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Chad VanGaalen

Potengowski Anna Friederike

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This Month

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
1	TEKE::TEKE Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
2	The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
3	Chad VanGaalen World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
4	The Weather Station Ignorance - (Next Door)
5	Kiwi Jr. Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
6	Arlo Parks Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
7	Ada Lea one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door)
8	Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz jooj two - (Mint)
9	Suuns The Witness - (Secret City)
10	Andy Shauf Wilds - (Arts & Crafts)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

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)

Charts

This Week's Charts

For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Top 50
#1 Tops - Bury The Key - (Ghostly International)
Folk/Roots/Blues
#1 Carson McHone - Pentimento - (Merge)

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Purrs & Hisses from Meow Records

By Bryndis Ogmundson

this is chad sporting a meow army
shirt at folkfest 2007You wanna know where I’ve been? I mean, the three of you that faithfully read my spew of nonsense every month, do you wanna know why there was no August Purrs & Hisses? My store flooded! Here I am open less than a year and one night of downpour and my store floods. Walls were ruined, bags were destroyed, and oh dear, the thousands of rekkids that were lost.

Fortunately I have insurance!

Yes, July was a crazy month. Aside from the flood, Prince George celebrated its fourth annual FolkFest. And I, as in Meow
this is chad being awesome at the
midnight garden party Records (www.meowrecords.ca), sponsored an artist. Who you ask? None other than the very awesome Chad VanGaalen. I hosted a private midnight garden party that he performed at on the Friday night, and then on the Saturday he wowed the folkies in the park.

So, as you can imagine, July was crazy. I barely slept, let alone write my monthly column. But it’s all back to normal now.

more chad in his meow army shirtPurrs:

M.I.A.’s Kala is probably the funnest thing I’ve heard in a while. I don’t even particularly like each song on their own, but as an album it stands towers above most new releases. In the record store, it gets our asses shaking on a daily basis. If you haven’t tried it out, do. She even covers the Pixies in a very M.I.A. way. The best track of all is “Paper Planes.” No foolin’.

Hisses:

Wax Mannequin... boooooooooooooo...