November-December 2011

• Whole Note: On Listening to New Music
• The Best Songs of 2011:
  1. Dear Friends – ELBOW
  2. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall – COLDPLAY
  3. Somnambulism – ROBERT MILES
  4. San Jacinto – PETER GABRIEL
  5. We Move Lightly – DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
  6. Caravan no Yoru [Night of the Caravan] – ARUKARA
  7. Half Asleep and Wide Awake – AMY SPEACE
  8. Bohemian 3-Step – BRUCE COCKBURN
  9. The Light (Her Hands Were Leaves) – ALEXI MURDOCH
  10. When New York Had Her Heart Broke – JOHN HIATT
  11. Whirring – THE JOY FORMIDABLE
  12. So Long – CHIHIRO YAMANAKA
  13. Snowed in at Wheeler Street – KATE BUSH with ELTON JOHN
  14. Every Day is Yours to Win – R.E.M.
  15. An Den Kleinen Radioapparat [At the Small Wireless Transmitter] – MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO

October 2011

• Review: Robert Miles, Th1rt3en
• Cartoon: “Record Store Hound”
• Dialog: David Sylvian, Secrets of the Beehive

September 2011

• Review: Peter Gabriel, New Blood
• In Their Own Words: Leann Rozema

August 2011

• Review: Heather Nova, 300 Days at Sea
• Appreciation: Manic Street Preachers, Lifeblood
• Acorns:
  • Chihiro Yamanaka, “So Long”
  • Bruce Cockburn, “Called Me Back”
  • John Hiatt, “When New York Had Her Heart Broke”