By this time next week the 2013 Polaris Music Prize Long List will officially have been revealed in Montreal. You’ll have to excuse us if we’re a little bit excited about it. By most measurable standards — namely the complaining our jurors have been doing — it has been an incredibly difficult year to judge […]
The 2013 Polaris Music Prize Long List is almost here. On Saturday, June 1 (tomorrow), over 200 foam-mouthed, bloodshot-eyed, Cujo-lumbering music journalists from across Canada will begin submitting their top five album ballots to the Great Polaris Tabulatron. From there Polaris operatives will reveal said results with great pomp and ceremony on Thursday, June 13 […]
Bright antennas will bristle with the energy now that the Polaris Music Prize has secured SiriusXM Canada as official radio broadcaster for the 2013 Polaris season. As anyone who’s lost themselves on the SiriusXM Canada “’60s On 6” channel can attest, this is a good get. The SiriusXM Canada folks seem keen, too. “We’re proud […]
Our first official Polaris Salon of the 2013 season is happening this weekend in Banff, Alberta. Consider this your official reminder. If you live in or around Cowtown and you don’t come out for this we’re taking you off our daily dirty joke email newsletter. If you’re sensing some tension in the rippling time-fabric of […]
The full lineup for the 2013 Osheaga Arts & Music Festival has been revealed and, showing some impeccable taste from the bookers, there’ll be a number of Polaris People performing in Montreal. The host of past Polaris Short and Long Listers trekking out to Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau to perform on August 2-4, 2013 includes: A […]
To all the Polaris jurors reading this column… you have less than two weeks to finalize your ballot. Use your time wisely (insert joke about masturbation + crying + dark room). We know a really wise use of time for Albertan music fans — the first 2013 Polaris Salon is happening in Banff, Alberta on […]
Let the arguments begin. Steve Jordan, Founder and Executive Director of the Polaris Music Prize, today announced details for the initial round of 2013 Polaris Music Prize Salons, including events in Banff, Montreal and Toronto. The Salons, which feature Polaris jury members in often-passionate debates about the merits of various albums vying for the Polaris […]
Off the top, a hat tip to Finland’s Kaija Saariaho and Senegal’s Youssou N’Dour who’ve been named the laureates for the 2013 Polar Music Prize. The Swedish award is given out annually to two people regardless of nationality, “for significant achievements in music and/or musical activity, or for achievements which are found to be of […]
How about that Kanye West? He says something really important is going to happen on June 18. We’re hoping it’s similar to when another great entertainer, WWE’s Kane, helped the world understand him better by explaining the relevance of May 19 to his life. But on to better things. Like our favourite people, the Polaris […]
How about those Juno Awards last week in Regina (the city that rhymes with angina)? If it felt like there was a wee bit more synergy between them and us than in the past it would probably be because bona fide Polaris People like Leonard Cohen, The Weeknd, Metric, Grimes, Drake, Rose Cousins, Elliott Brood […]
