Who We Lost in 2015

Little Jimmy Dickens
Curtis Lee
Tim Drummond (Bob Dylan's band)
Kim Fowley
Ward Swingle
Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream)
Thom Wilson (producer)
Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Company)
Steve Strange (Visage)
Gavin Clarke (UNKLE)
Lesley Gore
Clark Terry
Chris Rainbow (Alan Parsons)
Leonard Nimoy
Daevid Allen (Soft Machine)
Mike Porcaro
Bruce Crump (Molly Hatchet)
Andy Fraser (Free)
Michael Brown (The Left Banke)
AJ Pero (Twisted Sister)
Scott Clenemin (Death)
Preston Ritter (The Electric Prunes)
Dave Ball (Procul Harum)
Rob Burns (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Percy Sledge
Jack Ely ("Louie Louie")
Ben E. King
Craig Gruber (Rainbow)
Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate)
B.B. King
Tranquility Bass
Ray Kennedy
Archie Alleyene
Jim Ed Brown
Ornette Coleman
Chris Squire (Yes)
Red Lane
Dan Joyce (Negativland)
Lynn Anderson
Stephen Huss (Psyche)
Sam Price
David Shelley
Hal Willis
Dennis Greene (Sha Na Na)
Bryn Merrick (The Damned)
Gary Richnath (REO Speedwagon)
Martin Kearns (Bolt Thrower)
Phil Woods
Keepsta Knicca
Steve Mackey (The Stooges)
Smokin' Joe Kubek
Cory Wells (Three Dog Night)
Leon Bibb
Andy White (The Beatles)
Allen Toussaint
"Philthy" Phil Taylor (Motorhead)
P.F. Sloan
Ron Hynes
Scott Weiland
Gary Marker (Captain Beefheart)
Rainer Bloss
Mick Lynch (Stump)
William Guest (Gladys Knight and the Pips)
Steve Wright (The Easybeats)
Lemmy Kilmiester
John Bradbury (The Specials)

Top 10 Albums of 2015

1) The Soft Moon - Deeper (Captured Tracks)
2) Faith Healer* - Cosmic Troubles (Mint)
3) METZ* - II (Sub Pop)
4) Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)
5) ttwwrrss* - ttwwrrss_2 (Maisonnevue)
6) Viet Cong* - Viet Cong (Flemish Eye)
7) Shamir - Ratchet (XL)
8) Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie (Rough Trade)
9) Conduct* - Fear and Desire (Public Tone)
10) FFS - FFS (Domino)

Honourable Mentions: Sleater-Kinney - No Cites to Love (Sub Pop), Purity Ring* - Another Eternity (Last Gang), White Reaper - White Reaper Does it Again (Royal Mountain), Foals - What Went Down (Transgressive), Ought* - Sun Coming Down (Constellation)

I'll be counting them down Friday, January 15th 8-9 PM.

DNTTA Playlist for December 18, 2015

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Grimes* - California - Art Angels (Crystal Math)
Lilly Wolf - Wasteland - Deleted Scenes (Independent)
Colliding Canyons* - 8000 Dolphin Day - Colliding Canyons (Shake!)
LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator - LCD Soundsystem (DFA)
Terra* - Control - Couldn't Save This EP (Shake!)
Blu Shorts* - The Rip - Blu Shorts (Shake!)
The Shiverettes* - Bad for Me - Just Three Songs (Independent)
Juice Box* - Two Stars on Amazon - Tetra Pak (Independent)
OK Jazz* - Warning Light - Level Up (Independent)
Chron Goblin* - Give Way - Backwater (Independent)
We Hunt Buffalo* - The Barrens - Living Ghosts (New Damage)
A.P. Laurenson - Evidently - Desert Ethereal (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for December 11, 2015

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Telstar Drugs* - Greyed Rainbow - Sonatine (Egg Paper Factory)
Skim Milk* - The Prince - Ghosts of Jazz (Independent)
North Atlantic Explorers* - Lapwing - All the Ships at Sea (Anniedale)
Bowery Electric - Floating World - Tea for 2000 (Beggar's Banquet)
Low - Spanish Translation - Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
Altered Images - Song Sung Blue - Pinky Blue (Portrait)
Homo Duplex* - Caves - 05 (Independent)
Hook and Eye* - Lost Brothers - Start Slow (Medicine)
The Nils* - Love to Hate - Ghosts and Shadows (Cobraside)
Betrayers* - 60/40 - Love Rat EP (Shake!)
Dri Hiev* - Good Shirt - Contravirtual EP (Shake!)
The Evaporators* - Cardboard Brains - Ripple Rock (Mint)

Earshot Reviews for December 2015

Decent stuff here, but avoid that Young Empires album...

Monkeyjunk - Moon Turn Red

The Sweet Lowdown - Chasing the Sun

Young Empires - The Gates

DNTTA Playlist for December 4, 2015

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Blue Hawaii* - Castle of Clouds - Blooming Summer (Arbutus)
Jerusalem in My Heart* - Ah Ya Mal El Sham - If He Dies, If If If If If If (Constellation)
Suuns* - Arena - Zeroes QC (Secretly Canadian)
Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart* - Seif - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secret City)
New Order - Plastic - Music Complete (Mute)
Alien Heirs* - War is News - To Heir is Human (Independent)
1977* - We Do - Twister (Independent)
Farao - Hunter - Till It's All Forgotten (Arts and Crafts)
Chairs* - Sleeper - Drawn Into Mazes (Kinnta)
Late Spring* - Topless - Late Spring (Independent)
Fine Young Cannibals - Love for Sale - Red Hot and Blue (Chrysalis)
Sinead O'Connor - I Want Your Hands on Me - The Lion and the Cobra (Chrysalis)

DNTTA Playlist for Nobemver 27, 2015

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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The Floor* - Impossible - Automony Off/On (Independent)
Kristien Nordevil/Elizabeth Brown - She Lost Her Voice, That's How We Knew (Part II) - She Lost Her Voice, That's How We Knew (Ravello)
Mother Falcon - Boxer - Good Luck, Have Fun (Universal)
Parkland* - Drinking Glue - Singularity (Offseason)
Spoons* - Camera Shy - Talkback (Ready)
Bodies That Matter* - I Confess - Glorify! Glorify! Glorify! (Optical Sounds)
Peter Murphy - I've Got a Miniature Secret Camera - Pump Up the Volume OST (MCA)
Fine Times* - Not Dead - Bad::Better (Light Organ)
Unalaska* - Salaryworld - Unalaska (Light Organ)
Tame Impala - The Moment - Currents (Modular)
Esmerine* - A River Runs Through This City - Other Voices (Constellation)

DNTTA Playlist for November 20, 2015

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Tanuki* - Top Floor - Sound System (Independent)
Shamir - Hot Mess - Ratchet (XL)
Appliance - Heroes of Telemark (Pole remix) - D4 EP (Warp)
Hau Li* - Luxury - Za Zhong (Art Not Love)
Sego - Psychobabble - Long Long Way from the Fridge (Dine Alone)
Julian Bachlow* - Can You Feet It - Family Ties (Independent)
Ensh* - Plaid Patterns - Both of Them Milenko (Independent)
Ded Sheppard* - Wrong Music - Ded Sheppard (East Van Digital)
Decoder - Circuit Breaker - Infinite Beat Vol. 1 (DGC)
Troye Sivan - Bite - Wild (EMI)
Wumpscut - Concrete Rage - Music for a Slaughtering Tribe (Metropolis)