Best Albums of 2014

Reviews coming soon

1) Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
2) Lower - Seek Warmer Climes (Matador)
3) High Tension - Death Beat (Cooking Vinyl)
4) Caribou - Our Love (Merge)
5) The Pixies - Indy Cindy (Independent)
6) Eagulls - Eagulls (Partisan)
7) Brian Eno and Karl Hyde - Someday World (Warp)
8) Bob Mould - Beauty and Ruin (Merge)
9) Trust - Joyland (Arts and Crafts)
10) The Horrors - Luminous (4AD)

Honourable Mentions: Mozart's Sister - Being (Paper Bag), The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan), Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (Last Gang), Single Mothers - Negative Qualities (Dine Alone), Jungle - Jungle (XL)

Who We Lost in 2014

Jay Traynor (Jay and the Americans)
Phil Everley
Joe Evans
Dennis Fredrickson (Toto)
Art Doyle
Pete Seeger
The Mighty Hannibal
Bunny Rugs (Third World)
Dirck Berk
Sean Potts (The Chieftains)
Gert Krawinkel (Trio)
Bob Casale (Devo)
Franny Beecher (Bill Haley)
Paco de Lucia
Frank Read (The Chi-Lites)
Gary Berger (The Monks)
Scott Asheton (The Stooges)
Dave Brockie
Billy Mundi (Mothers of Invention)
Frankie Knuckles
Wayne Henderson
Leee Black Childers
Jesse Winchester
Shane Gibson (Korn)
DJ E-Z Rock
Nash the Slash
Ed Gagliandi (Foreigner)
Jerry Vale
Doc Neeson (The Angels)
Don Davis
Alan Douglas
Jimmy Scott
Casey Kasem
John McClure
Johnny Mann
Horace Silver
Gerry Goffin
Norman Sheffield
Bobby Womack
Paul Horn
Annik Honore
John Spinks (The Outfield)
Charlie Haden
Johnny Winter
Johnny Rebb
Dick Wagner (Alice Cooper)
Rick Parashar
Don Pardo
Buddy MacMaster
Glenn Cornick (Jethro Tull)
Jimi Jamison (Survivor)
David Anderle
Robert Young (Primal Scream)
Bob Crewe
Joe Sample
Peter Gutteridge (The Clean)
Jackie Cain
George Hamilton IV
Kenny Wheeler
Paul Revere (The Raiders)
Tim Hauser (Manhattan Transfer)
John Holt
Michael J. Shamberg
Wayne Static (Static-X)
Acker Blik
Big Bank Hank
Jimmy Ruffin
Jon Star (Lillian Axe)
Nick Talbot (Gravenhurst)
Bobby Keys (The Rolling Stones)
Ian McLagan (Small Faces)
Brian Goble (The Subhumans)
Larry Smith
Larry Henley
Joe Cocker
Chip Young

DNTTA Playlist for December 19, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Weed - Hard to Kill* - Hard to Kill (Nettwerk)
Cowards - So Dark It's a Joke* - World Champions in Male Chastity (Independent)
Psychosomatic Itch - Cold Call* - Live @ CFUV (Shake!)
Art Bergmann - Ballad of a Crooked Man* - Songs for the Underclass (Weewerk)
Energy Slime - Bustin' Up* - New Dimensional (Mint)
Energy Slime - Only Clouds* - New Dimensional (Mint)
WHOOP-Szo - Nyeengum* - Niizhwaaswo (Out of Sound)
Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Fetish - Sosued (4AD)
Himiko - Minamata* - Victims of Greed (D-Trash)
Himiko - GMO Piggy* - Victims of Greed (D-Trash)
WTCHS - Nell* - It's Not a Cross, It's a Curse (Independent)
Century Palm - White Light* - Century Palm (Mammoth Cave)
Coil - Neither His Nor Yours - A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse (Giorno Poetry Systems)

DNTTA Playlist for December 11, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche - Face a l'instant - Part 2* - Zubberdust! (Constellation)
Wayne Horvitz - Forgiveness - At the Reception (Songline)
Lenny Breau - If You Could See Me Now* - LA Bootleg 1984 (12 Hit Wonder)
Kogging - Yesterday's Horizon - Sketches of Ordinary Life (Sina)
Equilibrium - Thalassa - Liquid Light (Songlines)
Michel Morissette - Le Chant* - Nothing Toulouse (Effendi)
Kate Boyd - John Cage: Sonata 9 - John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (Navona)
Yves Ramette - Solum in Modum: Riccercare - The Golden Galaxy (Navona)

DNTTA Playlist for December 5, 2014 - Compilations Special

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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All tracks from compilations

Huevos Rancheros - Get Outta Dodge* - Team Mint (Mint)
Ken Nordine - Flesh - Incredibly Strange Music Vol. II (Re/Search)
Pan American - What Do They Dream? - Kranky Kompilation (Kranky)
The Floor - Catastrophe* - Zed: Live Off the Floor (CBC Music)
Mark Mills - Straight to You* - Songs from the Workshop (Independent)
Soupcans - Young and Easy* - Songs from the Workshop (Independent)
Indian Police - I'm Gonna Kill Everybody I Know* - Ralph Nader Was Here (Independent)
Miss Kitten and The Hacker - Frank Sinatra - Party Monster OST (TVT(
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Seoul Music - Disco, Not Disco (Strut)
Jessy Lanza - Kathy Lee* - Everybody Dance Now Vol. 9 (Independent)
The Nirvana Sitar and String Group - The Letter - Incredibly Strange Music Vol. II (Re/Search)
The Enigmas - Teenage Barnacle* - Last Call (Zulu)

DNTTA Playlist for November 28, 2014

Artist - Song - Album (Label)
* indicates Canadian Content 

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The Hidden Cameras - Boys of Melody* - The Smell of Our Own (Evil Evil)
Perfume Genius - Fool - Too Bright (Matador)
MoonMuseum - Back There* - Present in the Haze (Independent)
Low - I'm on Fire - Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the USA (Lightning Rod)
North Atlantic Explorers - Spiral Into the Sea* - My Father Was a Sailor (Independent)
Tom Beaulieu - Space Man Coming - The Best of Tom Beaulieu (Independent)
Pet Sun - Lutes* - Feel Like I'm Going Away (Independent)
The B-52s - Dance This Mess Around - The B-52s (Sire)
Mi'ens - Sparklecore* - Experimentalsparklenoisepop (Independent)
Ringo Deathstarr - Never Drive - Colour Trip (Sonic Unyon)
William S. Burroughs - A Thankgiving Prayer - Dead City Radio (Island)