Best Music of 2014

We know that there is a month left of 2014 so barring some kind of crazy last minute entrant, the contributors and I feel pretty comfortable with our selections.

James Khubiar
Justified Arrogance boss, Dallas Observer contributor, and did that Noisey article that one time.

LPs –
Hardcore punk
1) The Boston Strangler – Fire
2) Vanity – Vain In Life
3) Hank Wood and the Hammerheads – Stay Home
4) Inmates – Inmates
5) Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
6) White Lung – Deep Fantasy
7) Long Knife - Meditations On Self Destruction
8) Give – Electric Flower Circus
9) Battle Ruins – Battle Ruins
10) Praise – Lights Went Out

(I have yet to hear the new Forward and Wetbrain. I’ll just mention them because I know they probably would have made this list if I had)

Not hardcore punk
1) Nothing – Guilty of Everything
2) Whirr – Sway
3) Volahn – Aq’al’ab
4) Iceage – Plowing Into The Fields Of Love
5) Merchandise – After The End
6) Teitanblood – Death
7) The Ukiah Drag – In The Reaper’s Quarters
8) Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem
9) The Young - Chrome Cactus
10) Creepoid - Creepoid

Rap Releases (Mixtapes / Albums) -
1) Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan, and Birdman - Rich Gang: The Tour, Part 1
2) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Cocaine Pinata
3) Young Thug - Young Thugga Mane La Flare (collabo with Gucci Mane)
4) Young Scooter - Street Lottery 2
5) Future - Monster
6) Lil Herb - Welcome To Fazoland
7) Peewee Longway - The Blue M&M
8) Gucci Mane - World War 3D: The Green Album (collabo with Migos)
9) Lil Mouse - Michael Mouse Myers
10) Antwon - Heavy Hearted In Doldrums

EPs –
1) The Impalers – Psychedelic Snutskallar
2) Step Forward – Step Forward
3) Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
4) Warthog – Prison
5) Goosebumps – Scared To See A Doctor
6) Savageheads - Savageheads
7) S.H.I.T. – Generation Shit
8) Hellshock – Low Men In Yellow Cloaks
9) Razorheads - Razorheads
10) Party Plates - Party Plates

Demos –
1) Stomp-I-Lation (tape comp featuring Peacebreakers, The Boston Strangler, and Waste Management)
2) Ajax – Bleach For Breakfast
3) Bad Faith – Demo
4) Crazy Spirit - New York's Alright Demo
5) Blazing Eye - East Coast Tour Demo

Jay Chary
Guitarist, Modern Pain & Sick Symptom. Bass player, Narrow Head.

NON-HC LP's
1) Creepoid- S/T
2) Lust For Youth- International
3) The Ukiah Drag- In The Reaper's Quarter
4) Criminal Code- No Device
5) Whirr- Sway
6) Total Control- Typical System
7) Underpass- Assimilation
8) Protomartyr- Under Color of Official Right
9) Rhythm of Cruelty- Dysphoria
10) Dark Blue- Pure Reality

HC LP's
1) Vanity- Vain in Life
2) Impalers- Psychadelic Snutskallar
3) Boston Strangler- Fire
4) Gas Rag- Beats Off LP
5) Absolut- Punk Survival

OTHER HC
1) Blazing Eye- 2014 Tape
2) DiE- Vexed EP
3) Savageheads- S/T 7"
4) Hard Stripes- S/T 7"
5) Ajax- Bleach For Breakfast demo
6) Blotter- Under Armour '77 7"
7) Enough Said- Heritage Day 7"
8) The Stompilation
9) Crazy Spirit- 2014 Tape
10) Breakout- Razor Wire 7"

Hayden Robertson
The Fifth Man of the Modern Pain squad.

LPs
HC Punk
1. Impalers - Psychedelic Snutskallar
2. The Flex - Wild Stabs In The Dark
3. Homewrecker - Circle Of Death
4. Boston Strangler - Fire

Non HC Punk
1. Creepoid - Creepoid
2. Whirr - Sway
3. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
4. Young Thugga Mane La Flare - (Gucci Mane/Young Thug collabo tape)
5. Merchandise - After The End
6. The Ukiah Drag - In The Reaper's Quarters
7. Obituary - Inked in blood

EPs
1. Glue - Glue
2. Hard Stripes - Hard Stripes
3. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Runaway Girls 7” (Single 7”)
4. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
5. Institute - Giddy Boys
6. Modern Pain - Self Deconstruction
7. Rakta - Rakta

Demos
1. Ajax - Bleach For Breakfast
2. Blazing Eye - East Coast Tour Tape
3. Sick Symptom - Demo 2014
4. Dress Code - Dress Code
5. Red Death - Demo 2014

Honorable Mentions
1. Sleep - The Clarity
2. Rae Sremmurd - No Type
3. ASAP Rocky/Juicy J - Multiply
4. Joey Badass - Big Dusty
5. Narrow Head - Far Removed
6. Underachievers - Cellar Door