We didn’t assemble a mid-year Best Of list for Nebraska albums this year. Though we certainly could have.
The first half of 2014 was marked by significant and diverse releases from M34N STR33T, Universe Contest, The Faint, Jack Hotel and many more.
If you’re still digesting those albums, more power to you, but it’s also time to look ahead to what the upcoming seasons hold for Nebraska music. For starters, a very fast follow-up to Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers’ January debut. We look ahead to promising debut full-lengths from Oketo, Manic Pixie Dream Girls and blét. And we await further details on in-progress albums from Omaha names like Twinsmith and Icky Blossoms.
Please add any that we’re missing in the comments. Now, get out there, go to shows and buy original, local music.
Fall 2014 | TBA
Oketo — Debut LP
Lot Walks — Debut LP
Purveyors of the Conscious Sound — Omaha Artist Compilation
TIT (Digital Leather & The Hussy) — Debut LP on FDH Records
Kill County — Broken Glass in the Sun
John Klemmensen and the Party — Party All Night
Pharmacy Spirits — forced, legitimate waif – EP
September 2014
Routine Escorts — Good Lies EP
Bus Gas — Snake Hymns
Thirst Things First — E-Energy, Sept. 26 at Knickerbockers
Xoboi — I Before E
Brsix — Open EP
Memory Mines — Time Hurts With Time, Sept. 30 release
October 2014
Bonehart Flannigan — Backpacks and Mason Jars, Oct. 2 at O’Leaver’s
Marcey Yates — The Cult
The Matador — LP Release, Oct. 3 at The Waiting Room
Low Long Signal — Foreign Body, Oct. 3 at Reverb Lounge
Mint Wad Willy – wonferdul, Oct. 11 at Barley Street Tavern
Megaherbs — Title TBD, Oct. 31 release
November 2014
blét — Debut LP
Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers — Second Album, Nov. 7 at Zoo Bar
December 2014
TKO — Debut LP
Mike Semrad (The Bottle Tops) — Solo Record
Winter 2015
Manic Pixie Dream Girls — Debut LP
Matt Whipkey — Underwater (Feb. 2015)
AZP — Full Moon EP (Feb. 2015)
Root Marm Chicken Farm Jug Band — Her Farmer’s Hooch EP
Superior — New LP
Southpaw Bluegrass — Forthcoming Third Album
Evan Bartels and the Stoney Lonesomes — Debut LP
Chris Atkins — Warm Fuzzies
Bluebird — TBA Vinyl EP
2015 | TBA
Twinsmith — Second LP
Icky Blossoms — Second LP