93XRT's 2021 Listener Poll Survey

It's time for you to help choose the best of 2021 in the XRT Listener Poll 2021. Let your voice be heard...

Vote now through January 1st for your favorites and Tito's Handmade Vodka, America's Original Craft Vodka will donate one dollar for every vote cast up to $10,000 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository to help meet the ongoing hunger crisis.

*1.Breakthrough Artist (choose 3)(Required.)

Cannons

Chet Faker

Hiss Golden Messenger

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me

Illiterate Light

Japanese Breakfast

Jon Batiste

Maneskin

Neal Francis

Sara Kays

The Heavy Hours

The Marias

Wet Leg

Other (please specify)

*2.Best Song (choose 5)(Required.)

“105 Degrees” - Tom Petty

“Be Sweet” – Japanese Breakfast

“Beggin” – Maneskin

“Bitter Taste” - Billy Idol

“Brightside” – The Lumineers

“Can’t Let Go” – Robert Plant and Allison Krauss

“Can’t Stop The Rain” Neal Francis (could also be best Chicago artist)

“Chaise Longue” – Wet Leg

“Colorado” - Milky Chance

“Crawling Kingsnake” - The Black Keys

“Crutch” – Band of Horses

“Down” - St. Vincent

“Easy On Me” – Adele

“Elevator Boots” – Counting Crows

“Heat Waves” – Glass Animals

“Higher Power” – Coldplay

“How High” - The Record Company

“Hush” – The Marias

“Hypotheticals”-Lake Street Dive

“I Don’t Live Here Anymore” - War on Drugs

“Kyoto” – Phoebe Bridgers

“Long Way” – Eddie Vedder

“Love Love Love” – My Morning Jacket

“Low” – Chet Faker

“Magnificent Hurt” – Elvis Costello

“Making A Fire (Mark Ronson Remix)” – Foo Fighters

“Mine Forever” – Lord Huron

“Missing Piece” – Vance Joy

“Never Leave You” – The Record Company

“Not Dead Yet” – Lord Huron

“Now Is The Time” - Jade Bird

“Quiet Town” – The Killers

“Right On Time” – Brandi Carlile

“Roots and Wings”- Wallflowers

“Rushing Water” – Sting

“Sad But True” – Jason Isbell

“Survivor” – Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

“The Bandit” – Kings of Leon

“The Hardest Cut” - Spoon

“The Sun Hasn’t Left” – Modest Mouse

“The Tipping Point” – Tears For Fears

“We Are Between” – Modest Mouse

“Wildfire” – The Heavy Hours

“Worry No More” – Amos Lee

“Worry With You” – Sleater Kinney

Other (please specify)

*3.Best Album (choose 5)(Required.)

Adele “30”

Billy Idol “The Roadside” (EP)

Bleachers “Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night”

Brandi Carlile “In These Silent Days”

Chet Faker “Hotel Surrender”

Coldplay “Music of the Spheres”

Counting Crows “Butter Miracle, Suite One” (EP)

Courtney Barnett “Things Take Time, Take Time”

Foo Fighters “Medicine at Midnight

Hiss Golden Messenger “Quietly Blowing It”

Jackson Browne “Downhill from Everywhere”

Japanese Breakfast “Jubilee”

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Georgia Blue”

John Mayer “Sob Rock”

Jon Batiste “We Are”

Kings of Leon “When You See Yourself”

Lake Street Dive “Obviously”

Lord Huron “Long Lost”

Lorde “Solar Power”

Manchester Orchestra “The Million Masks of God”

Maneskin “Teatro d'ira: Vol. 1”

Milky Chance “Trip Tape”

Modest Mouse “The Golden Casket”

My Morning Jacket “My Morning Jacket”

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats “The Future”

Neal Francis “In Plain Sight”

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “Back the Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011–2021)”

Rag ‘N Bone Man “Life by Misadventure”

Robert Plant and Allison Krause “Raise the Roof”

St. Vincent “Daddy’s Home”

Sting “The Bridge”

The Black Keys “Delta Kream”

The Heavy Hours “Wildfire” (EP)

The Killers “Pressure Machine”

The Marias “Cinema”

The Record Company “Play Loud”

U2 “Sing 2” soundtrack

Van Morrison “Latest Record Project, Volume 1”

Wallflowers “Exit Wounds”

War on Drugs “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”

Weezer “OK Human”

Other (please specify)

*4.Best Concert (choose 5)(Required.)

