Favorite EP's of 2013

I'm finally getting around to posting the last of my year's best lists.  Still have guest lists upcoming.

I think some of the absolute greatest releases of 2013 were EP's or 7"s.

I was most fond of these . . .

1. Break-Ups - "It's Complicated"
2. Chumped - S/T
3. Gameday Regulars - "Nobody Likes a Quitter"
4. The Smith Street Band - "Don't Fuck With Our Dreams"
5. Habits - "Train Wrecks"
6. Lucero - "Texas & Tennessee"
7. Muncie Girls - "Sleepless"
8. California X - "Sucker/Mummy"
9. Dexateens - "Sunsphere"
10. Crimes - S/T

and since i'm so terrible at concise lists here's other bands that put out less than full lengths that I loved during the past year

Downbound City, Lydia Loveless, Pentimento, Pet Symmetry, And We Danced, Porter and the Pollies, Downtown Struts, Title Fight, Paint it Black, plus more i'm certain i'm forgetting.

Anyhow, here's a playlist including those who swim in the spotify pool.  Check out bandcamp for all those absent.

DPDC Best EPs/Singles of 2013

Friday Playlist - 1/3

Tracklist:
Frank Turner - I am Disappeared / Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles / Menzingers - The Obituaries / Weakerthans - Benediction / Dikembe - I Watch Alot of Jackie Chan Movies / Nato Coles & The Blue Diamond Band - Rudes and Cheaps / Against Me! - Slurring the Rhythms / You Blew It! - I'm Bill Paxton / Save Ends - Same Old Dice / Donovan Wolfington - Die Alone / The Arrivals - Simple Pleasures in America / Bedford Falls - Crockherbton / Bangers - The Mitigation Committee / Lucero -Tears Don't Matter Much / Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified / Dillinger Four - Shiny Things is Good / Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Master of Art / LaGrecia - Baseball Ghosts / The Smith Street Band - Get High, See Mice / Lauderdale - Drink to Sleep 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 1/3/14

2013 Best of the Rest (songs)

Since (like last year) it was ridiculously tough to narrow down a top albums list, I wanted to again (like last year) share some of my hands down favorite songs of the year, off of albums or EPs that narrowly (I know, I know and probably wrongly) missed my "best of" cut. Please check them out. I sincerely only make the playlists, best of lists, etc. in hope that others might relish some of the music I love. This set is far from exhaustive.

Here are the songs in no particular priority order, along with a playlist.

DPDC 2013 Best of the Rest (songs)

Failures' Union - Human Shield / Laura Stevenson - Runner / Woahnows - Grey Matters / Austin Lucas - Alone in Memphis / Placeholder - Stay Here / Little Big Leagure - Lindsey / Drag the River -Wichita Skyline / Frank Turner - Plain Sailing Weather / Broadway Calls - Open Letter / Ex Friends - Dirty Ben Franklin / Off With Their Heads - Shirts / Allison Weiss - How to be Alone / Sundowners - Right Down Broadway / Neko Case - Man / Sebadoh - Defend yr Self / Todd Farrell Jr. & The Dirty Birds - Year in Review / Superchunk - Breaking Down / Swearin' - Dust in the Gold Sack / Alkaline Trio - Broken Wing / Ma, Jolie - Brace, Smile / Roomrunner - Weird / Have Gun, Will Travel - Take Me Home Alice

Favorite Albums of 2013

Wanted to get my best albums (full lengths) of 2013 rundown, and associated playlist, up before I head south to Atlanta for holiday vacation. Expect a Best EP/7" list and set of favorite songs from this year that happen to be off albums just outside these two lists (was hard to pare things down) in the very near future.  I also will  be posting top 10 (ish) lists from some great people with impeccable taste over the next week or two.  So, with all that said, here's my top 25 for the year.

DPDC Best Albums of 2013 (w/ playlist)

1. Restorations - LP2
2. Arliss Nancy - Wild American Runners
3. Captain We're Sinking - The Future is Cancelled
4. Worship This! - Tomorrow I'll Miss You
5. Red City Radio - Titles
6. Two Cow Garage - The Death of the Self Preservation Society
7. Banquets - S/T
8. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
9. Signals Midwest - Light on the Lake
10. Broadcaster - A Million Hours
11. The Bootheel - Goat's Lodge
12. Donovan Wolfington - Stop Breathing
13. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple
14. Doc Feldman & The LD50 - Sundowning at the Station
15. Nightmares for a Week - Civilian War
16. The Sky We Scrape - Divides
17. Iron Chic - The Constant One
18. Lemuria - The Distance is So Big
19. John Moreland - In the Throes
20. Elway - Leavetaking
21. Save Ends - Warm Hearts Cold Hands
22. Sundowner - Neon Fiction
23. Great Apes - Thread
24. Flatliners - Dead Language
25. Great Cynics - Like I Belong

Just missed: Austin Lucas, Little Big League, Jimmy Islip & The Ghosts, Swearin', Laura Stevenson and several others.

