For those not up on our new feature Polaris Picks we’ll kindly remind you that this week it was David Dacks, an Exclaim editor and music director for Toronto’s Music Gallery, who wrote about the worth of Ratchet Orchestra’s album, Hemlock. You can find out about that here. Additionally, we’re less than a week away […]
It’s been an exciting week in Polarisland. First, we kicked off the 2013 season with our new feature « Polaris Picks. » Our first advocate for this new regular feature was National Post’s Ben Kaplan who really thinks Jason Collett should win the Polaris next year for his album Reckon. Then we announced that our patented argument […]
Quelle semaine excitante dans le monde du Polaris! Tout d'abord, nous débutons la saison 2013 avec notre nouvelle rubrique « Les Choix du Polaris ». Notre premier défendant est Ben Kaplan du National Post qui nous explique pourquoi Jason Collett devrait gagner le prochain Prix de musique Polaris pour son album Reckon. Ensuite, nous avons […]
In new ventures and housekeeping announcements, the occasionally teased Polaris Picks feature we’ve discussed in past months is finally happening. Stay tuned to this website for its big debut next week. Back here in Polaris People land the word « Drake » really snuck its way into to a lot of news items this week. We’ll let […]
Ce sera peut-être une surprise pour quelques-uns d’entre vous, mais la chronique Les choix du Polaris, dont nous avions discuté à maintes reprises au cours des derniers mois, fait finalement son apparition sur notre site web! Ne manquez pas ça! De retour ici, dans le monde des gens du Polaris, le mot « Drake » […]
Premièrement, toutes nos félicitations à l’auteur Will Ferguson, qui a récemment gagné le Prix Giller 2012 pour son roman, 419. Ferguson a remporté 50 000$ et joint les rangs d’anciens gagnants tels que Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro et Michael Ondaatje. Revenons au monde de la musique… Le Prix Mercury, qui honore annuellement le […]
First, up a hearty congratulations to author Will Ferguson, who recently won the 2012 Giller Prize for his novel, 419. Ferguson takes home $50,000 and joins the likes of past winners Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro and Michael Ondaatje. Back in the music world, the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for the best album from the […]
Weird Al Yankovic turned 53 years old this week, which seems like a pretty good excuse to sermonize a bit about how incredible novelty songs can be. As someone who loved Chuck Berry’s « My Ding-A-Ling » from about the age of 5, but who didn’t understand it until 10 years later, I can attest that a […]
Weird Al Yankovic va avoir 53 ans cette semaine, ce qui semble être une assez bonne raison pour faire un sermon sur combien les chansons excentriques peuvent être incroyables. En tant que personne qui aime la chanson ‘'My Ding-A-Ling'' de Chuck Berry depuis l'âge de 5 ans, mais qui ne l'a comprise que 10 ans […]
We’re going to kick off this week’s column with a hearty congratulations to Future Of The Left. The band, which includes former members of Mclusky, just won the Welsh Music Prize for their album, The Plot Against Common Sense. In other nominally commonwealth news, Polaris juror and Cult Montreal writer Lorraine Carpenter recently scored an […]
