Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2014
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2014
1 Thee Oh Sees / Damaged Bug (John Dwyer) USA (N - one album by each)
2 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA
3 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Pavement USA (N)
4 Liars USA/Australia (N)
5 Chrome USA
6 Swans USA (N)
7 OOIOO Japan (N)
8 The Skull Defekts Sweden (N)
9 The Budos Band USA (N)
10 Brian Eno UK (N - two collaborations with Karl Hyde)
11 Death USA (N - previously unreleased material)
12 The Black Lips USA (N)
13 Miles Davis USA
14 Scott Walker USA/UK (N - collaboration with Sunn O))))
15 Neil Young Canada (N - two albums)
16 Ariel Pink USA (N)
17 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA (N - box set of unreleased outtakes)
18 William Shatner Canada
19 Ty Segall USA (N)
20 White Fence USA (N)
21 Trin Tran USA (N)
22 Sonic Youth / solo projects & spinoffs USA (N - Thurston Moore solo album)
23 Sunn O))) USA (N - collaboration with Scott Walker)
24 Vangelis / Aphrodite's Child Greece
25 Eleanor Friedberger / The Fiery Furnaces USA
26 Fairport Convention / Richard Thompson / Sandy Denny UK
27 Meat Puppets USA
28 Laetitia Sadier / Stereolab France/UK (N)
29 MC5 USA
30 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK (N - Crosby solo album)
31 Bo Ningen Japan (N)
32 The Guess Who Canada
33 Kool & The Gang USA
34 Radio Moscow USA (N)
35 Neneh Cherry Sweden/UK (N)
36 Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band Japan/USA (N)
37 Woodsman USA (N)
38 Deerhoof USA/Japan (N)
39 Parliament / Funkadelic USA
40 Earthling Society UK (N)
41 Yes UK
42 The Stooges / Iggy Pop USA (N - James Williamson album)
43 Bob Dylan USA (N - Basement Tapes "complete" box set)
44 Faust Germany
45 Kraftwerk Germany
46 Boris Japan (N)
47 Amon Duul II Germany
48 Black Bananas / Royal Trux USA (N)
49 The Black Angels USA (N)
50 Caribou / Daphni Canada (N)
51 Melvins USA
52 Peaking Lights USA (N)
53 Wildest Dreams (DJ Harvey) UK (N)
54 The Red Plastic Buddha USA (N)
55 Joni Mitchell Canada
56 Black Oak Arkansas USA
57 The Byrds USA
58 Jimi Hendrix USA
59 Chuck Prophet USA (N)
60 The Black Keys USA (N)
61 The Turtles / Flo & Eddie USA
62 The Grateful Dead USA
63 King Crimson UK
64 Mark McGuire USA (N)
65 Cluster / Harmonia / Moebius & Rodelius Germany
66 Watter USA (N)
67 The 13th Floor Elevators / Roky Erikson USA
68 Chase USA
69 Pink Floyd UK (N)
70 Black Sabbath UK
71 Van der Graaf Generator UK
72 Herbie Mann USA
73 Gabor Szabo Hungary/USA
74 Steely Dan USA
75 The Band Canada/USA (N - Basement Tapes "complete" box set)
76 Guru Guru Germany
77 Flaming Lips USA (N)
78 The Sea & Cake USA
79 Pixies USA (N)
80 Dinosaur Jr. / solo USA (N - J Mascis solo album)
81 Dr. John USA
82 The Art Ensemble of Chicago / Roscoe Mitchell USA
83 The Men USA (N)
84 The Nels Cline Singers USA (N)
85 The Socks France (N)
86 Blue Oyster Cult USA
87 Jade Warrior UK
88 Can Germany/USA/Japan
89 Richard & Mimi Farina USA
90 5-Track / The Walking Faces USA (N - one album by each)
91 Jefferson Airplane USA
92 Woods USA (N)
93 Beefus USA (N)
94 The Notwist Germany (N)
95 Sir Lord Baltimore USA
96 Il Sogno Del Marinaio (Mike Watt) Italy/USA (N)
97 Cibo Matto Japan/USA (N)
98 Little Barrie UK (N)
99 The Luck Of Eden Hall USA (N - single)
100 Archie Bronson Outfit UK (N)
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100
101 Sly & The Family Stone USA
102 The Monks USA/Germany
103 Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings USA (N)
104 Enoch Light & The Light Brigade USA
105 Dan Melchior Und Das Menace UK (N)
106 Tobacco / Black Moth Super Rainbow USA (N)
107 Guided By Voices USA (N)
108 Bes Monde USA (N)
109 The Beatles / solo UK
110 The Incredible String Band UK-Scotland
111 Budgie UK-Wales
112 John Coltrane USA
113 The Corporation USA
114 Quicksilver Messenger Service USA
115 Eric Burdon & The Animals UK
116 Spirit / Randy California USA
117 The Moody Blues UK
118 Magma France
119 Hawkwind UK
120 Rare Earth USA
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