THE INDIES NOMINEES ARE….

The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards – Saturday March 13, 2010 8:00 p.m. at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel

2/10/2010

Canadian Music Fest and Galaxie are proud to present the nominees for the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards, “The Indies”. The event will take place on Saturday, March 13 at 8:00 p.m. at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel,Toronto. The Indies acknowledge, promote and honour achievements of Canadian and international artists in the independent music sector. Tickets for this event can be purchased for $20 at Ticketmaster,  www.ticketmaster.ca,  www.canadianmusicfest.com,  www.indies.ca, Rotate This and Soundscapes.

This year’s performers include Desperate Union, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Plants and Animals, Great Lake Swimmers and Constantines.  The show will be broadcast live to air on XM Satellite Radio’s “The Verge” and recorded for future broadcast on Galaxie.

Metric and Alexisonfire lead this year’s Canadian nominees with four nominations apiece, followed by Phoenix with three nominations in the international categories.

And the nominees are………

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)

ASTRAL MEDIA RADIO FAVOURITE SINGLE
Danny Fernandes - Fantasy (CP)
Deborah Cox - Beautiful U R (DECO/Image/E1)
Faber Drive - G-Get Up and Dance! (604)
Marianas Trench - Cross My Heart (604)
Metric - Gimme Sympathy (Last Gang)

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)

FAVOURITE SOLO ARTIST
Coeur de Pirate (Dare To Care)
Dan Mangan (fileunder:music)
Joel Plaskett (MapleMusic)
Julie Doiron (Endearing)
Timber Timbre (Arts & Crafts)

FAVOURITE VIDEO
Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals (Dine Alone)
Danny Fernandes - Fantasy (CP)
Lights - Drive My Soul (Underground Operations)
Marianas Trench - Cross My Heart (604)
Theory Of A Deadman - All or Nothing (604)

FAVOURITE LIVE ARTIST/GROUP
Alexisonfire (Dine Alone)
Arkells (Dine Alone)
Metric (Last Gang)
The Trews (Bumstead)
You Say Party! We Say Die (Paper Bag)

FAVOURITE BLUES ARTIST/GROUP
Colin James (MapleMusic)
Colin Linden (True North Records)
Harrison Kennedy (Electro-Fi)
Jim Byrnes (Black Hen)
Monkey Junk (Beefy Productions)

FAVOURITE CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP
The Bee’s Knees (The Children’s Group)
Chris McKhool (Independent)
Duplex! (Mint Records Inc.)
The Funky Mamas (Independent)
The Kerplunks (Independent)

FAVOURITE CLASSICAL ARTIST/GROUP
Angele Dubeau (Analekta)
Gerald Finley (Hyperion)
James Ehnes (Onyx)
Karina Gauvin (ATMA Classique)
Quartetto Gelato (True North Records)

FAVOURITE COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP
Dean Brody (Broken Bow Records)
Doc Walker (Open Road Recordings)
Johnny Reid (Open Road Recordings)
Road Hammers (Open Road Recordings)
Victoria Banks (OnRamp)

FAVOURITE ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP
A-Trak (Fool’s Gold)
Junior Boys (Domino)
Peaches (XL Recordings)
Shout Out Out Out Out (Normals Welcome)
Tiga (Last Gang)

FAVOURITE FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP
Catherine MacLellan (True North Records)
Dan Mangan (fileunder:music)
Deep Dark Woods (Black Hen Music)
Great Lake Swimmers (Nettwerk)
The Wooden Sky (Black Box Music)

FAVOURITE FRANCOPHONE ARTIST/GROUP
Jean Leloup (Dare To Care)
La Patère Rose (Dare To Care)
Malajube (Dare To Care)
Mara Tremblay (Audiogram)
Marie-Pierre Arthur (Bonsound)

FAVOURITE JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP
Brandi Disterheft (Justin Time)
Diana Panton (Independent)
Don Thompson Quartet (Sackville)
Oliver Jones (Justin Time)
Sophie Milman (True North Records)

FAVOURITE METAL ARTIST/GROUP
3 Inches Of Blood (Roadrunner Records)
Augury (Sonic Unyon)
Protest The Hero (Underground Operations)
Sacrifice (Sonic Unyon)
Voivod (Sonic Unyon)

FAVOURITE POP ARTIST/GROUP
Chantal Kreviazuk (Nettwerk)
Danny Fernandes (CP Records)
Lights (Underground Operations)
Marianas Trench (604 Records)
Mother Mother (Last Gang)

FAVOURITE PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST/GROUP
Alexisonfire (Dine Alone)
Comeback Kid (Smallman)
Dead and Divine (Distort)
Fucked Up (Jade Tree)
Propagandhi (Smallman)

FAVOURITE ROCK ARTIST/GROUP
Arkells (Dine Alone)
Desperate Union (Independent)
Die Mannequin (How To Kill Music)
The Rural Alberta Advantage (John, Dear)
Theory Of A Deadman (604 Records)

FAVOURITE URBAN ARTIST/GROUP
D-Sisive (Urbnet)
Grand Analog (Urbnet)
Kae Sun (Urbnet)
Miles Jones (Urbnet)
Swollen Members (Suburban Noize)

FAVOURITE WORLD ARTIST/GROUP
Alex Cuba (Caracol)
Auresia (Independent)
Lhasa De Sela (Audiogram)
Sultans Of String (Independent)
Vandana (Independent)

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)

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)

FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL GROUP
Arctic Monkeys (Domino)
Dinosaur Jr. (Jagjaguwar)
Dirty Projectors (Domino)
Phoenix (Glass Note)
Silversun Pickups (Dangerbird Records)

FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST
Atlas Sound (Kranky)
Neko Case (Anti)
Speech Debelle (Big Dada)
Tom Waits (Anti)
Tune-Yards (Marriage/4AD)

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)

In addition to the nominees above, The Indies will once again present the Galaxie Rising Stars award and $5,000 bursary, sponsored by Galaxie. The award is part of the Galaxie Rising Stars Program, an original program that sets out to discover, encourage and promote emerging artists.  Unlike the other award categories, the Galaxie Rising Stars Award is the choice of the nation’s music critics. Music journalists from print, TV, radio and online media are asked for their top five Canadian independent releases of 2009. All submissions are then boiled down to a shortlist from which these same critics choose the most deserving recording and select Canada’s emerging breakthrough artist of the year.

For further details and voting procedures visit the Indie Awards website at www.indies.ca

Galaxie music channels are available in over 8 million homes across the country and offer a musical selection that is adaptable to all moments of life.  The service offers an always-fresh mix of classic hits, contemporary chart toppers and new treasures to discover.  Galaxie includes 45 music channels programmed by experts in a variety of genres including: Rock, Pop, Classical, Jazz, Country and more.  A perfect mix of continuous music with no ads, no talk!  Galaxie is included as part of the basic digital cable package, on satellite and via Internet Protocol (IPTV).  Use Galaxie as the soundtrack to your life – Your Musical Universe!

Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries. Combining five information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest – CMW spans a five-day period from March 10 to March 14, 2010 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit www.cmw.net

For Canadian Music Week information, please contact:
Planet3 Communications: Leanne Plummer/Joanne Smale
E: info@planet3com.net T: 647.346.4101
Bessie Bullard – Communications Director
E: bessie@cmw.net T: 905.858.4747

For more information click here:  www.indies.ca