!Earshot asked campus/community radio contributors across the country these questions. Scroll down for a sampling of their responses: Three fave albums of 2001? Most overlooked artist/album? Local band that rocked your socks? Best radio moment?

Name: Bryce Dunn
Station: CITR — Vancouver
Show: Third Time’s The Charm

1. White Stripes — “White Blood Cells” (Symapthy For The Record Industry), Rocket From The Crypt — “Group Sounds” (Vagrant), Scared Of Chaka — “Crossing With Switchblades” (Hopeless)
2. Detroit Cobras — “Life, Love and Leaving” (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
3. Three Inches Of Blood
4. Playing “name that tune” on the Chateau Lafayette jukebox with my peeps from the prairies at the NCRA conference in Ottawa this past June.

Name: Chris Tessmer
Station: CJTR — Regina
Show: Underground Sound

1. Filmmaker — “Break This Fall” (Farway), Lucinda Williams — “Essence” (Lost Highway), Weak At Best —EP (independent)
2. New Order — “Get Ready” (Warner)
3. Filmmaker or Weak At Best (tie)
4. CJTR signing on — November 1, 2001

Name: Kent Basky
Station: CFBX — Kamloops, BC
Show: Mass Hypnosis

1. Opeth — “Blackwater Park” (Koch), Devin Townsend — “Terria” (Hevy Devy), Kataklysm — “Epic: The Poetry Of War” (Nuclear Blast)
2. Malefaction — “Crush The Dream” (G7 Welcoming Committee). These guys belong at the top of the pile and make me miss Brutal Truth quite so much.
3. Not much locally, but BC bands like Meatlocker 7, Hurt, and Zimmer’s Hole showed that the western Canadian metal scene is on the rise.
4. My first show and the song I chose to kick it all off: Strapping Young Lad’s “All Hail The New Flesh”

Name: Zac Taylor
Station: CHMA — Sackville, NB
Show: Don’t Hate Kate

1. More Plastic — “A False Sense Of Something” (Modernation), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — “No More Shall We Part” (Mute), Microphones — “The Glow Pt. 2” (K)
2. Brian Jonestown Massacre — “Bravery, Repetition & Noise” (Bomp)
3. Moncton’s Peter Parkers and Sackville’s Orjazzm
4. Listening to the twelfth anniversary of the Bluegrass Jam, still hosted by Wilson Moore after all these years.

Name: Andrew Masuda
Station: CHRY — Toronto
Show: Build To Break

1. Michael Franti & Spearhead — “Stay Human” (Six Degrees), Ursula Rucker — “Supa Sister” (Studio !K7), Bakunin’s Bum — “Fight To Win! An OCAP Benefit CD” (G7 Welcoming Committee)
2. Saul Williams — “Amethyst Rock Star” (Sony)
3. LAL — their live performances with Jugular and Gurprit Singh were mindblowing!
4. The October 16^th live broadcast at sister station CKLN of the Toronto financial district shutdown.

Name: Steve Bates
Station: CKUW — Winnipeg
Show: The Dim Coast

1. Spring Heel Jack — “The Blue Series Continuum” (Thirsty Ear), The Ex — “Dizzy Spells” (Touch & Go), Rafael Toral — “Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance” (Touch)
2. Various — “Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown” (Blood & Fire)
3. Lori Freedman
4. CKUW’s Black History Month special, hosted by Mzilikazi Ndolvu.

Name: Philip Downey
Station: CFBU — St. Catharines, ON
Show: The Tower Of Babble

1. Aphex Twin — “Drukqs” (Warp), Orbital — “The Altogether” (ffrr), Timo Maas — “Connected” (Kinetic)
2. Chris Cowie — “Best Behaviour” (Bellboy)
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4. Having a bunch of tourists from Ohio in town for the day, incredulous that a quality dance program could be heard a) at all; and b) in the middle of the afternoon. They drove away lsitening to me.

Name: Sean Marchetto
Station: CJSW — Calgary
Show: Radio Free Nowhere

1. Radiohead — “Amnesiac” (EMI), Cursive — “Burst And Bloom EP” (Saddle Creek), Senor Coconut — “Le Gran Baile” (Emperor Norton)
2. Beta Band — “Hot Shots” (Astralwerks)
3. Dan Vachon, both in The Dudes and solo.
4. Flipping though Have Not Been The Same, the new book on Canadian rock n’ roll and finding Dave Bidini telling the story of my phone-in encounter with Stompin’ Tom.

Name: Jay Dimmer
Station: CKDU — Halifax
Show: The Forbidden Jungle

1. Tricky Woo — “Les Sables Magiques” (Sonic Unyon), Wayne Hancock — “A-Town Blues” (Bloodshot), Tool — “Lateralus” (Zoo)
2. The Undertakin’ Daddies — “Post-Atomic Hillbilly” (Caribou). I’m not sure I knew what Canadian country should sound like ‘til I heard this disc early in the year.
3. The Urban Surf Kings featuring Brad Conrad at Halifax’s Café Mokka. Double-guitar surf action. I actually heard instruments that night that were not, in fact, being played. Best surf band in the Great White North.
4. Andrew Chipman’s relentless piercing screaming, howling and shrieks courtesy of his sadist dentist’s pokes and prods on the advert for his show.

Name: Lorrie E.
Station: CKUT — Montreal
Show: AACK!!

1. Beans — “Crane Wars” (Zumaudio), The Rapture — “Out Of The Races and Onto The Tracks EP” (Sub Pop), Explosions In The Sky — “Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die…” (Temporary Residence)
2. Either Jerk With A Bomb — “The Old Noise” (Scratch), or Yeah Yeah Yeahs — “Master EP” (Shifty)
3. Molasses
4. Bringing in Vancouver’s incredible Beans to play live on my show twice over the past year. In my mind, the best working band in Canada today, dammit!

Name: Erin McKee
Station: CHMR — St. John’s
Show: Entertainment Through Pain

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — “No More Shall We Part” (Mute), Angels Of Light — “How I Loved You” (Young God), Rhea’s Obsession — “Re: Initiation” (Metropolis)
2. Leonid Fyodorov — “Anabena” (Ulitka)
3. Newfoundland has lots of great local artists, but I particularly enjoyed The Discounts and Secret Cervix.
4. We (CHMR and The Muse — Memorial’s student paper) recently asked the undergraduate students to support a media levy of $4 per semester to fund out services. And we won in a landslide victory!

Name: Nicholas Cornell
Station: CJSR — Edmonton
Show: contributor to Adamant Eve

1. Propagandhi — “Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes” (G7 Welcoming Committee), Moneen — “The Theory Of Harmonial Value” (Smallman), Projektor — “Red Wolf Glass” (Endearing)
2. Paul Bellows — “Like He’s Famous” (Cake). On top of his own solid songwriting, the album also features some fairly well-known Canadian musicians such as Richard Buckner and Ben Sures.
3. Edmonton folk-jazz performer Wendy McNeill who released an album titled, “What’s Your Whiskey, Baby?”
4. CJSR’s often controversial show Youth Menace ran a two-hour feature in March focusing on violence at West Edmonton Mall.

Compiled by Russell Gragg, !earshot editor