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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…

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…

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……

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,…

Torres on tour w/ Strand of Oaks, who included Ryan Adams in his top albums of 2014 & covered him (listen)

Torres at the Seaport in July (more by Amanda Hatfield) Philly folk rockers Strand of Oaks are on tour now and about to headline their largest NYC show yet on Thursday (12/4) at Bowery Ballroom…

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)…

NME's Top 50 albums & tracks of 2014

It’s the last week of November and we’ve hit Best-of List Season. Especially in the UK where we’ve already seen album lists from Rough Trade, MOJO, Q, and Uncut…

Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2014

We’re just over a month away from 2015 and those UK year-end lists keep pouring in. Now British music mag Uncut has posted their 75 Best Albums of 2…

Quintron on tour, reveals guests for Weather Warlock show: Steve Shelley, Sean Lennon, Nels Cline (who's also touring)

Quintron in Austin in 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) Avant rocker Quintron‘s Spellcaster II: Death In Space, intended as the followup to 1996’s The Amazing Spellcaster, is out now on Pizza Burglar Records…
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