – Darker Circles                                            
4. Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away                            
5. Drive By Truckers – The Big To-Do                                            
6. Jesse Malin – Love it to Life                                             
7. Roky Erickson  – True Love Cast Out All Evil                        
8. Greg McPherson – Mr. Invitation                                             
9.Hank III – Rebel Within                                              
10. Grinderman – Grinderman 2                                           

Sam Thompson, Uptown
Top 10 albums, (mostly) in order
1. Child Abuse – Cut and Run
2. Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer
3. Neil Young – Le Noise
4. Rob Crooks– Misogyny III
5. Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
6. Slattern/Lipstickface – split 12"
7. Nas and Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
8. Nestor Wynrush Ensemble – So High From the Lo
9. Ghostface Killah, Method Man and Raekwon – Wu Massacre
10. Horse Feathers – Drain You (7" single)

Art Transistor, Transistor 66
Top 10 albums, in no particular order
• Kids On Fire – Kids On Fire
• Miesha and the Spanks –  Mean/Fuck 7"
• Black Dirt of the West - Black Dirt of the West 7"
• Battle Snakes – On Fire 99
• Those Guys From Last Night – Those Guys From Last Night
• The Lonely Vulcans ­– Night Date
• The High Thunderers – Earth Shaker
• MAMA – Universe of Horrors
• The Angry Dragons – Hot Pink 7"
• Magnum K.I. – Magnum K.I.

Young Mike, Hot 103
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
4. Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song
5. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
6. Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
7. The Roots – How I Got Over
8. Vampire Weekend – Contra
9. Robyn – Body Talk
10. Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Jen Zoratti, Uptown
Top 10 albums, in order
1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
2. Wolf Parade – Expo 86
3. P.S. I Love You – Meet Me At The Muster Station
4. Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own
5. Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
6. Spoon– Transference
7. Hannah Georgas – This Is Good
8. Land of Talk – Cloak & Cipher
9. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
10. No Age – Everything In Between