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March 2019
Foxwarren
Foxwarren spends another month at the Number 1 spot across Canada on the February 2019 !earshot Top 200. Royal Canoe Waver is at number 2, Sharon Van Etten is at number 3 with Remind Me Tomorrow and Top 5 is rounded out buy Daniel Romano and Whitehorse.
Check out all the latest action on the weekly charts
Features
Follow our look back at 2018
The Top 200 of 2018
The definitive list of the best records of 2018 - including electronic, hip hop, international, jazz, loud and folk roots & blues.
Best of 2018
Full Best of 2018 lists from Programmers and Contributors
Jazz Notes
Jim Dupuis, !earshot contributor and host of Jazz Notes on Kamloops' CFBX give you his Best of Jazz for 2018
Broken Glass
Myles Gregory, host of Broken Gass on CFBX Kamloops, brings you the best of Punk, Hardcore and other heavy sounds for 2018.
Bravery, Repetition & Noise
Mike Taggert, host of Bravery, Repetition & Noise on CHSR Fredericton, brings you the best of garage rock, noise pop, shoegaze, freak-folk and more with an Atlantic Canadian sprin.
Something to Write Home About
Sean Warkentine, Music Director at CKXU in Lethbridge Alberta and host of Something to Write Home About on the best music of 2018.!earshot National Top 200 of 2017
For January to December 2017TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Alvvays 
Antisocialites - (Polyvinyl)2 Mac DeMarco
This Old Dog - (Royal Mountain)3 Austra
Future Politics - (Pink Fizz)4 Timber Timbre
Sincerely, Future Pollution - (Arts & Crafts)5 Faith Healer
Try ;-) - (Mint)6 Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder - (Arts & Crafts)7 Homeshake
Fresh Air - (Royal Mountain)8 Daniel Romano
Modern Pressure - (You've Changed)9 Whitehorse
Panther In The Dollhouse - (Six Shooter)10 Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions - (Constellation)View the full !earshot Top 200 of 2017
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Austra - Future Politics - (Pink Fizz) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 - (Run the Jewels, Inc.) International: The Souljazz Orchestra - Under Burning Skies - (Do Right! Music) Jazz: Ugly Beauties - Strange Attractors - (Self-Released) Loud: Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand - (Reprise) Folk/Roots/Blues: Rose Cousins - Natural Conclusion - (Outside Music) 
Accessing an Inaccessible World with Peggy Lee
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Burning Down the House with Lindsay May
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CHSR Top 30 #1 Motherhood 10 hours ago
CFBX Top 30 #1 Whitehorse 2 days ago
CILU Top 30 #1 Homeshake 2 days ago
CILU Folk/Roots/Blues #1 LeE HARVeY OsMOND 2 days ago
CILU Hip Hop #1 Eekwol & T-Rhyme 2 days ago
CILU Jazz #1 Cory Weeds Quintet 2 days ago
CILU Electronic #1 Toro Y Moi 2 days ago
CILU Loud #1 FIDLAR 2 days ago
CILU International #1 Jah Cutta 2 days ago
CFOU Loud #1 Seer 2 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, March 19, 2019
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Homeshake
Helium - (Royal Mountain)2 Anemone
Beat My Distance - (Luminelle)3 Royal Canoe
Waver - (Paper Bag Records)4 Said The Whale
Cascadia - (Arts & Crafts)5 Daniel Romano
Finally Free - (You've Changed)6 Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow - (Jagjaguwar)7 Foxwarren
Foxwarren - (Arts & Crafts)8 LeE HARVeY OsMOND
Mohawk - (Latent)9 Motherhood
Dear Bongo - (Forward Music Group)10 B.A. Johnston
The Skid is Hot Tonight - (Transistor 66)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace - (Carpark) Hip Hop: Dead Obies - Dead - (Bonsound) Jazz: Allison Au Quartet - Wander Wonder - (Self-Released) Loud: Gypsy Chief Goliath - Masters of Space and Time - (Bilocation Records / Kozmik Artifactz) Folk/Roots/Blues: LeE HARVeY OsMOND - Mohawk - (Latent) !earshot February Top 200
For the Month of February 2019
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Foxwarren
Foxwarren - (Arts & Crafts)2 Royal Canoe
Waver - (Paper Bag Records)3 Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow - (Jagjaguwar)4 Daniel Romano
Finally Free - (You've Changed)5 Whitehorse
The Northern South, Vol. 2 - (Six Shooter Records)6 nêhiyawak
starlight - (Arts & Crafts)7 Dan Mangan
More or Less - (Arts & Crafts)8 Shad
A Short Story About A War - (Secret City)9 Tallies
Tallies - (Hand Drawn Dracula)10 Deerhunter
