The Joel Plaskett Emergency has been nominated for the Chart Magazine / Chartattack.com The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album) in the 13th Annual Year-End Readers Poll! You can vote for JPE online at CHARTATTACK.COM Ashtray Rock has also been include in a special issue of The Coast featuring “Top 50 CDs of 2007”.
Some very cool reviews have been popping up online:
SoundMojo’s Top 20 Albums from 2007 By jackhammer
Joel Plaskett Emergency – Ashtray Rock: Plaskett remains relatively unknown in the States and is still making his name in his native Canada, but there’s no denying his talent and growth as a songwriter. Ashtray Rock is concept album …
SoundMojo.com – Music, Recording… – Watchmojo
Web Radio: The Craig Norris Hour – 12/03/07
In the recently immortalized words of Joel Plaskett, we’re “Snowed In”. Winter hath come with a fury to The Great White North and no part of the country is safe from its wrath. Like the trooper that I am, though, I braved the icy doom …
CBC Radio 3
Two Hours Traffic – Little Jabs
By lowsy dotes(lowsy dotes)
This record caught the ear of acclaimed Halifax guitar hero Joel Plaskett, who immediately offered to produce the groups first full-length album. When not breaking Erlenmeyer flasks, the group managed to pen and record a twelve-song …
when I close my eyes, you’re… – Livejournal