2014

• Alvvays – S/T (Polyvinyl)
• Pup – S/T (Side One Dummy)
• Sylvan Esso – S/T (Partisan)
• Foxing – The Albatross (Triple Crown)
• Jungle – S/T (XL)
• Adult Jazz – Gist Is (Spare Thought)
• Los Angeles Police Department – S/T (Forged Artifacts)
• MØ – No Mythologies To Follow (Sony)
• Benjamin Booker – S/T (ATO)
• Glass Animals – Zaba (Wolf Tone)

Top 5 Debut EPs

• Small Wonder – Wendy (Father/Daughter)
• Courtney Bartnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Mom+Pop)
• Sun Club – Dad Claps At The Mom Prom (Goodnight)
• Joywave – How Do You Feel? (Cultco)
• Erik Hassle – Somebody’s Party (Record Company)

Top 10 Local Releases

• Cocktails – Adult Life (Father/Daughter)
• City Tribe – Undertow (S/R)
• Painted Palms – Forever (Polyvinyl)
• Cathedrals – S/T (Neon Gold)
• Doncat – Don Gato (S/R)
• The Soft White Sixties – GET RIGHT. (S/R)
• Doe Eye – TELEVISION (S/R)
• Everyone Is Dirty – Dying Is Fun (Tricycle)
• Grow & Twine – Wind Fool (S/R)
• Travis Hayes – Young Daze (S/R)

5 Amazing Local Shows (Not including festival sets) out of a grand total of 120

• We Were Promised Jetpacks – Bimbos 2/22, 11/4
• John Moreland – Night Light 3/25, 11/14
• MØ – Rickshaw Stop 5/3
• Typhoon – Academy of Sciences 8/7, 8/8
• Laura Jane Grace – City Winery Napa 12/27

• Nocando – Jimmy the Burnout (Hellfyre Club)
• Bike for Three! – So Much Forever (Fake Four Inc.)
• K. Raydio x Psymun – LucidDreamingSkylines (self-released)
• Solillaquists of Sound – The 4th Wall (self-released)
• Taylor McFerrin – Early Riser (Brainfeeder)
• Toki Wright & Big Cats – Pangaea (Soul Tools)
• Mike Mictlan – Hella Frreal (Doomtree)
• Rob Sonic – Alice in Thunderdome (OK-47)
• Goldini Bagwell – Secondhand Smoke (The Extended Cut) (Heaven Noise)
• Z-Man & Elon – The Opening Act (Gurp City)

In No Particular Order Best Albums of 2014

• Plague Vendor – Free To Eat (Epitaph)
• Liars – Mess (Mute)
• Dean Blunt – Black Metal (Rough Trade)
• Ariel Pink – Pom Pom (4AD)
• Marissa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones Records)
• Alvarius B. – Sorban Palid (Poon Village)

Best Re-Issues of 2014

• Peter Jefferies – Electricity (Superior Viaduct)
• Alice Coltrane – A Monastic Trio (Superior Viaduct)

Best Show of 2014

• Alvarius B. – The White Horse Inn

New Stuff

• Nots – We Are Nots (Goner)
• Los Culitos – El Duelo Final (S/R)
• Guinea Worms/ The In Out – “The Credit Cards Lied/ The Stupidity” (Botulism Music / Sell You)
• T.I.T.S – “I Told You I Was Sick/ Kashmere Trap” (Pollymaggoo)
• The Lopez – Travel Fast (Machine Age)
• Musk – S/T (Holy Mountain)
• Bad Daddies – You Ain’t Right (Negative Fun)
• 4 Sids – Kill (S/R)
• Frau – S/T (Dead Beat)
• Ausmuteants – Order Of Operation (Goner)
• Manateees – Sit N Spin (Pelican Pow Wow)
• Miami Dolphins – Becky (FPE)
• VCR – VCR’s Greatest Hits (Barfbag)
• Giorgio Murderer – Primitive World (Goner)
• Dancer– Rootbeer Station (Chocolate Covered)
• Neighborhood Brats – Total Dementia (Dirtnap)

Random goodness: The best cover songs of 2014

• Ye Nuns – Nun More Black (Tuff Enuff)
• Watery Love – “I Don’t Care” – B side of Sick People 45 (In The Red)
• Jay Reatard – “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle” – In Utero: In Tribute (Robotic Empire)
• Cretin Stompers – “Drano In Yr Veins” – Looking Forward To Being Attacked (Hozac)
• The Real Kids – “Fly Into The Mystery” Shake…Outta Control (Ugly Pop)
• Sick Thoughts – “Human Garbage Disposal” – Gonerfest 11 EP (Gulcher)

Reissues

• Terrorists – “Crazy Life” (Going Underground) 1981
• Klitz – Sounds Of Memphis, ’78 (Spacecase) 1978
• Plastix – Konsumier Mich (Danger Records) 1981
• Wild Youth – “Wot About Me/ Anti You” (Retrobution) 1979
• Crime – Murder By Guitar (Superior Viaduct) 1976-1980
• Curtis Seals/ Christian D’orbit “The Scandalizer/ Drive Me Crazy” (Windian) 1981
• Loose Heart – Alone (Danger) 1976
• Electric Eels “Jaguar Ride/ Splittery Splat” (Hozac) 1975
• Algo Salvaje Vol. 1 (Munster) 1960s
• The Exit – The Exit EP (Permanent) 1979
• Liquid Diamonds – “Aw Maw/ Long Ago” (Hozac) 1973
• Taang Box Set (Get On Down) 1984-1988

Live

• The Len Bright Combo – Memphis, TN
• Jerry Lewis – Las Vegas, NV
• Icky Boyfriends – Oakland, CA and San Francisco, CA
• Life Stinks – Twice in 24 hours! – Memphis, TN
• Gizmos – Oakland, CA and San Francisco, CA

1. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
2. Elephant – Sky Swimming (Memphis Industries)
3. Emma Ruth Rundle – Some Heavy Ocean (Sargent House)
4. Alvvays – Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
5. Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
6. The Coathangers – Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
7. Badbadnotgood – III (Innovative Leisure)
8. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos (Kranky)
9. Hospitality – Trouble (Merge)
10. Saintseneca – Dark Arc (Anti)
11. Gemma Ray – Milk For Your Motors (Bronze Rat)
12. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)
13. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – Cold World (Daptone)
14. Trust – Joyland (Arts & Crafts)
15. Wye Oak – Shriek (Merge)
16. The Yev – Wooing House (S/R)
17. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing… (ATO)
18. Damaged Bug – Hubba Bubba (Castle Face)
19. Alice Boman – EP II (Control Group)
20. This Will Destroy You – Another Language (Suicide Squeeze)

• Boyhood
• Dance of Reality
• The Double
• Enemy
• Frank
• Ida
• Joe
• Lilting
• Low Down
• The Lunchbox
• Mr. Turner
• Obvious Child
• The One I Love
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• The Rover
• Snowpiercer
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• Under The Skin
• A Walk Among The Tombstones
• The Zero Theorem

Best 10 Non-Fiction Films in alphabetical order

• Actress
• Alive Inside
• Citizenfour
• Happy Valley
• Ivory Tower
• Jodorowsky’s Dune
• The New Black
• The Overnighters
• Virunga
• Visitors