ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Austra – Feel It Break (Paper Bag)
City and Colour – Little Hell (Dine Alone)
Feist – Metals (Arts & Crafts)
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Mother Mother – Eureka (Last Gang)
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Alyssa Reid – Alone Again (Wax)
Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) (Last Gang)
Kristina Maria – Let’s Play (MapleMusic)
Raghav – Fire (Cordova Bay)
The Sheepdogs – I Don’t Know (Dine Alone)
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARCity and Colour (Dine Alone)
Hey Rosetta! (Sonic)
Mother Mother (Last Gang)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Dan Mangan (Arts & Crafts)
Feist (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Weeknd (Independent)
VIDEO OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate – Adieu (Grosse Boîte)
Danny Fernandes – Hit Me Up (CP)
Marianas Trench – Haven’t Had Enough (604)
Neverending White Lights – Falling Apart (feat. Bed of Stars) (MapleMusic)
Timber Timbre – Woman (Arts & Crafts)
LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDeadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Hollerado (Arts & Crafts)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
Timber Timbre (Arts & Crafts)
ALTERNATIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBraids (Flemish Eye)
Destroyer (Merge)
Grimes (Arbutus)
Library Voices (Nevado)
Sandro Perri (Constellation)
BLUES ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDavid Gogo (Cordova Bay)
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit (Stony Plain)
MonkeyJunk (Stony Plain)
Suzie Vinnick (Independent)
The 24th Street Wailers (Independent)
CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARJack Grunsky (Casablanca Kids Inc.)
Mike Whitla (Independent)
Splash’N Boots (Splash Records)
The Kerplunks (Independent)
Will Stroet (Independent)
COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDean Brody (Open Road)
Doc Walker (Open Road)
High Valley (Open Road)
Jason McCoy (Open Road)
Tara Oram (Open Road)
ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAustra (Paper Bag)
Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Deadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Junior Boys (Domino)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBlackie And The Rodeo Kings (File Under: Music)
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Elliott Brood (Paper Bag)
One Hundred Dollars (Outside)
The Deep Dark Woods (Six Shooter)
FRANCOPHONE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARCoeur de Pirate (Grosse Boîte)
Galaxie (C4)
Jimmy Hunt (Dare To Care)
Les Breastfeeders (Blow The Fuse)
Malajube (Dare To Care)
JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARColin Stetson (Constellation)
Cory Weeds (Cellar Live)
Diana Panton (eOne)
Jill Barber (Outside)
Sophie Milman (eOne)
METAL ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARDevin Townsend (Inside Out/eOne)
Fuck The Facts (eOne)
KEN Mode (Profound Lore)
Protest The Hero (Underground Operations)
Untimely Demise (Sonic Unyon)
POP ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAlyssa Reid (Wax)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
Kristina Maria (MapleMusic)
Mia Martina (CP)
Neverest (VicPark Group/Fontana North)
PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAbandon All Ships (Underground Operations)
Cancer Bats (Distort)
Chixdiggit (Fat Wreck Chords)
Fucked Up (Matador/Beggars Canada)
Living With Lions (Black Box)
ROCK ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARSloan (Outside)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
The Trews (Bumstead)
Theory of a Deadman (604)
URBAN ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARD-Sisive (Urbnet)
Danny Fernandes (CP)
JRDN (Kuya/Fontana North)
Swollen Members (eOne)
The Weeknd (Independent)
WORLD ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAline Morales (Independent)
Kiran Ahluwalia (Independent)
Massiel Yanira (MapleMusic)
Minor Empire (Independent)
Pavlo (Fontana North)
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEARAdele – 21 (XL)
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Naïve)
Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Big Machine/Open Road)
INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEARAdele – Rolling In The Deep (XL)
AWOLNATION – Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Seether – Country Song (Wind-Up)
Young The Giant – My Body (Roadrunner)
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARBeirut (Pompeii)
Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
M83 (Naïve)
Metronomy (Because)
Wilco (dBpm/Anti)
INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEARAdele (XL)
Anna Calvi (Domino)
Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Open Road)
Tom Waits (Anti)
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEARAWOLNATION – Sail (Red Bull)
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra) (Eleven)
Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Independent)
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy (Nonesuch)
Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers (XL)
INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEARAWOLNATION (Red Bull)
SBTRKT (Young Turks/XL)
The Jezabels (Dine Alone)
The Naked and Famous (Somewhat Damaged)
Young The Giant (Roadrunner)
SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adrian Glynn
Dinosaur Bones
Imaginary Cities
Indian Handcrafts
Low Level Flight
Nash
Rich Aucoin
The Pack A.D.
Timber Timbre
Wildlife
The 2012 SiriusXM Indies will feature performances by Passion Pit, The Sheepdogs, Dan Mangan, Rich Aucoin, The Pack A.D. and Young Empires, along with a special reunion by this year’s Hall of Fame inductees Treble Charger. The show will be broadcast live to air on “The Verge” (XM 151) and “Iceberg” (Sirius 151). Tickets for the Sirius XM Indies are available for purchase for $39.50 at Ticketmaster, http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/100044279A0E5736?artistid=1403082&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60, http://www.canadianmusicfest.com/tickets/ticket-details/?schedule_ID=20&artist_ID=55, http://www.indies.ca/, Rotate This and Soundscapes.
An initiative of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA), the awards are limited to independent artists and cover 14 genres of music. Both a public and an industry vote decide the winners. Voting is now open at http://www.indies.ca/. For additional details and voting information, please visit the website.
