the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album
The premiere date for Tankian and Sater’s Prometheus Bound at the American Repertory Theater was February 25, 2011. Tankian said that collaborating on the show has been a great learning experience for him. “I’ve been using a lot of my archives, a lot of different types of music that I…
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Tankian co-wrote a musical with the American playwright Steven Sater . It is based on the Ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound . It opened at the American Repertory Theater on March 14, 2011.
At the 2011 BRIT Awards , The Suburbs won Best International Album, and Arcade Fire won the Award for Best International Group.
In 2011 Rathbone again confirmed his and Draper’s desire to reform the band, but added that a reunion would have to include all four band members and that neither King nor Chad were interested.
On August 12, 2011, Tankian traveled to Armenia, where he was received at Government House by then- Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan , who awarded him with a Commemorative Medal ( Armenian : ՀՀ Վարչապետի հուշամեդալ ) for his “contribution to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the advancement of…
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Bloc Party started writing material for a fourth album in 2011, but decided not to play live.
Scenes from the Suburbs , which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival 2011 , has a running time of 30 minutes.
On May 29, Modest Mouse played two new songs during their headline of the Sasquatch festival. The songs were called “Poison the Well” and “Lampshades on Fire”. They then contributed a cover of the Buddy Holly song ” That’ll Be the Day ” to the compilation Rave On Buddy Holly…
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Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards