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And Your Nominees Are…

Artist of the Year

City & Colour

Deadmau5

Drake

Feist

Michael Bublé

Group of the Year

Arkells

Down With Webster

Hedley

Nickelback

Sam Roberts Band

New Artist of the Year

Alyssa Reid

Dan Mangan

Diamond Rings

JRDN

Lindi Ortega

New Group of the Year

Braids

Hey Rosetta!

Mother Mother

Rural Alberta Advantage

The Sheepdogs

Album of the Year

Avril Lavigne- Goodbye Lullabye

Drake- Take Care

Justin Bieber- Under the Mistletoe

Michael Buble- Christmas

Nickelback- Here and Now

Alternative Album of the Year

Braids- Native Speaker

Dan Mangan- Oh Fortune

Destroyer- Kaputt

Fucked Up- David Comes to Life

Timber Timbre- Creep On Creepin’ On

Rock Album of the Year

Arkells- Michigan Left

Matthew Good- Lights of Endangered Species

Sam Roberts Band- Collider

Sloan- The Double Cross

The Sheepdogs- Learn & Burn

Pop Album of the Year

Avril Lavigne- Goodbye Lullabye

Hedley- Storms

Down With Webster- Time to Win Vol 11.

Lights- Siberia

Mariana’s Trench- Ever After

International Album of the Year

Adele- 21

Coldplay- Mylo Xyloto

Lady Gaga- Born This Way

LMFAO- Sorry For Party Rocking

Rihanna- Loud

JUNO Fan Choice Award

Arcade Fire

Avril Lavigne

City & Colour

Deadmau5

Drake

Ginette Reno

Hedley

Justin Bieber

Michael Bublé

Nickelback

These are just your basics. Head on over to the JUNO Awards site to see the full list of nominees.

Posted in Sound Bites

Get To Know Your Shortlist

Timber Timbre- Creep On Creepin’ On

If you’re into the Canadian indie music scene, you’re aware of the Arts & Crafts roster. In that case, you’re also aware of Timber Timbre, the indie folk trio from Toronto and Montreal. Their Polaris Short List-nominated fourth album, Creep on Creepin’ On, follows in the big footsteps of their previous record. 2009’s Timber Timbre was a Polaris Long List nominee and Eye Weekly’s Album of the Year.

Creepy is definitely one way to describe this album. Taylor Kirk’s vocals have a ghostly, reverberant quality to them. Combine this with screeching strings and chilling piano work and you’ve got the soundtrack to an old black and white monster movie. Even the jazzy sax and vocals in ‘Black Water‘ stir up images of Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, which was set in New Orleans (not a great movie to watch when you’re 11, by the way).

This album is good, quirky and definitely among the type of bands you see on the Polaris lists year after year. Though not my top choice, I think it does have a chance of winning. It’s also one of the three 2011 Short List albums to which Colin Stetson has contributed (Arcade Fire is the other). Will he be shut out? Listen here and decide.