| Moby Grape | 8:05 | Listen My Friends! The Best of Moby Grape | Columbia Legacy |
| Dan Hicks | Canned Music | The Most of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks | Epic Legacy |
| Rolling Stones | Ruby Tuesday | Hot Rocks 1964-1971 | ABKCO |
| The Band | The Unfaithful Servant | The Band | Capitol |
| Cage the Elephant | The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan | Amnesty International / Fontana |
| The Byrds | Chimes of Freedom | Greatest Hits | Columbia Legacy |
| Odessa Chen | Deer Perspectives | Archives of the Natural World | odessachen.com |
| Mark Lanegan Band | Gray Goes Black | Blues Funeral | 4AD |
| The Firesign Theatre | Unconscious Village: Wake Up / Eyeballs in the Sky | Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death | Rhino |
| Steve Winwood, Stomu Yamashta et al | Crossing the Line | Go | Hip-O Select |
| Kronos Quartet | Don't Think Twice, It's All Right | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan | Amnesty International / Fontana |
| Odessa Chen | Archives of the Natural World | Archives of the Natural World | odessachen.com |
| SFJAZZ Collective | Blame It on the Sun | Music of Stevie Wonder: Live in New York 2011 | SFJAZZ Records |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | Nutty | Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2 | DIW Columbia |
| Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory | When the Whistle Blows | Song for My Sister | Pi Recordings |
| Roscoe Mitchell (with Joseph Jarman, Wallace McMillan, and Henry Threadgill) | Nonaah (alto quartet) | Nonaah | Nessa Records |
