Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world.

RICH'S PICK: "Jones Rental and Storage" (Jazz Remix) by Toby Jones

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

Jokes for grammar nerds.

A musical tribute to '80s movies:

Cats beating up bananas:

REAR VIEW MIRROR:

Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."

In the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan was the most famous folk singer in the world. But he was also tired. He was worn out and weary from a long world tour and he was itching for change. He wrote a song that not only changed his career, but the entire pop music landscape.

The seed was planted when Dylan listened to a Hank Williams song called "Lost Highway", in which Williams sings, "I'm a rolling stone, I'm alone and lost..." Dylan was inspired to write a sprawling, angry, rhyming screed over 20 pages in a note book. He then distilled the writing down to four hard-hitting, confrontational verses. Next he wrote a chorus that would take the listener to task and cut to the bone. He called his composition "Like a Rolling Stone".

The starting point for the melody of the song was, of all things, "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens. Once the song took shape in Dylan's mind, he called some young, hot shot musicians into the studio. He didn't have parts written out for them. He just asked that they follow his lead and not play anything blues based. He said that if that was a problem for any of them, they could leave.

As soon as the recording was finished, Dylan knew he had done something great. In an interview he gave a few days after the studio session, he said, "I wrote it. I didn't fail. It was straight." And at the end of 1965, after the song changed the world, Dylan called it the best song he ever wrote.

Here's the song that transformed Bob Dylan from a folk singer to a rock god and a song widely regarded as the greatest song of all time - this is "Like a Rolling Stone" on Rear View Mirror.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"

Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"

The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"

Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"

The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"

The Beatles - "Yesterday"

Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"

Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"

Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"

The Doors - "Light My Fire"

Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"

The Clash - "London Calling"

Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"

Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"

The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"

Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"

Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"

Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"

R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"

Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"

The Who - "Pinball Wizard"

Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"

Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"

Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"

John Lennon - "Imagine"

The Ugly Ducklings - "Nothin"

Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"

The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"

The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"

Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"

Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"

Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"

Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"

Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"

The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"

The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"

Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"

James Brown - "Please Please Please"

John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"

Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne"

The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"

Blue Rodeo - "Try"

The Guess Who - "American Woman"

U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"

Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"

Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"

The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"

The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"

Big Star - "September Gurls"

The Hollies - "Bus Stop"

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe"

Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton - "Jolene"

The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"

The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"

The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick - "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"

New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"

The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones - "Miss You"

The Coasters - "Run Red Run"

Elvis Costello - "Alison"

James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"

Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"

Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"

Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"

Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"

Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley"

Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"

Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"

Roy Orbison - "In Dreams"

Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"

Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"

Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Little Eva - "Loco-Motion"

Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"

Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"

The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"

Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"

R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"

Radiohead - "No Surprises"

Led Zeppelin - "Ramble On"

Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"

Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"

The Juno Award winners will be announced in Hamilton on Sunday, March 15, during an awards ceremony hosted by Hedley's Jacob Hoggard.

Around the office, we've been discussing the four classical music categories. The only thing we can agree on is that this year's nominees include some amazing performances.

Since the classical categories don't get any attention on the televised gala, we decided to break them down. Here's our analysis, including predictions for who will win/should win in each category. Share your predictions in the comments below.

Nominees for classical album of the year: large ensemble or soloist(s) with large ensemble accompaniment

1. Angela Hewitt, National Arts Centre Orchestra and Hannu Lintu: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (Hyperion)

2. James Ehnes, Ehnes Quartet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Mark Wigglesworth: Khachaturian, Shostakovich (Onyx)

3. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano, Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7(Analekta)

4. Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Peter Oundjian, Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade (Chandos)

5. Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bruckner 3 (ATMA Classique)

This category absolutely sizzles with standout recordings from Canada’s top orchestra and internationally admired soloists. The Montreal Symphony — often pigeon-holed as a specialist in French repertoire — offers incisive Beethoven played with true Teutonic grit. The Toronto Symphony brings Sheherezade’s lush romanticism to a lather in this live recording. And the dazzling Nézet-Séguin, leading l’Orchestre Métropolitain, presents a performance of Bruckner’s sprawling Symphony No. 3 that stands with the best.