Friday Playlist - 12/20

Tracklist:
Captain We're Sinking - Beer Can / Frightened Rabbit - Holy / Big Eyes - Nothing You Could Say / Arliss Nancy - The Crease / Gateway District - Murakami Novels / Tim Easton - Dear Old Song & Dance / Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With The Flow / The Sky We Scrape - Invisible Hands / John K. Samson - Highway 1 West / Night Marchers - Loud Dumb and Mean / Lawrence Arms - Smokestacks / Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Codeine / Future Virgins - 60s Sweater / Damien Jurado - Arkansas / theHell - Vas Te Faire Foutre / Tenement - Stupid Werld / The Heelers - My Disease / Luther - The Second Star / Jawbreaker - Ashtray Monument / Tim Barry - 222

DPDC Friday Playlist - 12/20/13

Friday Playlist - 12/13

Long one to compensate for the 2 week layoff . . .

Tracklist:
Timeshares - Oh No Not That / Old Flings - Postcards / Ladyhawk - The Dugout / American Aquarium - Abe Lincoln / Dikembe - Apology Not Fucking Accepted / The Menzingers - Nice Things / Cloud Nothings - Fall In / Ex Friends - Kenzos / Chumped - Union Square / Signals Midwest - The Desert to Denver / Cheap Girls - Ft. Lauderdale / Porter and the Pollies - Fourth of July / Guided By Voices - Cut-Out Witch / Red Collar - Catch a Ride / Red City Radio - The Silence Between / Laura Stevenson - Runner / The Holy Mess - Goodbye 3713 (Must Have Been a Good One) / Superchunk - Punch Me Harder / Gaslight Anthem -1930 / Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Volts / Futurebirds - Ski Chalet / Failures' Union - Human Shield / Todd Farrell & The Dirty Birds - Year in Review / El Cantador - My Way / Swearin' - Kenosha / Great Lakes USA - I Sold My Liver Down the River / Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The One Who Got Us Out / Alkaline Trio - Nose Over Tail / The Snips - Meeting Place / Milton Mapes - Everyone Around 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 12/13/13

Friday Playlist - 11/22

Tracklist:
Broadcaster - Jamie / Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - The Only Reason That I Know / Alkaline Trio - You're Dead / Iron Chic - Wolf Dix Rd. / Alone at 3am - Mexico / Frank Turner - Plain Sailing Weather / Elway - Prophetstown / Worship This! - Red Herring / Glossary - Hope and Peril / Weatherbox - My Head / Allison Weiss - How to Be Alone / California X - Sucker / Great Apes - Arms of Catastrophe / The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt / The Flatliners - Count Your Bruises / Broadway Calls - Give Up the Ghost / Cory Branan - Survivor Blues / Polar Bear Club - For Show / Sundowner - Poet of Trash / Dinosaur Jr. - Plans 

DPDC Friday Playlist 11/22/13

Friday Playlist - 11/15

Tracklist:

Restorations - Quit / Avail - S.R.O / The Evening Rig - Right Where She Wants Me / The District Attorneys - California Fire / Samiam - Ordinary Life / Ma Jolie - Brace, Smile / Title Fight - Where Am I? / Carpenter - Joan / Lucero - What Else Would You Have Me Be? / Sundials - Unpredictable / Arliss Nancy - Coals / Smoke or Fire - Hope & Anchor / I Am the Avalanche - Holy Fuck / Crusades - The Transport of Intrepid Souls / The Bootheel - Northsider / Plow United - Spindle / All Eyes West - One Less Arrow / Save Ends - Kurzweil / The Riot Before - Words Written Over Coffee / Truckstop Darlin' - South Carolina 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 11/15/13

Friday Playlist - 11/8

Tracklist:
Jawbox - Static / Apologies, I Have None - Sat in Vicky Park / Slobberbone - Trust Jesus / Great Cynics - Waster / Dexateens - Vengeance / Hot Water Music - Our Own Way / Telekinesis - Fever Chill / Drag the River - Wichita Skyline / Mind Spiders - The Steady / Lydia Loveless - All I Know / Banquets - Bums in the Breeze / Have Gun, Will Travel - The Show Must Go On / Chumped - Someday / Iron Chic - Bustin' (Makes Me Feel Good) / Swearin' - Dust in the Gold Sack / The National - Available / Nightlights - Are You the Keymaster? / The Sidekicks - Go! Go! Go! Green! Green! Green! / Pentimento - No One Lets You Know / I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House - Ghost 

