Acclaimed as one of the highlights of Canadian Music Week, the 15th annual Canadian Radio Music Awards will take place March 23rd at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.

Recognizing the wealth of talent creating music in the Mainstream AC, Hot AC, CHR, Dance/Urban/Rhythmic, Rock and Country genres, the CRMA’s celebrate acts that, early in their careers, have made a substantial impact at radio.

While Frontside congratulates all the nominees for producing an amazing variety of music in 2011, we’re especially pleased to see nominations for Raghav, with “Fire” in the running for both the CHR and Hot AC categories, as well as JRDN, whose multi-format hit “Like Magic” is vying for the Fans’ Choice award.

For more details on the CRMA’s and Canadian Music Week, please visit: www.cmw.net

Frontside client ERIC SOLOMON is releasing his new album ‘TIME BOMB’ on Nov 15th. Check out this album sampler for a preview of each of the tracks including his new hit single “ADDICTED”.

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences(CARAS), along with broadcast partner CTV, are pleased to announce that Ottawa, Canada’s Capital Region, will host THE 2012 JUNO AWARDS and JUNO Week events and festivities, March 26 – April 1, 2012.

Submissions for nominations are now being accepted at http://junoawards.ca/submissions/

Eric Solomon is back and sounding bigger than ever with his new single “Addicted”, which was an instant add at both KiSS 92.5 Toronto and 105.3 KISS FM Ottawa this week.

Click HERE to check out the song on Youtube.

Toronto, ON (July 6, 2011) The Short List of 10 Canadian albums selected as nominees for the sixth annual Polaris Music Prize, presented by SiriusXM Satellite Radio, was announced today. The juried award recognizes artistic achievement in recorded music. The winning group or artist receives $30,000 this year, a first-time increase of $10,000. The nine other Short Listed nominees will receive $2,000 each, courtesy of Slaight Music.

In alphabetical order, the 2011 Polaris Music Prize Short List nominees are:

Arcade Fire  – The Suburbs
Austra – Feel It Break
Braids – Native Speaker
Destroyer – Kaputt
Galaxie – Tigre et Diesel
Hey Rosetta! – Seeds
Ron Sexsmith – Long Player Late Bloomer
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On
The Weeknd – House Of Balloons

The Polaris Music Prize gala will be held Monday, September 19. It will be exclusively broadcast live to North America on SiriusXM Satellite Radio 152 and to the world on CBC Radio 3. The event will take place at CTV’s Concert Hall studios at Toronto’s Masonic Temple and will feature live performances by this year’s Short List nominees.

“Set It Free”, the first single from Sarah Slean’s new double album “Land And Sea” was added to the prestigious CHFI (FM98) Toronto playlist yesterday, to a very excited round of applause at the Frontside offices. What makes the add so special, aside from being the first (of many we hope) was that it not only came on the first day of summer, but also Sarah’s birthday!

Quite a nice present to get, indeed.

For more on the station, click to www.chfi.com and for more on Sara Slean and the new album head over to www.sarahslean.com