These are all of the albums released in 2011 by local and regional artists, according to CD Baby and Music Millennium. If mistakes are made, please let us know, or feel free to write-in the missing album you want to vote for. We did our best to remove Singles, EPs and the like, but some may remain. Only full albums will be allowed to be nominated.
| Album Name | Artist Name |
|---|---|
| The Journey: Beginning Pt. 1 | 1st Infantry |
| Rhyme, Skank'n, Love the compilation | 3RP |
| You'll Never Be Famous | 9DM |
| Badanglements & Cherishments | A.D.O |
| Two Sides To This Story | Aaron Meyer |
| Deadication | Abadawn |
| Where the Singing Starts | Abram Rosenthal |
| Chrysalis | Abstract Astronaut |
| Live from the Living Room | Acoustic Minds |
| The Secret | Adam Hurst |
| Wildest Rose | Adam Sweeney |
| Adam Sweeney & the Jamboree | Adam Sweeney & the Jamboree |
| Adventures! With Might | Adventures! With MIght |
| Seasons / Spectres | Alameda |
| The Ups | Ali Wesley |
| Coffee House Songs | Alice & Bob |
| A Wake Up Call For The Weary | All Things Shine |
| Almost to the Ocean | Almost to the Ocean |
| Talk of the Town | Al-One |
| Play Dead | Amanda Richards |
| Know Music | American DaDa |
| Temple of the Machine | Among the Weeds |
| Galilee Instrumentals | Angels in Our Eyes |
| On a Journey | Angels in Our Eyes |
| Culture Shock | Animal Farm |
| Seasalt | Annablair |
| Barefoot & Young | Annie Bany |
| War to Head | Ape Machine |
| Cutthroat Spiritual | Aranya |
| The First One | Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band |
| Art Attack | Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band |
| Children of the Night | Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band |
| Speak Low/ Swing Hard | Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band |
| Brighthill Guided Meditations for Personal Transformation | Asha Hawkesworth |
| Bison Rouge | Ashia Grzesik |
| Black History LP | Aspect One |
| Forever the End | Atriarch |
| All Purpose - EP | Audiophilia |
| A.U.T.R.Y.! | Autry! |
| Onward | Bass+Mandolin |
| Furnace | Batillus |
| Adult Oriented Candy | Beautiful Beast |
| Come Down To One | Beefsoupclover |
| Behold the Profit | Behold the Profit |
| Jump at Samhain's Fire | Beltaine |
| Curtain Call | Benjamin Emory Larson |
| Validation | Beyoung |
| Búzios | Bill Beach |
| May Contain Peanuts | Bill Dant |
| Lover's Leap - EP | Black Mercies |
| Green Chick Twist EP | Bloodcocks UK |
| Embracing the Modern Age | Blue Skies For Black Hearts |
| Crossroads | Bobby Sick |
| Pro-Bone-O | Boogie Bone |
| It's Raining | Boys Without Toys |
| Musique Pour Les Pubs De Nourriture Pour Chiens | Breakmaster Cylinder |
| The Message | Breeez |
| Solo Swing | Brian Oberlin |
| Blue Heron Grey | Brianne Kathleen |
| 7 in the Afternoon | Broque |
| Off My Dead Dying Ass | Bruce Gaddy |
| Bruxing | Bruxing |
| Present and Past Tense | Buffalo Bill Cooper |
| Things You Should Know | Buttonjaw |
| Valentine's Day | Calvin Valentine |
| Candice Russell | Candice Russell |
| M.A.A.D. | Carelesshades |
