Caribou's reign will soon end as Canada's music insider-voted award for best album has revealed its final nominees, including Fucked Up, Malajube, Metric, Chad VanGaalen, and previous recipient Patrick Watson. Full list at polarismusicprize.com. ... CONTINUE READING POLARIS PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2009 FINALISTS»
Posted on July 7, 2009 (10 comments)
Tags: Polaris Music Prize
Move over, Patrick Watson -- it's Dan Snaith's crown now. The annual Polaris Music Prize, honoring Canada's best album as chosen by a panel of 170 music insiders, has gone to Dan Snaith's great Andorra LP. Congrats (and $20,000) to... CONTINUE READING CARIBOU WINS 2008 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE»
Posted on September 30, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Caribou | Polaris Music Prize
When the Polaris Prize people announced this year's longlist (.pdf) for best Canadian album on the merits and "without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation," the consensus reaction seemed to be "Where's Sunset Rubdown?" (agreed). The very same... CONTINUE READING POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE SHORTLIST 2008»
Posted on July 7, 2008 (51 comments)
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The initial crop of nominees for the third year of Canada's music award -- including the Acorn, Black Mountain, Caribou, Crystal Castles, Islands, the New Pornos, Tegan & Sara, and Wintersleep -- has been unveiled at polarismusicprize.ca. The short list... CONTINUE READING POLARIS PRIZE 2008 LONG LIST ANNOUNCED»
Posted on June 17, 2008 (9 comments)
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"I really didn't want to win ... I was hoping Chad would," Patrick Watson said as he accepted the award (and $20,000 kicker) at last night's Polaris Prize ceremony/concert. And Watson's probably not alone in feeling that way, although for... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WATSON TAKES THE 2007 POLARIS PRIZE»
Posted on September 25, 2007 (13 comments)
Tags: Patrick Watson | Polaris Music Prize
We had ourselves a little listening party yesterday (and night, sorry for the slow start everyone), but the big fun out of Canada yesterday came via the announcement of the second annual Polaris Music Prize shortlist, the winner of which... CONTINUE READING 2007 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATIONS»
Posted on July 11, 2007 (26 comments)
Tags: Polaris Music Prize
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