Best of 2014 Poll for Emerging Toronto Artists: FINAL RESULTS! 1. Teenage kicks, 2. Laura Cole, 3. Sun K

Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging Toronto Artists was – as usual – a painstaking (and rather complicated) process, but we pulled it off with remarkable flair!

Congrats to loud rock duo Teenage Kicks (pictured and streaming below) for winning the aggregate chart (see below) and therefore becoming The Deli Toronto’s first Emerging Artist of the Year! Because of this they’ll be featured in our SXSW print issue (10k copies of it will be distributed in Austin during Music Week – read last year’s edition here).

Thumbs up to retro-pop starlet Laura Cole and Lou Reed-esque quintet Sun K, also winners of our Readers and Fans Poll, who placed respectively second and third.

In case you are wondering how our poll works, here’s a quick explanation:

1. First, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees.
2. Then we polled a list of 20+ Toronto scene expert (our jury) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each.
3. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers and writers.

We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtleties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music Toronto produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2013 POLL FOR EMERGING Toronto ARTISTS ****** FINAL RESULTS ******

ARTIST J OS W R TOT   1 Teenage Kicks 6.5     0.004 6.504 2 Laura Cole 2 2   1.5 5.5 3 Sun K 2 1   2 5 4 Weaves 4.5     0.003 4.503 5 The Pick Brothers Band   2 1 1 4   The Zilis 3   1 0 4 7 Brothers of North 3     0.126 3.126 8 The Box Tiger 3     0.072 3.072 9 Ferraro 3     0.052 3.052 10 FAT AS FUCK 3     0.04 3.04 11 JJ and the Pillars 3     0.033 3.033 12 Alvvays 3     0.017 3.017 13 Kira May   3   0.012 3.012 14 The Sunbelly Band 3     0.009 3.009 15 Century Palm 3     0.005 3.005 16 Brave shores 3     0.004 3.004   Lowell 3     0.004 3.004 18 Do Good Assassins 3     0.002 3.002   Sumo Cyco 3     0.002 3.002 20 Black Baron 3     0.001 3.001   Marcellus Wallace 3     0.001 3.001 22 Growing Irons 3     0 3   Sweet and Lowdown 3     0 3 24 River Tiber 2.5     0 2.5 25 Mumbai Standstil 2     0.135 2.135 26 Harlan Pepper 2     0.071 2.071 27 Streetlight Social 2     0.065 2.065 28 The Galacticats   2   0.038 2.038 29 Flamingo Bay 2     0.03 2.03 30 ASMR 2     0.022 2.022 31 The OBGM’s 2     0.011 2.011 32 Poor Young Things 2     0.009 2.009 33 Christian Punk Band 2     0.005 2.005   Fresh snow 2     0.005 2.005 35 Breached 2     0.004 2.004   Dilly Dally 2     0.004 2.004   Pkew Pkew Pkew 2     0.004 2.004 38 Bad Channels 1   1 0.003 2.003   frankie and jimmy 2     0.003 2.003   New fries 2     0.003 2.003 41 Blonde Elvis 2     0.002 2.002   Jaunt 2     0.002 2.002   Petra Glynt 2     0.002 2.002 44 Grand Format 2     0.001 2.001   Hidden Cameras 2     0.001 2.001   Lyon 2     0.001 2.001   THE SOUL MOTIVATORS 2     0.001 2.001   Wish 2     0.001 2.001 49 Greys 2     0 2   Jonny Debt 2     0 2   Lids 2     0 2   Absolutely free 2       2 53 South of Bloor 1     0.5 1.5 54 Dear Blackwolf 1     0.034 1.034 55 Jessica Bundy   1   0.019 1.019 56 Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs 1     0.018 1.018 57 Sun Stone Revolvers 1     0.012 1.012 58 Lindsay Barr Band 1     0.009 1.009 59 The Honeyrunners 1     0.004 1.004 60 Deforesters 1     0.003 1.003 61 JUICE 1     0.001 1.001 62 Pete Van Dyk & the Second… 1     0 1   The Taste 1     0 1   tongue fu 1     0 1   VCR 1     0 1 Legend: J = Jurors, W = Deli Writers, R = Deli Readers, OS = Open Submissions

 
Thank you to all our Jurors!

Hope you’ll find some awesome new artists you weren’t aware of!

The Deli’s Staff