The concerto recordings are also impressive, but not as consistently. Hewitt brings her usual meticulous poise to Mozart, but the recorded sound lacks aural spaciousness. Meanwhile, Ehnes turns the Khachaturian concerto into a mesmerizing musical yarn, but the Melbourne Symphony is merely capable rather than inspired. It’s a tough call given the incredible performances from all these outstanding Canadian musicians. — Denise Ball

Should win: Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Peter Oundjian
Will win: Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin


Nominees for classical album of the year: solo or chamber ensemble

1. Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà, Blanc (Analekta)

2. David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Socalled, Jonathan Crow and Geoffrey Burleson: Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (Oxingale)

3. James Ehnes, Michael Collins, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Andrew Armstrong: Bartok: Chamber Works for Violin, Vol. 3 (Chandos)

4. Jonathan Crow, Paul Stewart: Prokofiev: Sonates & Mélodies (ATMA)

5. Karl Stobbe, Ysaÿe: Sonatas for Solo Violin (Avie)

Tough call, here. Ehnes remains Canada’s most astonishing soloist, but his album is a disc of trifles — an interesting but mostly forgettable leg of his Bartók journey. Crow puts in an admirable performance on his Prokofiev disc, but one suspects he doesn’t have much of a shot after Ehnes’s 2014 win in this category with the same rep.

Dubeau’s nobly intentioned Blanc isn’t entirely undeserving, in spite of its strong pull towards the middle of the road. But, my personal fave is on the other end of the spectrum: Akoka features a lovely recording of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time by fantastic chamber players. Its two new pieces even manage not to seem perfunctory next to the Messiaen. Still, my gut tells me that the statue may go to the debut solo recording by Stobbe, whose mastery of Ysaÿe suggests a much more seasoned recording artist. — Matthew Parsons

Should win: David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Socalled, Jonathan Crow and Geoffrey Burleson
Will win: Karl Stobbe

Nominees for classical album of the year: vocal or choral performance

1. Gerald Finley and Julius Drake, Schubert: Winterreise (Hyperion)

2. Julie Boulianne, Clavecin en concert and Luc Beauséjour, Handel & Porpora: The London Years (Analekta)

3. Karina Gauvin, Les Violons du Roy and Bernard Labadie, Mozart: Opera & Concert Arias(ATMA)

4. Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal and Christopher Jackson, Terra Tremuit (ATMA)

5. Schola Cantorum, Theatre of Early Music and Daniel Taylor, The Heart's Refuge (Analekta)

The dignity and beauty of the voices represented in this category nearly overwhelm. First-time nominee Boulianne has a creamy, effortless voice and her album has quickly become a favourite of mine. Overall, though, her performance lacks bite. And while I enjoyed the captivating repertoire on Terra Tremuit from Le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, they don't quite attain the laser-beam tuning and blend that has become their trademark. As a relative newcomer, the University of Toronto's Schola Cantorum handles its German baroque repertoire beautifully under the leadership of Taylor, although more dynamic contrast would have helped their cause.

Anyone who caught Gauvin's December 2014 performance of Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at Théâtre des Champs Élysées realized that an exciting new chapter in her career has begun, as she cautiously takes on heavier roles. Her album of Mozart arias with Les Violons du Roy captures almost all the excitement of that live performance, and I'd have predicted a win for it if it weren't for Finley and Drake's staggering, perfect recording of Winterreise. — Robert Rowat

Should win: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake
Will win: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake

Nominees for classical composition of the year

1. Alice Ping Yee Ho, Glistening Pianos, Glistening Pianos (Centrediscs)

2. Brian Current, Airline Icarus, Airline Icarus: Complete Opera (Naxos)

3. Gordon Fitzell, Magister Ludi, Magister Ludi (Centrediscs)

4. Jacques Hétu, Sextet, Op. 71, Complete Chamber Works for Strings (Naxos)

5. John Estacio, Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra, A Concert for New York (Independent)

Imagine putting all the above-mentioned classical albums together in the same category. That’s what this list of nominated compositions feels like: an impossible invitation to compare chamber apples, operatic oranges and large symphonic bananas.

Ho’s idiomatic keyboard writing in her duet Glistening Pianos (2009) and the seductive orchestrations in Gordon Fitzell’s Magister Ludi (2009) for solo cello and flute octet (two piccolos, two flutes, two alto flutes, two bass flutes) are both impressive on a technical level, but come up short on character against the late Hétu’s deeply affecting Sextet for Strings, Op. 71 (2004).

Current’s opera Airline Icarus (2005) is a beautifully wrought music drama that makes a strong case (thanks in no small part to the recording’s exceptional cast of singers) for the youngest of this year’s five nominated composers. Estacio rounds out the category with an epic Triple Concerto (1997) for violin, cello, piano and orchestra: composed with a sure hand, this is easily the most accessible of the five pieces — but accessibility doesn’t necessarily play well with the jury.

