2014

• Garahm Day and the Forefathers – Love Me Lies (State Records)
• Los Disco Duro – Te Lo Creo (Discos Mas)
• Hard Left – Safety (S/R)
• Terry Malts – Insides EP (Slumberland)
• Bad Daddies – You Ain’t Right (Negative Fun)
• Male Gaze – Cliffs of Madness (Mt. St. Mtn.)
• Pop Rivets – 1st Generation Punk (Damaged Goods)
• Replica – Beast EP (Prank)
• Nots – Fix (Goner)
• Games – Little Elise (Hozac)

• Ambarchi/O’Malley/Dunn – Shade Themes from Kairos (Drag City)
• Amen Dunes – Love (Sacred Bones)
• Bedhead – 1992-1998 Box (Numero Group)
• Mike Cooper – Trout Steel (Paradise of Bachelors)
• Richard Dawson – Nothing Important (Weird World)
• Morgan Delt – S/T (Trouble in Mind)
• Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)
• Khun Narin – Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)
• Nazoranai – The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once Has It Arrived Already? (Ideologic Organ)
• Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven (Warp)
• Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears (Light in the Attic)
• Dylan Shearer – Garagearray (Castle Face)
• Space Lady – Greatest Hits (Night School)
• I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990 (Light in the Attic)
• Native North America vol 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985 (Light in the Attic)

1. Burnt Palms – The Girl You Knew (WWNBB)
2. Habibi – S/T (Burger)
3. Flowers – Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do (Kanine)
4. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
5. Makthaverskan – II (Luxury / Run For Cover)
6. The Coathangers – Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
7. Tyrannosaurus Dead – Flying Ant Day (Odd Box)
8. Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt (Kanine)
9. Virginia Wing – Measure of Joy (Fire Records)
10. Butter The Children – True Crime (S/R)
11. Ace Bushy Striptease – Slurpt (Odd Box)
12. Tacocat – NVM (Hardly Art)
13. Eternal Summers – The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
14. Puzzled – S/T (S/R)
15. Literature – Chorus (Slumberland)
16. September Girls – Cursing The Sea (Fortuna Pop!)
17. Hospitality – Trouble (Merge)
18. Las Robertas – Days Unmade (Art Fag)
19. Cayetana – Nervous Like Me (Tiny Engines)
20. Nots – We Are Nots (Goner)
21. Gold-Bears – Dalliance (Slumberland)
22. Space Daze – Line Up on the Solstice (Beautiful Strange)
23. Trick Mammoth – Floristry (Fishrider)
24. The Proper Ornaments – Wooden Head (Slumberland)
25. Fear of Men – Loom (Kanine)
26. Cold Beat – Over Me (Crime On The Moon)
27. Alvvays – S/T (Polyvinyl)
28. Tripping The Light Fantastic – …Is Tripping The Light Fantastic (Jigsaw)
29. The Hobbes Fanclub – Up At Lagrange (Shelflife)
30. Allo Darlin’ – We Come From The Same Place (Slumberland)
31. La Sera – Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
32. Street Eaters – Blood::Muscles::Bones (Nervous Intent)
33. Naomi Punk – Television Man (Captured Tracks)
34. Tweens – S/T (Frenchkiss)
35. Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams (Arts & Crafts)
36. Beach Day – Native Echoes (Kanine)
37. Monster Treasure – S/T (Harlot)
38. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)
39. The Luxembourg Signal – S/T (Shelflife)
40. Alpaca Sports – Sealed With A Kiss (Luxury)

