Picks for 2020

• John Prentice - Planet Mainstage
  Saturday 2 PM - 4 PM

  John 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 PM

  This 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
  
  

  
  
  

• Jared McKetiak - And The Rest Is Noise...
  Wednesday 10 PM - 12 AM
  

  1. sault - untitled (black is)
  2. makaya mccraven / gil scot-heron - we’re new again: a reimagining by makaya mccraven
  3. run the jewels - rtj4
  4. zoon - bleached waves
  5. waxahatchee - saint cloud
  6. nubya garcia - source
  7. phoebe bridgers - punisher
  8. freddie gibbs & the alchemist - alfredo
  9. jeff parker & the new breed - suite for max brown
  10. dogleg - melee
  11. dua saleh - rosetta
  12. bartees strange - live forever
  13. oddisee - odd cure
  14. cool greenhouse - cool greenhouse
      
  15. fontaines dc - a hero's death
      
  16. figure walking - vertical / horizontal
      
  17. mary lattimore - silver ladders
      
  18. bill callahan - gold record
      
  19. gum country - somewhere
      
  20. protomartyr - ultimate success today

• Jeremy Ranson - A Sordid Hour
  Monday 8 PM - 9 PM

  Louis 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 PM

  Ray 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
  

• Olivia Tefft - Night Light
  Sunday 9 PM - 10 PM

  In 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 PM

  Alan 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 AM

  1.) 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 PM

  Bang + 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 PM

  Top 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 PM

  1. 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 PM

  TOP 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 AM

  Top 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