Bio

Founded in Guelph, Ontario, in 1999, the Constantines now live in Toronto and that first record of theirs landed them a Juno Awards' nomination for Best Alternative Album. As well, the album very nearly broke the record for longest charting album in Canadian campus radio history and placed (10th and 4th, respectively) on the year-end top ten lists for both the Exclaim! readers’ poll and the Eye national critics’ poll (Canada’s answer to the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop). While the record was only very barely available here in the U.S., those that went to the trouble of tracking it down were suitably impressed. This from Magnet magazine: “[The Constantines] work the great miracle of rock ‘n’ roll: Kill it, then bring it back to life. This is important.”