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Features: February 2018
Best Jazz of 2017 by Jim Dupuis
Regular !earshot contributor and host of Jazz Notes on The X in Kamloops, BC offers the best Jazz releases of 2017.
Follow our look back at 2017
The Top 200 of 2017
The definitive list of the best records of 2017 - including electronic, hip hop, international, jazz, loud and folk roots & blues.
Best of 2017
Best Releases of 2017
As chosen by Music Directors and some of our contributers.
When you get paid to listen to music all the time, you have an advantage finding the best and the over-looked.Best Local Releases
If home is where the heart is, local is where the music starts. Picks from !earshot contributors and programmers from across the countryFull Best of 2017 lists from Programmers and Contributors
Catherine Fisher, CJLY-Nelson, BC
Glen Ingram, CICK-Smithers, BC
Kyle MyTruk, UNFM-Manitoba, BC
Jason Shields, UMFM-Winnipeg, MB
Myles Gregory, CFBX-Kamloops, BC
dj peanut butter, CHCR-Killaloe, ON
Troy Lemberg, CFUC-Victoria, BC
Tyler Wilson, CIVL-Abbotsford, BC!earshot National Top 200 of 2017
For the Month of January 2017
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Alvvays 
Antisocialites - (Polyvinyl)
2 Mac DeMarco
This Old Dog - (Royal Mountain)
3 Austra
Future Politics - (Pink Fizz)
4 Timber Timbre
Sincerely, Future Pollution - (Arts & Crafts)
5 Faith Healer
Try 😉 - (Mint)
6 Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder - (Arts & Crafts)
7 Homeshake
Fresh Air - (Royal Mountain)
8 Daniel Romano
Modern Pressure - (You've Changed)
9 Whitehorse
Panther In The Dollhouse - (Six Shooter)
10 Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions - (Constellation)
View the full !earshot Top 200 of 2017 Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Austra - Future Politics - (Pink Fizz) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 - (Run the Jewels, Inc.) International: The Souljazz Orchestra - Under Burning Skies - (Do Right! Music) Jazz: Ugly Beauties - Strange Attractors - (Self-Released) Loud: Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand - (Reprise) Folk/Roots/Blues: Rose Cousins - Natural Conclusion - (Outside Music)
Is Audrey Ochoa Just Messing With Us?
A hot trio, great engineers and a new label equals a hot, new sound for trombonist Audrey Ochoa. By Jim Dupuis
Geoff Berner: Unearthing the Many Layers of the Grotesque
Geoff Berner digs out all the country songs that wouldn't fit and come us with something grotesque. By Megan Clark
