The Polaris Music Prize is an award given to the best Canadian full-length album based solely on artistic merit. Joel Plaskett Emergency Truthfully Truthfully Joel Plaskett Emergency Down at the Khyber The Juno Awards are presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The River and The Road Īwards and accolades Juno Awards.In March 2016, the label announced it had changed its name to Cadence Recordings after MapleCore was renamed as Cadence Music Group. In 2015, Iain M.Taylor became CEO of MapleMusic. MapleMusic Recordings' brick and mortar business is distributed and marketed in Canada by Universal Music Canada. Two singer-songwriters, however, have been particularly responsible for MapleMusic Recordings's success: Sam Roberts, who was transformed from a struggling independent musician to a Canadian rock icon practically overnight by his 2001 MapleMusic Recordings debut, The Inhuman Condition, and Kathleen Edwards, whose album Failer made her a critical favourite in 2003. David (Sara) Downie of Stoughton, Laura (Russell) Brudos of Monona. MapleMusic released three Radiohead albums In Rainbows, The King of Limbs and TKOL RMX 1234567 in Canada, along with ATO in the US and XL in the UK. Downies obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral. Other artists who have released albums on MapleMusic include David Usher, Colin James, Boy, The Dears, Jason Bajada, Martha Wainwright, Pilot Speed (formerly known as Pilate), Gordon Downie, Joel Plaskett, Spirit of the West, Ridley Bent, Kinnie Starr, Cookie Duster and the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir. The MapleMusic Recordings label is a project of Andy Maize from Canadian roots rock band Skydiggers and Maple CEO Grant Dexter.