Best of 2014

FACT's Top 50 Albums of 2014

The best-of 2014 albums lists continue with FACT, who always put out an interesting list and this year is no exception. You’ve got a few of the year-end list regulars like FKA twigs, Angel Olsen, Ariel Pink, Grouper, YG, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib and Shabazz Palaces, but also a handful of obscurer rap, electronic and experimental c…

Tempers made a video, told us their favorite LPs of 2014

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…

UK site Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2014

UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we’ve been seeing on a lot of these lists, it’s a distinctly not-American point of view…

The Progress confirm Philly reunion show? ++ Evan Weiss tells us his favorite LPs and EPs of 2014

Into It. Over It. at Bowery Ballroom in September (more by Mimi Hong) Evan Weiss is just about everywhere in the emo world right now, whether it’s in Into It……

Crocodiles playing farewell Glasslands show, give us Top 10 of 2014; Flowers of Evil added to free Baby's show tonight

As mentioned, Brandon from Crocodiles will be DJing tonight at Baby’s All Right as part of Kanine Records’ holiday party which is free with RSVP…

Vetiver readies 'Complete Strangers' (watch the trailer), gives us his Top 10 of 2014

Vetiver, aka Bay Area resident Andy Cabic, is set to release Complete Strangers, due via Easy Sound on March 24. Cabic made the album with longtime collaborator Thom Monahan in Los Angeles and he talks a little bit about the songs on this one here:The songs on Complete Strangers bear some resemblance to the album’s title…

Kevin Morby gives his Top 10 LPs of 2014, opening for Amen Dunes in NYC ++ other dates

Kevin Morby put out his second solo album, Still Life, this year which is another fine showcase for his songwriting talent and his appealingly weathered voice…

SPIN's Top 50 Albums of 2014

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,…

Ultimate Painting give us their Top 10s of 2014, touring with Twerps around SXSW (dates)

Ultimate Painting @ CMJ 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Ultimate Painting, aka Jack Cooper from Mazes and James Haore from Veronica Falls, released their appealing debut album this year via Trouble in Mind and were last in the U…

Andrew Jackson Jihad announce tour w/ Chumped & more; PUP told us their favorite LPs of 2014

Folk punks Andrew Jackson Jihad returned this year with their fifth album, Christmas Island, and they’ve now announced they’ll continue supporting it with a 2015 t…
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