Best of 2014

Tinashe's "2 On" sounds a lot like Gabrielle's "Dreams"

Tinashe‘s debut single “2 On” (featuring Schoolboy Q) is on more than a few year end lists (FADER, Gorilla vs. Bear and Pitchfork for instance)…

Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2014

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…

Gretchen Robinette's favorite photos of 2014 (that she took)

Guided by Voices @ Bowery Ballroom 5/23/14 Longtime contributing BrooklynVegan photographer Gretchen Robinette shot a bunch of shows for us in 2014, and to wrap up another great year, she’s made a lis…

Foxing are here w/ Modern Baseball, Somos & others, told us their favorite LPs of 2014 (plus, watch a new live video)

Foxing at Webster Studio in August (more by Amanda Hatfield) The totally stacked Modern Baseball / Knuckle Puck / Foxing / Crying / Somos tour lands in NYC for its first of two shows tonight (12/12)…

Grooms tell us their Top 10 LPs of 2014, playing Brooklyn Night Bazaar this weekend, opening for APTBS at MHOW

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…

Gorilla vs Bear's favorite albums & songs of 2014

Gorilla vs Bear posted their lists of their favorite albums (35) and songs (100) of 2014. Though the albums list does have some of the stuff you always see (like The War On Drugs), it’s mostly got a lot of unique choices like Recycle Culture, Korallreven, Yumi Zouma, Beverly, Panda Bear‘s EP and more, and the #1 is pretty unique too…

The FADER list their favorite tracks of 2014

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…

The Guardian's Top 40 Albums of 2014

Sleaford Mods at their US debut (more by PSquared) The Guardian has been sloooowwwlllyyyy revealing their Top 40 Albums of 2014, having rolled out the top 10 one by one over the past 1…

Mimi Hong's favorite photos of 2014 (that she took)

Beach Slang @ BV-CMJ at Baby’s All Right 10/25/14 Mimi Hong shot a bunch of shows for us this year, and now that 2014 is coming to a close, she’s gone through her pics and submitted a list of her 14 favorite photos she took in 2…

Literature release new video, made a mixtape of their "Essential Songs from 2014"

Literature @ CMJ 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Philadelphia’s Literature just released the video for “New Jacket” which is off this year’s Chorus, their first album for Slumberland…
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