Hot Wax + Charts | October 20, 2025

| & filed under awesome, CJSR news, Top 30.

 

Hot Wax

New Must Listens handpicked by CJSR

From all new releases for week of October 13 – 19, 2025


Geese
Getting Killed [Partisan]
New York, NY        Rock/Pop
Wackily cool music by a weirdo savant


Jeff Tweedy
Twilight Override [dBPM]
Chicago, IL        Rock/Pop
30 songs is too many but he’s a creative guy (I read his book) and his arrangements are good


Neko Case
Neon Grey Midnight Green [Anti-]
Seattle, WA        Folk/Rock
This is a good Neko Case album. Strong songwriting and arrangements and her voice is good, of course


Sloan
Based on the Best Seller [Yep Roc]
Toronto, ON         Rock/Po
Hey, a new Sloan album. Tight and happy rock and roll

 

Notable Local Adds


AV & The Inner City
– AV & The Inner City [Self-Released]
Soul/R&B


Addison Wall
Somewhere In Between [Self-Released]
Folk

 

All the new music added to the CJSR library

(October 13 – October 19)

GENRE ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
Electronic Alley Goop Empress Self-Released
Electronic Dolcevita Brothers Sprezzatura Self-Released
Electronic Prekop, Sam Open Close Thrill Jockey
Electronic Purity Ring Purity Ring The Fellowship
Electronic Shima Welcome to SHIMAJIMA Young Art
Experimental/Ambient Moss, Jessica Unfolding Constellation
Experimental/Ambient Testen, Martin/Simon Šerc Nokturno Pharmafabrik
Folk Great Lake Swimmers Caught Light Pheromone
Folk Jolie Laide In The Low Light EP Victory Pool
Folk Mappe Of Afterglades Paper Bag
Folk Wall, Addison Somewhere In Between Self-Released
Folk Watson, Patrick Uh Oh Secret City
Folk/Rock Case, Neko Neon Grey Midnight Green Anti-
Hip-Hop/R&B Carrtoons Space Cadet +1
Hip-Hop/Rap Ev. G And Then I Go Up Self-Released
Hip-Hop/Rap Moon, Max The Grand Howl Hand’Solo
Jazz Davis, Cole Consider It! Totally Gross National Product
Jazz Jaffe, Max You Want That Too! Colorfield
Jazz Muirhead, Al Still Cookin’ at 90: The Canada Sessions Vol. 2 Chronograph
Metal Ancient Thrones Melancholia Self-Released
Punk Die Spitz Something To Consume Third Man
Punk Sprints All That Is Over Sub Pop
Rock/Pop Absolute Losers In The Crowd We Are Busy Bodies
Rock/Pop Anschütz, Rosa Sabbatical Heartworm
Rock/Pop Automatic Is It Now? Stones Throw
Rock/Pop Bright Eyes Kids Table EP Dead Oceans
Rock/Pop By A Thread Mirroed Life Spartan
Rock/Pop Frog The Count Audio Antihero
Rock/Pop Geese Getting Killed Partisan
Rock/Pop Lekman, Jens Songs For Other People’s Weddings Secretly Canadian
Rock/Pop Platonic Sex Face To The Flywire Orchard
Rock/Pop Pôt-pot Warsaw 480km Felte
Rock/Pop Pure Carrière Visions De L’Enfer Les Disques Dure Vie Itee
Rock/Pop Rec Centre Squash Self-Released
Rock/Pop Sloan Based on the Best Seller Yep Roc
Rock/Pop Tweedy, Jeff Twilight Override dBPM
Rock/Pop Yacina, Emily Veilfall Self-Released
Soul/R&B AV & The Inner City AV & The Inner City Self-Released

 


Charts

Top 30

Chart ranking reflects airplay during the week ending October 10, 2025

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* indicates a Canadian artist
red indicates local artist
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RANK    ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL

1    Tebby And The Heavy*    Heavy Afternoon    Self-Released

2    Crasher    Odditi Populaire    Mothland

3    Smokey*    Bleak Heritage    Lonesome

4    Scott Hardware*    Overpass    Telephone Explosion

5    Murs    Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation)    Mello Music Group

6    WITCH    SOGOLO    Partisan

7    Flyte    Between You and Me    Nettwerk

8    Wednesday    Bleeds    Dead Oceans

9    Artichoke    Artichoke    Self-Released

10    Mo Lowda & The Humble    Tailing The Ghost    Workaround Records

11    Greg Freeman    Burnover    Transgressive

12    Oceanique    Skylines    Self-Released

13    The Western Thistles*    The Western Thistles    Self-Released

14    pseudo-antigone*    Melancholic Melodrama    Self-Released

15    Adam Johan Bergren*    Circuit Traces    Self-Released

16    Spool*    Pasting the Post Dry    Self-Released

17    bananahaus*    grounders    Mono Tapes

18    arid landscapes*    arid landscapes    signal chain

19    Buildings and Food*    Provincial Park    Self-Released

20    Samwoy*    Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun    Mothland

21    Red Jacket*    Rebarbeach    Self-Released

22    COMPANDER*    Vivianite    Self-Released

23    Justin Gray*    Immersed    I.A.N.

24    Meadowsweet*    The Sound of Coming Home    Self-Released

25    The Science Of The Heart*    Night Drive    The Science of the Heart

26    The Dwarfs of East Agouza    Sasquatch Landslide    Constellation

27    Cass McCombs    Interior Live Oak    Domino

28    Far Caspian    Autofiction    Tiny Library

29    Shame    Cutthroat    Dead Oceans

30    Margo Price    Hard Headed Woman    Concord / Loma Vista

 

CJSR Genre Charts

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