2014 | Rock Album of the Year (Sponsored by SiriusXM Canada) | Headstones | | The JUNO Awards

After a decade’s absence, Headstones are back and, as they would say, still making bad life choices. Their fans would vehemently disagree; Love + Fury is among the most welcomed decisions they’ve arrived at. Hugh Dillon, Trent Carr, Tim White and Dale Harrison—punk-rock troublemakers from Kingston, Ontario – brought their anti-social demeanor to the Canadian musical landscape in 1987 and ruled the road and the radio for a decade and change before self-imploding in 2003 after getting on one another’s nerves, and irritated by a music industry they perceived to be promoting pre-fabricated synthetics over genuine artistic expression. During their self-imposed hiatus, Hugh Dillon satiated his musical hunger with his Redemption Choir and solo albums, but devoted his time and energy to his acting career. In October 2012, they decided to launch a crowd-funding project through PledgeMusic so they could get new music out to their fans, in the true spirit of independent grass-roots self-promotion. This was their way to get the fans what they had been craving since the band’s revival. Within a day, Headstones had reached 100 per cent of their crowd-funding goal.