Lollapalloza 7/29-8/1/2021 Grant Park

BoDeans 7/30/21 Northshore Center for the Performing Arts Skokie

Mt. Joy Lolla Aftershow 7/30/21 Thalia Hall

Young The Giant Lolla Aftershow 7/30/21 House of Blues

Brittany Howard Lolla Aftershow 7/31/21 Thalia Hall

Modest Mouse Lolla Aftershow 7/31/21 Vic Theatre

Band of Horses/Michigander Lolla Aftershow 7/31/21 Metro

Dermot Kennedy 7/31/21 Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

Dave Matthews Band "8/6/2021, 8/7/2021" Huntington Bank Pavilion Northerly Island

Brett Dennen 8/4/21 Ravinia

Emmylou Harris/Los Lobos 8/5/21 Canal Shores

Patti Smith 8/6/21 Canal Shores

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals 8/7/21 Canal Shores

Black Crowes 8/7/21 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Green Day/Fall Out Boy/Weezer 8/15/21 Wrigley Field

Counting Crows 8/19/21 Ravinia

Jason Isbell 8/22/21 Wintrust Field Schaumburg

John Hiatt 8/24/21 Ravinia

Lake Street Dive 8/26/21 Ravinia

Wilco & Sleater Kinney 8/28/21 Pritzker Pavilion

Poi Dog Pondering 8/28/21 RiverEdge

King Crimson 8/29/21 Ravinia

Doobie Brothers 8/29/21 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Collective Soul/BTE/Tonic 9/1/21 Ravinia

Drive By Truckers/JD McPherson 9/3/21 Temperance

George Clinton 9/5/21 Temperance

Tame Impala 9/7/21 United Center

Toad The Wet Sprocket 9/10/21 Park West

Alanis Morissette 9/11/21 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

Flogging Molly & Violent Femmes 9/14/21 Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

Psychedlic Furs 9/16/21 Vic Theatre

Dead & Company "9/17/2021, 9/18/2021" Wrigley Field

Ben Folds 9/18/21 Ravinia

Future Islands 9/18/21 Chicago Theatre

Mt. Joy & Trampled By Turtles 9/23/21 Chicago Theatre

Bob Mould Band 9/24/21 Vic Theatre

Andrew Bird 9/24/21 Ravinia

Leon Bridges 10/1/21 The Vic

Melissa Etheridge 10/3/21 Genesee Theatre

X Ambassadors 10/4/21 Vic Theatre

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 10/8/21 Gallagher Way

Jade Bird 10/10/21 SPACE

Rodrigo Y Gabriela 10/14/21 Chicago Theatre

The Record Company 10/14/21 Metro

Graham Parker 10/16/21 Old Town School

Robbie Fulks 10/17/21 City Winery

The Black Pumas "10/17/2021 - 10/19/2021" "Thalia Hall

Dr. Dog "10/18/2021 - 10/19/2021" Thalia Hall

Michigander 10/28/21 Lincoln Hall

Sylvan Esso 10/31/21 Aragon Ballroom

Todd Rundgren "11/1/2021 - 11/2/2021" House of Blues

Shawn Mullins 11/2/21 City Winery

Elvis Costello 11/3/21 Chicago Theatre

Silversun Pickups 11/3/21 Vic Theatre

My Morning Jacket "11/4/2021 - 11/6/2021" Auditorium Theatre

Genesis "11/15/2021 - 11/16/2021" United Center

Richard Thompson 11/17/21

Widespread Panic "11/17/2021 - 11/19/2021" Chicago Theatre

Leo Kottke 11/18/21 Northshore Center for the Performing Arts

Mavis Staples (Beyond Hunger) "11/19/2021, 11/20/2021" Thalia Hall (19) Fitzgerald's (20)

