I see you kids have played knifey spoonie before.

Wow, Gumbercules brought tears to my eyes. Copter Kick To The Unwatched Crotch and Morbidly Obtuse are especially amazing.

if it's worst band names you first heard in 2010, then The Tallest Man On Earth gets my vote

Greatest coffee table book ever. Totally worth the $5 I paid for it on McSweeney's. It was also fun to find friends' bands in it.

75% of the music community? you mean 75% of the general public right?

The photo of that band is really professional too. If all you have is a Myspace page, but you have a professional photo with perfect hair and clothes, then that alone should let you know something's wrong with your band. Getting a photo to make your band look super cool shouldn't be the first order of business.

The Fuk Holz made me think of the Always Sunny episode where Cricket mentions waking up to a dog wanting to hump the wound in his neck. And I hope next year to find a band on this list named "Cricket's Dog Vagina"

Flogging Molly used to cover Delilah live. It was pretty fucking great. A bunch of drunken punks singing "whyyyy oooohhhh whyyyy delilah!"

Christ you guys are picky. Between 1967 and 1972, the Stones could do no wrong. That period of the Rolling Stones might represent my favorite band ever…the absolute archetype of what it is to be a rock n roll band. And all of those are great songs.

It's all heresy. There are no expendable tracks on London Calling. I dunno if I'd say there's a throwaway track in their discography until they released Sandinistas.

The better experimental Beatles track is definitely Tomorrow Never Knows. That shit rules.

A Tenth Avenue Freeze Out is totally badass…that's what it is.

I didn't realize Good Morning, Magpie came out this year, but that's a solid album. Unfortunately I lost my copy of it and can't find it anywhere.

in no particular order:
1) Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
2) Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
3) Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
4) The Black Keys - Brothers
5) The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
6) Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Album
7) A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
8) Coliseum - House With A Curse
9)…

In the vein of not seeing bands that have broken up, Coalesce was so-so when I saw them last year. I was really excited about it, but I was kinda bummed. Coalesce actually was pretty solid, but the crowd didn't care at all. That's probably what you get for reuniting as a hardcore band when most of your fanbase is…

You guys are nuts. The Weakerthans are great…on record and live. You're just mad because "One Great City" called out the Jets for sucking.

The Arts Festival in Pittsburgh last summer had Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit one night and two nights later they had Justin Townes Earle opening for Kris Kristofferson. All three were excellent. JTE and Kristofferson played just them and a guitar. Isbell was terrific. He and his band did a couple of his Drive-By…

Last one, but I have to agree with what was said about Lucero earlier. They're still very good (still my favorite band) and I actually think their last record was probably their best since That Much Further West. They're one of the very few bands who took the opportunity provided by moving up to a major label to…

Fugazi was one of the most miserable live shows of my life, but it had almost nothing to do with Fugazi. OK, so I was pretty pissy about Ian McKaye saying they wouldn't play until someone closed the doors to the gymnasium they were playing in (they were headlining Macrock in Virginia) because it was cold. First off,…

When I saw DBT and the Hold Steady, the finished up together playing "Look Out Cleveland" by the Band. It was pretty phenomenal. The Hold Steady was really good, but the venue (The Carnegie Library in Homestead in Pittsburgh) sucks.