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June 2013
Young Galaxy
Young Galaxy rocket to the top of the !earshot top 200 for May 2013 with Ultramarine. Meanwhile the Besnard Lakes reside in the #2 slot for the seond month with Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO and Born Ruffians, A Tribe Called Red and No Joy move into the top 5. See the latest charts action on the weekly charts.
Grimes tops out Top 200 of 2012 as the most played album on campus / community radio across Canada with her stellar break out, Visions. Japandroids are another band that broke big this year landing Celebration Rock in the number 2 spot on the Top 200 of 2012. And Metric had another strong year and finishes at number 3.
Features
Four Tet
10 years ago, Four Tet's Rounds altered the meaning of Electronic music. By Gabriel Gutierrez
The Crackling Make Ears Burn
Not satisfied with mere pyromania, The Crackling lead singer keeps drunk with a children's choir. By Scott Wood
The Abramson Singers
From the road, lead singer Leah talks Tendonitis, Incarceration and Louis Riel. By Scott Wood
There is no Limit to The Besnard Lakes
Their 4th studio record, Until in Excess . Imperceptible UFO, is a bit of a change for the Montrealers. By Amil DelicLatest Charts
CFRC Jazz #1 Chet Doxas 2 hours ago
CFRC Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Dark For Dark 2 hours ago
CFRC Hip Hop #1 Sweatshop Union 2 hours ago
CFRC Electronic #1 Daft Punk 2 hours ago
CFRC Top 30 #1 Dorothea Paas 2 hours ago
CILU Hip Hop #1 The Uncluded 2 hours ago
CSCR Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) 2 hours ago
CSCR Loud #1 Megadeth 2 hours ago
CSCR Jazz #1 Colin Stetson 3 hours ago
CJLO Hip Hop #1 A Tribe Called Red 3 hours ago
More Charts...2012 in Review
!earshot's Top 200 of 2012We have asked some of our regular writers to share some of their favoutite releases of the year.
Writers & Programmers
Amil Delic !earshot writer and host of The Show TO and Director's Cut
Jim Dupuis !earshot writer and host of Jazz Notes
Clash Contrast !earshot reviewer and host of Key Contast feat. Clash
Scott Wood !earshot writer and host of the interview show
Shelley Gummeson!earshot writer and host of Jazz on the Rocks
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Latest Reviews
Drumhand
Cheer On The Sun
Drumhand return with another release that calls upon a full sound inspired by world music with a jazz basis. With Cheer On The Sun the...
By Kat Dornian
Stephen Fearing
Between Hurricanes
I first heard Stephen Fearing in 2006 after the release of Yellowjacket. Apart from his ability to create images with words and music, the timbre...
By Anne-Marie Brugger
Class Action
An Extra Bar of the Wrong Song
This is a four-track EP from Calgarian ska punk outfit, Class Action. This mini-album has the pep and spunk, flash and drive and the beat,...
By Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson
Transit
Stale
Stale is a ten-track album from D. Bennett, AKA Transit, that features hip hop collaborators such as Grieves, Skyamore, New'l, Jay Nova, Joe Nolan, Kyprios,and Makeshift Innocence....By Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson
Daywalker
Daywalker
Daywalker is a four-piece from Calgary formed in 2012 after being inspired by the artists at Sled Island Music Festival. This self-titled, four-track EP...By Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson
Anita Eccleston Trio
Anita Eccleston Trio
Anita Eccleston is a jazz-trained trumpet player and vocalist. She is also a dynamic artist, as the Anita Eccleston Trio EP can attest to. The three-song EP...
By Shelley Gummeson
Citadel
Aquarian
Citadel is a post-rock band from Calgary with an almost religious feel. The band plays music on spacy, electronic organs, with vocals drifting in and...
By Steve Marlow
PVT
Homosapien
PVT is another band from the great crop of electronic musicians coming out of Australia. Homosapien is the trio's fourth full length to date, and...
By Steve Marlow
Ratchet Orchestra
Hemlock
Montréal’s Ratchet Orchestra are truly a thing to behold. A veritable riot of instruments, spewing sound and melody from all directions. On Hemlock, the 30...By Dorian Scheidt
My Son The Hurricane
Cashing A Dead Man's Cheque
If complacency is the death of a band, then My Son The Hurricane is the antithesis of complacency.
Cashing A Dead Man's Cheque, the bands' new...
By Shelley Gummeson
Suuns
Images Du Futur
Montreal soothsayers SUUNS (pronounced 'Soons') released their newest album, Images Du Futur, on March 5, 2013. The hypnotic, sultry grooves envelop, but remain simple enough...
By Greg Mahood
Buckman Coe
Crow's Nest
Buckman Coe is a world traveler, muti-talented musician and singer-songwriter. He is a social activist based in Vancouver, B.C. and pursuesan ecological approach to music making...
By Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson
maQLu
Malfeasance
Is this an indie film soundtrack album? The nine songs from maQlu on her experimental, industrial electro Malfeasance...
By Tristin Norenberg-Goodmanson
Mid Pines
Corpse Pose
By Tristin Norenberg-GoodmansonMid Pines has created an album of soft, temperate, delicate electronica melodies. The ambient movement is ambitious, without being overtly pressing or...
Daniel Romano
Come Cry With Me
By Kat DornianDaniel Romano's latest album Come Cry With Me steams through the record pile with a true traditional country sound full of bleeding heart ballads. With...