DPDC Friday Playlist 11/8/13

Friday Playlist - 11/1

Tracklist:
Hold Steady - The Weekenders / Arms Aloft - This Bag is Not a Toy / Signals Midwest - 308 / Grand Champeen - To the Ides / Bangers - Wizard Wise / The Mendoza Line - Mysterious in Black / Muncie Girls - Sleepless / Woahnows - Grey Matters / Red City Radio - Purple Heart Paperweight / Band of Horses - Weed Party / The Swellers - Great Lakes State / Deer Tick - Chevy Express / Lifetime - Airport Monday Morning / The Henry Clay People - Andy Sings! / The Hotel Year - Still-Water Spectacle / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Pastorals / The Slow Death - Hang Up the Phone / The Dopamines - 10 Stories / Wrinkle Neck Mules - Howard Johnson / John K. Samson - Grace General

DPDC Friday Playlist - 11/1/2013

Friday Playlist - Thursday Edition - 10/24

Tracklist:

Broadcaster - Wasting Time With You / Bob Mould - Silver Age / Arliss Nancy - Both Got Old / Rural Alberta Advantage - Muscle Relaxants / Banner Pilot - Red Line / Lauderdale - The Grant / Dead Mechanical - My Young Family / Smith Street Band - Ducks Fly Together / Jawbreaker - In Sadding Around / Gameday Regulars - Hearts and Bones / Alone at 3am - Factory / Lawrence Arms - The First Eviction Notice / Chad Price - Peachy Tuscadero / Captain, We're Sinking - Montreal / Sun Kil Moon - Lily and Parrots / Future Virgins - Old Harmony / Weezer - The Good Life / Two Cow Garage - Hey Cinderella / Bedford Falls - Connor / Joey Kneiser - Bruised Ribs 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/25/13

Friday Playlist 10/18

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - Two Notes Shy of an Octave / Eastern Anchors - Far from OK / Tim Version - Shin Splints / The Flatliners - Tail Feathers / Brick Mower - Cheap Gasoline / Mule - Mississippi Breaks / Rocky Votolato - 20 Degrees / Ex Friends - Dirty Ben Franklin / Pavement - Summer Babe / Elway - One Flew West / Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy / LaGrecia - Filler / Lipstick Homicide - We'll Be OK / Burning Airlines - Outside the Aviary / Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed / Limbeck - Tan + Blue / The Holy Mess - Cigarette Reflections / Laura Veirs - Black Gold Blues / The Weight - Dragged Back In / Hanalei - Moth to Flame 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/18/13

Friday Playlist - 10/11

Tracklist:
Broadcaster - The Current / Sundials - 710 / Arliss Nancy - Directions Never Hold / Iron Chic - Spooky Action at a Distance / Teen Agers - Moving Forward / Football, Etc. - Goal / Tim Vantol - I Could Have Been a Dancer / Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks / Nightmares for a Week - Let's Talk About Healing / Luther - The Glory Bees / Signals Midwest - In Tensions / Crazy Arm - Little Boats / Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready / Blacklist Royals - Howling at the Moonlight / Dikembe - I'm Gonna Deck Your Halls, Bub! / Paper Arms - The Heart Within / Roomrunner - Weird / Lemuria - Lick Your Lips / The Weakerthans - Aside / Osker - Animal / Uncle Tupelo - Punch Drunk / Smith Street Band - What's Changed / Cloud Nothings - Our Plans / Donovan Wolfington - American Spirits / Sundowner - Beautiful Ruins 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/11/13

Friday Playlist - 10/4

Tracklist:
Kite Party - Arizona / Nothington - Stop Screaming / Criteria - Prevent the World / Attack in Black - Marriage / The National - Fashion Coat / Living Daylights - These Roads / John Moreland & The Black Gold Band - Ruin My Night / Ninja Gun - Red State Blues / River Jumpers - Five Doors Down / The Riot Before - Threat Level Midnight / The Steve Adamyk Band - Wait for you Number / American Aquarium - Savannah Almost Killed Me / Hostage Calm - Woke Up Next to a Body / Banquets - Big Big Waves / Fake Problems - ADT / Tigers Jaw - Crystal Vision / Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built / Heartsounds - The Song Inside Me / Alone at 3am - A Change is Coming / William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/4/13

