!earshot charts - august 2012 - top 200
Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of August 2012. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our charts main page.
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purity Ring * | Shrines | Last Gang |
| 2 | Metric * | Synthetica | Metric Music International |
| 3 | Hot Panda * | Go Outside | Mint |
| 4 | Japandroids * | Celebration Rock | Polyvinyl |
| 5 | Passion Pit | Gossamer | Columbia |
| 6 | Dirty Projectors | Swing Lo Magellan | Domino |
| 7 | Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw... | Epic |
| 8 | Fist City * | It's 1983 Grow Up | Blacktent |
| 9 | Wintersleep * | Hello Hum | Capitol |
| 10 | Shout Out Out Out Out * | Spanish Moss and Total Loss | Normals Welcome |
| 11 | White Lung * | Sorry | Deranged |
| 12 | Cadence Weapon * | Hope In Dirt City | Upper Class |
| 13 | Ty Segall Band | Slaughterhouse | In The Red |
| 14 | Cold Specks * | I Predict A Graceful Expulsion | Arts & Crafts |
| 15 | Hot Chip | In Our Heads | Domino |
| 16 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange | Def Jam |
| 17 | Jets Overhead * | Boredom And Joy | Warner (WEA) |
| 18 | Bend Sinister * | Small Fame | File Under: Music (FU:M) |
| 19 | The Flaming Lips | & Heady Fwends | Warner (WEA) |
| 20 | The Antlers | Undersea | Anti- |
| 21 | Apollo Ghosts * | Landmark | You've Changed |
| 22 | The Be Good Tanyas * | A Collection | Nettwerk |
| 23 | Hermetic * | Civilized City | Self-Released |
| 24 | Jeremy Fisher * | Mint Juleps | Hidden Pony |
| 25 | Joshua Hyslop * | Where The Mountain Meets The Valley | Nettwerk |
| 26 | Beach House | Bloom | Sub Pop |
| 27 | Michael Rault * | Whirlpool | Pirate Blend |
| 28 | Baroness | Yellow & Green | Relapse |
| 29 | Twin Shadow | Confess | 4AD |
| 30 | Cookie Duster * | When Flying Was Easy | Draper St. |
| 31 | PS I Love You * | Death Dreams | Paper Bag |
| 32 | DIIV | Oshin | Captured Tracks |
| 33 | Family of the Year | Loma Vista | Nettwerk |
| 34 | Eternal Summers | Correct Behavior | Kanine |
| 35 | Dusted * | Total Dust | Polyvinyl |
| 36 | The White Wires * | The White Wires III | Dirtnap |
| 37 | Shad * | Melancholy and The Infinite Shadness | Self-Released |
| 38 | Cold Warps * | Slimer b/w Dream Creepin' | Fundog |
| 39 | JEFF the Brotherhood | Hypnotic Nights | Warner (WEA) |
| 40 | Cinderpop * | Manic Sparkles | Popoganda |
| 41 | Yukon Blonde * | Tiger Talk | Dine Alone |
| 42 | Angus Stone | Broken Brights | Nettwerk |
| 43 | Dead Can Dance | Anastasis | Pias |
| 44 | Caymans * | Caymans | Self-Released |
| 45 | Aesop Rock | Skelethon | Rhymesayers |
| 46 | Teen Daze * | All Of Us, Together | Lefse |
| 47 | Nu Sensae * | Sundowning | Suicide Squeeze |
| 48 | Young Guv & The Scuzz * | A Love Too Strong | Southpaw |
| 49 | Humans * | Traps | Hybridity |
| 50 | Neil Young * | Americana | Warner (WEA) |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Echo Lake | Wild Peace | Slumberland |
| 52 | Fang Island | Major | Sargent House |
| 53 | Royal Wood * | We Were Born To Glory | MapleMusic |
| 54 | Elk * | Daydreams | Indoor Shoes |
| 55 | Deleted Scenes | Young People's Church of the Air | Park The Van |
| 56 | The Joel Plaskett Emergency * | Scrappy Happiness | MapleMusic |
| 57 | Mantrakid * | Dragon Lullabies | Neferiu |
| 58 | Niki & The Dove | Instinct | Sub Pop |
| 59 | Peaking Lights | Lucifer | Mexican Summer |
| 60 | Cellos * | Bomb Shelter | Dead Beat |
| 61 | Die Mannequin * | Danceland | E1 Music (eOne) |
| 62 | Kestrels * | A Ghost History | Sonic Unyon |
| 63 | Antibalas | Antibalas | Daptone |
| 64 | Walk the Moon | Walk the Moon | RCA |
| 65 | Slates * | Prairie Fires | Handsome Dan |
| 66 | Eleni Mandell | I Can See The Future | Yep Roc |
| 67 | The Dudes * | Barbers, Thieves and Bartenders | Self-Released |
| 68 | Shonen Knife | Pop Tune | Damnably |
