1/11/2002
Saluting the best releases of 2001 in no particular order
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release
| Artist | Song Title | Album | Record Label | NRC |
| Dropkick Murphys | The Gauntlet | Sing Loud, Sing Proud | Hellcat | |
| Jay Farrar | Clear Day Thunder | Sebastapol | Artemis | N |
| Hot Water Music | A Flight & a Crash | A Flight & a Crash | Epitaph | |
| New Recruits | 504 | Fun Times | SOS | |
| Bugatti Type 35 | Trish Dresser | Traction | Jollydog | |
| Sugar Jets | 6th Grade Are Class | Performance | ||
| System and Station | Pistol | Pictures Found in Paragraphs | Crustacean | |
| Skintones | Life Long | Devil rock | N | |
| Bongzilla | American | Apogee | Howlingbullamerican | |
| 'Cuda | SRF | Hellfire | 12th | |
| Tomahawk | God Hates a Coward | s/t | Ipecac | N |
| Causey Way | Money | Causey vs. Everything | Alternative Tentacles | |
| Atomic Bitchwax | Liquor Queen | II | Tee Pee | |
| NoFX | SF Fat | Fat Music V | Fat Wreck Chords | C |
| American Monsters | 94 Diablo | demo | ||
| Built to Spill | In Your Mind | Ancient Melodies of the Future | Warner Brothers | |
| Murphys Law | Stressed Out | Partys Over | Artemis | |
| X | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | Elektra | R |
| Slayer | Deviance | God Hates Us All | American | N |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Dungaree High | Alpha Motherfuckers | Hopeless | N,C |
| Skrap | Dreaming | How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw Up a Blondie Tribute? | Sympathy For the Record Industry | N,C |
| Murder City Devils | Alcohol | Give the People What they Want | Sub Pop | N,C |
| Altamont | Short Eyes | Our Darling | Mans Ruin | |
| Leatherface | Daylight Comes | The Last | BYO | |
| Cherry Valance | Lose That Smile | s/t | Estrus | |
| The Frogs | Know It All | Hopscotch Lollipop | Scrathie | |
| Anti Flag | Stars and Stripes | Underground Network | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| Drunk Horse | Vicious and Loathes | Tanning Salon | Mans Ruin | |
| Burning Airlines | Outside the Aivary | Identikit | De Soto | |
| International Noise Conspiracy | Capitalism Stole My Virginity | New Morning | Epitaph | N |
| Ex Girl | Pop Music | Back to the Mono | Ipecac | |
| Dozer | Let the Shit Roll | Madre de Dias | Mans Ruin | |
| Heroin Sheiks | Oucha | Cd single | Rubric | N |
| National Razor fdic | Do You Wanna Get High | Gruesome Twosome Vol. 1 | VMS | N |
| Birthday Party | Loose | BBC Sessions | Fuel | |
| Le Tigre | LT Tour Theme | Femenist Sweepstakes | Mr. Lady | |
| The Bellrays | Fire on the Moon | Grand Fury | Vital Gesture | R |
| The Rapture | The Jam | Out of the Races and Onto the Track | Sub Pop | |
| Rocket From the Crypt | SOS | Group Sounds | Vagrant | |
| Pennywise | The World | Land of the Free? | Epitaph | |
| Radio Birdman | Murder City Nights | Essential | Sub Pop | |
| The Cure | Cut Here | Greatest Hits | Elektra | N |
| My Morning Jacket | Honest Man | At Dawn | Darla | |
| Lucinda Williams | Essense | Essense | Lost Highway | |
| American Death | Hell on Earth | Hem and Haw | Crustacean | |
| Brian Jonestown Massacre | Whatever Hippie Bitch | Zero | TVT |
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release