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July 2021
TEKE::TEKEMontreal-based Japanese psyche-rock band TEKE::TEKE make there first appearance at the top of the !earshot Top 200 for June 2021 with their debut Shirushi out on Kill Rock Stars. Lots of other new faces in the Top 5 with Jay Wood (Some Days EP) moving up two spats to #2, Paul Jacobs (Pink Dogs On The Green Grass) at # and St. Vincent (Daddy's Home) at #4. Sook Yin Lee & Adam Libovitz's jooj two spends it's third month in the Top 5 at #5..
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!earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf 
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records) 
Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.Latest Charts
CFBX Top 30 #1 Allison Russell 2 hours ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Various 6 hours ago
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Allison Russell 2 days ago
Loud #1 Tunic 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Cadence Weapon 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 N0v3l 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Maddie Jay 2 days ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Amythyst Kiah 3 days ago
CJSW Loud #1 Fear Factory 3 days ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Hailu Mergia 3 days ago
CJSW International #1 Les Filles de Illighadad 3 days ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 Greentea Peng 3 days ago
CJSW Electronic #1 Moonshine 3 days ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Hélène Barbier 3 days ago
CFUV Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Laura Niquay 3 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 N0v3l
NON-FICTION - (Flemish Eye)2 TEKE::TEKE
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)3 yoo doo right
Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose - (Mothland)4 Janette King
What We Lost - (Hot Tramp)5 Japanese Breakfast
Jubilee - (Dead Oceans)6 Century Egg
Little Piece of Hair - (Forward Music Group)7 Status/Non-Status
1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Year - (You've Changed)8 CHAI
WINK - (Sub Pop)9 Hildegard
Hildegard - (Chivi Chivi)10 Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band
Banned - (Flemish Eye)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Hip Hop: Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) Loud: Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) Folk/Roots/Blues: Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) !earshot June Top 200
For the Month of June 2021
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 TEKE::TEKE
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)2 JayWood
Some Days EP - (Royal Mountain/Captured Tracks)3 Paul Jacobs
Pink Dogs On The Green Grass - (Blow The Fuse)4 St. Vincent
Daddy's Home - (Loma Vista)5 Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint)6 Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)7 Century Egg
Little Piece of Hair - (Forward Music Group)8 Rochelle Jordan
Play With The Changes - (Young Art)9 Allison Russell
Outside Child - (Fantasy)10 Death From Above 1979
Is 4 Lovers - (Universal Music Canada)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Rochelle Jordan - Play With The Changes - (Young Art) Hip Hop: Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) International: BALKAN TAKSIM - Disko Telegraf - (Buda Musique) Jazz: Saskatchewan All Star Big Band - Saskatchewan Suite - (Chronograph) Loud: Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) Folk/Roots/Blues: Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) !earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records) -
Latest Charts
CFBX Top 30 #1 Allison Russell 2 hours ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Various 6 hours ago
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Allison Russell 2 days ago
Loud #1 Tunic 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Cadence Weapon 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 N0v3l 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Maddie Jay 2 days ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Amythyst Kiah 3 days ago
CJSW Loud #1 Fear Factory 3 days ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Hailu Mergia 3 days ago
CJSW International #1 Les Filles de Illighadad 3 days ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 Greentea Peng 3 days ago
CJSW Electronic #1 Moonshine 3 days ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Hélène Barbier 3 days ago
CFUV Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Laura Niquay 3 days ago
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Mngwa
The Strange One
A sprawling worldbeat collective from Vancouver, MNGWA are a common sight in Western Canadian summer festivals. Featuring eight core members from Latin, reggae, jazz and...
By Steve Marlow
Andrew Franey
Transhuman
A survivor of the late 90s punk boom, Andrew Franey was a member of Hamilton-based Smoother, who got signed to a major label deal in...
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The Shangs
Golden Hits of the Shangs
For a band with such a short and obscure career, Hamilton's art-punk/garage band Simply Saucer continue to impact Canadian music. With a start in the...
By Steve Marlow
Alex Cuba
Sublime
Alex Cuba, originally from Cuba, has become a mainstay in Canadian Latin and worldbeat music. He lives in a decidedly cold place now, northern B.C.,...
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Tri Nguyen
The Art of the Vietnamese Zither
This CD is a compelling mix of traditional Vietnamese and western and other classical styles, and it's a new favourite of mine.
Ho Chi Min City-born...
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Defend The Rhino
Glisten
Defend the Rhino is a one-person drone and electronic band from Edmonton. Nathanial Sutton has been recording for about ten years and has three full...
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Talltale
A Japanese Fever Dream
Talltale is Tatiana Zagorac, an electronic and pop artist from Edmonton. A Japanese Fever Dream is her first EP, and is a reflection on fascination...
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Kiwi Jr.
Football Money
Vancouver's Mint Records has the uncanny ability to find great obscure Canadian bands. More often that not, each Mint release has a manic energy to...
By Steve Marlow
Plaster
Transition
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By Steve Marlow
Hyness
The End of Music
An indy rock band from southern Ontario, Hyness are rooted in the jangly, fuzzed-out alternative rock of the mid 90s. They form their sound out...
By Steve Marlow
Black Suit Devil
The Freedom Sessions
Black Suit Devil is the alter-ego of Toronto based songwriter Andy Du Rego. The band is mostly Du Rego, with a wide variety of guest...
By Steve Marlow
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
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By Steve Marlow
The Pack A.D.
Dollhouse
Vancouver's The Pack A.D. Have become one of Western Canada's most loved rock acts. With more than 10 years of almost constant touring and recording...
By Steve Marlow
Chad VanGaalen
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Calgary's Chad VanGaalen is Canadian indy rock royalty. He's also earned it, having started his career in 2004, riding around Calgary on his bike and...
By Steve Marlow
Potengowski Anna Friederike
The Edge of Time: Paleolithic bone flutes from France and Germany
Flautist Anna Friederike Potengowski wanted to go back to the very beginning of known human musical language. In 2010, she began studying what is known...
By Catherine Fisher
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Features: June 2021
!earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)
Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis. -
Features: May 2021
!earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)
Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis. -
Features: April 2021
!earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)
Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis. -
Features: March 2021
!earshot Top 200 of 2020
For January tp December 2020
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)2 Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia - (Anti-)3 Wolf Parade
Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)4 Zoon
Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)5 Caribou
Suddenly - (Merge)6 Tops
I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)7 Tough Age
Which Way Am I? - (Mint)8 U.S. Girls
Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)9 Destroyer
Have We Met - (Merge)10 Thanya Iyer
KIND - (Topshelf Records)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners) International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-) Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph) Loud: Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)
Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.
