Best of 2014

AV Club's Top 20 Albums of 2014

Best of Lists Season continues, here with AV Club’s favorite records of 2014. As it’s a cumulative list with ballots from the site’s music writers (most of whom are in their 30s), you get a pretty typical list but we’ll leave the suspense of whether The War on Drugs, Sharon Van Etten or St…

NPR's Top 50 Albums of 2014

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…

Hookworms talk 'The Hum,' DIY, DbA, Top 10 of 2014 and more in BV interview

Hookworms’ MB @ BV CMJ 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) Hookworms just released their terrific new album The Hum which further’s the band’s motorik psych, taking last year’s adrenalized “Radio Tokyo” single (which they re-recorded for this LP) and further stepping on the gas…

Title Fight on tour (watch a full set video from LA); Ned told us his favorite records of 2014

Title Fight at Best Buy Theater in November (more by Mimi Hong) As discussed, Title Fight are releasing their new album, Hyperview, on February 3 via ANTI- and recently put out its first single, “Chlorine,” which sees them diving further into shoegaze than ever before…

Cymbals Eat Guitars told us their favorite albums of 2014; tour with Alex G starts soon (updated dates)

Cymbals Eat Guitars at Bowery Ballroom in September (more by PSquared) Cymbals Eat Guitars put out their great third record, LOSE, earlier this year, which is starting to land on year-end lists like Jeff Rosenstock’s…

CNN even thinks Rolling Stone's #1 album choice is weird; Billy Corgan sold "Fuck you Anderson Cooper" shirts

Yesterday, Rolling Stone posted their top albums of 2014, and their #1 pick — U2‘s invasive Songs of Innocence — pretty much became the laughing stock of music snob Twitter (not that we weren’t guilty of that too)…

The Jazz June, You Blew It!, label co-founder Kevin Duquette and more Topshelf Records artists' favorite albums of 2014

Topshelf Records has had a pretty great year, putting out records by several rising young bands across various rock subgenres (not just emo…

Jeff Rosenstock lists his favorite LPs of 2014, playing shows

Jeff Rosenstock w/ BTMI at NYU Strawberry Fest 2012 (more by Andrew St. Clair) Jeff Rosenstock, formerly frontman of the recently-broken up Bomb the Music Industry and the been-broken up Arrogant Sons of Bitches, currently a solo artist and one half of Antarctigo Vespucci with Chris Farren of Fake Problems, has given us a list of his favorite albums of 2014…

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2014

The Best Albums of 2014 lists keep coming, and now Rolling Stone‘s is out. It’s hard to imagine anyone else picking the #1 and #2 they did, but that’s Rolling Stone for you…

Restorations list their Top 10 Albums of 2014

intro Philly rockers Restorations put out LP3 earlier this year on SideOneDummy. It’s an excellent record; one you’ll probably see on a handful of year-end lists this year thanks to its superior take on heartland/blue collar rock that rivals a lot of the stuff it was likely influenced by (Lucero, The Hold Steady, Hot Water Music, etc)…
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