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January 2021
Check out all the latest chart action on the weekly charts.
Features
!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
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams 1 day ago
Loud #1 Divide And Dissolve 1 day ago
Hip Hop #1 Tobe Nwigwe 1 day ago
Electronic #1 Bicep 1 day ago
Top 50 #1 The Weather Station 1 day ago
CICK Top 30 #1 David James Allen 2 days ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 Moor Mother and Billy Woods 2 days ago
CJLO Top 30 #1 Barry Paquin Roberge 2 days ago
CJLO Electronic #1 Lou Phelps 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Made Kuti 2 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door)2 Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)3 Rhye
Home - (Last Gang)4 Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)5 The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings - (Flemish Eye)6 Begonia
The Fear Tour (Live) - (Birthday Cake)7 Blessed
iii - (Flemish Eye)8 Dominique Fils-Aimé
Three Little Words - (Self-Released)9 Black Country, New Road
For The First Time - (Ninja Tune)10 DJ Shub
War Club - (Self-Released)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Bicep - Isles - (Ninja Tune) Hip Hop: Tobe Nwigwe - Cincoriginals - (Self-Released) Loud: Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit - (Invada) Folk/Roots/Blues: Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams - Plastic Bouquet - (New West) !earshot December Top 200
For the Month of December 2020TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Helena Deland
Someone New - (Luminelle)2 METZ
Atlas Vending - (Royal Mountain)3 Plants And Animals
The Jungle - (Secret City)4 Suuns
Fiction EP - (Secret City)5 Potatohead People
Mellow Fantasy - (Bastard Jazz)6 PUP
This Place Sucks Ass (EP) - (Little Dipper)7 Gulfer
Gulfer - (Royal Mountain)8 Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland - (Transgressive)9 Yukon Blonde
Vindicator - (Dine Alone)10 Yves Jarvis
Sundry Rock Song Stock - (Flemish Eye)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Das Mortal - Miami Beach Witches - (Lisbon Lux) Hip Hop: Potatohead People - Mellow Fantasy - (Bastard Jazz) International: Pierre Kwenders & Clément Bazin - Classe Tendresse - (Nowadays) Jazz: Sophia Smith Quartet - Elevation - (Self-Released) Loud: METZ - Atlas Vending - (Royal Mountain) Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Gospel First Nation - (Six Shooter) !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) -
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Features: December 2020
The Resurrection of Waskesu
Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.
When the Music Stopped
It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold
Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis
Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here
Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019
Mingwa - The Strange One
...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.
The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.
Alex Cuba Sublime
...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.
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Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold -
Features: November 2020
The Resurrection of Waskesu
Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.
When the Music Stopped
It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold
Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis
Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here
Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019
Mingwa - The Strange One
...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.
The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.
Alex Cuba Sublime
...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.
Cutting Your Teeth With Necking
Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold -
Features: October 2020
The Resurrection of Waskesu
Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.
When the Music Stopped
It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold
Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis
Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here
Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019
Mingwa - The Strange One
...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.
The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.
Alex Cuba Sublime
...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.
Cutting Your Teeth With Necking
Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold -
Features: September 2020
The Resurrection of Waskesu
Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.
When the Music Stopped
It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold
Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis
Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here
Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019
Mingwa - The Strange One
...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.
The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.
Alex Cuba Sublime
...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.
Cutting Your Teeth With Necking
Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold
