Embed and breakfast man: Metric

Here's a lovely way to start the day: Metric on The All-New Tonight Show With Jay Leno And Crazylegs Crane:

Juno Awards: Canada gives prizes

Who knew there was a still a land where working on a Dolores O'Riordan record would see you win a prize, rather than be detained in a secure unit?

The Canadian version of the Grammys, the Junos, were passed out this weekend. Actually, I say like the Grammys - it's hard to picture them giving proper, non-genre prizes to K'naan and Metric.

Here are the winners:

UNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Presented By Pepsi
Winner
Michael Bublé

Reprise*Warner

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SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Winner
Haven’t Met You Yet
Michael Bublé

Reprise*Warner

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INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Only By The Night
Kings Of Leon

RCA*Sony

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Canadian Recording Industry Association
Winner
Crazy Love
Michael Bublé

Reprise*Warner

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ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Winner
K’naan

A&M/Octone*Universal

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GROUP OF THE YEAR
Winner
Metric

Last Gang*Universal

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NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY FACTOR AND CANADA’S PRIVATE RADIO BROADCASTERS)
Winner
Drake

Aspire*Universal

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NEW GROUP OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY FACTOR AND CANADA’S PRIVATE RADIO BROADCASTERS)
Winner
Arkells

Dine Alone*Universal

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SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO)
Winner
K’Naan
“Wavin Flag” – co-songwriters B. Mars, P. Lawrence & J. Daval | “Take A Minute”, “If Rap Gets Jealous” – co-songwriters G. Eaton & B. West
TROUBADOUR – K’Naan

A&M/Octone*Universal

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COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Dance With Me
Johnny Reid

Open Road*Universal

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ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY GALAXIE, YOUR MUSICAL UNIVERSE)
Winner
Three
Joel Plaskett

MapleMusic*Universal

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ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY LONG & MCQUADE)
Winner
Fantasies
Metric

Last Gang*Universal


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POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Crazy Love
Michael Bublé

Reprise*Warner

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ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
III
Billy Talent

WEA*Warner

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VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Ranee Lee Lives Upstairs
Ranee Lee

Justin Time*EMI

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CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
The Happiness Project
Charles Spearin

Arts & Crafts*EMI

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TRADITIONAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
It’s About Time
Terry Clarke

Blue Music

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INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
As Seen Through The Windows
Bell Orchestre

Arts & Crafts*EMI

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FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Les sentinelles dorment
Andrea Lindsay

GSI Musique*Select

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CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Love My New Shirt
Norman Foote

Inarow Records

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CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Winner
Joel Quarrington: Garden Scene
Joel Quarrington

Analekta*Select

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CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT
Winner
Mathieu, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn: Concertino & Concertos
Alain Lefèvre & London Mozart Players

Analekta*Select

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CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE
Winner
Adrianne Pieczonka sings Puccini
Adrianne Pieczonka

Orfeo*SRI

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CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR
Winner
Lament In The Trampled Garden
Marjan Mozetich LAMENT IN THE TRAMPLED GARDEN

Centrediscs*CMC

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RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Winner
So Far Gone
Drake

Aspire*Universal

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DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Winner
For Lack Of A Better Name
Deadmau5

Ultra*EMI

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R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Winner
Lonesome Highway
jacksoul

Sony

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REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Winner
Gonna Be Alright
Dubmatix ft. Prince Blanco

7 Arts

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ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK)
Winner
We Are
Digging Roots

Odeimin*Outside

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ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO
Winner
Hunter, Hunter
Amelia Curran

Six Shooter*Warner

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ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP
Winner
Good Lovelies
Good Lovelies

Independent*Fontana North

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BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
The Corktown Sessions
Jack de Keyzer

Blue Star*Indiepool

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CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Winner
Where’s Our Revolution
Matt Brouwer

Black Shoe*Fontana North

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WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS)
Winner
Comfortably Mine
Dominic Mancuso

Independent

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JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Winner
Bob Rock
“Haven’t Met You Yet” | “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)” – CRAZY LOVE – Michael Bublé