Nick Lowe 11/20/21 Park West

Lovely the Band 11/23/21 House of Blues

BoDeans 11/26/2021 11/27/2021 11/28/2021 City Winery

Milky Chance 11/27/21 Riveria Theatre

Billy Idol 12/1/21 Vic Theatre

Anderson East 12/3/21 Vic Theatre

Dawes 12/4/21 Vic Theatre

Ike Reilly 12/4/21 Lincoln Hall

Ottewell and Ball of Gomez 12/6/21 City Winery

93XRT Holiday Jam: The Lumineers 12/7/21 Thalia Hall

J.D. McPherson 12/16/21 Thalia Hall

Shemekia Copeland 12/16/21 City Winery

Houndmouth 12/17/2021-12/18/2021 Thalia Hall

Michael McDermott: Mischief & Mistletoe "12/20/2021 - 12/23/2021" City Winery

Jeff Tweedy "12/22/2021, 12/23/2021" Metro

Poi Dog Pondering 12/27/2021-12/31/2021 Space

Los Lobos 12/30/2021 7:30 12/31/2021 7:30 12/31/2021 11p City Winery

String Cheese Incident "12/30/2021, 12/31/2021" Auditorium Theatre

Local H 12/30/2021 -12/31/2021 Beat Kitchen

Other (please specify)

*5.Best Big Beat Chicago Artist (choose 3)(Required.)

8-bit Creeps

Beach Bunny

BONZIE

Broken Robots

Burr Oak

Cloudtone

Cody Lee

Deanna Devore

Dingo

Elif Geris

Fauvely

Half Gringa

Heavy Manners

Jackie Hayes

Jason Narducy / Split Single

Jennifer Hall

Jenny Leginsky

Jon Langford

Josh Caterer

joyful.

Lala Lala

Liquid Soul

Local H

Melkbelly

Minor Moon

Natalie Bergman

Nathan Graham

Nino Arobelidze / Girl Named Nino

Origami Button

Phillip-Michael Scales

Press-A

Ratboys

Sincere Engineer

Sonic45 (formerly The 45)

Steve Dawson

Sunshine Boys

SuperKnova

Tall Doug

The Flat Five

The Hushdrops

The Webstirs

Way To Go Radio

White Mystery

Xoe Wise

Yomi

Other (please specify)

*6.Best TV Show (choose 5)(Required.)

9-1-1

A Million Little Things

All American

All Creatures Great and Small

All Rise

Allen V. Farrow

Alter Ego

Another World

B Positive

Batwoman

Betty

Big Brother

Big Shot

Big Sky

Billions

Black-ish

Blindspotting

Bloodlands

Blue Bloods

Bob Loves Abishola

Bob's Burgers

Brand New Cherry Flavor

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Bull

Chicago Fire

Chicago Med

Chicago PD

Chucky

City of Ghosts

Clarice

Cobra Kai

Couples Therapy

Cruel Summer

CSI: Vegas

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dancing With The Stars

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Debris

Dexter: New Blood

Dickinson

Doogie Kamealoha, M.D,

Dopesick

Dr. Death

Everything's Gonna Be Okay

Evil

Exterminate All The Brutes

Family Guy

FBI

FBI: International

FBI: Most Wanted

Feel Good

For All Mankind

Foundation

Ghosts

Girls5Eva

Gossip Girl

Grace and Frankie

Grey's Anatomy

Hacks

Halston

Heels

Hemingway

High On The Hog

Home Economics

I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

Impeachment: American Crime Story

In Treatment

Invasion

It's A Sin

Kevin Can F**K Himself

Killer Camp

La Brea

Last Chance U: Basketball

Law & Order

Law & Order: Organizaed Crime

Legacies

Loki

Losing Alice

LuLaRich

Lupin

MacGyver

Made For Love

Mgnum PI

Maid

Manifest

Mare of Easttown

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.

