Our Staff Best Of 2014 list will be posted shortly, but in the meantime here's hoping this guide helps you find the right gift for any or all of the music-obsessed in your life/on your list (current availability cannot be guaranteed, so feel free to call or email us to confirm stock):
FOLK-ROCK/AMERICANA
VA - Native North America
LEAD KINDLY LIGHT (hardcover + 2CD)
PARCHMAN FARM: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947-1959 (hardcover + 2CD)
VA - When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936 (3CD)
BOB DYLAN - The Basement Tapes Complete/Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (6CD / 2CD or 3LP)
THE OXFORD AMERICAN - Southern Music Issue 2014 (magazine + CD)
NEIL YOUNG - Storytone (CD or 2CD)
WILCO - What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014 (2CD)
WILCO - Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 (4CD or 4LP)
BLUES IMAGES 2015 CALENDAR: Classic Blues Artwork From The 1920s, Vol. 12 (CD included)
MISANTHROPIC MAVERICKS & CHARISMATIC CRANKS
VA - There's A Dream I've Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971 (8LP/4CD/book/DVD)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972 (4CD)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - S/T (45th Anniversary Deluxe Editions) (CD remaster / 2CD / 2LP / 6CD)
NICK CAVE: 20,000 Days On Earth (DVD/Blu-ray)
EVERYTHING'S GONE GREY: ALTERNATIVE ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS (ET AL.)
BARBED WIRE KISSES: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story (hardcover)
SUB POP USA: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988 (paperback)
UNWOUND - No Energy (3LP)
BEDHEAD - 1992-1998 (4CD)
The Last Pogo Jumps Again (DVD)
The Pitchfork Review No. 4
YO LA TENGO - Extra Painful (2CD / 2LP)
PIXIES - Doolittle 25 (3CD)
INTERNATIONAL SELECTIONS
WILLIAM ONYEABOR - CD box set (9CD)
VERCKYS ET L'ORCHESTRE VÉVÉ - Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba (hardcover)
VA - 90 Degrees Of Shade: Hot Jump-Up Island Sounds From The Caribbean (2CD / 2LP [Vols. 1 + 2])
SOUL 'N' ROCK'N'ROLL
VA - Such A Much: R&B Girls of the '50s & '60s
VA - Hang On Sloopy: The Bert Berns Story Volume 3
VA - Bring It On Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke
L.C. COOKE - The Complete SAR Recordings
JAZZ INNOVATIONS/VOCAL INTERPRETATIONS
JOHN COLTRANE - Offering: Live at Temple University (2CD)
VA - Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical and Revolutionary Jazz in the USA 1957-82 (2CD / 3LP)
BLACK FIRE! NEW SPIRITS! IMAGES OF A REVOLUTION: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75 (hardcover)
VA - Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression (5CD)
BLUE NOTE: UNCOMPROMISING EXPRESSION (hardcover)
SHE & HIM - Classics (CD / LP)
POPULAR POETS/MUSIC MEMOIRS
LEONARD COHEN - Popular Problems (CD / LP)
I'M YOUR MAN: The Life of Leonard Cohen (paperback)
PATTI SMITH - Just Kids (paperback)
JERRY LEE LEWIS: His Own Story (hardcover)
VIV ALBERTINE - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys (hardcover)
JONI MITCHELL: In Her Own Words (hardcover)
GLYN JOHNS - Sound Man (hardcover)
...AND YOU DON'T STOP
HIP-HOP FAMILY TREE BOOK 1: 1970s-1981 (paperback)
HIP-HOP FAMILY TREE BOOK 2: 1981-1983 (paperback)
CHECK THE TECHNIQUE VOLUME 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (paperback)
THE DIRTY VERSION: On Stage, In the Studio, and In the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard (hardcover)
DISCO: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records (hardcover)
VA - Disco: A Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82 (2CD / 2LP [Vols. 1 + 2])
(...AND IF YOU'RE STILL STUCK)
GIFT CERTIFICATES (which can be written out in any denomination)
Happy holidays!