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Polaris Music Prize is teaming up with NXNE to reveal this year’s Album Long List presented by Canada Council for the Arts. The album Long List is where Polaris reveals the 40 nominated records that will be considered for a given year’s Prize. For the first time ever, Polaris will be unveiling the nominee list […]
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 […]
The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC, has announced the key dates for its 2026 season, including the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony, powered by FACTOR, at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Returning to Massey Hall for the fourth consecutive year, the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony will once again feature a […]