| Pick of the Litter | Cat Fancy! |
| Awake In A Dream | Catch Lungs |
| Vaughn Street | Cathedral Park |
| Buoy Bell | Celilo |
| A Trip to Gibraltar | Charles Ellsworth Smith |
| Swim | Chelsea Florence |
| Song of the Frog | Chicamarimba |
| We Are... | Chin Up Rocky |
| Come Back Home | Chris Blair |
| August Light | Chris Marshall |
| Barcelona Suite and Other Compositions | Chris Musolf |
| Elvis' Space Opera - The Diatonic | Chris Newman |
| A Collection | Christine Havrilla |
| A Long Year | Christine Long |
| Musilution | Cold Metal |
| Slow Decay | Cold Metal |
| Lark | Colleen Raney |
| Cuan | Colleen Raney |
| Forgettable | Coltron James |
| Despair? | Come Gather Round Us |
| The Cook Up | Cool Nutz |
| From the Den | Copperfox |
| Better Days | Corey Brunish |
| Cry of Stones | Cry of Stones |
| Solo and Chamber Music | Cynthia Stillman Gerdes |
| Dogs | Dan Clay |
| Two Months A Year | Dan DiResta |
| Songs for Saplings 123 | Dana Dirksen |
| Greathouse of Music presents Originals #1 from Prague | Daniel Wiesner |
| Covenant Nation | Dean Drennan |
| Sunset Drumsets | Deelay Ceelay |
| Cryo-Genocide | Deep Freeze |
| Wake Up | Deffarefful |
| Parallax | Dennis Hitchcox |
| Division Street | Derek Sarkela |
| Dream | Desafinado |
| ill.ustrated | Destro |
| Welcome To The Future | Destroy Nate Allen |
| Until My Ankle's Better | Destroy Nate Allen |
| Heart of Town | Dirty Mittens |
| Take The Children and Run | Don Lange |
| Butterfly Effect | DonnaLynn |
| Here They Come, The Birds of My Youth | DoublePlusGood |
| Weight Loss Strengthening | Dr. David Illig |
| In the Red House | Dreaming in Colors |
| Dustin Rose | Dustin Rose |
| Weather The Storm | D-Voo |
| The Spirit of '76 | Eagle McCall |
| Isosceles | Eight Bells |
| Maze | Eliot Brody |
| EP 01 | Elk River TFA |
| Church Songs | Emmaus |
| 16 Degrees | Eric Hausmann |
| Naked Mental Gossip Commemorative | Escaping Jacob |
| Operation Paperchase | Example |
| Save Yourself | Ezra Holbrook |
| Say What You Want | Ezra Holbrook |
| The Shirley Horn Suite | Ezra Weiss |
| Jacob | Ezza Rose |
| Fadin' by 9 | Fadin' by 9 |
| Fake Dude (Defender of the Prosthetic) | Fake Dude |
| Reconciler. Refiner. Igniter. | Fallstar |
| Green Houses | Fanno Creek |
| Class Is Now In Session | Farnell Newton |
| Fast Fox | Fast Fox |
| Blue Heart | Feverwalk |
| Turns All Your Bad Feelings Into Good Ones | Fools Rush |
| Cathedral of Memory | Frank Blair |
| 8th | Funkyhairman |
| Kongo, Tongo, Bongo! | Gado |
| The Cookie Tapes | Garett Brennan |
| george martin cruz | george martin cruz |
| Viajero (Traveler) [Instrumental] | Gerardo Calderon |
| Nnber | Ghebre |
| Transmission | Go By Train |
| Push | Great Migration |
| Rest | Great Wilderness |
| Moment of Discovery | Greg Goss |
| Fuck This & Fuck You | Gyrating Bhtch |
| Ambigrammatic | Halo Refuser |
| Burning Under Ancient Sun EP | Hammurabi's Law |
| Yatto | Harvesting Time |
| Lunker | Headstones |
| Evolution - Best of Heartflight | Heartflight |
| Turquoise Dreams | Heartflight |
| Used to it Now | Hearts of Oak |
| Classy Action Suite One | Heathersong |
