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DECEMBER 29, 2014 YEAR-END NEW MUSIC REPORT
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2014 YEAR-END
CONTENTS
NEW MUSIC REPORT
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YEAR-END RADIO 200 NO.1
REAL ESTATE Atlas
EDITORIAL Editor-In-Chief LISA HRESKO Managing Editor ERIC DAVIDSON Assistant Editor LIZZIE PLAUGIC
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Art Director DAVID VELÁSQUEZ
YEAR-END RPM NO. 1
CARIBOU
Radio Director CARRIE BROTHERS
Our Love
Radio Relations Manager ARIELLE PARNES-KATZ
CMJ Senior Vice President, Artists & Events MATT MCDONALD
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YEAR-END HIP-HOP NO. 1
Marketing Manager RACHEL HUNNICUTT
ATMOSPHERE
Sales JOHNNY CHIBA
Southsiders
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YEAR-END JAZZ NO. 1
HENRY BUTLER, STEVEN BERNSTEIN, AND THE HOT 9 Viper’s Drag
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YEAR-END NEW WORLD NO. 1
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YEAR-END TRIPLE A NO. 1
BECK Morning Phase
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YEAR-END LOUD ROCK NO. 1
MASTODON Once More ‘Round The Sun
YEAR-END RADIO
RADIO 200 2014 Top Ten
Top 200 2014 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
REAL ESTATE
ST. VINCENT
LABEL
1
1 24 REAL ESTATE
Atlas
2
1 27 ST. VINCENT
St. Vincent
3
1 13 TY SEGALL
Manipulator
4
1 26 MAC DEMARCO
Salad Days
5
1 23 BECK
Morning Phase
6
1 24 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They… Daptone
7
1 19 DUM DUM GIRLS
Too True
8
1 18 SPOON
They Want My Soul
9
2 31 WAR ON DRUGS
Lost In The Dream
Domino Loma Vista Drag City Captured Tracks Capitol Sub Pop Loma Vista Secretly Canadian
10 1 26 BLACK KEYS
Turn Blue
11 2 25 CLOUD NOTHINGS
Here And Nowhere Else
12 1 11 KING TUFF
Black Moon Spell
13 1 24 JACK WHITE
Lazaretto
14 1 18 PARQUET COURTS
Sunbathing Animal
15 4 18 BLACK LIPS
Underneath The Rainbow
16 1 19 THEE OH SEES
Drop
17 4 18 TEMPLES
Sun Structures
Fat Possum
18 4 20 ANGEL OLSEN
Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Jagjaguwar
19 2 21 BROKEN BELLS
After The Disco
20 1
Our Love
9 CARIBOU
21 3 20 ALT-J
This Is All Yours
22 1 20 WYE OAK
Shriek
Nonesuch Carpark-Mom And Pop Sub Pop Third Man What’s Your Rupture? Vice Castleface
Columbia Merge Canvasback-Atlantic Merge
23 3 15 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Brill Bruisers
Matador
24 3 16 DAMIEN JURADO Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
TY SEGALL
MAC DEMARCO
BECK
Alvvays
26 1 17 BLOOD ORANGE
Cupid Deluxe
27 3 10 FOXYGEN
And Star Power
28 7 23 SYLVAN ESSO
Sylvan Esso
29 2 16 JENNY LEWIS
Voyager
30 4 21 TUNE-YARDS
Nikki Nack
31 1 17 ARCADE FIRE
Reflektor
32 2 18 CONOR OBERST
Upside Down Mountain
33 3
You're Dead
Warp
34 4 16 MOGWAI
Rave Tapes
Sub Pop
9 FLYING LOTUS
35 3 19 SHARON VAN ETTEN
Are We There
36 6 19 WARPAINT
Warpaint
7
Voices
7 18 PHANTOGRAM
38 2 15 HOW TO DRESS WELL
What Is This Heart?
