!earshot : charts : september 2009

Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of September 2009. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our charts archive.

Rank	Artist	Title	Label
1	Black Mold *	Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz	Flemish Eye
2	Ohbijou *	Beacons	Last Gang
3	Lightning Dust *	Infinite Light	Jagjaguwar
4	The Rural Alberta Advantage *	Hometowns	Self-Released
5	Various *	Friends In Bellwoods 2	Out Of This Spark
6	The Dead Weather	Horehound	Third Man
7	Jay Reatard	Watch Me Fall	Matador
8	YACHT	See Mystery Lights	DFA
9	Pissed Jeans	King Of Jeans	Sub Pop
10	Wax Mannequin *	Saxon	Zunior
11	Dinosaur Jr.	Farm	Jagjaguwar
12	Health	Get Color	Lovepump United
13	Fruit Bats	The Ruminant Band	Sub Pop
14	Wilco	Wilco (The Album)	Nonesuch
15	The Hidden Cameras *	Origin: Orphan	Arts & Crafts
16	Sonic Youth	The Eternal	Matador
17	Young Galaxy *	Invisible Republic	Self-Released
18	Two Hours Traffic *	Territory	Bumstead
19	Amy Millan *	Masters of the Burial	Arts & Crafts
20	The Junction *	Another Link In The Chain	Self-Released
21	Band of Skulls	Baby Darling Doll Face Honey	Shangri-La
22	The Most Serene Republic *	And The Ever Expanding Universe	Arts & Crafts
23	Bahamas *	Pink Strat	Nevado
24	Fox Jaws *	At Odds (Or: Exercises In Separation While United In The Fall)	Nevado
25	Dan Mangan *	Nice, Nice, Very Nice	File Under: Music
26	Sunset Rubdown *	Dragonslayer	Jagjaguwar
27	Phoenix	Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	Glassnote
28	Reverie Sound Revue *	Reverie Sound Revue	Boompa
29	Zeus *	Sounds Like Zeus	Arts & Crafts
30	Tiga *	Ciao!	Last Gang
31	Lullabye Arkestra *	Threats/Worship	Vice
32	Metric *	Fantasies	Last Gang
33	Tortoise	Beacons of Ancestorship	Thrill Jockey
34	Grizzly Bear	Veckatimest	Warp
35	The Balconies *	The Balconies	Self-Released
36	Japandroids *	Post-Nothing	Unfamiliar
37	Joel Plaskett *	Three	MapleMusic
38	The Wind Whistles *	Animals Are People Too	Self-Released
39	Picastro *	Become Secret	Blocks Recording Club
40	The Dodos	Time To Die	Frenchkiss
41	Puberty *	First Slime	Self-Released
42	Clues *	Clues	Constellation
43	Discovery	LP	XL Recordings
44	Secret Broadcast *	Exploding Spiders	Self-Released
45	The Gertrudes *	Hard Water	Apple Crisp
46	Pink Mountaintops *	Outside Love	Jagjaguwar
47	Immaculate Machine *	High on Jackson Hill	Mint
48	La Roux	La Roux	Polydor
49	Various *	The Third Old Life Compilation	Old Life
50	God Made Me Funky *	Welcome To Nu Funktonia	New Empire

