As the editor here I see hundreds of photos a week. When sorting through these pictures I get to see all types of different quality images and it’s hard to find the best ones suitable for publishing due to lighting and composition. The best images always pop out instantly, as if they are jumping off the screen begging to be the next great cover shot. As a frequent contributor to the site I also know the hard work and dedication that goes in to getting the “perfect shot.”
I have compiled my favorite images from our incredible year here at P&W. The set ranges from powerhouses like Jack White and St. Vincent all the way to the relatively unknown local bands not yet on the national radar.
Article by: Shayne Hanley with contributions by Michael DiGiovanni, Lesley Keller, Jenna Pinch, Kayla Klein, Chrissy Lush, Ashley Rodriguez, Nick Fallon, Jonathan Miller, Caitlin Phillips, Marissa Mireles, Merissa Blitz and Liz Dennerlein.
Catch our favorite fan photos of 2014 here!
![Wakey Wakey](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140626_WakeyWakey_MHoW_IMG_1737_res-1024x682.jpg)
Wakey Wakey
![Streets of Laredo](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140710_StreetsofLaredo_RoughTrade_IMG_2194_res-1024x682.jpg)
Streets of Laredo
![Mother Feather](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140725_MotherFeather_MercuryLounge_IMG_3757_res-1024x682.jpg)
Mother Feather
![Sucre](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140915_Sucré_WebsterHall_IMG_7723_res-1024x682.jpg)
Sucre
![Fink](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140927_Fink_MHoW_IMG_8020_res-1024x682.jpg)
Fink
![Barcelona](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141004_Barcelona_MercuryLounge_IMG_0231_res-1024x682.jpg)
Barcelona
![Plastic Plates](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141011_PlasticPlatesandSamSparro_GovernorsBeachClub_IMG_1864_res-1024x682.jpg)
Plastic Plates
![Yeasayer](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141011_Yeasayer_GovernorsBeachClub_IMG_1955_res-1024x682.jpg)
Yeasayer
![ASTR](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141012_ASTR_GovernorsBeachClub_IMG_3224_res-1024x682.jpg)
ASTR
![Andy McKee](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141016_AndyMcKee_BBKings_IMG_4535_res-1024x682.jpg)
Andy McKee
![Mothxr](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141021_Mothxr_WebsterHall_IMG_5285_res.jpg)
Mothxr
![Waltz](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141024_Waltz_Pianos_IMG_7302_res-e1414513473655.jpg)
Waltz
![Smallpools](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141028_Smallpools_MHoW_IMG_8547_res.jpg)
Smallpools
![Public](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141102_Public_BoweryBallroom_IMG_9495_res-1024x682.jpg)
Public
![Walk The Moon](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141102_WalkTheMoon_BoweryBallroom_IMG_0129_res-1024x682.jpg)
Walk The Moon
![Walk The Moon](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141102_WalkTheMoon_BoweryBallroom_IMG_0480_res-1024x682.jpg)
Walk The Moon
![Hozier](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141106_Hozier_IrvingPlaza_IMG_0980_res-1024x682.jpg)
Hozier
![James Bay](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141106_JamesBay_IrvingPlaza_IMG_0700_res-1024x682.jpg)
James Bay
![Michael Malarkey](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141115_MichaelMalarkey_WebsterHall_IMG_2307_res-1024x682.jpg)
Michael Malarkey
![Robbie Lowe](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141115_RobbieLowe_WebsterHall_IMG_2163_res-1024x592.jpg)
Robbie Lowe
![Bears Den](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141125_BearsDen_Warsaw_IMG_3726_res-1024x6821.jpg)
Bears Den
![Perry Farrell](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/15352161517_ea5e5cb642_h-1024x682.jpg)
Perry Farrell
![Augustines](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Augustines_07a-1024x682.jpg)
Augustines
![Billy Idol](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bi18-1024x682.jpg)
Billy Idol
![Cage The Elephant](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CE6.jpg)
Cage The Elephant
![Cage The Elephant](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CE16-1024x682.jpg)
Cage The Elephant
![Clean Bandit](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Clean-Bandit-Webster-Hall-9-16-14-634-1024x682.jpg)
Clean Bandit
![Connan Mockasin and Mac Demarco](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CM3.jpg)
Connan Mockasin and Mac Demarco
![Coheed and Cambria](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Coheed_14-1024x749.jpg)
Coheed and Cambria
![Cymbals](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cymbals2_png.png)
Cymbals
![Dameht](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dameht-Pyramid-Club-8-8-14-18.png)
Dameht
![DSC_0050a-1024x797](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DSC_0050a-1024x797.jpg)
The Lawsuits
![Gov Ball](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DSC_0173.jpg)
Gov Ball
![DSC_1492a-1024x666](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DSC_1492a-1024x666.jpg)
Rise Against
![DEVO](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dv24-1024x682.jpg)
DEVO
![DEVO](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dv25.jpg)
DEVO
![Fredericks Brown](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/FB2-1024x682.png)
Fredericks Brown
![Fitz and the Tantrums](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Fitz-_-The-Tantrums-Terminal-5-11-12-14-1.png)
Fitz and the Tantrums
![Folding Legs](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/FL1.png)
Folding Legs
![Folas](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Foals3.png)
Foals
![Foster The People](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Foster-The-People-United-Palace-Theater-10-25-14-71.png)
Foster The People
![Fancy Reagan](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/fr1-1024x557.jpg)
Fancy Reagan
![J and the 9s](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0015-1024x690.jpg)
J and the 9s
![King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0659-1024x682.jpg)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
![STRNGRS](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0777-1024x682.jpg)
STRNGRS
![Walking Papers](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_1762-1024x682.jpg)
Walking Papers
![Walking Shapes](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_3927-1050x700-1024x682.jpg)
Walking Shapes
![Albert Hammond Jr.](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_4147.png)
Albert Hammond Jr.
