Mevio Music

James Montgomery of MTV News posted his annual mid-year best of the albums that have been released so far this year. He has a pretty good list with a top ten and some honorable mentions.

A couple of the choices in his top ten include:

• Lily Allen, It’s Not Me, It’s You
• Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
• Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted

Some of his honorable mentions include:

2009 Short List, in spinal CD form

As we previously reported, the Polaris Music Prize competition is in full swing.
Today they whittled down their list to 10 contenders for the C$20,000 prize.

The Polaris Music Prize is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The award was established in 2006 and includes a C$20,000 cash prize. It’s modeled after the Mercury Music Prize, which is handed to the best British or Irish album over the past year.

This year’s Long List has been announced and includes such heavy hitters as Leonard Cohen, Metric, The Stills, Martha Wainwright, Wolf Parade & Fucked Up. While all these artist appear well deserving of making the Short List when it’s announce on July 7th, we here at Mevio are pulling for those that have a presence on Mevio. Malajube, Rae Spoon, Women & Woodpigeon.

The full list of nominees with links can be seen below. (more…)