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Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2014

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'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…

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…

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……
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