best of 2013 by stephie c

TOP TEN LIVE BANDS I SAW IN 2013

1. LOS CRUDOS

2. VEXX

3. IN SCHOOL

4. 86 MENTALITY

5. BEHEAD THE PROPHET NO LORD SHALL LIVE

6. HOAX

7. NUDES

8. NUCLEAR SPRING

9. GAG

10. HEALTH PROBLEMS

TOP TEN RECORDS OF 2013

1. PUSHA T - My Name Is My Name

2. GUN OUTFIT - Hard Coming Down

3. VEXX - s/t

4. CAIRO PYTHIAN - Unity Mitford

5. HOODED HAGS - Mental Revenge CS

6. YOKO ONO AND PLASTIC ONO BAND - Take Me to the Land of Hell

7. HORNET LEG - Wrecking Ball

8. NEKO CASE - Worse Things Get

9. MOON - s/t CS

10. EARL SWEATSHIRT - Doris

SIX INSPIRING PROJECTS OF 2013

The People's House (Olympia)

The "Beyond Inversion" comp (DC)

POC Zine Project

Rock Camps for Girls/Queer Rock Camp (NW and worldwide!)

This Is Not a Step fest (Bay Area)

Nuts! Fanzine (NYC)

TOP TEN REISSUES/NEW OLD STUFF RELEASED IN 2013

1. The Human Expression - Love at a Psychedelic Velocity

2. Anonymous - Inside the Shadow

3. V/A - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age in America 1950-1990

4. Urinals - Negative Capability...Check it Out!

5. Gene Clark - Here Tonight: The White Light Demos

6. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

7. Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me OST

8. Unwound - Kid is Gone

9. Townes Van Zandt - Late Great/High, Low and In Between

10. Patrick Cowley - School Daze

TOP TEN RECORDS I LISTENED TO MOST IN 2013 THAT WEREN'T MADE IN 2013

1. Gene Clark - No Other

2. Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs

3. Big Star - Radio City

4. Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops

5. The Velvet Underground - third album

6. The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers

7. Scott Walker - Scott 4

8. Dead Meadow - Feathers

9. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

10. The Scruffs - Wanna' Meet the Scruffs

SIX ANTICIPATED RELEASES OF 2014

The Mona Reels

Flesh World

In School

Spider and the Webs

Dirty Joe and the Brick Walls

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