39 7 18 TACOCAT
NVM
Polyvinyl Domino Jagjaguwar Partisan Warner Brothers 4AD Merge Nonesuch
Jagjaguwar Rough Trade3 Barsuk-Republic Weird World Hardly Art
40 5 15 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Wig Out At Jagbags 41 3 14 WHITE LUNG
Deep Fantasy
42 4 13 ANTLERS
Familiars
43 3 13 J MASCIS
Tied To A Star
44 2 12 DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 The Physical World
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Secretly Canadian
25 1 17 ALVVAYS
Matador Domino Anti Sub Pop
Last Gang-Warner Brothers
45 10 19 FUTURE ISLANDS
Singles
46 6 10 EX HEX
Rips
47 5 14 LIARS
Mess
48 4 15 ORWELLS
Disgraceland
49 9 15 TYCHO
Awake
Ghostly
50 4 13 HOSPITALITY
Trouble
Merge
4AD Merge Mute Canvasback
RADIO 200 2014
Top 200 2014 Rank PK
WKS
ARTIST + TITLE
52 4 13 WHITE FENCE
For The Recently Found Innocent
53 5 16 ALLAH-LAS
Worship The Sun
54 6 18 LA SERA
Hour Of The Dawn
55 7 14 GARDENS AND VILLA
Dunes
56 3 13 LYKKE LI
I Never Learn
Domino Drag City Innovative Leisure Hardly Art Secretly Canadian Atlantic
57 4 14 A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW Sea When Absent 58 9 14 EAGULLS
Eagulls
59 7 19 CHAD VANGAALEN
Shrink Dust
60 4 12 RAVEONETTES
Pe'ahi
61 7 13 BANKS
Goddess
62 5 15 TWIN PEAKS
Wild Onion
63 8 15 NICK WATERHOUSE
Holly
64 11 16 NOTWIST
Close To The Glass
65 6 13 RYAN ADAMS
Ryan Adams
66 5 13 TENNIS
Ritual In Repeat
67 7 11 APHEX TWIN
Syro
68 1
Seeds
5 TV ON THE RADIO
Lefse Partisan Sub Pop Beat Dies Harvest Grand Jury Sub Pop Pax-Am-Blue Note Communion Warp Harvest
Beauty And Ruin
Merge Captured Tracks
70 6 12 PERFECT PUSSY
Say Yes To Love
71 5 11 PAINTED PALMS
Forever
72 9 13 FKA TWIGS
LP1
73 10 17 QUILT
Held In Splendor
74 7 11 BEAR IN HEAVEN
Time Is Over One Day Old
Polyvinyl Mexican Summer Hometapes-Dead Oceans
75 5 14 THEE OH SEES
Singles Collection, Volume 3 Do To The Beast
77 12 12 GOAT
Commune
Sub Pop
78 11 15 TOKYO POLICE CLUB
Forcefield
Mom And Pop
79 2
La Isla Bonita
Sub Pop
Polyvinyl
At Best Cuckold
81 8 12 KAREN O
Crush Songs
82 10 12 TOGETHER PANGEA
Badillac
Harvest
83 9 14 OWEN PALLETT
In Conflict
Domino
84 5 13 DAMON ALBARN
Everyday Robots
85 9 14 CHROMEO
White Women
86 9 11 GROWLERS
Chinese Fountain
87 8 14 THUMPERS
Galore
88 12 18 FIRST AID KIT
Stay Gold
89 8 12 SHABAZZ PALACES
Lese Majesty
90 6
Encyclopedia In Return
Sub Pop Cult
WAR ON DRUGS
Warner Brothers Atlantic Everloving Sub Pop Columbia
BLACK KEYS
Sub Pop Minor Counter
92 10 14 LITTLE DRAGON
Nabuma Rubberband
93 14 13 CIBO MATTO
Hotel Valentine
Chimera
94 5 12 MORRISSEY
World Peace Is None Of Your Business
Harvest
95 7 15 JAKE BUGG
Shangri-la
96 5
With Light And With Love
9 WOODS
SPOON
Castle Face
80 6 11 AVI BUFFALO
91 14 13 ODESZA
DUM DUM GIRLS
Young Turks
76 8 14 AFGHAN WHIGS
9 DRUMS
SHARON JONES...
Innovative Leisure
69 8 14 BOB MOULD
5 DEERHOOF
Top Ten
LABEL
51 6 14 AVEY TARE'S SLASHER FLICKS Enter The Slasher House
Loma Vista
Island Woodsist
97 15 17 KISHI BASHI
Lightght
Joyful Noise
98 10 13 BLACK ANGELS
Clear Lake Forest
Blue Horizon
99 4 13 LOS CAMPESINOS!
