Place	Cover	Artist / Album	Category	Rating	User Rating	Votes
1		Safety Word Orange Safety Word Orange (EP) (Indie 2008)	Rock	4/5	7.12/10	261
2		Revmatic Cold Blooded Demon (indie 2008)	Metal	3.5/5	7.27/10	222
3		Marlowe Grey Zoa (indie 2008)	Singer/Songwriter	3/5	7.18/10	68
4		Facing The Fire The Uproar Live (EP) (indie 2008)	Rock	2.5/5	7.76/10	57
5		Dead Rites In The Midst Of Malevolence (hedonism records 2007) Listen: Ritual 2008	Metal	N/R	5.5/10	36
6		Skumlove Songs Of Lust And Corrosion (misfortune records 2008) Listen: Loaded My Machine	Metal	4/5	6.5/10	21
7		Gabriel The Marine Gabriel The Marine Ep (EP) (Indie 2008)	Rock	4/5	6/10	17
8		Times Have Changed Times Have Changed Ep (EP) (indie 2008)		3.5/5	9/10	17
9		Ursa Ursa Demo (Single) (indie 2008) Listen: Welcome To Level Iii Rocky Vs. Rambo	Rock / Metal / Emo	3.5/5	7.23/10	16
10		Society's Sorrow The Calm Before The Storm (EP) (SONIC BAKERY 2008)	Metal	4/5	9.25/10	15
11		Saccade Demo (None 2008)	Rock / Pop	N/R	7/10	14
12		Damn Valentines Broadcast For The Broken.... (Indie 2008)	Rock / Punk	N/R	6.4/10	13
13		Forgotten Archetype The Diaries Of Lord Xenu (Indie 2008)	Metal / Hip-Hop / Pop	4.5/5	10/10	13
14		Cactus's Tropical Terror (EP) (Beat Crazy 2008) Listen: Where Is My Skeleton	Rock	4.5/5	6.43/10	12
15		No Casino Demo (EP) (Self-Released 2008)	Rock	N/R	4.5/10	8
16		Ryan Express Please Be Seated (EP) (MultiDose Records 2008) Listen: Aphrodite To Be Happy Too Good	Singer/Songwriter	3/5	9.5/10	6
17		Tim Smith Band The World To Me (Indie 2007)	Roots / World / Jazz	N/R	0/10	5
18		The Newspeak The Newspeak (EP) (indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	10/10	5
19		Heather Parks Beautifully Broken (EP) (Indie 2007)	Rock / Pop / Singer/Songwriter	N/R	5.5/10	5
20		Eric Hogg Origins Unknown (indie 2008)	Pop / Singer/Songwriter	N/R	0/10	5
21		Invasions Magic (EP) ( 2008) Listen: Helpless Magic	Rock	N/R	0/10	4
22		Brown Shoe Jackalope (Self-Released 2008)	Rock	4.5/5	0/10	4
23		Stacee Lawson Deranged (indie 2008)	Rock / Pop	N/R	0/10	3
24		Your Catalyst Your Catalyst Ep (EP) (Unsigned 08)	Rock	5/5	0/10	3
25		Salutation When Different Becomes Dangerous (EP) (indie 2007)	Rock	N/R	0/10	3
26		Paper Owls Myths (indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	2
27		I Am Band Better Than That (indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	2
28		Greg Sinibaldi Special Agent (present sounds 2008)	Rock / Electronic / Jazz	N/R	0/10	2
29		Brejanay Forever Me (EP) ( )	Hip-Hop / Pop / Singer/Songwriter	N/R	0/10	2
30		Complex Pro Complex Mix Tape (INDIE 2008)	Hip-Hop	N/R	10/10	1
31		Millsted Umm... Yea ( 2008) Listen: Dirty Elvis	Rock / Punk	N/R	8/10	1
32		Highroad No. 28 Stumbling To Divinity (DSM99 Records 2008) Listen: For Eternity, We Will Be	Rock	N/R	9.6/10	1
33		Ace Merrill When The Strangeness Strikes (Indie 2008)		N/R	10/10	1
34		Strangling Marilyn Strangling Marilyn (Single) (indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
35		The Maension Introspection (EP) (unsigned 2008)		3.5/5	0/10	0
36		Soren Anders Soren Anders (EP) (Sharkmeat 2008)	Singer/Songwriter	N/R	10/10	0
37		Zookeepers Giant Black Taco (PrettyBeat 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
38		Jennifer Yeung Demo (EP) (Indie n/a)		N/R	0/10	0
39		Fitz Wong You\'re The One (None 2008) Listen: How Do You Feel? How Do You Feel	Singer/Songwriter	N/R	0/10	0
40		Starviolet Intro-Version (indie 2008)	Electronic	N/R	10/10	0
41		Alien Father Paste (Brother and Brother 2008)	Rock	3.5/5	0/10	0
42		Sound Liberation Open Up Your Ears & Get Some (col-legno 2008)	Rock / Jazz / Hip-Hop	N/R	0/10	0
43		Adam Civalias You.me.we (EP) (Authentik Artists 2008)	Rock / Singer/Songwriter	N/R	0/10	0
44		Paper Lions Paper Lions ( 2007)	Rock / Pop	N/R	9/10	0
45		Red Ink The Ep (EP) (Spent Records 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
46		Woodfish Breathe (EP) (Indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
47		Lakey Nothing Less Than More (EP) (indie 2008)	Electronic	N/R	0/10	0
48		Disraelis Demonstration (EP) (Indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
49		5 Billion Things Replicas (altidew 2008) Listen: Replicas	Punk / Emo	N/R	0/10	0
50		Judson Claiborne Before Midnight Scholar (indie 2008)	Rock / Folk / Singer/Songwriter	N/R	0/10	0
51		The Banana Convention Freeze Dried Eclectic Singles (EP) (Confucuis Records 2008)	Rock / Pop	N/R	10/10	0
52		Human Cycle Lead The Way (EP) (Indie 2008)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
53		Kevin M Thomas Intensify (Red Galaxy Records 2003)	Rock	N/R	0/10	0
54		Steve Lieberman The Gangsta Rabbi Psych Ward (Bad'lan USA 2008)	Punk	N/R	0/10	0

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