About SiriusXM Canada
SiriusXM Canada (TSX: XSR) is the country’s leading audio entertainment company and broadcasts more than 120 satellite radio channels featuring premier sports, news, talk, entertainment and commercial-free music. SiriusXM Canada offers an array of content from the most recognized news and entertainment brands as well as from professional sports leagues including the NHL, NFL, MLB and CFL.
SiriusXM programming is available on a variety of devices including pre-installed and after-market radios in cars, trucks and boats, smartphones and mobile devices, and consumer electronics products for homes and offices. Sirius XM programming is also available online at http://www.sirius.ca/ and http://www.xmradio.ca/ and on Apple, BlackBerry and Android-powered mobile devices.
SiriusXM Canada has partnerships with every major automaker and its radio products are available at more than 3,000 retail locations nationwide. To find out more about Canadian Satellite Radio Inc. (TSX: XSR), visit our website at http://www.siriusxm.ca/.
About Canadian Music Week
Celebrating 30 years, 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 four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest – CMW spans a five-day period from March 21 to March 25, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and over 60 various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe. For more information, visit http://www.cmw.net/.
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Phone: 647.346.4101
Email: info@planet3com.net
Bessie Bullard
Canadian Music Week
Phone: 905.858.4747
Email: bessie@cmw.net
Mike Calnek
SiriusXM Canada
Phone: 416-435-8288
Email: mike.calnek@siriusxm.ca
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NATIONAL Public Relations
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Email: mdicion@national.ca
MIA MARTINA CELEBRATES HER ALBUM RELEASE WITH ET! CANADA AT THOMPSON HOTEL TORONTO!
Mia Martina celebrated the release of her debut album DEVOTION inside the beautiful rooftop and patio at the Thompson Hotel in Toronto. Hosted by ET! Canada and fashoin producer Angela Smith and music by world renowned Jump Smokers the event was a great time for all that were there. Some of the attending guests included recording artist The Weeknd, labelmates Belly, Massari, Danny Fernandes, Tyler Medeiros, Degrassi star Alicia Josepovic and Craig Smartamong others. It was a special night not only for Mia, but for everyone who was there to celebrate with her. Thanks to all radio and TV and media personalities and teams that attended and showed support.
Mia Martina Bio
Blame the lingering impact of Footloose, but small towns aren't exactly known as bastions of dance music. When new stars do groove their way onto the floor, they’re usually big city club kids like Lady Gaga. But this rule has met its exception with Mia Martina.The up-and-coming clubland crooner – the sensual voice fuelling the accordion-inflected smash “Stereo Love” and its fast rising follow-up “Latin Moon” was born and raised in St. Ignace, a tiny New Brunswick village of about 500.Martina began singing while still knee-high and spent her childhood being driven back and forth to the closest “city,” Moncton, for music and voice lessons. “I wanted to be a star,” she laughs. But for a small-town girl, it seemed a pipe dream. “I pushed it to the side so I could find something else to do.”Fate had other plans. After high school, Martina headed off to Ottawa for university where the teenager happened upon an ad for an internship at a local label, CP Records, which was making a name for itself with R&B smoothie Massari and hard-edged rapper Belly.“Oh my god, yeah, it was totally different. I wasn’t use to the parties, the cars, the jewellery and all that. It was totally different. I was out of my element,” says the singer who was then so quiet her bosses kidded that she was mute. “I never told them that I sang because I was shy. But after a year I finally got the guts. My passion was music, that’s what I’m good at, so maybe this was God saying this is my chance. I had to speak up.”After impressing CP CEO Tony Sal, Martina went from delivering CDs to radio stations and office admin work to singing backup in the studio for Danny Fernandes and Belly, the latter of whom became her mentor. “Belly is so talented, not just in hip-hop and R&B, but as a songwriter he’s so amazing. He taught me how to find my own sound as an artist.”Martina wanted to bring soulful R&B to dance music to create an emotional hybrid that drew inspiration from Sade and Kylie Minogue because, as Martina, notes, “they make timeless music.”Success took awhile to arrive, but once it did, it took off. Dance music’s biggest label, Ultra, was looking to remix a Euro hit by Edward Maya called “Stereo Love.” A series of serendipitous events, including a pre-Idol J.Lo declining, ended with the untested Martina getting the gig last summer. Within a couple weeks her vocal was recorded and released. It proceeded to blow the hell up.“I was picking up my dry cleaning and was like, Oh my god, that’s me!” she recalls of hearing her voice for the first to me on the radio. “I went into my car and I cried. It was so crazy. This was my dream since I was a little girl. I come from such a small place, those things just don't happen. It was a very surreal experience for me. It still feels surreal.”Her first ever show was in Miami in front of six thousand people. “I felt like I was in another world. The fans loved it and it was so amazing to see that. That was my rush.” A hundred shows followed, as did a platinum plaque for “Stereo Love.” The song went top ten on the Canadian pop charts while ruling radio, topped the US dance charts, was nominated for a dance Juno and an MMVA for “most watched video” and, thanks to a Don Omar remix, became a favourite in Latin communities throughout the Americas.The trilingual singer followed with “Latin Moon” and the half-English, half-Spanish hot weather tune “Summer Love,” which she dubs a spiritual sequel to “Stereo Love.”Martina will then keep the summer going well into the winter when her debut album Devotion drops in August. Combining epic ballads (“Missing You”) with uptempo club bangers (“Turn it Up”), Martina’s dance-pop boasts crystalline production and a nocturnal soul. It’s a record designed to make you lose yourself on the dancefloor, but also soothe you if you go home alone. “It took me three years to complete it,” Martina says proudly. “Every song on there has emotions, so it really captivates you. I wanted to make an album where any age group can enjoy it. It’s not too hard, not too soft—it’s perfect.”
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