Friday Playlist - 9/27/13

Tracklist:
Red Collar - American Me / Old Flings - Choke / Allison Weiss - Don't Go / All Eyes West - Fact or Fiction?  / Nirvana - Very Ape / Diamond Youth - The Feeling / Worship This! - The Fear of Missing Out / Timeshares - Sarah, Send Your Driver / Truckstop Coffee - Gas Tank / Hold Steady - Stay Positive / American Steel - To the Sea / Aloha - Moonless March / The Dopamines - Public Domain / Yuck - Georgia / Centro-Matic - Reset Anytime / Great Lakes USA - No Boyfriends / The Get Up Kids - Holiday / Great Apes - Seventeen Years / Civil War Rust - Freight Train / Dead to Me - The Hands with Inherited Rings / The Brokedowns - This Cult is a Bummer / Johnny Foreigner - Champagne Girls I Have Known / Unwound - Demolished / The New Lows - Stove / NQ Arbuckle - Darkness Has Fallen

DPDC Friday Playlist 9/27/2013

Friday Playlist - 9/20

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - Drinking Yourself Into the Future / Evening Rig - Half Asleep / Placeholder - Stay Here / Bloc Party - Helicopter / Against Me! - Russian Spies / Lucero - And We Fell / Like Bats - 3814 Wirth Road / Elway - Tapout Endorsement: The Musical / The Cut Ups - The Wrong Side of the River / Larry and His Flask - Ebb and Flow / David Bazan - Gas and Matches / The Bronx - Torches / Dave Hause - We Could Be Kings / The Saint Catherines - We Used to Be in Love / Constantines - On to You / Red Animal War - Dark Country / Sebadoh - Defend Yr Self / Make Do and Mend - Oak Square / Butterfly Train - What's Falling About / Spoon - Jonathan Fisk / Two Cow Garage - Annie, Get Your Guns / Doc Feldman & The LD 50 - A Texas Moan 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 9/20/13

Friday Playlist - 9/13

Tracklist:
Arliss Nancy - Owen / Banner Pilot - Saltash Luck / The Thermals - I Don't Believe You / The Loved Ones - Living Will / Bomb the Music Industry! - 493 Ruth / Cloud Nothings - Fall In / Run, Forever - Sun Bruised / Glossary - American Bruises / Campaign - Old Friend / Balance and Composure - Kaleidoscope / Great Cynics - Ways Down / Drag the River - Losers / The Jazz June - The Scars to Prove It / Young Livers - Of Misery and Toil / Macon Greyson - Minnesota Weather Map / Ben Nichols - Toadvine / Smoke or Fire - Little Bohemia / Dead Mechanical - Scoop Me Up / Unrest - Cath Carroll / Have Gun, Will Travel - Take Me Home Alice

DPDC Friday Playlist 9/13/13

Friday Playlist - 9/6

Tracklist:
Sundowner - Cemetary West / Broadcaster - Anything You Never Heard / Riverboat Gamblers - Don't Bury Me . . . I'm Still Not Dead Yet / The Ergs - Jazz is like the New Coke / Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh / Andrew Jackson Jihad - Hate, Rain on Me / The Stereo State - As Honest as I Can Be / Farside - Statues of Snow / Five Eight - God Damn It Paul / State Champion - No Magic / Jon Snodgrass (w/ Chris Wollard) - Campaign Song '93 / Samiam - 80 West / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction / New Bruises - There Was Only One Johnny Cash / Pity Sex - Drown Me Out / Cheap Girls - All My Clean Friends / The Taxpayers - Everything is Awful / Avail - McCarthy / Roman Candle - Woke Up This Morning / The Copyrights - 20 Feet Tall / Jimmy Islip (w/ Jon Snodgrass) - It Tastes Bitter / Direct Hit! - Home to You / Now, Now - Dead Oaks / Drive-by Truckers - Sounds Better in the Song 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 9/6/13

Friday Playlist - 8/30

Tracklist:

Fugazi - Back to Base / The Bootheel - Good Time / Austin Lucas - Let Me In / All Eyes West - Miss Medicine / Get Bent - On Excuses / The Front Bottoms - Skeleton / Team Dresch - She's Crushing My Mind / Vulture Whale - Take It Easier / Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 / Lower Dens - Tea Lights / Restorations - When You're Older / Grade - A Year in the Past, Forever in the Future / Banquets - Lips to the Ground / Built to Spill - Carry the Zero / Little Big League - Lindsey / Belle & Sebastian - Me & The Major / Swearin' - Here to Hear / Gaslight Anthem - The Patient Ferris Wheel / Snakehealers - Roadside / Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union

