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Bucky Awards Back For Third Year

Posted by Eva Lam on November 15th, 2008

The nominees for CBC Radio 3′s 2008 Bucky Awards have been announced.

Leading the field are Fucked Up, Kathleen Edwards and Chad VanGaalen with three nods each.

The awards, now in their third year, honour Canadian artists in categories that range from the conventional to the more unusual.

For example, Fucked Up are nominated for best live act and best collaboration for their track “Royal Swan” featuring Katie Stelmanis, but their vocalist Pink Eyes is also up for sexiest musician.

Edwards is up for artist’s naughtiest bits for “Singing Naked Men,” while “The Cheapest Key” earned her nods for future classic and best lyric (“You always play me in the cheapest key”).

VanGaalen is nominated for future classic and best video for “Willow Tree” and “Molten Light,” respectively, as well as best advice from an artist for his tips on “making music from junk.”

Other artists who received multiple nods include Crystal Castles, Woodhands and Cadence Weapon.

Voting is open from now until Nov. 28 at CBC Radio 3′s website here.

The winners will be unveiled during a special live broadcast on Dec. 17.

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Voting Now Open For Bucky Awards

Posted by Eva Lam on November 17th, 2007

Canadian music fans can now cast their votes for CBC Radio 3′s second annual Bucky Awards.

Voters get to have their say in a number of unconventional categories, including “Best Song To Listen To In A Fetal Position,” “Musician Most Likely To Have A Future Career In Television,” “Best Falsetto” and “Best Reason To Learn French (Excluding Giselle Webber).”

To vote, head over to http://radio3.cbc.ca/. You can vote once a day in each category until Nov. 30.

The Bucky Awards were created to celebrate and promote independent Canadian music.

In case you’re wondering, Bucky is the network’s unofficial mascot, a cartoon animal with the body of a duck and the head of a moose.

Here are the nominees for this year’s Bucky Awards:

Song Most Likely To Be A Future Classic:
- Arcade Fire — “Intervention”
- Feist — “1 2 3 4″
- Handsome Furs — “Cannot Get Started”
- The New Pornographers — “My Rights Versus Yours”
- The Weakerthans — “Civil Twilight”

Best Song To Listen To In The Fetal Position:
- Camaromance — “28 Balloons”
- Dustin Cole with The Specialest — “Oh! My Captain”
- Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton — “Doctor Blind”
- Lightning Dust — “Listened On”
- Octoberman — “Run From Safety”

Best Rap:
- Abdominal — “Pedal Pusher”
- Grand Analog — “I’ll Walk Alone”
- Josh Martinez — “Last Train”
- Notes To Self — “Lifelines”
- Politic Live featuring Rochester AKA Juice, Shad, Jerys and Oozeela — “Block O RMX”

Best Yacht Rock:
- Andrew Rodriguez — “Astonished Heart”
- Krief — “What We Wanted”
- Patrick Watson — “Drifters”
- Peter Elkas — “Fall Apart Again”
- Young Galaxy — “Swing Your Heartache”

Best New Band Name:
- Better Friends Than Lovers
- The Got To Get Got
- The Rural Alberta Advantage
- Said The Whale
- The Sweet Homewreckers

Best Gang Vocals:
- The Besnard Lakes — “Devastation”
- Carbon Dating Service — “Starbeat Academy Graduation March”
- The Choir Practice — “Red Fox”
- The Junction — “Components Of Four”
- Tokyo Police Club — “Your English Is Good”

Best Video:
- Bend Sinister — “Time Breaks Down”
- Cadence Weapon — “Sharks”
- Chad Vangaalen — “Flower Gardens”
- The Joel Plaskett Emergency — “Fashionable People”
- Malajube — “Etienne D’Aout”

Sexiest Canadian Musician:
- Grand Analog (Odario Williams)
- Melissa McClelland
- Maygen Kardash (from The Blood Lines)
- Peter Elkas
- Rufus Wainwright

Musician Most Likely To Have A Future Career In Television:
- Abdominal
- Joel Plaskett
- Ryan Guldemond and Kenton Loewen (from Mother Mother)
- Scott Ross (from The Dudes)
- Shane Nelken (from The Awkward Stage)

Best Lyric:
- Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton — “The Bank”
“Whatever it is, spit it into a bottle and sell it to me/ I’m looking to buy freedom from my sobriety/ Just like Huey Lewis, I need a new drug”
- Great Lake Swimmers — Your Rocky Spine
“I traced my finger along your trails/ your body was the map, I was lost in it/ Floating over your rocky spine/ the glaciers made you and now you’re mine”
- J-Bru featuring Classified and White Mic — “Put My Work In”
“Excuse me, are you from Canada?/ Oui, yes sir/ I got the heart of Trudeau/ but look like Guy Lafleur”
- The Two Koreas — “U-Boat Commander”
“You rushed the stage at the Morrissey show/ but you only touched the bassist”
- The Weakerthans — “Civil Twilight”
“For the most part I think about golfing and constantly calculate/ all the seconds left in the minutes, and so on, etcetera/ Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors/ Oh, Ontario, oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh”

Most Unpronounceable Name:
- Anemones
- Basia Bulat
- Camaromance
- 9Nyne
- The Phonemes

Best Road-Trip Song:
- Jason Collett — “Reunion”
- Maybe Smith — “Hearts Like Bears”
- Po’ Girl — “9 Hrs To Go”
- Stars — “Take Me To The Riot”
- Two Hours Traffic — “Backseat Sweetheart”

Best Falsetto:
- Caribou — “Melody Day”
- The Joel Plaskett Emergency — “Fashionable People”
- Miracle Fortress — “Have You Seen In Your Dreams”
- Patrick Watson — “Luscious Life”
- Two Hours Traffic — “Nighthawks”

Best Song Title:
- The Consumer Goods — “Looking For Love (While) In(vading) The Muslim World”
- Donovan Woods — “My Cousin Has A Grey Cup Ring”
- The Got To Get Got — “No One Riots In Winter”
- Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy — “True Love Killed My True Love’s Love For Me”
- The Wet Secrets — “Grow Your Own Fucking Moustache, Asshole”

Best Reason To Learn French (Excluding Giselle Webber):
- Les Amis Au Pakistan — “Mon Soldat De Plomb”
- Karkwa — “La Fuite”
- Numero# — “J’amie La Bourgeoisie (Vive Le Rock)”
- Omnikrom — “NaNaNaNah”
- We Are Wolves — “Magique”

Best Sweatin’ To The Indies Workout Song:
- Champion — “Keep On (Champion’s Alternate Take)”
- Chromeo — “Fancy Footwork”
- Numero# — “J’aime La Bourgeoisie (Vive Le Rock)”
- Pride Tiger — “Let ‘Em Go”
- The Wet Secrets — “Secret Match”

Best Bass Line:
- Pride Tiger — “Sweet Dreams”
- Tokyo Police Club — “Your English Is Good”
- Two Koreas — “U-Boat Commander”
- The Western Investor — “If You Wanna Go”
- The Wet Secrets — “Secret Match”

Catchiest Hook:
- Akido — “Dancing In Chains”
- Buck 65 — “Indestructable Sam”
- Feist — “I Feel It All”
- The Saint Alvia Cartel — “Don’t Wanna Wait Forever”
- The Western Investor — “If You Wanna Go”

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