It’s one of our favourite times of the year — Best Album List season. If you’re stuck for new music to listen to we always recommend checking out the 40 albums on the #Polaris2025 Long List, but if that’s not enough for you we suggest mining the double-plus good Album Of The Year aggregator website […]
Happy conflicted capitalism day to those of you scoring Black Friday deals, those of you finding some rare slices for Record Store Day Canada Day, and for those of you smugly sitting it all out. For our part, Polaris is gonna be putting the “give” into Giving Tuesday next week so stay tuned for us […]
Happy grand opening (re-opening?) day to Hamilton’s TD Coliseum, formerly known as Copps Coliseum. We will be hiding out from socials tonight due to the strong FOMO from Super Furry Animals celery chewer, back-up vocalist on Eddie Murphy’s “Love’s Alright,” Wings/Beatles member Paul McCartney playing tonight’s grand opening. Speaking of The Beatles, their Anthology 4 […]
I watched David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers the same day I learned that Dan Snaith, the former Polaris winner also known as Caribou, also known as Daphni, had released a new song by Daphni called “Waiting So Long”… featuring CARIBOU. Now I don’t know what to think. Are there two Dan Snaiths? Is one of them […]
Our friends at Massey Hall are currently running a promotion for $30 concert tickets to a bunch of shows right now. The promotion ends November 10 so get in there ASAP. Maybe you’ll score a seat to that hot Chris de Burgh show and end up sitting near one Polaris staffer who’ll be patiently sitting […]
Happy Halloween/Blue Jays Anticipated Victory Day. On this most sacred of days for those of us who wear black and walk the line between good and evil, former Polaris jury foreperson Liisa Ladouceur’s recent column “There is no goth revival – the spooky subculture never died” for The Globe And Mail feels timely. That said, […]
We’re gonna start this week’s new release column by talking about one of the most important Canadian songs ever created — “OK Blue Jays.” Let’s get the tenuous Polaris connections out of the way — a) Barry Keane, the drummer for late Heritage Prize winner Gordon Lightfoot, played on this song, and b) past nominees […]
Yves Jarvis’ All Cylinders has won the 2025 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album, and Mustafa has won the first-ever SOCAN Polaris Song Prize for “Gaza Is Calling.” The two Prizes, which were presented by CBC, were handed out to cap off the 2025 Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony on September 16 at Massey […]
Jane Siberry’s The Speckless Sky and The Organ’s Grab That Gun have won the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize. The two new Heritage Prize winners were announced at 9 PM at the 2025 Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony, which took place at Toronto’s Massey Hall on September 16. The Polaris Heritage Prize is a hall-of-fame […]
Voting for the 2025 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize has opened and the nominees are in. The companion award to the Polaris Music Prize, winners and nominees for the Heritage Prize are also Canadian albums of artistic distinction, without regard to sales, genre or affiliation. This is our version of a hall of fame where […]
