Polaris People For The Week Of May 11 – Arcade-Ish Fire Sets, Tegan And Carnivale, Weeknd Update And More
MAY 10 2012 • By Aaron Brophy
It's a poorly kept secret that there's a special club that all the Polaris Music Prize jurors hang out in to hurl insults at each other, share fart jokes and contemplate The Hunger Games fan fiction.

They also talk about music. Passionately. As in, someone says “X album is awesome,” so Y person goes, “No, it's poo,” then Z person is like, “No, you're poo. It's double-awesome.” That kind of stuff.

Now we're going to start bringing some of this conversation to you, the public. We'll be skipping the poo-face talk, but the stuff about the records… yeah, there'll be lots of that.

Stay tuned. Polaris Picks will be debuting soon.

In the meantime, our favourite Polaris People have been up to many interesting things again this week.
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Polaris People For The Week Of May 4 – Besnard Lakes In Bushes, Weeknd's Dead Audience And More
MAY 03 2012 • By Aaron Brophy
This week's Polaris People column barely got written.

That's because we've been very distracted. And it's all Bon Iver's fault.

That's because Bon Iver took a break from making me a mosaic out of seaglass to kiss each one of my toes.

Yes, Bon Iver literotica. This is what the internet is for. Even Time agrees. We will not be fully sated, however, until we discover some hot-blooded prose about Lawrence Gowan.

In the meantime, we'll at least have the Polaris People to keep our imaginations a-flutter.
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Polaris People For The Week Of April 27 – Dan Mangan Connections, K'naan, Dusted And More
APRIL 27 2012 • By Aaron Brophy
Guys, we're getting close. The Polaris Music Prize jury pool is actually kinda, sorta getting a little bit near to submitting their Long List ballots. (Reminder: The Long List will get unveiled in Vancouver on June 14.)

What that means is behind-the-scenes there've been all sorts of raging debates and withering insults being hurled around about the relative merits of various records. One juror has been calling the new Gonzales album "nothing more than a modern Poppy Family rehash," another said the Fuck The Facts record "sounds like ‘The Mummer's Dance'" and someone else compared the emotional intensity of the new Cancer Bats album to vintage Gowan.

I may or may not be lying about this.

What isn't a lie, however, is that various Polaris People were doing interesting and exciting things again this week.
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Polaris People For The Week Of April 20 – Patrick Watson Everywhere, Owen Pallett + Linkin Park And More
APRIL 20 2012 • By Aaron Brophy
OMG, did you hear about Hologram Tupac at Coachella? That's craaaayyzzzeee. It's totally cool right? Like, think of all the possibilities? You could have Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison on the same stage at the same time!

We'll stick to real performers, thanks. Like the Polaris People. They're the best and they did all kinds of interesting stuff this week.
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Polaris People For The Week Of April 13 – Dears Rant, Free Malajube, Metric Accusations And More
APRIL 13 2012 • By Aaron Brophy
If last month was supposed to be Death March, what’s this month? April-calypse? 'Cause it sure doesn’t feel any less busy.

Here at Polaris Central we’ve been up to all kinds of things. We’ve got Salons happening in Toronto and Vancouver on April 17, then one in Montreal on April 28. On top of that, two of the Salons we did in February in Vancouver and Montreal are now podcasts courtesy of AUX TV.

We aren’t the only ones being busy, though. The actual musicians, the whole reason we exist, were full-on working, too.
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