12/24/2004
Best of 2004 Retrospective
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release
| Artist | Song Title | Album | Record Label | NRC |
| Bad Wizard | #1 Tonight | #1 Tonight | Howler | N |
| The Black Keys | Til I Get My Way | Rubber Factory | Fat Possum | |
| Neko Case | Soulful Shade of Blue | The Tigers Have Spoken | Anti- | N |
| Black Cat Music | The French Exit | October November | Lookout | |
| Brother Ali | Self Taught | Champion EP | Rhymesayers | |
| Clutch | Subtle Hustle | Blast Tyrant | DRT | |
| Le Tigre | TKO | This Island | Universal | N |
| Mars Ill | Planes and Trains | Backbreakanomics | Goatee | |
| The Bronx | Bats! | Bats! EP | Tarantulas | |
| Das Oath | Awesome Rape | s/t | Dim Mak | |
| F Minus | Caught In Between | Give'Em the Boot | Hellcat | N,C |
| Descendents | 'merican | Cool to Be You | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| 2 Mex | Baby I Ain't Joking | s/t | Image | |
| Awol One | Memowrecks | self titled | Image | |
| Green Day | Holiday | American Idiot | Reprise | N |
| The Lost Sounds | Destructo Comet | s/t | In the Red | N |
| Sasquatch | Boss Hog | s/t | Small Stone | |
| cLOUDDEAD | The Velvet Ant | Ten | Mush | |
| NoFX | Bottles to the Ground | The Greatest Songs Ever Written | Epitaph | N |
| Drive By Truckers | Never Gonna Change | The Dirty South | New West | |
| The Hellacopters | Slow Down | Cream of the Crap Vol. II | Sweet Nothing | |
| Mastodon | I am Ahab | Leviathan | Relapse | |
| Kool Keith | Taking It Back | Diesel Truckers | Funky Ass | |
| The Soviettes | Ten | LP II | Adeline | |
| Hot Snakes | Think About Carbs | Audit in Progress | Swami | |
| The Means | Blondes Behaving Badly | Divine Right of... | Doubleplusgood | |
| Old Tyme Relijun | This Kettle Contains a Heart | Lost Light | K | |
| The Roots | Web | Tipping Point | Geffen | |
| Zeke | Chinatown | Til the Living End | Relapse | |
| Guitar Wolf | Midnite Blood Pump | Loverock | Narnack | |
| Bad Religion | Let Them Eat War | Empire Strikes First | Epitaph | |
| Jello and the Melvins | McGruff the Crime Dog | Never Breathe What You Can't See | Alternative Tentacles | |
| His and Her Vanities | Moving Forward | A Thought Process | SOS | |
| American Death | Leave Me Be | Transmission Impossible | Crustacean | N |
| God-Des | Oh Shit | Reality | self released | |
| The Skintones | Basketcase | Never Get Better | Crustacean | |
| Funrod | Number Eight | It's So Easy | Old Man Willie's | N |
| Colony of Watts | Never Heard a Bullet | Victory Bonds | self released | |
| Couch Flambeau | Santa Claus Skips Cudahay | Powered Slide | self released | |
| Jean Grae | A Alikes | This Week | Babygrande | |
| Vast Aire | Look Mom No Hands | Look Mom No Hands | Chocolate Industries | |
| The Dwarves | Demented | Must Die | Greedy | |
| Blood Brothers | Trash Flavored Trash | Crimes | V2 | N |
| Leftover Crack | Vin Sin Dios | Fuck World Trade | Alternative Tentacles | |
| Beans | Death by Sophistication | Shock City Maverick | Warp | |
| Alabama Thunderpussy | Wage Slave | Fulton Hill | Relapse | |
| The Paybacks | Can You Drive | Harder and Harder | Get Hip | |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School | If It Wasn't For You | White People | Atlantic |
N=new release R=requested C=compilation release