This is the first Juno Award nomination for both Ho and Fitzell, the second for Current, third for Estacio and fourth for Hétu. It will be a first-time win for one of them. — Scott Tresham

Should win: Jacques Hétu
Will win: Brian Current

Don't try this at home. Or, don't try this at the office.

There are certain things people do that seem perfectly normal at concerts. But what if you try doing those same things in an office setting? Check out this video and get a sense of how wrong these five concert moves look in the office.

Check out all of CBC Music's Comedy Week stuff here.

Want more music and comedy? CBC Punchline has what you're looking for.

As you have hopefully figured out by now, it is Comedy Week here at CBC Music, which we have been presenting in conjunction with our colleagues at CBC Punchline. To celebrate the union of these two titans of online public broadcasting, we've created a rundown of some of their best music-related posts. Enjoy!

Check out all of CBC Music's Comedy Week stuff here.

Want more comedy? CBC Punchline has what you're looking for.

This year's Juno Awards are being handed out this weekend in Hamilton, so it's high time we made our predictions on who will take home trophies on Sunday night.

It seems like 2015 is shaping up to be the year of the newcomer. Toronto reggae-pop band Magic! picked up five nominations after having a huge year with its single "Rude" from, the band's debut album Don't Kill the Magic. Electro-pop sensation Kiesza is also a first-time nominee and up for four awards, including single of the year for her viral hit "Hideaway."

On the other hand, it's possible that Leonard Cohen might just sweep the whole thing.

The awards will be hosted by Jacob Hoggard (Hedley) and feature performances from 2015 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Alanis Morissette, Arkells, Deadmau5, Kiesza, Lights and the Sam Roberts Band. 

Check out the gallery above for our predictions on who will win, and thoughts on who should win. 

We'll be covering the proceedings all night on Sunday, so check back to see red-carpet photos, a behind-the-scenes diary from hometown heroes Arkells and coverage of all the winners.

What do you think of our Juno predictions? Did we get it right? Who do you think will take home the most awards this weekend? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @CBCRadio3.

There are plenty of comedians who play music, and plenty of musicians who do comedy. But getting both right at the same time is no easy feat.

So which musical comedy sketches are the funniest?

Open the gallery above to find out, then let us know what comedy sketches you would add to the list in the comments.

A warning: some of the sketches use colourful language and mature subject matter.

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George Stroumboulopoulos will be joined by a cavalcade of Canadian guests as we testify to the 2015 Juno Awards.

Over the past season, we've welcomed countless artists to perform intimate acoustic sessions in the House of Strombo. On Sunday night, we'll celebrate some of our favourites that feature many Juno Award winners and nominees such as Arkells, Bahamas, Basia Bulat, City & Colour, Coeur de pirate, Daniel Lanois, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Death from Above 1979, the Flatliners, Hayden, Kandle, Kevin Drew, Lindi Ortega, Shad, Stars and Tegan & Sara.

Also, we'll deliver some brand spankin' new performances from our friends Sloan, Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies and journalist/former CBC personality Malka Marom opens up about her latest work, Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words. There'll be appearances from Chromeo, Lights and George Pettit of Alexisonfire/Dead Tired.

Lock it. Crank it. Join the collective!

For further musical exploration with George Stroumboulopoulos, tune in to The Strombo Show every Sunday night on CBC Radio 2 or CBC Music from 8 to 11 p.m. for three hours of uninterrupted music for music lovers.    

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world.

RICH'S PICK: Guitar + pen tapping by Alexandr Misko

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

Dog fetches cat:

The two types of moms:

Canadian Sniper:

REAR VIEW MIRROR:

Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."

In the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan was the most famous folk singer in the world. But he was also tired. He was worn out and weary from a long world tour and he was itching for change. He wrote a song that not only changed his career, but the entire pop music landscape.

The seed was planted when Dylan listened to a Hank Williams song called "Lost Highway", in which Williams sings, "I'm a rolling stone, I'm alone and lost..." Dylan was inspired to write a sprawling, angry, rhyming screed over 20 pages in a note book. He then distilled the writing down to four hard-hitting, confrontational verses. Next he wrote a chorus that would take the listener to task and cut to the bone. He called his composition "Like a Rolling Stone".

The starting point for the melody of the song was, of all things, "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens. Once the song took shape in Dylan's mind, he called some young, hot shot musicians into the studio. He didn't have parts written out for them. He just asked that they follow his lead and not play anything blues based. He said that if that was a problem for any of them, they could leave.

As soon as the recording was finished, Dylan knew he had done something great. In an interview he gave a few days after the studio session, he said, "I wrote it. I didn't fail. It was straight." And at the end of 1965, after the song changed the world, Dylan called it the best song he ever wrote.