No Blues
Wichita
100 10 10 TWEEDY
Sukierae
Anti
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Top 200 2014
Top 200 2014
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
101 13 15 PINK MOUNTAINTOPS
Get Back
102 13 13 HABIBI
Habibi
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 151 17 9 JULIAN CASABLANCAS AND THE VOIDZ Tyranny
LABEL
Jagjaguwar Burger
152 38 17 ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES Half The City
Single Lock
Cult
103 7 13 CYMBALS EAT GUITARS Lose
Barsuk
153 18 13 HUNDRED WATERS
The Moon Rang Like A Bell
104 2
Domino
154 16 10 BAHAMAS
Bahamas Is Afie
155 20 11 AGES AND AGES
Divisionary
156 13 13 TOBACCO
Ultima II Massage
Ghostly
157 8 11 GAP DREAM
Shine Your Light
Burger
158 18 12 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
English Oceans The Hum
Weird World Oxcart-Votiv
6 PANDA BEAR
Mr Noah
105 14 12 FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Supermodel
Columbia
106 9 15 PIXIES
Indie Cindy
Pixies Music
107 16 14 INTERPOL
El Pintor
Matador-Soft Limit
108 10 14 CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Only Run
Self-Released
Owsla Brushfire Partisan
ATO
109 13 13 COATHANGERS
Suck My Shirt
Suicide Squeeze
159 6
Fueled By Ramen
160 34 15 AUGUSTINES
Augustines
161 16 11 BLEEDING RAINBOW
Interrupt
Kanine
162 18 12 BECK
Song Reader
Capitol
163 8 10 LULUC
Passerby
164 11 12 BLACK BANANAS
Electric Brick Wall
165 8
110 18 15 YOUNG THE GIANT
Mind Over Matter
111 18 15 PHOX
Phox
112 14 11 HOLD STEADY
Teeth Dreams
Partisan Razor and Tie-Washington Square
113 9 10 YELLOW OSTRICH
Cosmos
114 8 11 WYTCHES
Annabel Dream Reader
Partisan
115 12 10 BUDOS BAND
Burnt Offering
Daptone
116 7
Taiga
8 ZOLA JESUS
117 12 12 SPEEDY ORTIZ
Real Hair [EP]
118 12 11 DROWNERS
Drowners
119 8 10 TOY
Join The Dots
120 22 12 SKATERS
Manhattan
121 8 11 BRAID
No Coast
122 20 13 KOOKS
Listen
123 11 12 HORRORS
Luminous
124 9 15 LANA DEL REY
Ultraviolence
125 17 14 THIEVERY CORPORATION Saudade 126 11 13 MUFFS
Whoop Dee Doo
127 17 12 ELBOW The Take Off And Landing Of Everything 128 11 15 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Remedy 129 10 9 BROODS
Evergreen
130 17 12 CRAFT SPELLS
Nausea
131 3 10 CUT COPY
Free Your Mind
132 29 15 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Small Town Heroes 133 14 12 EELS The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett 134 24 14 DONKEYS
Ride The Black Wave
135 14 11 GUIDED BY VOICES
Motivational Jumpsuit
136 7
Hold My Home
7 COLD WAR KIDS
137 16 13 BENJAMIN BOOKER
Benjamin Booker
138 15 10 CHEATAHS
Cheatahs
139 14 13 JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Make My Head Sing
Barsuk
5 HOOKWORMS
Bazaar
Polyvinyl
166 25 12 PACK A.D.
Do Not Engage
Nettwerk
167 28 11 ELECTRIC YOUTH
Innerworld
168 14 9 SPIDER BAGS
Frozen Letter
169 18 13 TIJUANA PANTHERS
Wayne Interest
Warner Brothers
170 23 13 METRONOMY
Love Letters
Elektra
Topshelf
171 14 11 WILD BEASTS
Present Tense
Domino
Mute Carpark Frenchkiss Heavenly
8 WAMPIRE
Education, Education, Education, And War
173 12 9 ROSEBUDS
Sand + Silence
Polydor-Interscope
174 31 18 NIKKI LANE
All Or Nothin'
New West
175 26 12 WE ARE SCIENTISTS
TV En Francais
Dine Alone
176 25 14 BADBADNOTGOOD
III
177 12 9 FIELD MOUSE
Hold Still Life
178 16 10 CHEAP TIME
Exit Smiles
179 22 9 BAND OF HORSES
Acoustic At The Ryman
180 25 15 GLASS ANIMALS
Zaba
Harvest Lucky Number
ESL Burger Concord-Fiction ATO Capitol Captured Tracks
The Three Poisons
Pias-E Works
183 15 9 BLONDE REDHEAD
Barragan
184 19 13 OLD 97'S
Most Messed Up
185 23 10 MODERN BASEBALL
You're Gonna Miss It All
186 21 12 PURE X
Angel
187 11 6 MEATBODIES
Meatbodies
188 26 14 EX-CULT
Midnight Passenger
189 21 11 PORTER ROBINSON
Worlds
GBV Downtown ATO Wichita ATO
Neuroplasticity
143 11 12 ACID
Liminal
144 14 10 THE MEN
Tomorrow's Hits
145 14 11 MILOSH
Jetlag
eOne-Deadly
146 20 14 STRAND OF OAKS
Heal
Dead Oceans
196 20 12 DEATH
III
Picture You Staring
150 16 11 AGAINST ME!
Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Kobalt
DSU
142 10 9 COLD SPECKS
149 17 10 TOPS
Topshelf In The Red
182 14 8 ELEPHANT STONE
AM
Distraction
Innovative Leisure
181 20 15 ALEX G
Easy Sound
Hidden Pony Kobalt ATO
In The Red Goner Astralwerks
190 18 12 BOY AND BEAR
Harlequin Dream Just Enough Hip To Be Woman
Mute
192 28 10 PERFUME GENIUS
Too Bright
Mute
193 15 12 LANDLADY
Upright Behavior
194 20 10 GENERATIONALS
Alix
195 25 10 SAINTSENECA
Dark Arc
Domino
Sacred Bones
197 16 8 HOZIER
Hozier
Cantora
198 12 5 RUN THE JEWELS
Run The Jewels 2
Arbutus
199 21 11 BASS DRUM OF DEATH Rip This
Burger
Total Treble
200 24 11 KELIS
Run For Cover Fat Possum
191 24 10 BRONCHO
Mexican Summer
ATO
Western Vinyl
ATO
Modular-Loma Vista
House Of Spirits
Dancin' With Wolves
Merge Innovative Leisure
172 21 11 KAISER CHIEFS
141 28 24 ARCTIC MONKEYS
147 10 10 NATURAL CHILD
Secretly Canadian
XL
Astralwerks
140 13 11 FRESH AND ONLYS
148 20 13 BEAR HANDS
Sub Pop Drag City
Nettwerk Dine Alone 4ad Hometapes Polyvinyl Anti Drag City Columbia Mass Appeal Innovative Leisure Ninja Tune
Food
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RPM 2014
RPM 2014
Top Five
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
CARIBOU
LABEL
1
1 11 CARIBOU
Our Love
2
1 24 TYCHO
Awake
3
1 11 APHEX TWIN
Syro
4
2
5
1 13 ODESZA
In Return
9 FLYING LOTUS
You're Dead
6
1 13 CRYSTAL METHOD
The Crystal Method
7
1 11 BASEMENT JAXX
Junto
8
2 15 THIEVERY CORPORATION Saudade
9
1 17 MAT ZO
Damage Control
10 1 15 DEADMAU5
While(1<2)
11 1 14 TOBACCO
Ultima II Massage
12 1 13 ACTRESS
Ghettoville
13 1 15 TENSNAKE
Glow
14 1 13 LONE
Reality Testing
15 1 12 PRETTY LIGHTS Color Map From The Sun Remixes
TYCHO
APHEX TWIN
ODESZA
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Warp Warp Counter Tiny E Pias-Atlantic Jaxx ESL Astralwerks mau5trap-Astralwerks Ghostly Werkdiscs-Ninja Tune Astralwerks R And S 8 Minutes 20 Seconds
Friendly Bacteria
Ninja Tune
17 4 11 SLOW MAGIC
How To Run Away
Downtown
18 2 12 BURIAL
Rival Dealer
19 1 14 QUANTIC
Magnetica
20 3 16 CHROMEO
White Women
21 1 15 BASSNECTAR
Noise Vs. Beauty
22 1 13 FALTYDL
In The Wild
23 3 15 TRUST
Joyland
24 3 13 GLITCH MOB
Love Death Immortality
25 4 15 SBTRKT
Wonder Where We Land
Hyperdub Tru Thoughts Atlantic Amorphous Ninja Tune Arts And Crafts Glass Air Young Turks Ghostly International
27 2 12 PORTER ROBINSON
Worlds
Astralwerks
28 3 14 COM TRUISE
Wave 1
Ghostly
29 4 11 JUAN MACLEAN
In A Dream
30 3 13 FHLOSTON PARADIGM
The Phoenix
31 3 14 NIGHTMARES ON WAX N.O.W. Is The Time
DFA Hyperdub Warp
32 1 10 DAEDELUS
Drown Out
33 4 13 CUT COPY
Free Your Mind
34 6 14 PHANTOGRAM
Voices
35 4 12 MARTYN
The Air Between Words
36 1 12 FUJIYA AND MIYAGI
Artificial Sweeteners
37 3 12 LEE BANNON
Alternate/Endings
38 3 11 TEEBS
Estara
39 6 12 ENO-HYDE
High Life
Warp
40 3 13 TOMAS BARFOD
Love Me
Secretly Canadian
41 2
8 TOURIST
Anticon Modular-Loma Vista Barsuk-Republic Ninja Tune Yep Roc Ninja Tune Brainfeeder
Patterns
Monday
42 9 18 SYLVAN ESSO
Sylvan Esso
Partisan Rhythm and Culture
43 6 12 THOMAS BLONDET
FutureWorld
44 9 14 PLAID
Reachy Prints
45 4 10 KI:THEORY
Kitty Hawk Deluxe
46 4 11 FKA TWIGS
LP1
47 3
Ghosts Of Then And Now
8 ILLUM SPHERE
Warp Kringer Young Turks Ninja Tune
48 5 12 TODD TERJE
It's Album Time
Olsen
49 1
Chrome Waves
Jalapeno
9 KRAAK AND SMAAK
50 9 12 TOSCA
8
Ghostly
16 2 16 MR. SCRUFF
26 1 13 XENO AND OAKLANDER Par Avion
FLYING LOTUS
Merge
Odeon
!K7
YEAR-END GENRE FOCUS
HIP-HOP 2014
Hip-Hop 2014 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 1 19 ATMOSPHERE
Southsiders