Masked Singer

Master of None

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Midnight Mass

Mixed-ish

Money Heist

Mr. Mayor

Muhammad Ali

Music Box: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

Mythic Quest

Naiomi Osaka

Nancy Drew

Narcos (Mexico)

NCIS

NCIS: Hawaii

NCIS: Los Angeles

Never Ever Have I

New Amsterdam

Nine Perfect Strangers

Nurses

Only Murders in the Building

Ordinary Joe

Our Kind of Love

Painting With John

Philly D.A.

Pose

Pretend It's a City

Prodigal Son

Queens

Reservation Dogs

Resident Alien

Rick and Morty

Riverdale

Rutherford Falls

Sasquatch

Schmigadoon

Scenes from a Marriage

Seal Team 5

Servant

Shadow and Bone

Shark Tank

Shrill

Snowpiercer

Squid Game

Star Wars: Visions

Starstruck

Station 19

Succession

Superman & Lois

Superstore

Survivor

Svengoolie

SWAT

Sweet Tooth

Ted Lasso

The Babysitters Club

The Beast Must Die

The Bachelor

The Bachelorette

The Big Leap

The Blacklist

The Chair

The Connors

The Equalizer

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Flash

The Goldbergs

The Good Doctor

The Great North

The Handmaid's Tale

The Hustler

The Investigation

The Irregulars

The Lady and the Dale

The Masked Singer

The Morning Show

The Mosquito Coast

The Neighborhood

The Nevers

The Next Thing You Eat

The North Water

The Other Two

The Pursuit of Love

The Resident

The Rookie

The Serpent

The Simpsons

The Underground Railroad

The Voice

The Wheel of Time

The White Lotus

The Witcher

The Wonder Years

This Is Us

Time

Too Close

Top Chef

United States of Al

Waffles + Mochi

Walker

Walking Dead

WandaVision

We Are Lady Parts

We Are The Brooklyn Saints

What If…?

What We Do In The Shadows

Women of the Movement

Work In Progress

Y: The Last Man

You

Young Rock

Young Sheldon

Other (please specify)

*7.Best Movie (choose 5)(Required.)

A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN

A QUIET PLACE 2

ANNETTE

BELFAST

BRUISED

CINDERELLA

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

CRUELLA

CRY MACHO

DON’T LOOK UP

DUNE

EBING THE RICARDOS

ENCOUNTER

ETERNALS

FREE GUY

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE

HOUSE OF GUCCI

IN THE HEIGHTS

JOCKEY

JUNGLE CRUISE

KING RICHARD

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

LICORICE PIZZA

LUCA

MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

NO SUDDEN MOVE

NO TIME TO DIE

OLD HENRY

OLD!

PALM SPRINGS

PIG

SHANG-CHI: THE LEGEND OF THE 10 RINGS

SING 2

SPIDERMAN:NOWHERE HOME

STILLWATER

SUICIDE SQUAD

SUMMER OF SOUL

SWAN SONG

THE CARD COUNTER

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

THE HARDER THEY FALL

THE KINGSMAN

THE LAST DUEL

THE LOST DAUGHTER

THE MATRIX: RESURRECTION

THE POWER OF THE DOG

THE SPARKS BROTHERS

THE TENDER BAR

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

TICK, TICK….BOOM

VAL

VIOLENCE OF ACTION

WEST SIDE STORY]

Other (please specify)

*8.Best Music Documentary (choose 3)(Required.)

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Bitchin' The Sound and Fury of Rick James

McCartney 3, 2, 1

Music Box: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

Sisters With Transistors

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

The Beatles: Get Back

The Sparks Brothers

The Velvet Underground

This Is Pop

Tina

Under The Volcano

Other (please specify)

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