The 2011 Shadow Polaris goes to the Russian Futurists
NxEW’s readers almost always have profound disagreements with the Polaris jury. Of the 40 albums on our Shadow Polaris long list, 19 were not on the official Polaris list, and only 1 of the 10 Polaris short list albums made the Shadow Polaris list as well. Surprisingly that was Timber Timbre – “Creep On Creepin’ [...]
The 2011 Shadow Polaris Long List (Voting Open)
Just as we have for the last two years, we first asked people to simply name albums they thought should be considered. All of the names mentioned were put into the long, long list and we had a month of voting. After thousands of votes the list of 100 or so albums has now been [...]
3rd Annual Shadow Polaris: Round 1 Voting is Open Now
Last night at midnight the nomination period closed, leaving 72 albums in contention for the 3rd annual Shadow Polaris. The next round, which ends at midnight on July 20 will take the list down to 40. For round one individuals can vote daily for as many albums as they like so vote early and vote [...]
2 Days Left to Nominate for the Shadow Polaris Long Long List
This is the third year we’ve done this and the first two years there were people who were mad because some album or other wasn’t on the list, so I thought I’d put up another notice. There are two days left. Once again anyone can ad a qualifying album to the list by leaving a [...]
3rd Annual Shadow Polaris: Nominations are Open
Nominations are now open in NxEW.ca’s 3rd Annual Shadow Polaris poll. We do this to offer our readers and contributors a chance to show the Polaris Jury just how wrong it is. So far, they haven’t disappointed. Two years ago the Polaris Music Prize went to Fucked Up, our readers though handed the shadow prize [...]
Vote Now: ECMA Fan’s Choice Awards
East Coast Music Week is coming, from April 13 – 17 in Charlottetown, PEI and between now and then you can vote for the Fan’s Choice video and Entertainer of the year. Alert the Medic, Blou, Chris Colepaugh & the Crew, Christina Martin, Chuck & Albert, Dave Gunning, David Myles, Jenn Grant, Joel Plaskett & [...]
WTF is a #Grammy: Arcade Fire and Canada
So it appears that last night Arcade Fire won a grammy. I didn’t watch, I have Twitter so I didn’t need to. When the announcement came the explosion of commentary was instantaneous. The interesting part for me was not the win in and of itself. Arcade Fire are a great band and have been for [...]
NxEW nominated for Best Canadian Music Website in Radio 3 #Searchlight
I’m pleased and honored to announce that NxEW.ca has been nominated in this years CBC Radio 3 Searchlight contest for the best Canadian Music Website. I am not, however, going to tell you to go vote for us, just to go vote and while you are there have a look down the list and check [...]
Kudos to the 2011 ECMA Nominees
Congrats to the ECMA Class of 2011! There are way too many to go into each and every nominee but garnering 3 or more nominations on this year’s list – David Myles (with 5) and Christina Martin, Dave Gunning, Lennie Gallant, Matt Anderson, Slowcoaster, the Stanfields the Trews, Wintersleep, Boxer the Horse, Carmel Mikol, Chuck [...]
Music PEI to reveal 2010 Award Nominees Wed., Dec. 8 11am
Music PEI are proud to celebrate their 10th Annual Awards in 2011, and they can’t wait for you to hear the nominees. On Wednesday, December 8 at 11AM they will announce the candidates at Hunter’s Ale House. Racoon Bandit will be on hand to provide the crowd with some great music while Music PEI unveil the details [...]
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