Hottest Bands in Canada, 2009 edition

photo credit: Joe Fuda As Matthew of I(Heart)Music has done over the past four years, he's again polled a selection of Canadian music writers, journalists and bloggers for their top ten hottest Canadian bands / artists of the year . I've always been happy to participate and this year's not any different. In some ways, I'm behind the curve on some of the new artists that made the top 32 - bands like The Balconies , The Wooden Sky and Bruce Peninsula who I've only had cursory listens of but am intrigued but have yet to check out live.

Past favourites of mine like Ohbijou and Great Lake Swimmers didn't make it to my top 10, and not because they ....

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4:02 a.m. Tuesday 3rd November 2009 EST
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