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Long-running NYC experimental band Zs debuted their newest lineup in 2012, which is founder Sam Hillmer with Patrick Higgins and Liturgy drummer Greg Fox, and now they’re set to release the first album with that lineup, Xe, on January 27 via Northern Spy…

Tiny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014, and as TMT lists usually are, it’s a pretty eccentric one with a lot of stuff that wasn’t making everyone’s list this year…

First tracks, then honorable mentions, and now Pitchfork has put out their Top 50 Albums of 2014. There’s nothing entirely out of left field, but there’s definitely some surprises here…

Pitchfork have begun rolling out their year-end coverage, and today they posted their Top 100 Tracks of 2014. Like every year, it’s a very diverse list, with songs from Taylor Swift, The New Pornographers, iLoveMakonnen, Protomartyr, Cloud Nothings, Rae Sreummurd, Makthaverskan, Ty Segall, Parquet Courts, Azealia Banks, White Lung, Perfect Pussy, Dej Loaf, Migos, Alvvays, Against…

intro Grooms @ Death by Audio’s final show (more by PSquared) Grooms‘ last live show, the final night of Death by Audio, was a little hard to get into…

The FADER always has some year-end coverage, but for the past 15 years they didn’t publish a ranked year-end list. This year however, they ranked their 116 favorite songs of 2014 (find out why) and it’s a diverse list that manages to sing the praises of iLoveMakonnen, Tinashe, Alex G, Florida Georgia Line, Enrique Iglesias, Bleachers, Ricky Eat Acid, YG, Toni Braxton & Babyface, Nothing, Grimes, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels and Grouper all in the same damn list…

NYC goth duo Tempers previously released a few promising singles on Pendu Sound, and they recently teamed up with photographer Bela Borsodi to make an appropriately dark video for one of those songs, “Hell Hotl…

SPIN returned with their Top Albums of 2014 list today. It’s got a lot of the indie albums that usually show up on these lists (Caribou, Future Islands, FKA twigs, Parquet Courts, Cloud Nothings, How to Dress Well, Swans,…

NPR have posted their Top 50 Albums of 2014, and like it usually is, it’s one of the more diverse year-end lists we’ve seen so far. There’s a lot of the indie that shows up on many of these lists (The War On Drugs, St…