1. This Is The Place – Red Hot Chili Peppers – RHCP's best song is also their most generic: a drug drenched Kiedis self-portrait completely overwhelmed by Fleas' stupendous bass licks, which own it completely. The lyric owes so much to rap without actually take anything from the genre and it builds to a crushing mirror and anti-American image that at first seems like a metaphor but at second glance is a self truth. This place is their mesh of DNA. Grade: A+
2. Not Fade Away – Florence + The Machine – Iffy take on standard as blues bruiser- Grade: B
3. Million Miles – Bonnie Raitt – Litmus test: if you don't like this, you don't like Bonnie. Grade: B
4. Six O'Clock News – Kathleen Edwards – Lead song off her first album, stands up as the best song of her Webster Hall gig. Grade: A
5. Shinkansen (feat Jon Hassel) – Love On A Real Train – beautiful work from trumpeter – Grade: A
6. Trash Tongue Talker – Jack White – Boogie woogie piano fuels catchy, catchy rave up – Grade: A
7. I Am free – The Dandy Warhol – Stody rocker – Grade: B
8. Chit Chat – Hannah Georgas – Did herself proud opening for Kathleen – Grade: B
9. Leave It All Up To Me – Screaming Female – The guitar solo, just a lick really, at the start, is magnificent. So good it morphs into the chorus – Grade: A
10. Without You (feat Frank Ocean) – Stacy Barthe – Who is this chick? From last year, but I totally missed it, this Frank Ocean song is future shock r&b. A sleek, low key, with an addictive drum pattern and an echoey haunting vocal and behind it background vocals and deep echo like it is playing in her mind – Grade: A