Listmania: Favorite EP’s of 2009

Welcome to 2010 folks. I hope you all had a great holiday season (I know I did). So with this first post of the new year, I’ll give all of you one final recap of 2009 with this list of my favorite EP’s of the year just ended. There are a ton of good ones. I’m typing this from my hotel room here in suburban Detroit on a cold Wednesday evening as I think about the winter storm bearing down on Chicago right now and wonder if I will actually make my flight out tomorrow evening. No cancellations or storm policy in effect just yet, but I’ll be checking later. Meanwhile, check out the EP’s below, this is some seriously great shit.

1. RVIVR – Life Moves (Rumbletowne)
2. Ryan Mallot & Kelly Thomas – Ryan Mallot & Kelly Thomas (Deep Elm)
3. The Menzingers – Hold On, Dodge (Red Scare)
4. The Lawrence Arms – Buttsweat And Tears (Fat Wreck)
5. Superchunk – Leaves In The Gutter (Merge)
6. Jeff Caudill – Had To Be There (Self Released)
7. Tigers Jaw – Spirit Desire (Tiny Engines)
8. Look Mexico – Gasp Asp (Tiny Engines)
9. Red City Radio – To The Sons And Daughters Of Woody Guthrie (Self Released)
10. Red Cortez – Hands To The Wall (Self Released)
11. Venna – Even A Little (Self Released)
12. The Wonder Years/All Or Nothing – Distances Split (No Sleep)
13. The Riot Before – Fists… Out Of Sockets (Paper + Plastick)
14. Rumspringer – Rumspringer (Traffic Street)
15. Gatorface – Sick And Stupid (Paper + Plastick)
16. Agent – Awake In Their World (Run For Cover)
17. A Wilhelm Scream – A Wilhelm Scream (Paper + Plastick)
18. Paint It Black – Surrender/Amnesia (Fat Wreck/Bridge Nine)
19. Reverse The Curse – Paths (IYMI)
20. Certain People I Know – Demo (Self Released)