ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- Chet Faker - Built On Glass
- Megan Washington - There There
- Taylor Swift - 1989
- The Ocean Party - Soft Focus
- Straight Arrows - Rising
- Warpaint - Warpaint
- Ty Segall - Manipulator
- The Frowning Clouds - Legalize Everything
- Richard In Your Mind - Ponderosa
- The Jezabels - The Brink
SONG OF THE YEAR
- Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
- Sia - Chandelier
- Megan Washington - Limitless
- Beyoncé ft Nicki Minaj - Flawless (Remix)
- Taylor Swift - Blank Space
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
- Violent Soho
- Taylor Swift
- Chet Faker
- Sia
- Megan Washington
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE
- Miley Cyrus
- Kanye West
- The National
- Warpaint
- Temples
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE
- Violent Soho
- Something For Kate
- Courtney Barnett
- Palms
- Cam Avery
TOP TV SHOW
- Girls
- Please Like Me
- Upper Middle Bogan
- True Detective
- The Chaser's Media Circus
TOP MOVIE
- Boyhood
- This Is Where I Leave You
- Frank
- Happy Christmas
- The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Her
TOP WEBSITE
- The Lifted Brow: Online
- Overland Online
- Kill Your Darlings Journal Online
- Junkee
- Daily Life
HIGHLIGHT OF 2014
The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre, War Is Over - If You Want It by Yoko Ono at MCA, reading Joan Didion for the first time. New York. Bar openings and udon. Radio spots, editorial slots, performance spots, fiction slots. Being a real adult journalist and receiving hate mail, but also receiving really positive vibes for the Something For Kate reissue series. Speaking to Conor Oberst and getting an “us-ie” with Paul Dempsey. Miley fucking Cyrus. What a year.
PREDICTION FOR 2015
Taylor Swift performs the concert of the year just in time for the 2015 Writers’ Poll. Everyone else is too hip to admit it.
