It’s that “year end list” time of year again and we asked several of our fave artsits/labels/music heads what rocked their collective worlds this year. Check out what Keith Morris (of OFF!), Mario Cuomo (of The Orwells), Avi Buffalo, Lio of Kanine Records, Dave Leto (of Rye Coalition/Cold Fur), Rob from Old Flame Records, Troy and Patrick of Death Hymn Number 9, Sadi (from Speedy Ortiz), Kam (from Girl Tears), Cecillia (from Gothic Tropic), Permanent Records, Infinity Records and Joe Cardamone (of the Icarus Line) had to say. We’ll kick things off with our list:

DIRTY LAUNDRY BEST OF 2014 LIST (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Viet Cong – Cassette

The Abigails -Tundra

Odonis Odonis – Hard Boiled Soft Boiled

Girl Tears – Tension

Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal

Together Pangea – Badillac

Ex-Cult – Midnight Passenger

Bottomless Pit – Shade Perennial

Priests – Bodies and Control and Money and Power

Death Lens – Trashed EP

KEITH MORRIS’ YEAR END LIST FOR 2014 (in no particular order)

1. ZIG ZAGS – Zig Zags

2. PARQUET COURTS – Sunbathing Animal or Content Nausea

3. EX HEX – Rips

4. YOUTH CODE – Youth Code (Even though this was released in

2013, I’ll put them on my 2014 list)

5. ARIEL PINK – Pom Pom

6. THE FAT WHITE FAMILY – Champagne Holocaust

7. TY SEGALL – Manipulator

8. Anything by WHITE FENCE most commonly known as TIM PRESLEY and friends…”For The Recently Found Innocent”

9. BO NINGEN – III

10. KING TUFF – Black Moon Spell

MARIO CUOMO (THE ORWELLS) TOP TEN RELEASES OF 2014

1. Ty Segal: Manipulator

2. The Symposium: Drugs

3. Cherry Glazerr: Haxel Princess

4. Karen O: Crush Songs

5: Mac Demarco: Salad days

6. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness

7: Foxygen: …And Star Power

8: Charli XCX: Sucker

9. School Boy Q: Oxy Moron

10: The Growlers: Chinese Fountain

AVI BUFFALO “MUSIC I LISTENED TO THIS YEAR A LOT”

1. Dionne Warwick – Make Way for Dionne Warwick

2. Young Thug – I Came From Nothing

3. Isao Tomita – Snowflakes are Dancing + Claude Debussy – Plays First Book of Preludes 4. Glen Campbell – The Capitol Years

5. Future – Honest

6. Jimmy Webb – And So On

7. Nels Cline – Room with Julian Lage

8. Vinicius De Moraes – Live at La Fusa

9. Art Garfunkel – Watermark

10. Trap Migos – New Atl 5

LIO KANINE’S TOP 10 RECORDS (KANINE RECORDS)

Ty Segall – Manipulator

Fear Of Men – Loom

Ravonettes – Pe’achi

Beverly – Careers

Vacant Lots – Departure

September Girls – Veener

Literature – Chorus

Flowers – Do What you Want To, It’s What You Should Do

Martha – Courting Strong

Temples – Sun Structures

DAVE LETO (RYE COALITION/COLD FUR) YEAR END LIST

1. 20,000 Days On Earth – Nick Cave Documentary 2. David Bowie – FiveYears BBC Documentary 3. Sun Kil Moon – Benji 4. Serial – NPR Podcast 5. Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron 6. Slayer – Live November, Montclair NJ 7. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Runaway Girls single/video 8. Trans Am – Volume X 9. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream 10. The Life Eaters – S/T ROB MASON YEAR END LIST (OLD FLAME RECORDS)

Top 10 non Old Flame (in no order): The Orwells – Disgraceland Rozwell Kid – Too Shabby Ryley Walker – All Kinds of You Tiny Victories – Haunts War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream Chumped – Teenage Retirement Vok – Tension EP Cheerleader – Cheerleader EP Nude Beach – ’77 So Cow – The Long Con​

Top 13 OLD FLAME RELEASES (in no particular order)

SW/MM/NG – Feel Not Bad

Millionyoung – Materia EP

The Pharmacy – Spells

YAWN – Love Chills

Sex Jams – HITS

Dead Stars – Slumber

Mean Creek – Local Losers

Shark? – Big Summer EP

The Coasts – Racilia

Gothic Tropic – Underwater Games EP

Lia Mice – I Love You

Radical Dads – Cassette Brain EP

The Glazzies – Spill

TROY D. BOOTOW OF DEATH HYMN NUMBER 9 TOP TEN PICKS

1. Girl Tears – Tension

2. Corners – Maxed Out On Destruction

3. Useless Eaters – Hypertension

4. The Constantines – Shine A Light “reissue”

5. Dahga Bloom – No Curtains

6. Burning Palm – s/t

7. Little Miss Sunshine – Sound Track pressed on vinyl for RSD

8. Audacity – Butter Knife

9. FUGAZI – Demos

10.And the new U2 record that was mysteriously on my iPhone…………ps FUCK YOU BONO!!!

KAM ANDRESEN OF GIRL TEARS’ 2014 FAVORITES (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER):

Tweens – Tweens LP Lolipalooza Jenny Slate Institute – Salt EP FOS FM on KChung Flowers Of Evil – SS Eyes 7″ The North Left, Santa Ana Cultist Zine Terry Malts – Insides EP Literature – Chorus LP

CECILLIA DELLA PERUTTI (GOTHIC TROPIC ) YEAR END LIST

Blonde Redhead – Barragán

Tayler McFerrin – Early Riser

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PERMANENT RECORDS TOP LA RECORDS OF 2014 (in no particular order)