Well, we finally made it. After 12 months of filling our website with news, features, streams, videos, downloads, podcasts, and more, it’s once again time for XLR8R to take a little break. Given that the music industry has essentially ground to a halt for the holidays, we’ve elected to follow suit and lay off the daily onslaught of new content for the next couple of weeks. Although we may pop in with the occasional post here and there (especially if something important happens), our regular schedule won’t resume until Monday, January 5. In the meantime though, we’d like to encourage our audience to take a look back at the Best of 2014 series, which includes all of our attempts to sum up the year gone by, not to mention a whole lot of lists. (To make things easier, we’ve posted links after the jump.) Aside from that, we hope that everyone has a great holiday season and a happy new year. And of course, thanks for reading.

XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Top Downloads (100 – 76)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Top Downloads (75 – 51)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Top Downloads (50 – 26)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Top Downloads (25 – 1)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Features
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Podcasts
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Gear
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Tracks (50 – 26)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Tracks (25 – 1)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Releases (30 – 16)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Releases (15 – 1)
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: New Artists
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Labels
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Readers Poll
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Odds and Ends, Part 1
XLR8R’s Best of 2014: Odds and Ends, Part 2