| Al Natural Vol. 1 | Hector Vazquez |
| A Fiction | Hello Morning |
| Soapbox | Heroes and Villains |
| Tennessee | Hey Lover |
| Ludovico Roncalli - Works for Guitar | Hideki Yamaya |
| Are You In, Kid? | Hifi Mojo |
| Highlightsofeverything | Highlightsofeverything |
| Hit Machine - EP | Hit Machine |
| Edifice | Hives Inquiry Squad |
| Into the Dark Unknown | Holcombe Waller |
| where god has his church, the devil has his chapel | Holy Children |
| The Future Is Yellow | Hot Piss |
| Live in Seattle | I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House |
| Lame | IAME |
| When It Rains | Ian Mouser |
| Is This All | Ian Mouser |
| One Thing I Ask | IJenNeh |
| Ilima Considine as Childhood Friends (2005-2008) | Ilima Considine |
| The Hogtown Sessions | Ivan Rosenberg & The Foggy Hogtown Boys |
| Scáth M’anam | I've Lost |
| The Wishing Well | James LaRocca |
| Another Bridge Born | James M. Gregg |
| Front Street | Jameson Wandling |
| Learning to See In the Dark | Janalee Swain |
| Killin It | Jeff Jefferies |
| Gills and a Helmet | Jellyfish Brigade |
| Ancient Slumbers: Celtic Harp for Healing and Peace | Jennifer Pratt-Walter |
| Comfort | Jeremy Thom |
| Send a Message | Jetpack Missing |
| It Is No Secret | Jim and Jo Ann Wells |
| Jobo Shakins | Jobo Shakins |
| 88 Problems | Joe Taylor |
| The Rebelution Tour EP | Joel Harris |
| Seven Stars | John Amadon |
| Numbers | John Craig & The Weekend |
| Shaken Awake | Johnny Martin |
| En Route | Jonathan Smith Quintet |
| Nothing But The Blood | Jordan Strang |
| Sweet Soul Music | Joseph Konty |
| Love & War & The Sea In Between | Josh Garrels |
| Four | Joy Wilson |
| A Cup of Tea | Judah Banke |
| Strictly For My City | Juma Blaq |
| Hang on for the Ride | Justin James Bridges |
| Silvernest | Justin Radford |
| He Sure Can Talk, Can't He? Vol. 2 | Jva |
| Three Minutes Of Fury | Karlton Coffin Band |
| Morning Comes Too Soon | Kathryn Claire |
| Deeper West | Keeter Stuart/ Trio Bravo |
| Dog & Pony Show | Keith Hinyard |
| The Reading Room | Kelsey Lindstrom |
| Thirty-Eight | Keyenta |
| Primal Human Rage | Kill the Rude |
| Count Your Blessings | Kirk Green |
| Keychain Pistols | Kiss Kill |
| For the Fauna | Kiwi Karen Searcy |
| Call Me Bonedark | Knox Harrington |
| Waitin' For A Train | Kory Quinn |
| High Upon a Rock | Kyle Lewis |
| Polygon | La Pump |
| Homegrown In Oregon | Lady Sullen |
| Darling | Ladytown |
| Pretty People | Laugh at Linus |
| Rose City Ramble | Lauren Sheehan |
| The First Eleven | Left & 3/4 |
| Ecstatic Cahoots | Lew Jones |
| Tales of the Left Coast Roasters (LP) | Lewi Longmire Band |
| Lloyd Mitchell Canyon | Lloyd Mitchell Canyon |
| Love 101: The Syllabus | Loa Pole'o |
| Soul Folk Rap | Lodestar |
| Blood In the Water | Logan Lynn |
| I Got This Little Problem | Logik |
| Lord Zax | Lord Zax |
| Grandma June's Garden Secret & 2 Cherokee Folktales | Lorna Miller |
| Nothing In the Clouds But Rain | Madman Sam |
| Love Harder | Maiella |
| The Singin' Chinese Dragon | Majestic Space Dragon |
| Free | Marc Keele |
| We Go On | Marc Keele |
