1. Paul McCartney – Yankee Stadium – July 15th – I've seen McCartney on stage at every opportunity since the 1980s and I have never seen him better.Sporting a back catalog without peer in the history of pop, he played a long, thrilling , career ranging set of just about perfection.
2. Fitz And The Tantrums – Summerstage – June 25th – This blue eyed soul band must be seen to be believed.
3. LCD Soundsystem – MSG – April 2nd – Three hour epigrph for the first great rock dance band.
4. Taylor Swift – MSG – November 22nd – Gets it right on the last night of her world tour
5. Clinical Trials – The Studio At webster Hall – November 11th – Noise rocking duo make thir point.
6. Jingle Ball – MSG – December 9th – And not only for Lady Gaga's set.
7. Laura Marling – McKittrick Hotel – December 11th – Half an hour of heaven.
8. Rita Indiana – Summerstage – July 9th – The future of nerengue
9. Larry Graham – BB King's – June 2nd – This is the Family in Sly and The… Greatest bass player in the world.
10. Rod Stewart – MSG – March 26th – Unreal how he can still pull it off.