Toronto – The nominees for the “Indies” (Annual Independent Music Awards) were announced today. The winners will be named at the awards ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York during Canadian Music Week. The winners of these awards are determined by a combination of fan and industry voting. Whats the combination? who knows!
Here are some nominees, click here for the full list
CHARTATTACK.COM FAVOURITE ALBUM
Alexisonfire – Old Crows / Young Cardinals (Dine Alone)
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
Japandroids – Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar)
Joel Plaskett – Three (MapleMusic)
Metric – Fantasies (Last Gang)
I am guessing Metric or Alexisonfire take this one, primarily because I think there’s a lot of fans voting for these bands.
FAVOURITE GROUP/DUO
Constantines (Arts & Crafts)
Handsome Furs (Sub Pop)
Metric (Last Gang)
Patrick Watson & The Wooden Arms (Secret City)
Tegan and Sara (Vapor/Sire)
This is a nice competitive field. I say Tegan and Sara take it, since I highly doubt Constantines or Patrick Watson fans would take the time to actually vote for this award.
FAVOURITE SOLO ARTIST
Coeur de Pirate (Dare To Care)
Dan Mangan (fileunder:music)
Joel Plaskett (MapleMusic)
Julie Doiron (Endearing)
Timber Timbre (Arts & Crafts)
Joel Plaskett is a good bet to take this one. He’s also playing CMW, so it’s very convienient for him to stop by and pick up the award.
FAVOURITE LIVE ARTIST/GROUP
Alexisonfire (Dine Alone)
Arkells (Dine Alone)
Metric (Last Gang)
The Trews (Bumstead)
You Say Party! We Say Die! (Paper Bag)
I don’t get why this is it’s own category. Last time I checked, Metric sucked live.
FAVOURITE ROCK ARTIST/GROUP
Arkells (Dine Alone)
Desperate Union (Independent)
Die Mannequin (How To Kill Music)
The Rural Alberta Advantage (Paper Bag)
Theory Of A Deadman (604 Records)
You know, if I was going to compare Rural Alberta Advantage to another band..I’m pretty sure Theory of the Deadman and Die Mannequin wouldn’t be on my top bands of comparison. Yet, they are lumped into this same generic category.
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL ALBUM
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Girls – Album (True Panther Sounds)
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp)
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note)
The XX – The xx (Young Turks/XL)
I clearly listen to a lot of international music, as these bands are all on my like list. Good to know that international music only consists of English speaking musicians.
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL SINGLE
Cascada – Evacuate The Dancefloor (Awesome)
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses (Domino)
Phoenix – 1901 (Glass Note)
Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Ultra)
Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch (Dangerbird Records)
Who picks these?
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL GROUP
Arctic Monkeys (Domino)
Dinosaur Jr. (Jagjaguwar)
Dirty Projectors (Domino)
Phoenix (Glass Note)
Silversun Pickups (Dangerbird Records)
Phoenix is so picking up the win, having scored a triple nomination in the ‘international’ department. It’s a bit weird this category. So like, Dirty Projectors is one of your favorite international group, but they don’t have your favorite album? I guess you just like them personally? (With those 3 chicks, who wouldn’t I guess)
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST
Atlas Sound (Kranky)
Neko Case (Anti)
Speech Debelle (Big Dada)
Tom Waits (Anti)
Tune-Yards (Marriage/4AD)
Speech Debelle is flying all the way over from England to perform at CMW, she’s getting this award, I think
FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST/GROUP
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (Community Music/Fairfax Recordings)
Fever Ray (Rabid Records)
Friendly Fires (XL Recordings)
Passion Pit (French Kiss)
We Were Promised Jetpacks (FatCat Records)
Because you know, people never heard of the Knife before Fever Ray
Regardless of who wins, the Indies will be a good show. Check out this lineup
Desperate Union
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Plants and Animals
Great Lake Swimmers
Constantines
