Voting for the 2024 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize has opened. 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 we honour meritorious Canadian albums […]
Savvy record buyers who are looking to purchase albums that were nominated for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize Short List should know they have an opportunity to score a free bonus 10″ vinyl if they buy them from the following stores: Compact Music in Ottawa Fred’s Records in St. John’s Listen Records in Edmonton Milk Crate […]
The second of AUX TV‘s Polaris Cover Sessions has officially been unveiled with 2009 Short-Listed act Great Lake Swimmers covering Sarah Harmer’s “I’m A Mountain.” The title-track from Harmer’s 2006 Short-Listed album was recorded by Great Lake Swimmers at Toronto’s Revolution Recording Studios. A version of the song will be made available for purchase as […]
The first of AUX TV‘s Polaris Cover Sessions has officially been unveiled with Sarah Harmer covering Caribou’s “Odessa.” The track from Caribou’s 2010 Polaris Short-Listed album Swim was recorded by Harmer at Toronto’s Revolution Recording Studios. A version of the song will be made available for purchase as a seven-inch single for Record Store Day […]
Sarah Harmer, Whitehorse and Great Lake Swimmers are the first three artists announced to participate in Polaris Music Prize’s new project, Polaris Cover Sessions. The idea for the Cover Sessions is to send past Polaris Short List nominees into Revolution Recording Studios (the best room Rush’s Neil Peart has ever recorded in), and get […]
