Best of Atlanta Music in '09

In no particular order, here are my favorite Atlanta releases that I heard this year.

The Nice Guise - Catalyst and Ty-vicious are The Nice Guise

Key Tracks: "Box of Dutches" and "Now I'm Being Serial"

Dillon and Paten Locke - Studies in Hunger

Key Tracks: "Identify" and "Good Lookin Out Pops"

Senor Kaos - Walk Softly and Carry a Big Brick (free download)

Key Tracks: "Ignorant Shit" and "Best in Show"

AmDex - Seven Scrolls EP

Key Tracks: "Change Your Style" and "Heaven"

4ize - Illuminated Animals (free download)

Key Tracks: "Dat Aint Gon Ride" and "Hard to Quit the Rhyme"

Noot D' Noot - Cash for Gold

Key Tracks: "Fingers Like Steeples" and "The Occasion"

The Ruination - The Ruination

Key Tracks: "Batman" and "Imperial Dub"

Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand

Key Tracks: "Old Man" and "I Saw God"

The Almighty Defenders - The Almighty Defenders

Key Tracks: "Cone of Light" and "I'm Coming Home"

Irreversible - Light (free download)

Key Tracks: "Resonance" and "Soul Expanding"

DOOM - Born Like This

Key Tracks: "Gazillion Ear" and "Cellz"

Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. II

Key Tracks: "Broken Safety" and "Gihad"

DJ Grizzly - Speakeasy Sixtape (free download)

Key Tracks: Edan and Dagha's "Rock N' Roll" and Lee Harvey Oswald's "Ghosts of Terminus"

In Oh Ten I am looking forward to new albums from Baka, Conspiracy, DT, Clan Destined, The Nice Guise, Arablak, DOOM, Raekwon, Noot D' Noot, U-George, DJ Terminus, DJ Dug Boogie, Methuzulah (formerly Mojo Swagger), and more.