Here's the song that transformed Bob Dylan from a folk singer to a rock god and a song widely regarded as the greatest song of all time - this is "Like a Rolling Stone" on Rear View Mirror.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"

Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"

The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"

Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"

The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"

The Beatles - "Yesterday"

Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"

Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"

Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"

The Doors - "Light My Fire"

Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"

The Clash - "London Calling"

Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"

Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"

The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"

Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"

Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"

Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"

R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"

Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"

The Who - "Pinball Wizard"

Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"

Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"

Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"

John Lennon - "Imagine"

The Ugly Ducklings - "Nothin"

Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"

The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"

The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"

Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"

Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"

Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"

Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"

Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"

The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"

The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"

Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"

James Brown - "Please Please Please"

John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"

Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne"

The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"

Blue Rodeo - "Try"

The Guess Who - "American Woman"

U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"

Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"

Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"

The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"

The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"

Big Star - "September Gurls"

The Hollies - "Bus Stop"

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe"

Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton - "Jolene"

The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"

The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"

The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick - "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"

New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"

The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones - "Miss You"

The Coasters - "Run Red Run"

Elvis Costello - "Alison"

James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"

Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"

Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"

Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"

Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"

Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley"

Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"

Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"

Roy Orbison - "In Dreams"

Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"

Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"

Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Little Eva - "Loco-Motion"

Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"

Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"

The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"

Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"

R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"

Radiohead - "No Surprises"

Led Zeppelin - "Ramble On"

Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"

Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"

St. Patrick's Day. The time when North Americans trot out their shamrocks and green beer. But there's more to the Emerald Isle than that. There's some great music being made there too. Last year, we saw something in Hozier and were not at all surprised when he tore up the charts. One of these acts could very well do the same thing in 2015.

Villagers, 'Courage'

The vocals laid down by Conor O'Brien of Villagers is reminiscent of Bon Iver's debut, For Emma, Forever Ago: wonderfully delicate and, at times, frail. With a new album coming in April, could Dublin be the new Eau Claire?

Katharine Philippa, 'Broken to be Rebuilt'

Philippa has a voice that can break hearts. That she's only doing so in Ireland is a shame. Exploring and absorbing influences from Arvo Pärt, Tchaikovsky, Jeff Buckley and FKA Twigs, Philippa has what it takes to go global.

Rejjie Snow/Lecs Luther, 'Nights Over Georgia'

He was on our list last year, and just might be added to all future lists until he quits music completely or becomes a star. With inventive, clever and concise rhymes, Rejjie Snow has all the hallmarks of a grade-A rap star.

Red Empire, 'Deliver Me'

Dublin five-piece Red Empire will drop their new album, Inhale, later this year and the first single, "Deliver Me" is a good sign of what's to come. Anticipate the high-intensity band serving up one radio-ready infectious pop tune after another.

Winter Mountain, 'Shed a Little Light'

The harmonies emanating from Winter Mountain would feel right at home in the southern states of the U.S. or the eastern coast of our own country. Vocalist/guitarist Martin Smyth left the band in January 2015, leaving bandmate Joe Francis to carry on with a new player, Sam Kelly. No word yet on what the new formation will sound like, but hopefully they won't lose that down-home feel.

Color//Sound, 'To the Countryside'

Color//Sound are influenced by a wide range of artists from Elliott Smith to Radiohead. With their close-knit harmonies and propulsive rhythms, Color // Sound I can only imagine how delightful they probably sound live. Here's hoping they get big enough to tour Canada so that I can find out. 

DVO Marvell, 'Muhammad Ali'

Dublin's very own DVO Marvell (Marvell Mavungu) has been writing rhymes since the age of 15. His EP, Before We Started, is a great introduction to this talented lyricist with a style reminiscent of Drake or Kendrick Lamar. He's already had a taste of the big stage opening for L'il Wayne in 2013 here's hoping he gets the stage all to himself in 2015.

Little Bear/Ports, 'Night Dries Like Ink'

Formerly Little Bear, the group now known as Ports could very well be a Canadian band, in that it's hard to believe that it's not more popular outside of its home country. They have the skills — the songwriting, vocals and musical acumen are all in place. All they need is a break and apparently, a name change.

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Björk has just shared the first video from her powerful new album, Vulnicura, and in it, she sings from the heart.

The video for "Lionsong," which has the Icelandic artist dressed in a black bodysuit with an opening for the heart, and a headdress that makes her look like a balding lion or a dandelion gone to seed, was directed by Inez and Vinoodh, with visual effects from production house Framestore.

