!earshot picks for 2007Jeff Friesen Jeff Friesen has been a DJ at the University of Manitoba’s campus and community radio station UMFM 101.5 for the past four years. He started at UMFM by co-hosting the show The Alberta Report with his good friend Kristen Braun in 2004, which airs every Sunday from 7-8pm. The Alberta Report focuses on straight-up folk/pop artists like Lucinda Williams, XTC or Jens Lekman. In 2005 Jeff started a second show called The New Decay, which airs every Friday from 2-3pm, also on UMFM. Named after a line from one of his favorite Destroyer songs, The New Decay is a more exploratory show than The Alberta Report, playing everything from early post-punk, hip-hop, noise, dubstep, and even the occasional jazz tune (especially the likes of Ornette Coleman, Rashaan Roland Kirk or William Parker). Through both of these shows, Jeff hopes to give fellow music lovers the space necessary to discover new and exciting artists. Other Picks:
The Alberta Report TOP 3 RECORDS OF 2007 1. Burial – Untrue – (Hyperdub) 2. Frog Eyes – Tears of the Valedictorian – (Absolutely Kosher) 3. Sandro Perri – Tiny Mirrors – (Constellation) MOST UNDER-RECORD OF 2007 Himalayan Bear – … Attacks the Brilliant Air – (Self Righteous Records) MOST OVER-RATED RECORD OF 2007 Battles – Mirrored – (Warp) BEST LOCAL RELEASE OF 2007 Boats! – Intercontinental Champion – (Independent) MOST ANTICIPATED RECORD FOR 2008 Hello, Blue Roses – Hello Blue Roses – (Loscust) |
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Defend The Rhino
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Plaster
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Black Suit Devil
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Potengowski Anna Friederike
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Old 97's
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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) | ||