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Daft Punk
Random Access Memories - (Columbia)2 Young Galaxy 
Ultramarine - (Paper Bag)3 Gold & Youth
Beyond Wilderness - (Arts & Crafts)4 A Tribe Called Red
Nation II Nation - (Tribal Spirit)5 No Joy
Wait To Pleasure - (Mexican Summer)6 Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City - (XL Recordings)7 The National
Trouble Will Find Me - (4AD)8 The Ketamines
You Can't Serve Two Masters - (Mammoth Cave)9 Hooded Fang
Gravez - (Daps)10 Savages
Silence Yourself - (Matador)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: A Tribe Called Red - Nation II Nation - (Tribal Spirit) Hip Hop: DL Incognito - Someday Is Less Than A Second Away - (Urbnet) International: Vieux Farka Toure - Mon Pays - (Six Degrees) Jazz: Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light - (Constellation) Loud: KEN mode - Entrench - (New Damage) Folk/Roots/Blues: Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) - The Low Highway - (New West)
!earshot May Top 200
For the Month of May 2013TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Young Galaxy
Ultramarine - (Paper Bag)2 The Besnard Lakes
Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO - (Outside Music)3 Born Ruffians
Birthmarks - (Paper Bag)4 A Tribe Called Red
Nation II Nation - (Tribal Spirit)5 No Joy
Wait To Pleasure - (Mexican Summer)6 Kurt Vile
Wakin On A Pretty Daze - (Matador)7 Suuns
Images Du Futur - (Secret City)8 Shotgun Jimmie
Everything Everything - (You've Changed)9 Phoenix
Bankrupt! - (Glassnote)10 Colin Stetson
New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light - (Constellation)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: A Tribe Called Red - Nation II Nation - (Tribal Spirit) Hip Hop: DL Incognito - Someday Is Less Than A Second Away - (Urbnet) International: Bombino - Nomad - (Nonesuch) Jazz: Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light - (Constellation) Loud: KEN mode - Entrench - (New Damage) Folk/Roots/Blues: Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail - (Dine Alone)
!earshot Top 200 of 2012
For January to December 2012TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Grimes
Visions - (Arbutus)2 Japandroids
Celebration Rock - (Polyvinyl)3 Metric
Synthetica - (Metric Music International)4 Yukon Blonde
Tiger Talk - (Dine Alone)5 Purity Ring
Shrines - (Last Gang)6 Said The Whale
Little Mountain - (Hidden Pony)7 Plants And Animals
The End of That - (Secret City)8 Grizzly Bear
Shields - (Warp)9 PS I Love You
Death Dreams - (Paper Bag)10 Cousins
The Palm At The End Of The Mind - (Saved By Vinyl)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Purity Ring - Shrines - (Last Gang) Hip Hop: Cadence Weapon - Hope In Dirt City - (Upper Class) International: Antibalas - Antibalas - (Daptone) Jazz: Craig Pedersen Quartet - Days Like Today - (Self-Released) Loud: Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage - (Sonic Unyon) Folk/Roots/Blues: Del Barber - Headwaters - (Six Shooter)
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Features: May 2013
The Abramson Singers
From the road, lead singer Leah talks Tendonitis, Incarceration and Louis Riel. By Scott Wood
Two Hours Traffic: Two blood transfusions make for Foolish Blood
Important and difficult changes set the stage for Two Hours Traffic's latest. By Scott White
Tyrow James is the Dark Prince
Vancouver Rapper Tyrow James has tempered neither the darkeness of his music nor his language. By Scott Wood
There is no Limit to The Besnard Lakes
Their 4th studio record, Until in Excess . Imperceptible UFO, is a bit of a change for the Montrealers. By Amil Delic -
Features: April 2013
Tyrow James is the Dark Prince
Vancouver Rapper Tyrow James has tempered neither the darkeness of his music nor his language. By Scott Wood
There is no Limit to The Besnard Lakes
Their 4th studio record, Until in Excess . Imperceptible UFO, is a bit of a change for the Montrealers. By Amil Delic
Joshua Hyslop
Joshua Hyslop is getting up close and personal as he takes his latest record on the road. By Shelley Gummeson
Sabrina Weeks: Keeping Her Eye on the Prize
Sabrina Weeks and her band are coming off an award winning 2012. Now they are reaching for the next level with Got My Eye on You. By Jim Dupuis
Cityreal: Real World, True Grit
With a startling new hip hop/blues collaboration with Wes Mackay, Vancouver's Cityreal graples with the tough issues facing his city. By Scott Wood -
Features: March 2013
Cityreal: Real World, True Grit
With a startling new hip hop/blues collaboration with Wes Mackay, Vancouver's Cityreal graples with the tough issues facing his city. By Scott Wood
John Pippus Comes of Age
If everything has it's own time, then this is John Pippus' time. By Shelley Gummeson
The Zolas Rocket Into New Space
From Ancient Mars to A Million Little Pieces, The Zolas Tell You How They Make It Work. By Scott Wood -
Features: February 2013
The Zolas Rocket Into New Space
From Ancient Mars to A Million Little Pieces, The Zolas Tell You How They Make It Work. By Scott WoodMore Best of 2012
More great tips on what you might have missed in a busy musical year.
Amil Delic !earshot writer and host of The Show TO and Director's Cut
Jim Dupuis !earshot writer and host of Jazz Notes
Clash Contrast !earshot reviewer and host of Key Contast feat. Clash
