Well, Calgary ex-pat Feist has won 5 Juno awards last week, making her the big winner. I will refrain from the much overused 1,2,3,4 and now 5 pun that seems to have endeared itself to many of those in the media.

Here are some of the winners and our holdings here at the Library.

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Good Girl Gone Bad
Rihanna

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Feist

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Serena Ryder

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Small Miracles
Blue Rodeo

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Them Vs. You Vs. Me
Finger Eleven

For more winners, go to the Juno Awards Website.

Well the Grammy awards were last weekend, and for those interested here are some of the winners and the items we have here at the Library.

Record Of The Year
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black

Album Of The Year
River: The Joni Letters
Herbie Hancock

Song Of The Year
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black

Best New Artist
Amy Winehouse

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
What Goes Around...Comes Around
Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Makes Me Wonder
Maroon 5
Track from: It Won't Be Soon Before Long

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
One Week Last Summer
Joni Mitchell
Track from: Shine

Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Mix-Up
Beastie Boys

Best Pop Vocal Album
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse

Best Dance Recording
LoveStoned/I Think She Knows
Justin Timberlake
Track from: FutureSex/LoveSounds

Best Electronic/Dance Album
We Are The Night
The Chemical Brothers

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Call Me Irresponsible
Michael Bublé

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
Icky Thump
The White Stripes
Track from:Icky Thump

Best Hard Rock Performance
The Pretender
Foo Fighters

Best Metal Performance
Final Six
Slayer
Track from: Christ Illusion

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Radio Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen
Track from: Magic

In December 2007, jazz legend Oscar Peterson passed away at his home in Mississauga, at the age of 82. Peterson leaves behind a legacy of musical accomplishment and is considered one of the greatest pianists of all time. His career spanned 65 years, and he released over 200 recordings. He was honoured seven times with a Grammy award, including a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 1997. He also received numerous other awards, including Canada's top honour, the Order of Canada.

For those interested in the works of this great Canadian composer and musician, we have the following CDs and other works to borrow.

Music CDs with Oscar Peterson

Books and Videos about Oscar Peterson
• In the Key of Oscar
• A Jazz Odyssey: The life of Oscar Peterson
• Oscar Peterson: The will to swing
• Oscar Peterson: A Night in Vienna
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So Metallica is apparently thinking of premiering their new single through the game Rock Band (thanks Joystiq).

Having defeated Napster, Metallica goes on to conquer new forms of media!

Well, if all this vidjamagame nonsense is not for you, you can still rock out old school with the CDs we have in our Catalogue.

The Good, The Bad and The Queen
The Good, The Bad and The Queen.
[Beverly Hills, CA]: Virgin Records, p2007.

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Damon Albarn spent the first half of his career as a pop provocateur, but he's spent the second half as a musician, and nobody seems more surprised about this than he is. After achieving Nineties stardom with Blur,, he's settled into a head-down, hardworking life of adventurous projects like Gorillaz and his new band, the Good, the Bad and the Queen. The group is an odd mix, to say the least - Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Africa 70 drummer Tony Alien, plus the production of Danger Mouse. But the eclectic elements combine for dark, muted balladry a la Syd Barrett or the Beatles' White Album, with a touch of dub. Fantastic tunes like 'Kingdom of Doom,' 'Nature Springs' and the doo-wop pastiche '8o's Life' set the tone for the album's strange beauty, but it peaks with the cinematic strings and megaphone-vocal melancholy of 'Herculean.'

Review from Rolling Stone -- Rob Sheffield

Visit Wikipedia or the official web site for more info.

2 day event at Olympic Island -- Saturday September 8 and Sunday September 9th, 2007.

The Smashing Pumpkins will be headlining the show in their first stop in Canada since November, 2000 and Icelandic singer/songwriter Björk will close the show on day one of the festival.

Saturday September 8th, 2007 Lineup:
Bjork
Interpol
Arctic Monkeys
M.I.A.
Amy Winehouse
Paolo Nutini
Mute Math

Sunday September 9th, 2007 Lineup:
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Killers
Metric
Tokyo Police Club
Jaime T
Editors
Peter Bjorn and John
Honeycut

The Better Side to the Festival

1. A Good Cause – Virgin Mobile's Virgin Festival expects to raise more than $100,000 for Virgin Unite from the two shows this year. This will be made up of a donation from ticket sales and from on-site fundraising. Virgin Unite is the independent charitable arm of the Virgin Group, created to unite people and Virgin's global resources to make a difference. Virgin Unite works on a range of programs across the globe with a special focus on youth-related issues and HIV.
2. Carbon Neutral – Supporting Virgin Group's ongoing commitment to attacking the causes of global warming, Virgin Festival is aiming to be a carbon-neutral event. Virgin Festival will:
   -Provide recycling on-site
   -Use biodegradable food and drink containers
   -Leverage green energy sources, where possible, to power the music festival
   -Purchase of carbon offsets for energy used
   -Make a commitment to planting trees to ensure future carbon reduction

For more information and band updates, check out the official site.

Buy a 1 or 2 day pass.

This is Spinal Tap

Legendary "rockers" Spinal Tap will reunite for a performance in London this summer as part of a slate of Live Earth benefit concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7. A brief follow up mockumentary will be shown beforehand.

The Live Earth concerts will take place on seven continents on the same day, with profits going to environmental organizations.

For the week ending April 22, 2007.

1. Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavigne
2. Year Zero- Nine Inch Nails
3. Timbaland Presents Shock Valu - Timbaland
4. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
5. Broken & Beautiful - Suzie Mcneil
6. Dignity - Hilary Duff
7. Loose - Nelly Furtado
8. Live at Massey Hall - Neil Young
9. Z103.5 Hit Mix 2007 - Various Artists
10. Futuresex/Lovesounds - Justin Timberlake

The top selling albums in Canada compiled from a national sample of retail store and mass merchants' reports collected, compiled, and provided by Neilson Soundscan.

Canadian legends Rush are touring this summer.

The tour begins on June 13 in Atlanta, and will be coming to Canada via Calgary on July 18, London on September 12, Quebec City on September 14, Montreal on September 15, Toronto on September 19, and Ottawa on September 21.

For more info, visit the official Rush site or TicketMaster.

Pickering Public Library is pleased to announce our subscription to an exciting streaming music service, the Naxos Music Library.

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