Rhymesayers
2
1 17 DILATED PEOPLES
Directors Of Photography
Rhymesayers
3
1 19 STEP BROTHERS
Lord Steppington
Rhymesayers
4
1 23 DANNY BROWN
Old
5
1 24 SCHOOLBOY Q
Oxymoron
6
1 18 GRIEVES
Winter And The Wolves
7
1 16 SHABAZZ PALACES
Lese Majesty
8
2 18 CLIPPING
Clppng
9
1
6 RUN THE JEWELS
Top Five
LABEL
1
Fool's Gold Interscope Rhymesayers Sub Pop Sub Pop Mass Appeal
Run The Jewels 2
10 2 14 ADRIAN YOUNGE PRESENTS SOUL OF MISCHIEF There Is Only… Linear Labs 11 2 12 HOMEBOY SANDMAN
Hallways
12 3 13 BUSDRIVER
Perfect Hair
13 2 15 OHMEGA WATTS
Pieces Of A Dream
14 1
You're Dead
9 FLYING LOTUS
Stones Throw Big Dada Warp
15 4 23 CHILDISH GAMBINO
Because The Internet
Glassnote
16 2 16 SWOLLEN MEMBERS
Brand New Day
Battle Axe
17 2 16 SAGE FRANCIS
Copper Gone
18 2 17 GREEN SEED
Drapetomania
19 2 11 KOSHA DILLZ
Awkward In A Good Way
20 1 15 SADISTIK
Ultraviolet
21 4 16 OPEN MIKE EAGLE
Dark Comedy
Strange Famous Communicating Vessels Murs 3:16 Fake Four
23 5 22 FREDDIE GIBBS AND MADLIB Pinata 24 3 14 SIDEWALK CHALK
Leaves Medieval Chamber
26 3 14 YOUNG FATHERS
Dead
27 3 17 ASHER ROTH
RetroHash
28 4 17 COMMON
Nobody's Smiling
29 2 13 MOBONIX
Machine Man
30 2 16 RATKING
So It Goes
Self-Released Anticon InGrooves Def Jam Xil XL Nature Sounds Urban Home Companion
5 HAIL MARY MALLON
Bestiary
Rhymesayers
35 3
7 DRAGON FLI EMPIRE
Mission Statement
MakeBelieve
36 6 15 JB NIMBLE
The Jester's Dance
Ear Peace
37 3 14 ROOTS
...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
38 6 13 GLOW MECHANICS
Schmo Mechanics
Self-Released
39 10 24 KATIE KATE
Nation
Self-Released
40 8 14 AB-SOUL
These Days
41 3
Maurice Vs. Mobetta
42 4 11 BADBADNOTGOOD
III
43 3
The Petals Have Fallen
6 DELS
44 6 10 BIG FREEDIA
Just Be Free
45 7 14 AMP LIVE
Headphone Concerto
46 6 12 JPRIZM
Mindwalker
47 5 10 SLEEP
Oregon Failure
48 8 13 CORMEGA
Mega Philosophy
DANNY BROWN
Fake Four
34 2
9 MAURICE
STEP BROTHERS
Record Collection
So Much Forever
33 4 10 TOUSSAINT MORRISON Edo
Delicious Vinyl Madlib Invazion
31 2 11 R.A. THE RUGGED MAN Legends Never Die 32 3 11 BIKE FOR THREE!
DILATED PEOPLES
Mello Music
22 1 12 SLIMKID3 AND DJ NU-MARK Slimkid3 And DJ Nu-Mark
25 3 13 BLACK KNIGHTS
ATMOSPHERE
Mellow Orange
Def Jam
SCHOOL BOY Q
Top Dawg Brown Innovative Leisure Big Dada Queen Diva Plug Research Komatoast Strangeg Famous Slimstyle
49 7 14 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They… Daptone 50 10 14 ELAQUENT
Green Apples And Oranges
Urbnet
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JAZZ 2014
Jazz 2014
Top Five
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
1 1 16 HENRY BUTLER, STEVEN BERNSTEIN, AND THE HOT 9 Viper's Drag 2 1 15 NELS CLINE SINGERS
Mack Avenue
Macroscope
3 1 17 PAT METHENY UNITY GROUP Kin 4 1 19 CATHERINE RUSSELL
Nonesuch Jazz Village
Bring It Back
5 1 18 BRAD MEHLDAU AND MARK GUILIANA Mehliana: Taming The… 6 1 15 REBIRTH BRASS BAND Move Your Body 7 1 13 CHICK COREA TRIO
Concord
Trilogy
9 1 16 BEAT FUNKTION
Voodooland
10 1 18 TAKUYA KURODA
Rising Son
11 1 13 DR. JOHN
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit Of Satch
NELS CLINE SINGERS
Live At The Village Vanguard
14 2 13 JOSHUA REDMAN
Trios Live
15 1 16 HELEN SUNG
Anthem For A New Day
16 1 13 KRIS BOWERS
Heroes + Misfits
17 2 12 BOBBY HUTCHERSON
Enjoy The View
18 1 10 HAROLD MABERN
Right On Time
19 5 15 BADBADNOTGOOD
III
20 1 10 CHARLIE HADEN AND JIM HALL Charlie Haden-Jim Hall
PAT METHENY UNITY
21 4 14 DAVID
Cellar Groove
22 3 12 LOUIS HAYES
Return Of The Jazz Communicators
