Nominees for Ottawa Xpress Best of 2010 Poll

Vote for your favorites this year! Click on the image to get to the site.

Apparently my “old site” is nominated this year for best local site.
I mostly use Photogmusic.com now.
In its 15th year, the popular Ottawa Xpress Readers Best Of Poll is up.

In the music category
Best new musical artist/group

• Higher Rites (I thought they have been around since 2009?)
• Polymorphines
• Keek
• Fire And Neon
• André M. Bluteau
• The Peptides
• I Spell It Nature
• The Secret Loves
• The Jeers
• The Hangmen
• Old Crowns (Review)
• Loon Choir
• The Uncles
• Chandeliers
• Crusades
• The Montelongos
• Peach Kelli Pop
• Capital Grass And The No Men

Best country/folk/world music band/artist of 2010

• Leif Vollebekk (Inlands review)(He considers himself Montreal now)
• Jim Bryson
• Kyrie Kristmanson
• Flecton Big Sky
• Mighty Popo
• Male Nurse
• The Acorn
• Megan Jerome
• Andre M. Bluteau
• Old Crowns
• Winchester Warm
• Lisa Pouchinsky
• Melissa Laveaux

Best rock/pop/dance/other album/EP of 2010

• Laurent Bourque, What We Talk About
• The Love Machine, Sweater Weather (Review)
• The Murder Plans, Good Omens
• Politique, Secret Shock
• The Peptides, For Those Who Hate Human Interaction
• Tara Holloway, Sins to Confess
• Right by Midnight, Right by Midnight
• The Flats, Between the Beams
• Jack Pelletier & The Battle of Ontario, Friends and Lovers
• Miss Emily Brown, In Technicolor
• Peter Brevity, Seeds for Songs
• Street Meat, Dick Party
• Loon Choir, Expansion Forces (Review)
• Soul Jazz Orchestra, Rising Sun
• The Draculas, Slap It!
• I Spell It Nature, I Spell It Nature
• The Russian Futurists, The Weight’s on the Wheels (WHAT! He is considered Ottawa!??)

Best rock/pop/dance/other band of 2010

• Hollerado
• The Love Machine
• Higher Rites
• The Murder Plans
• The Weathermakers
• The Peptides
• The Russian Futurists
• Amos The Transparent
• Ennuie
• The Flaps
• Halabisky’s Uprising
• Alex Lacasse
• Laurent Bourque
• Hamilton
• Politique
• Giant Hand
• Loon Choir
• Soul Jazz Orchestra
• Jesse Dangerously
• Rhume