My favorite things of 2014...

 

• Finally getting that metal bar removed from my chest (having it inserted was the subject of the Spacin' song 'Chest of Steel')

• Zacht Automaat LP (Calico Corp)

• Quiting my 9-5 job and working for myself

• Watery Love - Decorative Feeding LP (In the Red Records)

• Purling Hiss - Weirdon LP (Drag City Records)

• Philadelphia's best music festival - Kensington Picnic II - August 8

• Steve Gunn - Way out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors Records)

• Gala Drop - II (Golf Channel Recordings)

• The big Spacin'/Purling Hiss/Steve Gunn/Mary Latimore jam that happened at Hopscotch this year in North Carolina

• The first Hoagie Jungle show at the Philadelphia Record Exchange

• Telephone Explosion Records putting out the Spacin' - Megatations tape

• After being a band for 10 years and recording everything in the basement, Birds of Maya recording in a studio (Black Dirt) for the first time ever

• DJ Jeff Conklin's radio show on WFMU

• UV Race live @ Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia

• Cave - Release, Singles 2007-2013 (Drag City)

• Nathan Bowles - Nansemond

• Apache Dropout - Heavy Window (Magnetic South Recordings)

• Violent Change - s/t (Catholic Guilt Records)

• La Hell Gang live

• I IM EYE MY - 7 Transmissions (Not Not Fun)