Do Concord Strut Pi Nonesuch Concord Concord Jazz BlueNote Smoke Sessions Innovative Leisure Impulse-Universal Cellar Live Smoke Sessions
23 3 11 CORY WEEDS QUINTET Let's Go
Cellar Live
24 2 12 BAD PLUS
Inevitable Western
Speakeasy
25 2 12 CORY WEEDS
As Of Now
Cellar Live
26 3 12 BEAT FUNKTION
Mandy's Secret
Do
27 3 12 SEAN JONES QUARTET Improvise
Mack Avenue
28 3 10 MATT WILSON QUARTET AND JOHN MEDESKI Gathering Call
CATHERINE RUSSELL
29 1 11 JASON MORAN
All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller
30 4 12 BAD PLUS
The Rite Of Spring
31 3 15 REGINA CARTER
Southern Comfort
32 7 12 JAVON JACKSON
Expressions
33 2 12 BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOWSHIP BAND Landmarks 34 7 13 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE Live Snakes
BRAD MEHLDAU AND MARK GUILIANA
Blue Note Blue Note
12 2 15 SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA Inner Fire 13 1 17 MARC RIBOT TRIO
Nonesuch Basin Street
8 2 15 AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint
HENRY BUTLER, STEVEN BERNSTEIN...
Impulse
35 1 11 GREGORY PORTER
Liquid Spirit
36 2 10 CYRUS CHESTNUT
Midnight Melodies
37 2 13 JANE IRA BLOOM
Sixteen Sunsets
38 5 12 STACEY KENT
The Changing Lights
39 4 11 SONNY ROLLINS
Road Shows, Vol. 3
40 1
9 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio 2
41 1
7 BILL FRISELL
42 5 12 FRED HERSCH TRIO
Guitar In The Space Age! Floating
43 4 10 CRAIG SCOTT QUINTET Introducing The Craig Scott Quintet 44 5 13 GINGER BAKER
Why?
45 7 12 STEVE LEHMAN OCTET Mis En Abime
Palmetto Blue Note
Sony Masterworks Masterworks Smoke Sessions Blue Note Accurate Blue Note Smoke Sessions Outline Warner Brothers OKeh Blue Note OKeh Palmetto Self-Released Motema Pi
46 6 10 ARTURO O'FARRILL AND AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA The Offense Motema 47 4
10
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9 MATIJA DEDIC
Sentiana
Blue Bamboo
48 11 11 VINCENT HERRING
The Uptown Shuffle
49 11 13 JOSE JAMES
While You Were Sleeping
Blue Note
50 2
Panama 500
Mack Ave.
9 DANILO PEREZ
Smoke Session
NEW WORLD 2014
New World 2014 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 1 19
TINARIWEN
Emmaar
2
1 21
BOSSACUCANOVA
Our Kind Of Bossa
3
1 21
TOUMANI DIABATE AND SIDIKI DIABATE Toumani And Sidiki
4
1 25
THIEVERY CORPORATION Saudade
ESL
5
1 19
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA 9 Dead Alive
ATO
6
1 19
KASAI ALLSTARS
Beware The Fetish
7
1 18
ANGELIQUE KIDJO
Eve
8
1 22
BOMBAY ROYALE
The Island Of Dr. Electrico
9
2 16
IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Ibibio Sound Machine
10
3 19
ALSARAH AND THE NUBATONES Silt
11
2 23
ZIGGY MARLEY
12
3 17
SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA Inner Fire
13
4 20
HOLLIE COOK
14
6 23
SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS Libation
15
3 19
SEUN KUTI AND EGYPT 80 A Long Way To The Beginning
16
1 17
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Traces Of You
Anti Six Degrees World Circuit
Crammed Discs 429 HopeStreet Soundway Wonderwheel Tuff Gong
Fly Rasta
Strut Modiba KFR
Deutsche Grammophon
17
2 16
MERIDIAN BROTHERS Salvadora Robot
2 16
CAETANO VELOSO
Abracaco
19
3 17
QUANTIC
Magnetica
20
1 14
PELIROJA
Injusticia
21
1 12
KHUN NARIN'S ELECTRIC PHIN BAND Khun Narin's…
22
2 15
SOUNDS OF SIAM
Vol. 2
23
1 10
AWA SANGHO
Ala Ta
24 12 35 BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Legend Remixed
Soundway Nonesuch Tru Thoughts Chulo Soundway Motema Tuff Gong-UME-Island
25
1 9
CAPTAIN PLANET
Esperanto Slang
2 14
WILLIAM ONYEABOR
World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is…
27
