Pack AD Facebook Vancouver's hard-touring garage rock duo the Pack A.D. -- comprised of drummer Maya Miller and Becky Black -- has been tearing the roofs off venues and grinding it out on the road for the better part of seven years. Although the Pack has already been showered with a ton of critical praise and has a strong legion of fans ...

Canvas Media For Bahamas "it's nice to be nominated" isn't just a press platitude. It actually really was nice to be nominated -- particularly where the prestigious Songwriter of the Year category at the Juno Awards was concerned. "I think that's kind of the big one," Bahamas, known on his ID as Afie Jurvanen, told Spinner during a ...

CARAS One of Canada's biggest bands won three Junos at this year's awards on the weekend -- and no one saw it happen. Toronto synth pop titans Metric picked up trophies for Best Alternative Album of the Year, Recording Package of the Year and guitarist James Shaw won Producer of the Year at Saturday night's untelevised Juno Gala in Regina, ...

CARAS The Juno Awards catch a lot of heat for being too predictable and too mainstream, but this year's slate of nominations -- and several of Saturday and Sunday's wins in Regina, Saskatchewan -- were yet more proof that Canada's Grammys are slowly getting their ear to the ground. Plus, you gotta a love a year in which Nickelback didn't ...

Suuns Ben Shemie, the well-spoken frontman of Montreal psychedelic art rock outfit Suuns, is well into a round of post-release press when Spinner connects with him. His band's sophomore album Images Du Futur came out on March 5 via Secretly Canadian and it's getting a lot of attention. "It's exciting," Shemie tells Spinner. "This is new ...

Paper Bag Had life gone according to plan, Canadian soprano/multi-instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira would be an opera star, not a critical darling poised to release her shimmering solo debut The Deserters in North America. Luckily for us, life so rarely goes according to plan. When Zeffira was 17, she was accidentally deported from the U.K. ...

Ron Sexsmith Facebook In 2011, Ron Sexsmith raised more than a few eyebrows with Long Player Late Bloomer, a bombastic Bob Rock-produced pop album that put a critical darling into commercial consciousness. Nominated for both the Polaris Music Prize and a Juno, it was a breakthrough album for Sexsmith. The singer/songwriter could have ...