Favorite Albums of 2014

LP
Against Me - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Bruce Lee Band - Everything Will Be Alright, My Friend
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - Juice
The Menzingers - Rented World
Mike Gordon - Overstep
Owls - Two
Punch - They Don’t Have to Believe
Radiator Hospital - Torch Song
Riff Raff - Neon Icon
Skrillex - Recess
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags
The String Cheese Incident - Song in my Head
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Tweedy - Sukirae
Tweens - TweensWhite Lung - Deep Fantasy


LIVE/ARCHIVE

Fugazi - First Demo
Grateful Dead - So Glad You Made It / Wake Up To Find Out
Grateful Grass - Dos
Jerry Garcia Band - GarciaLive Vol. 4 - 3.22.1978
Twiddle - Live
Umphrey’s McGee- 04.12.14 UM Covers It

TOP RECORDS OF 2013

records of the year
laura stevenson - wheel
the flatliners - dead language
swearin’ - surfing strange
daft punk -random access memories
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city
the julie ruin - run fast
lemuria - the distance is so big
katy perry - prism
worriers - cruel optimist
justin timberlake - 20/20


honorable mentions
major lazer - free the universe
waxahatchee- cerulean salt
night birds - born to die in suburbia
broadcaster - a million hours
mad conductor - mc rises


re-issues / archive releases
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism (demos)
phish - ventura / niagara falls
grateful dead - sunshine daydream
nirvana - in utero (live & loud)


eps/singles
paint it black - invisible
hop along - sister cities
jahbreaker - bad weed, dealers fault
ben gibbard - bigger than love feat. aimee mann
miley cyrus - we can't stop
against me - true trans
iron chic - spooky action
upset - oxfords and wingtips

summah'13

5/09 SCREAMALES

5/18 ALKALINE

5/21 LEMURIA

5/23 LAURA

5/25 MENZINGERS

6/12 POSTAL SERVICE

6/13- ROO
6/16

6/23 B52S +GOGOS

7/03 PHISH

my top records of 2012

1) THE SIDEKICKS - AWKWARD BREEDS (REALLY)
2) THE EVENS - THE ODDS (DISCHORD)
3) JOYCE MANOR - OF ALL THINGS I’LL SOON GROW TIRED (ASIAN MAN)
4) THE MENZINGERS - ON THE IMPOSSIBLE PAST (EPITAPH)
5) TITUS ANDRONICUS - LOCAL BUSINESS (XL)
6) JOHN K SAMSON - PROVINCIAL (XL)
7) CLASSICS OF LOVE- CLASSICS OF LOVE (ASIAN MAN)
8) FIONA APPLE - THE IDLER WHEEL... (EPIC)
9) WAXAHATCHEE - AMERICAN WEEKEND (DON GIOVANNI)
10) CONVERGE - ALL WE LOVE WE LEAVE BEHIND (EPITAPH)

HONORABLE MENTIONS
-DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT- LOVE THIS GIANT (4AD)
-JEFF ROSENSTOCK- I LOOK LIKE SHIT (QUOTE UNQUOTE)
-GRIMES - VISIONS (ARBUTUS)

Ted Leo in Brighton, MA

thanks to liz pelly for putting this on 

and supporting 826 literacy and writing center- boston

Laura Stevenson Halloween 2012

halloween pts 1+2 felt so right

supporting andrew jackson jihad @ tt the bears 

Crime In Stereo reunion

Bicycles for Afghanistan 

XXXX (The First Thousand Years of Solitude) 

... But You Are Vast 

Slow Math 

Abre Los Ojos 

Animal Pharm

Drugwolf

Sudan 

For Exes 

Gravity Grace 

Third Atlantic 

Nixon 

Almost Ghostless/Above the Gathering Oceans 

I Am Everything I Am Not 

Small Skeletal 

Dark Island City 

I, Stateside 

Encore:

Everything Changes/Nothing Is Ever Truly Lost 

Not Dead