"Björk’s character for 'Lionsong' had to be smooth like a spider waiting in her web and seductive like a Balinese dancer cast in bronze," Inez and Vinoodh said of the video. "She is seen as if under a microscope, baring her heart while luring us inside the bloody galaxy of her own wound."

Watch:

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The town of Taber, Alberta has just introduced a new series of Footloose-like bylaws, and now a group of citizens is calling on Kevin Bacon to help.

The bylaws make it illegal for teens under 16 to be out at night, penalize swearing in public, allow authorities to break up gatherings of three persons or more, and even ban noise "which disturbs or annoys a person, including any loud outcry, clamour, shouting, movement, music or activity."

Now Jordan Bloemen, Matthew Gresiuk and Scott Winder have launched "Save Us Bacon," a tongue-in-cheek Kickstarter, Twitter and YouTube campaign asking Footloose star Kevin Bacon to lead a "raucous dance party/protest" against what they call "an embarrassing, archaic, vaguely worded law by an out-of-touch town council."

In the film, Kevin Bacon plays a Chicago teen who moves to a small town where dancing and rock music have been banned, and he leads the charge to overturn the law.

"A small town in Alberta, Canada recently passed the law from the 1984 movie Footloose, banning music in public, public gatherings, swearing, and instituting various curfews," says Bloeman in the YouTube video, which you can watch below.

"We think that's super silly, mostly because it's 2015, and Taber, Alberta is a real place — not the setting of a 1980s themed dance-rock coming-of-age story. Also, we're pretty sure the law goes against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But we're not lawyers and we're certainly not going to Google it."

According to Winder, Bacon's rate for an appearance is $100,000 U.S.

"If we hit our goal, we’ll have the funds necessary to reach out to Kevin Bacon and have his people even entertain the idea of having him show up. Can we guarantee he’ll attend? Legally no, but maybe Kenny Loggins is available," jokes Bloeman.

"And if we don’t reach our goal, we still slung a little mud at a law that, regardless of good intentions, is an archaic, clumsily written contradiction of Canadian Rights and Freedoms."

So are they serious? "Well no, this is satire," says Bloeman. "But we will do this if the money shows up."

According to the group's YouTube page, the Kickstarter link is not live because the campaign has not yet been approved by the crowdfunding website.

Every month, in a basement in Toronto, people dress up as vampires, sex robots, Virginia Woolf and two of the four witches from The Craft and gather to deliver some of the foulest insults imaginable, in rhyme, in front of a packed audience.

This is the world of Rapp Battlez, the hip-hop-themed sketch comedy verbal combat arena that has been getting gut-busting laughs from crowds in Toronto for five years, and has since spawned franchises in Vancouver and Atlanta. It’s the brainchild of two brothers, Freddie and Miguel Rivas.

The concept is simultaneously simple and remarkably strange: two comedians — or four, in the case of a tag-team battle — take on pro wrestling-like personas and go head to head. The Rivas brothers launched the show during the 2011 Festival of New Formats, an annual festival of high-concept sketch and improv that takes place every January at Toronto’s Comedy Bar.

Editor's note: every video in this story has strong language, and is NSFW.

"At the time, we were pretty obsessed with King of the Dot, the great and very real rap-battle league based out of Toronto," says Miguel. "We just thought, what if comedians tried this and leaned mostly on the comedy aspect of rap battling?"

Initially, there were no characters. The comics just did battle as themselves, but the Rivases quickly decided to go high concept.

"After about four or five shows, we decided that the show wasn't silly enough," says Freddie. "It was a bit too close to actual rap battles. We wanted it to be more over the top like professional wrestling. Also, all the comedians we had doing the show were always pushing each other to be more and more creative, so that naturally led to crazier characters."

It was the move to a character-driven show that really caused Rapp Battlez to take off.

"It got to a point where the range of jokes and insults you could fling at local Toronto comics got pretty repetitive," adds Miguel. "By having everyone be enormous, ridiculous characters, it just opened the show up. It just became a whole lot more fun."

Vancouver-based comedians Ryan Beil and Taz VanRassel started the Vancouver franchise of the show — Rapp Battlez Wezt Coast— after seeing it in Toronto in February 2013.

"The first time I saw it, I was pretty captivated by the audience reaction," said Beil. "It's a rare thing for a comedy show to whip people into a frenzy like that ... I love that it almost has infinite possibilities. You can talk for hours about potential characters and hilarious match-ups. Also when we told Vancouver comedians we wanted to bring the show out west, the response was huge. It's a pretty easy sell when you explain the show to people. It's been sold-out houses since we started."

