Dan Shea was born in Dorchester, and grew up on the South Shore of Massachusetts in Weymouth, MA (the same town Seige is from). He was and is in punk bands, and pop bands and other kinds of bands. He used to run a show house called the HOSS, and now he writes for, and does other things for the Boston Hassle website, Boston Compass newspaper and its mother organization, the Boston Hassle arts organization. He continues to pursue the opening of an artistically free and inspiring performance space in the Boston area. He made too many lists.
This is sooooooo late to the game that it’s kind of ridiculous.
If you can get past that though you’ll find an un-ordered list of the records that really got me in the last year’s time.
I wanted to write words about each one and all that, but I ran out of time, biting off more list-wise than I could possibly chew.
Read about/listen to: MY FAVORITE BOSTON & NEW ENGLAND RECORDS of 2013
I separated that list and this list out so as to emphasize the Boston & New England artists.
If I was only doing one list (probably should have, eh?) it would be some cross pollination of this and that because
certainly many of my absolute favorite records from last year were made in and by New England.
But who cares? That’s not what happened.
Anyway, here’s my favorite records from 2013 that weren’t made by artists living in New England.
– Dan
No Joy – Wait To Pleasure (Mexican Summer)
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PC Worship – Beat Punk (New Images)
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Kraus – Supreme Commander (Moniker Records)
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Moonrises – Frozen Alters (Captcha)
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The Ding Dongs – Rang Tang Ding Dong (Norton Records)
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Prostitutes – Shatter and Lose (Diagonal)
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Gobby – Lantern EP (UNO NYC)
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DOWNLOAD the LANTERN EP
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Folklore Venom (Hospital Productions)
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Quicksails – Mayville Dream (Spectrum Spools)
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Stillsuit – s/t (self-released)
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Nohome – s/t (Trost)
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Neonates – s/t (self-released)
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Priests – Tape Two (Sister Polygon)
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Johns – House of Wrongheads (self-released)
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Constant Mongrel – Heavy Breathing (Siltbreeze)
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Nate Young/ Regression – Blinding Confusion (NNA Tapes)
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Dan Melchior – K-85 (Homeless Records)
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Gary Wrong Group – Knights of Misery (Total Punk/ Jeff Row Records)
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The Mantles – Long Enough To Leave (Slumberland Records)
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Homeshake – The Homeshake Tape (Fixture Records)
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Ashley Paul – Line The Clouds (rel records)
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The Focus Group – Elektrik Karousel (Ghost Box)
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Fuck Off Dad – s/t (Unit Structure Sound Recordings)
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Dichroics – Short Dirty Threads (self-released)
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Crosss – Obsidian Spectre (Telephone Explosion)
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John Butcher – Winter Gardens (Kukuruku Recordings)
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Robert Beatty – Soundtracks For Takeshi Murata (Glistening Examples)
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The Mallard – Finding Meaning In Deference (Castle Face)
Mohammed – Som Sakrifis (PAN)
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Super Onze – Gao (Sahelsounds)
Blanche Blanche Blanche – Breaking Mirrors (Wharf Cat Records)
Terrence Dixon – Badge of Honor (Surface Records)
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Will Over Matter – Phenomenal Highways (White Denim)
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN! (no streams available internet-wide?!?)
ALSO:
Mutwawa side – Watchers From The Abyss (split w/ Seal Team 666) (C.N.P. Records)
Ghastly Spats – We’re Breaking Through The Hymen 7″ (Heinous Anus Records)
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Rolling Acres side – Mirror & Gate Vol. II (split tape w/ Hobo Cubes) (Blowing Up The Workshop/ Opal Tapes)
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Juan Wauters – Sanity 7″ (Wayward Records)
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Housewives – Fuck You Or Fuck Yeah 7″ (Anti-Fade Records)
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Video – Join The Hate Wave 7″ (Total Punk)
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Orphan Fairytale – Secret Beaches 7″ (Ultra Eczema)
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Meridian Brothers – Purple Haze 7″ (Soundway Records)
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Good Throb – 7″ (SuperFi Records)
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Roco Jet – Oracle 7″ (Folktale Records)
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ALSO ALSO SEE MY OTHER 2013 LISTS:
THE (mostly) NEWER BOSTON/ NEW ENGLAND BANDS I WANT & NEED TAPES/RECORDS FROM IN 2014
10 Live Videos That I Took, and That I Then Forgot Existed (2013 edition)
MY FAVORITE BOSTON & NEW ENGLAND RECORDS of 2013
Six Unforgettable Shows from Boston’s Music Underground in 2013