Reprise*Warner

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RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Winner
Dan Brodbeck
“Apple Of My Eye” | "Be Careful" NO BAGGAGE – Dolores O’Riordan

Zoë/Rounder*Universal

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RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR
Winner
Martin Bernard (Art Director); Stéphane Cocke (Photographer); Thomas Csano (Designer/Illustrator)
Beats on Canvas BEATS ON CANVAS

BOC Records

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VIDEO OF THE YEAR

(SPONSORED BY MUCHFACT)
Winner
Little Bit Of Red
Marc Ricciardelli SERENA RYDER

EMI

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MUSIC DVD OF THE YEAR
Winner
Iron Maiden Flight 666
Sam Dunn, Scott McFadyen Rod Smallwood, Stefan Demetriou, Andy Taylor IRON MAIDEN

EMI

But for Michael Buble, all of us might have loved to daydream about moving to Canada.

Decade Null: 2006 - Metric

Excitingly off that there Vevo service, Metric's Poster Of A Girl from Live It Out:



[Part of Decade Null: 2006]

Embed and breakfast man: Metric

Metric have just (-ish) put this live; the video for Sick Muse:



Sick Muse is off Fantasies [download Fantasies]

DIY: The Metric system

Metric are just about ready to release their new album, Fantasies. And it's more-or-less self-managed, says the press release:

Always up for a worthwhile challenge, METRIC self-financed the recordings, set up their own global label operation and assembled a team to release the new album in major territories around the world. "But we're not doing it totally on our own" comments guitarist Jimmy Shaw. "In Canada it's coming out with Last Gang who released Live it Out and Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? and our friends at Arts & Crafts will be releasing the album in Mexico. We've set up distribution and hired our own staff to handle releasing the record in the USA, the UK, all throughout continental Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. It's pretty insane, but it's really exciting. We might go down in flames, or it might be the best move ever. Either way it will have been on our terms, and that for us is success."

Yet another model which doesn't rely on the majors - and for a band who you wouldn't peg as having the self-financing clout of, say, a Radiohead, but whose needs are greater than a small band who can produce a local release off the support of a dozen or so ardent fans. It's surprising what you can afford if you skip the cost of helping your label purse expensive legal actions against fans.

Bookmarks: Some stuff to read on the internet

Whatever happened to Rosie Ribbons? PopUnlimited tells the sorry tale:

The follow-up "A Little Bit", a Jessica Simpson cover, wasn't going to be playlisted by The Box at all as they thought it was a bit cheap of them to film it in the exact same studio as the previous one "she's sitting in the same bloody corner!" they said... and she did look like she'd been having a fight with a make-up artist... but with a bit of nagging it eventually got on, though they probably shouldn't have bothered as it only made it to #19.

Emily Haines recalls her father Paul's work and influence for the Toronto Star:

Even now, many years later, no matter where I am when I put on one of his tapes, I am transported back to being very young, crouched beside the stereo speakers constructing fantastic houses out of clear plastic cassette cases, quivering towers of windows overlooking the floor below. Maybe under different circumstances I could have become an architect, but something I heard in those early days got me started as a musician and I haven't been able to stop.

Troubled Diva meets Hannah and Brace from The Gossip:

Mike: And then you have that whole thing where Beth is developing almost as a parallel media figure in her own right; she's even an agony aunt now. Does that co-exist quite happily with everything else that you do?

Hannah: Yes, I think so. My main concern is just that people just see us as a group.

Mike: Rather than 'The Beth Show'�

Hannah: Yeah, totally. Because it just has been that, for so long.

Brace: As long as they're still good records and good music, that's the most important thing. Interest in media figures fade quickly; they can go 'in' and 'out' so fast.

Anthony Thornton posts what could have been an NME Classic Albums piece (if the feature was in the new look magazine) on Dog Man Star:

The whole thing felt like a revolutionary act: Brett said he wanted it to be a rallying cry for the outsiders and the dispossessed. And it was. However that group, though vocal, was tiny.