2 14
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Finding Fela: Original Motion Picture… Knitting Factory
28
4 17
MUYEI POWER
Sierra Leone In 1970s USA
29
1 13
BEBEL GILBERTO
Tudo
30
3 16
DEBRUIT AND ALSARAH Aljawal
Luaka Bop Soundway Sony Soundway
31
8 14 PRINCE FATTY VS MUNGO'S HI-FI Prince Fatty Vs Mungo's Hi-Fi
Mr. Bongo
6 16 BIO RITMO
Vampisoul
Puerta Del Sur
4 15 JOE DRISCOLL AND SEKOU KOUYATE Faya 1 13
35
2 10 BUDOS BAND
Burnt Offering
36
2 11 TONY ALLEN
Film Of Life
Coisa Boa
37
2 13 OMAR SOULEYMAN
38
3 9
39
4 10 TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE The Paris Sessions
40
7 13 THOMAS BLONDET
FutureWorld
41
7 13 META META
MetaL MetaL
42
5 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS Angola Soundtrack, Vol. 2: Hypnosis…
43
8 13 OY
JUANA MOLINA
Wenu Wenu Wed 21
No Problem Saloon
44
6 13 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA La Rumba SoYo
45
6 15
46
9 15 KAROL CONKA
LOS HACHEROS
Pilon Batuk Freak
47 10 13 ANA TIJOUX
Vengo
48
6 12 PACIFIKA
Amor Planeta
49
7 16 BOMBAY DUB ORCHESTRA Bohemia Junction Remixes
50
6 13 LAS CAFETERAS
It's Time
TOUMANI DIABATE AND SIDIKI DIABATE
Bastard Jazz
32 33
BOSSACUCANOVA
Innovative Leisure
26
34
TINARIWEN
Mr. Bongo
Twice
18
MORENO VELOSO
Top Five
LABEL
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THIEVERY CORPORATION
Cumbancha Luaka Bop Daptone Jazz Village Ribbon Crammed Discs Cumbancha
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
Rhythm and Culture Mais Um Discos Analog Africa Crammed Discs Cumbancha Chulo Mr. Bongo Nacional Six Degrees Six Degrees Self-Released
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YEAR-END GENRE FOCUS
TRIPLE A 2014 Top Five
Triple A 2014 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
BECK
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS
1
1 20 BECK
LABEL
Capitol
Morning Phase
2
1 18
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What They… Daptone
3
1 17
SPOON
They Want My Soul
4
1 23
WAR ON DRUGS
Lost In The Dream
5
1 18
BLACK KEYS
Turn Blue
Nonesuch
6
1 15
JACK WHITE
Lazaretto
Third Man
7
1 14
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Brill Bruisers
8
2 19
FIRST AID KIT
Stay Gold
9
2 12
ST. VINCENT
St. Vincent
Loma Vista Secretly Canadian
Matador Columbia Loma Vista
10 1 11 TY SEGALL
Manipulator
Drag City
11 2 16 NIKKI LANE
All Or Nothin'
New West
12 2 13 BROKEN BELLS
After The Disco
13 4 16 RAY LAMONTAGNE
Supernova
14 2 12 REAL ESTATE
Atlas
15 1 12 ARCADE FIRE
Reflektor
16 5 14 TEMPLES
Sun Structures
17 2 10 DUM DUM GIRLS
Too True
18 2 14 CONOR OBERST
Upside Down Mountain
19 1 14 ALT-J
This Is All Yours
20 7 19 LAKE STREET DIVE
Bad Self Portraits
Columbia RCA Domino Merge Fat Possum Sub Pop Nonesuch Canvasback-Atlantic Signature Sounds
21 2 12 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Wig Out At Jagbags
SPOON
22 1 10 WYE OAK
Shriek
23 2 11 JENNY LEWIS
Voyager
24 7 15 ROSANNE CASH
River And The Thread
25 1 10 RYAN ADAMS
Ryan Adams
26 2 12 DAMIEN JURADO Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
Matador Merge Warner Brothers Blue Note Pax-Am-Blue Note Secretly Canadian
27 2 14 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Remedy
WAR ON DRUGS
ATO
28 9 15 NICK WATERHOUSE
Holly
29 4 13 WARPAINT
Warpaint
30 5 16 MAC DEMARCO
Salad Days
31 5 11 BLACK LIPS
Underneath The Rainbow
32 5 9
The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Concord-Fiction
ELBOW
Innovative Leisure
33 3 10 BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG AND NORAH JONES Foreverly
BLACK KEYS
34 2 10 SHARON VAN ETTEN
