2014 SiriusXM Indie Award winners announced

NEWS RELEASE SIRIUSXM CANADA ************************** 2014 SiriusXM Indie Award winners announced TORONTO - Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 SiriusXM Indies - 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.

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2014 SiriusXM Indie Award winners announced

TORONTO - Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 SiriusXM Indies - 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.

City and Colour, Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys are among the winners recognized last night across 37 categories.

Celebrating the best of independent music – both Canadian and International – the Indies were held at Kool Haus, and featured special performances from artists such as Hollerado, Mounties, Born Ruffians, Ponctuation, The Strumbellas, and The Hidden Cameras.

Sweden's internationally acclaimed Little Dragon also took to the SiriusXM Indies stage for an exclusive set.

The full list of winners is below.

2014 SiriusXM Indie Awards

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge Records)

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
City and Colour - The Lonely Life (Dine Alone Records)

GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Half Moon Run (Indica Records)

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
City and Colour (Dine Alone Records)

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Basia Bulat (Secret City Records)

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Sebastien Grainger (Last Gang Records)

LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Hollerado (Royal Mountain Records)

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Mother Mother (Last Gang Records)

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge Records)

MUST FOLLOW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Born Ruffians (Paper Bag Records)

COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
Classified - Inner Ninja ft. David Myles (Half Life Records)

MOST PLAYED INDEPENDENT ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
City and Colour (Dine Alone Records)

BEST-SELLING INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Merge Records)

ALTERNATIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
July Talk (July Talk / Sleepless Records)

BLUES ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
MonkeyJunk (Stony Plain Records)

CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Splash'N Boots (Independent)

COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Dean Brody (Open Road Recordings)

DANCE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Rosette (Ultra Music)

ELECTRONIC ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
A Tribe Called Red (Pirates Blend Records)

FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
The Strumbellas (Six Shooter Records)

FRANCOPHONE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Karim Ouellet (Coyote Records / Abuzive Muzik)

JAZZ ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Colin Stetson (Constellation)

METAL ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Kataklysm (Nuclear Blast / Fontana North)

POP ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Fast Romantics (Pipe & Hat)

PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
PUP (Royal Mountain Records)

RAP/HIP-HOP ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Shad (Black Box Recordings)

ROCK ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Wildlife (Wax Records)

SOUL/R&B ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Chloe Charles (Athena Music International)

WORLD ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Sultans of String (Independent)

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Janelle Monáe (Wondaland Art Society / Bad Boy Records)

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Arctic Monkeys - AM (Domino)

INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (Domino)

INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
CHVRCHES (Glassnote Records)

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (Macklemore)

SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (English)
Mounties (Light Organ Records)

SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (French)
Ponctuation (Bonsound)

About Canadian Music Week

Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries.

Combining three information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest new music festival, CMW spans a five-day period from May 6 to May 10, 2014 at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel and over 60 downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.

For more information, visit www.cmw.net.

About SiriusXM Canada

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