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MTV’s Best Albums of 2009 (So Far)

July 15, 2009 By: sjones Category: Blog

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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:

Some of his honorable mentions include:

To see the rest of his list, go check out his post at MTV News.

Polaris Music Prize announces the 2009 Short List

July 07, 2009 By: monkeybeat Category: Blog, News

2009 Short List, in spinal CD form

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.

Elliott Brood – Mountain Meadows
Toronto
Website | MySpace
Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
Toronto
Website | MySpace
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
Toronto
Website | MySpace
Hey Rosetta! – Into Your Lungs
St. John’s
Website | MySpace
K’NAAN – Troubadour
Toronto
Website | MySpace
Malajube – Labyrinthes
Montréal
Website | MySpace | Mevio Page
Metric – Fantasies
Toronto
Website | MySpace
Joel Plaskett – Three
Halifax
Website | MySpace
Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane
Calgary
Website | MySpace
Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms
Montréal
Website
You’ll no doubt notice that only one artist remaining on that list has a page on Mevio.com Nothing against the other nominees, but we like to pull for our own here.

Polaris Music Prize announces the 2009 Long List

June 15, 2009 By: monkeybeat Category: Blog, News

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…)