Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Junos Getty I CP I Getty The Juno Awards have made great strides in credibility in recent years, but that may have culminated in last year's Drake -hosted crowning of Arcade Fire . The 2012 Junos took a great big step backwards -- and a curiously unnecessary one -- by overlooking Drake's critical and commercial [...]
Filed under: News , Awards , Junos Joshua Ostroff,AOL/WireImage (2) As with any award show, the 2012 Junos Gala, the un-televised Saturday ceremony where the vast majority of the gold is doled before the big Sunday show, was full of expected wins, unfortunate losses and not a few surprises. Feist , who swept her last Junos with five wins back in 2008, nabbed another pair of statues for [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Marwa Hamad Coeur de Pirate , the nom de chanson of French-Canadian crooner Béatrice Martin, is all about juxtaposition. She looks like a tat-covered skater girl and started out singing about meeting cute boys at Warped Tour, but she also wears pretty dresses and sounds like an old-fashioned singer from France. Her latest album Blond e -- which is nominated for Francophone Album of the Year at the [...]
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Shad - Give You All I Can (Prd. Skratch Bastid) Shad posted this earlier today, on his website, as a thanks to the fans, for the support that resulted in a Juno award, won this past Saturday. As always, Shad delivers another gem for ya'll to vibe to. Produced by Skratch Bastid. Shad & Skratch Bastid - Freestyle Sessions at The Drake Underground CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Mad props to Dave for the heads up. [...]
Filed under: Awards , Junos The 2011 Juno Awards in Toronto Sunday night had perhaps the highest star power in the Canadian music award show's 40 year history -- and not a Nickelback in sight! So take a walk with us down last night's memory lane as we peruse the Juno Awards red carpet and broadcast winners and performances, ranging Arcade Fire , Metric and Broken Social Scene to Drake , Shad and K'Naan to Shania [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Junos FilmMagic | CARAS/iPhoto | Redferns | CARAS/iPhoto Once upon a time, not all that long ago, the Juno Awards doled out prizes for the best Canadian music to winners known mostly only in Canada. Not so much anymore. In 2011, Canadian musicians are at the top of almost every major genre, and the 40th annual Junos in Toronto might as well have been an international [...]
Filed under: Awards , Junos Black Box Recordings Though many assumed Drake would take the rap crown at the Juno gala dinner and award show tonight [March 26] in Toronto, Vancouver-based rapper Shad stunned the room when he walked away with Rap Recording of the year for his acclaimed 'TSOL.' A front-runner at last year's Polaris Prize , 'TSOL' may finally get the national push it needs with [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Junos Che Kothari In the course of his short career, Vancouver-based rapper Shad has received an impressive list of industry award nominations. He's twice been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize and received two nominations each at the Much Music Video Awards and the Indie Awards (where he won for Favourite Urban Artist). This weekend, he'll get a second chance to score a Juno [...]
Toronto - This year's Juno Awards has been deemed the rebirth of cool by certain marketers, mainly because it's being hosted by Drake and will feature the Arcade Fire (who?). Here are my predictions for this yearly awards show. Winners will be in bold/italics Juno Fan Choice Award Drake Hedley Johnny Reid Justin Bieber Michael Buble Ultimately, this award becomes a contest about which demographic has the most time on their hands/most desperate to see their hero win some [...]
Filed under: News Canadian rapper Drake will return to his hometown host the 2011 Junos . The gig makes Drake, 24, the youngest-ever host of the Canadian music awards show, which will be held next March in Toronto. "I am beyond honoured to be hosting this monumental Juno Awards in the greatest city on Earth," said Drake in a press release issued this morning. "I want to bring a youthful energy to the show and encourage people to [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Canada Billy Talent frontman Ben Kowalewicz swears he didn't expect to get nominated at this year's Juno Awards , even if his band consistently sells out arenas in Canada and has sold 800,000 albums domestically -- including 140,000 copies of their latest, 'Billy Talent III.' The Toronto-based band is up for Rock Album of the Year, Album of the Year, Single of the Year for 'Rusted From the Rain,' and Group of the Year -- not to mention [...]
This one is for our Canadian readers, and I feel that this post is well-deserved since there has been some crazy hip-hop and R&B to come from Canada in the last year (for all our other readers, in a nutshell, the Juno's are to Canada like what the Grammy's are to the US). As you'd guess, Drake leads the nominations for the [...]
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