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? - (4AD)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace - (Carpark) Hip Hop: Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload - (Brainfeeder) International: Jah Cutta - Ladies and Gentlemen - (Indica) Jazz: Allison Au Quartet - Wander Wonder - (Self-Released) Loud: Tunic - Complexion - (Self Sabotage) Folk/Roots/Blues: Christine Fellows - Roses on the Vine - (Vivat Virtute) !earshot Top 200 of 2018
For the Month of January 2018
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited - (Royal Mountain)2 Nap Eyes
I'm Bad Now - (You've Changed)3 Ought
Room Inside the World - (Royal Mountain)4 Suuns
Felt - (Secret City)5 Dumb
Seeing Green - (Mint)6 Jennifer Castle
Angels of Death - (Idee Fixe)7 Charlotte Day Wilson
Stone Woman - (Self-Released)8 Frigs
Basic Behaviour - (Arts & Crafts)9 Dilly Dally
Heaven - (Dine Alone)10 Michael Rault
It's A New Day Tonight - (Sleepless)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: StegoSarahs - Simple Subtraction - (Self-Released) Hip Hop: Cadence Weapon - Cadence Weapon - (eOne Music (E1)) International: Kiran Ahluwalia - 7 Billion - (Six Degrees) Jazz: Peggy Lee - Echo Painting - (Songlines) Loud: Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams - (Arts & Crafts) Folk/Roots/Blues: Sue Foley - The Ice Queen - (Stony Plain) -
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Features: February 2019
Follow our look back at 2018
The Top 200 of 2018
The definitive list of the best records of 2018 - including electronic, hip hop, international, jazz, loud and folk roots & blues.
Best of 2018
Full Best of 2018 lists from Programmers and Contributors
Jazz Notes
Jim Dupuis, !earshot contributor and host of Jazz Notes on Kamloops' CFBX give you his Best of Jazz for 2018
Broken Glass
Myles Gregory, host of Broken Gass on CFBX Kamloops, brings you the best of Punk, Hardcore and other heavy sounds for 2018.
Bravery, Repetition & Noise
Mike Taggert, host of Bravery, Repetition & Noise on CHSR Fredericton, brings you the best of garage rock, noise pop, shoegaze, freak-folk and more with an Atlantic Canadian sprin.
Something to Write Home About
Sean Warkentine, Music Director at CKXU in Lethbridge Alberta and host of Something to Write Home About on the best music of 2018.!earshot National Top 200 of 2017
For January to December 2017TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Alvvays
Antisocialites - (Polyvinyl)2 Mac DeMarco
This Old Dog - (Royal Mountain)3 Austra
Future Politics - (Pink Fizz)4 Timber Timbre
Sincerely, Future Pollution - (Arts & Crafts)5 Faith Healer
Try ;-) - (Mint)6 Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder - (Arts & Crafts)7 Homeshake
Fresh Air - (Royal Mountain)8 Daniel Romano
Modern Pressure - (You've Changed)9 Whitehorse
Panther In The Dollhouse - (Six Shooter)10 Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions - (Constellation)View the full !earshot Top 200 of 2017
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Austra - Future Politics - (Pink Fizz) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 - (Run the Jewels, Inc.) International: The Souljazz Orchestra - Under Burning Skies - (Do Right! Music) Jazz: Ugly Beauties - Strange Attractors - (Self-Released) Loud: Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand - (Reprise) Folk/Roots/Blues: Rose Cousins - Natural Conclusion - (Outside Music)
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Features: January 2019
Accessing an Inaccessible World with Peggy Lee
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Burning Down the House with Lindsay May
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Features: December 2018
Accessing an Inaccessible World with Peggy Lee
Classically trained cellist Peggy Lee has found a niche in the highly, innovative and challenging improvisational music scene in Vancouver. By Jim Dupuis
Burning Down the House with Lindsay May
Kamloops based performer/composer Lindsay May digs deep into her emotional self to weave musical stories on her new album. By Jim Dupuis
Buck'n'Nice have the Game figured outs
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Not Long for A Sentimental Mood: The Joani Taylor Interview
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Finding the Hurt of Happiness with Hey Ocean!
After a difficult hiatus, Hey Ocean! finds its feet with it's new album The Hurt of Happiness. By Erin Flynn
