Picks for 2020
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John Prentice - Planet Mainstage
Saturday 2 PM - 4 PMJohn Prine - I Remember Everything
Eliza Gilkyson- 2020
Bill Bourne- A Love Fandango (c)
Martyn Joseph- When We Get Through This
Connie Kaldor- Everyday Moments (c)
Connie Kaldor- Prairie Christmas (c)
Samantha Crain- A Small Death
John McCutcheon- Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine
Dan Bern- Quarantine me
Lynn Miles- We'll Look for Stars (c)
William Prince- Reliever (w)
William Prince- Gospel First Nation (w)
Pharis and Jason Romero- Bet on Love (c)
Richard Thompson- Bloody Noses
Sabin Jacques and Rachel Aucoin- Grandes Rencontres (c)
Ondara- Folk N' Roll, Vol. 1: Tales of Isolation
Ladama- Oye Mujer
Afel Bocoum- Linde
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche- I Can Still Hear Yo
Pokey LaFarge- Rock Bottom Rhapsody
Hannah James & the Jigdoll Ensemble- A Woman and her Words
Power Wagon- Live at Shanleys (c)
John Doyle- The Power of Stones
Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things (w)
Bonny Light Horseman- Bonny Light Horseman
Scott Nolan and Glenn Buhr- Manitoba Skyline (w)
Dan Frechette- By the Time It's over (w)
Mary Chapin Carpenter- The Dirt and the Stars
Tom Wilson, Iskwe and Chuck Copenace- Blue Moon Drive (c)
Kathleen Edwards- Total Freedom (c)
Playing for Change Band (Me pierdo)- Live in Brazil -
Connor Milligan - Dagwood Radio
Wednesday 6:30 PM - 8 PMThis year has been a tough one to say the least. Music has played a big role in all of us coping and figuring out this whole crazy situation. Thank you to every artists who worked very hard to entertain, inspire and help us through these times. To the rest of us, please support artists! BUY CD’S! BUY T-SHIRTS! BUY HATS! BUY ANY KIND OF MERCHANDISE! Support your Local Scene!
Top 10 Albums of 2020 (No Particular Order)- White Denim —> World as a Waiting Room
- Malcom-Jay —> Restless
- Open Mike Eagle —> Anime Trauma and Divorce
- Amos the Kid —> Mountain View
- William Prince —> Reliever
- Will Wagner —> Spiralling
- Mise en Scene —> Winnipeg California
- Future Islands —> As Long As You Are
- John Moreland —> LP5
- Cat Clyde —> Good Bones
Top 10 Songs of 2020 (No Particular Order)- Julien's Daughter —> The Prince
- Josh Knight —> I Think I Need
- Two Crows For Comfort —> Older Still
- Field Guide —> Since You Were A Kid
- Tom Rosenthal —> If We All Die Tomorrow
- John K. Samson —> Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World
- Buck Meek —> Second Sight
- Joey O’neil —> Manitoba
- The Koreatown Oddity —> Weed in LA
- Beans on Toast —> Human Contact
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Jared McKetiak - And The Rest Is Noise...
Wednesday 10 PM - 12 AM- sault - untitled (black is)
- makaya mccraven / gil scot-heron - we’re new again: a reimagining by makaya mccraven
- run the jewels - rtj4
- zoon - bleached waves
- waxahatchee - saint cloud
- nubya garcia - source
- phoebe bridgers - punisher
- freddie gibbs & the alchemist - alfredo
- jeff parker & the new breed - suite for max brown
- dogleg - melee
- dua saleh - rosetta
- bartees strange - live forever
- oddisee - odd cure
- cool greenhouse - cool greenhouse
- fontaines dc - a hero's death
- figure walking - vertical / horizontal
- mary lattimore - silver ladders
- bill callahan - gold record
- gum country - somewhere
- protomartyr - ultimate success today
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Jeremy Ranson - A Sordid Hour
Monday 8 PM - 9 PMLouis Jucker & Coilguns “play Kråkeslottet & Other Songs from the Northern Shores” [Hummus Records]
Beast Music - “Midnight Strikes Back” [Lizard Snake Records]
Naked Giants - “The Shadow” [New West Records]
Annabelle Chairlegs - “Gotta Be In Love” [Violetville Records]
Wylde Ratttz - “Wylde Ratttz” [digital release]
The Pretzels - “Electrical Audio Recording” [digital release]
Antares - “Prank” [Slack Records]
The Hip Priests - “Solid Gold Easy Option” [Speedowax Records]
Yuvees - “Human Dance” [Youth Riot Records]
Warm Red - “Decades Of Breakfast” [digital release] -
Ray Alexander - Fascinating Rhythm
