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Juno Awards 2004

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) March 16, 2004 10:30 am
While it’s nice that our Canadian stars have a chance to shine, this sampler of Juno nominees doesn’t do a whole lot to illuminate our homegrown talent. The producers of the CD go for all of the obvious names, jumbling together Nickelback, Nelly Furtado, Michael Buble, Billy Talent, Shawn Desman, Shania Twain and Celine Dion without much concern...
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Junos Back In Ottawa Next Year

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 13, 2011 12:54 pm
Here's one "rich arts gala" that Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper might actually want to attend. The Juno Awards will be held in Ottawa next year, and the annual awards broadcast will take place at the city's Scotiabank Place on April 1. No, that's not an April Fool's joke, though there will probably be several terrible ones made during the...
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Arcade Fire at the 2011 Juno Awards (Photo by CARAS)

Rush Documentarians Brought Fans "Out Of The Rush Closet"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 30, 2011 4:26 pm
Toronto filmmakers Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn have already received many awards for last year's Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage documentary, but they picked up another on Saturday night. The film was declared Music DVD Of The Year at the Juno Awards.The film features interviews with musicians like Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Metallica'...
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I Read The News Today... For March 29, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 29, 2011 4:25 pm
This year's Juno Awards set a viewership record! About 2.4 million people watched the broadcast on Sunday. Guess what? It also set an unofficial record for being the least hated Junos in recent memory. —Juno AwardsGlasgow's Sons And Daughters will return with a new album called Mirror Mirror on June 14. You can grab a free download of "Silver Bell...
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Arcade Fire Salute Montreal, Bands At Juno Awards

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 29, 2011 10:48 am
Arcade Fire seemed in fine spirits at the 2011 Juno Awards held at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Sunday night.It probably had something to do with the band winning four awards over the weekend, including the Album Of The Year award for The Suburbs. During the awards broadcast the band had nothing but love for their home city of Montreal.After the...
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Arcade Fire (Photo: CARAS)

Slean, Cuddy, Sadies Talk About Juno Toronto Tribute

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 5:08 pm
One of the best executed parts of the 2011 Juno Awards show telecast was the multi-band "Love Letter To Toronto."The segment focused on Toronto's Yonge Street scene of 40 years ago, and saw The Band's Robbie Robertson introduce a cast that included City And Colour's Dallas Green, Sarah Slean, Sarah Harmer, Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor,...
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Jim Cuddy and Sarah Slean (Photo: CARAS)

How Close Did You Get To Neil Young At The Junos?

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 4:48 pm
The entire country got into the televised Juno Awards broadcast that aired on Sunday night, but the bulk of the Canadian music awards get handed out an evening earlier at the Juno Gala Dinner And Awards. The one big draw at this year's Saturday ceremony was the rare unicorn-amongst-the-plowhorses appearance of Neil Young at the gala....
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Neil Young (Photo: CARAS)

Neil Young On Genres: "It's All Music To Me"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 12:26 pm
Neil Young was honoured with three Juno Awards this weekend, including Artist Of The Year, the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award and... strangely enough for him, the Adult Alternative Album Of The Year.Young received the trophy for last year's Le Noise, and seemed a little perplexed by the category when he picked it up on stage and when he arrived...
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Broken Social Scene Guitarist Wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper Out Of Office

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 28, 2011 11:50 am
Broken Social Scene guitarist Andrew Whiteman made it pretty obvious what he thinks of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper during last night's Juno Awards telecast.That picture up above is a bit blurry, but it's Whiteman showing off his guitar during Broken Social Scene's performance of "World Sick." On it, he's written "VOTE HARPER OUT NOW" in...
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Arcade Fire Triumph At 2011 Juno Awards

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 27, 2011 10:03 pm
 Arcade Fire continued their awards show winning streak this weekend, taking home a total of four Juno Awards, three of which were for last year's The Suburbs album.The Montreal indie rock collective received the Album Of The Year, Alternative Album Of The Year and Songwriter Of The Year awards on Saturday and Sunday night, and were also...
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Official 2011 Juno Awards Drinking Game

