The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are out.
We’re about to head into award season, that stretch of months where the entertainment industries (including music) try to squeeze as much as they can out of the previous year’s
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Here are the nominees for the 2025 Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, the UK’s version of (and inspiration for) our Polaris Music Prize, has announced the nominees for 2025. As always, these are the finalists for the best British
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And the 2025 nominees for The Rock and Roll Hall of fame are…not Iron Maiden. Or Alice in Chains. Or The Pixies. But Mariah Carey is there.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum is a cool place to visit. I highly recommend it. The concept of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a
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And the nominees for the 2025 JUNO Awards are…
The nominees for the 2025 JUNO Awards were announced this morning (February 11) and it’s a country-heavy slate. The entire list can be found here, but let’s focus on the
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It’s awards season. The Brits have released their nominations.
The Brits, the UK equivalent of the Junos and the Grammys, have released their nominees for this year’s ceremony on March 1. Album of the Year Artist of the Year
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Oscar nominations came out this morning. The Bob Dylan biopic did very well
The Academy Awards are pushing ahead despite the chaos of the LA wildfires. The nominations were announced this morning (a full list here) but let’s concentrate on the music-related categories.
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It’s Grammy Award nomination time. What rock and alt bands got nods?
In case you missed it, the Grammy Award nominations were announced yesterday. You can find the full list here (it’s loaded with Taylor Swift, Beyonce , and Kendrick Lamar) but
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CMW is here! Finger Eleven will be inducted into the Indies Hall of Fame
The Indies, an annual event at Canadian Music Week for two dozen years, will reconvene this week at the Danforth Music Hall on Thursday (June 6). A ton of awards
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The nominees for the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a sad list. Here are my comments
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gave up any pretense of being about rock and roll long ago. Now they twist themselves into all kinds of knots in order
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Here are your 2024 Juno nominations
The 2024 Juno Awards are set for the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax on March 24. The host this year will be Nelly Furtado. Nominees on all bazillion categories were announced
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The nominees for the 2024 BRIT Awards are out
The Brit Awards, the UK’s answer to the Junos and Grammys, have announced the slate of nominations for 2024. They seemed to have balanced out gender, genre, and independence. And
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