![King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_4841-1024x682.jpg)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
![IMG_5345-1024x682](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_5345-1024x682.jpg)
Red Wanting Blue
![Thee Oh Seees](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_5417-1024x682.jpg)
Thee Oh Seees
![IMG_5942](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_5942-1024x683.jpg)
Brooklyn Bowl
![Hunters](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_6498-1024x682.jpg)
Hunters
![The War on Drugs](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_7772-1024x750.jpg)
The War on Drugs
![New Myths](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_9037-1024x682.jpg)
New Myths
![The Violence](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_9527-1024x682.jpg)
The Violence
![The Liza Colby Sound](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_9839-1024x682.jpg)
The Liza Colby Sound
![ja46-1024x682](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ja46-1024x682.jpg)
Janes Addiction
![Jack-White-16-1024x606](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Jack-White-16-1024x606.jpg)
Jack White
![JR](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/JR.jpg)
J Roddy and the Business
![LL25](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LL25-1024x683.jpg)
Lanterns on the Lake
![MA11](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MA11-1024x682.jpg)
Maya Azucena
![Matisyahu](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Matisyahu-Mercury-Lounge-6-2-14-264.png)
Matisyahu
![Mac Demarco](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/md6.jpg)
Mac Demarco
![Mother Feather](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mf14-1024x683.jpg)
Mother Feather
![MG1](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MG1.png)
My Goodness
![My Goodness](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MG31-1024x660.png)
My Goodness
![Milky Chance](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Milky-Chance-Bowery-Ballroom-10-13-14-1.png)
Milky Chance
![New Politics](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/New-Politics13-1024x6781.jpg)
New Politics
![Ok Go](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ok2-1024x682.jpg)
Ok Go
![Old 97's](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Old-97s-Brooklyn-Bowl-8-7-14-12-e1407590587781.png)
Old 97’s
![One-of-Lily-Allens-Dancers](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/One-of-Lily-Allens-Dancers.png)
Lilly Allen Dancer
![Panic At The Disco](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/panic231-1024x682.png)
Panic At The Disco
![Paolo Nutini](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paolo-Nutini-Webster-Hall-6-12-14-750-1024x682.jpg)
Paolo Nutini
![Pol The Fisherman](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PTF21.png)
Pol The Fisherman
![rb](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rb.png)
Royal Blood
![really-sweetone-1024x685](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/really-sweetone-1024x685.jpg)
WYATT
![Rocket & The Ghost](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rg1-1024x683.jpg)
Rocket & The Ghost
![The Rooks](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rooks1-1024x682.jpg)
The Rooks
![Reignwolf](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/RW1-1024x663.png)
Reignwolf
![Reignwolf](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rw5-1024x682.png)
Reignwolf
![Screaming Females](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sf24-1024x683.jpg)
Screaming Females
![Sister Sparrow](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sister-Sparrow-The-Dirty-Birds-Bowery-Ballroom-5-31-14-293.png)
Sister Sparrow
![St. Lucia](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/stluciacoverphoto-1050x700-1024x682.jpg)
St. Lucia
![St. Vincent](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sv11-1024x727.png)
St. Vincent
![Stargazy](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SY2.jpg)
Stargazy
![Stargazy](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SY18.jpg)
Stargazy
![The Colourist](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/The-Colourist-Bowery-Ballroom-6-23-14-1258.png)
The Colourist
![The Rentals](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/TR1-1024x682.jpg)
The Rentals
![The Rentals](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tr32-1024x682.jpg)
The Rentals
![Ume](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ume_09-1024x682.jpg)
Ume
![STRNGRS](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/untitled111111111111.png)
STRNGRS
![Wolvves](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wolvves6-1024x682.png)
Wolvves
![Ingrid Michaelson](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ingrid2-1024x6821.jpg)
Ingrid Michaelson
![Fat White Family](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_19121-1024x682.jpg)
Fat White Family
![Fat White Family](https://ef4537.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_20001-1024x682.jpg)
Fat White Family
Olivia
LOVE this