Beil says that he and VanRassel tried to keep the show as similar to the Toronto original as possible.

"Taz and I chirp at the performers a little more, perhaps, cause we're jerks," he says. "Plus, Miguel and Freddie are 100 times cooler than us. But I think it's very faithful to the original."

The most recent addition to the Rapp Battlez is Dirty Zouth, which takes place in Atlanta, Ga and started in the fall of 2014.

Rene Delafont is the Atlanta comic who brought the show to Atlanta, because, he says, "Flying to Toronto every month to see a show as killer as this one wasn't in the cards."

Delefont is quick to point out that rap isn't what’s driving the joke in Rapp Battlez; it’s just the delivery system.

"Rapp Battlez is a comedy show but it isn't a joke or a commentary on rapping," he says. "It's not making fun of anything. What makes the show so funny isn't that these people are bad at rapping; it's that you'd never expect them to be as good at it as they are. The folks in it really commit to the characters they play and the battle they're in."

The Rivases say they intend to keep the show going as long as comedians and audiences continue to have a good time. They add that, in addition to getting more cities on board, they’d also like to take the show online.

"A web series or a TV show would be pretty sweet," says Freddie. "We've always thought it would be an excellent way to showcase how much comedic talent there is in Canada."

"It's fun being kind of an institution in the live comedy community, but we'd love to reach an even larger audience," adds Miguel. "The show is fun as shit and we wanna share it with as many people as we can."

Rapp Battlez 61 takes place tonight at 11:45 p.m. at the Comedy Bar in Toronto (945 Bloor St. W.). The next edition of Rapp Battlez Wezt Coast is at the Fox Cabaret (2321 Main St.). The next edition of Rapp Battlez Dirty Zouth is on April 14 at the Big House on Ponce (368 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE.).

Maybe the best way to describe Joel Plaskett is to say that he is incredibly self-motivated. The 2013 winner of CBC Radio 3's Bucky Award for lifetime achievement, Plaskett always has several projects on the go, and each one is as creative and unique as the songwriter himself.

Plaskett loves his music — whether it’s playing or writing or producing for others — and he goes full tilt into each project. When he’s not out touring with his band, the Emergency, in Canada, the U.S., Australia or the U.K., Plaskett can usually be found in the studio.

In 2013 he launched a new recording studio, New Scotland Yard, to go with his own record label. As an in-demand producer, he has worked on projects with artists such as Sarah Slean, Al Tuck, David Myles and Mo Kenney. With his own material, Plaskett has eight recordings, a DVD and a new retrospective LP under his belt (The Park Avenue Sobriety Test, which you can stream in full here).

We managed to slow Plaskett down long enough to take a seat, catch his breath and share some of his favourite songs before he bounces off to the next project. On My Playlist this week, Plaskett includes tracks by Lee Dorsey, Land of Talk, George Jones and Sloan. 

My Playlist airs Sundays at 3 p.m. (3:30 NT) and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. (7:30 NT) on CBC Radio 2.

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This week on the show, it’s a real facelift: four brand-new entries, including one from Florence and the Machine with "What Kind of Man" and newcomer Terra Lightfoot's "Never Will." George Ezra races up the chart, Tobias Jesso Jr. makes it into the top five and a great big powerhouse of a band is the new number one.

Watch Florence get a little upset at her boyfriend at the beginning of this video for "What Kind of Man."

This week’s chart

1.  Alabama Shakes, "Don't Wanna Fight"

2.  Reuben and the Dark, "Bow and Arrow"  

3.  Death Cab For Cutie, "Black Sun" 

4.  Tobias Jesso Jr., "How Could You Babe"

5.  Florence and the Machine, "What Kind of Man" *NEW*

6.  Fortunate Ones, "The Bliss" 

7.  George Ezra, "Blame It On Me"

8.  Peter Katz and Royal Wood, "Brother"

9.  Vance Joy, "Mess is Mine"

10. Alan Doyle, "The Night Loves Us"

11. Great Lake Swimmers, "Zero in the City"

12. Christina Martin, "It'll Be Alright" 

13. Whitehorse, "Baby What's Wrong" *NEW*

14.  Joel Plaskett, "On a Dime"

15.  The Lone Bellow, "Take My Love"

16. Wilderness of Manitoba, "Shift"

17.  Tor Miller, "Midnight"

18.  Terra Lightfoot, "Never Will" *NEW*

19.  The Decemberists, "Cavalry Captain"

20.  Clare Maguire, "Don't Mess Me Around" *NEW*

This weekend, the 2015 Juno Awards take over Hamilton, Ont., and we'd like to give you a front row seat to the action. CBC Music has teamed up with CBC Arts to go beyond the TV broadcast, kicking off our coverage Friday and carrying all through Canada's biggest weekend in music.

