Bucky Awards Short List Revealed

Metric, Dan Mangan, Joel Plaskett, Hey Rosetta! and Coeur De Pirate lead the list of nominees for this year's CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards.

The long list, which was announced earlier this month, has been reduced (via online voting) to five nominees per category. CBC Radio 3 users can vote now at the station's website from now until Nov. 29 at midnight.

CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence will announce the winners on Dec. 9 in a special live broadcast on the Grant Lawrence Live program. He'll also reveal this year's Lifetime Achievement award recipient and who garnered the Fan Of The Year prize.

Last year's Bucky Awards winners included Chad VanGaalen, Holy Fuck, Plants And Animals, Library Voices and Mother Mother.

Here are is the short list for this year's CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards:

Best Song:
Great Lake Swimmers — "Pulling On A Line"
Dan Mangan — "Robots"
Metric — "Gimme Sympathy"
Joel Plaskett — "Through & Through & Through"
Said The Whale — "Camilo (The Magician)"

Most Canadian Song:
Classified — "Oh... Canada"
Maybe Smith — "You Would Never Survive The Winters In This Province"
Said The Whale — "Emerald Lake, AB"
Andrew Vincent — "Canadian Dream"
Will Currie And The Country French — "Ontario"

Best New Artist:
Hannah Georgas — "The Beat Stuff"
The Mountains And The Trees — "Up & Down"
The Racoons — "Tangiers"
Timber Timbre — "Until The Night Is Over"
Zeus — "How Does It Feel"

Best Vocals:
Hannah Georgas — "The Beat Stuff"
Dan Mangan — "Robots"
Metric — "Gimme Sympathy"
Ohbijou — "Black Ice"
The Wooden Sky — "Oh My God (It Still Means A Lot To Me)"

Best Lyric:
The Burning Hell — "Dancer Romancer" ("We're all line dancing in a furnace of sex and misfortune/The fires are scorchin' but if we keep dancing we will survive")
Gentleman Reg — "To Some It Comes Easy" ("In time, I'm gonna drink myself into a nursery rhyme")
Metric — "Gimme Sympathy" ("After all this is gone/Who would you rather be/The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?)
Joel Plaskett — "Through & Through & Through" ("I'm the Berlin Wall, I'm a communist/You're a wrecking ball in a summer dress")
Sunset Rubdown — "Idiot Heart" ("I hope that you die in a decent pair of shoes/You gotta lot of walking to do where you're going to")

Best Reason To Learn French:
Coeur De Pirate — "Comme Des Enfants"
Malajube — "333"
Numero# — "Tonton Klaxonne"
La Patere Rose — "La Marelle"
We Are Wolves — "Rue Oblique"

Best New Band Name:
Brasstronaut
Coeur De Pirate
Gregory Pepper And His Problems
Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees
Timber Timbre

Best Live Act:
Elliott Brood
Hey Rosetta!
Joel Plaskett
Library Voices
Mother Mother

Sexiest Musician:
Tim Baker (Hey Rosetta!)
Coeur De Pirate
Molly Guldemond (Mother Mother)
Dan Mangan
Becky Ninkovic (You Say Party! We Say Die!)

Best Video:
Jill Barber — "Oh My My"
Final Fantasy — "Horsetail Feathers"
Jenn Grant — "You'll Go Far"
Hey Rosetta! — "Red Song"
Thunderheist — "Jerk It"

Best Off-Stage Performance:
The Acorn/Ohbijou — "Post-Gig Games"
The Dudes — "Dudeversity"
Jenn Grant — "Awkward Interviews"
More Or Less — "SxSW Street Scene"
The Awkward Stage's Shane Nelken — "Billy Bob Revisited"