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CBC presents the 2026 Polaris Music Prize has revealed the 20 nominee Long List for the second edition of the SOCAN Polaris Song Prize. Launched last year as part of Polaris’ 20th and SOCAN’s 100th anniversaries, the Song Prize rewards $10,000 for one winning song, split between the song’s Canadian performers and the song’s credited […]
CBC presents the 2026 Polaris Music Prize, has revealed its 40 nominated album Long List. The album Long List, presented by Canada Council for the Arts, is where Polaris reveals the 40 nominated records that will be considered for a given year’s Prize. The 2026 Polaris Music Prize Long List is: Angine de Poitrine – […]
It must have been May Day / Beltane or some other sort of ancient human seasonal renewal-type phenomenon because it’s looking like there’s a bountiful crop of new music from #PolarisPeople. Let’s see what’s just dropped: * Broken Social Scene (Heritage Prize winner, 2x Short List) have released Remember the Humans via Arts & Crafts. […]
It’s a big day for folks who remember the #Polaris2006 Gala from 20 years ago as year-one Short List nominees Cadence Weapon and Metric both have new albums coming out. That first class has ended up faring pretty well in Polarisland over the years, with Owen Pallett scoring four nominations and a win, New Pornographers […]
It may look like there’s only one new release from a past Polaris nominee putting out an album today (3x nominees Arkells who’ve released Between Us), but that’s a false flag. That’s because tomorrow, Saturday, April 18 is Record Store Day and there are a number of #PolarisPeople who will have collectible slices available. These […]
Chandler Levack’s latest semi-autobiographical feature film Mile End Kicks follows Toronto music journalist Grace Pine (Barbie Ferreira) who moves to Montreal in the summer of 2011, ostensibly to write a 33 ⅓ book on Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, but is unexpectedly sidetracked from her goal by her romantic interest in Chevy and Alfie (Stanley […]
It’s Coachella weekend and the great news is that you’ll be able to watch most of the sets from the comfort of your own couch where you can shout, “Who the crap is this?!” over and over again. Past Polaris nominees performing at the fest include… Justin Bieber. Here are the #PolarisPeople who’ve released new […]
Business, as they say, is starting to pick up. There are at least nine #PolarisPeople with notable releases out this week. Frankly, if you can’t find anything new and interesting to listen to the problem probably isn’t the music, it’s you. Here are the new albums released this week: * The New Pornographers (2x Short […]
Forget an EGOT, if a) we’re giving Patrick Watson’s score some of the credit for The Girl Who Cried Pearls getting the 2026 Oscar for best short film, and b) he wins a Juno Award next week in the adult-alternative category for his album Uh Oh, Watson will accomplish the so-rare-it’s-never-been-done-before POJIA. Which is… x […]
We feel like Canadian music scenes are having a real cultural flashpoint moment right now with the continued success of the NTBTSTM movie and the upcoming Mile End Kicks film (by former Polaris juror Chandler Levack). These are classic Toronto vs. Montreal culture war entities, though. If we really want to do this romanticizing-Canadian-music-culture soft […]
