The Best, The Worst and the Rest
Best of 2004 The Waking Eyes- Video Sound - Warner A disc so full of real rock n' roll gems that every song could easily be a hit. The Sourkeys - The Sourkeys - The Ford Plant Intense and exciting math-pop. The best band to ever have come out of the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Yes, even better than The Constantines. If Weiland could stay clean, they'd be a hard rock wet dream. Most Under-Rated Record of the Year Uncut - Those Who Were Hung Hang Here - Paper Bag Straight up rock with an obvious techno influence. Completely dynamic and unpredictable. Most Over-Rated Record of the Year The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - Rough Trade This is what The Muppets making a children's record on PCP would sound like. Frustratingly bad. Best Local Release � Halifax The Ditchpigs - Someone To Hate More Than Yourself - Gun To Head Dirty Moncton pop punk with serious balls. Their debut was impressive, but Someone To Hate More Than Yourself super-sizes the power, and the pain. Geek rock on angry pills. Most Anticipated Release for 2005 Contrived - Dead Air Verbatim - Dependent This one's been in the bag for a year and a half now. The best math rock band on the East Coast is just waiting to explode, and the Andy Magoffin-produced DAV should percolate them to the top. Best Personal Campus/Community Radio Moment Or Experience of the Year. Matt Mays teaching me how to use a turntable, live on the air. Part 1- Kevin Doyle at CKMS, Waterloo Part 2- Jessica Whyte at CKDU, Halifax Part 3- Tim Jones at CHMA, Sackville Part 4- Leland Bjerg at CFUR, Prince George Part 5- Maddee Gee at CFRU, Guelph Part 6- Chris Reid at CFUR, Prince George Part 7- Jon Bruhm at CKDU-FM, Halifax Part 8- Alexis Brett at CFBX, Kamloops Part 9- Mike D at CHMA, Sackville Part 10- Alex Callahan at CHMA, Sackville Part 11- Alanna Stuart at CHUO, Ottawa Part 12- Alex Cairncross at CHUO, Ottawa Part 13- Matt Jillard at CHRW, London |
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Mngwa
Andrew Franey
The Shangs
Alex Cuba
Tri Nguyen
Defend The Rhino
Talltale
Kiwi Jr.
Plaster
Hyness
Black Suit Devil
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
The Pack A.D.
Chad VanGaalen
Potengowski Anna Friederike
Todd Rundgren
Old 97's
Needles//Pins
This Month
!earshot Top 200 of 2021For January to December 2021
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| TW | Artist - Title - (Label) | ||
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| 1 | TEKE::TEKE 
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars) |
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| 2 | The Halluci Nation
One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) |
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| 3 | Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye) |
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| 4 | The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door) |
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| 5 | Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club) |
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| 6 | Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive) |
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| 7 | Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door) |
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| 8 | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint) |
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| 9 | Suuns
The Witness - (Secret City) |
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| 10 | Andy Shauf
Wilds - (Arts & Crafts) |
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| Specialty Charts #1s | |||
| Electronic: | The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) | ||
| Hip Hop: | Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) | ||
| International: | Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep) | ||
| Jazz: | Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead) | ||
| Loud: | Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) | ||
| Folk/Roots/Blues: | Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) | ||