| 69 | Royal Crowns * | Volume Three | Self-Released |
| 70 | Icky Blossoms | Icky Blossoms | Saddle Creek |
| 71 | Del Barber * | Headwaters | Six Shooter |
| 72 | The Tallest Man On Earth | There's No Leaving Now | Dead Oceans |
| 73 | Brasstronaut * | Mean Sun | Unfamiliar |
| 74 | Cousins * | The Palm At The End Of The Mind | Saved By Vinyl |
| 75 | Brian Dunn * | TVs and Radios | Cosmic Dave's Record Factory |
| 76 | Canailles * | Manger Du Bois | Grosse Boite |
| 77 | We Need Surgery * | We Need Surgery | Light Organ |
| 78 | Slim Twig * | Sof' Sike | Paper Bag |
| 79 | Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros | Here | Vagrant |
| 80 | Yellowteeth / Astral Gunk * | Gets' In Car / Astral Gunk | Self-Released |
| 81 | Hill & The Sky Heroes * | 11:11 | PuckEye |
| 82 | Twerps | Twerps | Self-Released |
| 83 | Parlovr * | Kook Soul | Dine Alone |
| 84 | A Place To Bury Strangers | Worship | Dead Oceans |
| 85 | Micachu And The Shapes | Never | Rough Trade |
| 86 | Bahamas * | Barchords | Brushfire |
| 87 | Monomyth * | Monomyth | Self-Released |
| 88 | Sheer Agony * | Sheer Agony | Fixture |
| 89 | Heavenly Beat | Talent | Captured Tracks |
| 90 | Foxygen | Take The Kids Off Broadway | Jagjaguwar |
| 91 | Delicate Steve | Positive Force | Luaka Bop |
| 92 | Mission Of Burma | Unsound | Fire |
| 93 | The Waxbills * | When Love Comes | Self-Released |
| 94 | Sub City * | Live! | Transistor 66 |
| 95 | Los Straitjackets | Jet Set | Yep Roc |
| 96 | Jerry Douglas | Traveler | E1 Music (eOne) |
| 97 | The Chantrelles * | Ain't Nobody Home | Self-Released |
| 98 | Alan Doyle * | Boy On Bridge | Universal |
| 99 | Jack White | Blunderbuss | Columbia |
| 100 | Tyranahorse * | Garbage Bears | Self-Released |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Deep Time | Deep Time | Hardly Art |
| 102 | Beachwood Sparks | The Tarnished Gold | Sub Pop |
| 103 | Marina & The Diamonds | Electra Heart | 679 |
| 104 | Grimes * | Visions | Arbutus |
| 105 | Milks & Rectangles * | Milks & Rectangles | Self-Released |
| 106 | Various | Strange Passion: Explorations In Irish Post-Punk DIY and Electronic Music 1980-83 | B-Music/Finders Keepers |
| 107 | Chains of Love * | Strange Grey Days | Dine Alone |
| 108 | Regina Spektor | What We Saw From The Cheap Seats | Sire |
| 109 | Thought Beneath Film * | Detours | Self-Released |
| 110 | Wet Hair | Spill Into Atmosphere | De Stijl |
| 111 | Diamond Rings * | Free Dimensional | Secret City |
| 112 | Debo Band | Debo Band | Next Ambiance |
| 113 | Needles//Pins * | 12:34 | Mammoth Cave |
| 114 | Hinindar * | Absalom | Self-Released |
| 115 | Father John Misty | Fear Fun | Sub Pop |
| 116 | Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers * | Bone Soldiers | You've Changed |
| 117 | The Mouthbreathers * | Appetite for Deconstruction | Self-Released |
| 118 | No Sinner * | Boo Hoo Hoo | First Love |
| 119 | Antony And The Johnsons | Cut The World | Secretly Canadian |
| 120 | The Manic Shakes * | The Manic Shakes | No Label Collective |
| 121 | Elf Tv * | Elf Tv | Self-Released |
| 122 | Patti Smith | Banga | Columbia |
| 123 | Gordie Tentrees * | North Country Heart | Self-Released |
| 124 | Crystal Swells * | Harshside/Sludgefreaks | Self-Released |
| 125 | BadBadNotGood * | BBNG2 | Self-Released |
| 126 | Jay Arner * | Bad Friend b/w Black Horse | Self-Released |
| 127 | Gojira | L'Enfant Sauvage | Roadrunner |
| 128 | Zulu Winter | Language | Arts & Crafts |
| 129 | Daredevil Christopher Wright | The Nature Of Things | File Under: Music (FU:M) |
| 130 | CFCF * | Exercises | Paper Bag |
| 131 | Whale Tooth * | Search Party | Self-Released |
| 132 | Brandi Carlile | Bear Creek | Columbia |
| 133 | Last Step * | Sleep | Planet Mu |
| 134 | Nas | Life Is Good | Def Jam |
| 135 | Milo Greene | Milo Greene | Chop Shop |