Favorite EPs & Singles of 2014

1. Crabapple – Is It You? (S/R)
2. Nice Try – Convined (Kingfisher Bluez)
3. Fazerdaze – S/T (S/R)
4. Childbirth – It’s A Girl! (Help Yourself)
5. School ’94 – Like You (Luxury)
6. Dark Beach – Scream Queen (Dark Beach / Unicorn Power)
7. Veronica Falls – Nobody There / I Need You Around (Beachyhead)
8. Nice Legs – Lullaby Land (S/R)
9. Pinky Promise – S/T (S/R)
10. Horrible/Adorable – Amy Understands (S/R)
11. My Light Shines For You – Dias De Lluvia EP (S/R)
12. The Hundredth Anniversary – Wreckers (Odd Box)
13. Tuff Love – Junk EP (Lost Map)
14. Tashaki Miyaki – Cool Runnings (S/R)
15. Marge – Not Bad (Ranch Records)
16. Wild Balbina – Sisters Before Misters (Elefant)
17. The Smittens – Love Record Breaker (Fika)
18. Crystal Stilts – Delirium Tremendous (Sacred Bones)
19. September Girls – Veneer (Kanine)
20. Persian Rugs – This Is OK For Now (S/R)
21. Tony Molina – Dissed and Dismissed (Slumberland)
22. Gingerlys – Jumprope (Shelflife)
23. Lost Tapes – Poetry Dates (Cloudberry)
24. Lost Pets – Richard Loves Doris (S/R)
25. Big Deal – Sakura EP (Mute)

• Frankie Rose – Rickshaw Stop, February 4th
• Perfect Pussy – The Vera Project, March 24th
• Keith Sweat – Saban Theatre, July 12th
• The Muffs – Amoeba Hollywood, July 29th
• The Julie Ruin – The Fillmore, November 1st
• Chicano Batman – The New Parish, November 16th
• Angel Olsen – Great American Music Hall, December 1st

• Archie Bronson Outfit – Wild Crush (Domino)
• Brace/Choir – Turning On Your Double (Tapete)
• Regina Carter – Southern Comfort (Masterworks)
• Rosanne Cash – The River And The Theard (Blue Note)
• Ex Hex -Rips (Merge)
• Flaming Lips – With A Little Help From My Fwends (Warner Bros.)
• Golden Retriever – Seer (Thrill Jockey)
• Robyn Hitchcock – Man Upstairs (Yep Roc)
• House Of Cosy Cushions – Spell (Outcast Cats)
• Liars – Mess (Mute)
• Luluc – Passerby (Sub Pop)
• Notwist – Close To The Glass (Sub Pop)
• Ritual Howls – Turkish Leather (Feite)
• Ty Segall – Manipulator (Drag City)
• Suspirians – S/T (S/R)
• Teribal Anamal – New Creature (S/R)
• Thee Oh Sees – “Drop” (Castle Face 33)
• Thompson Family – S/T (Fantasy)
• Tinariwen – Emmaar (Anti-)
• Caetano Veloso – Abracaco (Nonesuch)
• You’ll Never Get To Heaven – Adorn (Psychic Handshake)

Best Reissues Of 2014

• Can – Vinyl Box Set (Spoon)
• Keith Emerson – At The Movies (Esoteric)
• Hawkwind – 1981 – The Flicknife Years-1988 (Atomhenge)
• White Hills – Glitter…Glamour…Atrocity! (Thrill Jockey)
• Neil Young – Live At The Cellar Door (Reprise)

Best Artists From The Past That Berkestir Discovered in 2014 And Has Overplayed

• Jane
• Erkin Koray
• Gabor Szabo

1. Ariel Pink – pom pom (4AD)
2. Useless Eaters – Bleeding Moon (Castle Face)
3. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)
4. Fat White Family – Champagne Holocaust (Fat Possum)
5. Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy (Double Double Whammy)
6. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture? / Mom & Pop)
7. Nots – We Are Nots (Goner)
8. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
9. Allah Las – Worship The Sun (Innovative Leisure)
10. Mitski – Bury Me At Makeout Creek (Double Double Whammy)

Best Concerts of 2014

• Savages – ­ Shoko Madrid, 2/20
• King Khan & The Shrines ­ – Whelan’s, 4/19
• Fat White Family – ­ Rickshaw Stop, 11/3
• FKA Twigs – ­ The Warfield, 11/20
• Peanut Butter Wolf – ­ Leo’s, 11/21