Best of 2015

Tim B 

The best release this year was a self titled 7" by Sheer Mag.  Everything else is, like, whatever, but here are eleven albums released in 2014 that I've heard and liked:

1.  Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (downtrodden cynical smart ass post punk)

2.  Nots - We Are Nots (wild punk)
3.  Naomi Punk - Television Man (northwest heavy pop)
4.  Lenguas Largas - Come On In (weird garage punk)
5.  Reigning Sound - Shattered (rock and roll)
6.  Ex Hex - Rips (power pop + rock and roll)
7.  The #1's - The Number Ones (power pop)
8.  Jonly Bonly - Put Together (new wave + power pop)
9.  Gino and The Goons - Shake It! (fresh rock and roll + ramones worship)
10.  Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust (weird singer/songwriter)
11.  Brat Farrar - II (new wave + punk)

Here are the 10 best "new to me" albums of 2014:

1.  Richard Buckner - Devotion and Doubt

2.  David Bowie - Heroes

3.  Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

4. Gene Clark - White Light

5.  The Big Boys - Where's My Towel/Industry Standard

6.  Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

7.  Cults - Self Titled

8.  Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand

9.  Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

10.  Ronnie Spector - She Talks to Rainbows

Ryan B 

1. Sepultura -- Beneath the Remains

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Keith F

14 Books:

"​Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" - Samuel R. Delany

"For a New Novel" - Alain Robbe-Grillet

"Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women" - Griselda Pollock

"Uncommon Places" - Stephen Shore

"Endgame" - Samuel Beckett

"Against Interpretation" - Susan Sontag

"On Photography" - Susan Sontag

"Selected Poems" - W. H. Auden

"Skreemer" - Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins, and Steve Dillon

"Battling Boy" - Paul Pope

"Cosplayers 1 & 2" - Dash Shaw

"Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" - Ben Katchor

"Burn Lake" - Carrie Fountain

"Holy Fire" - Bruce Sterling

14 Movies:

Frances Ha

Hard Boiled

Elephant (Alan Clarke)

Skammen

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A Field in England

Sonatine

Volver

Grand Budapest Hotel

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Boyhood

Sleepaway Camp

Hail Mary

Le Deuxieme Souffle

14 Musics:

"White Light" - Gene Clark

"Internal Logic" - Grass Widow

"Vehicle" - The Clean

"Get Up With It" - Miles Davis

"Observant Com El Mon Es Destrueix" - Una Bèstia Incontrolable

"Television Man" - Naomi Punk

"Demo" - Ritual Control

"All Things Must Pass" - George Harrison

"Crown Gall" - Deep Creeps

"Henge Beat" - Total Control

"Universal Consciousness" - Alice Coltrane

"Odessey and Oracle" The Zombies

"Violin Concerto in D Minor" - Jean Sibelius 

"Radioactivity" - Radioactivity

Kentaro M

This is what Kentaro was into 2014, in alphabetical order.

Alison’s Halo - Dozen/ Calendar 7”
Baby Blue - Promenade (2014)
Bass Drum of Death - Rip This (2014)
Christines - Almost Nil/ Maria Zoe Christo (2014)
The Clean - Vehicle
Dream Boys - s/t
The Fall - The Unutterable
Carl Hultgren - Tomorrow (2014)
Deep Creeps - Crown Gall (2014)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Popol Vuh - Aguerre
Ride - Nowhere
Snoy - Toronja (2014)
Spacemen 3 - Live at the New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland, 18.05.1989 (2014)
Boris Sujdovic - Desperate Girl
Teleg. - Demos (2014)
v/a - Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985 (2014)