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January's roundup features music from Panda Bear, Father John Misty, Waxahatchee and more.

As the year comes to a close, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton join NPR Music editors Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson to reflect on the best music of 2014.

On this week's show we celebrate Bob Boilen's birthday and play the week's best new music.

Smith has a steady, well-trained swell of a voice and a knack for whipping in and out of his falsetto in a hairsbreadth. He doesn't feel the need to hide — certainly not by stifling his vocal skills.

Bad-boy golfer John Daly doesn't have an exercise regimen. He begins his day with a Diet Coke and a cigarette, and he has battled addictions to alcohol and gambling. But he sure can play. His new book is Golf My Own Damn Way.

On the Australian band's charming second album, a sweetly blithe sound can't quite mask the doubt and hesitation at the heart of the songs.

The gospel-punk band's self-titled debut couches its invective in feedback, guitar noise, bruising drum machines and Franklin James Fisher's guttural howls.

On its first full-length album, the Melbourne duo's mostly upbeat music is filled with questions about desire and life's priorities.

These are songs by and for feel-big dreamers, performed with a gift for weapons-grade ingratiation by a pair of born crowd-pleasers.

The band's leaders say Antibalas relies on two factors to play well: tropical temperatures and a relaxed pace. The ensemble's latest album is simply titled Antibalas.