Follow in real time below as Jesse Kinos-Goodin, Matt Fisher, Nigel Hunt and Deana Sumanac-Johnson from the opening press conference on Friday through to when the awards are given out Saturday and Sunday, with everything in between. We'll be conducting interviews on the red carpet, following hometown heroes Arkells all day Sunday, and hitting up various events throughout the weekend. 

Want to join the conversation? Tag your tweets #CBCJunos.  

Joel Plaskett's latest album, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test, plays out like the biopic of a guy who's a bit down on his luck. Its acronym, PAST, is suggestive: with the Halifax singer-songwriter at a critical point in his life — he's just about to turn 40 — it's an album about looking back.

With that in mind, you might think the album is a bit of a bummer, but that couldn't be further from the truth. The songs on The Park Avenue Sobriety Test are funny, heartwarming, fun and often rocking. If this is Plaskett looking back, then he is looking back at the best of his long musical career because this new record is top-notch — perhaps one of his best.

For his First Play Live session, Plaskett came to CBC Music's Studio 211 with only two guitars and his pianist, John Boudreau, in tow. Together they performed the entire record front to back for the intimate audience in a stripped-down manner, with Plaskett mostly playing solo guitar and Boudreau pitching in only when absolutely needed. This type of performance gave the songs from The Park Avenue Sobriety Test an urgency and intimacy that you just don't get with a full-blown rock band.

Check out the performances below from this very special edition of First Play Live.

'On a Dime' by Joel Plaskett

'The Park Avenue Sobriety Test' by Joel Plaskett

'Alright/OK' by Joel Plaskett

'When I Close My Eyes' by Joel Plaskett

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world.

RICH'S PICK: Sufjan Stevens' "Should Have Known Better"

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

How not to accept free money:

Even Obama blames Obama:

This sports broadcaster is a modern day Shakespeare:

REAR VIEW MIRROR:

Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."

Glen Campbell is having a period of sweet sweet sorrow.  More people have been exposed to the country legend this past year than the last 20 years combined.  In 2011, after five decades of entertaining, 45 million albums sold and 70 albums released, Glen Campbell decided to call it a day.

In 2010 Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, but instead of instant retirement, the singer rounded up his kids and hit the road for a farewell tour, including some stops here in Canada, and he recorded a farewell album titled Ghost on the Canvas 

The celebration of the Rhinestone cowboy came to a head in 2012 when he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards.

Watch the performance here.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"

Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"

The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"

Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"

The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"

The Beatles - "Yesterday"

Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"

Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"

Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"

The Doors - "Light My Fire"

Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"

The Clash - "London Calling"

Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"

Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"

The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"

Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"

Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"

Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"

R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"

Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"

The Who - "Pinball Wizard"

Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"

Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"

Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"

John Lennon - "Imagine"

The Ugly Ducklings - "Nothin"

Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"

The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"

The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"

Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"

Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"

Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"

Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"

Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"

The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"

The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"

Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"

James Brown - "Please Please Please"

John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"

Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne"

The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"

Blue Rodeo - "Try"

The Guess Who - "American Woman"

U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"

Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"

Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"

The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"

The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"

Big Star - "September Gurls"

The Hollies - "Bus Stop"

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe"

Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton - "Jolene"

The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"

The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"

The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick - "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"

New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"

The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones - "Miss You"

The Coasters - "Run Red Run"

Elvis Costello - "Alison"

James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"

Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"

Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"

Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"

Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"

Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley"

Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"

Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"

Roy Orbison - "In Dreams"

Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"

Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"

Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Little Eva - "Loco-Motion"

Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"

Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"

The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"

Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"

R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"

Radiohead - "No Surprises"

Led Zeppelin - "Ramble On"

Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"

Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"

"It’s a long, old road, but I’m gonna find the end."

Ho-lee. That voice. HBO just released the first teaser trailer for its biopic Bessie, in which Queen Latifah plays the titular blues singer Bessie Smith, and Latifah hits all 30 seconds right out of the park.

The clip is a montage of Bessie, dressed in 1920s shift dresses and sequins, soaring to the heights of her success and crashing down to stormy lows in scenes with husband Jack Gee, played by Michael K. Williams.

Latifah is also executive producer on the film, which is directed and written by Dee Rees. It premieres on HBO May 16.


Arkells, Bahamas, Magic! and Rush were the big winners at the 2015 Junos eve gala. It’s the night before the splashy Juno broadcast, in which more than 30 awards were given out at the Hamilton Convention Centre. That included the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award, which was presented to legendary prog rock trio from Scarborough.