Are We There
35 1 10 KING TUFF
Black Moon Spell
36 5 16 SHOVELS AND ROPE
Swimmin' Time
37 2 10 TUNE-YARDS
Nikki Nack
38 4 11 LUCINDA WILLIAMS Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone 39 6 11 TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Hypnotic Eye 40 2 8
CARIBOU
Our Love
41 5 10 TWEEDY
Sukierae
42 9 11 ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES Half The City
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43 4 10 ALVVAYS
Alvvays
44 8 10 ANGEL OLSEN
Burn Your Fire For No Witness
45 4 9
BECK
Song Reader
46 6 8
PHANTOGRAM
Voices
47 8 11 CHUCK PROPHET
Night Surfer
48 7 9
English Oceans
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
49 6 10 NEIL YOUNG
Live At The Cellar Door
50 7 11 BENJAMIN BOOKER
Benjamin Booker
Rough Trade Captured Tracks Vice Reprise Jagjaguwar Sub Pop Dualtone 4AD Highway 20 Reprise Merge Anti Single Lock Polyvinyl Jagjaguwar Capitol Barsuk-Republic Yep Roc ATO Reprise ATO
LOUD ROCK 2014
Loud Rock 2014 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 1 24
MASTODON
Once More 'round The Sun
2
1 15
ICED EARTH
Plagues Of Babylon
3
1 20
JUDAS PRIEST
Redeemer Of Souls
Epic
4
1 18
OVERKILL
White Devil Armory
eOne
5
1 14
CYNIC
Kindly Bent To Free Us
t6
1 13
PRIMAL FEAR
Delivering The Black
7
2 14
BEHEMOTH
The Satanist
8
2 7
EXODUS
Blood In, Blood Out
9
1 13
ARCH ENEMY
War Eternal
Warner Brothers Century Media
Season Of Mis Frontiers Metal Blade Nuclear Blast Century Media
10 1 11 ANIMALS AS LEADERS The Joy Of Motion 11 1 12 OPETH
Pale Communion
12 1 11 COMEBACK KID
Die Knowing
13 1 10 ELECTRIC WIZARD
Time To Die
14 1 8
BLACK CROWN INITIATE The Wreckage Of Stars
15 1 7
SLIPKNOT
The Gray Chapter
16 1 7
OBITUARY
Inked In Blood
17 1 11 CROWBAR
Sumerian Roadrunner Victory eOne Roadrunner Relapse eOne
Symmetry In Black
19 1 7
AT THE GATES
At War With Reality
20 1 8
AFTER THE BURIAL
Wolves Within
21 2 9
RONNIE JAMES DIO
This Is Your Life
eOne Century Media Rhino
Darkest Hour
23 1 12 DOWN
Down IV Part II
24 2 12 CANNIBAL CORPSE
A Skeletal Domain
25 3 15 WOVENWAR
Wovenwar
26 3 8
WITHIN TEMPTATION
Hydra
27 3 8
EVERY TIME I DIE
From Parts Unknown
28 4 9
THROWDOWN
Intolerance
29 2 8
OFF!
Wasted Years
30 2 7
LEGION OF THE DAMNED Ravenous Plague
31 1 8
IN FLAMES
Siren Charms
Sony
32 1 9
PRONG
Ruining Lives
SPV
Sumerian ADA-Down Metal Blade
Epitaph eOne Vice Napalm
Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Grave
34 3 11 KILLER BE KILLED
Killer Be Killed
35 4 13 WHITECHAPEL
Our Endless War
36 2 14 EYEHATEGOD
Eyehategod
37 3 9
TRIPTYKON
Melana Chasmata
38 1 5
MACHINE HEAD
Bloodstone And Diamonds
39 2 7
HAUNTED
Exit Wounds
40 3 9
ACCEPT
Blind Rage
41 4 7
PANTERA
Far Beyond Driven 20th Anniversary Edition
Rhino
42 2 7
IMPENDING DOOM
Death Will Reign
eOne
43 3 9
KOBRA AND THE LOTUS High Priestess
44 3 9
DEMON HUNTER
Extremist
45 4 8
CHELSEA GRIN
Ashes To Ashes
Razor and Tie
46 2 8
VADER
Tibi Et Igni
Nuclear Blast
47 3 8
EMMURE
Eternal Enemies
49 5 11 YOB
Clearing The Path To Ascend
50 3 9
Heroes
JUDAS PRIEST
Metal Blade Nuclear Blast
33 3 10 AUTOPSY
Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
ICED EARTH
Sumerian
22 1 12 DARKEST HOUR
48 7 13 GOATWHORE
MASTODON
Spinefarm
18 1 10 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Catacombs Of The Black Vatican
SABATON
Top Five
LABEL
1
OVERKILL
Peaceville Nuclear Blast Metal Blade Housecore Century Media Nuclear Blast
CYNIC
Century Media Nuclear Blast
Titan Solid State
Victory Metal Blade Neurot Nuclear Blast
December 29, 2014
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