| Yearly Rock Report for 2003 | 
| # | Artist | Title | Label | 
|---|
 | 1 | Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun | Matador | 
 | 2 | Downbeat 5 | Downbeat 5 | Sympathy For The Record Industry | 
 | 3 | Scenic | Acid Gospel Experience | Hidden Agenda | 
 | 4 | Mendoza Line | If They Knew This Was The End | Barnone | 
 | 5 | Various | Tales From The Australian Underground Singles 1976-1989 | Feel Presents | 
 | 6 | American Analog Set | Promise of Love | Tiger Style | 
 | 7 | Cat Power | You Are Free | Matador | 
 | 8 | Lightning Bolt | Wonderful Rainbow | Load | 
 | 9 | Clem Snide | Soft Spot | Spin Art | 
 | 10 | Ponys | Shishimumu | Time Lag | 
 | 11 | New Pornographers | Electric Version | Matador | 
 | 12 | Woggles | Ragged But Right | Telstar | 
 | 13 | Liars | We No Longer Knew Who We Were | Hand Held Heart/Sound Virus | 
 | 14 | Marked Men | The Marked Men | Rip Off | 
 | 15 | Stratford 4 | Love + Distortion | Jetset | 
 | 16 | Cul De Sac | Death of the Sun | Strange Attractors | 
 | 17 | Kinski | Airs Above Your Station | Sub Pop | 
 | 18 | A Frames | 2 | S-S | 
 | 19 | Deerhoof | Apple O' | KRS | 
 | 20 | Mexican Blackbirds | Just to Spite You | Dirtnap | 
 | 21 | Various | I'm Walkin' Babe | Sundazed | 
 | 22 | Aislers Set | How I Learned To Write Backwards | Suicide Squeeze | 
 | 23 | Sea & Cake | One Bedroom | Thrill Jockey | 
 | 24 | Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People | Matador | 
 | 25 | Various | Songs the Cramps Taught 3 | STCTU | 
 | 26 | Belle and Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress | Rough Trade | 
 | 27 | Sonny Vincent | The Good The Bad The Ugly | Acetate | 
 | 28 | Marvels | Marvels | Marvels | 
 | 29 | Henry Flynt | Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol 1 + 2 | Locust | 
 | 30 | Consonant | Love & Affliction | Fenway | 
 | 31 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell | Interscope | 
 | 32 | FM Knives | Useless & Modern | Broken Rekkids | 
 | 33 | Saturday Looks Good To Me | All Your Summer Songs | Polyvinyl | 
 | 34 | D4 | 6Twenty | Flying Nun | 
 | 35 | Calexico | Feast of Wire | Quarter Stick | 
 | 36 | Crybabies | How The Other Half Lives | Dino | 
 | 37 | Clean | Anthology | Merge | 
 | 38 | Soltero | Defrocked and Kicking the Hobbit | Handsome | 
 | 39 | A Frames | A Frames | S-S | 
 | 40 | Pretty Girls Make Graves | New Romance | Matador | 
 | 41 | Broadcast | Ha Ha Sound | Warp | 
 | 42 | Mark Dwinell | Non-Loc | Ba-da-bing! | 
 | 43 | Surface of Eceyon | Dragyyn | Strange Attractor | 
 | 44 | Devandra Banhart | Oh Me Oh My . . . | Young God | 
 | 45 | Dishes | 3 | File 13 | 
 | 46 | Curses | Curses | Empty | 
 | 47 | Pernice Brothers | Yours Mine and Ours | Ashmont | 
 | 48 | Kenne Highland & His Vatican Sex Kittens | Be More Flamboyant | Stanton Park | 
 | 49 | Legendary Shack Shakers | Cockadoodledon't | Bloodshot | 
 | 50 | Manitoba | Up In Flames | Domino | 
 | 51 | Kaada | Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuble Time | Ipecac | 
 | 52 | British Sea Power | The Decline Of British Sea Power | Rough Trade | 
 | 53 | Clone Defects | Shapes Of Venus | In The Red | 
 | 54 | Comets On Fire | Comets On Fire | Alternative Tentacles | 
 | 55 | Erase Errata | At Crystal Palace | Troubleman Unlimited | 
 | 56 | Various | Velvet Tinmine: 20 Junk Shop Glam Rockers | RPM | 
 | 57 | Haley Bonar | Size of Planets | Chairkicker's Music | 
 | 58 | Read Yellow | Read Yellow | Fenway | 
 | 59 | Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop | 
 | 60 | Various | Protest Records.com | Protest Records | 
 | 61 | +/- | Holding Patterns | Teenbeat | 
 | 62 | Mean Red Spiders | Still Life Fast Moving | Clairecords | 
 | 63 | White Stripes | Elephant | V2 | 
 | 64 | Detroit Cobras | Seven Easy Pieces | Rough Trade | 
 | 65 | Ted Leo & The Pharmacists | Heart of Oak | Lookout! | 
 | 66 | Angus MacLise | Cloud Doctrine | Sub Rosa | 
 | 67 | Swamp Rats | Disco Still Sucks! | Get Hip | 
 | 68 | Smog | Supper | Drag City | 
 | 69 | Triple Thick | Honeychile | Leisure King | 
 | 70 | Various | Dirtnap Across the Northwest | Dirtnap | 
 | 71 | Lucinda Williams | World  Without Tears | Lost Highway | 
 | 72 | Iggy Pop | Skull Ring | Virgin | 
 | 73 | Testors | Complete Recordings | Swami | 
 | 74 | Land of Nod | Reality Channel | Elephant Stone | 
 | 75 | Guitar Wolf | UFO Romantics | Narnack | 
 | 76 | Sons of Hercules | Right Now | Suprema | 
 | 77 | Charms | Charmed I'm Sure | thecharms.net | 
 | 78 | Limited Teenage Noise Orgasm | Sea Sex and Burn | Emmanuel Hubaut | 
 | 79 | Dressy Bessy | Little Music | Kindercore | 
 | 80 | Tobin Sprout | Lost Planet + Phantom Voices | Luna | 
 | 81 | Atom Smashers | Drop the Bomb | Rip Off | 
 | 82 | Killing Joke | Killing Joke | Zuma/Epic | 
 | 83 | Royal City | Alone at the Microphone | Rough Trade | 
 | 84 | Little Killers | Little Killers | Crypt | 
 | 85 | Arrivals | Exsenator Orange | Thick | 
 | 86 | Radio Dept. | Lesser Matters | Shelflife | 
 | 87 | Need New Body | UFO | File 13 | 
 | 88 | Bonnie Prince Billy | Master & Everyone | Palace/Drag City | 
 | 89 | Califone | Quicksand/Cradle Snakes | Thrill Jockey | 
 | 90 | Soviettes | LP | Adeline | 
 | 91 | High Strung | These Are Good Times | Tee Pee | 
 | 92 | Long Winters | When I Pretend to Fall | Barsuk | 
 | 93 | Outrageous Cherry | Supernatural Equinox | Rainbow Quartz | 
 | 94 | Decemberists | Her Majesty | Kill Rock Stars | 
 | 95 | Kaito | Band Red | SpinART | 
 | 96 | Knockout Pills | Knockout Pills | Dead Beat | 
 | 97 | Lucksmiths | Naturaliste | Drive In | 
 | 98 | Various | Raw Deal | Damaged Goods | 
 | 99 | Clientele | The Violet Hour | Merge | 
 | 100 | All Girl Summer Fun Band | 2 | K |