| 136 | Fergus & Geronimo | Funky Was The State Of Affairs | Hardly Art |
| 137 | The Hives | Lex Hives | Disque Hives |
| 138 | The Cinematic Orchestra | In Motion pt. 1 | Ninja Tune |
| 139 | Le Vent Du Nord * | Tromper Le Temps | Borealis |
| 140 | Great Lake Swimmers * | New Wild Everywhere | Nettwerk |
| 141 | JP Hoe * | Mannequin | Self-Released |
| 142 | Liam Titcomb * | Cicada | Nettwerk |
| 143 | Hacienda | Shakedown | Dine Alone |
| 144 | Yamantaka // Sonic Titan * | YT//ST | Psychic Handshake |
| 145 | Uberko | Sea Belt | Self-Released |
| 146 | Rocky Mountain Rebel Music * | Vic Sound System | Self-Released |
| 147 | Jennah Barry * | Young Men | Self-Released |
| 148 | Chromatics | Kill For Love | Italians Do It Better |
| 149 | Old World Vulture * | Trophy Lovers | Self-Released |
| 150 | Everest | Ownerless | ATO |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Digits * | Where Do You Belong? | Self-Released |
| 152 | Will Driving West * | Castles | Self-Released |
| 153 | Geist * | Fissures | Self-Released |
| 154 | Various | Calgary Folk Music Festival Sampler 2012 | Self-Released |
| 155 | Royal Headache | Royal Headache | Fuse |
| 156 | Saukrates * | Season One | Frostbyte |
| 157 | The Rest * | Seesaw | Self-Released |
| 158 | Tasha T * | Only A Woman Knows | Rasvibe |
| 159 | The Electrics * | Erotic Magazine Issue #001 | Good Street |
| 160 | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes | 4AD |
| 161 | Wolfheart * | Subtle Bodies | Self-Released |
| 162 | Say Domino/Whoop-Szo/Lonnie in the Garden * | Say Domino/Whoop-Szo/Lonnie in the Garden Tour Split | Out Of Sound |
| 163 | Teapot Hill * | Night Night Rock | Self-Released |
| 164 | Rick Estrin and The Night Cats | One Wrong Turn | Alligator |
| 165 | Drums And Wires * | Waiting On The Moon | Self-Released |
| 166 | Pizza Sub * | Pizza Sub | Self-Released |
| 167 | Capitol 6 * | Pretty Lost | Light Organ |
| 168 | Micropanik * | Fall of Melancopolis | Self-Released |
| 169 | Relations | Relations | 100M |
| 170 | Admiral Fallow | Tree Bursts in Snow | Nettwerk |
| 171 | Pizzarrhea! * | Laser Bacon Eye Surgery | Suspicious Pig |
| 172 | White Poppy * | I Had a Dream | Not Not Fun |
| 173 | The North Lakes * | Grand Prix | Self-Released |
| 174 | Redd Kross | Researching the Blues | Merge |
| 175 | Lal * | Lal | Urbnet |
| 176 | The Schomberg Fair * | Providence | Self-Released |
| 177 | Chuck Jackson's Big Bad Blues Band * | A Cup Of Joe | Linus Entertainment |
| 178 | Jon and Roy * | Let It Go | Warner (WEA) |
| 179 | Sebadoh | Secret EP | Self-Released |
| 180 | Brenna Lowrie * | The Body Electric | Esper |
| 181 | Dead City Beat * | Dead Air | Self-Released |
| 182 | Bobby Womack | The Bravest Man in the Universe | XL Recordings |
| 183 | Bry Webb * | Provider | Idee Fixe |
| 184 | The Give 'Em Hell Boys * | Barn Burner | Self-Released |
| 185 | Whitehorse * | The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss | Six Shooter |
| 186 | The Nervebreakers | Hijack The Radio! | Get Hip |
| 187 | Ape School | Junior Violence | Hometapes |
| 188 | Cygnets * | Prophets | Self-Released |
| 189 | Jimmy Cliff | Rebirth | Sunpower |
| 190 | Gossip | A Joyful Noise | Columbia |
| 191 | Twin River * | Rough Gold | Light Organ |
| 192 | The Soundtrack Of Our Lives | Throw It To The Universe | Premiar Talang |
| 193 | Poolside | Pacific Standard Time | Day & Night |
| 194 | Gabrielle Papillon * | Little Bug | Self-Released |
| 195 | Tame Impala | Apocalypse Dreams / Elephant (single) | Modular |
| 196 | The Ketamines * | Spaced Out | Mammoth Cave |
| 197 | Plants And Animals * | The End of That | Secret City |
| 198 | Onra | Deep In The Night | Fool's Gold |
| 199 | Danger Cat * | Where I'll Be | The Newform Label |
| 200 | Beak> | >> | Invada |
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