Canadian heshers Nickelback took home Album Of The Year, Group Of The Year, and the Juno Fan Choice Award at last night’s Juno Awards, which reward the best that Canadian music has to offer. (Gene Simmons is probably very, very excited right now.) Other winners: The sinewy Kardinal Offishall/Akon collab “Dangerous,” which won Single Of The Year; Alanis Morrissette, whose Flavors Of Entanglement picked up the Pop Album trophy; and the Stills, who brought home New Group of the Year and the Alternative Album award. Full list of winners after the jump.
The sixteenth volume in the Red Hot series of compilations, which raise funds for AIDS research, is coming in 2009, featuring a very Starbucks-friendly duet between Ben Gibbard and Feist, as well as tracks from David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, and The National (who are also producing the compilation). The fact that there are fifteen volumes in the series blew my mind, especially as the series has done a good job of capturing various trends in music since the first volume hit stores in 1990.