Mere moments ago, we posted our TIG Best Northwest Releases of 2008 Readers’ Poll, for your voting pleasure. We hope you cast your vote for your top five favorites. This has been yet another killer year for music from the great NW, and we recognize how hard it can be to narrow it down to just five. But please, do you best.

It can also be quite the challenge to recall every record released this year — especially those pesky January/February releases. We plan to keep a running list here of NW bands that released at least one record in 2008, for voters to use as reference. We’ll update this page with bands who receive votes, as well as suggestions that come in the comments. So please, if you know of a band, pipe in below!

Northwest bands with releases in 2008:

• A Gun That Shoots Knives
• All Girl Summer Fun Band
• Alligators
• Android Hero
• Anomie Belle
• Antsy Pants
• The Apple War
• Battle Hymn
• Black Eyes and Neckties
• Black Houses
• Black Nite Crash
• Blitzen Trapper
• Blue Giant
• Blue Scholar
• BOAT
• Brent Amaker & the Rodeo
• buh-bLAM
• By Sunlight
• Caravel
• Cataldo
• Central Services Board of Education
• Champagne Champagne
• Chris Walla
• Chuckanut Drive
• Coco Coca
• Colin Meloy
• Common Market
• Conrad Ford
• The Cops
• The Cute Lepers
• Damien Jurado
• The Dandy Warhols
• Das Llamas
• The Dead Science
• Death Cab for Cutie (yes, they still count as local)
• Derby
• Destroyer
• The Doll Test
• The Dry County Crooks
• The Dutchess and the Duke
• Elba
• Fences
• Feral Children
• Fleet Foxes
• The Gossip
• Go Slowpoke
• Gunbunny
• The Gutter Twins
• H is for Hellgate
• Half Light
• The Hands
• Hazelwood Motel
• Head Like a Kite
• The Heavy Hearts
• The Helio Sequence
• Helms Alee
• Hey Marseilles
• Hungry Pines
• Hypatia Lake
• Gina Young
• Grand Archives
• In Cadeo
• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
• Jaguar Love
• Jake One
• Jared Mees
• Jenny Jenkins
• Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
• Kane Hodder
• Karl Blau
• KatJonBand
• Kaylee Cole
• The Kindness Kind
• Kultur Shock
• lackthereof
• Lake
• The Lashes
• Lucy Bland
• Lyrics Born
• M. Bison
• Man DownMedic
• Man Plus
• Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands
• Mean Deep
• Michael Vermillion
• Moondoggies
• Mono in VCF
• Ms Led
• Mt Eerie
• The Love Lights
• Minus the Bear
• Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Ban
• Mudhoney
• Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
• The Next Door Neighbors
• Nw Century Schoolbook
• New Faces
• The Old Huants
• Palodine
• Panda & Angel
• Panther Attack
• Parenthetical Girls
• Partman Parthorse
• Past Lives
• The Pharmacy
• The Pica Beats
• Pleasureboaters
• Point Juncture WA
• Poland
• Police Teeth
• The Preons
• The Purrs
• Quiet By Ten
• RazRez
• The Riffbrokers
• RiverBend
• Rosie Thomas
• Rusty Willoughby
• Sam Squared
• The Saturday Nights
• Say Hi
• Saeta
• Scream Club
• Secret Plan
• See Me River
• Sera Cahoone
• Shake Some Action!
• The Shaky Hands
• Shane Tutmarc and the Traveling Mercies
• SHIM
• Speaker Speaker
• Star Anna
• Steel Tigers of Deat
• Stuporhero
• Supersuckers
• TacocaT
• Talkdemonic
• Tea Cozies
• Tea for Julie
• Team Gina
• Ted Wallis and the Broken Days
• Telekinesis!
• Tender Forever
• Tennis Pro
• Throw Me the Statue
• Thee Emergency
• These Arms Are Snakes
• The Torn ACL’s
• To the Waves
• Transmissionary Six
• The Turn Ons
• The Upsidedown
• The Very Most
• Voyager One
• Wallpaper
• Westerly
• We Wrote the Book on Connectors
• The Whore Moans
• Why?
• Young Sportsmen
• Your Heart Breaks