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 25, 2011 10:31 am
Finally. After years of complaining that it's too expensive to fly all their artists out to places like St. John's or Saskatoon, or that there aren't enough limousines to rent in these towns, or that the available bars are too small to host proper after-parties, the Canadian music industry has finally gotten its wish and the 40th anniversary...
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Juno Songwriter's Circle Full Of Amusing, Adorable Moments

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 2:14 pm
"Every man's got a plan until he gets punched in the mouth," Sylvia Tyson sang on stage at Toronto's Massey Hall last night, prompting raucous laughter from the crowd at the annual Juno Awards Songwriter's Circle.In case you're wondering, that's not some rare, unreleased tune Tyson's been keeping from you all these years. Well, actually, it kind...
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I Read The News Today... For March 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 3:22 pm
Tokyo Police Club are the final addition to the list of acts who will perform at this year's Juno Awards on Sunday. OOOOOOH! OOOOOH! Does that mean they're winning something? Guess we'll have to watch to see. City And Colour's March 18 set at Austin, Texas' St. David's Episcopal Church as part of South By Southwest is already available as a live...
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I Read The News Today... For March 22, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 22, 2011 12:11 pm
D-Sisive's heading out on tour across Ontario later this month and in April in support of the recently released Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye. —URBNET Ben Mulroney, Classified, singer/songwriter Dan Hill, Melanie Fiona, Randy Bachman and Maestro Fresh Wes will also present trophies at the Juno Awards on Sunday. That should give your mom something...
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City And Colour, Sarah Harmer, Sadies, Blue Rodeo Members Performing Classic Canadian Songs At Juno Awards

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 17, 2011 2:47 pm
This year's Juno Awards were already filled with plenty of anniversary tidbits, but now even more 40th anniversary special things have been added to the two-plus hour broadcast, which will go down March 27. Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, City And Colour, singer/songwriter Derek Miller, The Band's Garth Hudson, alt.country singer/...
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I Read The News Today... For March 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 10, 2011 3:19 pm
It's about fricking time. Lawrence Gowan (he of Strange Animal fame) is being inducted into the Scarborough Walk Of Fame, and will get a permanent star on it in a ceremony to be held May 12. Scarborough Walk Of Fame!The Barenaked Ladies, Bryan Adams, Daniel Lanois, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Deadmau5, K'Naan, Robbie Robertson, Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 16, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 16, 2011 4:17 pm
Chromeo and Sarah McLachlan have been added to the list of performers who'll appear at this year's Juno Awards on March 27. They join Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Down With Webster, Hedley and Johnny Reid. Saskatoon's Sheepdogs are among the 16 finalists chosen as part of Rolling Stone's "Do You Wanna Be A Rock Star?" competition. Over 1,200...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 15, 2011 5:17 pm
A remix album of Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy will be released on April 5, the day the film is released to DVD and Blu-ray. It'll feature 14 re-workings of tunes Guy-Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter composed for the movie, along with alternate takes. If you head to tronsoundtrack.com and pre-order the DVD, you'll get the remix...
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Paul Coffey Grabbed Jim Cuddy Of Blue Rodeo's Bum

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 8, 2011 5:27 pm
Former pro hockey player Paul Coffey has won the Stanley Cup four times, played in 14 all-star games, and is ranked 28th on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. And if the above photo is any indication, he's also got busy hands.Coffey's casual gloved probing of Blue Rodeo vocalist Jim Cuddy's posterior took place earlier today...
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Broken Social Scene Considers Merits Of Juno Brawl Versus Arcade Fire

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 1, 2011 6:35 pm
Broken Social Scene are going to be all over the 2011 Juno Awards. The indie rock Voltron was nominated for four awards — group of the year, alternative album of the year, video of the year, and music dvd of the year. Band member Justin Peroff was also part of the design team nominated for recording packaging of the year for the Forgiveness Rock...
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