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the Juno Awards Have Become a National Embarrassment
Someone really has to do something about the Junos. It is horrifying to think that anyone, anywhere, even for a moment think that they represent the best Canada has to offer musically. They don’t. The Junos are not really Canadian and they are more about marketing and distribution networks than they are about music. Once…
Vote in the ECMA Fan’s Choice Award
The CBC is running the voting page for the East Coast Music Award’s Fan’s Choice Award. There are far too many nomiees to list them all here. The CBC’s site explains that the award was openm to “All artists that applied and were eligible for any music award or showcase.” If it helps to start…
Genie Award Nominations Announced
Unlike the Juno’s the Genies I can get excited about – there is no mainstream Canadian film industry, it can’t be about money because there isn’t any money. For a full list of this year’s nominees visit http://www.genieawards.ca/Genie29/infomain.cfm. The major award nominees are listed below, the links go to the trailers for each film. If…
Independent Music Awards Bring Warmth to a Cold Week
With all of the inane babble this week about the Junos and the Grammys, reading the CMW Independent Music awards was a breath of fresh air. Not that they got it all right, there is alot of crap in this list too and some obvious omissions. Still, reading the list of nominees and finding Kathleen…
The Coast (Doing the Opposite of the Junos)
Now that I’ve finished explaining why the Junos are outdated and uninspiring I should also mention that Halifax’s the Cost has launched their annual Music Reader’s Poll and goes about it entirely differently than most music awards. Anyone can vote and there aren’t even any nominations. Each person can vote only once and each of…
Juno Nominations Announced! Canada Yawns!
It’s Juno time again. For some older Canadians (over 50 or 60) I guess that’s still a big deal and as Now Magazine points out there are a few others: “Nickelback devotees are likely shotgunning cans of beer in celebration of the frat rock band’s five nominations. But the rest of the country either couldn’t…
Submissions Sought from Emerging Filmmakers
Two thousand dollars in cash and three thousand dollars worth of film stock will be awarded on the opening night of Hot Docs (May 10) to a single emerging filmmaker. The 3rd Annual Lindalee Tracey Award, named for the award winning filmmaker and author, have sent out the call for submissions. Guidelines are below, and…
Winners: Bucky Awards and Scarves
Most of the CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards for this year were announced this afternoon (a few categories will be announced on the next episode of the Radio 3 TV video podcast. Only a few of my picks made it, but my sincere congratulations to everyone who took one home. :: Best Road Trip SongWINNER:…
Bucky Award Time (and some constructive criticism)
It is time to vote for the Bucky awards again, this is CBC Radio 3‘s annual music award thing. So my main point here is that you should go vote at http://radio3.cbc.ca/polls/?pollId=25. I actually won one of these last year and am now probably going to kill my chances at a repeat. First though I…