2014: Year in Review, Part 1

Just as we did last year, we're wrapping up 2014 with a wide-spanning, multi-part "year in review" series of broadcasts that highlights some of our favorite music released during the past calendar year. Especially since our 2014 broadcasts were so heavily focused on older underground music from the 1980s and 1990s - through series like Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), Destroy All Music (Early U.S. Punk & Hardcore), Pop-Punk Ain't (All) Junk, Nick Cave - Man or Myth?, and others - we wanted to take an opportunity to call attention to some newer music too. As music fans and listeners, we here at The Way out aren't entirely stuck in the past!

As regular Way Out listeners have perhaps come to expect, 2014: Year in Review emphasizes the more obscure and lesser-known music and musicians operating today (though there are a number of high-profile indie artists featured here too). This also isn't a traditional "best of" list. There's no ranking or systematic method to the music selected here. It's just a leisurely presentation of some of the more interesting and exciting new artists, songs, and albums we encountered in 2014.

Here's the playlist for Part 1 of 2014: Year in Review, which was broadcast on Saturday, December 20, 2014:

Hookworms - "Radio Tokyo"
Raspberry Bulbs - "Light Surrounds Me"
Naomi Punk - "Eleven Inches"
Protomartyr - "Want Remover"
Eagulls - "Possessed"
Cult of Youth - "Empty Faction"
Total Control - "Expensive Dog"
Secret Boyfriend - "Beyond the Darkness"
Damaged Bug - "Gloves for Garbage"
Grumbling Fur - "All the Rays"
Ariel Pink - "Not Enough Violence"
Swans - "Oxygen"
Anthroprophh - "Space Box Zonk Machine"
Pig Destroyer - "Red Tar"
Godflesh - "Shut Me Down"
Bo Ningen - "Maki-Modoshi"
Goat - "Hide From the Sun"
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - "Hot Wax"
The Fat White Family - "Heaven On Earth"
The Horrors - "Mine and Yours"
Temples - "Mesmerise"
Iceage - "Forever"
Young Widows - "Doomed Moon"
The Ukiah Drag - "Drip From the Fang"
Timber Timbre - "Curtains!?"
Purling Hiss - "Where's Sweetboy"

[No archived audio currently available. Check back soon.]

PS - Part 2 of our 2014: Year in Review will be broadcast live this Saturday, January 3, 2015, from 10:00 PM-midnight CST.

Bookmark the permalink. RSS feed for this post.

About The Way Out

The Way Out is a weekly radio show hosted by Andrew and Diana Bottomley on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison, Wisconsin. We feature a wide range of punk, post-punk, indie rock, garage rock, psychedelica, no wave, noise rock, and other rock’n’roll esoterica. We're drawn to anything that's adventurous, different, and "out there." We've even been known to throw in a set of modern classical, prog, or country from time to time. Mostly, we play “classic” material from the 1960s through the 1990s, though we also mix in some newer music here and there. Following a "no hits, all the time" philosophy, we emphasize overlooked and otherwise unheard of artists, or lesser-known songs from more popular artists.

About WSUM

WSUM, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensed student radio station, is an award-winning station with over 200 members. Following a handful of different incarnations that operated between 1952 and 1993, WSUM officially began broadcasting on February 22, 2002, from Vilas Hall and has been going strong ever since. The station can now be found at 333 East Campus Mall, Suite 4100, in the new Student Activities Center. WSUM is a proud and active member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and College Broadcasters, Inc., and has won myriad statewide and national awards for its dynamic music and talk programming, live sports broadcasts, and news coverage.

The Way Out