| Island Set Aflame | Marie Schumacher |
| The Golden Hour | Marisa Anderson |
| The Other Side of Evolution | Mark Iris |
| Cloud Catcher | Mark J |
| Nocturnes | Martians on Maui |
| From the depths | Martin Harmonic Choir |
| Milque | Maryasque |
| Cake Mix | Maryasque |
| Manic and Self Medicated (The Plague) | Masonic Weird |
| The Dopest | MC Nett |
| Volume! | Megamath |
| Comma | Megamath |
| Naked Songs | Mel Kubik |
| The Way We Do It | Melodic Ministry |
| I Am the Fun Blame Monster! Plus Nine B-Sides | Menomena |
| I Am the Fun Blame Monster! B-Sides! | Menomena |
| Awaken the Stone King | Merrow |
| The Golden Ass | Mia and Jonah |
| Plea From a Ghost | Michael Dean Damron |
| Michael Tate Music, Vol. 1 | Michael Tate |
| Whiskered Away | Michelle and the Beards |
| Hot Lovin' | Midnight Serenaders |
| Sure Foundation | Miguel Martinez |
| A Stitch In Time | Mike Prigodich |
| Xpression - Spring 2011 | Milen Slavov |
| Xpression - Summer 2011 | Milen Slavov |
| Bulgarian Trail | Milen Slavov |
| Chaotic Good! | Minoton |
| Science Park | Moisture Farm |
| Gerbil Tube Lariat | Molly Bang |
| Heartbreak and Addiction | Mollybolt |
| Tango World | Momo Smitt |
| Wildwood Flower | Moonlight Mile |
| Gilded Thralls | Mortal Clay |
| UNORTHODOX The Mix Tape | Mr. Flossy |
| Plow'em All | Mr. Plow |
| Song Warrior Sex Party, Dragon Ride Salvation | Music By : MacMinn |
| My Autumn's Done Come | My Autumn's Done Come |
| Giants EP | My Mantle |
| Six Degrees | N.E.D. |
| Perennial | Nancy King & Steve Christofferson |
| Liminal Sea | Nate Ashley |
| Tiempo y Memorias | Neftali |
| Good Morning Giantess | Nervous and the Kid |
| Into The Breach | Nether Regions |
| The Planets | Neue |
| My Own Devices - EP | Nick Dothée |
| The Secret Society Sessions | Nick Dothée |
| Day for Night | Night Surgeon |
| Nightghast | Nightghast |
| Oceanographer | Ninjas with Syringes |
| Don't Be Surprized | Noah |
| Mr.Noah's Opus | Noah Kleiman |
| Fallen Angels | Nopomojo |
| Now it is | Now it is |
| Never Ends | One Moment |
| Organic Gospel | Oney |
| Believe In You | Oscillator X |
| Outland Prey - EP | Outland Prey |
| The Wreckoning | Outpost |
| Beekeeper Constellation | Oxcart |
| More trial, less error | Paint and Copter |
| Away With Words | Painted Grey |
| You Have the Worst Taste in Women | Parasols |
| Thoughts to Try, Words to Live By | Paul Lindsley |
| Rare Indigo | Phankl |
| Portrait - Original Music | Philip Van Scotter |
| Deliver | Pilar French |
| Pillars of Nein | Pillars of Nein |
| Pitchfork Motorway | Pitchfork Motorway |
| Pottersville | Plaid Pantry Project |
| The Alibi | Play/Start |
| Tough As Snails | Pocketknife |
| The EP | Porter Jones |
| Recordings from 1999 - 2007 | Portland Guitar Duo |
| Sales Training (In a Single Serving) | Power Lunch |
| PB and Jam | Professor Banjo |
| Spiritual Vistas | Pulse Emitter |
| One | Purple Sunset |
| Warm Gold | Purrbot |
| Quintillion | Quintillion |
| 12:34 | R.J. Young |
| World So Sweet | Rachel Taylor Brown |
| Hot Seven Seven (feat. Max Kutzman, Eran Schweitzer, Debby Espinor & Roger Espinor) | Rachichi |