Rank	Artist	Title	Label
51	The Class War Kids *	Reflection! Rage! Rebellion!	Rebel Time
52	Wye Oak	The Knot	Merge
53	Magnolia Electric Co.	Josephine	Secretly Canadian
54	The Wooden Sky *	If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone	Blackbox
55	Bibio	Ambivalence Avenue	Warp
56	Vincat *	Hoi Polloi	Hive Creative Labs
57	Miesha And The Spanks *	Mmmade For Me	Transistor 66
58	Cougarettes *	Milk Fangs	Self-Released
59	The Got To Get Got *	Sahalee	Noyes
60	Fortunately Everything Dies *	Censored	Self-Released
61	Heat-Ray *	Love All Over	Self-Released
62	Jackpine *	Brand New Good Old Days	Dollartone
63	Box Elders	Alice And Friends	Goner
64	Rick White Album *	1-3-7	Blue Fog
65	Think About Life *	Family	Alien8
66	Neko Case	Middle Cyclone	Anti-
67	Various *	Vancouver's Punk As Fuck Volume 2	VPAF
68	DiggingRoots *	We Are	Odeimin Music
69	The Antlers	Hospice	Frenchkiss
70	Mount Eerie	Wind's Poem	P.W. Elverum & Sun
71	Mstrkrft *	Fist Of God	Last Gang
72	Share *	Slumping In Your Murals	Forward Music Group
73	Kids On TV *	Shape Shifting Mutants / Remixes Volume 1	Blocks Recording Club
74	Mos Def	The Ecstatic	Downtown
75	The Ex-Boyfriends *	To The Lowest Bidder	Cash Fork
76	Julie Doiron *	I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day	Endearing
77	Polvo	In Prism	Merge
78	Cymbals Eat Guitars	Why There Are Mountains	Sister's Den
79	Nestor Wynrush *	Trinnipeg !78	Clothes Horse
80	Iron And Wine	Around The Well	Sub Pop
81	Mew	No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey	Columbia
82	Subb *	To This Beat	Stomp
83	Ramona Falls	Intuit	Barsuk
84	Wild Beasts	Two Dancers	Domino
85	Regina Spektor	Far	Sire
86	Azeda Booth *	Tubtrek	Absolutely Kosher
87	Nadja *	The Bungled and the Botched	Blocks Recording Club
88	Dirty Projectors	Bitte Orca	Domino
89	Various *	Manoeuvres 3: A Collection of BC Electronica	So Called
90	Ryan Dahle *	Irrational Anthems	Sandbag
91	Major Lazer	Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do	Downtown
92	Arctic Monkeys	Humbug	Domino
93	The Framework *	Before Tonight	Last Gang
94	Timber Timbre *	Timber Timbre	Arts & Crafts
95	Valleys *	Sometimes Water Kills People	Semprini
96	The Clean	Mister Pop	Merge
97	Reigning Sound	Love and Curses	In The Red
98	Still Life Still *	Girls Come Too	Arts & Crafts
99	The Paper Cranes *	Chivalry's Dead	Unfamiliar
100	Patrick Wolf	The Bachelor	Nylon

Rank	Artist	Title	Label
101	The Mars Volta	Octahedron	Warner
102	Vieux Farka Toure	Fondo	Six Degrees
103	Little Claw	Human Taste	Ecstatic Peace
104	Flying Fox And The Hunter/Gatherers*	Flying Fox And The Hunter/Gatherers	Self-Released
105	Hey Ocean! *	It's Easier To Be Somebody Else	Pop Machine
106	Rich Hope *	Is Gonna Whip It On Ya	Sandbag
107	Throw Me The Statue	Creaturesque	Secretly Canadian
108	Gobble Gobble *	Neon Graveyard	Self-Released
109	The Manvils *	The Manvils	Sandbag
110	The Wicked Awesomes *	Punk Holograms	Psychic Handshake
111	Doves	Kingdom Of Rust	Astralwerks
112	Bloodshot Bill *	Git High Tonight	Transistor 66
113	Shout Out Out Out Out *	Reintegration Time	Normals Welcome
114	Jenn Grant *	Echoes	Six Shooter
115	Amelia Curran *	Hunter, Hunter	Six Shooter
116	Junior Boys *	Begone Dull Care	Domino
117	Bill Frisell	Disfarmer	Nonesuch
118	Nurses	Apple's Acre	Dead Oceans
119	Tinariwen	Imidiwan: Companions	Outside
120	Miriodor *	Avanti!	Cuneiform
121	The Pretty Faces	Another Sound	Self-Released
122	Noah23 *	Rock Paper Scissors	Self-Released
123	Standing Waltz *	Non-Sens!	Pop6 Musique
124	Cale Parks	To Swift Mars	Polyvinyl
125	Vicious Cycle *	Pale Blue Dot	Deranged
126	The Creepshow *	Run For Your Life	Stomp
127	Eric Copeland	Alien in a Garbage Dump	Paw Tracks
128	Division Day	Visitation	Dangerbird
129	The Danks *	Are You Afraid Of The Danks?	Collagen Rock
130	Holiday Shores	Columbus'd The Whim	Twosyllable
131	Kwesi Selassie *	Survival	Self-Released
132	Snew	Snew You	Self-Released
133	Bella Clava *	Cold Spell	Self-Released
134	Pictureplane	Dark Rift	Lovepump United
135	Octoberman *	Fortresses	White Whale
136	Flotilla *	One Hundred Words for Water	Self-Released
137	Litterbug *	Zero Hour	Monkey Bar
138	Rachelle Van Zanten *	Where Your Garden Grows	Self-Released
139	Bad Veins	Bad Veins	Dangerbird
140	Barn Burner *	Bangers	New Romance For Kids
141	Mando Diao	Give Me Fire!	Universal
142	John Doe and The Sadies	Country Club	Outside
143	Blitzen Trapper	Black River Killer	Sub Pop
144	You Me At Six	Take Off Your Colours	Epitaph
145	Steve Hill *	The Damage Done	Bros
146	Various *	Beatroute: 5 Year Compilation	Self-Released
147	Meisha And The Spanks *	Mmmade For Me	Transistor 66
148	Vic Chesnutt	At The Cut	Constellation
149	Son of Earth	Improvements	Amish
150	Rum Runner *	What's The Music Mean To You?	Stumble