DPDC Friday Playlist - 8/30/13 

Friday Playlist - 8/16

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - We are the Sons of Woody Guthrie / Two Cow Garage - Geri / Apologies, I Have None - 60 Miles / Fistful of Beard - 5th Ave / Worship This! - Summit Tower / The Flatliners - Here Comes the Treble / The Pollies - Something New / Todd Farrell - Take It Slow / Nightmares for a Week - Let's Talk About Healing / Dillinger Four - Who Didn't Kill Bambi? / You Blew It! - Terry vs. Tori / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Teenage DMZ / Band of Horses - Laredo / Japandroids - Younger Us / John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls - Christmas Lights / Pentimento - Unless / American Steel - Every New Morning / Sharks - 'Til the Wonders Rise / Mischief Brew - Three Chord Circus / The Mountain Goats - Color in Your Cheeks 

DPDC Friday Playlist 8/16/13

Friday Playlist - 8/9

Tracklist:
American Aquarium - Burn.Flicker.Die / Waters - For the One / Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords / The Menzingers - I Can't Seem to Tell / Hostage Calm - Rebel Fatigues / Paul Westerberg - Let's Not Belong Together / Red Collar - American Me / The New Lows - Stove / Banner Pilot - Skeleton Key / Placeholder - Mary / Husker Du - Something I Learned Today / Neko Case - Man / The Red Hills - Trailers, Fires, and Trans Ams / Crimes - Something / The Hold Steady - Stay Positive / Downtown Struts - Anchors / Gameday Regulars - Kiss the Cup / Joyce Manor - Derailed / Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe / Tim Barry - Moving on Blue

DPDC Friday Playlist - 8/9/13

Friday Playlist - 8/2

Tracklist:
Great Cynics - In The Valley / Dear Landlord - Three to the Beach / Save Ends - Time and Tarnish / Criteria - Me On Your Front Porch / Great Apes - Detonator / Lydia Loveless - Bad Way to Go / Jawbreaker - Busy / Restorations - Let's Blow Up The Sun / Alone at 3am - Mexico / The Takers - St. John's Son / Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government / Off With Their Heads - For the Four / Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine / Rainer Maria - Thought I Was / Rivalries - Built to Last / Ted Leo + The Pharmacists - The One Who Got Us Out / Latterman - 'Dozer Rage / Sundowners - Right Down Broadway / Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With The Flow / Slobberbone - Get Gone Again

DPDC Friday Playlist 8/2/13

Boston Bandcamp - Somos + Save Ends

In the interest of trying to post more routinely on the site again . . .

The signing of the former to Tiny Engines reminded me to tell you, Somos and Save Ends are a pair of bands from Boston you should probably start listening to today, if you aren't already. Parenthetically, and in all sincerity just get everything on Tiny Engines, past, present, and future.

Friday Playlist - 7/26

Tracklist:
Bedford Falls - St. Swithin's Day / Bangers - The Mitigation Committee / Mount Moriah - Bright Light / Donovan Wolfington - Die Alone / Austin Lucas - Alone in Memphis / The Holy Mess - World Renowned Bonafide Shitshow / Failure's Union - You Were Right / John K. Samson - When I Write My Master's Thesis / Lifetime - 25 Cent Giraffes / Elway - Salton Sea / Drag The River - Me & Joe Drove Out to California / Arliss Nancy - Pages / Johnny Foreigner - Yes! You Talk Too Fast / 500 Miles to Memphis - Shots / Connections - 1980 Called / The Night Marchers - Pain / Waxahatchee - Brother Bryan / Fifth Hour Hero - Cut Me Dead / Southern Bitch - Mark of the Beast / American Princes - Providence, RI

DPDC Friday Playlist - 7/26/13

Friday Playlist - 7/19

Tracklist:
88 Fingers Louie - Reparation / Worship This! - Jen, with 2 N's / Banner Pilot - Speed Trap / The Bootheel - Game Six / Nightmares for a Week - Bloodshot Monday / Guided By Voices - Motor Away / Lucero - Bikeriders / The Menzingers - Time Tables / Grabass Charlestons - Fall Guy / The Tim Version - Shin Splints / The Measure [sa] - Dullards and a Dreadful Pose / Look Mexico - You Stay. I Go. No Following / Cory Branan - The Corner / Arms Aloft - Irish Coffee / The Loved Ones - Jane / The Marked Men - A Little Time / The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer / Garden Variety - Rode (for Justin) / Run, Forever - Maritime States / Doc Feldmen & The LD50 - Bless This Mess 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 7/19/13