Canadian Music Week's marquee CMW event, The Indies, took place Friday night with Japandroids snagging best album for "Celebration Rock," Deadmau5 winning best live act and Metric taking home best group and best-selling independent album, "Synthetica."
But Vancouver pop-rockers Marianas Trench emerged as the big winners of the night with three awards: Video of the Year for "Fallout" and Pop Artist or Group of the Year while lead singer and songwriter Josh Ramsay also took home the Songwriter of the Year award. The latter was partly thanks to his co-write credit on Carly Rae Jepsen's smash "Call Me Maybe," which was also a notable winner, nabbing the awards for Most Played Independent Artist or Group of the Year as well as Single of the Year.
Both Jepsen and Marianas Trench also won big at the Canadian Radio Music Awards, which were handed out earlier in the week and featured performances from Marianas Trench, Massari and USS.
Toronto's Metric headlined the Indies by performing hits from their most recent album, "Synthetica," at the Kool Haus, where the annual awards show was moved to in order to handle the band's massive hometown following.
Many of the other performers also scored awards, including Cold Specks (Female Artist of the Year), Matt Mays (Male Artist of the Year), The Wooden Sky (Folk/Roots Artist or Group of the Year), Yukon Blonde (Alternative Artist or Group of the Year), Cadence Weapon (Rap/Hip-Hop Artist or Group of the Year) and Canailles (SiriusXM Emerging Artist of the Year – French).
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Here is the full list of The Indies winners:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Japandroids "Celebration Rock"
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"
GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Metric
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cold Specks
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Matt Mays
LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
deadmau5
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Josh Ramsay
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Marianas Trench Fallout
MUST FOLLOW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Said The Whale
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
Artists Against Bullying - True Colors
MOST PLAYED INDEPENDENT ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen
BEST-SELLING INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Metric Synthetica
ALTERNATIVE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Yukon Blonde
BLUES ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
CHILDREN'S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Jennifer Gasoi
COUNTRY ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Dallas Smith
DANCE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Massari
ELECTRONIC ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Grimes
FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Wooden Sky
FRANCOPHONE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Lisa LeBlanc
JAZZ ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Emilie-Claire Barlow
METAL ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Devin Townsend Project
POP ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Marianas Trench
PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
METZ
RAP/HIP-HOP ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Cadence Weapon
ROCK ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Big Wreck
SOUL/R&B ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Weeknd
WORLD ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Souljazz Orchestra
INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
The Black Keys
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Mumford & Sons Babel
INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEAR
fun. - We Are Young
INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Lumineers
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop
SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (English)
Poor Young Things
SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (French)
Canailles