Rank	Artist	Title	Label
151	Le Bus *	Fission Friction Frequency	Spiral Recordings
152	New York Dolls	'Cause I Sez So	ATCO
153	Desolation Wilderness	New Universe	K
154	D.O. *	Stay Driven	Universal
155	Arietta *	Migration	Self-Released
156	Gregory Pepper And His Problems*	With Trumpets Flaring	Fake Four Inc.
157	Various	Italia	Putumayo
158	Ndu *	The Rebel Zone	Raw Livin
159	Delorean	Ayrton Senna	Fool House
160	The Cave Singers	Welcome Joy	Matador
161	Extra Happy Ghost !!! *	How The Beach Boys Sound To Those With No Feelings	Saved By Radio
162	Love Kills	This Is A Shakedown	Reverse Image Unlimited
163	Huntley Slim and the Suburban Cowboys*	Songs From The Chicken Coop	Self-Released
164	DD/MM/YYYY *	Black Square	We Are Busy Bodies
165	David Gogo	Different Views	Cordova Bay
166	Foreign Born	Person To Person	Secretly Canadian
167	Various	Ze 30: 1979-2009	Strut
168	Various *	Ottawa Gaga Volume One	Going Gaga
169	Humble *	Everything	Palm Of Gold
170	Lost Cause 34 *	Running From Rain	Self Released
171	Yppah	They Know What Ghost Know	Ninja Tune
172	The Ghost Is Dancing *	Battles On	Sonic Unyon
173	Dog Day *	Concentration	Outside
174	Javelin	Jamz n Jemz	Self-Released
175	The Standstills *	The Standstills	Self-Released
176	Inner Circle	State Of Da World	Shanachie
177	The Plastiscines	About Love	Nylon
178	Grand Analog *	Metropolis Is Burning	Urbnet
179	Helado Negro	Awe Owe	Asthmatic Kitty
180	Robb G *	Shufflebanger	Promo
181	Pale Air Singers *	Pale Air Singers	Flemish Eye
182	The Lovely Killbots *	Primrose Lane	Self-Released
183	Eamon McGrath *	13 Songs of Whiskey and Light	White Whale
184	Royal City *	Royal City (1999-2004)	Outside
185	Gypsophilia *	Sa-Ba-Da-Ow!	Self-Released
186	Moby	Wait For Me	Mute
187	The Olympic Symphonium *	More In Sorrow Than In Anger	Forward Music Group
188	The Apples In Stereo	#1 Hits Explosion	Yep Roc
189	The Burning Hell *	Baby	Weewerk
190	B-Lines *	burnt cds/social retard/usy man/leaving/dryer fire/crazy glue	Nominal
191	Eleazar Vs John *	Pits In The Sandblaster	Self-Released
192	Great Lake Swimmers *	Lost Channels	Nettwerk
193	Elaine Sheppard *	Lady In The Streets	Self-Released
194	Deerhunter	Rainwater Cassette Exchange	Kranky
195	Miramichi *	Miramichi	Self-Released
196	Marmoset	Tea Tornado	Joyful Noise
197	Ninety Pounds Of Ugly *	Richmond Motel Room #3	Self-Released
198	The Skeletones Four *	Aaaaahhh!!!	No-Fi Militant
199	Awol One & Factor *	Owl Hours	Fake Four Inc.
200	Os Mutantes	Haih Or Amortecedor	Anti-

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