| Band | Song/s | Album | Label |
| Apples in Stereo | 20 Cases suggestive of… | The discovery of a world inside the moone | Elephant 6 |
| Belle and Sebastian | Wrong girl | Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant | Jeepster |
| Beulah | Score from Augusta | When your Heartstrings Break | Elephant 6 |
| Billy Bragg and Wilco | Secret of the Sea | Mermaid Avenue Vol 2 | Elektra |
| Built to Spill | Randy described eternity | Live | Spunk |
| Grandaddy | Hewlett's Daughter | The Sophtware Slump | V2 |
| Home | Burden | XIV | Cooking vinyl |
| J Mascis and the Fog | Can't I take this on | More light | Shock |
| Two Andrew Thompson finds of 2000: |
| Nick Drake | Place to be | Pink Moon | Island |
| Sparklehorse | Maria's little elbows | Living the dream | Capitol |
| Pedro the Lion | Slow and Steady wins the race | Winners never quit | Jade Tree |
| Joe Pernice | Prince Valium | Big Tobacco | Spunk |
| Smog | Dress Sexy for my funeral | Dongs of Sevotion | Spunk |
| XTC | In another life | Wasp Star | Cooking vinyl |
| Andrew Thompson's | Top Secret | Best song of 2000 | Wowee! |
