| Yearly Rock Report for 2008 | 
| # | Artist | Title | Label | 
|---|
 | 1 | Big Dipper | Supercluster (Anthology) | Merge | 
 | 2 | Parts & Labor | Receivers | Jagjaguwar | 
 | 3 | The Dirtbombs | We Have You Surrounded | In The Red | 
 | 4 | The December Sound | The December Sound | Dying Song | 
 | 5 | Cute Lepers | Can't Stand Modern Music | Blackheart | 
 | 6 | Gas | Nah Und Fern | Kompakt | 
 | 7 | Dead Meadow | Old Growth | Matador | 
 | 8 | No Age | Nouns | Sub Pop | 
 | 9 | Various | Do the Pop! Redux Part One | Shock | 
 | 10 | Fucked Up | The Chemistry of Common Life | Matador | 
 | 11 | Major Stars | Mirror/Messenger | Drag City | 
 | 12 | Cheap Time | Cheap Time | In The Red | 
 | 13 | Foals | Antidotes | Transgressive/Sub Pop | 
 | 14 | Darker My Love | 2 | Dangerbird | 
 | 15 | The Death Set | Worldwide | Counter | 
 | 16 | The Big Sleep | Sleep Forever | frenchkiss | 
 | 17 | The Estranged | Static Thoughts | Dirtnap | 
 | 18 | The Night Marchers | See You In Magic | Vagrant | 
 | 19 | The Love Me Nots | Detroit | Atomic a go go | 
 | 20 | Holland | Love Fluxus | Teen Beat | 
 | 21 | Faux Jean | The Mongolian Invasion | - | 
 | 22 | Jeff Dahl | Back To Monkey City | Steel Cage | 
 | 23 | Clouds | We Are Above You | Hydra Head | 
 | 24 | Black Mountain | The Future | Jagjaguwar | 
 | 25 | The Raveonettes | Lust Lust Lust | Vice | 
 | 26 | Coconut Coolouts | Party Time Machine | Xeroid | 
 | 27 | The Setting Son | The Setting Son | Bad Afro | 
 | 28 | Appomattox | AO | Triple Down | 
 | 29 | Various | Ruling The World From The Backseat | Lawless | 
 | 30 | Teachers Pet | Teachers Pet | Smog Veil | 
 | 31 | The Sea And Cake | Car Alarm | Thrill Jockey | 
 | 32 | The Futureheads | This is Not the World | nul | 
 | 33 | Death Vessel | Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us | Sub Pop | 
 | 34 | Mountain Goats | Heretic Pride | 4AD | 
 | 35 | The Breeders | Mountain Battles | 4AD | 
 | 36 | Awesome Color | Electric Aborigines | Ecstatic Peace | 
 | 37 | The Black Hollies | Casting Shadows | Ernest Jenning | 
 | 38 | The Doom Buggies | Doom Music for Dining | - | 
 | 39 | Ho-Ag | Doctor Cowboy | Hello Sir | 
 | 40 | Mot?rhead | Mot?rizer | SPV | 
 | 41 | Various | He Put The Bomp! In The Bomp | Bomp! | 
 | 42 | Apache | Boomtown Gems | Birdman | 
 | 43 | Working for a Nuclear Free City | Businessmen & Ghosts | Deaf Dumb & Blind | 
 | 44 | Points | S/T | Mud Memory | 
 | 45 | Deerhunter | Microcastle | Kranky | 
 | 46 | Schlammpeitziger | Schwingstelle fur Rauschabzug | Sonig | 
 | 47 | Torche | Meanderthal | Hydra Head | 
 | 48 | Ponies In The Surf | See You Happy | Darla | 
 | 49 | Libyans | Libyans | Upstate | 
 | 50 | Various | Break Out #2 | Cut Out | 
 | 51 | Bad Chopper | Bad Chopper | Acme | 
 | 52 | Destroyalldreamers | Wish I Was All Flames | Where Are My | 
 | 53 | Black Keys | Attack & Release | Nonesuch | 
 | 54 | Magnetic Fields | Distortion | Nonesuch | 
 | 55 | Portishead | Third | Mercury | 
 | 56 | Tokyo Police Club | Elephant Shell | Saddle Creek | 
 | 57 | Tyvek | "2 X 7""" | What's Your Rupture?' | 
 | 58 | Die! Die! Die! | Promises Promises | S.A.F. | 
 | 59 | Apache | Boyz Life/Crystal Clear | Douche Master | 
 | 60 | ASG | Win Us Over | Volcom | 
 | 61 | Ketman | El Toro | Lifted & Gifted | 
 | 62 | Secret Shine | All Of The Stars | Clairecords | 
 | 63 | Refuse Resist | Mind: Yourself | Rodent Popsicle | 
 | 64 | Ratatat | LP3 | XL Recordings | 
 | 65 | King Khan & the Shrines | The Supreme Genius of ... | Vice | 
 | 66 | Be Your Own Pet | Get Awkward | Ecstatic Peace | 
 | 67 | The Black Angels | Directions to See a Ghost | Light in the Attic | 
 | 68 | The Bugs | The Bugs | Justice My Eye | 
 | 69 | The Stuck Ups | The Nasties/The Stuck Ups Split LP | Squirrel | 
 | 70 | Mudhoney | The Lucky Ones | Sub Pop | 
 | 71 | Ladytron | Velocifero | Nettwerk | 
 | 72 | Experimental Aircraft | Third Transmission | Graveface | 
 | 73 | Astral | Sleepwalker | Vibraphone | 
 | 74 | Imagincary Icons | Imagincary Icons | Daggerman | 
 | 75 | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | Pershing | Polyvinyl | 
 | 76 | Eddy Current Suppression Ring | Primary Colours | Aarght!/Goner | 
 | 77 | Molten Universe | No Love Around | Off The Hip | 
 | 78 | Mogwai | The Hawk is Howling | Matador | 
 | 79 | Sigur R?s | Me_ su_ ? eyrum vi_ spilum endalaust | XL Recordings | 
 | 80 | Apollo Sunshine | Shall Noise Upon | Headless Heroes | 
 | 81 | The Hex Dispensers | Lose My Cool EP | Douche Master | 
 | 82 | Various | Bippp | Everloving | 
 | 83 | Turpentine Brothers | Turpentine Brothers | Alien Snatch | 
 | 84 | Tulsa | I Was Submerged | Park the Van | 
 | 85 | Jay Reatard | Singles 06-07 | Matador | 
 | 86 | These New Puritans | Beat Pyramid | Domino | 
 | 87 | The Fleshtones | Take a Good Look! | Yep Roc | 
 | 88 | The Shortcuts | The Shortcuts | - | 
 | 89 | Bauhaus | Go Away White | Bauhaus Musik | 
 | 90 | Disco Ensemble | Magic Recoveries | Fullsteam | 
 | 91 | Pretty & Nice | Get Young | Hardly Art | 
 | 92 | The High Water Marks | Polar | Happy Happy Birthday to Me | 
 | 93 | Dillinger Four | Civil War | Fat Wreck Chords | 
 | 94 | Various | Harmonic Motion Volume 1 | Differential | 
 | 95 | The Replacements | Radio Sampler | Rhino | 
 | 96 | The Kids | The Kids (re-issue 1978) | Havoc | 
 | 97 | The Notwist | "The Devil, You + Me" | Domino | 
 | 98 | Witch | Paralyzed | Tee Pee | 
 | 99 | Black Helicopter | Golden Days/Invasion of Prussia | Ecstatic Peace | 
 | 100 | The Gang | Zero Hits | Absolutely Kosher |