Sunday 10 AM - 12 PMRay Alexander’s 2020 Picks International Instrumental Albums 1. Blue Soul – Dave Stryker/ WDR Big Band 2. Songs Our Fathers Taught Us – Warren Vashe 3. For Wes/Jimmy/Oliver – Christian McBride 4. The Duo – Mulgrew Miller/ Niels Orsted Peterson 5. From this place – Pat Metheny 6. When Lights are low – Kenny Katwitz 7. Play Sergeant Pepper – Michael Wolfe 8. Bluesville – Swingadelic 9. Simplicity – Pearl Django 10. Malandro – Miguel DeLeon International Vocal Albums 1. Songs + Stories – Claire Martin/ Callum Oau 2. True Love – Harry Connick Jr. 3. The Gathering – Amber Weeks 4. This Dream of You – Diana Krall 5. Battlecry – Virginia Schenck 6. Birdsongs – Champian Fulton 7. New Soul from the Jazz Age – Lizzie Thomas 8. I Wish I Knew – Susie Meissner 9. Party of Four – Royal Bopsters 10. We’ve just begun – Sinne Egg/ DRB Big Band Canadian Albums 1. The Nimmons Tribute – Sean Nimmons Octet 2. Very Well and Good – Richard Whiteman 3. Ides of March – Dave Young 4. Day by Day – Cory Weeds 5. Tetrahedron – Ernesto Cervini 6. Dance with me – Carol Welsman 7. Change of Plans – Will Bonness 8. Justin Time for Christmas 6 – (Variety of artists) 9. The Lowdown – Ian Hendrickson-Smith 10. Surfboard – Brandi Disterheft Historical Albums 1. The lost Berlin Tapes – Ella Fitzgerald 2. Time Outtakes – Dave Brubeck 3. 49th Parallel – Neil Swainson 4. Live at Ronny Scotts – Bill Evans Trio 5. Passion Flower/Four Doris Duke - Joe Castro Books 1. Bebop Fairytales – Mark Ruffin 2. Play the Way you Feel – Kevin Whitehead 3. Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time – Phillip Clark 4. Playing Changes: Jazz for a New Century – Nate Chinen 5. Heart full of Rhythm: Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong – Ricky Riccardi 6. One of a Kind: The Making of the World’s Greatest Drummer (Buddy Rich) – Pelle Berglund 7. Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams – Tammy Kernodle Gone, But Not Forgotten McCoy Tyner Jimmy Heath Ellis Marsalis Wallace Rooney Bucky Pizzerelli Claudio Roditi Lee Konitz Jimmy Cobb Lennie Niehaus Freddy Cole Johnny Mandel June “Pepper” Harris Annie Ross Gary Peacock Charlie Persip Pete King Richie Cole Joe Segal
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Olivia Tefft - Night Light
Sunday 9 PM - 10 PMIn no particular order, Night Light's top 25 albums of 2020 are:
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
UMI - Introspection
Lianne La Havas - Lianna La Havas
Ricky Reed - The Room
Jessie Reyez - Before Love Came To Kill Us
Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
Princess Nokia - Everything Is Beautiful
Mura Masa - R.Y.C.
Hope Tala - Girl Eats Su
Louis The Child - Here For Now
KAYTRANADA - BUBBA
Salt Cathedral - CARISMA
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
TOBi - STILL
Radiant Children - There's Only Being Yourself -
Cam Scott - Radio State
Monday 10 PM - 11 PMAlan Braufman - The Fire Still Burns
Josh Landes - Provincial Electronics
Teodora Stepančič - chords from a box
KA - Descendants of Cain
Constant Elevation - Freedom Beach
Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
KMRU - Peel
Mdou Moctar - Mixtape Vol. 7
Pink Siifu - Negro
Ted Byrnes - Tactility
Unfolding - Boundary
Exotic Sin - Customer’s Copy
Sour Spirit - LIVE DUSS I / II
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow - Life Goes On
Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
crys cole - Beside Myself
Andrew Weathers - Recordings with Guitar
Sarah Hennies - The Reinvention of Romance
Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords
Ingrid Laubrock - Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown
Rob Crooks - Introducing the Ghost
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - Genetic
New Risen Throne - The Outside -
James Korba - Loose Ropes Wrestling
Sunday 11 PM - 12 AM1.) Deftones - Ohms [Reprise]
2.) Zombi - 2020 [Relapse]
3.) Conway The Machine and The Alchemist - Lulu [ALC/EMPIRE]
4.) Kvelertak - Splid [Rise]
5.) Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy [Metal Blade]
6.) The Weeknd - After Hours [XO]
7.) Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris [Griselda Records]
8.) Uada - Djinn [Eisenwald Tonschmiede]
9.) Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now [Atlantic Records UK]
10.) Vagina Witchcraft - Vagina Witchcraft [Independent]
11.) 2 Chainz - So Help Me God! [Def Jam]
12.) Le Matos - Exode (Original Web Series Soundtrack) [Death Waltz] -
John Guttormson - Bang & Whisper
Thursday 1 PM - 2 PMBang + Whisper 2020 Best Songs
ALPHABETLAND - X
Stab You In the Heart - Green Day
Outta Mind (Outta Sight) - Wilco
Televised Mind - Fontaines D.C.
Off the Beach - Wire
Thoughts and Prayers - Drive-By Truckers
circle the drain - Soccer Mommy
Hey Clockface/How Can You Face Me? - Elvis Costello
Living In a Ghost Town - The Rolling Stones
Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World - John K. Samson
I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You - Bob Dylan
Snow Is Falling In Manhattan - Chilly Gonzales
Life is Strange - Doug Edmond
Song for Fraser - Kamasi Washington -
Neil Kraemer - Prick Up Your Ears
Monday 4 PM - 5 PMTop 10 Albums
in no particular order...
Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics
Ganser - Just Look At That Sky
Reality Group - Music For Fools Vol. 1
The Cool Greenhouse - The Cool Greenhouse
P.E. - Person
Pottery - Welcome To Bobby's Motel
Bambara - Stray
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Shopping - All Or Nothing
Teenanger - Good Time
Owen Pallett - Island -
Bryan Sveinson - The Pity Party
Friday 1 PM - 3 PM1. Dogleg - Melee
2. Ratboys - Printer's Devil
3. Hum - Inlet
4. Oolong - About Your Imaginary
5. Pinegrove - Marigold
6. Joan of Arc - Tim Melina Theo Bobby
7. Hot Mulligan - You'll Be Fine
8. Charmer - Ivy
9. Snarls - Burst
10.Dryjacket - Going Out of Business -
Michael Elves - TGIFR
Friday 6:30 - 8 PMTOP ALBUMS
20. Mabe Fratti - Pies Sobre La Tierra [Tin Angel]
19. Fleet Foxes - Shore [Anti-]
18. Emily Barker - A Dark Murmuration of Words [Thirty Tigers]
17. GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin [Blue Note]
16. Nikolov-Ivanovic Undectet - Frame & Curiosity [MoonJune]
15. Jeff Parker & The New Breed - Suite for Max Brown [International Anthem / Nonesuch]
14. Zoon - Bleached Wavves [Paper Bag]
13. Alabaster de Plume - To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 [International Anthem / Total Refreshment Center]
12. Malcolm Strachan - About Time [Haggis Records]
11. Monophonics - It's Only Us [Colemine]
10. Witch Prophet - DNA ACTIVATION [Self-Released]
09. Klo Pelgag - Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs [Secret City]
08. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Axiom [Ropeadope]
07. Raphael Weinroth-Browne - World Within [Self-Released]
06. The Saxophones - Eternity Bay [Full Time Hobby]
05. William Prince -Reliever [Six Shooter]
04. Nubya Garcia - Source [Concord]
03. Loving - If I Am Only My Dreams [Last Gang]
02. Asher Gamedze - Dialectic Soul [On The Corner]
01. Sault - Untitled (Black Is) [Forever Living]TOP SONGS
20. Field Guide - "You Were"
19. The Immaculate Beings - "Come In (Space Control)"
18. The Tibbs - "Damaged Heart"
17. Sebastian Gaskin - "Snakehold"
16. Katy J. Pearson - "Tonight"
15. Danielle Ponder & Karate Boogaloo - "Look Around"
14. Sarah Harmer - "Squeaking Voices"
13. Caroline Rose - "Feel The Way I Want"
12. John Moreland - "Terrestrial"
11. Circa Waves - "Sad Happy"
10. Tennis - "Need Your Love"
09. The Black Creatures - "Wretched (It Goes)"
08. Honey Harper - "In Light Of Us"
07. KerenDun - "Kitchen Table"
06. Ivan & Alyosha - "You That Carries Me"
05. Emanuel - "Need You (Remix)"
04. Veronica Fusaro - "Rollercoaster"
03. Dent May - "I Could Use A Miracle"
02. Cayley Thomas - "Two Minds"
01. The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights" -
Cretin Rob - Cretin Radio
Friday 9 AM-ish - 11 AMTop 20 for 2020
Mr. Bungle – the Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demos
Osees – Protean Threat
Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream
Chubby and the Gang – Speed Kills
Slander Tongue – Slander Tongue
Metz – Atlas Vending
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
Chats – High Risk Behaviour
Napalm Death – Throes in the Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Fashion Bathers – III
Exbats – Kicks Hits and Fits
Nude Party – Midnight Manor
Boris - No
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts
Mise en Scene – Winnipeg, California
Black Thunder – La Fine Creata
Cavemen – Euthanize Me EP
Bloodshot Bill – Get Loose or Get Lost
Idles – Ultra Mono
MFC Chicken – Fast Food and Broken Hearts