| What We Dream Up | Radio Way |
| The Orgasm of A ghost | Rafael Vigilantics |
| Truth and Beauty | Ramune |
| Astral Travel Battles | Rare Monk |
| EP | Rate of Rise |
| Ravishers | Ravishers |
| Limpwings (Original Soundtrack) | Reed Reimer |
| This Inspiration | Regina LaRocca |
| Essence | Renee' Michele |
| Renegade Stringband | Renegade Stringband |
| Parhelia | Renset |
| Grey Blue View | Rev0 |
| Rezonate | Rezonate |
| Children of the Blue Supermarket (feat. Dan Raphael & Carson Halley) | Rich Halley |
| Requiem for a Pit Viper | Rich Halley |
| It's About Time | Rich Landar |
| Tree In The Garden | Richey Bellinger |
| Snow White (Original Cast Recording) | Rodolfo Ortega |
| Orange Gerbera Daisies | Ross Beach |
| Future in Sepia | RP Collier |
| Nosotros | Rubberneck |
| Open for Interpretation | Rudefish |
| Blackwater | Rum Rebellion |
| The Whale | Russian Trio |
| Volume One | Ryan VanDordrecht |
| One Night | Sally Tomato |
| Songs for the Lighthearted | Sam Wegman |
| Eaters Volume One: Tusks! | Sapient |
| Cascadia Earth - EP | SaraTone and Earth Tribe Gospel |
| The Darndest Thing | sassparilla |
| Saturated Phats | Saturated Phats |
| Now & Again | Scot Crandal |
| We Will Be Forgotten | Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags |
| Never Give Up [EP] | Scott Brockett |
| Cycle... | Scott Jeffrey Brown |
| SP3 | Scott Pemberton |
| Grit & Grace | Sean Frenette |
| Back On My Rhymes | Serge Severe |
| Godly Fresh Single | Serious Business |
| Open Doors | Set In Stone |
| Saioule | Shannon Day |
| Find Your Happy: Motivational Mantras | Shannon Kaiser |
| Raise A Ruckus | Shoebox Letters |
| Window | Shook Twins |
| Into Etheria | Sick Sick Sister |
| Eternalites | Sisyphean Conscience |
| Hypnofinger | Skult |
| Up Jumped The Devil: Blues To Rock | SLY |
| Junior High Anthems | Smoochknob |
| Cream Team Coalition | So Wavvy Boi's |
| Sound and the Urgency | Sound and the Urgency |
| Space Gambus Experiment | Space Gambus Experiment |
| Spiricles | Spiricles |
| Between Me and the Mountain | Spirit Lake |
| Settle Down | Spontaneous Woo |
| You Are The Scar | Stephanie Kovacs |
| Original Grif | Steve Griffiths |
| From the Wreckage | Striking Matches |
| When the Bloom is on the Sage | Succotash |
| The Broadway Hits | Suck Siphon |
| SuckerForLights | SuckerForLights |
| New Southern Recipes | Sugarcane |
| Sunbeam & the Lovely Ghost | Sunbeam |
| Colliding With Air | Supervisor |
| Swahili | Swahili |
| Sweet Teen Killing Machine | Sweet Teen Killing Machine |
| Ta Ta Ta | Ta Ta Ta |
| Tabi Davis | Tabi Davis |
| Tango Alpha Tango | Tango Alpha Tango |
| Too Dark to Blink | TapWater |
| Anthem | Techno Warfare |
| The Chaotic Order | Thanatopsis |
| Stumptandas | The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet |
| Tradin' Twelves | The Backyard Blues Boys |
| Makin' Ready | The Behnkes |
| The Blush of Dawn | The Blush of Dawn |
| CCM Live in the Studio | The Crop Circle Makers |
| Everyday Ghost | The Druthers |
| Sud de la Louisiane | The Foghorn Trio |
