And the 2012 SIRIUSXM INDIES Nominees Are...
Posted: 02-24-2012
Every year Siriux XM Indies celebrates and promotes the achievements of Canadian and international indie artists as a part of the CMWs.
The winners will be presented on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the legendary Canadian Ballroom of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, beginning at 8:00pm.
Here are some of the categories of the nominees with artists who are distributed through Outside Music in Canada.
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
City and Colour (Dine Alone)
Hey Rosetta! (Sonic)
Mother Mother (Last Gang)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
ALTERNATIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Braids (Flemish Eye)
Destroyer (Merge)
Grimes (Arbutus)
Library Voices (Nevado)
Sandro Perri (Constellation)
BLUES ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
David Gogo (Cordova Bay)
Harry Manx & Kevin Breit (Stony Plain)
MonkeyJunk (Stony Plain)
Suzie Vinnick (Independent)
The 24th Street Wailers (Independent)
ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Austra (Paper Bag)
Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Deadmau5 (Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra)
Junior Boys (Domino)
Rich Aucoin (Sonic)
FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings (File Under: Music)
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Elliott Brood (Paper Bag)
One Hundred Dollars (Outside)
The Deep Dark Woods (Six Shooter)
JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Colin Stetson (Constellation)
Cory Weeds (Cellar Live)
Diana Panton (eOne)
Jill Barber (Outside)
Sophie Milman (eOne)
ROCK ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Sloan (Outside)
The Pack A.D. (Mint)
The Sheepdogs (Dine Alone)
The Trews (Bumstead)
Theory of a Deadman (604)
WORLD ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Aline Morales (Independent)
Kiran Ahluwalia (Independent)
Massiel Yanira (MapleMusic)
Minor Empire (Independent)
Pavlo (Fontana North)
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Adele – 21 (XL)
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Naïve)
Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Big Machine/Open Road)
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Beirut (Pompeii)
Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
M83 (Naïve)
Metronomy (Because)
Wilco (dBpm/Anti)
INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adele (XL)
Anna Calvi (Domino)
Taylor Swift (Big Machine/Open Road)
Tom Waits (Anti)
tUnE-yArDs (4AD)
SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adrian Glynn
Dinosaur Bones
Imaginary Cities
Indian Handcrafts
Low Level Flight
Nash
Rich Aucoin
The Pack A.D.
Timber Timbre
Wildlife
• List of Full Nominees here
