As reported to College Music Journal
Rank Artist Recording Label
1 Two Door Cinema Club Beacon Glassnote
2 Passion Pit Gossamer Columbia
3 Animal Collective Centipede Hz Domino
4 Cat Power Sun Matador
5 Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You Warner Bros.
6 Tallest Man On Earth There's No Leaving Now Dead Oceans
7 Dandy Warhols This Machine The End
8 Of Monsters And Men My Head Is An Animal Record
9 Pomegranates Heaven Modern Outsider
10 Antennas Up The Awkward Phase Plastic Artiface
11 Father John Misty Fear Fun Sub Pop
12 Avett Brothers The Carpenter Universal
13 Grizzly Bear Shields Warp
14 Alabama Shakes Boys And Girls ATO
15 Birds And Batteries Stray Light Eightmaps
16 Kimbra Vows Warner Bros.
17 Japandroids Celebration Rock Polyvinyl
18 Drowning Men All Of The Unknown Borstal Beat
19 Black Keys El Camino Nonesuch
20 Dr. John Locked Down Nonesuch
21 Dr. Dog Be The Void Anti
22 A Great Big Pile Of Leaves Making Moves [7-Inch] Mad Dragon
23 Andrew Bird Hands Of Glory Mom And Pop
24 Dinosaur Jr. I Bet On Sky Jagjaguwar
25 Alberta Cross Songs Of Patience ATO
26 Antony And The Johnsons Cut The World Secretly Canadian
27 AWOL Nation Megalithic Symphony Red Bull
28 Allen Stone Allen Stone ATO
29 Antibalas Antibalas Daptone
30 Azure Ray As Above So Below Saddle Creek