“It’s really not as easy as it looks to stay together for 40 years," Geddy Lee told a group of reporters. "I would say that we’re blessed with a very equal temperate, three of us … and we have a very unusual and shared sense of humour and we try not to take many things too seriously, except for the music we’re working on. I think that’s helped sustain us."

Hometown heroes Arkells, who’ve been riding high on acclaim for their third album, High Noon, were named group of the year, while Magic!, the reggae group that came out of nowhere to dominate the charts with their debut single “Rude,” won for breakthrough group of the year. Singer-songwriter Bahamas, who was also celebrating the very recent birth of his daughter, Yuri, took home both adult alternative album of the year for Bahamas is Afie as well as the coveted songwriter of the year award.

“If I knew how to write a hit song I would have done it on my first record,” the songwriter, born Afie Jurvanen, told a group of reporters backstage after his win.

Other winners of the night included Naturally Born Strangers, a first-time trio made up of Toronto rappers Tona, Adam Bomb and Rich Kidd, whose debut won for rap recording of the year.

“It’s a beautiful thing to [be a rapper in Canada],” said Adam Bomb. “To do it, if you can do it from here, it’s a great thing to be celebrated in your hometown.”

“I sacrificed a really good job I had at RBC just to do this,” added Tona.

You can watch them perform along with the rest of the rap nominees in CBC Music’s Juno Cypher, below. Watch them perform verses from their winning album here.

CBC Music is at the Junos all weekend. Visit here to follow along in our live chat, and be sure to follow us on Twitter as we tag along with Arkells all day Sunday leading up to the big night. 

See below for a full list of Juno awards handed out

International album of the year

Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour

Group of the year

Arkells

Breakthrough group of the year

Magic!

Songwriter of the year

Bahamas

Country album of the year

Dallas Smith, Lifted

Adult alternative album of the year

Bahamas, Bahamas is Afie

Alternative album of the year

July Talk, self-titled

Pop album of the year

Lights, Little Machines

Rap recording of the year

Naturally Born Strangers, The Legends League Presents: Naturally Born Strangers

Dance recording of the year

Kiesza, Sound of a Woman

R&B/Soul recording of the year

The Weeknd, Often

Reggae recording of the year

Exco Levi, Welcome the King

Aboriginal album of the year

Tanya Tagaq, Animism

Roots and traditional album of the year: solo

Catherine MacLellan, The Raven’s Sun

Roots and traditional album of the year: group

The Bros. Landreth, Let it Lie

Blues album of the year

Steve Hill, Solo Recordings, Vol. 2

Contemporary Christian album of the year

Manic Drive, VIP

World music album of the year

Quique Escamilla, 500 Years of Night

Jack Richardson producer of the year

Adam Messinger, “Change Your Life,” Iggy Azalea

Recording Engineer of the year

Eric Ratz, Ghosts, Big Wreck

Recording package of the year

Pilgrimage, Steve Bell

Video of the year

“Hideaway,” Kiesza

Electronic album of the year

Caribou, Our Love

Metal/hard music album of the year

Devin Townsend Project, Z2

Adult contemporary album of the year

Sarah McLachlan, Shine On

Vocal jazz album of the year

Diana Panton, Red

Jazz album of the year: solo

Kirk MacDonald, Vista Obscura

Jazz album of the year: group

Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, self-titled

Instrumental album of the year

Quartango, Encuentro

Francophone album of the year

Jimmy Hunt, Maladie d’amour

Children’s album of the year

Fred Penner, Where in the World

Classical album of the year: solo or chamber ensemble

James Ehnes, Bartok: Chamber Works for Violin Vol. 3

Classical album of the year: Large ensemble or soloist

Angela Hewitt, Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24

Classical album of the year: vocal or choral performance

Gerald Finley and Julius Drake, Schubert: Winterreise

Classical composition of the year

Brian Current, Airline Icarus

The 2015 Juno Awards officially kicked off Friday, and CBC Music has been in the host city of Hamilton, covering the goings on leading up to the Sunday night broadcast. 

There's been concerts, collaborations, parties, afterparties and, of course, the awards themselves, which were handed out over two nights (check here for complete awards handed out Saturday night, and here for the winners at the Sunday night broadcast).

In the gallery above, we've collected some of the best (and worst) moments from the Juno weekend, from selfies with Fred Penner to Hamilton's own Arkells owning the weekend.

Have a Juno highlight? Let us know on Twitter and tag it #CBCJunos: @CBCMusic

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