| A Drug Called America | The Hell Yeahs |
| Just Enjoy It! | The Insomniacs |
| Creature From The Punk Lagoon-Live in L-town 1997 | The Jimmies |
| Get It Right | The Ken Hanson Band |
| There's No Denying Josephine | The Lonesomes |
| Day of Messiah | The Lumbrosos |
| Stumptown Zydeco | The New Iberians Zydeco Blues Band |
| Priceless Grains Of Sand | The Quags |
| I'm a Nightmare | The Red Hills |
| Support Your Local Gunfighters | The Reeds Mill Investigation |
| The Ruby Pines - EP | The Ruby Pines |
| Live EP | The Shatterbrains |
| Calculator | The Silent Numbers |
| Generation Y | The Sindicate |
| Love Songs Are For Sissies | The Stoics |
| Booze Fighter | The Streakin' Healys |
| No Host Lunch | The Student Loan |
| Suns | The Study Band |
| Eyes Like Knives | The Swan King |
| Debut | The Toy Trains |
| America Toil | The Tumblers |
| Against A Great Machine | The Welcome Home |
| This Life Was Never Meant for Me | The White Woods |
| Proof | Thelucyhammondband |
| river's edge | Thom Dudley |
| Praise the Empty Seats | Tigress |
| One Night In Seattle | Tim Otto |
| Superjazzers, Vol. 1 | Tim Willcox |
| Just Napoleon | Times New Roman |
| Out of the Tomb | Tom Panich |
| Tortured Soul | Tomorrows Dream |
| Secrets | Tony Sway |
| Seasons | Tonya Betz |
| Tortune - The EP | Tortune |
| DarkSide of the Womb | Tragedy 503 |
| Superconductors | Travoltage |
| Hairpins & Triggers | Trombone 8 |
| Troy Richmond Dixon | Troy Richmond Dixon |
| Old Ghosts | Two Hands |
| Another Gleam | Tyler Stenson |
| 50 Words For Snow | Tympanic Scavengers |
| Party and Politics - Chapter 1 | UGBG |
| Islands In the Deep Blue Sea | Ulysses Paine |
| All Aboard the Zoo Train | Uncle-B |
| Special Release: All Aboard the Zoo Train CD with Coloring Book & Song Reader | Uncle-B & Auntie-E & J-Dog |
| Off the Map | Unkle Nancy and the Family Jewels |
| Pavement and Pathways | Urban Monroes |
| Sing For Your Lives | Vagabond Opera |
| Flossophy 101 | Van Oodles |
| Big Ship | Vellarest |
| Relentless | Veteran Kings |
| We're Goin' to Vegas! | Vic Sorisio |
| Monkey's Tea Party | Viola |
| Wedding Bell Blues | Vontanner |
| Sapling | W.C Beck |
| Kansawyer | W.C. Beck and the Valiant Swains |
| Light Year | Water & Bodies |
| Where the Crow Don't Fly | Water Tower Bucket Boys |
| On Either Side of the River - EP | Weight of Atlas |
| Weight of Atlas | Weight of Atlas |
| Chewgrass | Whiskey Puppy |
| South of Salem | Witch Mountain |
| Real and Imagined | Your Canvas |
| Seven Sparkling Children | Your Rival |
| Regeneration | Zacarias |
| Lonely People EP | Zach Collier |
Compilations
| Compilation Album Name | Company |
|---|---|
| Portland Highland Games 2011 Professional Piobaireachd | Eila Chisholm |
| Lamprey/Zmoke Split | Blaine Burnham |
| Cloud 11 | Rena Jones |
| Folk Alliance 2011 Sampler | CD Baby |
| Stripperland Movie Soundtrack | IMD Films |
| A Taste of "The View"- Helensview School Compilation | Helensview School |
| Futro Kit 1.0 | Futro LLC |
| Live From Nowhere Near You : Volume Two | Greyday Records |
| 2011 Compilation | PDX Pop Now! |